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October 28, 1961

The Hockey News October 28, 1961

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ICE FOLLIES OF 1962

<div class="byline">By SID PAYNE</div><p>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;</p><p>Obie O&rsquo;Brien of the Philadelphia Ramblers, one of three rookie coaches in the Eastern Hockey League, may have his work cut out for him this season as the eight-club circuit awaited the opening of its 27th campaign.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02366/1972430-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="258" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Benny Woit</b></figcaption></div><p>O&rsquo;Brien, who replaced popular Doug Adam at the Ramblers&rsquo; reins, has inherited a club that has been a perennial playoff contender but who has failed to win a single game in the post-season classic the last two years.</p><p>Keeping the Ramblers in playoff contention this season could be a chore since the Southern Division of the league has as its members such formidable teams as Greensboro, Charlotte and Knoxville.</p><p>While Greensboro appears to be the stickout of this division, the race for the Nos. 2 and 3 positions, the other playoff berths, could develop into a horse race.</p><p>The Ramblers will stake their chances on a playoff berth on veterans Church Stuart, Blinky Boyce, Art Hart, Stan Parker and Reggie Messerve.</p><p>CLINTON&mdash;New coach Benny Woit has nine returnees on the Comets&rsquo; roster, headed by the durable netminder, Norm DeFelice. Brother Angie is back as are Skip Teal, last season&rsquo;s third best scorer in the league, Wayne Brown, Art Rose, Jack Kane, Tom O&rsquo;Connor and backliners Ted Szydlowski and Tom Hook&hellip;</p><p>NEW HAVEN&mdash;Coach Wally Kullman brooding over the loss of Gordie Stratton and Don Davidson, the Blades&rsquo; one-two scoring punch the past couple of seasons&hellip;Stratton made it to the Western League while Davidson went to Austria&hellip;Also defenseman Ray Crow will be sidelined for at least a month with a knee injury&hellip;Kullman counting on Mark LaFrance, up from the Sudbury Wolves of the OHA and Gary Wolford, from the U. of South Dakota, to help the club.</p><p>LONG ISLAND&mdash;Right winger Phil Latreille was the standout rookie at the Ducks&rsquo; camp&hellip;Latreille, who scored 60 goals in 20 games for Middlebury College in Vermont last year, was at the New York Rangers&rsquo; camp at Guelph&hellip;Serge Beaudreault, the team&rsquo;s top point man last season, turned pro at Providence&hellip;</p><p>JOHNSTOWN&mdash;General Manager Johnny Mitchell figures the Jets will be more aggressive this season&hellip;Only newcomer expected to crack the defending league champions&rsquo; roster is Butch Martin&hellip;Center Kenny Laufman working with Dick Roberge on right wing and Johnny Lumley on left wing&hellip;</p><p>GREENSBORO&mdash;Coach Ron Spong working on defense as the Generals appears to have few, if any, shortcomings on the attack&hellip;Greensboro was the highest scoring team in the loop last season and the pattern shouldn&rsquo;t change as Les Lilley, Bob and Billy Forehan, Ron Muir and Spong himself, are expected to give opposition goalies the fits again&hellip;</p><p>CHARLOTTE&mdash;Joe Crozier, a standout defenseman with Rochester of AHL last season, will pilot the Checkers who are expected to better last year&rsquo;s dismal showing&hellip;Charlotte lacked scoring punch last season and Crozier has been working hard to remedy this weakness&hellip;</p><p>KNOXVILLE&mdash;Coach Don Labelle, who sported the hottest club in the league toward the tail end of last season when the franchise was in Haddonfield, N. J., figures the Knights will go to the post with as strong a club as any other in the Southern Division&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Tough Chore In Philly For Obie

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The Red Wings were hoping for big things from Eddie Litzenberger but no one expected them so quickly.</p><p>While the Red Wings&rsquo; start wasn&rsquo;t exactly blinding, Litz&rsquo;s was.</p><p>The former Chicago captain quickly found himself with the Red Wings and linemates Alex Delvecchio and Gordie Howe. Litz scored a goal in each of Detroit&rsquo;s first three games to rank second in National League scoring after the first week of play.</p><p>He scored the first Red Wing goal of the season in Detroit&rsquo;s opening night 4-2 loss to Toronto, scored the first in a 3-3 tie with the Stanley Cup champion Black Hawks and scored the equalizer in a 2-2 deadlock with the Hawks.</p><p>The Red Wing management counted Litz one of their big &ldquo;Ifs&rdquo; this season. If he could help the first line, the Wings might move up.</p><p>They pointed to his 97 goals in the 1956-57 to 1958-59 seasons with Chicago and hoped he could get in the neighborhood of 30 goals again.</p><p>Now he&rsquo;s one-tenth of the way there after three games.</p><p>Litzenberger&rsquo;s first goal came on a setup by Howe. It was a low 15-foot line drive that cleanly beat Johnny Bower.</p><p>His second came on a powerplay against Chicago from the right faceoff circle and his third, the next night, was a 40-foot screen shot, again on a powerplay.</p><p>Litz also has had a hand in goals by Delvecchio and Howe for five points.</p><p>But despite the re-blooming of Litzenberger who came in a June trade with Chicago for Jerry Melnyk and Brian Smith, the Wings were winless in their first three games.</p><p>Coach Sid Abel, trying to put some punch into the other lines, started experimenting with the second and third units.</p><p>In the three games the Wings scored seven goals. Five of them came from the first line, one from defenseman Pete Goegan and the other from second line left wing Vic Stasiuk.</p><p>The Wings were sluggish in their loss to Toronto. The score was 3-2 until Dick Duff scored into the empty Red Wing net with nine seconds left to play&mdash;he shot from inside the Leaf blueline&mdash;but the Leafs outplayed Detroit by more than the scoreboard margin.</p><p>Only some nifty work in goal by Terry Sawchuk kept the Wings in contention.</p><p>But then the Detroiters completely reversed form in a weekend home and home series with the strong Black Hawks.</p><p>Their passing and shooting in the Saturday night game at Olympia was crisp and they jumped to a 3-0 first period lead.</p><p>But the Wings let up a little in the middle period and Ken Wharram and Ron Murphy put Chicago back in the game with goals. Murray Balfour scored on a blind, whirl-around backhander with less than three minutes to play in the game to pull out the tie.</p><p>The Sunday game in Chicago, the Hawks&rsquo; home opener, saw Chicago take a 2-0 lead before Detroit could score. And it was a little embarrasing&mdash;both Chicago goals came during Detroit powerplays.</p><p>Worse yet, they were scored by Bob Turner and Jack Evans who had only 26 goals between them in a total of 16 seasons.</p><p>The Wings are gaining respect for their scoring powers though. Turner gave Montreal a tie with Detroit last season when he blooped one in from outside the blueline with 12 seconds left in the game. It was the 45th game of the season and Turner&rsquo;s first goal.</p><p>And Evans, who hadn&rsquo;t scored a goal in two full seasons, got one in the sixth game of the finals last spring when the Hawks downed Detroit to take the Stanley Cup.</p><p>Then the Wings rallied with Litz setting up Howe for his first of the season with the third period 22 seconds old and Litz tied it at 9:51.</p><p>While ties are fine, especially against the club that many are picking for first place, Abel started looking for more firepower.</p><p>Involved in the manoeuvering were forwards Stasiuk. Al Johnson, Howie Glover, Leo LaBine and Parker MacDonald.</p><p>Stasiuk and Johnson were teamed with Norm Ullman to start the season and Glover was on the third line with left wing Val Fonteyne and center Bruce MacGregor.</p><p>There were thoughts of moving Johnson over to left wing on the Ullman line and elevating Glover to that unit and putting LaBine at right wing on the third line in Glover&rsquo;s place.</p><p>Nothing was certain but Abel had wide latitude in his manipulating since Stasiuk, Johnson and MacDonald can play either wing.</p><p>&ldquo;We just want to move them around and see how they work out,&rdquo; Abel said.</p><p>Another thing bothering Abel after the first three games was a second period let-down.</p><p>This was something new. Several years ago it was the third period that killed the Wings. But now there was a little relaxation in the middle periods and it hurt.</p><p>The Hawks scored twice in that period in the 3-3 game and then outshot Detroit 15-5 in the second period the next night.</p><p><b>Ice Chips:</b> Right winger John McKenzie was sent to the Hershey Bears of the American League the day before the Wings opened the season&hellip;the Wings now have 17 players exclusive of goalies Terry Sawchuk and Hank Bassen.</p><p>&ldquo;We plan to go just with the three lines,&rdquo; Abel said.</p><p>Val Fonteyne and Leo LaBine have the penalty killing detail&hellip;they didn&rsquo;t yield a goal in the first three games&hellip;Toronto scored on a powerplay but Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio were killing the penalty since Fonteyne and LaBine had just finished a job.</p><p>Howie Young sprained an ankle in the Leaf loss and missed the weekend set with Chicago but Young, who led the Wings in penalty minutes last year, totaled six minutes in his one start.</p><p>Movie fan Vic Stasiuk took a busman&rsquo;s holiday during the Red Wing training camp in Detroit&hellip;</p><p>Another Abel is coming up in a Wing uniform&hellip;it&rsquo;s Gerry Abel, 16-year-old son of the Red Wing coach&hellip;Gerry, a left winger, is with the Detroit Junior Wings, the Red Wing-sponsored team in the Junior B (OHA) Border Cities League.</p><p>And two more Red Wing alumni club members have turned active again in hockey&hellip;Jack Stewart, after finishing his summer job as a state horse racing steward, accepted the post of coach of the Sault Ste. Marie club in the Eastern Pro League and George Gee is coaching a Detroit amateur club.</p><p>Gee was named coach of the Detroit Olympics, the &ldquo;farm club&rdquo; of the Junior Wings.</p><p>Ex-National Leaguer Jimmy Peters and Junior Wing general manager Dan Distel have reason to be proud of their youngsters&hellip;goalie Pat Rupp who helped the Juniors to the Border Cities regular season and playoff titles last season, is playing for the Flin Flon. Bombers of the Saskatchewan Junior A League.</p><h2><b>He Delivers</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01425/1971044-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="552" height="839"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Litzenberger</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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After First Week Litz Shows He Can Find Net

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01304/1972867-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><h2>A Kookie At Hockey&rsquo;s Wailing Wall<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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BRUINS WILL STICK WITH ROOKS

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>General Manager Lynn Patrick, who stood by rookie goaler Don Head from the beginning, has decided that the Boston Bruins&rsquo; biggest problem is in goal. When the Bruins arrived in Montreal on Saturday, October 21 Patrick announced that he and Coach Phil Watson had decided to replace Head with veteran Ed Chadwick, called up from Kingston of the Eastern Pro League.</p><p>Patrick admitted that Head was experiencing troubles holding off the NHL sharpshooters and that it has been decided that Chadwick would replace Head. Later Patrick announced that Chadwick will be the Bruins&rsquo; goaler for the remainder of the season.</p><p>That night the Bruins were beaten by Montreal 6-2 although Chadwick played an outstanding game. The next night in Boston the Toronto Maple Leafs trounced the Bruins 9-1.</p><p>Head had allowed 32 goals in six games. Said Lynn: &ldquo;Except for the Montreal defeat we have outshot the opposition in every game and yet we lost.&rdquo;</p><p>Even in the 9-1 defeat the Bruins outshot Toronto 39-28.</p><p>What steps Patrick plans to take to tighten up his loose defense remains to be seen. But by the time this story reaches our readers there may be a drastic shakeup in the lineup of the last place Boston club.</p><p>Despite what he reported to Roger Barry (story on right) Patrick will have to make some changes if his club continues to flounder. Pressure from the Boston fans and press may force him into making those moves which he himself feels should not be made. Patrick is still convinced that by the end of the year the Bruins will be a good NHL club. Unfortunately, the fans won&rsquo;t wait.</p><p>Where Patrick will go for his help is also a mystery. Will he try to make a deal?</p><p>He needs another polished defenseman and he may have to turn to his old friend Punch Imlach to secure the man he wants. It could be Tim Horton.</p><p>Whoever it is, the man will have to be an experienced NHL rearguard who can help steady down some of the Bruins floundering rookies.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Head Goes; Lynn May Be Forced To Pull Shakeup

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The youthful Bruins have been finding National Hockey League life to be a rough one so far this season. They&rsquo;ve had trouble winning which fits their circumstances.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02206/1972898-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="270" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don McKenney</b></figcaption></div><p>As a result, there&rsquo;s a word which fits their circumstances.</p><p>The word is not shakeup, benching or demotion, all used frequently here in the past, but inexperience.</p><p>&ldquo;Inexperience, that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s hurting us,&rdquo; opined Lynn Patrick, the manager who outfitted the Bruins with seven rookies for this season.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve given away quite a few goals which we wouldn&rsquo;t have had scored against us if we were more experienced. Lack of experience is our main trouble.</p><p>Patrick gives short shrift to words like shakeup and demotion when they are applied to the Bruins. He has not been upset by his rebuilt team&rsquo;s slow start.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not making changes,&rdquo; he said flatly after a 5-5 tie with the Montreal Canadiens here. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve made our changes. We have 11 players who were playing elsewhere at the start of last season.</p><p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t have as good a team right now as we had a year ago at this time, but we will have pretty soon. And by the end of the season we&rsquo;ll have a better team than we had at the end of last season.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick has taken critical opinions of his young players without blinking, with the exception of an adverse comment on Don Head, his rookie goalkeeper, which was made by a wire service writer in New York.</p><p>&ldquo;After our second game in New York the fellow wrote that Head was totally inadequate,&rdquo; said the Bruins&rsquo; boss. &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t agree with him.&rdquo;</p><p>(Ed. Note: Lynn does now.)</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re carrying only one goalkeeper and Head is it. He&rsquo;s our man.&rdquo; (Chadwick is now in goal.)</p><p>As the Bruins continue to strive for the degree of organization which Coach Phil Watson seeks, they have created several impressions here. Impressions, that is, since it is far too early, in most cases, to form definite opinions.</p><p>The Bruins as a team are definitely faster than they were a year ago, when they were unquestionably the slowest team in the League, but they are also smaller and less polished around both nets.</p><p>Cliff Pennington, who came here heralded as a prospective scoring star, is turning out to be a good all-around player, and Pat Stapleton is showing agility on defense.</p><p>Don McKenney is reacting favorably in his new role as Bruins&rsquo; captain and young Dick Meissner so far has resisted his two temptations&mdash;to carry his hockey stick in one hand and skate with his head down.</p><p>But while the Bruins are gaining in organization and experience they seem to lack power. And it is hardly likely that theirs will be a hard checking game, for they do not have the hitters to play such a game.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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They’ll Get Full Chance With Boston

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01405/1970716-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Mahovlich has been getting special treatment from his checks. The Boston Bruins have switched Doug Mohns to right wing to keep Big &lsquo;M&rsquo; in tow. If it keeps up Mahovlich may end up leading the NHL in penalties. Above, in the Leafs* home opener Mohns wrestled &lsquo;M&rsquo; to the ice. &lsquo;M&rsquo; tossed a few rights and both ended up running each other down in the penalty box.</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Frank Mahovlich eventually may set a National Hockey League goal scoring record. He also may become the most penalized player in the game&rsquo;s history at the same time.</p><p>The Big &lsquo;M&rsquo; scored 48 goals last season, despite spending 131 minutes, or more than two complete games, in the penalty box. In four NHL campaigns, he&rsquo;s served 353 minutes, nearly six games.</p><p>He shows no indications this year of having mended his ways.</p><p>By nature, Frankie is not a warlike person.</p><p>But he loses his temper at the opposition players who are specifically assigned to prevent him from scoring. They skate stride for stride with him, or attempt to, try to keep the puck away from him or prevent him from shooting. And very often they accomplish their work illegally. After all, one sure way to render him useless is to accompany him to the penalty bench.</p><p>Chicago&rsquo;s Eric Nesterenko carries out this assignment masterfully. He is an excellent checker anyway and a wizard at subtle fouls which rile up a short-tempered player like Mahovlich. The two scrapped in the NHL all-star game at Chicago.</p><p>Boston Bruins have shifted Doug Mohns to right wing this season and one of his chores is to guard Mahovlich, the league&rsquo;s all-star left-winger. In Bruins&rsquo; first game at Toronto, in which Mahovlich counted the winning goal, Mohns and the Big &lsquo;M&rsquo; swung a few punches after Mohns wrestled him to the ice in front of the Leaf net.</p><p>Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers are endowed with top right-wingers whom they can send against Mahovlich&mdash;Wings&rsquo; Gordie Howe, Canadiens&rsquo; Boom-Boom Geoffrion and Rangers&rsquo; Andy Bathgate. Then Mahovlich himself has a far more important defensive job to do.</p><p>Mahovlich is resigned to the treatment he receives&mdash;special checking attention and a good deal of holding and interference. This is part of the game, he is big enough to absorb the punishment and hand it back, and he can always hope it will leave linemates Red Kelly and Bob Nevin free to do more scoring.</p><p>Mahovlich used to say last season, when he was shooting for Rocket Richard&rsquo;s 50-goal seasonal record: &ldquo;If I do get 50 or 55, how many will I have to score next year to keep people happy?&rdquo;</p><p>Coach Punch Imlach answers that now: &ldquo;Mahovlich will need at least 35 goals if he&rsquo;s going to have a good season.&rdquo;</p><p>Frankie could improve his output if he could cut down his time in jail. He sat out those two games, plus 11 minutes, last year and still hit 48. Boom-Boom Geoffrion drew only 29 minutes in penalties and made 50 goals.</p><p>Obviously, if Mahovlich could stay out of trouble the way Geoffrion does, he&rsquo;d increase his goals output. After all, Geoffrion must receive the same attention from opposition defences as Mahovlich does.</p><p>Still, the Big &lsquo;M&rsquo; feels it&rsquo;s important to establish and keep the reputation as a player who won&rsquo;t let himself be pushed around.</p><p>Imlach&rsquo;s 35-goal objective for Mahovlich seems modest. Mahovlich reported in fine trim at 203 pounds and in the home opener, rapped one goal in and set up another. He&rsquo;s in for a good year and so are his linemen, rejuvenated Red Kelly and maturing Bobby Nevin.</p><h2><b>Up And Down And Then To The Cooler</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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‘M’ Gets Special Treatment From His Opponents

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Bruins have a May-December defense team this season which has overtones of a decade ago.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02387/1970754-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="303" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Armstrong</b></figcaption></div><p>Nearly 10 years ago one of the Bruins&rsquo; defense combinations was composed of Hal Laycoe and Bob Armstrong.</p><p>The youngster of the pairing was Armstrong, a 21-year-old strawberry blond from Sarnia, Ontario.</p><p>The veteran was Laycoe, a well-traveled chap who was conspicuous on the ice as the only professional player to wear glasses.</p><p>With Laycoe as his instructor and confidant, Armstrong developed over the years into a strong, capable National Hockey League player.</p><p>Laycoe today is the coach of the Portland Buckaroos of the Western League with a well-deserved reputation as an outstanding executive. A year ago, after starting a new franchise with a handful of players, he won the championship of his league.</p><p>And Armstrong? Big Bob today is to 21-year-old Pat Stapleton as, nearly a decade ago, Laycoe was to him.</p><p>Stapleton and the 30-year-old Armstrong have comprised a Bruins&rsquo; defense team since the start of pre-season training this fall.</p><p>Stapleton is the stocky youngster the Bruins acquired in the NHL draft from the Chicago Black Hawks last June. He has been adapting himself to the step from the Eastern Professional League to the NHL with Armstrong&rsquo;s help.</p><p>&ldquo;And he&rsquo;s a pretty darned good little player,&rdquo; opined Armstrong, nodding toward his five-foot eight-inch partner. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s one of those hustlers who&rsquo;s in the game all the time, and he&rsquo;s always looking to learn. It&rsquo;s good playing with him.&rdquo;</p><p>Oddly enough, Armstrong and Stapleton both come from the same town&mdash;although, to be explicit, Stapleton lives in the village of Point Edward, just outside Sarnia&mdash;but Bob does not believe he played any part in the Bruins&rsquo; acquisition of his young partner.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03351/1970747-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="278" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pot Stapleton</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;To tell you the truth I really didn&rsquo;t know him until we (the Bruins) got him,&rdquo; said the big defenseman. &ldquo;Oh, I had heard about him and read about him from the time he was 16 years or so old. I used to ask Lynn (Patrick), Bruins&rsquo; manager) about him. But I really knew little about him as an individual.&rdquo;</p><p>When Stapleton first stepped into a Bruins&rsquo; uniform he appalled some of their followers with his apparent lack of size, but Armstrong thinks the impression of smallness erroneous.</p><p>&ldquo;He weighs 175 pounds and he&rsquo;s put together,&rdquo; the Bruins&rsquo; alternate captain pointed out. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s big enough and very strong. He&rsquo;s as big as Pierre Pilote (Chicago Black Hawks) and that&rsquo;s big enough.&rdquo;</p><p>Laycoe and Armstrong worked together here for a full season, the same season the Bruins had another May-December defense pairing in Warren Godfrey and Bill Quackenbush.</p><p>The combinations of youth and experience which Patrick organized when he was coaching here were highly successful. Mistakes by the younger players were minimized in part by the know-how of their veteran partners.</p><p>Another reason why mistakes were minimized was the presence in the Bruins&rsquo; goal of another veteran, Sugar Jim Henry. A veteran goalkeeper is a luxury which the young Bruins of today do not have.</p><p>Don Head, their goalkeeper, is also a rookie, and until the husky Head learns his way around the NHL he cannot be expected to play the same part in the development of Stapleton which Henry played in the development of Armstrong.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Stapleton Gets Okay From Army

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The three newcomers to the Stanley Cup champion Black Hawks&mdash;centers Bronco Horvath and Jerry Melnyk and defensemanpenalty killer Bob Turner&mdash;are fitting into the Black Hawk pattern of play quickly and well.</p><p>Each scored one goal and Horvath and Melnyk each had two assists apiece in Chicago&rsquo;s first three League games. The Black Hawks tied Detroit in their first two games and beat Boston 5-3 in the third one.</p><p>Horvath, obtained from Boston Bruins via the National Hockey League draft, has been installed at center on Chicago&rsquo;s new power play and has alternated as center on the line with Ron Murphy and Eric Nesterenko.</p><p>In Chicago&rsquo;s opening game he assisted on Murray Balfour&rsquo;s goal which tied the game at 3-3 in the final three minutes of play.</p><p>Then in the 5-3 win over Boston on home ice he assisted on Murphy&rsquo;s game-winning goal and scored the clincher at 18:15 of the final period on assists from Murphy and Nesterenko.</p><p>Horvath, who is rated high by the Chicago management for his ability to score goals, was installed at center on Chicago&rsquo;s powerplay&mdash;which incidentally has not been too potent in years past. But both general manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Rudy Pilous feel this will change this year. And Horvath is the key man.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve put him at center between Bobby Hull and Murray Balfour,&rdquo; says Coach Pilous. &ldquo;This frees Red Hay to move back to the point, with Pete Pilote holding down the other point. All five know how to handle the puck, set up plays&mdash;and to put the puck in the net. It&rsquo;s the best potential power play we&rsquo;ve had since I&rsquo;ve been coaching here.&rdquo;</p><p>Melnyk has shared the center duties on the Nesterenko-Murphy line with Horvath and also has filled in for Hay on the &ldquo;Million Dollar Line&rdquo; when the regular center was sidelined with a carbuncle on his right foot for a couple of games.</p><p>Jerry, obtained in the trade which sent last year&rsquo;s Black Hawk captain, Ed Litzenberger, to Detroit, picked up an assist on Murphy&rsquo;s goal in the opening game at Detroit and then got a goal and assist in the win over Boston.</p><p>Turner, who came from Montreal in trade for minor leaguer Fred Hilts, has filled in as the fifth defenseman and taken over as Reg Fleming&rsquo;s partner in killing penalties. Their play together in the NHL All-Star game here in their first major test against the best players in the game showed that they are due for a successful time in this vital department.</p><p>The play of Earl Balfour (drafted during the off-season) with rookie Fleming last year was a major factor in Chicago&rsquo;s third place finish and winning of the Stanley Cup in the playoff&rsquo;s. Turner, of course, was Don Marshall&rsquo;s penalty killing partner at Montreal for several years and one of the best in the business.</p><p>In addition to his penalty killing and defense chores, Turner gave the Chicago crowd a thrill in the Black Hawk home opener on Oct. 15 when he scored Chicago&rsquo;s first home goal&mdash;at a time when the Hawks were a man short.</p><p>With Murray Balfour whistled off the ice one minute and 14 seconds after the start of the game, Detroit was pressing in the Chicago end. Suddenly Dollard St. Laurent and Jack Evans of the Hawks got control of the puck and passed it toward center ice. Here Turner outraced Parker MacDonald for the puck, put on a burst of speed as he raced down the boards, cut in and across Red Wing goalie Terry Sawchuk and slapped an eightfooter high into the net.</p><p>Chicago fans gave Turner a 30-second standing ovation.</p><p>Black Hawk Briefs&hellip;Horvath &lsquo;is wearing Tod Sloan&rsquo;s old No. 9 jersey from last year&hellip;Melnyk has Ed Litzenberger&rsquo;s No. 12 jersey and Turner has defenseman Al Arbour&rsquo;s old No. 2&hellip;Ken Wharram got the first Chicago goal of the season in the opener at Detroit&hellip;Murray Balfour drew the first penalty&hellip;The Black Hawks were presented the Stanley Cup prior to the start of their home opener Oct. 15 by League President Clarence Campbell&hellip;Pete Pilote, new team captain, received the Cup in center ice cermeonies&hellip;The Hawks management then raised a new white on red flag reading: &ldquo;Stanley Cup Champions&mdash;1960-61&rdquo;&hellip;The Hawk management has added two large Black Hawk indian chief heads in the center ice faceoff circle&hellip;</p><h2><b>Counted On</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04268/1970785-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="519" height="501"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRONCO HORVATH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bronco Gets New Chore—Steps Up Power play

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01404/1970823-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>At training camp or in New York Hebenton is a quiet guy with little to say. Above, he writes up a storm to loved ones at home from camp.</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>When Andy Hebenton and Jack Evans were rommates on the Rangers a 24-hour conversation between the two orators went something like this:</p><p>Hebenton: &ldquo;What say we go to a movie today, Tex?&rdquo;</p><p>Evans: &ldquo;Yup.&rdquo;</p><p>End of conversation.</p><p>That was a good three years ago and since then Hebenton, the Rangers&rsquo; consistently competent right wing, has become quite a talker. Matter of fact, the other day a New York writer wormed three paragraphs out of Andy and considered his week a success.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not that Andy doesn&rsquo;t like to talk,&rdquo; a friend of his said. &ldquo;Away from the crowds he can work up quite a gab. But when it comes to popping off, his conversation is like his hockey style&hellip;quiet and to the point.&rdquo;</p><p>This will be the seventh season in which the 32-year-old Hebenton has been galumphing up and down the right boards for the Rangers. In six years Andy scored 144 goals, averaging out 24 per. Only once&mdash;in 1959-60&mdash;did he dip below 20. And he only missed by one.</p><p>Hockey men go for Andy&rsquo;s practical play. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s one of the best right wingers in the history of the NHL,&rdquo; Phil Watson once said. &ldquo;But nobody notices him.&rdquo;</p><p>Phil was not entirely correct. A small coterie of Garden hockey fans noticed him. They&rsquo;re the chaps who booed Allan Stanley out of New York. They take a dim view of any player who doesn&rsquo;t attempt manslaughter on an enemy at least once during a season and naturally, Hebenton, who wouldn&rsquo;t step on an ant if he could help it, was the object of some abuse.</p><p>The Conference of Applauders of Rough Play generally hang out around the Garden employes&rsquo; gate on 49th st. from which the players exit after a game. When Hebby would step out with his attractive red-haired wife, Gail, the dialogue would go something like this:</p><p>&ldquo;Hey, Andy, why don&rsquo;t you get mad at these guys for a change? Y&rdquo;know&mdash;belt &lsquo;em.&rdquo;</p><p>Or, &ldquo;Whassamatter, ya chicken or sumpin&rsquo;?&rdquo;</p><p>Andy would chuckle to himself and walk on.</p><p>&ldquo;Phil Watson used to get on me for not playing rougher,&rdquo; Hebenton admits, &ldquo;and so did Alf Pike. I&rsquo;d keep telling them I will, but it&rsquo;s hard to change a man after all these years. I just don&rsquo;t hate anybody but people won&rsquo;t believe that. They think I&rsquo;m scared.&rdquo;</p><p>Under the new Doug Harvey regime, Hebenton appears to be flying the way he did in 1958-59 when he scored 33 goals. He came to training camp in superb condition and in opening games has been skating as if he&rsquo;s being closely followed by an avalanche.</p><p>&ldquo;My weight is down to 180,&rdquo; said Hebenton, &ldquo;and I feel great.&rdquo;</p><p>Weight, or lack of it, is one reason for the speedier Hebenton. Coach Doug Harvey is another.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a good guy,&rdquo; said Andy. &ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t try to be bossy. He expects everybody to do their job.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s no sweat for the Winnipeg native who now lives in Victoria (Summer) and Long Island (Winter). His six-year NHL record bespeaks hard work. Since he broke in with the Rangers Andy has not missed a single NHL game. Going into the current season his string was 420 straight games. The iron man record is 580, held by the Rangers&rsquo; Johnny Wilson.</p><p>Andy&rsquo;s mark almost was snapped last March 8th when he was clipped over the left eye for two stitches. The accident closed the eye and made visibility more difficult than the London fog bank on a bad night.</p><p>&ldquo;It looked bad for a while,&rdquo; said Andy. &ldquo;We had a game the next night and I honestly didn&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;d be able to make it. But the eye cleared up enough for me to skate. Maybe I should have stayed in bed&mdash;we got beat 6-1.&rdquo;</p><p>Another of Hebentons&rsquo; more remarkable achievements was the ability to hold on to all of his teeth through five and a half NHL seasons.</p><p>&ldquo;When it happened, it really happened,&rdquo; Andy said. &ldquo;I lost seven teeth in two weeks last January.&rdquo;</p><p>Then, with an aside for his &ldquo;friends&rdquo; in the balcony:</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe now those guys won&rsquo;t have any complaints,&rdquo; he said. I admire guys who are tough and mean and maybe I&rsquo;d get more recognition if I was a mean guy. But when you go around knocking everybody down you&rsquo;re too tired to put a puck in the net. I was hired to score goals, not to sit in the penalty box.&rdquo;</p><p>As a sideline, he captured the Lady Byng Trophy in 1956-57 (44 points only 10 penalty minutes) and is a constant threat to walk off with the clean-competent play award any year. Matter of fact, two seasons later he scored 33 goals and 62 points and had only eight minutes in penalties. But Alex Delvecchio won the prize. He had 19 goals and 54 points and six minutes in penalties.</p><p>The New York management considered this a gross micarriage of puck justice and promptly issued their own award to Hebenton&mdash;$1,000. In six seasons Andy has totalled 57 minutes in penalties for a whopping average of eight per annum.</p><p>This Lady Byng business is deceptive when it comes to Hebenton. He never shied away from a check in his life. On the contrary, he plows up and down his wing like a souped-up bulldozer. The only trouble is he takes the belts but doesn&rsquo;t give them in return.</p><p>Is he afraid? Don&rsquo;t be silly.</p><p>&ldquo;Come off it,&rdquo; said Andy. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been through enough rough times to worry about getting hurt.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Such as.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;When I was four I was hit by a bus. (Heaven help the bus. Ed&rsquo;s Note.).</p><p>&ldquo;When I was six I got hit in the head with a baseball bat.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Didn&rsquo;t you ever do any hitting instead of getting hit?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I used to,&rdquo; he replied flashing his big dimples. &ldquo;I once hit a referee during a lacrosse game. And in 1951, when I played for Victoria I had four fights, knocked everybody down and spent 81 minutes in the penalty box.&rdquo;</p><p>Then came the reformation.</p><p>&ldquo;I got smart after that. Everybody thought I was a tough kid, but my goal average decreased and I found out that they weren&rsquo;t paying me to punch people.&rdquo;</p><p>Andy belonged to the Canadiens at the time but the Habs had a surplus of right wingers so Hebenton vegetated in the minors. Muzz Patrick gave him his break in 1955-56, purchasing him for a song from Canadiens in what was Patrick&rsquo;s finest move.</p><p>Doug Harvey seconds that motion.</p><p>&ldquo;He checks well and goes up and down his wing like a good pro,&rdquo; said Harvey.</p><p>When Doug opened training camp, he wasn&rsquo;t so delighted with Andy. &ldquo;He started slow but after a few games, he really started to move, and he&rsquo;s going good ever since. I like the way he backchecks.&rdquo;</p><p>Harvey was asked whether he&rsquo;d follow the Watson and Pike line and demand more rough play from Hebenton.</p><p>&ldquo;I never asked a man to play rough,&rdquo; said Harvey. &ldquo;As for Hebenton, he&rsquo;s been around this League too long for me to start changing his style.&rdquo;</p><p>So far, there&rsquo;s been no talk about a Hebenton goal objective, although he&rsquo;s skating faster than ever.</p><p>Only the other night Andy showed he&rsquo;s pretty liberal with his goals. One of his shots whizzed past Boston goalie Don Head. The announcer credited Heb with the red light but Andy skated over to the referee and admitted that Camille Henry tipped it in.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m bigger than Cammy,&rdquo; said Heb with a laugh, &ldquo;so maybe I could have kept his goal for myself.&rdquo; Then, with another chuckle, &ldquo;but I respect his size.&rdquo;</p><p>The same may be said for Andy Hebenton.</p><h2><b>Silent One Writes Up A Storm</b></h2><h2><b>Ready For Good, Clean Action</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02328/1970816-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1681" height="1387"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hebenton has the perfect temperament for an athlete. He goes about his job in his own quiet way, unrecognized but very effective.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-01

He’s Dipped Below 20 In Season Once Rangers Got Him For Song From Canucks

<p><b>Founded October 1st, 1947</b></p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</b></p><p>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West.</p><p>Montreal 25, Que.</p><p>Ken McKenzie, President and Publisher</p><p>Will V. Cote, Vice-Pres. & Gen. Mgr.</p><p>Len Bramson, Editor-in-Chief</p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth;</b></p><p>$4.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign Countries</p><p>Postage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y.</p><p>Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa Printed in Canada</p><p><b>Vol. 15 MONTREAL. OCTOBER 28. 1961 No. 4</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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/f0004-01468/1970906-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="362" height="384"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1099/1970899-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="515" height="83"></div><p>&bull; <b>MONTREAL CANADIENS</b> boast the most successful opening record at home during the past 10 years. Canadiens won nine of the 10 games played during that span&hellip;New York Rangers have the second best record with six wins, two ties and two losses&hellip;Detroit Red Wings had six wins and four losses while the Boston Bruins had the most ties. The Bruins played five ties. They also had three wins and two losses&hellip;TorontoMaple Leafs had a record of four wins, five losses and one tie in their 10 openers at home&hellip;Chicago Black Hawks won three, lost four and tied three&hellip;Red Storey picks Detroit to finish first in the NHL championship race. He also picks Toronto to miss the playoffs&hellip;As high as Storey is on Punch Imlach; who he thinks is the smartest guy in hockey, he thinks the Leafs have too many oldsters on their roster&hellip;&ldquo;I want to see how those old fellows are doing around January&rdquo;, stated Red&hellip;Four of the six NHL captains are new this season&hellip;The new ones are Jean Beliveau with Canadiens, Don McKenney with Boston, Pierre Pilote with Chicago and Andy Bathgate with New York&hellip;They say Boom Boom Geoffrion was disappointed in not being named captain of Canadiens&hellip;It was decided by a vote among the players. After the first ballot it was a draw between Geoffrion and Beliveau&hellip;Beliveau won on the second ballot&hellip;When Tex Evans scored for Chicago on October 15, it was his first goal in 195 games&hellip;The last goal the steady-playing Black Hawk defenseman scored was on January 7, 1959&hellip;The NHL is only two weeks old but already everyone is worrying about the plight of the inept Boston Bruins.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02435/1970892-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="300" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gus Kyle</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>GUS KYLE</b> will coach Saint John Oilers of the New Brunswick Senior League this season. The ex-coach of Calgary Stampeders will replace Jackie Keating&hellip;New York Rangers are off to their best start since 1940-41 when they won two and tied two in four games. Muzz Patrick, Rangers GM (that stands for Gate Man as Harvey&rsquo;s bench aide) was a player on that team&hellip;The well-liked Harvey has been an unqualified success thus far in the NHL race&hellip;The Eastern Pro League can&rsquo;t seem to decide on a president and it looks like Ed Houston will be at the controls again this season&hellip;It was nice of the American Hockey League to make genial Jim Balmer of Pittsburgh president of their loop&hellip;Jim has been the righthand man of John Harris for many years at Pittsburgh and his hockey background goes back a long way&hellip;Jack Adams thinks Eddie Litzenberger will have a great year for Detroit&hellip;&ldquo;Litz is a potential 30-goal man and we didn&rsquo;t give a great deal to get him. He scored 10 goals last year and didn&rsquo;t even play regularly&rdquo;, said Jolly Jawn the other day&hellip;Ralph Backstrom is off to his best Start in years and the Canadiens&rsquo; management is very pleased with his play. They figure this is the year that Ralph really comes into his own&hellip;Arthur Siegel of the Boston Globe asked Orland Kurten-back of the Bruins what was the big difference between minor and major league hockey&hellip;&ldquo;Speed of action and reaction. More guys skate faster, move faster and think faster,&rdquo; replied the rookie.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03359/1970885-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="262" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>ANDY O&rsquo;BRIEN&rsquo;S</b> book on Rocket Richard is the finest hockey book we have ever read&hellip;It was a smart move on the part of the Ryerson Press to commissian O&rsquo;Brien to write this book as no reporter was closer to the Rocket during his illustrious days than the experienced sports editor of Weekend Magazine&hellip;A truly fine book and one that every hockey fan will want to have in his library&hellip;Toronto&rsquo;s Allan Stanley couldn&rsquo;t understand why everyone got excited because he scored a couple of goals during the first week&rsquo;s play&hellip;The veteran defenceman said: &ldquo;Last season I got nine. The year before I scored 10. What&rsquo;s so unusual?&rdquo;&hellip;Jim Norris told Elmer Ferguson that Chicago owned their new ice-cleaning machine for years but didn&rsquo;t feel inclined to sacrifice a bunch of seats to create a passageway for the monster&hellip;Terry Sawchuk is said to be in the best shape he&rsquo;s been in for years and his attitude and personality are changed and all for the best&hellip;Andy Bathgate of the Rangers should be scoring his 200th NHL goal any day now. He has scored 196 up to date&hellip;Four NHL players should score their 100th goal fairly soon. They are Claude Provost and Marcel Bonin of Canadiens and Johnny Bucyk and Doug Mohns of Boston&hellip;Provost has 94, Bonin has 90, Bucyk has 94 and Mohns has 88&hellip;The ageless Red Kelly is playing the best hockey of his lengthy career right now&hellip;Toronto made a terrific move when they converted Kelly from defense to center&hellip;Jacques Plante is in for a good season. He is out to recapture the Vezina Trophy.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04301/1970878-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="285" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>At 9:30 p.m. on Sunday night, Oct. 15, the New York Rangers took over undisputed possession of first place in the National Hockey League.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05272/1970937-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="286" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dean Prentice</b></figcaption></div><p>The unlikely event was greeted with mixed emotions.</p><p>&ldquo;Why make an issue of it?&rdquo; a Ranger official said, &ldquo;the other clubs have played fewer games than we have.&rdquo;</p><p>Which was true. But the fact remained that New York won three of its first four games. And who can remember when that happened?</p><p>The answer is 1940-41, a year the Rangers finished fourth. Their best opener in recent history was 1938-39 when they won four out of their first four. And wound up second.</p><p>While some may pooh-pooh the Blueshirts&rsquo; opening surge as something of a bubble that soon will burst, others see it as a portent of things to come.</p><p>Dean Prentice, the free-wheeling left wing, cannot understand why the Rangers shouldn&rsquo;t be in first comes March.</p><p>&ldquo;We can do it if we work,&rdquo; Prentice said.</p><p>&ldquo;Are you kidding?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Why should I be? Nobody thought Chicago would win the Cup last year. What do they say &lsquo;a club that can&rsquo;t be beat won&rsquo;t&rsquo;, or something like that. Well, maybe we&rsquo;re that club.&rdquo;</p><p>Of course, nobody really believes the Rangers have the horsepower to lug themselves from fifth to first place in a season. Except, maybe Prentice and a half dozen or so Blueshirts.</p><p>&ldquo;Nobody figured Cincinatti would win the pennant either,&rdquo; shouted another New Yorker.</p><p>How did the Rangers manage to get into first place in the first place?</p><p>They clobbered Boston twice&mdash;lost to Montreal&mdash;then knocked off the Maple Leafs who also were bidding for the top.</p><p>A deeper explanation is that player-coach Doug Harvey and defenseman Al Langlois have made a difference. The Ranger players who, in the past, have been liberal in their criticism, exulted over Harvey.</p><p>&ldquo;Doug has showed us he&rsquo;ll work for us,&rdquo; said Prentice. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s just his natural self. That&rsquo;s enough.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He treats us like pros,&rdquo; said Andy Bathgate. &ldquo;Nobody ever treated us like that before.&rdquo;</p><p>Stoically calm under the most unnerving conditions, Harvey appears to have imparted some of his assurance to the once-jittery Rangers. The Blues were unusually confident holding a 2-1 lead against Toronto.</p><p>&ldquo;In the old days,&rdquo; said Gump Worsley, &ldquo;we&rsquo;d have collapsed in the third period. But we&rsquo;re not going into a shell like we used to. That&rsquo;s the thing that Doug&rsquo;s trying to impress on us. He keeps telling us to play like it&rsquo;s normal, don&rsquo;t worry about holding a lead.&rdquo;</p><p>Ever the realist, Harvey is perceptive enough to realize that three wins do not a season make. Or somehting like that.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m still feeling my way,&rdquo; said the coach.</p><p>As for policy: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to knock on doors and baby guys. As for beer-drinking, I believe in a glass or two after a game. It&rsquo;s relaxing and it puts back the weight you lose. But I don&rsquo;t want to see my players doing it.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-05

‘He Treats Us Like Pros’, Say Blues Of Doug

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll Montreal Gazette</div><h2><b>Muzz Discusses Rangers</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he New York Rangers played eight games in 12 days, which is certainly a packed schedule. But Muzz Patrick wasn&rsquo;t complaining about it when the Rangers were here to open the season.</p><p>&ldquo;If we can pick up 12 points in those eight games, we&rsquo;ll be off and winging,&rdquo; said the Blues&rsquo; general manager.</p><p>He was asked how many points he figured they needed to make a playoff berth.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a theory that 70 points are enough, but it doesn&rsquo;t always hold up,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If there&rsquo;s one weak club in the League, the others get fat on it and there&rsquo;s a lot of congestion in the standings with that one club out of it.</p><p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ve improved our team, but I&rsquo;m not making any predictions. Too many things can happen over the season. You never know if fellows are going to play back to the form of the previous year, and you certainly can&rsquo;t foresee injuries. I&rsquo;d say the Canadiens have to be a little weaker than they were just because they havn&rsquo;t got Harvey. Now they&rsquo;ve got Dickie Moore and Beliveau out with injuries.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06231/1970989-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="301" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Muzz Patrick</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07190/1970982-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="252" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Camille Henry</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08149/1970975-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="267" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Bathgate</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-09132/1970968-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="300" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption></div><p>How was Doug Harvey fitting into his role as playing coach?</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s in good physical condition and he&rsquo;s been playing well,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I think his ankle is 100 per cent. Our biggest weakness last season was that we couldn&rsquo;t kill penalties. It seemed that every time we were a man short we got scored on. Harvey is a great fellow to have out there when we have to play shorthanded. He doesn&rsquo;t give the puck away and he can get it out of our end.</p><h2><b>Doug As A Coach</b></h2><p>&ldquo;We had a pretty good power play, but I think it&rsquo;s better with Harvey at one of the points. Bathgate plays the other. Both of them can stickhandle and both can shoot.&rdquo;</p><p>There has been some talk that Doug might be too easy going to make a good coach.</p><p>&ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t had any occasion to discipline anybody so far,&rdquo; Muzz said. &ldquo;But I don&rsquo;t think the players will try to take advantage of him. They like him and they respect his playing ability.</p><p>&ldquo;In a way, it&rsquo;s an advantage to have a playing coach. He&rsquo;s closer to the players in age than any coach we&rsquo;ve ever had and I think the players won&rsquo;t hesitate to go to him with a problem. If they make a mistake on the ice, he can correct them and it will sink in.&rdquo;</p><p>Andy Bathgate is off to a fast start. Is there any particular reason for it?</p><p>&ldquo;Bathgate has always been a good hockey player, but I think he has a better attitude this season,&rdquo; Muzz replied. &ldquo;We were going to play him at centre, but Hannigan got hurt and we&rsquo;ve been playing Bathgate at right wing on a line with Earl Ingarfield and Dean Prentice. The line played so well in the first couple of games that we may keep it intact.&rdquo;</p><p>Has Gump Worsley said anything about having Harvey in front of him?</p><p>Muzz laughed. &ldquo;Gump says so many things that I can&rsquo;t remember any of them,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But I think he appreciates Harvey&rsquo;s presence.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Fans Show Enthusiasm</b></h2><p>Muzz added that the Ranger fans appreciate Harvey&rsquo;s presence too.</p><p>&ldquo;We opened at home before the largest crowd for an opening game in many years,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I think he had something to do with it. We&rsquo;re paying him a big salary, but we&rsquo;ll get it back in a hurry at the box office if we can keep on winning.&rdquo;</p><p>There was a story that little Camille Henry had been lifting weights in the summer in an attempt to gain weight and develop muscles. Had Muzz noticed any difference in him.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the same fragile Henry,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Right now he&rsquo;s got a cracked thumb, but he scored a goal the other night. He probably wouldn&rsquo;t feel right if he didn&rsquo;t have something wrong with him.&rdquo;</p><p>About the rule changes, Muzz said he agrees with the one paring squads to 16 players and a goaler. This will go into effect early in December.</p><p>&ldquo;Carrying that 17th man was too expensive,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t get any ice time and he wasn&rsquo;t developing. He was drawing a National League salary just to sit on the bench, and there were his travel and hotel bills.&rdquo;</p><p>How about the penalty shot?</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s always been in the book, but it was never called,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Now they say they&rsquo;re going to enforce it. Wait till you hear the squawk when they do. It&rsquo;s a severe penalty because it&rsquo;s almost a sure goal and it could mean a game.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Detroit Red Wings 1961-62 Roster

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Phil Watson insists he no longer kicks doors and climbs walls after being clobbered by the opposition.</p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t learned to laugh at, or like, defeat,&rdquo; says Watson. &ldquo;It still hurts. But I realize that my kids&mdash;we have seven rookies&mdash;are going to make mistakes and take their lumps while learning the hockey trade, NHL brand.</p><p>&ldquo;But I&rsquo;d sooner lose with kids that are trying than veterans who are crying.&rdquo;</p><p>Asked about goalie Don Head, the Bruins&rsquo; rookie from Portland of the WHL, who allowed 12 goals in his first two games, Watson replied:</p><p>Don&rsquo;t sell the guy short. He wasn&rsquo;t to blame. They made lots of mistakes in front of him and cute guys like Harvey, Andy Bathgate and Camille Henry grow fat on those errors.</p><p>&ldquo;But my kids are intelligent. When I check them on mistakes, they don&rsquo;t repeat those errors.</p><p>&ldquo;Believe it or not. I&rsquo;m not going to bawl my players out in public or roast them in the press any more. Just say I learned a lesson in New York.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Trying Kids Make Losing Easier Than Crying Vets, Says Mr. Watson

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;When Henri Richard was invited to the camp of the Montreal Canadiens in 1955 it was only to take a look at the younger brother of the great &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo;. But someone forgot to tell Henri he wasn&rsquo;t being counted on to make the Canadiens lineup that season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03317/1971130-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="276" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Henri Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;We had to sign him,&rdquo; said Coach Toe Blake. &ldquo;At camp he took the puck and no one could take it away from him. He just was too good not to sign.&rdquo;</p><p>And that&rsquo;s the way it&rsquo;s been ever since with Henri. He&rsquo;s just too good!</p><p>In his seventh season with the club, Henri started the season with 140 goals to his credit, leaving him about two seasons away from making the 200 goal club.</p><p>One of the fastest skaters in the history of the NHL, the little &lsquo;Pocket Rocket&rsquo; is also one of the League&rsquo;s best stickhandlers and one of its most durable players. He has performed in close to 200 straight games with the Habs. In his last four seasons he has scored 20 or more goals in each and in the opener this year he scored two.</p><p>A great team man all the way Henri Richard is truly &lsquo;Your Kind Of Player.&rsquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Henri Richard……Montreal Canadiens

<p>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;</p><p>The colorful and sometime riotous National Hockey League opened its 45th season two weeks ago.</p><p>What changes, if any, can fans expect? To find the answer to this and other questions of general hockey interest, the weekly Detroit News Sports Quiz talked to Clarence S. Campbell, president of the NHL.</p><p>Campbell, a Rhodes scholar and former prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, has had nearly 15 years of absolute control as &ldquo;czar&rdquo; of the NHL. A former referee who is an ardent skier and golfer, Campbell drafts league policy with the NHL&rsquo;s board of governors. He talked to staff writers John Walter and Bill Brennan.</p><p>&bull; Does the coming season stack up well competitively?</p><p>&ldquo;Yes. If Boston can get off to a good start, I predict the League will have its biggest year in history and one of its tightest races.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; Player personnel appears to be getting old in the League. Four of the six clubs have at least four key players over 30 years of age. Why aren&rsquo;t there more new faces?</p><p>&ldquo;NHL pension figures show the average age of our players is 28.2. It has remained constant at that figure, give or take a couple of months, for eight years.</p><p>&ldquo;If Toronto, for instance, retired Johnny Bower, Red Kelly, Allan Stanley and Bert Olmstead, who are over the average, the Maple Leafs would drop their team average age a year and a half or more.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; Are there as many players developing as in the past? Aren&rsquo;t some youngsters bypassing hockey in favor of college?</p><p>&ldquo;The intake of rookies has been quite uniform, with 16 to 20 in the League each year. The turnover has been 15 to 20 per cent of the 108 players needed to man the six teams every year.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; But what about all the boys going to college now?</p><p>&ldquo;It is true college has become our No. 1 competitor for talent. They say, &lsquo;if you can&rsquo;t beat &lsquo;em, join &lsquo;em&rsquo;, and the NHL did. In order to protect players they have developed, teams are allowed to place boys who wish to attend college first on their inactive list.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; How many college boys are on those &ldquo;protected&rdquo; lists?</p><p>&ldquo;There are 56 of them today who actually are signed to NHL clubs. Toronto has 17, Montreal 15, Detroit 10, New York nine, Chicago four and Boston one.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; Why doesn&rsquo;t the NHL use the system of professional football, waiting until a boy graduates from college, or his class graduates, and then making him eligible to a draft?</p><p>&ldquo;Because hockey players can develop major league status earlier than they do in football. The best a club can hope for is that a player going to college won&rsquo;t lose any skill. His ability to develop is handicapped because he doesn&rsquo;t have the opportunity to compete with better players.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; How much does it cost to develop an NHL player?</p><p>&ldquo;About $50,000. That&rsquo;s because of the money spent sponsoring hockey at the amateur level and in minor league competition.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; In the last four years, only Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita and Frank Mahovlich, of Toronto, can be tagged as &ldquo;super star&rdquo; material. Why aren&rsquo;t there more players like Rocket Richard, Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau coming up?</p><p>&ldquo;Players like that are going to be fewer as general caliber of play improves in the League.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; What can a major league hockey prospect expect to earn?</p><p>&ldquo;The basic salary in the League last season was $12,015, not including bonus or playoff splits. And then there&rsquo;s the pension.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; What&rsquo;s behind the new rule effective Dec. 1 limiting teams to 16 players and a goalie instead of 18 as in the past?</p><p>&ldquo;Studies have shown that the 17th and 18th players see virtually no action, and a team can&rsquo;t afford to have a pair of $20,000 (waiver price) players sitting on the bench. To utilize 18 players, teams would have to play four complete lines and use six defensemen. Most prefer to use three lines and carry five defensemen. With the 16-man limit, the clubs can operate three lines and have two utility forwards plus a five-man defense. The players that are sent down are bound to be the best on any team in a lower league to which they might be sent. It&rsquo;s a matter of utilizing manpower to the fullest.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; Has there been any rules change to meet the increasing injury problem?</p><p>&ldquo;The club owners have agreed to tighter enforcement of the rules to eliminate unnecessary roughness and injuries. In a conference two weeks ago our referees met with the owners after they had an all-day session with Carl Voss, the referee-in-chief.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; Was any type of rules violation singled out as contributing most to the increase in injuries?</p><p>&ldquo;Yes. Board checking, which previously has been considered an inconsequential infraction, was specifically mentioned. It calls for a minor or a major penalty at the discretion of the referee.</p><p>&ldquo;It is based upon the degree of violence in the impact against the boards, as the result of being body checked, crosschecked, elbowed, charged or tripped.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; Has present day board checking brought about any new type of injury?</p><p>&ldquo;The board checking itself isn&rsquo;t any different. It is the shatter-proof glass panels above the board fences that cause the trouble. The old wire screens had a certain amount of give, and although the glass panels are anchored to give slightly, a player can get a nasty gash, a broken cheekbone, or even a concussion from hitting the glass.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; There has been talk about reviving the penalty shot. Is there anything new on that?</p><p>&ldquo;The penalty shot always has been in the book but it was such a drastic measure, since about 75 per cent of them result in goals, that referees were loath to call it.</p><p>&ldquo;There were so many qualifying clauses the referee usually found an out. We rewrote the rule to get rid of the technical terms the referees had been hiding behind. In essence, the new wording says that the intention of the rule is to restore a reasonable scoring opportunity lost by reason of a foul from behind when the player had only the goalie to beat.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; When was the last time a penalty shot was called?</p><p>&ldquo;Two years ago at Boston, and it probably cost Bronco Horvath the scoring championship. Referee Dalton MacArthur awarded it when a player threw his stick to prevent a shot. McArthur was confused, and insisted the team guilty of the foul could name the player to make the shot.</p><p>&ldquo;It should have been the other way around. Boston undoubtedly would have named Horvath instead of the obscure Bruin player selected by the other team. The shot failed, and Horvath missed the scoring championship by a point.&rdquo;</p><p>&bull; Is there going to be anything done about speeding up play?</p><p>&ldquo;Yes. There is going to be a crackdown on goalies to keep them from hanging on to the puck, stopping play. The rule already is in the book. Six years ago other players were prevented from grabbing the puck.</p><p>&ldquo;Now goalies won&rsquo;t be able to grab those 35 and 40-foot shots and hang onto it stopping play because there&rsquo;s nobody to toss it to. They will have to throw it sideways or backward, but not forward.&rdquo;</p><h2>Rosy Year Ahead</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01495/1971168-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="505" height="638"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>President Clarence Campbell of the National Hockey League told reporters last week that the basic salary of players in the League last season was $12,015. Above he answers questions put to him.</b></figcaption></div><h2>Knows Problems</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02376/1971161-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="499" height="794"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>A man who has helped formulate policy for hockey&rsquo;s major league for many years. President Clarence Campbell, above, believes the key to great year in 1961-62 lies with the ability of the Boston Bruins to pull a surprise.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Here’s NHL Boss’ Answers To Some Straight From Shoulder Questions

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>In one of the oddities of the early National Hockey League season the Chicago Black Hawks scored both of their goals in a 2-2 tie with Detroit when they were playing a man short.</p><p>The goals were by penalty killer Bob Turner and defenseman Jack Evans.</p><p>Evans&rsquo; goal was his first in regular NHL play in 195 games. He last scored a regular season goal in his first year with the Black Hawks&mdash;on January 17, 1959. That was the only goal he scored in the past three seasons although he notched 20 assists over that period.</p><p>Evans, the rugged, silent strong man of the Black Hawk defense, did score a goal in the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs last spring in Detroit.</p><p>In the Oct. 16 game here this fall Evans stole the puck from Ed Litzenberger, the ex-Hawk centering the Detroit powerplay, near the Detroit blueline. He powered in in slow motion on Red Wing goalie Terry Sawchuk with Litz on his back, swung to his right and slammed the puck in from about six feet out.</p><p>The surprise goal came at the 15 minute mark of the second period just as Eric Nesterenko was getting off the ice from serving a penalty. Turner had previously given Chicago a 1-0 lead with a goal when Murray Balfour was off the ice. Both players were given a standing ovation by the Black Hawk fans.</p><p>Evans picked up an assist on Turner&rsquo;s man-short goal and also had two in Chicago&rsquo;s opening-game 3-3 tie at Detroit, assisting on goals by Ken Wharram and Ron Murphy.</p><p>All of which made Evans the leading scorer on the Black Hawk squad after its first three games with 1 goal and 3 assists for 4 points. And he was halfway to his total of last year when he had no goals and 8 assists for 8 total points.</p><p>The 33-year-old Evans&mdash;who stands 6 ft. 1 in. and weighs 185 lbs.&mdash;is the oldest player on the Black Hawks but had one of the best training camps of any of the Hawks and appears headed for another good season on Chicago blueline.</p><h2>Opportunists In Chi Teepee</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03272/1971206-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="512" height="506"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Turner</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04188/1971199-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="550" height="532"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Evans</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hawks Twosome Pull Two Goal Oddity In Chi

<p>FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;Former Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; star Tommy Cook died here recently.</p><p>One of the first hockey players ever to turn pro at the Lakehead, Tommy, 55, died in hospital here after a long illness.</p><p>Cook was one of the original members of the &lsquo;Thundering Herd&rsquo; the name applied to the Fort William Forts, the Allan Cup finalists who lost to the Toronto Varsity Grads in 1927 at Vancouver.</p><p>Cook played eight seasons with the Hawks and at one time was one of their leading scorers. He joined the Hawks in 1929-30 and scored 14 goals and added 16 assists for 30 points that season. He led the Hawks in scoring that year.</p><p>In his eight seasons in Chicago Cook scored 75 goals and added 94 assists for 169 points. He spent a total of 184 minutes in the penalty box in those eight seasons as well.</p><p>Cook&rsquo;s best season as an NHL goal scorer came in 1930-31 when he netted 15 goals. He finished second to Johnny Gottselig as the club&rsquo;s top scorer.</p><p>An all-around athlete Cook was an outstanding baseball player here. He also played football, basketball and boxed.</p><p>He was born and educated here. His wife Esther predeceased him in 1955. Until 1960 he was employed with Ontario Department of Highways.</p><p>He is survived by two daughters, Ann (Mrs. Benny Lee), Fort Colborne, and Norma, (Mrs. R. Crocombe), of Fort William; five sons, Terry, Stanley Park; Paul, at home; Thomas, Fort William, and William and Nick, Port Colborne. A sister, Mrs. L. Christopher of Dearborn, Michigan, and seven grandchildren also survive.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Tommy Cook, Ex-Chicago Star Passes At Lakehead

<div class="byline">By JOE TAYLOR (In The Toronto Star)</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>It was Punch Imlach&mdash;who started the whole thing anyway&mdash;who first wondered why all the fuss about Toronto Maple Leafs power play.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02411/1971268-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="291" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Punch Imlach</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;We weren&rsquo;t all that bad last year,&rdquo; he reflected at post mortems following Bert Olmstead&rsquo;s debut as assistant coach in charge of power plays. Coach Olmstead started well when his freshly primed attackers netted a goal on their first rush, and someone on the bench muttered: &ldquo;The man&rsquo;s a genius.&rdquo;</p><p>After that, the offence sagged. A curtain should be drawn mercifully over the next 45 minutes, during which the defenders, or &ldquo;discards&rdquo; as they called themselves, almost outscored the opposition.</p><p>Getting back to Imlach, he pointed out Leafs had the third best power play in the League last season. It netted them 39 goals, just one less than Chicago.</p><p>The rub comes, however, when you look more closely at the facts (as supplied by statistician Ron Andrews). Montreal, with Bernie Geoffrion hitting 16 and Dickie Moore and Jean Beliveau 13 apiece, slapped in a total of 64 goals while the opposition was a man short. Fifteen of them came against Leafs.</p><p>Since the local sharpshooters managed only four against the Habitants, you might logically deduce this was a big reason why Les Leafs were two points back of first place when the season closed.</p><p>Imlach is quick to single out point men Geoffrion and Harvey as two of the most important wheels in Montreal&rsquo;s power play. Harvey scored only one but as a feeder he was indispensable. His departure should substract a few goals from Geoffrion, Beliveau et al, and add them right back on in New York.</p><p>One of Olmstead&rsquo;s problems is the fact he is unable to throw a fellow named Olmstead into the attack. Bert, who doesn&rsquo;t expect to be able to skate all-out on his injured knee until later this week, led Leafs&rsquo; power play last season with 10 goals.</p><p>Dave Keon and Allan Stanley worked as points with Red Kelly, Frank Mahovlich and Bob Nevin on one unit, and Bill Harris, Ed Shack and Bob Pulford on another.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s still a matter of personnel,&rdquo; said Olmstead, who shrugged off his coaching role. &ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t much authority out there&mdash;it&rsquo;s Punch who makes the decisions. Right now, he&rsquo;s looking for five guys who think alike and will work together.&rdquo;</p><p>In last season&rsquo;s search, just about every Leaf got into the act. The power play goals were spread among 12 players. In addition to Olmstead&rsquo;s 10, Mahovlich got 7, Nevin 5, George Armstrong 4, Kelly 3, Dick Duff. Shack, and Stanley 2 each, and Keon, Tim Horton. Larry Hillman and Johnny McMillan, 1.</p><h2>One-Two Punch On Power Play</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01446/1971261-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="1155" height="1051"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead, right, and Frank Mahovlich led the Leafs in power play goals last season. For his five work Bert has been given the task of rebuilding it for coach Punch Imlach. But Olmstead says he doesn&rsquo;t have the proper personnel to do the job the way it should be done.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bert Lacks An Olmstead In His Power Play Plans

<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>One fellow always heralded as a hitter and another who has just started throwing his weight around were Montreal&rsquo;s first-week stars of the National Hockey League season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03328/1971306-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="299" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ralph Backstrom</b></figcaption></div><p>Lou Fontinato, the rock-em, sock-em defenseman from the Rangers, and Ralph Backstrom, somewhat timid in his first three NHL seasons, were the Canadiens&rsquo; standouts as they skated unbeaten through their first five games.</p><p>Although minus Jean Beliveau and Dickie Moore, the defending league champs won their opening game at home from the Rangers 3-1, played a 5-5 tie with the lowly Bruins at Boston and invaded Madison Square Garden to trim the Blue Shirts again, 5-2. Then they beat Boston 6-2 and trimmed Hawks 3-2.</p><p>Leapin&rsquo; Louie Fontinato, making his debut at the Forum before a critical crowd of 14,202 fans mindful that he had replaced Doug Harvey, was a little nervous at the start of the opening game. And he didn&rsquo;t enhance his popularity by taking a penalty for elbowing Andy Bathgate 13 seconds after the faceoff.</p><p>However as the game wore on, Fontinato started to prove himself by throwing a few bodychecks, stopping several shots for Goalie Jacques Plante and playing heads up hockey. At Boston, the following night, Louie was By far the best of the Montreal defensemen in a game more noted for loose play than anything else.</p><p>By the time Fontinato got into his third game in Canadiens&rsquo; uniform, he was really ready to roll. And roll he did before 14,009 fans in Madison Square Garden, where he had previously rolled with the Rangers for seven seasons.</p><p>Some of the veteran Manhattan scribes who made a bee-line to interview Lou after the contest, said that it was Fontinato&rsquo;s greatest game in the Garden.</p><p>The 29-year-old defenseman, who believes in hitting opposing stars early and often, started out by thumping his old team-mates at every opportunity. By the end of the first period, Lou had thrown seven solid bodychecks. He upped his hitting total to 13 before the game ended. Fontinato nailed four more Rangers in the second frame and wound up his bumping spree by hitting Andy Bathgate successively in the third period.</p><p>&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t going to take any penalties in that third period,&rdquo; said Fontinato wisely after the game.</p><p>For all his hitting, Fontinato (who had a record 202 minutes in penalties his second year at New York) drew only one penalty&mdash;for elbowing Jean Ratelle in the second period.</p><p>&ldquo;The elbowing was accidental,&rdquo; remarked Coach Toe Blake who didn&rsquo;t blame Fontinato for the New York goal scored by Jean-Guy Gendron while he was in the cooler.</p><p>Backstrom came up with two goals in the New York game, following up on the pair he scored three nights earlier at Boston. He had trouble getting credit for two of the four. The Boston scorer ruled one of them in favor of Don Marshall on a deflection and the wire service erroneously reported Billy Hicke had been credited with Ralph&rsquo;s second goal at New York.</p><p>Backstrom, a five-foot-ten, 165-pounder who was rated a $100,000 prospect when he was with the Junior Canadiens. was thowing his weight around in the Habs&rsquo; first three games. And, Coach Toe Blake figures it will boost his scoring.</p><p>&ldquo;From the time he reported to training camp.&rdquo; remarked Blake, &ldquo;Ralph has been a completely different player from previous years. He has started to use his weight to advantage and his scoring ability is improving because of it.&rdquo;</p><p>Backstrom won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL&rsquo;s best rookie in his first year with Canadiens&mdash;1958-59 when he scored 18 goals and had 22 assists. He tailed off in his sophomore year with 13 goals and 15 assists and had only 12 goals plus 20 assists last seaon.</p><p>The 24-year-old centre remarked at training camp:</p><p>&ldquo;I feel great and if I don&rsquo;t make the team&mdash;I mean really make it&mdash;there must be something wrong with me.&rdquo;</p><p>Backstrom is off to a fast start to &ldquo;really making&rdquo; the Canadiens.</p><p>A couple of other stars in Montreal&rsquo;s early games were Henri Richard who bagged two goals in the opening game and Marcel Bonin who clicked for three assists.</p><p>Richard and Bonin are also handing out bodychecks. Louie Fontinato&rsquo;s spirit must be catching.</p><h2><b>He Rocks &lsquo;em</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05170/1971299-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="885" height="1732"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lou Fontinato</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Habs Feeling Fine Over Louie’s Early Showing

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Lou Fontinato who returned to Madison Square Gardens with Canadiens in swashbuckling fashion waited around after the game to greet some of his former New York teammates.</p><p>Meeting Louie in the lobby, young Ken Schinkel said to Fontinato, &ldquo;Louie you sure got me good.&rdquo;</p><p>Said Louie, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all in the game.&rdquo;</p><p>Schinkel replied &ldquo;It may be your time next.&rdquo;</p><p>Fontinato laughed, &ldquo;Schink, that&rsquo;s the way the game is played isn&rsquo;t it.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

No Favorites With Fontinato

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD In The Toronto Globe and Mail</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The National Hockey League schedule is barely a couple of weeks old and already the National Hockey League is expressing concern at the decrepit condition of one of its members.</p><p>Boston Bruins, who went into a comatose state about two years ago, have given no evidence that they will emerge from it this season. And naturally, league statesmen are perturbed because they foresee the prosperity of a cosy six-team league threatened by the debility of one of its members.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04248/1971361-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="289" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Patrick</b></figcaption></div><p>When a similar situation arose a few years ago the League internened with a help-the-have-nots program in which teams like Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks were given player(s) assistance. There is no indication that a similar charitable scheme is being considered at this time.</p><p>Some League watchdogs insist it is about time that Bruins help themselves or else file an intention of becoming another dependent of the United Appeal.</p><p>It might be a little early in the season to start lamenting Bruins&rsquo; ineptness but that is not what is distressing shinny humanitarians. Weeks before the schedule started there was strong agreement, apart from a stubborn Boston group, that Bruins could aspire only to sixth place simply because there were six teams in the League.</p><p>And Bruins&rsquo; first five games have not amended that morose analysis. Bruins tied one game, lost four others in their first five starts. In those five games they were scored on 25 times. They have scored 15 goals. At home, where they used to exhibit their muscles (they had them then) flagrantly, if not fragrantly, they were beaten, 6-2, by Rangers and they tied 5-5, with Canadiens.</p><p>Some suspect that Bruins are weak in goal, others ascribe their failure to a defense deficiency and still others lament about inadequate forwards. Bruins are probably suffering from a combination of all three.</p><p>Coach Phil Watson and general manager Lynn Patrick are remaining defiant despite their team&rsquo;s poor start. And, as employees of Boston Bruins Hockey Club, what in blazes else can they do?</p><p>&ldquo;We never expected to get away to a fast start,&rdquo; says Watson. &ldquo;We have eight rookies on our team and it&rsquo;s going to take a while for them to adjust, to NHL play. We&rsquo;ll be all right.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NHL Watchdogs Concerned Over The Bruins

<h2>Moore The Merrier</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>eft winger Dickie Moore&rsquo;s points per game record is almost equal to the number of games he&rsquo;s played in the NHL. Moore, prior to the start of the present season, had played 530 league games and totaled 503 points. In the past seven seasons he played 466 games and totaled 457 points. He has 211 goals and 292 assists.</p><h2>Provost 100 Bound</h2><p>Claude Provost of the Montreal Canadiens will hit the 100 goals mark in the NHL shortly. He started the year with 92 to his credit in 385 games. He has also added 117 assists for a grand total of 209 points. Claude is in his seventh season with the Habs.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings on Wed. A.&Mu;., Oct. 25)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01480/1971483-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="562" height="178"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sun., Oct. 22)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02413/1971476-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="585" height="2469"></div><h3><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1961-62</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03333/1971469-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="565" height="399"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04262/1971462-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="560" height="173"></div><h3>TUESDAY. OCTOBER 17 Boston 3 at Chicago 5</h3><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Head; defense: Armstrong. Stapleton, Green, Smith, Boivin; forwards: Pronovost, Oliver, Gray, Pennington, Bucyk, Burns, Kurtenbach, McKenney, Mohns, Toppazzini, Meissner.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Evans, St. Laurent, Turner, Pilote, Vasko, Fleming; forwards: McDonald, Mikita, Wharram, Balfour, Horvath, Murphy, Melnyk, Nesterenko, Hull.</p><p>Referee: MacArthur; linesmen: Armstrong, Pavelich.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05203/1971455-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="555" height="667"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 Montreal 5 at New York 2</h3><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; Defence: J. C. Tremblay, Johnson, Fontinato, Talbot, MacNeil; Forwards: Geoffrion, Backstrom, Marshall, Hicke, Provost, Rosseau, Richard, Bonin, Goyette, G. Tremblay.</p><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley; Defence: Harvey, Langlois, Howell, Cahan, Spencer; Forwards: Bathgate, Ingarfield, Prentice, Hannigan, Gendron, Hadfield, Hebenton, Ratelle, Schinkel, Cunningham, Henry, Hampson.</p><p>Referee: Powers. Linesmen: Wicks, Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06166/1971448-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="560" height="642"></div><h3>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 New York 4 at Chicago 2</h3><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Howell, Cahan, Harvey, Langlois, Spencer; forwards: Henry. Hampson, Hebenton, Hannigan, Gendron, Bathgate, Ingarfield, Hadfield, Ratelle, Prentice, Schinkel.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Evans, St. Laurent, Turner, Pilote, Vasko, Fleming; forwards: McDonald, Mikita, Wharram, Balfour, Horvath, Murphy, Melnyk, Nesterenko, Hull.</p><p>Referee: Ashley; linesmen: Armstrong, Pavelich.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07137/1971441-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="559" height="598"></div><h3>Boston 3 at Detroit 7</h3><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Head; defense: Armstrong, Stapleton, Green, Smith, Boivin; forwards: Pennington, Bucyk, Mohns, Burns, Gray, Kurtenbach, Oliver, McKenney, Toppazzini, Meissner, A. Pronovost.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Gadsby, M. Pronovost, Goegan, Godfrey, Odrowski, Young; forwards: Delvecchio, Litzenberger, Howe, Ullman, Labine, Stasiuk, Fonteyne, Glover, Macdonald, Johnson, MacGregor.</p><p>Referee: Udvari; linesmen: Hayes, Wicks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08118/1971434-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="562" height="744"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 Boston 2 at Montreal 6</h3><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defense: Johns and Boivin; centre: Pennington; forwards: Bucyk and Armstrong. Subs; Green, Smith, Burns, Stapleton, McKenney, Gray, Kurtenbach, Oliver, Toppazzini, Pronovost and Meissner.</p><p>Canadiens&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: J. C. Tremblay, Fontinato; centre: Backstrom; forwards: Marshall and Geoffrion. Subs: Hicke, Johnson, Provost, Rousseau. Richard. Talbot, Bonin, Goyette, MacNeil and G. Tremblay.</p><p>Referee: Buffey; linesmen: Morrison and Frampton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0998/1971427-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="563" height="751"></div><h3>Chicago 1 at Toronto 1</h3><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote and Vasko; centre: Horvath; forwards: Nesterenko and Murphy: Subs: Hull, Balfour, Melnyk, Evans, St. Laurent, Fleming, Turner, McDonald, Mikita, Wharram.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense; Brewer and Horton; centre: Kelly; forwards: Nevin, Mahovlich. Subs: Baun, Arbour, Hillman, Stanley, Harris, Duff, Keon, Armstrong, Stewart, Pulford, Shack.</p><p>Referee: Udvari; linesmen: Clements and Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1084/1971420-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="564" height="358"></div><h3>New York 4 at Detroit 4</h3><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense; Pronovost and Gadsby; centre: Ullman; forwards: LaBine and Johnson. Subs: Goegan, Young, Godfrey, Howe, Stasiuk. Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Litzenberger, Glover, MacGregor, Odrowski, MacDonald.</p><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Howell, Cahan; centre; Hampson; forwards: Hebenton and Henry. Subs: Harvey, Langlois, Hannigan, Schinkel, Gendron, Bathgate, Ingarfield, Hadfield, Ratelie and Spencer.</p><p>Referee: MacArthur; linesmen: Hayes and Wicks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1172/1971413-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="565" height="674"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 Montreal 3 at Chicago 2</h3><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense; Pilote and Vasko; centre: Horvath; forwards: Nesterenko and Murphy. Subs: Hull, Balfour, Melnyk, Evans, St. Laurent, Fleming, Turner, McDonald, Mikita, Wharram.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson and Fontinato; centre: Backstrom; forwards: Marshall and Geoffrion. Subs: J. C. Tremblay. Talbot, MacNeil, Provost, Bonin, Rousseau, Goyette, G. Tremblay and Hicke.</p><p>Referee: Udvari; linesmen: Hayes and Wicks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1256/1971406-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="564" height="569"></div><h3>Detroit 5 at New York 4</h3><p>New York&mdash;Goal: Paill&eacute;; defense; Harvey and Langlois; centre: Ingarfield; forwards: Bathgate and Prentice. Subs: Howell, Cahan, Hannigan, Gendron, Hadfield, Hebenton, Ratelle, Spencer, Schinkel, Henry, Hampson.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Gadsby and Young; centre: Litzenberger; forwards: Howe and Delvecchio. Subs: Goegan, Pronovost, Godfrey, Ullman, LaBine, Stasiuk, Fonteyne, Glover, Johnson, MacGregor, Odrowski, MacDonald.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1347/1971399-1-eng-US/f0008-132.jpg" title="f0008-13" width="568" height="751"></div><h3>Toronto 9 at Boston 1</h3><p>Boston&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defense; R. Armstrong and Boivin; centre: Pennington; forwards: Bucyk, Mohns. Subs: Green, Smith, Burns, Stapleton, Gray, Kurtenback, Oliver, McKenney, Westfall, Toppazzini, Meissner, Pronovost.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Brewer and Arbour; centre: Kelly; forwards: Stewart and Mahovlich. Subs: Horton, Duff, G. Armstrong, Keon, Harris, Pulford, Baun, Shack, MacMillan, Stanley.</p><p>Referee: Powers; linesmen; Pavelich and Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1433/1971392-1-eng-US/f0008-142.jpg" title="f0008-14" width="568" height="753"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y&mdash;</p><p>Andy Bathgate, 175 pounds worth of heavy artillery, says he&rsquo;s setting his gunsights on 50 goals this NHL season.</p><p>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t be unhappy if I get 40,&rdquo; says the Rangers&rsquo; Samson, &ldquo;but since I&rsquo;m setting a goal I&rsquo;ll make it 50.&rdquo;</p><p>Last year Bathgate scored 29 times and the Rangers finished fifth. Some observers believe there is a direct link between the two.</p><p>It is felt that a 40 or, better yet, 50-goal season from Bathgate would almost guarantee a playoff berth for the souped-up Rangers. The way Andy feels now this is possible.</p><p>Forget all the huggamugga of previous seasons, this really is a new Bathgate. Not for such a trivial reason as a switch from right wing to center. Or vice versa. Or his coach, or the weather. Or a new knee brace.</p><p>Intelligent and likeable Andy has a genuine reason for the new feeling of springyness&mdash;he&rsquo;s going to be a father for the first time.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s right,&rdquo; he said, all aglow in the Ranger dressing room. &ldquo;Merle is expecting the baby on Christmas day.&rdquo;</p><p>Even the most casual viewers have noticed that Bathgate has been skittering around the ice as if there was a four-cylinder motor propelling him.</p><p>A reporter showed Bathgate his notes after the 2-1 win over Toronto. It read: &ldquo;Andy swooped around to backcheck like an eagle.&rdquo; The point was not how Andy backchecked but the fact that he DID backcheck.</p><p>He smiled. &ldquo;Say, you really noticed that, didn&rsquo;t you?&rdquo; Andy said.</p><p>&ldquo;Who could miss it?&rdquo; the other said.</p><p>At the end of the first week Bathgate was perched atop the scoring race.</p><p>Was it because of playercoach Doug Harvey?</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s putting those perfect passes on our sticks,&rdquo; said Andy.</p><p>Was it due to an new knee brace?</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s helping me skate and pivot easier.&rdquo;</p><p>Now, tell us the real reason.</p><p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s face it,&rdquo; Andy admitted. &ldquo;I got my chest out on account of the baby we&rsquo;re expecting. This means everything to me. I feel so good about it I&rsquo;m hoping for the best year I ever had.&rdquo;</p><p>Bathgate is so overjoyed he hasn&rsquo;t even had time to care about whether he plays center or right wing. In past seasons it was customary for Ranger coaches to play a game of &ldquo;Musical Bathgates.&rdquo; One week he&rsquo;d be at right wing. Next week at center. Then, back to wing.</p><p>Harvey originally planned to use Andy at center but when Pat Hannigan was injured, Bathgate was moved back to the wing on a line with Earl Ingarfield at center and Dean Prentice at left.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know nothin&rsquo; about where I play,&rdquo; he said blankly. &ldquo;And I don&rsquo;t care. All that matters is that we make the playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>At the rate Andy is going, there are indications the Rangers will do that little thing.</p><h2>Eyes The Sky</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1518/1971514-1-eng-US/f0008-152.jpg" title="f0008-15" width="513" height="834"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Bathgate</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Andy Out To Copy Boomer, Sets 50 As His New Mark

<h2>Barons Early Badmen</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span> total of 351 minutes in penalties were amassed by the eight American League clubs in the first week of play. The Cleveland Barons led the league, getting 59 minutes in three games. Second came the Providence Reds who totaled 54 minutes in the cooler in their first two games.</p><h2>Heavy Scoring Early</h2><p>No fewer than 64 goals were scored by the eight AHL clubs in the first 11 games. The teams also totaled 108 assists for 172 total points in the 11. That comes out to better than 15 points per game. The Springfield Indians led the way with 14 goals and 24 assists.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings on Tues. A.M., Oct. 24)</p><h3>Western Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01465/1971629-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="573" height="128"></div><h3>Eastern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02439/1971622-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="569" height="101"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including games of Sun., Oct. 22)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03386/1971615-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="568" height="396"></div><h3>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04326/1971608-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="569" height="273"></div><h3>TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 Cleveland 3 at Quebec 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05257/1971601-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="555" height="481"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 Hershey 3 at Pittsburgh 0</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06220/1971594-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="554" height="406"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 Buffalo 2 at Cleveland 0</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07202/1971587-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="573" height="354"></div><h3>Quebec 1 at Hershey 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08188/1971580-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="572" height="518"></div><h3>Rochester 4 at Pittsburgh 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09184/1971573-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="570" height="422"></div><h3>Providence 3 at Springfield 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10170/1971566-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="567" height="759"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 Hershey 2 at Buffalo 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11147/1971559-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="565" height="461"></div><h3>Quebec 2 at Providence 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-12115/1971552-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="574" height="565"></div><h3>Cleveland 5 at Rochester 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-13102/1971545-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="566" height="576"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div><p>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>If Amerk coach Johnny Crawford was worried about how his rookies would fare once the bell rang for the start of the American Hockey League season, he didn&rsquo;t have to worry long.</p><p>Usually, you figure rookies need a month or so to get acclimated, especially those fresh from Junior.</p><p>But not so with the Rochester Americans, who started the season with a bang by nudging highly-rated Buffalo in a pair of 3-2 games then losing in overtime at Hershey before nipping the Bears back here.</p><p>Of the 12 goals scored by the Crawfordmen in those four outings, no fewer than seven were tallied by youngsters just starting as professionals. And two of the other five were registered by a young winger who dressed for only 22 games with Rochester last year before being shipped to Sudbury in the Eastern Pro cricuit.</p><p>In the opener, a 3-2 overtime triumph in Buffalo, Bruce Draper (44 goals with St. Michael&rsquo;s College last season) got the first goal and Jimmy Pappin, who was here briefly last year, the overtime winner.</p><p>The next night here it was Les Kozak, a St. Mike&rsquo;s star two years ago who stayed out of hockey last season while he studied for the priesthood, with the first two goals and Larry Keenan, hero of St. Mike&rsquo;s march to the Memorial Cup, with the winner in the final 35 seconds.</p><p>Keenan registered a pair and Pappin one in Hershey in a game which saw Rochester hold 3-1 and 4-2 leads before the Bears tied the score in the last two minutes and won it in overtime.</p><p>It was Draper&rsquo;s turn again the following night here. He potted the decider at 4:02 of the final period.</p><p>While the rooks were providing the scoring punch, the highly-touted Amerk veterans were having their troubles. Stan Smrke (40 goals two years ago and out much of last season) did get two in the first four games, but his play was below par.</p><p>Dick Gamble, acquired from Buffalo where he reached the 40-mark last year, had but one in four games and also was fairly unimpressive. Gerry Ehman (32 goals in 55 games for Rochester) was goal-less, as were Wally Boyer (24 goals and runner-up to Buffalo&rsquo;s Chico Maki as rookie of the year) and Bill Dineen, picked up from Cleveland where he made 27 goals in 1960-61.</p><p><b>ICICLES&mdash;</b>With three wins in four one-goal games already, Rochester is a cinch to better its disastrous record of last season. The Amerks were able to emerge victorious in only four of 18 one-goal decisions&mdash;and that&rsquo;s what dealt them out of the playoffs to a fifth place finish&hellip;The Amerks lost Keenan for a week or so when he suffered a badly-gashed head here Sunday, Oct. 15. Larry was accidentally spilled head first into the boards behind the Hershey cage. He needed a total of 32 stitches to close cuts running from the top of his head to the bridge of his nose and a small one running across his forehead. Crawford and General Manager Jack Riley said it was one of the worst cuts they ever had seen in hockey.</p><p>When Rochester outlasted Buffalo in Bisontown, it marked only the ninth time since the Amerks joined the league that they skated off with a win there&hellip;Alex Faulkner, highly-rated little Newfoundlander who is expected to emerge as a star this season, picked up five assists in the first three games. He&rsquo;s a clever puck-handler and passer&hellip;Don Simmons has proven more than adequate in the Amerk nets and is playing his way back into the good graces of the Toronto Maple Leafs after refusing to report here following a trade last season.</p><h2><b>Slow Getting Started</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1484/1971674-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="535" height="521"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Gamble</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1566/1971667-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg" title="f0009-15" width="592" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stan Smrke</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1645/1971660-1-eng-US/f0009-162.jpg" title="f0009-16" width="593" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Dineen</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Kids Score Seven Of 12 In Rochester’s First Four Games

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ANOTHER GOAL

<p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>POKANE, Wash.&mdash;In the first week of official play in the young Western Hockey League season the Spokane Comets were dealt a crushing blow with the loss of their key defencemen.</p><p>Veteran Bill Folk, Spokane team captain, suffered a heart attack during the Comets homeopener against San Franciso on Saturday night October 14, and was rushed to the hospital where he will be confined from four to six weeks. It was reported that Folk suffered severe chest pains early in the game and collapsed on the bench. Doctor A. T. Perry, team physician, expressed the view that the attack would no doubt end the playing career of the robust defenceman.</p><p>A thirty-four year old native of Regina. Saskatchewan, Folk turned professional in 1948 with the Omaha Knights of the United States Hockey League when he was twenty-one years old. From 1948 through 1954 he was shuttled back and forth among Omaha. Indianapolis and Edmonton in the Detroit organization, as well as a dozen games with the parent Red Wings.</p><p>In 1954 he returned to the American League, this time with the Providence Reds, where he eventually played three seasons. Since then he has divided his time with Saskatoon, Vancouver and Winnipeg in the Western League before joining Spokane last season.</p><p>Folk&rsquo;s absence from the Spokane lineup will leave a gap that coach Roy McBride will find difficult to fill as he is regarded as one of the steadiest defencemen in the Western Hockey League.</p><h2>Ticker Taped</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01479/1971760-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="562" height="541"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Folk</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Heart Attack Puts Bill Folk On Rack

<div class="byline">By CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Buffalo Bisons lost the services of Art Stratton for at least three weeks when the clever center suffered a shoulder separation during the first period of the club&rsquo;s second home game.</p><p>The Herd skipped through the training exercises and a 12-game pre-season schedule without injuries of any consequence, and Frank Christie, veteran Buffalo trainer, stamped Stratton&rsquo;s injury one of the &ldquo;freakiest&rdquo; he&rsquo;s ever seen.</p><p>&ldquo;Art collided with Andre Tardiff of Pittsburgh at center ice, but it didn&rsquo;t appear to be anything more than a routine collision,&rdquo; said Christie. &ldquo;I was really surprised when the doctors discovered Art had a dislocation.&rdquo;</p><p>Although Dave Creighton, another center, was forced to sit out the same game because of a stiff neck, the center-rich Bisons weren&rsquo;t seriously handicapped with Brian Cullen, Larry Wilson and rookie Murray Hall available.</p><p>After losing their first two starts by identical 3-2 scores to Rochester, the Bisons swept a weekend home-and-home series from Pittsburgh, and Coach Billy Reay felt the club was starting to take shape.</p><p>Denis DeJordy chalked up the American League&rsquo;s first shutout of the season in the 4-0 victory at home, and Reay lauded the Bisons for a sound, all-around effort.</p><p>The club was operating with four defensemen as the result of Autry Erickson&rsquo;s decision to return to his Western Canada home following a salary dispute.</p><p>DeJordy, a major factor in the Bison&rsquo;s drive to a playoff berth a year ago, appeared to be even sharper than he was last winter. He was especially impressive in a 3-2 defeat at Rochester, and says he&rsquo;s using his hands more this season than last.</p><p><b>ALONG THE BOARDS&mdash;</b>The Bisons&rsquo; season ticket sale is up 30 per cent over a year ago, and is the biggest since the club came under ownership of the Pastor brothers five years ago&hellip;Stan Barron, the Bison&rsquo;s publicist, did the play-by-play broadcast of the Bisons&rsquo; first game at Pittsburgh when Bill Mazer, Station WGR sports director, was unavailable due to other commitments&hellip;Barron, a onetime sports announcer, is expected to pinch hit for Mazer several more times this season&hellip;All of the Bisons, including bachelors Hall and DeJordy, are living in nearby Fort Erie, Ont.</p><h2><b>He&rsquo;s Out</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02410/1971791-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="569" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Art Stratton</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rook Hall Just In Time To Get Into Herd Play

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Veteran center Mike Nykoluk made one of the most remarkable debuts of his American League career.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03343/1971822-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="287" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Mike Nykoluk</b></figcaption></div><p>The 26-year-old Toronto native struck for two goals in the Hershey Bears opener here against the Rochester Americans to personally lead his teammates to victory.</p><p>Big Mike, as hard a working center as can be seen in the AHL, knocked in the game winner at the 3:00 minute mark of the scheduled ten minute sudden death overtime.</p><p>What is amazing is that Mike needs only one more goal on home ice to top his total 36 game output of two goals at the Sports Arena last season. Nykoluk scored ten goals last campaign, eight coming on the road.</p><p>And there wasn&rsquo;t a happier guy in the house than coach Frank Mathers, who has always has a high opinion of Nykoluk&rsquo;s work.</p><p>&ldquo;Mike is not a flashy player,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;He is a hard worker, who keeps digging. I use him on regular line shifts and also as a penalty killer. Nykoluk checks well and plays sound positional hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>Hershey gives the appearance that it definitely will be a contender for both the Eastern Division championship and also the Calder Cup.</p><p>The club showed tremendous scrap in taking Rochester in the opener, overcoming two goal defecits twice. The following night the Bears lost 2-1 to the Americans as the New Yorkers scored both goals with Hershey skaters in the sin bin.</p><p>A crowd of 6,060 turned out for the lid-lifter, one of the biggest opening houses here in quite some-time and also the second largest turnout in the circuit this season. Pittsburgh pulled some 9,000 for its first home game against Buffalo in the multi-million new plush Civic Arena, perhaps the most beautiful hockey rink in the world.</p><p>The three Hershey rookies, winger Marc Boileau and defensemen, Nick Polano and Mike Mahoney played well in their first two AHL starts. Boileau scored Hershey&rsquo;s first goal and his intial one in AHL competition with the game only 13 minutes old.</p><p>The Bears have plenty of physical size with 12 of the 19 players weighing 175 pounds or more. Five of the six defensemen look more like pro halfbacks. Polano and Zeidel are the two biggest at 190. They average 6-0.</p><p>Hec LaLande, the classy skating veteran center, missed the first two games with an infected left foot.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hershey Club Looks To Be A ALContender

<p>WELLAND, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Ontario Hockey Association stirred up a controversy when it informed Welland Brooke Bs junior B hockey team that it would not be issued any players certificates until a debt owed by the defunct Welland senior club had been paid in full.</p><p>The OHA, in its ruling made recently, said Tom Brooke, sponsor of the Brooke Bs, was a member of the senior executive and as such, was partly responsible for the outstanding debt.</p><p>The debt is owed by the seniors to the Oakville club, which has also folded, for expenses incurred by the Oakville team when it played the first game of the 196061 season on Welland ice. There was never a return game played in Oakville.</p><p>&ldquo;This is ridiculous,&rdquo; said Brooke. &ldquo;I am not on the Junior B executive. The club is operated by members of the Welland Minor Hockey Association. All I do is sponsor the team. Last year I coached, but this season I&rsquo;m not even doing that. Not only that, but I started sponsoring the team before the senior club even thought of folding.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I realize there is a lot of personal animosity toward me in the OHA but this is carrying things too far,&rdquo; he continued.</p><p>&ldquo;I fail to see any reason whatever why the junior club should be penalized because of something the senior club did.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

OHA Crack Down On Junior Sponsor To Get Senior Debt

<h2>Player Of The Week</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>n outstanding performance in the first game of the new season brought &lsquo;Player of the Week&rsquo; honors to veteran Rudy Filion of the Seattle Totems. The smooth skating centerman Jumped out to a fast start by scoring 3 goals and assisting on two others for a total of 5 points as the Totems downed the San Francisco Seals 8-3 in Seattle&rsquo;s home-opener.</p><h2>Johnston Tops In Nets</h2><p>Spokane goalkeeper Eddie Johnston leads in the goal-keeping department with a 2.33 average for the first three games. Stellar performances by the lanky backstop over the weekend enabled the Comets to gain sole-possession of first place with five points resulting from two wins and a tie in the first week of action.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings On Tues., A.&Mu;., Oct. 17)</p><h3>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01477/1971971-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="573" height="127"></div><h3>NORTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02433/1971964-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="570" height="126"></div><h3>(Last Week&rsquo;s Results)</h3><p><b>Friday, Oct. 13th</b></p><p>Portland 7 at Los Angeles 3.</p><p>San Francisco 3 at Seattle 8.</p><p>Spokane 3 at Vancouver 3, (O.T.).</p><p>Calgary 3 at Edmonton 7.</p><p><b>Saturday, Oct, 14th</b></p><p>Portland 3 at Los Angeles 5.</p><p>San Francisco 1 at Spokane 3.</p><p><b>Sunday, Oct. 15th</b></p><p>Spokane 4 at Seattle 3.</p><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games Of Sun, Oct. 15)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03362/1971957-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="572" height="443"></div><h3>The Leaders</h3><p>Most Points: Rudy Filion, Sea. 5.</p><p>Most Goals: Gordon Fashoway. Port., 3; Rudy Filion, Sea., 3; Steve Witiuk, Spo., 3.</p><p>Most Assists: Don Chiupka, Sea., 4.</p><p>Most First Goal of Game: Several Tied.</p><p>Most Game Winning Goals: Several Tied.</p><p>Most Game Winning Assists: Several Tied.</p><p>Most Hat Tricks: Rudy Filion, Sea., 1</p><p>Most Shutouts: None.</p><p>Most Goals Scored With Man Adv.: Several Tied.</p><p>Most Goals Against When Serv Pen: Several Tied.</p><p>Most Min. In Penalties: Larry McNabb, Spo., 23.</p><h3>(Goalkeeper&rsquo;s Records)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04296/1971950-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="564" height="222"></div><h3>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 Portland 7 at Los Angeles 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05254/1971943-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="564" height="556"></div><h3>San Francisco 3 at Seattle 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06227/1971936-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="571" height="677"></div><h3>Spokane 3 at Vancouver 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07207/1971929-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="559" height="526"></div><h3>Calgary 3 at Edmonton 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08201/1971922-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="561" height="602"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 Portland 3 at Los Angeles 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09191/1971915-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="555" height="527"></div><h3>San Francisco 1 at Spokane 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10171/1971908-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="554" height="392"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 Spokane 4 at Seattle 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11149/1971901-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="554" height="518"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>What do you suppose was passing through Len Lunde&rsquo;s mind when he took the faceoff at the Edmonton Gardens that gave another Western League campaign its official sendoff?</p><p>Here is a young fellow who had a great future predicted for him right from his early days in this city&rsquo;s hockey nurseries.</p><p>Some competent observers maintained that he had as much natural talent as any player ever developed in this part of the country, and that he could not miss becoming a super-star in the service of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>More conservative experts preferred a wait-and-see attitude, but only on account of the fact that big Len showed himself to be a bit short in the desire department on certain occasions. But they tempered their views with the contention that it would be a grievous waste of hockey talent if he did not make the most of it.</p><p>He had a 20-goal year in his first season as a pro. That was in 1956-57 and it was a teammate Dennis Riggin who blocked his way to the league&rsquo;s rookie award.</p><p>Len made no secret of the fact that he wanted another season with the Flyers before moving upstairs. He came right out and said as much at training camp when it looked as if the Wings might keep him.</p><p>We recall one day we were watching the Flyers work out in the Olympia. Lunde had been with the Detroit shift, and he stayed around to watch his old teammates do their stuff.</p><p>&ldquo;What do you hear?&rdquo; he asked us. &ldquo;Do you think I can go back to Edmonton for another year? That&rsquo;s what I would like, you know. I think that another season of regular work would do more good, than sitting around on the bench and getting on the ice only now and again with the fourth line. And maybe if I could have a really big year with the Flyers, I would stand a better chance to be a regular at Detroit right off.&rdquo;</p><p>Well, Lunde eventually had his way, though some people were wondering what really made this boy tick, that he would pass up a chance at big league pay that year.</p><p>It turned out that his motives were genuine enough, because he came back to Edmonton to score 39 goals and help out on 32 others. The following autumn he eagerly signed with the big club.</p><p>Now three years later, here he is back in the minors. Apart from the loss in prestige, those pay envelopes have to be a good deal slimmer.</p><p>His demotion didn&rsquo;t come entirely unexpected. He admits that he realized something was in the wind.</p><p>&ldquo;Naturally, I don&rsquo;t like the thought of it,&rdquo; he confeses, &ldquo;but fortunately I had all summer to get the thing straightened out in my mind.</p><p>&ldquo;If I sulked, the Flyers would suffer, and I would suffer&hellip;right in my home town. Sure, it was a disappointment, but I made up my mind, I would live with it, and work all the harder at getting back up there.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m not mad at either Detroit or the Flyers. In fact, I am really looking forward to this season.</p><p>&ldquo;You know, things have a funny way of working out sometimes. This actually could be the break I need&hellip;maybe the biggest break I have had yet. I will be able to play regularly, and if I get my chance up there, I&rsquo;ll be in shape and real ready. I&rsquo;ll get more ice time than I would moving around between those third and fourth lines with the Wings.&rdquo;</p><p>Already things seem to be working out for 195-pound centreman.</p><p>He has been given Chuck Holmes, the captain, and Roger Dejordy as his wingers, and both seem to be on the threshold of their greatest season yet.</p><p>Holmes has been a revelation this fall. In a couple of the exhibition games against major league clubs, he was the dominant figure on the ice. He makes his choice as the team&rsquo;s ice leader, look to be one almost born of genius.</p><p>Dejordy is going into the season with the best attitude he has yet shown. He was a holdout a year ago, and he admits that it was a mistake, that his advisors were doing him no favor when he was persuaded to hang tough.</p><p>With Holmes the workhorse and Dejordy one of the fastest skaters in the game and a fellow who knows what to do with the puck, Lunde looks to be in business. Especially with his own attitude.</p><p>On those big league sheets, he has a stride&rsquo;s less time to get the job done. That will work in his favor out here in the west.</p><p>&ldquo;I have come to realize that I have a pretty big stake in all this,&rdquo; Lightning Len acknowldeges.</p><p>&ldquo;If Detroit still doesn&rsquo;t want me, I believe that other organizations will show interest provided I have a good year with the Flyers. They might reach for me in the draft, or maybe they will work out some kind of a trade. You know, Detroit always has had a real good reputation for not holding kids back. They see to it that they&rsquo;ll get their chance, if not with them, then with somebody else.</p><p>&ldquo;It is just up to me. I have to have that big year.&rdquo;</p><p>Like 40, 45 goals? Or even more, because he has all the equipment.</p><p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; Len&rsquo;s eyes lit up, &ldquo;that would be just fine. Fine for me, and fine for the club. That would be a big help to us hitting those playoffs, huh?&rdquo;</p><h2><b>A Fighter</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12137/1972002-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="545" height="1430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Len Lunde</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lunde Undaunted By His Demotion-He’ll Be Back

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div><p>EDMONTON. Alta.&mdash;</p><p>What&rsquo;s that about a new broom sweeping clean?</p><p>Calgary Stampeders&rsquo; new mentor, Alf Pike will have quite a scope to work with, if he is of such a mind.</p><p>Not only did he take over the old office of his predecessor, Gus Kyle, but Alf has also moved into the home that Kyle had built only a year ago in the southern part of Calgary.</p><p>&ldquo;I have an option to buy after a year, with the year&rsquo;s rent to apply to the purchase price,&rdquo; says Pike.</p><p>Last time that Pike and Kyle had encountered one another, Kyle had shut him out. Three straight games, the Stampeders took out the Winnipeg Warriors, then bossed by Alfie, in the Western League semi-finals Pike wasn&rsquo;t giving El Gusso the opportunity to do an encore.</p><p>&ldquo;Gus wanted to sell me the place sight unseen,&rdquo; Pike reports. &ldquo;But I decided to hang tough. Few little details we have to work out, it turns out.</p><p>&ldquo;Like I asked him if the basement had plumbing. Gus said it did. The only thing, is that it is only roughed in.&rdquo;</p><p>Though many of the props are the same, Pike does plan a few changes here and there. Like with his big line that has Lou Jankowski. the league&rsquo;s top scorer the last three years (including a record 57 last season) and Squeak Leopold (52 for the last time around).</p><p>Normie Johnson was their centreman last year, but Pike is using him now with a couple of younger players. He is looking for more balance, and he hopes this is one way of getting it.</p><p>Johnson is now between a couple of professional sophomores, Bert Fizzell and John Kosiancic. Meanwhile, the speedy Gord Vejprava is serving up the passes to Jankowski and Leopold.</p><p>Then for the third line, veteran Sid Finney is the middleman for Wayne North and Jim Moro.</p><p>Getting back to Johnson, they are hoping that an off-season shoulder separation operation proves a success.</p><p>&ldquo;I was in the hospital for 10 days,&rdquo; Johnson relates, &ldquo;and I guess I was taking treatment for about six weeks. It still hurts when I lift my arm, but I think it will work out.&rdquo;</p><p>Johnson suffered a shoulder injury last winter, and they decided to put the former National Leaguer under the knife after the season.</p><p>Western League regulations call for each team to use one rookie, and for the Stampeders to conform. veteran defenceman Hugh Currie had to become expendable.</p><p>&ldquo;The only rookie besides Art Lariviere in goal,&rdquo; Pike comments, &ldquo;is young Al Willis on defence.</p><p>&ldquo;Supposing Lariviere gets hurt, I have to have another rookie around. So Willis gets elected. Anyway, this kid from that Moose Jaw junior club looks to me that he&rsquo;ll get the job done. Besides, he has the years on his side. So the only fair thing to do was to let Hugh try to make a suitable deal with one of the other clubs.&rdquo;</p><p>How does Pike feel about being back in the minors after a season and a half on a big league bench with the Rangers? Well, you&rsquo;d be disappointed if you expected to have him make with the sour-grapes treatment.</p><p>&ldquo;I think the Rangers will be tough to beat,&rdquo; he observes. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think they will be pushed around, and having a fellow like Harvey on defence, has to help But what am I doing worrying about them? I have to concern myself with winning some games for Calgary.&rdquo;</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS</b>&mdash;Phil Maloney made a triumphal return to the Vancouver Forum. Now doubling as a coach, Maloney scored twice to give his Canucks a come-from-be-hind draw with Spokane Comets in the season&rsquo;s opener&hellip;Rudy Filion, who sat out the 1954-55 season only to come back to be one of Seattle Totems&rsquo; most consistent scorers, threatened retirement again last summer&hellip;A good thing for the Totems he ehanged his mind. He launched the 1961-62 campaign with a hat trick against the new San Francisco entry&hellip;The Los Angeles Blades drew 10,286 fans for their opener in the 14,300-seat Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. The champion Portland Buckaroos came on in the third period for a 7-3 victory, but the next night the Blades gained revenge with a 3-1 triumph.</p><h2>Lines Up Stamps</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01465/1972064-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="553" height="1092"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alf Pike</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Shifted To Pivot</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02382/1972057-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="549" height="530"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Norm Johnson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Pike Sticks With Vets To Get Stamps Bucking

<p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>AINT JOHN, N.B.&mdash;Gus Kyle, former member of the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins of the NHL has taken on the job as coach of the Saint John Oilers of the New Brunswick Senior League.</p><p>The 39-year-old Kyle, who coached the Calgary Stampeders of the Western Hockey League last season, succeeds Jack Keating, a former member of the old New York Americans.</p><p>Another ex-New York Ranger, Alf Pike has replaced Kyle as coach of the Stampeders at Calgary. Pike was fired as coach of the Rangers at the end of the 1960-61 season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Kyle Takes Over Reins of Saint John NB Oilers

<div class="byline">By BUSTER CLEGG</div><p>PROVIDENCE. R.I.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey fever has fast returned to Rhodes Island&rsquo;s capital city of Providence as the New R.I. Reds&mdash;fast, rough, tough and willing&mdash;have created a rebirth in enthusiasm and interest during the first weeks of the new season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03291/1972126-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="290" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dino Mascotto</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;See you next Sunday!&rdquo; Those words echoed through the crowded Auditorium lobby on October 15th following the Reds spectacular 4-2 victory over Springfield&mdash;their second win in as many games of the season.</p><p>Seldom so early in the season have local fans been as eager about watching their team perform in Providence, but on that night, with only one previous display of their talents in league games, the Reds played to a standing-room-only crowd. Enthusiasm and spirit reminded one of playoff fever.</p><p>Why the sudden return of fandom? The answer is quite simply that the R.I. Reds have produced a new team this season, sparkled with new faces. They&rsquo;re rough, tough, colorful, and good!</p><p>Last season the Reds suffered their worst campaign in 36 years of pro hockey, finishing rock-bottom in the heap of seven AHL contenders. Frankly, the club was slow, sluggish, and completely colorless. To say the least fans were generally subjected to sixty minutes of total boredom each game. Consequently the gate fell.</p><p>It was following last season&rsquo;s failure that owner Lou Pieri and his energetic manager Terry Reardon sat down and mapped out detailed plans for reorganizing the club to meet demands of the coming season and Providence hockey fans.</p><p>The Reds duo worked fast and furiously all summer long and by fall training camp their efforts were rewarded by the arrival of six new pros. Ferny Flaman, popular blueliner of the Bruins for years, was hired as player-coach and headed the group which included talented center Larry Leach, wingmen Jimmy Bartlett and Gerry Ouellette, defenseman Matt Ravlich, and veteran goalie Gil Mayer&mdash;all new faces with the needy Roosters.</p><p>In addition to the presence of this starry group of new pros, the Reds conducted their largest training camp in years with more than 35 hopeful skaters on hand. From this group the club was able to mold what now promises to be one of the most colorful teams ever assembled here in Providence.</p><p>Before training camp concluded the Roosters plucked three new rookies from the huge crop imported for the fall sessions and signed them to professional contracts. The three freshmen were center Serge Boudreault, winger Pierre Brillant, and defenseman Rod Paavola.</p><p>The Reds&rsquo; accomplishment of securing six new pros, plus a willingness to give three new rookies a shot with the club, immediately won praise from the fans. In their exhibition debut against the Boston Bruins, the Reds sported their new look and took measure of the NHLers by a 6-4 count. The fans loved it and the Reds were in business.</p><p>Opening game of the regular season on October 11th against Cleveland once again put the club before the critical eyes of local fans, and by the end of the first stanza the Reds had those same eyes blinking with amazement.</p><p>Showing local rooters they were as good on ice as on paper, the Roosters pumped six goals by the Barons in the first 20 minutes, blistered the button-pushing finger of rookie goal judge Joe Waldman, and eventually romped off with a 9-1 triumph in the opener.</p><p>Still stunned by the club&rsquo;s first effort, fans poured back to the Auditorium the following Sunday for the Reds&rsquo; big test against Springfield, defending champions of the league. Ten minutes before game-time the Auditorium lobby and box office was flooded with anxious fans, greater in number than for any contest in over a year.</p><p>And the fans were not disappointed that night. The Reds took complete command of the game both score-wise and physically. Headed by player-coach Flaman himself, and such roughnecks as Dino Mascotto, Jim Bartlett, and the rest of the lot, the Reds pulverized the classy Indians with brutal bodywork, and hustled their way to a thrilling 4-2 win over the champs.</p><p>Period by period the gallery of onlookers grew more excited until finally, in the middle of the final period, rookie Serge Boudreault&rsquo;s first professional score drew wild and deafening approval from the packed house. The tiny center, who had already captured the hearts of Rhody rooters during pre-season encounters, broke-away from all Springfield defenders with lightning speed and flicked a fast one past the veteran Marcel Paille, Indian goaltender.</p><p>Fans have really regained interest in the Reds, and it&rsquo;s only taken a short time. General Manager Terry Reardon has credited each and every member of his new club with the team&rsquo;s effect on the people. &ldquo;This club is a pleasing one to watch,&rdquo; Reardon has volunteered, &ldquo;and has all the makings of being one of the most colorful we&rsquo;ve had here in a long time. The boys have talent, but more important have the hustle and determination to win. This &lsquo;never-say-die&rsquo; spirit will make them very popular.&rdquo;</p><h2>Spirited Leader</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04208/1972119-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="558" height="534"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fern Flaman</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Reds Booming Fiery Flaman As Sparkplug

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05138/1972157-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg"></div><p><b>Facts and Record Book-50&cent;</b></p><p>The official Detroit Red Wing FACTS AND RECORD BOOK for the first time is being made available to the public tor only 50&cent;.</p><p>Among the information given in the 52-page pocket-size book are such items as:</p><p>&bull; A listing of all wearers of the Red Wing uniform since 1926.</p><p>&bull; Complete year-by-year team records</p><p>&bull; A list of major Detroit player trades</p><p>&bull; All-Time Red Wing scoring leaders</p><p>&bull; Plus many other never-before published Red Wing Facts and Records</p><p><b>1961-62 Press Book-$1.00</b></p><p>ALL-NEW STREAM-LINED EDITION WITH NEW PHOTOS, FACTS, FIGURES AND FEATURES</p><p>New Items for 1961-62: Glossy Covers, Larger Player Pictures, 1960-61 Team Picture, History of Detroit Hockey Club with Photos, Highlights of 1960-61, Olympia picture on Title Page, Cover Photos, Feature Pictures, Scattered Informative Anecdotes.</p><p>64 FACT-FILLED PAGES&mdash;POCKET SIZE Complete Schedule on Back Cover, Home and Away Schedules on Inside Covers</p><p><b>SEND FOR YOUR COPIES NOW!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOW AVAILABLE DETROIT RED WING FACTS AND RECORD BOOK DETROIT RED WING 1961-62 PRESS BOOK

<h2>Gray the Traveller</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>erry Gray, who during the offseason was sold to the Boston Bruins by the Montreal Canadiens had a varied, and much travelled career in the minors before getting his NHL chance. Gray played for three EPHL clubs during his five year pro career. He played with the Montreal Royals, Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds and Hull-Ottawa</p><h2>The Balon Story</h2><p>The Balon brothers with the Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers are almost identical in size. Both Dave and Chick were born in Wakaw, Saskatchewan. Dave was born in 1937, Chick in 1939. Dave is 5&rsquo;10&rdquo;, 180 pounds and Chick 5&rsquo;10&rdquo; and 170 pounds. Dave is a left winger, Chick a center. Both played Junior with Prince Albert Mintos.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p>(Standings, on Mon. A.&Mu;., Oct. 23)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01464/1972251-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="559" height="201"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sun. Oct. 22)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02421/1972244-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="561" height="378"></div><h3>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03385/1972237-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="564" height="249"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 Kitchener 3 at Kingston 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04349/1972230-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="550" height="666"></div><h3>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 Hull-Ottawa 5 at Sault 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05297/1972223-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="551" height="485"></div><h3>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 Hull 2 at Sudbury 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06257/1972216-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="569" height="451"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 Sault 3 at Kingston 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07243/1972209-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="567" height="608"></div><h3>North Bay 3 at Kitchener 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08229/1972202-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="564" height="657"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 Sault 3 at Hull-Ottawa 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09221/1972195-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="562" height="637"></div><h3>Kitchener 2 at North Bay 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10211/1972188-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="559" height="561"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HARRY WOLFE</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Another hockey season in the Eastern Professional Hockey League is underway and already the prognosticators are tabbing the Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers as the team to beat. If the Beavers live up to their opening weeks play then the other five clubs will have a hot time trying to stay close to the Ranger farm team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11190/1972282-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="262" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Bownass</b></figcaption></div><p>Under the direction of playing-coach George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, a former National Hockey League star, the Beavers certainly impressed this observer in the League&rsquo;s opener against the Soo T-Birds. That night the Beavers overcame an early 2-0 deficit to outskate and outhustle the Soo 7-3.</p><p>Apparently the only question mark for the Beavers is their defence. The only highly experienced defenceman is big, rugged Jack Bownass, a colorful hockey player who played with the Beavers last year and was one of the leagues outstanding rearguards. Bownass has also seen action in the National Hockey League.</p><p>Al Lebrun, a junior out of the Guelph Royals in the OHA ranks, pairs with Bownass to give the Beavers a potent blueline combination. Sophomore Adam Keller who enjoyed a fine season his first year as a pro, teams with ex-Prince Albert junior Jim Neilson as the Beavers other defence combination.</p><p>Beavers playing-coach George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan centred sophomore speedster Chic Balon on left wing and Leon Rochefort on the right side. Sullivan 32 years old, played five years with the New York Rangers, two with Chicago and two with the Boston Bruins besides playing several years in the American Hockey League. During one of his terms in the NHL Sullivan potted 20 plus goals.</p><p>Clever Eddie Hoekstra, one of the finest centre icemen in the EPHL set up plays for left winger Mel Pearson and steady Sandy McGregor. On opening night this trio accounted for three goals and six assists. Hoekstra had a goal and four assists.</p><p>Brian Hextall, son of the former Ranger player of the same name, is a rookie and skated miles as well as scoring his first professional tally in dramatic fashion. Hextail centred two experienced men in left winger Len Ronson and smooth skating Dave Balon, both having seen service with the New York Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan told us he was getting tired of the constant praise being heaped at his Beavers. The playing-coach stated he had never seen any of the clubs perform in the EPHL and has no idea what the rest of the teams will be like. If three games can be used as an indicator than &ldquo;Red&rdquo; can be assured the praise was justified. The Beavers won the opener as we mentioned 7-3. Shutout the league champs, the Hull-Ottawa Canadians 4-0 and then battled the same Canadians to a 1-1 tie, outplaying them by a wide margin, but settled for the split in points.</p><p>Sullivan is pleased with his new job as playing coach and says that his team will be doing lots of skating, and let me tell you, the rest of the Beavers will have to do lots of skating to keep up with the Redhead who played as if the Stanley Cup were at stake. Red hopes to have improved seasons out of the likes of Ronson, Pearson and McGregor. All three have tremendous speed along with the two Balons, Chic and Dave plus Leon Rochefort and this will give the Beavers the title of being one of the fastest teams in the EPHL.</p><p>One point which &ldquo;Red&rdquo; particularly likes about his team is their experience and dependability. &ldquo;Red&rdquo; says a playing coach needs this because then the players can come onto the ice when they&rsquo;re due and also relieve him when his shift is up or when he appears tired. The Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers have a colorful aggregation of players and an intelligent hard working coach. The Beavers have experience ability and speed. Add all these ingredients together and that makes them a mighty tough team to beat.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Sully’s Beavers Tagged EPHL Favorites After Week Of Play

<p class="dropcap"><span>O</span>TTAWA, Ont.&mdash;The Hull-Ottawa Canadiens got their defense bolstered last week when the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL sent down 24-year-old Jean Gauthier. The 190 pound rearguard player the last two seasons with Hull-Ottawa. The Canadiens said he was being sent to the Eastern Pro League club subject to immediate recall.</p><p>Gauthier had a four game trial with the Canadiens last season and saw service in the Habs&rsquo; opening games this season against New York and Boston.</p><p>Gauthier and Al MacNeil had been battling for the fifth and last defense spot with the NHL Canucks.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Gauthier Sent To Hull-Ottawa By Hubs

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>When York Peanut Butter decided to offer a series of Hockey Cards to the public they also decided to do a thorough job. Apart from the Hockey Cards which are obtainable in both York Peanut Butter and York Salted Nuts, they have produced the most authentic and useful album this hockey fan has ever seen. Written under the direction of Foster Hewitt and Frank Selke it contains everything from an explanation of the Referee&rsquo;s signals to thumbnail descriptions of the members of the Hockey Hall of Fame, pictures and descriptions of National Hockey League trophies and even a story on the origin of Hockey!</p><p>The Albums will be on sale in various outlets throughout the country and the cards themselves will be tucked under the lid of every jar of York Peanut Butter and every package of York Salted Nuts. There are 42 cards in the set, 21 Maple Leafs and 21 Canadiens, lithographed in full colour with a biography and N.H.L. lifetime record on the reverse side. Another oddity is the shape&mdash;octagonal&mdash;which not only makes them particularly interesting but makes them ideal for flipping against the wall, a method of winning or losing cards much admired by young and old.</p><p>Just launched this month, more news will be available later. But for those who want authentic hockey information and pictures we can recommend both the trading cards and the albums.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Read About the Stars in

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01459/1972399-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>onstance (Connie) Williams last week was named assistant general manager of the Philadelphia Ramblers hockey team. President Bud Dudley said Miss Williams would start her new duties just before the Eastern Hockey League season opens.</p><p>Miss Williams, it is believed, is the only woman in organized sports to hold such a capacity with an athletic team. Certainly she is the first in the Philadelphia area.</p><p>Her duties will include dealings with the players, arranging transportation of the club on all road trips, plus general front office chores that usually are handled by a business manager. She also will work closely on ticket sales and assist Dudley, the club&rsquo;s owner-general manager, in various other facets of operating an ice hockey team.</p><p>Miss Williams, who is 26, hails from Moorestown, N.J. and has been involved in various promotions since 1958. She has worked on the Liberty Bowl, Thrill Shows, Acme Bowl, and assorted other promotional ventures. She is a graduate of Centenary College.</p><p>Above. Connie signs as Assistant General Manager of the Philadelphia hockey club. Looking on are (left to right) Obie O&rsquo;Brien, Ramblers coach and Bud Dudley. Ramblers President.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Miss-Ing Up The Ramblers

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div><p>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Training camps of all four clubs in the newly formed Okanagan Junior League have swung into high gear, as the league approaches the eleventh hour to usher in Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; hockey into the Okanagan Valley. The opening game is slated for Vernon on October 31st, with Kelowna Buckaroos as the opposition.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03277/1972461-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="301" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Odie Lowe</b></figcaption></div><p>All camps have reported a good turnout, with no less than 25 to 30 hopefuls on hand. With the nonimport ruling adhered to, majority of the players will come from the juvenile ranks. Each team is compelled to use players from within their own community. Tampering is out!</p><p>With the league not yet underway, two of the four clubs have received a shot in the arm, in the form of financial assistance, and donations for this year&rsquo;s operation.</p><p>The Kamloops team will be sponsored by well-known Kamloops businessman Ernie Davis. This includes purchasing of two sets of uniforms, and Davis has agreed to underwrite any losses the club may incur this season.</p><p>Davis has also donated a large trophy to be given to the club winning the league championship.</p><p>Former National Leaguer Ken Stewart will coach the Kamloops entry. Stewart who also piloted the Kelowna Packers as their first playing coach in 1948, is well known and respected throughout the Okanagan Valley.</p><p>Other coaches in the league include Brian Roche at Kelowna; Odie Lowe from Vernon, and Jack Taggart will handle the Penticton squad.</p><p>All four coaches have at one time or another played in the Okanagan Senior Hockey League.</p><p>Good news for Kelowna arrived this week in the form of sweaters, pants and sox as a donation from the defending Western Hockey League Champion Portland Buckaroos.</p><p>General Manager Harry Glick-man, and coach Hal Laycoe of the Portland club said they were indeed pleased to see the Okanagan Valley move into the junior field, and expressed their utmost cooperation and assistance towards seeing the Kelowna club and the league operate smoothly.</p><p>The Kelowna entry will be known as &lsquo;The Kelowna Junior Buckaroos&rsquo;.</p><p>Meanwhile on the senior level, the Western International League, the only remaining senior &lsquo;A&rsquo; league in British Columbia will start its league opener on October 20th at Trail, and Kimberley Dynamiters will supply the opposition.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Juniors Flock For Trials In Coast Revival

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04210/1972492-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2><p>1. Pictured Chicago player.</p><p>8. Ed Panagabko&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>9. Initials of Ezinicki, former N.H.L. player.</p><p>10. 7th & 14th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>11. Number of full seasons Marcel Pronovost has spent with Detroit.</p><p>12. The Maple Leafs catch road trip planes at this airport.</p><p>14. Pictured star never played&mdash;hockey (abbr.)</p><p>15. Mile (abbr.)</p><p>16. Name given the late great Cobb of baseball fame.</p><p>17. Bob Nevin&rsquo;s father answers to this.</p><p>18. Initials of Mrs. Lou Fontinato.</p><p>19. Initials of 1959-60 N.H.L. scoring champion.</p><p>20. Initials of Asmundson, ex Ranger forward.</p><p>21. First two letters of pirouette.</p><p>22. One of the players at the Toronto training camp.</p><p>24. Month in which Portland&rsquo;s Don Ward was born (abbr.)</p><p>25. Home State of 1960-61 Stanley Cup champions (abbr.)</p><p>26. A team in the WHL (abbr.)</p><p>27. Month in which the Jean Beliveaus celebrate their wedding anniversary.</p><p>30. Eddie Wiseman, former N.H.L. star, now sells this.</p><p>32. Initials of 1951-52 Byng Trophy winner.</p><p>33. 11th & 9th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>34. Lefty Wilson is trainer for this N.H.L. team.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1. Bobby Hull now owns one.</p><p>2. Initials of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s coach.</p><p>3. Marcel Pronovost mastered this language after entering the N.H.L.</p><p>4. This N.H.L. team had their training headquarters in Victoria, B.C. (abbr.)</p><p>5. First two letters of Iliad.</p><p>6. Initials of Dussault, exHabitant forward.</p><p>7. Given name of Ciesla of Cleveland.</p><p>9. A Boston rookie.</p><p>13. Nickname of AHL team coached by Johnny Crawford,</p><p>18. Former Black Hawk right wing star.</p><p>21. Pictured star speaks this language fluently.</p><p>23. Initials of Locas, last season with Hull-Ottawa Canadiens.</p><p>27. Month in which Mrs. Red Kelly was born.</p><p>28 First two letters of Uranium.</p><p>29. Nattrium (Sym.)</p><p>31. This team ended in third place in 1960-61 N.H.L. standing.</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1. Henry</p><p>6. Cab</p><p>8. Officer</p><p>10. L.B.</p><p>11. Loss</p><p>13. Sid Smith</p><p>15. E.R.</p><p>16. Ion</p><p>18. ID</p><p>20. Aug.</p><p>21. U.S.A.</p><p>22. N.L.</p><p>23. Chi.</p><p>24. D.C.</p><p>26. Dea</p><p>27. Byng</p><p>30. Arm</p><p>31. T.A.</p><p>32. Skov</p><p>34. Cut</p><p>36. Tiny</p><p>38. Ankle.</p><p>39. Do</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1. Horse</p><p>2. E.F.</p><p>3. Nfld.</p><p>4. Ribs</p><p>5. YC</p><p>6. Crotian</p><p>7. Bas.</p><p>9. Eli</p><p>12. Shoulder</p><p>14. Irish</p><p>17. N.G.</p><p>19. Dairy</p><p>21. U.C.C.</p><p>25. Cammy</p><p>26. David</p><p>27. Baun</p><p>28. N.S.</p><p>29. G.K.</p><p>31. T.C.A.</p><p>33. O.T.</p><p>35. T.K.</p><p>37. N.O.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

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HOCKEY CLUBS

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.-</p><p>Two of the six teams in the Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league will have new coaches when the season opens in the last week of October.</p><p>Back at the old stand are Hap Emms, who continues as coachmanager-owner of the Niagara Falls Flyers; Emile (The Cat) Francis, starting his second season in Guelph; Eddie Bush, starting his second year with the Hamilton Red Wings and Claud Ruel who retains Wings and Claude Ruel who retains his coaching position with the Montreal Canadiens as they move into the Ontario League.</p><p>The newcomers this year are Neil Burke in Peterborough and Ken Campbell in St. Catharines.</p><p>Although neither Burke nor Campbell matched the playing records of Emms, Bush and Francis, all of whom played in the National Hockey League, both have excellent backgrounds in Canada&rsquo;s national winter sport.</p><p>Burke played junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; hockey in Cornwall, then spent three sea sons with the Montreal junior Canadiens.</p><p>He later played with Hull in the Quebec Senior League and Cincinnati of the International League.</p><p>For the past five seasons he has coached the Cornwall junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; club which won its group title twice in that time.</p><p>Burke succeeds Scotty Bowman who had been manager-coach of the Petes for four years.</p><p>Campbell, like Burke, seems to be well-fitted for the important task of coaching teen-age players.</p><p>As a successor to Gus Bodnar who resigned his coaching post in St. Catharines to continue his hotel business in Lindsay, Campbell has experience which ranges from being scoring champion of the English League to playingcoach last season with Omaha Knights.</p><p>A rugged defenceman, the 37-year-old Campbell, started his career in Montreal as a partner of the now-coach of the New York Rangers, Doug Harvey.</p><p>He played senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey with Montreal Royals, Pembroke and Niagara Falls and also coached the latter two teams.</p><p>Harvey and Campbell continued their partnership for one year as members of the old Montreal Hornets of the Big Four.</p><p>However both decided to give up football in favor of hockey careers and, it would seem, both chose wisely.</p><p>The hiring of Campbell and Burke apparently continues the trend of Ontario junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; teams lately which seems to be away from the hiring of former outstanding pro players.</p><p>At one time six of the seven coaches in the league had National Hockey League experience.</p><p>Now 50 per cent have never played in the NHL.</p><p>All teams in the six-team group will play 50-game schedules with four of the clubs qualifying for the playoffs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Campbell, Burke New Coaches OHA Junior Loop

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03333/1972571-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="551" height="251"></div><h2>OCTOBER 21 TO OCTOBER 27</h2><p>21&mdash;Jacques Begin, Sault Ste. Marie, defense, 1937.</p><p>21&mdash;Carl Brewer, Toronto, defense, 1938.</p><p>21&mdash;Brian Kilrea, Springfield, forward, 1934.</p><p>21&mdash;Del Topoll, Spokane, forward, 1933.</p><p>22&mdash;Hugh Currie, Calgary, defense, 1925.</p><p>23&mdash;Larry Wilson, Buffalo, forward, 1930.</p><p>24&mdash;Ron Hutchinson, Vancouver, forward. 1936.</p><p>25&mdash;Earl Ingarfield. Rangers, forward. 1934.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="byline">By JOE TAYLOR (In the Toronto Star)</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>When Punch Imlach took over the rabble that was Toronto Maple Leafs early in the 1958-59 season, and cajoled it into the playoffs, one of his key moves was to switch Bobby Pulford from left wing to centre.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04261/1972602-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="256" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Fulford</b></figcaption></div><p>As even the lowliest child collecting bubble gum pictures knows, Pulford lit bonfires under Leafs for the remainder of that season. He continued to blaze the following year, leading the club in scoring with 24 goals and 28 assists.</p><p>Then came Europe, the Christmas Eve injury, and suddenly Pulford, without quite knowing why, has to earn his spurs all over again. He&rsquo;s back at left wing, too.</p><p>Somehow, Imlach isn&rsquo;t quite convinced the torn left knee ligament, which kept Pulford out of 30 games, is entirely responsible for last season&rsquo;s sag. He has publicly blamed that European jaunt, on which Pulford was accompanied by Bobby Nevin, Billy Harris, and Gary Collins, as if the exposure to continental culture somehow undermined his dedication to the hockey wars.</p><p>Pulford, however, points out that the knee had to be taped before every game.</p><p>&ldquo;It takes a while to come back from an injury like that,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;It never did feel right.</p><p>&ldquo;I did a lot of weight training this summer, and so far there&rsquo;s been no trouble with it.&rdquo;</p><p>Pulford isn&rsquo;t quite so sure he likes the switch back to wing, necessitated by Bert Olmstead&rsquo;s pre-season knee injury.</p><p>&ldquo;I remember, though, I wasn&rsquo;t too happy when they switched me to centre, so I guess I&rsquo;ll get used; to it. It takes a little time&mdash;you have to make different moves. It seems to be working out&mdash;I got a goal and an assist in the first three games, and I can&rsquo;t complain about that.&rdquo;</p><p>Previous experience with Billy Harris should also be a help, perhaps to both. The Pulford-Harris combination took Marlboros to a couple of Memorial Cups a few years ago.</p><p>With eager Eddie Shack careering up and down the other wing, the opposition has to keep busy or face the consequences. Pulford has just enough incentive this season to be a consequence all by himself.</p><p>Imlach is satisfied with the work of this trio so far. What happens when Olmstead comes back? &ldquo;That remains to be seen,&rdquo; he concludes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Pulford Takes Quick Look Back—It Was Knee, Not Travel That Hurt

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div><p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>If Weyburn Red Wings never win another game all season they have succeeded in making their mark in Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League battles.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01436/1972633-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="278" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bud MacPherson</b></figcaption></div><p>For months now every junior expert from one end of the province to the other has been predicting just how far ahead of the rest of the eight-team pack Regina Pats were going to be at the finish.</p><p>If nothing else, two things appeared to be clear-cut&mdash;Regina would be in first place and Weyburn would be in the cellar when the final reckoning was made in February.</p><p>Red Wings, a freshman entry in Canada&rsquo;s largest junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey circuit, took to the road for their first taste of Saskatchewan League action, and dropped a pair of close ones to Saskatoon and Prince Albert, clubs which weren&rsquo;t really considered as threats in the first place.</p><p>Regina, on the other hand, opened at home in expected fashion, swarming all over Saskatoon for a 6-2 victory. Only the spectacular work of Manitoba Junior League recruit Phil Headley in the Saskatoon goal kept the score respectable.</p><p>Bud MacPherson, the long-time Edmonton Flyer star, then had the unenviable job of taking his Red Wings before a home crowd for the first time to face the mighty Pats. But, as it turned out he need not have been concerned.</p><p>David slew himself another Goliath, this time by a 6-4 margin!</p><p>Weyburn&rsquo;s startling upset of the feared giant set the SJHL to buzzing, and Pat coach Frank Mario to climbing dressing room walls. It may never happen again all year, but what a home debut for MacPherson and crew.</p><p>An early season census gives the Pats the go-ahead as league champions for one reason&mdash;they won it quite handily last year, and about the only spot they have to plug is goal, where all-star Art Koberinski has graduated.</p><p>The Pat defence is back intact, and most of the scoring punch up front is still around.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-01

Weyburn Drops Favored Regina In Home Opener

<div class="byline">Harry Molter</div><p>CHICAGO, 111&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>urray Balfour, Chicago Black Hawk right wing who injured his left arm in the Stanley Cup playoff finals against Detroit last spring, is carrying a steel rod inside his left forearm.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05200/1972664-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="261" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Murray Balfour</b></figcaption></div><p>It is about eight inches long and extends from his wrist to his elbow, running inside his bone. The purpose is to bridge over a span of about one inch in his forearm where there is no bone at the moment.</p><p>The bone wasn&rsquo;t set properly last spring and had to be reset in May. The cast came off in July and Balfour tried to strengthen it by swimming, squeezing a ball and a squeezer, and playing some golf. The arm was broken in the fifth game of the playoff finals when Murray was tripped by Red Wing defenseman Howie Young and crashed into the Detroit net.</p><p>Balfour also has a fibreglass cast for his left arm covering the area from wrist to elbow. It was especially made in Toronto.</p><p>Balfour is not able to twist his left arm all the way back when reaching for the puck or in poke checking. He also is shooting more with his arms rather than his wrists. However, it hasn&rsquo;t hampered his shooting ability or accuracy and he picked up a goal and two assists in Chicago&rsquo;s first three games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-05

Steel Rod and Fiberglass Cast Fitted to Balfour

<p>TRAIL, B. C.&mdash;</p><p>A &ldquo;who&rsquo;s-on-first&rsquo; situation cropped up in the amateur hockey world last week as the Trail Smoke Eaters tried to decide whether an invitation to tour Europe in December was or wasn&rsquo;t an invitation.</p><p>The Trail executives contend that an invitation to play a 13 game exhibition game in Europe in December was made by a representative of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.</p><p>&ldquo;We were invited by B. C. representatives of the CAHA,&rdquo; said manager Ugo Debiasio of the World amateur champions.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if they have been disowned by the CAHA or not, but as far as we were concerned this was an official invitation on behalf of the CAHA.&rdquo;</p><p>His remarks were prompted by a statement last week by CAHA president Gordon Juckes of Melville, Sask., that four teams had asked permission to make the European tour and that Trail Smoke Eaters was not one of them. Juckes was quoted as saying reports that the Smokes had been invited to make the trip were unfounded.</p><p>&ldquo;I telephoned Mr. Juckes to complain about the shabby handling of this entire affair,&rdquo; Debiasio said recently. I pointed out that we had been personally contacted and told what was involved.</p><p>&ldquo;We were asked to consider making this trip. If this is not an official invitation, then I take it for granted B. C. representatives of the CAHA have no say in any of the association&rsquo;s affairs.&rdquo;</p><p>In Melville, Sask., CAHA secretary-manager Gordon Jukes said his office had not received any application from Trail to make the trip.</p><p>Juckes said Trail had been approached by a representative of the association to inform them of the tour and to inquire whether they were interested. He said the team had not been invited to make the tour.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

BC Asks Trail To Make Trip; CAHA Says It Can’t Be Done

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>T. PAUL, Minn.&mdash;Although the new Minnesota Twins baseball club, and the pro Minnesota Vikings football squad are something &ldquo;out of the ordinary&rdquo; in the Twin Cities, hockey and the Minneapolis Millers and St. Paul Saints will always be at the top of the list among the favorites.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01130/1972726-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="288" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Yackel</b></figcaption></div><p>The Saints and Millers are arch rivals when it comes to playing hockey. St. Paul drew over $200,000 last year, and the smaller Minneapolis Arena squad hit over $100,000.</p><p>Many scribes covering International Hockey League play, still think that the two clubs are the teams to beat in Frank Gallagher&rsquo;s seven team circuit.</p><p>Minneapolis won the regular season, winning 50 out of 70 games, with St. Paul copping the postseason playoffs, last year.</p><p>Ken Yackel, who did such a fine job with the Millers will be back as player-coach. In addition to leading his club to a regularseason crown, Yackel is defending scoring champ.</p><p>The native of Minnesota hopes to have back goalie Ray Mikulan; defensemen Ed Pollesel and Cy Whiteside and forwards Bruce Lea, Moe Bartoli, Laurie Langrell and Ron Tookey.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-02129/1972719-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="239" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fred Shero</b></figcaption></div><p>The Millers made a trade in the off-season, sending Des Maroney to St. Paul, for Aggie Kuku-1owicz and Paul Johnson. Kukulowicz finished sixth among the scoring leaders last season. Johnson, a problem child with the Saints last year, could be a real sleeper in the deal.</p><p>Ted Lanyon, who has had trials with St. Paul and Milwaukee is being invited to camp, and Don Gee, Don D&rsquo;Angelo, and Dick Nicoli, all over-age juniors will be given a chance for a position on the 13-man squad.</p><p>Freddie Shero, who has had two championships in two years, will try to make it three in a row with St. Paul.</p><p>Most of Shero&rsquo;s talent will come from last year&rsquo;s club. Goalie Jacques Marcotte, defensemen Mickey Keating, and Tex Hodgson, and forwards Paul Masnick, Dick Bouchard, John Bailey, Bryan Derrett and Gilles Thiebault will return.</p><p>Nelson Bulloch, obtained from Toledo for Fred Brown and Bob Cowan, purchased from New York&rsquo;s Rovers, will add to the defense crew.</p><p>Shero indicated that a few overage juniors from the OHA and Western Junior League&rsquo;s will fill out the remaining spots.</p><p>IHL Notes&hellip;Minneapolis and St. Paul figure to run one-two, with Ft. Wayne and Omaha battling for the other remaining positions&hellip;Alex Shibicky could come up with a real surprise at Indianapolis, should he get some good goaltending from Chuckie Adamson.</p><p>Toledo is experimenting at the moment with several combinations, and no doubt Sugar Jim Henry will shape his club into &ldquo;A-1&rdquo; form before the start of the season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

C4-01

Twins From West Picked As Pair To Beat In IHL

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ELVILLE. Sask.&mdash;Secretarymanager Gordon Jukes of the CAHA announced that the Galt Terriers of the OHA senior league and 1960-61 Allan Cup champions will play 13 exhibitions games in western Canada on their way to the World Hockey Championships at Colorado Springs March 8-18.</p><p>Jukes, at the same time announced that a Canadian team will tour Europe in December.</p><p>Terriers, last season&rsquo;s national senior champions, will play in every western branch. Jukes said the tour has the dual purpose of providing Galt with good pretournament competition and of financing their participation in the world championship tournament.</p><p>Jukes said the Canadian team touring Europe in December has not yet been selected by the CAHA from a number of teams that have applied. Final choice would be made later this month.</p><p>The Canadian team will play 13 games in Europe but it has not been decided yet where the games will be played, the secretary-manager said.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Galt To Play 13 Western Games Before Colorado

<div class="byline">By HUGH TOWNSEND</div><p>NEW GLASGOW, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Moncton Beavers, Eastern Canadian finalists in Memorial Cup playdowns last spring, have won a determined bid to become members of the powerful Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League.</p><p>Beavers were refused admittance to the loop a year ago when they told the circuit they would remain a junior club and enter junior playdowns after the regular NSS-HL schedule was completed.</p><p>Shortly after their acceptance to the league at an Oct. 15 meeting, Moncton manager Don Ramsey told THE HOCKEY NEWS that his club would be built around the junior stars of the 1960-61 edition of the Beavers. He said he would add as many players as necessary to give the Hub city a contender in the Nova Scotia circuit.</p><p>The same meeting that accepted Moncton, officially gave the Brookfield Elks their requested one-year&rsquo;s leave of absence. The Elks finished fourth last year but financial problems would not permit the club to operate again.</p><p>Members of the Elks have become free agents and their top star of last winter, goalie Ron Boomer, has become the most sought-after player in the Maritimes. Although no official announcement has been made to date, he is reported headed for the Windsor Maple Leafs.</p><p>Windsor is also reported negotiating with former Brookfield rearguard Hugh Matheson, who played well in his first year of senior hockey and led the circuit in penalties.</p><p>Frank &ldquo;Danky&rdquo; Dorrington, one of the top players in the league and a scoring stalwart that paced Amherst Ramblers to their second league title and to the Eastern Canada Allan Cup finals, is interested in joining his hometown New Glasgow Rangers this year. At the time of this writing, however, he was still without his release from Amherst.</p><p>New Glasgow is also seeking the services of centre Vince Ryan and defenceman Robert MacNeil, both of whom have been starring in the Cape Breton Senior Hockey League the past few years. Rangers finished last in the five team loop last year and are striving to make their club a contender in the forthcoming campaign.</p><p>The league will once again operate on a 40-game schedule and several clubs are seeking a four-game-per-week draw. Last year each team played three games per week.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Moncton To Use Juniors To Put Seniors On Ice

<p>GALT, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Galt Terriers, Allan Cup champions preparing to represent Canada in the world amateur tournament, are co-favorites with Windsor Bulldogs as the Ontario Hockey Association nine-team senior group opens its schedule.</p><p>The other seven teams are Woodstock Athletics, Stratford Indians, Chatham Maroons, Strathroy Rockets, St. Thomas Royals, Sarnia Rams and Waterloo Tigers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-03123/1972805-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="288" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Joe Klukay</b></figcaption></div><p>The last three are new clubs. St. Thomas will play its games in the village of Belmont, near London, Ont., and may become the Belmont Royals.</p><p>The Bulldogs are a veteran cast but may lack defensive strength. They have former Toronto Maple Leaf Joe Klukay as their coach.</p><p>The Terriers, who will play a full schedule before departing for the 1962 world tournament in Colorado, will not compete in the playoffs. Coach Lloyd Roubell will probably add players all through the season as they strive to become an all-star cast for their big date next March.</p><p>A former Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen defenseman, Harvey Jacklin will become coach of the Indians with former coach Bill Woodward as manager and Bill Flick, veteran right-winger, as assistant coach.</p><p>The Maroons, always contenders, expect to fill that role again. Coach Ted Power, a veteran centre still active as a player, will be able to use promising Chatam juniors when needed as the two teams have a working agreement this year. Al Bennett will continue in goal.</p><p>Woodstock has a new coach in Ken Dolson, a former hometown star. The Athletics have been quietly strengthening since a poor finish last season and are expected to be much more formidable than a year ago. As usual they will draw on a number of Kitchener-Waterloo players.</p><p>Another new coach will be found with Strathroy Rockets who have picked up Clarke Horner of Sarnia.</p><p>The Rams, as newcomers, will depend to some extent on graduates from recent Sarnia junior teams which have been prominent in the OHA playoffs for a number of seasons. They were the last team to start practicing and may be late in rounding into form.</p><p>Waterloo Tigers, returning senior hockey to the Twin City after a year&rsquo;s lapse following the folding of the K-W Dutchmen, have a tough job ahead of them. They have Mike Dzuira, a former Dutchman with pro experience, as coach. Chuck Jewell, a St. Marys junior grad, has looked sensational in goal in practice and exhibition games.</p><p>The St. Thomas-Belmont Royals are returning to the senior loop after withdrawing last year when all the Senior B. clubs moved up to unclassified hockey.</p><p>President Harold McCormick has promised they will ice a contender and has named eight or 10 players with senior experience as likely, candidates. One is goalie Dick Piatkowski, who played with Chatham and Wallaceburg.</p><p>Six of the eight teams in official competition will take part in the playoffs with the winner selecting the opposition.</p><p>C. G. (Pat) Patterson, an OHA executive and group convener, has drafted a 36-game schedule for each team.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

C4-03

Galt, Windsor Favored In Seven Team Oil A Sr.

<div class="image-hero"><img title="C4-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-04101/1972836-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg"></div><p><b>OCTOBER ISSUE Now At YOUR NEWSSTAND</b></p><p><b>PICTORIAL WORLD&rsquo;S OFFICIAL HOCKEY MAGAZINE</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;MY DOUBLE LIFE WITH THE CANADIENS&rdquo; BY DON MARSHALL</b></p><p><b>ALSO</b></p><p>&bull; <b>Dave Keon Won&rsquo;t Buy NHL &lsquo;Soph&rsquo; Jinx</b></p><p>&bull; <b>Let&rsquo;s Give Our Referees A Break</b></p><p>&bull; <b>Chicago Hawks Top Cop&mdash;Jack Evans</b></p><p><b>LOOK FOR THE MAGAZINE WITH DAVE KEON ON THE COVER</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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