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December 23, 1961
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Stormy Weather Sends Barons Reeling—Quick Changes Fail To Help
CLEVELAND, O.— When a guy gets his taste buds all set for a juicy steak, it’s disappointing to settle for hamburger. Cleveland Barons’ Coach Jackie Gordon knows the feeling. He thought he had his club all poised on the springboard that would orbit the Barons into the top spot of the American Hockey League’s Western Division. Then the springboard broke. In a disastrous stretch of seven games, the Barons had to settle for a single victory and two overtime ties. It was enough to send Gordon and his assistant coach, Fred Glover, into a quick huddle to figure out the what’s what and why of the Barons. They came up with the inevitable line changes, meantime hoping that the club would lift itself out of the dumps. Glover’s own line, on which he works with Ron…
Bonus Mark Was Set At 15 For Him
MONTREAL, Que— With a reported $100 bonus on the line every time he blinks the red light from now on, Claude Provost of the Canadiens has good reason to worry about a slump. And when he went four games without a scoring point recently he was a bewildered athlete. In previous seasons, six since he jumped to the National Hockey League in 1955, the hard-skating and steady-checking right-winger never had to worry about a slump. He just wasn’t a high scorer and 19 goals in 1957-58 was his best record. But this season is different because Provost happens to be the leading goal-getter on the big-time circuit. After 30 games, he had a record of 18 tallies and a margin of three over his closest rival, teammate Ralph Backstrom with 15. Provost, a 28-year-old…
Aces Cut Bears Ranks To Ribbons—Seven Go To Hospital For Help
HERSHEY. Pa.— Coach Frank Mathers and his Hershey Bears won’t forget Dec. 5, 1961 for quite a while. It was more like a Pearl Harbor on ice for the Pennsylvania gang after a stop off at Quebec where they were “entertained” by the Aces. The Canadians lost 1-0, but Hershey wound up with a crop of “walking wounded” with no less than seven skaters paying a visit to the hospital the next day. “It was a clean game and the checking was about as rugged as I’ve ever seen in an American League game,” said Mathers. The band aid brigade, with injuries, reads: Claude Laforge, fractured cheekbone; Bob Perreault, eye cut; Jack McKenzie, back injury; Bucky Hollingworth, jammed hand; Marc Reaume, six-stitch head wound, ankle injury; Larry Zeidel, groin injury, and Parker MacDonald, Charley…
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