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September 1, 1961

The Hockey News September 1, 1961

BALTIMORE, Md.,&mdash;The commission in charge of Baltimore&rsquo;s new Civic Centre has given a prospective tenant 60 days to obtain a franchise in The American Hockey League.The centre, now under construction, is scheduled to be ready for use late next year.The commission reached the agreement for leasing the centre for ice hockey with Robert C. Embry and Zanvyl Krieger, Embry is a former president of the Balitmore colts, National Football League team, and Krieger is treasurer of the Baltimore baseball Orioles. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Baltimore Seeks Entry Into American League

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01231/1722076-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Among the many sports and hockey celebrities who gathered in Toronto for the grand opening of the International Hockey Hall of Fame building Aug. 26 were this group of members voted to the &lsquo;Hall&rsquo;. In front, Mickey Ion. Standing, left to right, Frank Foyston, Cooper Smeaton and Newsy Lalonde. Both Ion and Smeaton, former referees, were inducted during opening ceremonies of the hockey shrine.</figcaption></div><h2>Hockey Greats Gather For Opening &#9632;</h2>

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Hawks Face Big Test As Cup Champs

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01314/1720496-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Horry Howell</figcaption></div>&mdash;NEW YORK, N. Y.Coach Doug Harvey has taken over the Rangers with an open mind and a tenacious determination to run the New York club by himself&mdash;or else!With the Blues assembling at Guelph, Ont., for Fall training, the new high-salaried rookie coach said he will enter the camp with a mind completely free of pre-judgements.&ldquo;Everybody who comes to camp has a chance to make the team,&rdquo; Harvey told the HOCKEY NEWS.Ordinarily, such a declaration would have to be filed in the category of Opening Week Bromides&rdquo;. But not in Harvey&rsquo;s case, for two very good reasons.!(a) His knowledge of most players in camp is limited and he admittedly knows almost nothing about the minor league stars and (b) Unlike his predecessors, Harvey is too independent a guy to take much gaff from his superiors. In short, what Harvey says about his personnel goes.Otherwise, Harvey goes&mdash;back home to Montreal.Typical of the new thinking in New York is Harvey&rsquo;s reaction to Guy Gendron, the prodigal left wing who skated for New York, Boston and Montreal before the Rangers purchased him in the draft last June.Normally, a team which coughs up $20,000 for a draft choice will hold on to him throughout the season unless he develops a case of smallpox. But not under the Harvey system.Although Doug was the man who urged the Rangers to obtain Gendron he bluntly says that Guy must put out for the Blues or get out.&ldquo;I think Gendron can help us,&rdquo; Harvey said. &ldquo;I know he&rsquo;s got good hockey in him&mdash;he scored 24 goals for Boston and he went well for us for a while last year. Then, he folded.&lsquo;&lsquo;If he plays to what I think is his potential we&rsquo;ll have a good left wing on our team. But if he doesn&rsquo;t try, I don&rsquo;t intend keeping him.&rdquo;Of all positions, Harvey probably is most open-minded about his defensemen. Only veterans Harry Howell and Junior Langlois (imported from Montreal with Harvey) can be assured of jobs.After them it&rsquo;s Irv Spencer, Don Johns, Larry Cahan, Al Lebrun and the American League&rsquo;s two top backliners, Bob McCord and Aldo Guidolin.Harvey consulted with Johnny Gagnon, the Blues&rsquo; eastern scout, and received enthusiastic reports about both Guidolin and McCord.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to look hard at all of them,&rdquo; the new coach said. &ldquo;The ones who go best will make the team. It&rsquo;s the only way for me to judge.&rdquo;Harvey is concerned about his centers (or lack of them) and may very well be forced to move Andy Bathgate to the pivot. It is a move that has been tried dozens of times in the past but never with any finality.<h2>Solid On Backline &#9632;</h2>

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Past Performances Out, Harvey To Pick Rangers From Showing At Camp

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div>&mdash;EDMONTON. Alta.In some ways the moment of truth is at hand in most of the Western Hockey League bailiwicks.The circuit&rsquo;s president, Al Leader, is on record with the prediction that the WHL will graduate to the status of a second major league &ldquo;within three years&rdquo;.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01389/1721367-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="296" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bud Poile</figcaption></div>Presumably, Leader is deadly serious about this lofty ambition, but it had the timing to appease the new California territory, where the Los Angeles and San Francisco populace are treated to big league sporting entertainment on the baseball diamond and the football gridiron.There is good reason to believe that they want nothing else in hockey, too. The Californians have that kind of a complex&hellip;but when you come right down to it, most of the established minor league cities are thinking earnestly in terms of graduation, as well.&ldquo;Hockey fans in Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary are yelling for major league hockey,&rdquo; comments the Flyers&rsquo; general manager, Bud Poile.&ldquo;Well, here in Alberta anyway, this should be their chance to show that they really want hockey. It has been getting to be quite a struggle, with fan support considerably off in recent years. Unless they stick by us, it is conceivable that we will be in serious trouble.&rdquo;During the off-season meetings, it was no secret that the coast clubs, stretching from Vancouver down to the new precincts in California, would have preferred to go with their own compact group. The Alberta teams had to fight for their very lives in an intensive lobbying program, and temporarily at least the coast people may have been appeased by the withdrawal of Winnipeg.This brought the WHL into more realistic lines, geographically.Poile and his prairie brethren, however, are convinced that they would be welcome partners in a vast western counterpart to the National League, provided they show that they can carry their share of the load.The WHL has had its fill of weak-sister clubs ever looking for a handout, and now the circuit seems to be potentially the strongest structure in Western professional hockey history.New arenas are just around the corner in both Vancouver and Seattle, and in recent days there has been heartening news in Edmonton.The Edmonton Exhibition Association, the landlord of the antiquated Gardens in the east end of town, was said to have lavish plans for a modern new arena. Now all of a sudden, the Exhibition is marking time again, while the air is cleared on a proposed 40-acre downtown development that is said to include a magnificent Coliseum.The same brand of money that is behind the downtown transformation of Montreal is involved in the Edmonton project, and Poile optimistically feels that it is a cinch to go through.&ldquo;This looks to be the biggest shot in the arm the game has known in Edmonton,&rdquo; Poile declares. &ldquo;I know many a sports fan who has become fed up with the posts that obstruct their view and the generally unsatisfactory conditions at the Gardens. I am confident that if we can present hockey in such a setting as this proposed Coliseum, we&rsquo;ll win them all back, and many more to boot.&rdquo;ICE CHIPS&mdash;Long Beach will likely be the next California franchise to be awarded by the Western League, perhaps in time for the 1962-63 season&hellip;Art Edwards, who has a thriving paint business, is the power behind that bid, and Art Chapman will be his righthand man&hellip;Meanwhile, Chapman has been &ldquo;loaned&rdquo; back to the Vancouver Canucks who were bereft when Coley Hall flexed his muscles and trundled off to Frisco&hellip;George Agar goes right along with the shift of the Victoria franchise to Los Angeles, and co-owner Jim Piggott is hopeful that Agar, who had an outstanding amateur coaching record, will make a championship contender out of the Blades, with the help of a pipeline into the Rangers&rsquo; farm system. &#9632;

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President Sees WHL Ready Within Three Year Period

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Prime Minister John Diefenbaker formally opened the new $500,000 International Hockey Hall of Fame here at the Canadian National Exhibition Aug. 26 and numbered among his audience were nearly all of the 43 living members of the Hall.Mr. Diefenbaker, who took the occasion to announce the Government&rsquo;s support of a $5,000,000 annual grant to aid amateur athletics (hockey included) in Canada, spoke from outside the white stucco Hall of Fame building in the middle of the Exhibition Park as hockey greats and dignitaries listened intently as well as thousands of CNE visitors.Captains of the six National Hockey League teams raised their respective club pennants on flag poles at the entrance to the building as part of the ceremonies.In his inaugural remarks, the Prime Minister noted that the four U.S. clubs in the NHL&mdash;Detroit, Chicago. New York and Boston&mdash;had contributed on an equal basis with Montreal and Toronto to the erection of the Hall of Fame building.&ldquo;There is nothing greater than hockey to bring about national unity and a closer relationship between the United States and Canada,&rdquo; he said.At a luncheon preceeling the colorful opening ceremonies, 21 persons were inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. They included such outstanding former players as &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard, Charlie Conacher, Hap Day, Milt Schmidt, Syl Apps, Sylvio Mantha, and Bruce Stuart of Ottawa, who came in a wheelchair. Among others inducted were referees Cooper Smeaton, and Mickey Ion who lost his legs in recent years through circulatory ailments, as well as hockey builders Frank Selke of Montreal, and the late George Brown of Boston and Charles Adams of Boston.In all there are 89 members enshrined in the hall, 46 of whom are deceased.<div class="sidebar"><h2>Say OK for O&rsquo;Keefe</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0366/1722107-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="674" height="606"></div> &#9632;</div>

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Prime Minister Launches Hockey Hall Of Fame

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;Chicago hockey officials are quietly pondering whether their proud Black Hawks will go out this season and prove their newly-acquired riches was no fluke or whether they will fall flat on their faces and come up one-year wonders.It&rsquo;s the big question that confronts the 1960-61 Stanley Cup titleholders as they prepare to open training camp along with the other five National Hockey League teams.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02157/1722145-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="279" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Ivan</figcaption></div>General Manager Tommy Ivan hasn&rsquo;t built up any false security because the Hawks brought back the World professional hockey crown last spring for the first time in 22 years.Ivan likes to be realistic. &ldquo;We finished 17 points behind Montreal and 15 in back of Toronto, which means we were only third best over the regular schedule,&rdquo; recalls the Chicago executive.Ivan hasn&rsquo;t forgotten either that the Chicagoians were the hot club in the playoffs as they knocked off Montreal then Detroit to win it all. He&rsquo;s merely trying to guard against anyone becoming complacent in the Hawks&rsquo; organization.Both Ivan and Coach Rudy Pilous are confident the Hawks are no flash-in-the-pan and mostly because the two were instrumental in building the club up to its present high level.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a tougher job ahead than last year,&rdquo; admits Ivan. &ldquo;The pressure of the Stanley Cup victory will either be too much for us or it will give us confidence&mdash;to become a better team. Both Rudy and I like to think it will help us.&rdquo;Ivan knows the Hawks could retain the cup by finishing as low as third place but they would like to believe it would be better to improve and end up in first or second place in the standing.During the off-season the Black Hawks probably made more changes in personnel than any other Stanley Cup champion in history.Gone from last spring&rsquo;s champions are center (and captain) Ed Litzenberger, traded to Detroit; penalty killer Earl Balfour, drafted by Boston; defenseman Al Arbour, grabbed by Toronto in the draft; and forward Tod Sloan, who announced his retirement.In their place the Black Hawks picked up five new players, all with at least some N.H.L. experience.They are veteran center Bronco Horvath, drafted from Boston; center Jerry Melnyk and left wing Brian Smith, obtained from Detroit in the Litzenberger trade; defenseman Aut Erickson, drafted from Boston; and defensemanforward Bob Turner, obtained from Montreal in trade for minor leaguer Fred Hilts.When you exclude the goalie and realize that after December 1 next season a team can dress only 16 players, the changes represent a 25 per cent shift in player personnel for Chicago. But the Black Hawks management is pleased:&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve strengthened at center ice with Horvath and Melnyk, where we would have been short otherwise,&rdquo; says Ivan. The Black Hawks also have gained 11 years of younger legs in the exchanges.Despite all the moves, there will probably be no drastic change in the basic Chicago offense and defense&mdash;unless the team sags.They still have the top two lines intact in Bill Hay, Bobby Hull and Murray Balfour; and Stan Mikita, Ab McDonald and Ken Wharram. They also have left winger Ron Murphy and right wing Eric Nesterenko from the other forward line, with Horvath or Melnyk to fit in at center.And on defense they have the four stalwarts from last season&mdash;Pete Pilote, Moose Vasko, Jack Evans and Dollard St. Laurent, for the nucleus.This leaves two spots open and, with a premium on versatility because of the smaller squads this year, there&rsquo;s an edge to players like Reg Feming&mdash;last year&rsquo;s lone Black Hawks rookie and one of the real sparkplugs of the team; and newcomer Turner. Both are aggressive, hard-skating-players who can play forward, defense or kill penalties.<h2>&hellip;A New Hawk</h2>Best bets to break into any openings in the lineup at left wing are newcomer Smith, or Bert Prizzell from Victoria, a big 200-pound rookie. There are plenty of right wing candidates in Chico Maki, rookie of the year with Buffalo in the American Hockey League last season, and Wayne Hicks, both of whom played briefly in the Cup finals; and high scoring Ron Leopold from Calgary.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01334/1722138-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="592" height="866"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Turner</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Ivan Sees Hard Road For Tribe

<div class="byline">&#x2014;STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N. Y.One of the fastest ways to burn Gump Worsley, the Rangers cubic puck blocker, is to suggest that he is incapable of playing a complete 70-game schedule.From time to time, Worsley&rsquo;s employees have hinted at this touchy subject.In fact, last year they had the audacity to invite the upstart Olympic star, Jack McCartan, to New York at the beginning of the season to &ldquo;understudy&rdquo; Gump.Worsley, who fancies himself a very competent goaltender, (a thought which, incidentally, can be verified by consulting Howe, Geoffrion and company) resented the instrusion (though not the intruder) and consequently played some bad goal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02298/1720527-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="292" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lorne Worsley</figcaption></div>At one point, McCartan upstaged Gump with an adventurous shutout over the Chicago Black Hawks. Jake was punched in the jaw by Reg Fleming in the process, a distinction Worsley never could claim.But, genius will out, and eventually the snipers caught up with McCartan with the result that he was sent to Kitchener of the Eastern League where the artillery is lighter.The move, of course, pleased Worsley and he, in turn, played solid hockey from that point until the end of the season when he suffered a pinched-nerve in the back of the leg and wound up the campaign in a hospital bed.Now, Worsley is feeling better, thank you. Only he&rsquo;d wish people would keep from talking about that two-goalie system. Seems the brass is thinking about bringing McCartan back again.Coach Doug Harvey, though giving Worsley an unqualified endorsement as his number one son, admitted he was considering &ldquo;resting&rdquo; Gump from time to time.The idea gets a resounding nix from Worsley.&ldquo;What do you think of the two-goalie system?&rdquo; a reporter quietly asked Gump.Worsley snarled.&ldquo;ARE YOU KIDDING?&rdquo; he said, nearly decapitating the reporter with his reply.RANGERABILIA: Rookie Rod Gilbert, the Guelph right wing ace who signed a pro contract, is given an outside chance of making the team although he&rsquo;s just recovering from a spine operation&hellip;New York fans were stunned to the core by the untimely death of Frank Eddolls, one of the most popular defensemen to play in these pre-be missed&hellip;On the more pleasant side, the many New York friends of Aldo Guidolin will be happy to learn that he and wife, Phyllis, are celebrating the birth of their first child, Barbara Ann. &#9632;

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Worsley Frowns (Naturally) On ‘Platooning’ Netminders

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Rangers signed George Konik, a 210-pound defenseman who led the University of Denver to the N.C.A.A. hockey championship last season.General Manager Muzz Patrick said Konik will report to their Guelph, Ont., farm club when training opens Sept. 11. Coach Murray Armstrong of Denver said the burly Konik &ldquo;has all the attributes to be a great hockey player in any league, including the National Hockey League.&rdquo;Konik first drew attention while playing for the Flin Flon, Man., team in the Saskatchewan Junior League. &#9632;

U.S. College Star Signed By Blues

<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03271/1720582-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Executive Ken Reardon, right, talks over training camp plans with Coach Toe Blake before team&rsquo;s departure for Victoria.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, QUE.&mdash;Don&rsquo;t look now but the hockey season is just around the corner. There&rsquo;s only a few days left before big-time clubs start training for the 1961-62 campaign.For Canadiens, still smarting over their setback in the Stanley Cup semi-finals last spring&mdash;although they won their fourth straight National Hockey League championship&mdash;the camp opening can&rsquo;t come soon enough.The Habs, who have undergone pre-season training on home Forum ice the past 10 years, will break precedent this season by getting into shape out West. Coach Toe Blake will pitch camp on Monday, Sept. 17, at the Victoria Memorial Arena. He will crack the whip on his charges twice a day until they start homeward on an exhibition tour of 11 games.Ken Reardon, Canadiens&rsquo; vice-president who is in charge of setting up the training camp, revealed the roster of 31 players who will leave by jet September 16 for Victoria.The list includes only 16 men officially with the Habs last season and 12 standout farm-hands who will be trying to crack the NHL lineup. The roster shows four goaltenders, nine rearguards, five centres and as many left and right wingers.Three forwards will be added to the big-league training camp after Hull-Ottawa Canadiens, the Eastern Pro League farm team, have worked out for a week at the Hull Arena.Original plans were to have some of last year&rsquo;s injured Canadiens&mdash;Jacques Plante, Phil Goyette, Boom Boom Geoffrion, Dickie Moore, Jean Beliveau to name a few&mdash;work out with the Hull Habs for a head start in training.However, Reardon said that plans had been changed.&ldquo;All the players claim to be in excellent health. So we will be satisfied if they skate for a few days before going west.&rdquo;The Habs will play their first of 11 exhibitions against Vancouver Sept. 26 and will meet Spokane Comets the following night at Victoria. They break camp Thursday Sept. 28 and start hopping homeward after a game at Seattle the next night.Canadiens will then appear in Trail, B.C., Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Fort William, Sudbury and Hull before arriving back in Montreal, October 12.While the Forum is dark and ice may not be installed until late in September, there&rsquo;s plenty of activity around the big arena these days. Rink superintendent Jim Hunter&rsquo;s staff is checking the pipes and the boards while painters are busily sprucing up the rest of the building.Over in the northwest corner in Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room, Trainers Andy Galley and Gerry Aubut are preparing equipment for training camp. And Toe Blake, himself, is visiting the place daily just to keep track of what&rsquo;s going on.Toe was there to talk things over with Ken Reardon and the two trainers.The coach, never lost for words when he&rsquo;s at ease away from the hockey grind, left with a smile.&ldquo;Say Ken,&rdquo; said the cigar-smoking Hab coach as he left, &ldquo;make sure all the good hockey players are on the trip. Good hockey players always make the coach look good.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Habs Eager For Start Of Training Program Eye Lost Ice Honors

<h2>Goalers</h2>Jacques Plante, Canadiens; Charlie Hodge, Canadiens; Ed. Johnston, Hull-Ottawa; Cesare Maniago, Toronto Maple Leafs.<h2>Defensemen</h2>Tom Johnson, Canadiens; Jean-Guy ralbot, Canadiens; Jean-Claude Tremblay, Canadiens; Al MacNeil, Hull-Ottawa; Jean Gauthier, Hull-Ottawa; Lou Fontinato, New York Rangers; John Hanna, New York Rangers; Terry Harper, Montreal Royals; Jacques Laperriere, Canadien Juniors.<h2>Centres</h2>Ralph Backstrom, Canadiens: Jean Beliveau, Canadiens; Henri Richard, Canadiens; Phil Goyette, Canadiens; Bill Masterton, University of Denver.<h2>Left Wingers</h2>Dickie Moore, Canadiens; Don Marshall, Canadiens; Marcel Bonin, Canadiens; Gilles Tremblay, Canadiens; Fred Hilts, Sault Ste. Marie.<h2>Right Wingers</h2>Bernard Geoffrion, Canadiens; Bill Hicke, Canadiens; Claude Provost, Canadiens; Bob Rousseau, Hull-Ottawa; Bev. Bell, Spokane Comets.<h2>EXHIBITION SCHEDULE</h2>Sept. 26 Vancouver at Vancouver. Sept. 27&mdash;Spokane at Victoria. Sept. 29&mdash;Seattle at Seattle. Sept. 30&mdash;Spokane at Trail, B.C. Oct. 2&mdash;Edmonton at Edmonton. Oct. 3&mdash;Calgary at Calgary. Oct. 4&mdash;Regina Juniors at Regina. Oct. 5&mdash;Hull-Ottawa at Winnipeg. Oct. 9&mdash;Hull-Ottawa at Fort William. Oct. 10&mdash;Sudbury Wolves at Sudbury. Oct. 11&mdash;Hull-Ottawa at Hull. &#9632;

Habs’ Roster, Exhibitions

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>&mdash;DETROIT, Mich.Olympia is a long way from Wall Street but a few of the stock exchange terms fit the Red Wings as they open camp in September.The market is bearish&hellip;or, put it another way, it&rsquo;s management&rsquo;s market.The market, in this case the Olympia, is flooded with players. And it&rsquo;s a fact, economic and hockey too, that the market will take just a certain number of the commodity.It comes down to a lot of players fighting for a few jobs.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going into this camp stronger than a year ago,&rdquo; said coach Sid Abel. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to be a real dogfight for jobs and that can go right back into the nets.&rdquo;Now this is the normal thing for a coach to say starting a new season. It&rsquo;s supposed to make the veterans look around behind them and instill hope in the rookies that there&rsquo;s a place&hellip;and a paycheck&hellip;waiting for them in the NHL.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01313/1720686-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="834" height="969"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Gadsby</figcaption></div>In the Red Wings case this year though, it&rsquo;s no idle comment that is dusted off to be used every fall. They mean it.Abel lists his worksheet like this:&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to see how well Bill Gadsby will fit in and tighten up our defense. We expect him to help a lot. We&rsquo;ll team him with Howie Young.Howie is potentially a great hockey player,&rdquo; Abel went on, &ldquo;and maybe Bill can tame him down a little.&ldquo;Then, we&rsquo;re hoping that Eddie Litzenberger will come back. He&rsquo;s going to center Alex Delvecchio and Gordie Howe.&ldquo;Possibly our biggest question mark is forming the third line and how well young Bruce MacGregor will play.&ldquo;And, we&rsquo;re definitely going to carry two goalies again. We&rsquo;ll have three in camp&mdash;Terry Sawchuk, Hank Bassen and Dennis Riggen. Which two will make the team will depend on what they show in camp and during the exhibition games,&rdquo; Abel said. Sawchuk and Bassen split the duties last year.Right now, the Wings have 1&#8532; lines set. There&rsquo;s the first one of Delvecchio, Litz and Howe and two-thirds of a second line with Vic Stasiuk and Norm Ullman.The rest will come from Leo LaBine, second line right wing last season, Val Fonteyne, Al Johnson, Parker MacDonald, Howie Glover, MacGregor, John McKenzie, and, also under consideration, Claude LaForge, Forbes Kennedy, and rookies Ed Joyal, Roger DeJordy and Gord LaBossiere.&ldquo;It should be real interesting,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;Another factor is that we&rsquo;ve got quite a few players who can play more than one position&mdash;like Stasiuk, Delvecchio, Johnson, MacDonald and Gerry Odrowski.&ldquo;With the addition of Gadsby it will make it tough for Odrowski to break into the defense since we&rsquo;ve also got Marcel Pronovost (first team All-Star), Warren Godfrey, Pete Goegan and Young.&ldquo;But Gerry is a fast skater and we used him at forward at times during the playoffs so he&rsquo;s got something going for him there, the two positions,&rdquo; Abel said.The third line has been a sore point with the Red Wings for several seasons for one big reason it hasn&rsquo;t scored goals. There have been many combinations but mainly with the same result, or lack of results.Now Abel and general manager Jack Adams have a flock of forwards fighting to make the club and out of the battle they hope to come up with a unit that can check and score a reasonable number of goals.There&rsquo;s Glover, who played two different lines last season and scored 21 goals in his first NHL year. Johnson scored 16 and MacDonald had 14. Fonteyne scored only six goals but proved valuable as a penalty killer.MacGregor played only the last dozen games of the season and didn&rsquo;t get a goal although he won one playoff game with his first marker and had a pair of assists.&ldquo;He has all the earmarks of a real good player,&rdquo; Abel said of the red-haired center.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to have to be very certain of who we keep since we&rsquo;re allowed one less player this season,&rdquo; Abel pointed out.As usual, the focal point of the Red Wings is Howe, the all-time, all-everything. Howe was tremendous in the playoffs after a goal-poor season (23, his lowest in a dozen years).Howe, at 33, shows no signs of easing up. His only concession to 15 NHL seasons are a few touches of grey hair.The Wings, fourth place finishers last season for the second straight year but playoff surprises, will be older this year&mdash;in the 30 and plus group are Howe, LaBine, Stasiuk, Gadsby, Godfrey, Pronovost and Sawchuk.Delvecchio will reach 30 during the season. Last year was his best with 27 goals and 35 assists.How well the Wings will do in 1961-62 will depend on Litzenberger&rsquo;s ability to regain his scoring touch; more goals from Howe; good seasons again from Delvecchio and Ulman; Stasiuk being able to pick up where he left off;, that third line, whatever shape it takes; and the goalies.At present, next to Howe, the Wings&rsquo; strongest point seems to be their defense, especially if Young gains a little polish without losing his liking for loosening up th opposition.The problems have been posed. The answers start coming in training camp.<h2>Talking It Over</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02256/1720679-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1068" height="1334"><figcaption class="caption-body">Detroit coach Sid Abel, right, has no problem insofar as Alex Delvecchio is concerned. The Wings&rsquo; star had his best year in 1960-61 with 27 goals and 62 points.</figcaption></div><h2>Years Catching Up</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03168/1720672-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1124" height="1044"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goalie Terry Sawchuk, right, is in the 30-plus age group and will have to fight for his job this year according to Coach Abel, shown with the veteran netminder.</figcaption></div><h2>They&rsquo;ll Have To Hustle&hellip; &hellip;To Land Regular Berths</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04102/1720665-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="562" height="544"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0568/1720658-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="526" height="510"><figcaption class="caption-body">Parker MacDonald</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0643/1720651-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="492" height="512"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Labine</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0728/1720644-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="542" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hank Bassen</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0819/1720637-1-eng-US/f0003-082.jpg" title="f0003-08" width="542" height="524"><figcaption class="caption-body">Howie Glover</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Red Wings Stronger Than Year Ago

Founded October 1st, 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Ken McKenzie, President end PublisherWill V. Cote, Yice-Pres.A Gen. Mgr.Len Bramson, Editor-in-ChiefYearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth: $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign CountriesEntered as second-class matter. October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point. N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd. 1879Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, OttawaPrinted in CanadaVol. 14 MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER 1961 No. 35 &#9632;

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01380/1720755-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="367" height="392"></div>&bull; HOWIE YOUNG celebrated his 24th birthday by signing his 1961-62 Detroit contract. He was the second Red Wing player to come to terms with General Manager Jack Adams. Howe was the first&hellip;Speaking of Young, who became a Detroit hero overnight, Adams maintains that: &ldquo;his rapid development and fierce aggressive play was one of the reasons for our making the playoffs and for our success in the Stanley Cup games.&rdquo;&hellip;&ldquo;However, he still is not a polished performer according to NHL standards and he must work hard to prove himself in training camp,&rdquo; added Mr. A&hellip;Max McNab, recently signed as coach of the new San Francisco team of the Western Hockey League, should do an excellent job for his new team&hellip;Incidentally, there is a contest running for a nickname for the San Francisco entry but don&rsquo;t bet against the Seals&hellip;San Francisco Seals is the favorite monicker of most of the press and radio people in the Bay City&hellip;Hockey lost one of its finest young executives with the sudden death of Frank Eddolls last month&hellip;Eddolls had an outstanding coaching record at Buffalo and was regarded as a very able front office man. He had an extremely bright future in hockey&hellip;He will be missed&hellip;NHL teams have scheduled six Saturday afternoon games for 1961-62&hellip;Detroit have arranged for three, New York for two and Boston for one&hellip;Anyone desiring free pocket-sized 1961-62 NHL schedules should write to the NHL Information Bureau. 601 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Canada&hellip;Don Head, Boston Bruins&rsquo; new goalkeeper, set a record for most penalties by a goalie last season with Portland. He accumulated over 100 minutes. He resents any liberties taken with him and will drop his gloves and stick in a flash to defend his honor&hellip;The 190-pound net-minder is said to be one of the strongest men in hockey. Once last season he lifted his Portland teammate, Jack Bionda, high over his head with no trouble at all, and Bionda is a very large chappie, too&hellip;He is not the most formful goalie in the business but they say it is uncanny the way he can make the big stop&hellip;The Bruins will have two players in the 30 or over category this season. The pair of veterans are Bob Armstrong and Jerry Toppazzini&hellip;This will be the youngest Boston team in years.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02345/1720748-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="320" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Bionda</figcaption></div>&bull; IT WAS a wonderful gathering of hockey&rsquo;s greatest players over the years at the official opening of the Hockey Hall of Fame building at Toronto&rsquo;s Canadian National Exhibition on Saturday, August 26&hellip;Almost every living member of the Hall of Fame attended&hellip;New York Rangers signed George Konik, a 210-pound dtfenseman to a pro enntrazt and they hope that Konik will turn out to be another Red Hay&hellip;That is a Canadian coming out of an American college to star in the NHL. Konik was a Ranger prospect back in 1957 when he starred for the Flin Flon Memorial Cup champions. In fact he was picked as the Most Valuable Player in the Saskatchewan Junior League that season. He elected to attend college rather than turn professional and graduated last June from the University of Denver&hellip;The 24-year-old Konik was regarded as the outstanding pro hockey prospect on the Denver team which won the NCAA championship. Konik was described as a &ldquo;tremendous crowd favorite&rdquo; by Don Smith. Denver&rsquo;s athletic information officer&hellip;&ldquo;His teddy-bear appearance, his tendency to get into fights frequently, his playmaking ability, his spectacular slap shot and his over-all ability made him a marked man,&rdquo; related Smith&hellip;About 25 players will report to the Los Angeles Blades training camp at Saskatoon in September. It will be a young club averaging 24 or 25 years per player&hellip;&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll have a contender all the way, and I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if we won it all,&rdquo; claimed George Agar, recently appointed coach of the Blades&hellip;Agar wants to follow the pattern set by Portland last season when they won everything in sight in their first year in business&hellip;Jack Geyer, Los Angeles manager, is pleased with the clause in the contract with the New York Rangers that prevents the Rangers from bringing a player up to the NHL once the Western Hockey League starts&hellip;To Agar, this is most reassuring. He does not have to worry about the Ranger management asking him half-way through the season: &ldquo;How are you fixed for Blades?&rdquo;&hellip;Art Wiebe, who played so well in the recent Canadian Amateur golf tournament, was a star defenseman with the Chicago Black Hawks first Stanley Cup winners, the 1933-34 club. He is now an oil company executive in Edmonton. Black Jack Stewart is acting as a patrol judge at Wolverine &ldquo;Raceway, a trotting track in Michigan, this summer&hellip;Baldy Cotton, chief scout of the Boston Bruins, can now accommodate education-minded hockey prospects. Players with Niagara Falls Flyers can attend Niagara University, across the river at Niagara Falls, N.Y. at the Bruins&rsquo; expense.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03269/1720741-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="338" height="482"><figcaption class="caption-body">Baldy Cotton</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;New York Rangers of the National Hockey League announced a 35-game home schedule for the 1961-62 season that includes a record total of 21 weekend games.Rangers, who will be under the direction of player-coach Doug Harvey this season, will open their home season on Thursday night, Oct. 12, against Boston, one night after they meet the Bruins in Boston on the opening night of the season.The New York home schedule will close on Sunday night, March 25, against Chicago.The schedule includes the same number of Sunday night games as last season, 18, but also includes two Saturday afternoon games and one on Saturday night. Last year Rangers played one Saturday afternoon game.The schedule thus includes 21 weekend games, 13 on Wednesday night and one on Thursday night.Oct. 12 (Thurs.) Boston; 15 (Sun.) Toronto; 18 (Wed.) Montreal; 22 (Sun.), Detroit; 25 (Wed.), Chicago; 29 (Sun.), Toronto.Nov. 8 (Wed.) Boston; 12 (Sun.) Chicago; 18 (Sat. aft.) Montreal; 19 (Sun.) Toonto; 22 (Wed) Detroit; 26 (Sun.) Montreal.Dec. 3 (Sun.) Boston; 6 (Wed.) Chicago; 10 (Sun.) Toronto; 20 &lsquo;Wed.) Detroit; 23 (Sat.) Chicago; 27 (Wed.) Montreal; 31 (Sun.) Boston.Jan. 7 (Sun.) Toronto; 24 (Wed.) Detroit; 10 (Sat. aft.) Chicago; 18 (Sun.) Toronto; 21 (Wed.) Boston; 25 (Sun.) Montreal; 28 (Wed.) Boston.March 4 (Sun.) Detroit; 11 (Sun.) Monteal; 14 (Wed.) Detroit; 18 (Sun.) Toronto; 25 (Sun.) Chicago. &#9632;

Rangers Set To Play 35 Home Games

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Vic Stasiuk and Leo La-Bine had the Red Wings listening with their descriptions of the sights, sounds and swimming pools of Los Angeles.That&rsquo;s the closest the Wings will get to the Southern California Disneyland now.Stasiuk and LaBine made the trip to Los Angeles last fall with the Boston Bruins when they played an exhibition set with the Toronto Maple Leafs.Late last season it was rumored the Wings would make the journey this year with the Leafs. Now it&rsquo;s all off.When Los Angeles became a member of the Western Hockey League the new club said it didn&rsquo;t want any NHL teams picking up money in their rink at their expense.The closest Detroit will get to Los Angeles will be the Pacific northwest&hellip;and it&rsquo;s a little cool to swim there in October. &#9632;

No trip To Coast Red Wings Settle For Stars’ Tales

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>The Red Wings will be late starters this season but the management isn&rsquo;t upset&mdash;the late start refers to the faceoff time of Sunday home games, not to the standings.The Wings have moved the start of Sunday home games back 30 minutes to 7:30 p.m.This was done for several reasons. First, it gives the fans a little more time for dinner and gives Mom a little more time to do the dishes.And, it also gives pro football fans a little more time. Sunday doubleheaders are popular here in the fall. Many fans attend the Detroit Lions games in the afternoon and then the Red Wing games at night.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04215/1720834-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="296" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jock Adams</figcaption></div>The past few years there&rsquo;s hardly been time for a hot dog in between the rush from stadium to rink. And, when the Lions are on the road, their games are televised back to Detroit. When they play on the West Coast, the games aren&rsquo;t over until 7 p.m. Detroit time.The Wings will continue to start weekday, holiday and Saturday night games at 8 p.m.The Red Wings home schedule show 16 Sunday games with Montreal monopolizing the day visiting Olympia seven Sundays&mdash;the only day they will be in Detroit.Toronto gained six Sunday dates playing its other game here on a Thursday, the opening night of the season, Oct. 12.Matinees were increased from two last year to three this season with the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Black Hawks in for two of the special kids&rsquo; day programs and Boston in for the other.General manager Jack Adams had hoped to substantially boost the matinees but scheduling problems couldn&rsquo;t be worked out.The best crowds New York and Boston drew in Detroit last season came on matinee days. The Rangers drew some 3,000 more in their afternoon game than any night game here and the Bruins drew better than 2,000 more than for any of their night contests at Olympia.Another difference this season is due to the difficulty presented by the ice shows which take over the building twice during the year. In the past, the shows closed down on Tuesday nights so that the Wings could play.But it proved a costly and time-consuming operation to change from ice show to hockey rink and back to ice show.So the fall ice show will run uninterrupted from Nov. 13 to Nov. 29 while the other show will be broken into only once during its March 114 run. That will result in a pair of extended road journeys for the Red Wings.Following is the complete Red Wing home schedule:<h2>OCTOBER</h2>12&mdash;Thursday, Toronto14&mdash;Saturday, Chicago19&mdash;Thursday, Boston21&mdash;Saturday, New York21&mdash;Saturday, New York29&mdash;Sunday, Montreal<h2>NOVEMBER</h2>2&mdash;Thursday, New York5&mdash;Sunday, Toronto9&mdash;Thursday, Boston12&mdash;Sunday, Montreal30&mdash;Thursday, Boston<h2>DECEMBER</h2>3&mdash;Sunday, Toronto7&mdash;Thursday, New York9&mdash;Saturday, Chicago14&mdash;Thursday, Boston17&mdash;Sunday, Montreal25&mdash;Monday, New York28&mdash;Thursday, Chicago31&mdash;Sunday, Toronto<h2>JANUARY</h2>4&mdash;Thursday, Chicago6&mdash;Saturday, Boston7&mdash;Sunday, Montreal14&mdash;Sunday, New York21&mdash;Sunday, Montreal28&mdash;Sunday, Toronto<h2>FEBRUARY</h2>1&mdash;Thursday, Chicago4&mdash;Sunday, Boston11&mdash;Sunday, Toronto15&mdash;Thursday, New York18&mdash;Sunday. Montreal24&mdash;Saturday, Chicago25&mdash;Sunday, Toronto<h2>MARCH</h2>6&mdash;Tuesday, New York15&mdash;Thursday, Boston18&mdash;Sunday, Chicago25&mdash;Sunday. Montreal&bull;&mdash;Denotes matinee game. Starting times: holiday, weekday and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 7:30 p.m.; ma-tinees at 2 p.m. &#9632;

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Red Wings Set Later Faceoffs At Olympia Sunday Night Games

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Maple Leaf hockey manager-coach George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach will be cracking the whip long and hard when his players report to the Peterborough training camp on Sept. 10.The payers will have only five days to work off the summer fat before Imlach leads the Leafs into a rigorous exhibition. schedule which will run from when they meet Boston Bruins, Sept. 15, in Niagara Falls, to an Oct. 12 game in Detroit against the Red Wings.The National Hockey League season opens in Toronto Oct. 14 with Boston as the visiting opposition.Here&rsquo;s a partial list of the Leafs&rsquo; exhibition games Sept. 15&mdash;Boston (at Niagara Falls). Sept. 16&mdash;Boston (at Peterborough). Sept. 17&mdash;New York (at site not settled yet). Sept. 19&mdash;New York at Peterborough). Sept. 20&mdash;Hull (at Ottawa). Sept. 22&mdash;Chicago (at Peterborough). Sept. 23&mdash;Chicago (at St. Catharines).The Leafs will head west for a series of exhibition games, starting Sept. 29 at Edmonton. Two of the western games will be against Detroit Red Wings, at Winnipeg Oct. 4 and at Brandon Oct. 5. &#9632;

Leafs Face Heavy Camp

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens announced a 35-game home schedule that opens Saturday, Oct. 14 against the New York Rangers and ends Saturday, March 24 against Chicago.As in previous seasons, the Canadiens will play all their home games on Saturdays and Thursdays. They play 22 Saturday dates&mdash;all but two during the season&mdash;and 13 Thursday contests.In meeting the Rangers in the face their former captain and Perennial all-star defenseman Doug Harvey. After 14 seasons with the Habitants, the 36-year-old Harvey accepted a post as playing coach of the Rangers during the off-season.Here are the Habs home dates:Saturday, Oct. 14, Rangers.Saturday, Oct. 21, Boston.Thursday, Oct. 26, Chicago.Saturday, Oct. 28, Detroit.Thursday, Nov. 2, Boston.Saturday, Nov. 4, Rangers.Thursday, Nov. 9, Toronto.Saturday, Nov. 11, Chicago.Thursday, Nov. 23, Detroit.Saturday, Nov. 25, Boston.Thursday, Dec. 7, Toronto.Saturday, Dec. 9, Rangers.Saturday, Dec. 16, Boston.Thursday, Dec. 21, Chicago.Saturday, Dec. 23, Detroit.Saturday, Dec. 30, Chicago.Saturday, Jan. 6, Rangers.Thursday, Jan. 11, Toronto.Saturday, Jan. 13, Boston.Saturday, Jan. 20, Detroit.Saturday, Jan. 27, Rangers.Thursday, Feb. 1, Toronto.Saturday, Feb. 3. Detroit.Thursday, Feb. 15, Boston.Saturday, Feb. 17, Chicago.Saturday, Feb. 24, Rangers.Saturday, March 3, Detroit.Thursday, March 8, Toronto.Saturday, March 10, Boston.Thursday, March 15, Chicago.Saturday, March 17, Rangers. &#9632;

Montreal To Open With New York

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;George &lsquo;Punch&rsquo; Imlach, with a new three-year contract tucked under his arm, is ready to tackle another hockey season as general-manager-coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs and no matter what lies ahead, the 1961-62 Leafs will be stronger.That&rsquo;s Imlach&rsquo;s contention after surveying the second-best team in the National Hockey League&rsquo;s 70-game schedule last season.&ldquo;We were only two points behind the Canadiens and we had more injuries than any other team in the whole league,&rdquo; observed Imlach.Last year only two of the Toronto regulars, rookie-of-the-year Dave Keon and big Frank Mahovlich, the man with the magic scoring touch, were able to go the route for Toronto. In all, injuries sidelined the Leafs for a total of 168 games.In the waning days of June, the grey-suited Imlach was seated behind a well-cluttered desk. &ldquo;All I can say at this date,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;is that I certainly expect to have a stronger club for the coming season. We&rsquo;ll go to our Peterborough training eamp with only Larry Regan missing from last year&rsquo;s squad. He has been assigned as assistant-playing coach of the new Pittsburgh team in the AHL. Once we get to camp, our regulars will have to fight for their jobs.&rdquo;Imlach, who was named Coach-of-the-Year by the HOCKEY NEWS last April, said: &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t mind handling an injury-riddled team. Believe me, it was an eye-opener. I soon found out wha was expendable and who could carry the weight. In the past, certain fellows would tell me they were my big guns and I couldn&rsquo;t dispute their statements, but I picked up some home truths last season.&rdquo;For Imlach, who is said to have a soft heart and a will of steel, the task of assessing the merits of his men may sometimes be distasteful. &ldquo;Our captain, George Armstrong, is starting to slow down noticeably,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;George was never a natural, effortless skater, and he always worked extra hard for everything. I&rsquo;m sorry to see him going downhill, because he has given a great deal to this club, but has never received his full share of true recognition. Someday a speedy youngster will come along and grab George&rsquo;s berth. I&rsquo;ll be sorry when it happens.&rdquo;Asked about Mahovlich&rsquo;s expected output for the coming campaign, Imlach replied: &ldquo;I look for Frank to give us a 30-plus goal season. I&rsquo;ll consider it a poor year if he gets less. We don&rsquo;t expect him to repeat his 48-goal outburst immediately, though I think he will ultimately score 50 in one season. Sure, he had hard luck in falling short of his aims last year, but maybe the disappointment will make him a better man. They say everything happens for the best.&rdquo;Imlach nodded somewhat grimly when reminded that he had been displeased with the play of Dick Duff, Billy Harris and Bob Pulford over portions of last season. &ldquo;Indeed I was,&rdquo; he acknowledged.&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t happy with Bob Pulford&rsquo;s play even before he injured his knee. I&rsquo;m not sure that he&rsquo;ll ever produce a true type of leadership for us, because I don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;s cut out for that role, but he has a lot more ability than he displayed last year.Due to the alarming rash of mishaps the club experienced last season the true strength of the 1961-62 Leaf team can&rsquo;t be determined until we actually play,&rdquo; explained Imlach. &ldquo;If some of our veterans slump badly, that could be offset by some of our lesser lights taking up the slack. I expect extra effort from our younger men since some of them let us down last year. If both the veterans and youngsters come through we&rsquo;ll have a standout club. Top notch efforts from Harris, Brewer, Stewart, Duff and Pulford would give us the added strength I&rsquo;m banking on.&rdquo; &#9632;

Imlach Predicts Leafs To Be Stronger

<div class="byline">By CLAUDE CALLAGHAN</div>Possibly one of the best rushing defensemen ever in the N.H.L., Hollett was born in North Sydney, Cape Breton Island, N.S., in 1911. At the age of 7, he moved to Toronto and learned his hockey there before signing with the Maple Leafs in 1934. He played in a Toronto Junior League and also intermediate in a strong city mercantile league. After signing with the Leafs he was sent to the Syracuse Stars, a Leaf farm team in 1934-35. He was recalled to the parent club for a 2 week stint, when Red Horner was suspended for his part in the &ldquo;Ace&rdquo; Bailey-Eddie Shore fracas. Next season 1935-36 he was loaned to the Ottawa Senators (Defense mate Albert &ldquo;Battleship&rdquo; Leduc). In 1936-37 he became a regular with Toronto and paired up with Clarence &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Day. There he acquired his nickname &ldquo;Flash&rdquo; from Leaf Trainer Tim Daly. Hallett scored 10 goals and added 15 assists. However, when the Montreal Maroons defeated the Leafs for the Stanley Cup, his good work was forgotten. (As he says they let the young players go in those days). He ended up back in Syracuse. Christmas 1937 he was purchased from the Leafs by the Boston Bruins for a reported $19,000. He finished the 1938 season with the Boston Cubs in the International Hockey League. Teammates included Bauer, Schmidt, Dumart, Charlie Sands, Ray Getliffe, Jack Portland, etc. Most of these players moved up to the Bruins in the 1938-39 season and won the Stanley Cup. They set a record which still stands, when they went 23 games without a loss. &ldquo;Flash&rdquo; scored 19 goals and had his biggest thrill in the play-offs. Hollett remained with the Bruins as a regular until 1943 when he was traded to Detroit Red Wings for defenseman Pat Egan. In his 2&frac12; seasons with the Wings he captained the club for two years. He also scored 20 goals in 50 games (1944-45)&mdash;a record that seems safe for a long time. The same year he was picked on the 1st All Star team with 5 members of the Montreal Canadiens&mdash;Goalie Bill Durnan, Defense Butch Bouchard&mdash;Forwards &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard, &ldquo;Toe&rdquo; Blake and Elmer Lach. In 1946 he quit the N.H.L. when Detroit wanted to peddle him to the New York Rangers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02304/1720944-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="576" height="1168"><figcaption class="caption-body">Flash In His Heydey</figcaption></div><h2>N.H.L.&mdash;GOALS AND ASSISTS</h2>Biggest Thrill&mdash;scoring the clinching goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the final game of the 1938-39 Stanley Cup play-offs.Biggest Disappointment&mdash;being traded by Boston to Detroit for Defenseman Pat Egan.Greatest Team he was on&mdash;The 1938-39 Boston Bruins&mdash;with the &ldquo;Kraut Line&rdquo;&mdash;Bill Cowley, Dit Clapper, Frank Brimsek, etc.Greatest Player&mdash;Gordie Howe&mdash;&ldquo;No argument&mdash;he does too many things too well.&rdquo;Present N.H.L. Hockey&mdash;Absolutely Terrific&mdash;The game gets nearer to perfection and is truly a wonderful spectacle. He also thinks stars of today would be a star of yesteryear and vice versa.Today&mdash;50-year-old William &ldquo;Flash Hollett lives in a quiet residential area of Port Credit, Ontario. He commutes to his office at 60 Yonge Street, in Toronto, where he is a partner in Playfair & Co.&mdash;Stocks and Bonds, an occupation he has followed since his hockey days. He has two children&mdash;23-year-old Sandra is married and lives in Toronto and 20-year-old Mike is in his 2nd year as a Chemical Engineer at the University of Toronto. &ldquo;Flash&rdquo; remains in good physical health&mdash;6 ft.&mdash;200 lbs.&mdash;by playing basketball in winter and an over abundance of golf in the summer. (Handicap of 10&mdash;sometimes golt partner is ex-Leaf Ted Kennedy). He is one of the nicest chaps you would want to meet and says he is extremely grateful for his N.H.L. career. He still follows hockey closely.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03238/1720937-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="348" height="482"><figcaption class="caption-body">Flash Today</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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William ‘Flash’ Hollett

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&mdash;BUFFALO, N. Y.Those who knew Frank Eddolls well can tell you he was a gentleman. They can tell you he was a psysically small man who excelled at games played by big men&mdash;hockey, lacrosse, even the shot-put.They can tell you he demanded 100% of himself as a hockey defenseman&mdash;whether it be with the Oshawa Generals or the New York Rangers&mdash;and that he settled for no less from his players when he became a coach.They can tell you how much his loss will mean to the Buffalo Hockey Club.When I heard that Frank had died Sunday afternoon my first reaction was that it would be presumptuous for one who knew him only casually to write about the impact of his passing.Sometimes, though, a man&rsquo;s relations with people he sees only occasionally, people whose absence or presence makes little difference in the daily run of business, establish his character as thoroughly as the facets known to his close friends.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01404/1721047-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="590" height="1146"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Eddolls</figcaption></div>I knew Frank as an authority on hockey who always had time to discuss the game with a writer who didn&rsquo;t know a fore check from a face-off.I knew him as a hockey executive who could joke graciously with this same writer after reading a column in which the novice attempted to tell hockey executives how to run their games.I knew him as a man interested and informed on all sports in the Buffalo area, as a man who spoke well at interminable sports night banquets, as a man whose appearence would have done a good selling job for hockey even if he never mentioned it.I knew him as a coach who worried about the mental comfort of his young players. If he ever sought an edge anywhere, it was in attempting to protect his rookies from criticism that he feared might blunt their confidence.I knew him as a mild, uncomplicated sort but I was told that a driving desire for perfection had wrecked his health years before I met him.Maybe that&rsquo;s why I remember him best standing alone between periods when things were going bad in Memorial Auditorium. Deep in thought, a mangled cigarette the only evidence betraying his intensity, he always remained outside the dressing room for a few minutes, giving himself and his players a chance to cool off before going in to try to talk them into playing respectable hockey.Even then he had the ability to put aside his preoccupation and speak pleasantly.I knew Frank Eddolls only well enough to know that he always had time to be fair. When he died at the age of 40, time was not fair with him or with his friends. &#9632;

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Perfectionist Frank A Real Gentleman

The Montreal Canadiens will experiment this season with Don Marshall giving the former penalty-killing ace a chance to become a regular left winger.Frank J. Selke, managing director of the Canadiens, made the disclosure when he signed Marshall to his eighth National League contract recently.Selke said that the Habs feel the portside needs strengthening with the Canadiens and it is his contention that Marshall, who has excelled as a fill-in man and penalty killer since he came into the NHL, is the man to plug the gap. &#9632;

Marshall To Get Wing Bid

MUSKEGON ZEPHYRSINTERNATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUEEastern Divison Playoff Champions 1960-61Overaged Junior A, Senior A & Reinstated Pros Must Have Release or Ability to Obtain SameWrite to: Jerry P. DeLise General Manager Muskegon Zephyrs L. C. Walker Sports Arena Muskegon, MichiganInclude Following Information: Previous player record covering position, scoring record, penalties, team last with, number of games played by you, height, weight, age and salary expected. &#9632;

<div class="byline">By CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;The sudden death of Frank Eddolls while playing golf at the nearby Cherry Hill Club in Ridgeway, Ont., Aug. 13, left the Buffalo Bisons with a much greater problem than that of obtaining a coaching replacement.In addition to coaching the Herd, Eddolls, who returned to the bench last fall after a three&mdash;year front&mdash;office stint, retained the title of business manager.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02288/1721126-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="290" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Eddolls</figcaption></div>His duties included supervision of the club&rsquo;s public relations and promotions programs, together with a number of regular business matters.An extremely popular figure here, Frank was a much sought-after speaker, and was a frequent guest on local television and radio programs.In recent years, he had been a guiding light in local amateur hockey circles and had been called upon to organize a number of hockey schools.Eddolls did a considerable amount of scouting for the Bisons, and was frequently sought for special scouting assignments by General Manager Tommy Ivan of the Chicago Black Hawks.Eddolls traveled with the Hawks during the Stanley Cup finals with the Detroit Red Wings last spring, and Ivan was outspoken in his praise for the help Eddolls gave the world champions.&ldquo;Frank was a keen student of the game, and many of the things he noticed during the Stanley Cup finals aided us immeasurably,&rdquo; Ivan said.&ldquo;Frank&rsquo;s career in the executive branch of the sport was in its infancy,&rdquo; Ivan continued. &ldquo;There is no way of determining how far Frank would have progressed. I am certain he would have gone on to become one of the finest frontoffice executives in the game.&rdquo;Owner Ruby Pastor of the Bisons described Eddolls as &ldquo;not an employee, but a member of our family. We, my brothers Sam and Al, and I considered Frank as one of our own.&ldquo;Quite frankly, I had been seriously considering asking Frank to leave his hockey duties and to devote his full time to our soft drink business.&ldquo;However, knowing his love for the game, I thought it might be well for Frank to continue in hockey for another season or two.&ldquo;But we had definite plans for Frank to come into our private business and to play an important role in our soft-drink operation. Frank had a keen business sense, and his loss to us cannot be measured in words.&rdquo;Civic and sports leaders here were unanimous in their praise of the former major league defenseman.&ldquo;Frank Eddolls was a tribute to Buffalo, as well as to the game he represented,&rdquo; said Mayor Frank Sedita. &ldquo;He will be sorely missed in all walks of life in our city.&rdquo;General Manager Dick Gallagher of the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League described Eddolls as &ldquo;one of the brightest young men I have ever met in sports. Although I knew him a comparatively short time, we became fast friends, and I was able to learn a great deal about hockey from him.&rdquo;Floral tributes from every club in pro hockey were received at the funeral.Among those in attendance were Carl Voss, referee-in-chief of the National Hockey League; Jim Ellery, secretary-treasurer, American Hockey League; Ivan, Coach Rudy Pilous, Scout Bob Wilson and players Stan Mikita and Pierre Pilote of the Black Hawks.Also Stafford Smythe, Toronto Maple Leafs; Ken Reardon, Montreal Canadiens; Muzz Patrick and trainer Frank Paice, New York Rangers; Jack Gordon, Pete Hendy and Lex Cook, Cleveland Barons; Lloyd Blinco and Frank Mathers, Hershey Bears.Also Baz Bastien, Pittsburgh Hornets; Terry Reardon, Providence Reds; Jack Riley, Jay Buttons and Steve Kraftcheck, Rochester Americans; Billy Reay and Roy Edwards, Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds; Frank Martin, Quebec Aces.Members of last winter&rsquo;s Bisons who attended the funeral were Vic Hadfield, Larry Wilson, Brian and Barry Cullen, Dick Gamble, Billy Dea, Wayne Hillman and Denis DeJordy.Former Bisons Gus Mortson, Ed Slowinski and Gordie Davidson also attended.The pall bearers were Ivan, General Manager Fred Hunt of the Bisons, Trainer Frank Christie of the Bisons, Ray Weil, a member of the Bisons&rsquo; directorate; Wally Wilson of Oshawa, a former teammate of Eddolls, and Charley Barton, hockey writer for The Courier-Express. &#9632;

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Frank Eddolls Death Seen Blow To Club And Owners

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03198/1721157-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg"></div>SEPTEMBER ISSUE Now At YOUR NEWSSTANDWORLD&rsquo;S OFFICIAL HOCKEY MAGAZINEEXPERTS PREVIEW NHL CLUBS FOR 1961-62ALSO&bull; Hockey Goes West&mdash;California Here We Come &bull; Bronco&rsquo;s Jaw Break Wasn&rsquo;t Bad Break &bull; Can Phil Watson Change Now That He&rsquo;s Back &#9632;

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HOCKEY PICTORIAL

CLEVELAND&rsquo; O.&mdash;Fred Glover, who holds the scoring record of the American Hockey League, has been named assistant coach of Cleve&mdash;land Barons.His appointment was announced by Jack Gordon, head coach and general manager, who said: &ldquo;Glover has been my right hand man all along.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02323/1721188-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="312" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jackie Gordon</figcaption></div>This will be the tenth season with the Barons for Glover, a right wing, who has scored more goals, assists and points than any other American League player. His totals are 362 goals, 529 assists and 891 points. He also is the AHL&rsquo;s all-time penalty leader with 1,407 minutes.Glover, the League&rsquo;s&rsquo; most valuable player in the 1959-60 season, will continue as a player. He will take over some of the coaching duties when the Barons start training at St. Thomas, Ont., Sept. 15, &#9632;

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Gordon Names Glover Aide With Barons

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;From all indications the Hershey Bears 1961-62 edition will be an exact duplicate of the outfit which came on with a rush at the tail end of last season to close out second in the American Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01356/1721233-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="606" height="1332"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Glover</figcaption></div>The only off&mdash;season &ldquo;trade&rdquo; involved three Bears&rsquo; performers who wore the club&rsquo;s colors last year, thus making the transaction strictly a paper deal.Hershey obtained outright posession of two forwards, veteran Jack McIntyre and Pete Conacher and defenseman Marc Reaume by trading backliner Howie (Wild Man) Young to the Detroit Red Wings.Young was picked up at midseason by the Wings from Hershey in exchange for the loan of Reaume to the Bears. The deal benefited both clubs.General manager Lloyd Blinco, in announcing the one-for-three deal, said &ldquo;other considerations&rdquo; were involved. So far the &ldquo;considerations&rdquo; are top secert.What it probably means is that winger Claude Laforge and John McKenize, both Wings&rsquo; property, will again be assigned to Hershey.Even the club&rsquo;s brass has made no mention to date of where the club will train. However, it&rsquo;s likely it will be at Detroit Olympia, same site as last year.Winger Brian Smith, who ended the last campaign with Hershey, was traded by Detroit to Chicago.Otherwise, the Bears&rsquo; management has stood pat with its lineup, heavily stocked with aging performers in a young man&rsquo;s sport.Unless some new blood is inserted in the outfit, it&rsquo;s unlikely the Bears can climb any higher than second place in the eastern division of the two division setup. Hershey will be bracketed with defending champion Springfield, Providence and Quebec. The new entry Pittsburgh along with Cleveland, Rochester, and Buffalo, comprise the other group.Coach Frank Mathers, starting his sixth season at the assignment, also will double as business manager. This was brought about by the departure of capable Baz Bastien to Pittsburgh, where he is employed in the same capacity.Mathers, mainly because of his age, 37, isn&rsquo;t expected to strap on the skates. He says he intends to pilot the outfit from behind the dasher board. Only an extreme emergency would force him to take up a defensive post, a spot he handled brilliantly for 13 years in the AHL.Thus the Bears backline corps is composed of Reaume, Bucky Hollingworth, Howie Yanosik, and Larry Zeidel, a better than average quartet of bluelinerrs. Mathers would like to pick up a fifth defenseman, which wouldn&rsquo;t hurt a bit.Down the middle&mdash;the center spot&mdash;the Bears have veteran Willie Marshall, Hec Lallande and Mike Nykoluk.On the wings, it&rsquo;s McIntyre, Ray Kinasewich, Conacher, Les Duff, and Laforge and McKenize, providing Detroit sends the latter two here.And the nets will be in the hands of either Al Millar or Bobby Perreault. One of the two is expected to be traded for a forward or else farmed out.Mathers said he will not pack two goalies this season&mdash;something the club has done for the past several years.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to need strengthening up front,&rdquo; said Mathers this past summer. &ldquo;Whether we get it from Detroit or by trade remains to be seen.&rdquo;Above all the Bears could stand a skater with some color and dash&mdash;like that of Young, who, despite drawing penalties with his trigger temper, brought in the fans both in Hershey and Detroit.And along with such a man, a move to nab a couple of young, eager rookies might be a decided asset for the long 70-game grind.<h2>Hockey Vets With Bears</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03250/1721226-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="544" height="528"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack McIntyre</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04192/1721219-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="534" height="520"><figcaption class="caption-body">Willie Marshall</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hershey Bears Almost Unchanged Crew Mathers Seeking More Offensive Punch

<div class="byline">By BUCKY O&#x2019;BRIEN</div>&mdash;SPRINGFIELD, Mass.Jimmy Anderson, the likable little goal-scoring phenom of the Springfield Indians, was talking about the ensuing hockey season the other day and just what his hopes and ambitions were.Andy, who was the AHL leading goal scorer with 43 red lights, was nosed out of a first place berth to the all-star team on a ballot that still has the Springfield faithful steaming and their faith in the true intergrity of the scribes a little hazy.One particular writer, who like everyone else was given the privilege of selecting three left wingers, didn&rsquo;t even pick Anderson on his ballot. This could lead to a load of trouble around the league. Next March when the knights of the keyboard begin making their selections, they are going to remember this and they too may become a little over prejudiced. This was truly the greatest miscarriage of justice ever seen in the AHL.Jimmy is naturally disappointed but not bitter. He feels that the votes were cast in all sincerity. Let&rsquo;s hope so this is a great game and a few more instances like this and it won&rsquo;t take long to ruin it. &ldquo;I want to forget about what happened last year and try to have another good year this season&rdquo; opined Jimmy. &ldquo;I have set a goal of scoring a red light every other game or five goals every ten games. If I can keep a pace like that I&rsquo;ll have another successful season&rdquo;.Asked just who he attributes his success to Andy quickly replied, &ldquo;Eddie Shore the greatest hockey player to ever lace on a pair of skates. He taught me to skate with my head up so I could see where I was going. I used to miss a load of goals because of this, and I used to get banged around because of it. I never used to think he was right but he didn&rsquo;t win the Hart Trophy for nothing. There&rsquo;ll never be another one like him&rdquo;, concluded the amiable winger.Jimmy has one of the hardest shots outside of the NHL and you can bet your bottom dollar that he&rsquo;ll be giving it a little extra snap the next time he skates into the rink in the city where his forgetful writer realizes his income but failed to realize his duty when he omited the obvious name of Jimmy Anderson from the 1960-61 AHL all-star team. &#9632;

Bypassed For All-Stars, Anderson Looking Ahead

PITTSBURGH, Pa.,&mdash;Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League purchased centre Cecil Hoekstra from Chicago Black Hawks of The National Hockey League for an undisclosed amount of cash.Hornets rejoin the American League this year after a five-year absence.Hoekstra played last season with Chicago&rsquo;s American League affiliate, Buffalo Bisons. &#9632;

Pittsburgh Hornets Buy Hoekstra From Chicago

<div class="byline">By CHARLEY BARTON</div>&mdash;BUFFALO, N. Y.The death of Frank Eddolls less than a month before the opening of training camp, and the uncertainty surrounding several pending player deals, clouded the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; hopes for the 1961-62 American Hockey League campaign.As this was being written, Owner Ruby Pastor and General Manager Fred Hunt were still conferring with General Manager Tommy Ivan of the parent Chicago Black Hawks on the selection for a successor to Eddolls.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05134/1721336-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="291" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Reay</figcaption></div>The Buffalo brass had made the initial moves in several player deals before Eddolls&rsquo; death, but none had been completed.The passing of the popular Buffalo bench boss was a deep personal loss, as well as a business one, to Pastor, Ivan and Hunt, and although training camp was just around the corner, they found it difficult to discuss the selection of a new leader.Billy Reay and Alfie Pike, both in the Chicago farm system, appeared the most likely candidates. Reay led the Sault Ste. Marie club in the Eastern League last winter while Pike signed on this summer to pilot the Calgary Stampeders of the Western League.When the Bisons assemble at Welland, Ont., Sept. 10, Denis DeJordy will be back for his first full season in the nets, and that&rsquo;s good news for local fans.DeJordy played am a.ior role in the club&rsquo;s march to a pjayoff berth last year, and is extremely popular here.The returning defensemen include Ron Ingram, Wayne Hillman, Bob Wilson and Doug Barkley. Gary Bergman was sold to the Cleveland Barons by the Montreal Canadiens, who owned his contract.There is a possibility that one or two defensemen will come out of the farm system, and if they can make the grade, the Bisons will be playoff contenders. The iefense must be shored up if the Bisons are to make a strong showing.The returning forwards may include Chico Maki, last year&rsquo;s No. 1 rookie. Maki will get a shot with the Black Hawks, and if he doesn&rsquo;t win a berth, will return here.The other forwards expected back are Bob Courcy, the Cullens, Brian and Barry, Wayne Hicks, Billy Dea and Larry Wilson.Phil Maloney, a key factor a year ago, is reaching the end of the trail, and has expressed a desire to end his career in Vancouver, where he makes his home. If they can&rsquo;t talk him out of it, the Bisons may accede to his request.In addition to Bergman, other members of last year&rsquo;s squad who won&rsquo;t be back are forward Vic Hadfield, drafted by the New York Rangers; center Cec Hoekstra, sold to the new Pittsburgh club, and Dick Gamble, traded to Rochester for Dave Creighton.Creighton, who can play center as well as left wing, and forward Brian Smith, will be newcomers in Buffalo uniforms. Smith was obtained by the Hawks in the deal which sent Ed Litzenberger to the Detroit Red Wings.If they can strengthen the defense, the Bisons will be right there when the silverware (and the playoff cheques) arc distributed next spring. &#9632;

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Bisons Seeking New Coach, Player Deals

EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Bud Poile, general manager of Edmonton Flyers of the Western Hockey League, announced the signing of two left-wingers from last year&rsquo;s Memorial Cup finalists, Edmonton Oil Kings.They are Dennis Kassian and Don Chiz. Chiz scored 62 goals in league and playoff games last season. Kassian got 53 goals.Poile described Chiz as &ldquo;one of the top juniors in Canada last year,&rdquo; and said he has been signed to a two-year contract. Kassian was given a one-year agreement.They will play either with Flyers or with Sudbury Wolves in the Eastern Professional League. Both clubs are affiliates of Detroit Red Wings of the National League. &#9632;

Edmonton Inks Two Juniors Off Cup Team

&mdash;PORTLAND, ORE.There was more good news for Portland hockey fans as the Buckaroos announced completion of a working agreement with the Boston Bruins for the loan of three players next season.The Bucks obtain Eddie Panagabko, a veteran center, and have first crack at defenseman Dale Rolfe, and a goalkeeper to replace Don Head.The deal for a goalkeeper is included in the working agreement, although the Bucks were assured of a replacement at the time Head was sold to the Bruins. If he sticks with the National Hockey League club the Bucks will get their choice of either Bruce Gamble or Ed Chadwick, both competent pros.The Buckaroos earlier secured two players as a result of completing the deal with the Bruins for the sale of Head.They were Don Ward, a big defenseman, and Gene &ldquo;Ack-Ack&rdquo; Achtymichuk, a center.Thus the Bucks have obtained the outright ownership of four players plus the use of a goalkeeper for the provisional sale of Head. They had previously obtained Jack Bionda outright and also get first call on Head if he doesn&rsquo;t stay with Boston.The Bucks also announced the sale of right wing Bill McCulley to the Vancouver hockey club. League rules require each team to carry and play one rookie next season and coach Hal Laycoe feels that the best rookie candidates are at this position, so the Bucks sold him outright.Rolfe had a tremendous rookie season with Portland last year and was third&rdquo; in balloting for the outstanding rookie in the Western Hockey League.General Manager Lynn Patrick of the Bruins plans to take Rolfe to the Boston training camp for a tryout, but present plans are to give him another year of seasoning with the Bucks.The Boston brass was tremendously impressed with his progress under Laycoe&rsquo;s coaching and apparently think another year with Laycoe will help his career.Panagabko is a key acquisition, for he is an experienced center and a fine playmaker. He is 27 years old, stand 5-9 and weighs 165. He scored 20 goals for Providence in the American Hockey League last year.Laycoe has seen him play and rates him a good playmaker, good skater, excellent defensive player, and a tireless worker, all attributes that fit into Hal&rsquo;s style of play.Laycoe had different reasons for being happy with the acquisition of Ward because he will add &ldquo;some thump&rdquo; to the Buck blueline corps and Achtymichuk because he is a good playmaker and should set up goals for some of Portland&rsquo;s high scoring forwards.Ward, 25 years of age, stands 6 feet 2 and weighs 200 pounds. He had a fair season with lastplace Winnipeg last year but three years ago he was outstanding as a rookie with Calgary. He was a key man on the Stampeder club which won 16 straight games and impressed the Bruins enough to plunk out $20,000 to draft him.Laycoe said, &ldquo;Ward is still an outstanding &lsquo;prospect who plays with authority. He is a strong skater and a willing mixer.&rdquo; Ward should also assist Bionda with the &ldquo;policing&rdquo; duties and his size should maintain some law and order on the ice.&ldquo;Ack-Ack&rdquo; actually comes to the Bucks by virtue of a trade for Gordon Haworth. Boston, who owned Haworth, traded him to Detroit, who owned Achtymichuk.Portland fans won&rsquo;t even try to pronounce it but will soon be calling him by the popular &ldquo;AckAck&rdquo;. He is very similar to Haworth as a skater and playmaker but is probably a little more aggressive.A left-hand shot, he is 5-11 and weighs 170. Two years ago he led Edmonton in scoring with 71 points and it was then that he first caught Laycoe&rsquo;s eye. Efforts to land him prior to last season proved futile, but he had only a fair season after contract difficulties and being shuttled between Edmonton and Sudbury.Laycoe is confident the change of scenery will do him good and expects him to prove a valuable addition.The acquisition of Ward and Achtymichuk softened the blow for the not unexpected loss of Larry Leach. Because of prior commitments Boston will be unable to assign him to Portland again this year and he probably will wind up in the American Hockey League.The Bucks now own 12 players&mdash;: Bionda, Ron Matthews, Ward and Bill Davidson on defense, Gordon Fashoway, Arlo Goodwin and Bill Saunders at left wing, Art Jones Panagabko and Achtymichuk at center and Arnie Schmautz and Eddie Dudych at right wing.With this nucleus, plus three more to come from Boston in a working agreement, together with some good rookie prospects they expect to acquire, the Bucks will go into training camp in as good shape as any team in the Western Hockey League.<h2>Future Buck?</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04192/1721460-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="577" height="1166"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dale Rolfe</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Portland Gets Tie-Up With Boston For Year Bruins To Loan Players

Goalie Don Head, the rookie from the Portland Buckaroos of the Western Hockey League, will have some pretty choice opposition when he attempts to win the Boston job next month at training camp.General Manager Lynn Patrick is high on the Portland star but he said he must beat out Bruce Gamble, who divided the No. 1 netminding chores last season with Don Simmons, and big Ed Chadwick, for the post.It is understood that Head will be returned to Portland if he doesn&rsquo;t stick in the NHL with Boston. &#9632;

Head racing Opposition For Boston Goal Berth

&mdash;SEATTLE, WASH.Although balmy summer breezes throughout the West reveal no indication of the fact, a brand new 1961-62 hockey season will soon be upon us. In a few weeks most Western Hockey League teams will be preparing to don the blades to make ready for another year of competition for the Lester Patrick Trophy. The Edmonton Flyers will once again get an early start as they open training along with the Detroit Red Wings in Detroit on September 5.New, fresh color will be added to the League this season with the addition of the two California entries of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Upon receiving the new San Francisco franchise owner Coley Hall wasted no time in making giant preparations to assure a successful first season in the League. His first two moves consisted of the hiring of Joseph J. Allen as the team&rsquo;s General Manager and former hockey star Max McNab as coach of the new entry.The aconisition of Mr Allen, who resigned the position of Executive Secretary to the Mayor of San Francisco in order to take the position of hockey executive, is bound to produce the desired results for Hall and the San Francisco fans. With sixteen years of political experience behind him as well as numerous successful ventures in the promotional field Joseph Allen is now looking forward to a new and successful career in the world of sports with San Francisco Hockey Club.Reports from around the League seem to indicate that players north of the border, especially in Vancouver and Edmonton, tend to stay in shape during the summer months by active participation in fastball and baseball leagues.In Vancouver, a fastball team made up of hockey players from three professional leagues, with the nucleus from the Western League, has been responsible for donating over $1,000.00 to charitable organizations and minor hockey in the Greater Vancouver area. The drawing cards for the fans are such stars as Larry Popein, Bruce Carmichael, Larry Cahan, Gord Fashoway, Andy Bathgate and Phil Maloney.In Edmonton, Gord Labossiere is presently the leading pitcher in the Edmonton Senior League, having chalked up eight straight victories without defeat. Team mates Bob Solinger and Roger Dejordy play on the same team with Gord and provide the power at the plate as Desjordy leads the league in home runs with seven circuit blows.In the American cities the golfing game seems to rate preference of the players, especially in Portland and Seattle. Newlywed Arlo Goodwin and Arnie Schmautz lead the way on the links for last seasons champions both shooting in the sixties.In Seattle, Guyle Fielder is the tournament player and, although he has not yet become the area champion, he provides all opponents with anxious moments.In Winnipeg, veteran NHL star and former Winnipeg Warrior Nick Mickoski carded a net 70 to capture the Olympic Cup in the annual Hockey Golf Tournament.<h2>New Hands In Portland Fold</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02325/1721405-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="527" height="510"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gene Achtymichuk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03253/1721398-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="541" height="519"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Ward</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Training Camp Opening Nears For WHL Teams

<div class="byline">By ARCHIE McDONALD&nbsp;Vancouver Sun</div>&mdash;VANCOUVER, B.C.There will be a prince in the Cow Palace next hockey season. Max McNab will be there.McNab, 36, who graced centre ice for Detroit Red Wings and New Westminster Royals, will coach and be assistant general manager of the new San Francisco entry in the Western Hockey League.McNab, who as a player was a rare combination of skill and dignity, signed a three year agreement with San Francisco owner Coley Hall.The first year, McNab admits will be the toughest.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01374/1721515-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="293" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Max McNob</figcaption></div>Mused Max:&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not worried about our personnel. We have a full working agreement with Boston Bruins (National League). Trouble is our players will be strangers to each other. We have no nucleus to build on like Portland did when they started out last season.&ldquo;And we&rsquo;ve got another strike against us. We have to play the first month of the schedule on the road until the Cow Palace is fixed up.&rdquo;The perils of coaching are nothing new to McNab. He piloted New Westminster for one full season and the bulk of two others before the franchise folded in 1959. But what about this assistant general manager bit?&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll have to help promote the game, talk to people, offer technical advice on Cow Palace renovations. Things like that.&rdquo;Max evidently is destined to offer much technical aid to one Joseph J. Allen, who was named general manager of the team in a surprise move.Jake Milford, a coach-promoter who made good in Brandon, Man., was rumored for the post earlier in the year.Allen&rsquo;s claim to fame is that he is executive secretary to &lsquo;Frisco mayor George Christopher.When asked what his hockey background was Allen replied:&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always liked hockey and used to go to the games quite a bit.&rdquo;Allen&rsquo;s main job, it seems, will be selling tickets. Owner Hall will make all major decisions.For the time being the San Francisco team will be run by remote control. It&rsquo;s headquarters will be in Vancouver Ritz Hotel until mid-November.The team will hold its training camp somewhere in B. C., open its schedule on the road, and won&rsquo;t see the City of the Golden Gate until November.McNab, however, will go to &lsquo;Frisco to help Allen with promotion.Promotion is a big item. The Cow Palace seats 14,500, only Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, of all cities in hockey, have larger arenas.But Max McNab has always proved to be a large man. &#9632;

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McNab Set To Take ‘Frisco Job

Calgary&rsquo;s hockey Stampeders open their fall training camp Sept. 17 at the Olds Arena.It will mark the first time the Stamps&rsquo; main corps will train away from home. The artificial ice plant has been yanked out of the Victoria Arena and the Water Follies are booked into the Corral from Sept. 18-23.The club will switch its base of operations to the Corral Sept. 25 and will meet Detroit Red Wings in its first exhibition test the following evening.Coach Alf Pike will probably greet seven Western Hockey League veterans and a host of aspiring rookies when the camp initially gets under way. Fred Hucul, George McAvoy, Sid Finney, Lou Jankowski, Norm Johnson, Gordie Vejprava and Hugh Currie are the vets who have been tendered contracts. The first six all performed with the pennant-winning Stampeders last season while Currie was on loan to the Victoria Cougars.A host of Black Hawks chattels from across Western Canada should swell the number of candidates to around the 20 mark.Five others who toiled for the Cowboys last semester have been invited to the Chicago training camp in St. Catharines, Ont. This group includes Ron (Squeak) Leopold, John Kosiancic, Cliff Bristow, Bill Burega and Ed Van Impe.Business manager Lloyd Turner reveals that Pike has recently been in contact with Jankowski who only last season established a league goal-scoring record with 57 markers.Lou, who announced his retirement a couple of months ago, intimated he might be willing to return but after thinking over Pike&rsquo;s offer for a couple of days, turned it down. The Stamps, however, will follow standard procedure and send him a contract.Lucien Dechene, although Calgary property, will not be reporting here. The Stamp brass openly admits it is hopeful of peddling Luke to an eastern squad. Art Lariviere&rsquo;s statut is listed as indefinite at the moment.<h2>To Greet Club</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02352/1721546-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="568" height="1076"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALF PIKE</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Pike’s Troubles Start Corral Not Available For Calgary Ice Camp

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Eastern Hockey League has rejected an application by Jacksonville, Fla., to be granted a franchise.An EHL spokesman said the Florida City was rejected because of its failure to meet conditions asked by the league.League officials were still unable to arrive at a 1961/62 schedule.Knoxville became the eighth entry in the league earlier this summer taking over a franchise relinquished by Haddonfield, N.J. &#9632;

EHL Rejects Jacksonville As New Team

CALGARY, Alta.Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings will play pre-season exhibition games here this fall, Lloyd Turner, general manager of the Calgary Stampeders announced.The touring National Hockey League teams all will meet the Stampeders, a member of the Western League, at the Corral.Detroit plays Sept. 26, Toronto Sept. 30 and Montreal Oct. 3. &#9632;

Three NHL Teams Play Exhibitions in Calgary

VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;The Vancouver Canucks, apparently frustrrated in their efforts to land a top coaching prospect, are reportedly casting eyes at Phil Maloney, a West Coast resident now and former National Hockey League player.The Canucks were turned down flat by the Rangers in their bid to secure Emil The Cat&rsquo; Francis as manager and coach for their Western Hockey League entry.Art Chapman, temporary general manager of the Canucks, made the disclosure after talking with General Manager Muzz Patrick of the New York Rangers.&ldquo;Patrick has other plans for Francis,&rdquo; said Chapman, &ldquo;but refused to disclose what he had in mind.&rdquo;The Pacific National Exhibition company had been attempting to line up Francis for the past few weeks and he was the only one being considered for the job.The Canucks would want Maloney as a player and possibly a coach as well, a club spokesman said. He has decided he wants to finish out his career here on the Coast and he would be available. He played in the American Hockey League the past few years.The Canucks will do their training at home. Chapman will attend the Rangers&rsquo; camp at Guelph, Ont., and hopes to bring back some prospects for the Western League team.The Canucks will also have Eddie Dorohoy among the team candidates this season. The out-spoken winger has been working out daily in Victoria to strengthen his broken leg. The injury, sustained in December 1959, has kept him out of hockey ever since.Most of the Western teams will train in the province of British Columbia. Portland will go to Esquimau, Spokane to Victoria and San Francisco to Chilliwack. &#9632;

‘Cat’ Francis Out As Canucks’ Coach

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The Hockey News

<h2>SEPTEMBER</h2>2&mdash;Stan Smrke, Rochester, forward, 1928.3&mdash;Gerry Brisson. Winnipeg, forward. 1937.4&mdash;Bert Olmstead, Toronto, forward, 1926.5&mdash;John Annable, Hull-Ottawa, forward, 1937.7&mdash;Gene Achtymichuk, Portland, forward, 1932.7&mdash;Orland Kurtenbach, Boston, forward, 1936.7&mdash;Paul Larivee, Providence, forward, 1930.7&mdash;Ron Leopold, Calgary, forward, 1936.8&mdash;Jack McIntyre, Hershey, forward, 1930.9&mdash;Bob Baun, Toronto, defense, 1936.11&mdash;Buddy Boone, Kingston, forward, 1932.12&mdash;Marcel Bonin, Canadiens, forward, 1932.12&mdash;Ray Kinaswich, Hershey, forward, 1932.13&mdash;Don Simmons, Toronto, goaltender, 1931.15&mdash;Alf Pike, Calgary, coach, 1917.15&mdash;Len Haley, Edmonton, forward, 1931.15&mdash;Dusty Blair, Sault Ste. Marie, forward, 1929.15&mdash;Tom McCarthy, Boston, forward, 1934.16&mdash;Gerry Melnyk, Chicago, forward, 1934.17&mdash;Claude Provost, Canadiens, forward, 1933.18&mdash;Al Millar, Hershey, goaltender, 1929.18&mdash;Bill Dineen, Toronto, forward, 1932.18&mdash;Ralph Backstrom, Canadiens, forward, 1933.18&mdash;Jack Bionda, Portland, defense, 1933.19&mdash;Milan Marcetta, Sault Ste. Marie, forward, 1936.21&mdash;Charlie Holmes, EdmOnton, forward, 1934.22&mdash;Gerry McNamara, Sudbury, goaltender, 1934.22&mdash;Gerry Foley. Springfield, forward, 1934.27&mdash;Gary Collins, Quebec, forward, 1935.27&mdash;Al MacNeil. Hull-Ottawa, defense, 1935.27&mdash;Wally Boyer, Rochester, forward, 1937.28&mdash;Georges Roy, Victoria, defense, 1927.28&mdash;Ray Brunel, Chicago, forward, 1936.30&mdash;Jim Powers, Vancouver, forward, 1936. &#9632;

Happy Birthday

<h2>Loop Opening Game Set For Oct. 12</h2>&mdash;OTTAWA, Ont.The Eastern Professional Hockey League set up a three-man committee to find a successor for President Ed Houston, who is resigning the post owing to the pressure of business.Houston, who is on the committee along with NHL president Clarence Campbell and Ted Hill, owner of the Sudbury Wolves, handed his resignation to a board of governors meeting recently.Houston, a member of an Ottawa law firm, said he found his EPHL duties conflicting with his law practice. However, he would remain with the league in an honorary capacity.&ldquo;The rough spots have been smoothed out and the league is an established success,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I know that my resignation will not leave it short-handed.&rdquo;Houston, the league&rsquo;s first president, was solicitor for Ottawa Senators of the old Quebec League and Ottawa Athletics of the International Baseball League.The governor&rsquo;s also approved the League&rsquo;s 1961-62 schedule, which opens Oct. 12 and ends April 1.Opening games of the EPHL schedule will be between Kitchener&mdash;Waterloo Beavers and Soo Thunderbirds at Sault Ste. Marie, and between Sudbury Wolves and North Bay Trappers in North Bay.Wolves open at home against the Thunderbirds Oct. 13. The following night North Bay plays Kingston Frontenacs at Kingston, while the defending champion Ottawa&mdash;Hull Canadiens meet the Beavers in Kitchener. Canadiens open their home schedule Sunday, Oct. 15 against the Beavers.While the league is shopping for a president to replace two-year veteran Houston three of the six teams are still hunting for coaches for the coming season.Already one new coach, Chirp Brenchley, has been named to the league. He replaces fiery Murph Chamberlain at Sudbury where Detroit Red Wings have taken over alone. Previously they co-sponsored the Wolves with Toronto.Meanwhile Hull-Ottawa, Kitchener-Waterloo and North Bay, the new entry created by the loss of Montreal Royals, are still seeking coaches.Glen Skov elected to remain at his job in Detroit rather than accept a lesser contract as bench coach with Hull-Ottawa Canadians. He led the Baby Habs to the league and playoff titles last season as a playing coach and played three games with the NHL Canadiens.The parent Canadiens have two persons in mind to replace Skov but no names have been mentioned as yet. &#9632;

EPHL Hunts New President

<div class="byline">By HARRY WOLFE</div>&mdash;NORTH BAY. Ont.General manager Lou Passador of North Bay Trappers is on the hunt for a playing coach for the new Eastern Professional Hockey League entry.Arriving to take over full charge of the Trappers, Passador admitted he had attempted to sign Tod Sloan, veteran forward of Chicago Black Hawks, to the position of playing-coach. But Sloan turned down the offer and Passador, while admitting disappointment, set about the task of looking for another man for the job.Meanwhile another season is just around the corner and one new city as well as many, new faces will be around when face-off times becomes a reality for the 1961-62 season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01388/1721728-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="258" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tod Sloan</figcaption></div>North Bay replaces the now defunct Montreal Royals, which may be a relief to many of the travel weary hockey players, particularly members of the Soo Thunderbirds. North Bay, without hockey for the past few seasons after many successful years as members of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association, seems to be an ideal city for the circuit.Going back about seven years, the people in the Bay built a beautiful $800,000 arena which seats 3,500 and is equipped in such a way as to accommo date 4,800 with upwards of 4,000 seated.Going back about five years the Trappers of that era advanced to the Eastern Canada Hockey finals in Allan Cup playoffs against Wren Blair&rsquo;s Whitby Dunlops and lost in seven games with the Dunnies going on to represent Canada at the World Championships in Oslo. Many members of that team went on to play professional hockey&hellip;Frank &ldquo;Crash&rdquo; Arnett, Billy Needham. Don Hogan, Bo Elik, Bobby Barlow, Goose Gosselin and so on down the line.The Trappers of that year also had such fine former pros as Chuck Scherza, Walter &ldquo;Ants&rdquo; Antanas and Eddie Reigle and the list goes on and on. Other graduates from the North Bay senior ranks included Marcel Paille and Art Stratton, but somewhere along the way hockey interest died in the Bay and faded into oblivion.Now North Bay, is back in the hockey business. Many sceptics contender and both that city and the EPHL will benefit.&rdquo;With players like Barlow, Hogan, Gosselin and Elik possibly coming back to their old skating grounds Abel could turn out to be quite a prophet.From a travelling standpoint the Soo Thunderbirds will benefit the most, not having to make the long haul to Montreal a distance of over six hundred miles, or the 750 miles of two years ago to Three Rivers. North Bay is 280 miles from the Soo. The longest trip for the T&rsquo;Birds will be to Kingston&hellip;560 miles. The other teams in the EPHL will benefit accordingly. The EPHL is now evenly divided with three teams in the North and three in the south. The northern entries are Soo, Sudbury, and North Bay. The southern teams are Hull-Ottawa, Kingston, and Kitchener.NORTHERN NOTES: The Rangers will be supplying the KW Beavers with players, coach manager and also will do all the feel that that city will not support hockey, no matter at what level it is played, others feel that the bright stars now performing in the EPHL on the other five clubs and the promise of a strong entry, is a big enough enticer for the hockey hungry fans down in the Bay.Furthering the argument for the Bay, in the past few years many new industries employing thousands have set up shop in or near that city giving them a very sizeable number of potential fans from which to draw.Morris Snider, the arena manager, should receive a king sized aclcolade for his untiring efforts in presenting the North Bay situation to the governors of the EPHL and selling it to them and also to the five participating NHL teams not counting the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Leafs are the only NHL team who have refused to assign players to North Bay. The Leafs decided not to participate in the staffing of the new entry because they say, it is a risky financial venture. The penalty they suffer is that no Toronto-owned players may now play in the EPHL. Toronto sponsored Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League last season.Snider told us recently that the Montreal Canadiens will supply them with eight players, four of last year&rsquo;s Royals, and four outstanding rookies. The Rangers, Hawks, Wings and Bruins will all designate at least three players to North Bay. All NHL representatives stated that North Bay must have a strong team or the league will suffer. Sid Abel of the Red Wings summed it up by saying, &ldquo;North Bay will have a strong financing&hellip;Red Sullivan, Ranger veteran is reported to have the inside track as player-coach&hellip;Chirp Brenchley got the Sudbury coaching job left open when Murph Chamberlin retired and the Red Wings took over complete sponsorship&hellip;the Wolves and Red Wings at one time tried for Alfie.Pike, who eventually got the post Wilson, the chief scout of the Hawks, hinted that Billy Reay who did such a wonderful job with the T&rsquo;Birds and who reportedly was retiring, would be back as coach&hellip;Wren Blair at Kingston appears set&hellip;either he or Orval Tessier will handle the Frontenacs&hellip;Sam Pollock is looking for a new coach to guide the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens with &#9632;

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Tod Sloan Turns Down Coaching Job In EPHL; North Bay Ready To Roll

&mdash;OTTAWA, Ont.Frank Selke, who was in town for the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens&rsquo; kickoff (if Sam Pollock will pardon the expression) function, had a few interesting remarks to make anent the coming hockey season.&ldquo;I just hope the Hull-Ottawa team doesn&rsquo;t make a runaway race of it,&rdquo; Selke observed in commenting on the lineup of talent in prospect for hockey fans here this winter.Selke pointed out that, despite numerous requests for Montreal farm talent, the best minor league players available would be playing here with the Canadiens.&ldquo;We had requests from the new Los Angeles team, as well as from Pittsburgh to place the Hull-Ottawa team, in whole or in part, in these cities, but we declined. The best minor league players we have will continue to play here.&rdquo;Obviously, local hockey fans are in for another season of top drawer minor league hockey. A lot of minor league cities would give their eye teeth for some of the players who&rsquo;ll be performing here next winter. &#9632;

Selke Gives Hull Assurance EPHL Habs To Be Strong Again

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.&mdash;While most officials are eager for a minor league &lsquo;national&rsquo; championship final between the Eastern Hockey League and the International Hockey League, the possibility of such a series may hinge on whether or not schedules can be altered.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02325/1721783-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="299" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Miron</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Our members wholeheartedly endorse the playoff proposal,&rdquo; said Ken Wilson, Omaha general manager who is an IHL vice president. &ldquo;We&rsquo;d like to hold the first series following the 1961-62 season.&rdquo;Most Eastern League clubs are said to be in favor of the playoff but they&rsquo;re not sure schedules can be amended in time to start next year.Both leagues had met in jointsession to discuss the post-season proposal without announcing a decision.General Manager Ray Miron and Jim Bradley sat in on the meetings as spokesmen for Knoxville&rsquo;s new entry.Club representatives included Wilson. Omaha, and Ken Ullyot, Fort Wayne, Ind., vice presidents: Andy Mulligan. Toledo: Joe Lein. St. Paul, and Lowell Kaplan, Minneapolis. Indianapolis General Manager Mell Ross was not present.Paul Buck of Charlotte was among the EHL club officials to arrive for the meetings and he had good news. Buck flashed a broad smile and reported that his team&rsquo;s temporary financial plight has been solved. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re ready to go again.&rdquo; he beamed.Other front-office EHL men attending were Johnny Mitchell and Charles Kunkle, Johnstown, Pa.: Stanley Frank and Bob Kent, Greensboro, N.C.: Nathan Podoloff. New Haven, Conn., and representatives from the New York and Philadelphia clubs.Mulligan, in his 15th year with the Toledo Mercurys, said he&rsquo;s among several in both organizations who want an EHL-IHL commissioner&mdash;&ldquo;an arbiter who can settle differences on player contracts, transfers and that sort of thing.&rdquo;A Canadian who has spent most of his life in the game, Mulligan talks hockey with the zest of a baseball rookie.&ldquo;I want to bring my team here to Knoxville for an exhibition game before the regular season opens.&rdquo; he declared. &ldquo;We&rsquo;d show your fans the best hockey club in either league. And I know my boys would enjoy helping &lsquo;break in&rsquo; the new coliseum.&rdquo;Miron, however, sees little chance of working out such a pre-season engagement. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll invite 20 to 22 players to our camp at Ingersoll, Ont., Oct. 9.&rdquo; the Knights&rsquo; general manager disclosed. &ldquo;And Coach (Don) Labelle will work with them there for more than a week.&ldquo;By the time our 13 selected players get to Knoxville, and we stage a pre-season clinic (probably on Oct. 19), it&rsquo;ll be too late to try any exhibition games.&rdquo;The Knights are tentatively scheduled to open their first season in the EHL against Greensboro N.C., here Oct. 21. &#9632;

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EHL, IHL Pondering Ice Series

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01387/1721814-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Pictured Maple Leaf player.7. Number of penalties assessed to Jerry Melnyk in 1960-61.8. Another name for a coach.11. This forward played twelve games with Detroit last season.13. 13th & 6th letters of the alphabet.15. Nickname of junior team with which Wally Hergesheimer last played (sing.)16. Land measure.18. Brian Smith&rsquo;s new team (abbr.)20. To state.21. Least penalized team in the N.H.L. during 1960-61.22. Initials of Nykoluk of Hershey Bears.23. Short for given name of Stratton of Springfield.24. The highest scoring team in the N.H.L. last season (abbr.)25. Initials of Dumart, ex-Boston Bruins forward.26. Indefinite article.28. Player who set a new record for assists by a defenseman during playoffs.31. This rookie scored 21 goals for Detroit last season.33. A Detroit forward answers to this.34. Given name of a Boston forward.36. Former Chicago coach.37. Initials of a Chicago forward.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. One of the Edmonton Flyers.2. Upon.3. Nickname of Gord Haworth, recently acquired by Edmonton.4. Phil Maloney&rsquo;s birthstone.5. Name given Chicago&rsquo;s trainer.6. Ex-Canadien defense star.9. Initials of Haley of Edmonton.10. Initials of a former Toronto captain.12. That is.14. Providence Reds&rsquo; coach.17. Given name of an N.H.L. manager.18. Rochester&rsquo;s coach.19. International (abbr.)24. Don McKenney sells these during the off season (sing.)27. Number of goals Harry Howell scored last season.28. Post Office (abbr.)29. This N.H.L. manager once coached Omaha Knights.30. Short for given name of a Toronto forward.31. Short for given name of Parsons, former Maple Leaf forward.32. Type of shot.33. 28 across shoots thusly (abbr.)35. Musical note.<h2>(Last month&rsquo;s solution)</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1. Horvath7. Aces8. F.A.9. Curry10. Talbot12. A.N.13. M.E.14. One15. Les.16. C.R.17. Art.18. He19. IA20. Ash22. Oct.23. Baer24. Andy26. In27. Brace28 Fram30. WHL31. Yes<h3>DOWN</h3>1. Hart2. Oc.3. Real estate4. V.S.5. Taut6. Rayner8. Frances9. Co.11. American15. L.A.18. Hanna21. Hayes22. Obie24. Army25. D.C.27. B.R.28. F.H.29. Al &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Sam Pollock, Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; farm director has announced the appointment of Scotty Bowman as scout and supervisor of the Canadiens&rsquo; amateur hockey activities in the Maritimes and Ottawa district.Bowman was coach of the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A series for three years. During his first season he took the Petes to the Memorial Cup finals where they lost to Winnipeg.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02344/1721845-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="316" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Scotty Bowman</figcaption></div>Bowman&rsquo;s successor was not named and it is unlikely a coach will be known for several weeks.Pollock said Bowman will take over most of the duties performed by former chief scout Lou Passador plus other duties in the Montreal scouting and farm system organization. Passador was appointed general-manager of the North Bay Trappers of the Eastern Professional Hockey League.Bowman has been connected with the Canadiens for 10 years as a player, coach and manager of various junior clubs.A former player, his career was cut short some years ago by an injury. &#9632;

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Bowman Appointed Habs’ Scout

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens are returning to junior hockey league action this season with the disclosure that the Habs will enter the Ontario Junior Hockey Association &lsquo;A&rsquo; series as the sixth team.The Junior Canadiens have not competed in regular junior competition for years but have always been eligible for the Memorial Cup playoffs. Even this season the CAHA had given them the green light again if they didn&rsquo;t find a league to play in.Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s and Toronto Marlboros both dropped out of the OHA since last season to form part of a new six-team Toronto junior loop. Their withdrawal left the OHA with Guelph Royals, Hamilton Cubs, Peterborough Petes, Niagara Falls Flyers and St. Catharines Teepees. The Habs will now be the sixth entry rounding out the league.The Montrealers will play approximately 25 home games all on the Forum ice here and most of the games on Sunday afternoon in place of the Montreal Royals, the minor pro club that folded up since last spring.OHA President Lloyd Pollock said the league will operate with six teams and play a 50-game schedule.The Junior Canadiens came into the OHA when it was disclosed that the loop was in jeopardy unless a sixth team was found.Farm director Sam Pollock, who is also a director of the Peterborough team in the OHA, said that the parent Montreal Canadiens made the decision to go into the Ontario league rather than see it go out of existence for the want of one team.Pollock said Peterborough will have a new coach, manager and president before the 1961-62 OHA season begins.The three vacancies were created when manager-coach Scotty Bowman was appointed Maritime and Ottawa district coach by the NHL Canadiens and president Dave Foster resigned unexpectedly for business reasons.Foster became president in November, 1960, succeeding Doug Cochrane. Foster will be succeeded by the Pete&rsquo;s publicity director, Roy Irwin, but will remain as a director until a new one is named.While a coach and manager has not yet been named to succeed the colorful Bowman, it has been learned that Ike Hildebrand, a former player, plans to apply for the coaching position. &#9632;

Montreal Canucks Join Ontario Junior League

ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;Ken Campbell of Pembroke, Ont., has been named coach of the St. Catharines Teepes of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A section.Campbell, 37, playingcoach of Omaha Knights in the International League last season, replaces Gus Bodnar who resigned following the elimination of the Teepees by Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors last spring.Born in Montreal, Campbell player junior and senior hockey with Montreal Royals and was a member of the 1947 Montreal team which won the Allan Cup.Ross Wilson, vice-president of the Teepees last year who made the announcement also revealed that a group of St. Catharines businessmen have agreed to to take over direction of the club.Rudy Pilous, coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, obtained controlling interest in the team two years ago from the club&rsquo;s founder George Stauffer.It is understood Pilous will remain as an advisor with the team. &#9632;

Campbell New Teeps’ Coach

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03281/1721931-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="573" height="1134"><figcaption class="caption-body">CARVER SHANNON</figcaption></div>Be a regular reader of Canada&rsquo;s breezy, fact-filled football weekly. This outstanding football newspaper is now starting its 11th year of publication. Every pro team in Canada is covered thoroughly each week by the nation&rsquo;s foremost football writers.GAME BY GAME STATISTICS &bull; CARTOONS &bull; REPORTS ON U.S. PRO LEAGUES BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOGRAPHS &bull; BEST FOOTBALL COLUMNS IN COUNTRYFROM EAST TO WEST BY FAR THE BEST<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04225/1721924-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="1722" height="577"></div> &#9632;

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READ THE EXCITING…CANADIAN FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="byline">By Hans Tanner</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;The old saying that you can&rsquo;t tell the players without a program is an apt description of the squad that will represent Rochester for the American Hockey League&rsquo;s 1961-62 season.General manager Jack Riley, who also wound up as coach last year, together with the parent Toronto Maple Leafs has made many changes in a team that slipped to a disappointing fifth after a second-place finish two years ago.Johnny Crawford, one of the top coaches in hockey, was lured out of retirement to handle the club. Crawford&rsquo;s seven-year AHL coaching record shows three firsts, a second, two thirds and a sixth. His last coaching job was at Providence in 1959-60, when he led a weak team apparently destined for the cellar to third place.In the player department, six veteran performers already have been disposed of, with one or two more destined for other rinks before the season opens on Oct. 11.Goalie Ed Chadwick was dealt to Boston midway through last season, but remained in Rochester on loan until the end of the schedule because Don Simmons, also a goalie, failed to report.Dave Creighton, veteran centreman and the Amerks&rsquo; captain, was traded to Buffalo for high-scoring left wing Dick Gamble. Hank Ciesla, the club&rsquo;s top scorer and another center, was moved to Cleveland in exchange for capable right wing-center Bill Dineen. Popular little Guy Rousseau was traded to Quebec for Norm Corcoran and cash, and Corcoran subsequently was sold to Pittsburgh. Dick Van Impe, who appeared to have found himself near the end of the season after a 25-goal rookie campaign two years ago, was sold to Cleveland.And defenseman Joe Crozier was allowed to accept the post as general manager-coach of Charlotte in the Eastern Amateur League.Duke Edmundson, another high-scoring forward last year, is certain to go&mdash;meaning the Amerks will have disengaged, themselves from their top four scorers and five of their leading six.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-026/1721983-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="547" height="526"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE CREIGHTON&hellip;Club Captain Sold Off</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-036/1721976-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="549" height="526"><figcaption class="caption-body">STEVE KRAFTCHECK&hellip;One Of Few To Stay</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-043/1721969-1-eng-US/c0004-042.jpg" title="C0004-04" width="548" height="525"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK GAMBLE&hellip;Comes From Buffalo</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-052/1721962-1-eng-US/c0004-052.jpg" title="C0004-05" width="612" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL DINEEN&hellip;Newcomer May Play Centre</figcaption></div>So what&rsquo;s new?In the goal it will be Gerry Cheevers (St. Michael&rsquo;s College), Simmons (if he reports) or Gerry McNamara (a veteran journeyman cage guardian).On defense, try the veteran Steve Kraftcheck and sopho more pros Roger Cote, Bill White and Mike Donaldson. Dick Mattiussi also may be retained. Richester has high hopes of getting the solid Al Arbour from Toronto, with Darrell Sly, star of Canada&rsquo;s 1961 world champions; Martin Howe, University of Denver, and Paul Jackson, St. Mike&rsquo;s other possibilities.Center seems to be the weak spot at the moment. Wally Boyer, a pleasant surprise as a rookie, and Alex Faulkner, the young New Foundlander, will carry the load. Bruce Draper from St. Mike&rsquo;s is said to have what it takes. And if the Amerks aren&rsquo;t able to pick up another seasoned center-man, Dineen may be shifted from right wing.Gamble, always a big scorer; Stan Smrke, the 40-goal Amerk of 1959-60 who was injured most of last season, and speedy Gene Ubriaco, another late-season sensation here, give the Americans a powerful left wing aggregation. Len Kozak, former St. Mike&rsquo;s star who was studying for the priesthood but decided to give pro hockey a fling, is tabbed as a top prospect at left wing, too.Try Gerry Ehman, a wicked shooter; Johnny Mac Millan and Dineen on right wing, with Larry Keenan of St. Mike&rsquo;s, Jim Pappin and Ken Girard as possibilities.What are the prospects?Look for the Rochester Americans to be a speedy, high-scoring unit with an improved defense. And look for the Amerks to be on top of the Western Division by the time the schedule runs its course next March. &#9632;

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Rochester Drops ‘Axe’ On Veterans

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.The Philadelphia Ramblers of the Eastern Hockey League will be coached by veteran-minor leaguer, Obie O&rsquo;Brien for the 1961-62 season, it was announced by club president Bud Dudley.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-016/1722014-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="282" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Obie O&rsquo;Brien</figcaption></div>Dudley said O&rsquo;Brien, who succeeds Doug Adams, will arrive here shortly to sign his contract. He said O&rsquo;Brien will make several stops en route here to contact prospective players.O&rsquo;Brien is married and father of four children. He is a 10-year campaigner in hockey, playing eight seasons with Hershey of the American League and two with Quebec, including last year. &#9632;

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Veteran Player Obie O’Brien Philly Coach

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="C0004-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-062/1722045-1-eng-US/c0004-062.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALEX SHIBICKY&hellip;Facing Challenge With Chiefs</figcaption></div>&mdash;INDIANAPOLIS, IndianaAlex Shibicky, former National Hockey League great with the New York Rangers, has been named coach of the Indianapolis Chiefs.The 47-year-old Shibicky, who makes his home in Vancouver, B. C., has had previous coaching experience in Western Canada. He is expected to snap the Chiefs out of their doldrums&mdash;finishing in the International Hockey League&rsquo;s cellar the past two seasons.&ldquo;I am confident that Shibicky will do an excellent job for us,&rdquo; commented Indianapolis G. M. Mel Ross. &ldquo;He is a strong disciplinarian and a good fundamentalist, something we&rsquo;ve lacked in a few years.&rdquo;Added Ross, &ldquo;Alex has a lot of contracts throughout the hockey world, with his many years of playing and coaching, and it is my hope that he will make Indianapolis a strong contender for first placeDanny summers, who was draft from St. Paul, was offered the job, but Summers would like to stay in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and play. Perhaps Ross can make a player-deal with St. Paul, otherwise Summers will have to play with the Chiefs, or no one.Other draftees, Al LeBlanc and Lloyd Maxfield&mdash;LeBlanc from Omaha and Maxfield from Ft. Wayne&mdash;will add a lot of strength to the Chiefs forward wall. A healthy Ronnie Brain, who was out twice for long periods with injuries last year, will be of great help. Others expected at training camp are Jerry Lemoureux, Grant Morton, Bob Rivard, Bill Short and one or two others from last year&rsquo;s team.FT. WAYNE&mdash;Have moved the starting time on Sunday games from 3:00 afternoon to 7:00 p.m&hellip;Could lose Jimmy Baird or Ronny Baryluk to San Francisco (WHL) or a Ranger farm team in the Eastern loop&hellip;Captain Eddie Long is expected back for his tenth year in the Hoosier city&hellip;General Manager-Coach Ken Ull-yot hopes to have Con Madigan, Len Thomson, Andy Voykin and Reno Zanier signed before long&hellip;. Newcomers Reg Morelli (St. Paul) and Jack Turner (Minneapolis) will make the Komet picture look rosier.MINNEAPOLIS&mdash;Have signed Moe Bartoli, high-flying right winger&hellip;Made a trade with St. Paul&mdash;Paul Johnson, last season with the Saints, for Des Maroney&hellip;Ken Yackel will be returning in second year as coach.MUSKEGON&mdash;After a successful year, General Manager Jerry DeLise and Coach Moose Lallo are out to better themselves, scouting around for one or two additional high-scoring forwards. Joe Kastelic, drafted from Ft. Wayne, should solidify the Zephyrs.OMAHA&mdash;General Manager Ken Wilson announced that Howie Milford, former New York Ranger farmhand would succeed Ken Campbell as coach of the Scotty Munro in the Estevan Bruins (Western Jr. &ldquo;A&rdquo;) operation for the past two years&hellip;Wilson said that Moe Benoit, Chick Chalmers and goalie Glen Ramsay have all signed contracts for the &rsquo;61-&rsquo;62 season&hellip;Milford is scouting around Western Canada for a defenseman or two and some forwards.ST. PAUL&mdash;John Bailey, Johnny Denis, Jacques Marcotte, Mickey Keating and a few other veterans will form the nucleus of the Saints roster this season&hellip;Coach Fred Shero expects to have lineup. Saints have won the IHL title the past two years.TOLEDO&mdash;General Manager Andy Mulligan is out coach-hunting at present, with Edgar &ldquo;Chirp&rdquo; Brenchley accepting a manager-coaching job with Sudbury. (Eastern Hockey League)&hellip;Hopes to have ten men returning&hellip;He&rsquo;s shopping around for a goaltender&hellip;Two goalies are on Indianapolis roster, Carl Wetzel and Chuck Adamson, as Muskegon also has a pair of net-minders, Marv Edwards and Jim McLeod. Any of the four could wind up the McLeod. &#9632;

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