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January 6, 1962

The Hockey News January 6, 1962

<p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p>Founded October 1st, 1947 35</p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by</b></p><p><b>Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</b></p><p><b>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Ken McKenxie, President and Publisher</b></p><p><b>Will V. Cote, Vice-Pres.& Gen. Mgr.</b></p><p><b>Len Bramson, Editor-in-Chief</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth;</b></p><p><b>$4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries</b></p><p>Postage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y.</p><p>Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa</p><p>Printed in Canada</p><p><b>VOL. 15 JANUARY 6, 1962 No. 14</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">By SHEL FULLERTON</div><p>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;</p><p>Cleveland&rsquo;s top rookie in 196061 was a strapping young 22-year-old 185-pound defenseman named Jim Mikol.</p><p>The Barons&rsquo; best rookie winger in 1961-62 is a strapping young 23-year-old 185-pounder named Jim Mikol.</p><p>It&rsquo;s the same Mikol, playing the same fine brand of hockey, but in a new position.</p><p>The youngster, picked up by the Barons after playing with the Peterborough Juniors in 1957, has had only one full year as a pro. But in that season, last-year, he captured the fancy of Cleveland fans, was a much sought after player by National Hockey League clubs and established a fine record as Cleveland&rsquo;s outstanding new star.</p><p>Playing in all 70 games of the 1960-61 schedule, Mikol pounded home 12 goals and added 22 assists for a 34-point total.</p><p>So outstanding was he at a defense position that it came as samewhat of a shock to young James Stanley Mikol to learn that Coach Jackie Gordon planned to use him as a right winger this season. Mikol wasn&rsquo;t sure he liked the idea.</p><p>He started out on a line with Billy Sutherland and Wayne Larkin&mdash;with only mediocre success. He moved over to join Hank Ciesla and Ed Mazur&mdash;without particularly distinguishing himself.</p><p>Cleveland&rsquo;s bad break in losing Dick Van Impe by injury&mdash;he sustained some pulled ligaments in the December 17 loss at Providence&mdash;became Mikol&rsquo;s good break. Gordon called on Mikol to fill Van Impe&rsquo;s left wing spot, working along with Fred Glover and Ron Attwell.</p><p>Getting a chance to team with this pair is a rookie&rsquo;s answer to a dream. Mikol nabbed an assist on a Glover goal in his first game on the line, then hit the jackpot in his second session on the Barons&rsquo; first combination.</p><p>In his best game as a professional, a heart-breaking 7-6 overtime loss to the Buffalo Bisons, young Mikol tallied five points on two goals and three assists to catapault himself into a temporary three-way tie for the Barons&rsquo; scoring lead.</p><p>The five-point binge gave Mikol 23 points for the season, broken down into eight goals and 15 assists. He shared the team lead with.&mdash;guess who&mdash;Glover and Attwell.</p><p>Above all, the scoring splurge proved to Mikol that he could be as outstanding a forward as he was a defenseman.</p><p>His awesome display of scoring power came at a time the Barons needed him most. The team has been struggling, what with injuries to Aldo Guidolin, Gary Bergman and Van Impe, plus a minor heel injury to John Ferguson.</p><p>To help alleviate the situation, the Barons called in their first addition of the season, winger Bob Forhan from Greensboro in the Eastern Hockey League.</p><p>Forhan showed promise in his first two starts, enough that Coach Gordon is considering signing him to a pro contract should Van Impe be out of action for a prolonged time.</p><p>Meanwhile Gordon, and the rest of the Barons, are hoping that the coming of 1962 will signal a change in the team&rsquo;s fortunes. The Barons could use a few victories.</p><p>Mikol&rsquo;s sudden surge to stardom could prove to be part of the answer.</p><h2>Versatile</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01372/1765699-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="562" height="1545"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Mikol</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02339/1765692-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="535" height="598"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rook Rearguard Of 1960 Grabs Barons Headlines As Scoring Right Winger

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01420/1765575-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="294" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Abel</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The Red Wings were hit by the holiday bug&hellip;the humbug.</p><p>After playing like champions for 2&frac12; weeks, the Wings reversed themselves and were nearly sunburned by the goal light flashing behind them.</p><p>From an average yield of only 1.37 goals pergame for eight games, the Wings bloated to a 5.5 average yield in four games&mdash;all defeats.</p><p>&ldquo;The funny thing,&rdquo; said Sid Abel, who really didn&rsquo;t think it humorous, &ldquo;is that we didn&rsquo;t play that badly.</p><p>&ldquo;It sounds like sour grapes to talk about missed chances in games that you lose by 6-1 and 6-4 scores but that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s been happening.</p><p>&ldquo;Then the defense lapses and bang! You&rsquo;re out of the game.&rdquo;</p><p>Any hope that the Wings had of making third place&hellip;for the present at any rate&hellip;vanished during the holidays.</p><p>Doug Harvey, acting like Merlin, shook up his New York Rangers and they in turn thoroughly rattled the Wings in a show-down for third. The Rangers put on the show and the Wings went down.</p><p>When the Wings left home for a brief three-game trip following the annual Christmas party for the players&rsquo; children, all looked fine.</p><p>Detroit had won four straight and was unbeaten in six games. The Wings had just snapped Montreal&rsquo;s 13-game string.</p><p>Then the Rangers delivered a 6-1 haymaker at Madison Square Garden.</p><p>Detroit went into the game only two points behind the Blues with a chance to have third place in the space of 48 hours.</p><p>Instead, reeling from the 6-1 shellacking in New York, the Wings were knocked down, 4-2, in Boston and then floored, 6-1 in Montreal.</p><p>The Rangers added a 6-4 decision in Detroit on Christmas night for good measure and that left the Wings eight points out of third and clinging precariosuly to fourth place.</p><p>The technical reasons for the turnabout in play revolved around missed chances in front of the goal and defensive lapses.</p><p>The Wings played their poorest game of the season in New York throwing only 16 shots at Gump Worsley, their season low, in the 6-1 loss.</p><p>Old friend Johnny Wilson, whose off-season home is across the river in Windsor, Ont., celebrated his first game of the season with a pair of goals, one proving the winner and coming on a power play.</p><p>The Rangers used the Wings as a foil to break a six-game winless streak.</p><p>Boston also took advantage of the Wings&rsquo; slide to register its first victory in nine games.</p><p>Then it was the Canadiens&rsquo; turn. Montreal&rsquo;s backward streak was more modest than New York&rsquo;s or Boston&rsquo;s&mdash;it was only a two-game losing string.</p><p>&ldquo;We should have been leading four or six to two by the end of the second period instead of being behind, 2-0,&rdquo; Abel said.</p><p>&ldquo;Even when Montreal was ahead 3-1 in the third period we were in the game. Then we fell apart. No one did anything. Terry (Sawchuk) made two great saves in the last minute or it would have been 8-1.&rdquo;</p><p>The Wings reached the peak of frustration Christmas night at home where they tried to protect an eight-game unbeaten record.</p><p>Old smoothie Gordie Howe set up the first goal with the game 93 seconds old. Howe carried from his own zone, crossed to the left point in Ranger territory and then waited for Warren Godfrey to reach the right point.</p><p>Howe hit Godfrey with a crossrink pass and Godfrey fired it in to Vic Stasiuk who snapped in his 11th goal.</p><p>The lead lasted little more than a minute when the Rangers&rsquo; Pat Hannigan received credit for the tying goal. Hannigan was against the back boards when the goal light flashed.</p><p>Hank Bassen had stopped Hannigan&rsquo;s shot but the puck popped high in the air and the Wings, trying to clear it, batted it into the net.</p><p>Howie Young, who had a tough time all night, was trapped at the other end of the rink when Harry Howell and Andy Bathgate scored on a two-On-one rush. Bassen stopped Bathgate and then Howell on the rebound before Howell, with all the to me in the world, put in his own rebound.</p><p>After the two gifts, Young helped set up the tying goal for the Wings with Howe also aiding and Bill Gadsby putting the puck in the net for a 2-2 score before the first period ended.</p><p>Alex Delvecchio put Detroit in front again in the middle period but Harvey tied it with a shot from the blue line.</p><p>Then the Rangers tumbled all over the Wings outscoring Detroit 3-1 in a one minute and 31 second span in the third period.</p><p>Larry Cahan added the proper touch to his 28th birthday and Christmas as well with his first goal of the year, a chest-high shot that eluded Bassen.</p><p>Harvey scored 14 seconds after Young was penalized and Delvecchio answered with his second of the night some 31 seconds later.</p><p>Delvecchio, was stopped from point-blank range on the first rush after the faceoff in a bid for a hat trick and the tying goal and then Camille Henry sent another chest-high liner past Bassen to put the Rangers out of danger.</p><p>The holidiays weren&rsquo;t very happy for the Wings.</p><p>ICE CHIPS: Terry Sawchuk in jured his catching hand in the pregame warmup Christmas night and Hank Bassen, already seated in the press box, received a hurry-up call to dress the game.</p><p>It was a tough night on the goalies with New York&rsquo;s Gump Worsley getting a two-stitch cut under his right eye while blocking a Vic Stasiuk shot.</p><p>Sawchuk&rsquo;s hand had been sore for several weeks, the result of an ill-fitting glove, and then he was hit hard by a shot in the warmup with the hand ballooning.</p><p>X-rays revealed no fractures and Sawchuk was excused from practice for several days to recover&hellip;and a quick order was placed for the right-sized mitt.</p><p>Howe, with three assists Christ mas night, boosted his set-up total to 601. He just keeps adding to his own record after passing Elmer Lach several seasons ago.</p><p>Abel started juggling the Wings&rsquo; second and third lines after the fourth straight setback moving Bruce MacGregor from third line center to second line right wing in place of Howie Glover.</p><p>Eddie Litzenberger, used mainly on the power play the past eight weeks, took over MacGregor&rsquo;s spot on the third line.</p><p>The Wings&rsquo; first line of Stasiuk, Delvecchio and Howe has been moving but there&rsquo;s been little scoring from the other units, a malady that has been with the club for a few years now.</p><p>The Wings, who have a couple of long-termers themselves in Howe and Bill Gadsby, showed a little awe of the Rangers&rsquo; Harvey.</p><p>&ldquo;The guy can play until he&rsquo;s 50,&rdquo; said Abel. &ldquo;The way he paces himself it seems like he&rsquo;s never out of breath and never has to take any extra strides.&rdquo;</p><h2>Swollen Hand Sidelines Him</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02303/1765568-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="1761" height="1072"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Red Wings Flop Everytime They Near 3rd Place

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01244/1767048-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>United Press photographer John Quinn of the Ups Chicago bureau took the above picture. Split second timing by Quinn caught Referee Frank Udvari as he jumped high onto the glass at the end of the Chicago Stadium during a game between the Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers. Udvari hopped up when he saw Rangers Andy Bathgate coming around the corner at full speed and taking a pass at the same time. Photo was entered into recent NHL action photo contest.</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Here&rsquo;s A Frank Way To Get The Jump On Things</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Habs Reach Halfway Mark At Title Pace

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Before the opening of the hockey season Manager Lynn Patrick of the Bruins offered this observation:</p><p>&ldquo;We won&rsquo;t have as good a team for the first half of the season as we had for the first half of last season.</p><p>&ldquo;But we&rsquo;ll have a better team. the second half of this season than we had the second half of last season.&rdquo;</p><p>What Patrick was saying was, the Bruins&rsquo; rookies and young players might need the first half of the season to gain their bearings but that they would do better in the second half.</p><p>Now the second half of the schedule is starting, and will the Bruins do better, as Patrick predicted?</p><p>If they do. it&rsquo;ll have to be because their rookies and younger players have improved. for their veterans were virtually their team during the first half.</p><p>Don McKenney, Johnny Bucyk, Doug Mohns, Leo Boivin, Jerry Toppazzini, Charley Burns. Andre Pronovost&mdash;all played well during the first 35 games. If they do as well for the second 35, they&rsquo;ll have done their jobs.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s how some of the less experienced Bruins have impressed since mid-October.</p><p>Cliff Pennington, center&mdash;Pennington was the League&rsquo;s highest scoring rookie for the first half, which he finished in such a way as to indicate he&rsquo;ll do still better. He has been playing center regularly and gaining effectiveness as a point-man in the Bruins&rsquo; potent power play.</p><p>Dick Meissner, right wing&mdash;Meissner began getting the feel of the game when he was teamed with big Bob Beckett. Determination and industry are still his leading assets but he has been getting more shots and using his size (207 pounds) more as Beckett provides an example for him.</p><p>Terry Gray, right wing&mdash;Gray is definitely a scorer whose goals total probably would be higher had he been playing with a feeder-type center. He fears no one and with the proper company he seems a cinch to become a leading scorer for the Bruins.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01330/1765096-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="526" height="1132"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Westfall</b></figcaption></div><p>Wayne Connelly, right wing&mdash;Little Connelly had been trying to learn to finish off play in the world&rsquo;s fastest league, so his road has been a hard one. In other respects than scoring he has been adequate. Whether or not his scoring ability will increase this year remains to be seen.</p><p>Pat Stapleton, defense&mdash;Stapleton looked snappy as a left defenseman early, less impressive at right defense after the departure of Bob Armstrong. He must handle himself more authoritatively for the rest of the year to solidify his status.</p><p>Ted Green, defense&mdash;Green did not do much playing during the first half, which he began with a broken hand. Scheduled to be the Bruins&rsquo; &ldquo;policeman&rsquo;&rsquo; and successor to Ferny Flaman, his assumption of that role is still in the future.</p><p>Ed Westfall, defense&mdash;Westfall was a surprise member of the team to start with. He could be stronger physically, but there&rsquo;s nothing he can do about it right now. His experience plus some body-building should make him a business-like defenseman in the near-future, however.</p><p>Murray Oliver, center&mdash;Oliver is hardly a rookie, but he&rsquo;s still establishing himself here. He&rsquo;s fast and flashy, but &bull; so far he hasn&rsquo;t parlayed his good shot into goals and he hasn&rsquo;t showed a change of pace.</p><p>Don Head, goalkeeper&mdash;Head had played some spectacular games and others which have been less than spectacular, but he has had the game&rsquo;s toughest job, a rookie tending goal for an inexperienced team. Three months from now hockey experts will have a better line on the colorful Head, although some experts have already committed themselves.</p><p>Bob Beckett, left wing&mdash;Beckett isn&rsquo;t a rookie, either, but this is the first time he has played regularly for the Bruins. He has been effective if not flashy, and if he hasn&rsquo;t won a lot of games he hasn&rsquo;t hurt his team with bad plays, either. In short, Beckett looks as he has always looked, like a good man to have around.</p><p>Time is against the Bruins and their prospect of catchine Chicago, Detroit and New York, the teams closest them in the National League standing. But they still have a chance of catching up.</p><p>Had Chicago and the others been winning regularly, the Bruins would have no chance. But as long as one or more of the others continues to flounder, the young (average age 24) Bruins will continue to have a positional incentive.</p><p>And if they are better during the second half of the schedule, as Patrick predicted they would be, they can&rsquo;t be counted out.</p><h2><b>They&rsquo;ll Get Better In The 2nd Half</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02314/1765089-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="572" height="554"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Cliff Pennington</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03287/1765082-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="532" height="512"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wayne Connelly</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04225/1765075-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="572" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Head</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05168/1765068-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="1130" height="1683"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Gray</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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A Summary Of The Bruins At Halfway Mark

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06114/1765151-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="290" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Riley</b></figcaption></div><p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.&mdash;</p><p>Television audiences from coast to coast in this country and Canada will have rink side seats for the future games of the World Amateur Hockey Championship here.</p><p>The tournament is being played from March 8 to March 18, with 18 nations competing.</p><p>The feature games will be televised in the United States over the Columbia Broadcasting System network and in Canada by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.</p><p>Televised games in which the United States team will play will be those with Czechoslovakia on March 11 and Russia on March 18.</p><p>Canada will play televised games with Russia on March 10 and Czechoslovakia on March 18.</p><p>And the third television appearance for both Canada and the United States will be the game in which they play each other on March 17. Canada is the defending champion.</p><p>Canada will be represented here by the Galt (Ont.) Terriers, the United States by a team of players selected by Jack Riley, coach of the United States Military Academy who directed a similar team to the 1960 Olympic championship at Squaw Valley, California, and coached by Connie Pleban of Duluth, Minn.</p><p>The tournament will be played in three series in a general grouping on the basis of established ability. Teams seeded in Series &lsquo;A&rsquo; are Canada, Russia, United States, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, East Germany and Finland. West Germany and Norway will play an elimination game, the winner rounding out Series &lsquo;A&rsquo;, the loser playing in Series &lsquo;B&rsquo;.</p><p>Series &lsquo;B&rsquo; teams besides the West Germany-Norway loser will be Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria and the winners of games between France and Holland and Rumania and Denmark.</p><p>Series &lsquo;C&rsquo; will consist of Japan, Australia and the losers of the France-Holland and Rumania-Denmark games.</p><p>The world tournament is being underwritten for $500,000 by Thayer Tutt, owner of the Broadmoor Hotel here, where most of the games will be played in an enlarged arena. Some of the preliminary games will be played in Denver University&rsquo;s arena in Denver.</p><p>Besides carrying world amateur championship status, the tournament will also serve as a European championship, the leading team from Europe winning that distinction.</p><p>Candidates for the United States team began training under Riley at West Point, New York, before Christmas. All tournament teams will play pre-tournament games, both in this country and Canada.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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TV Network Setting Up Plans To Carry World Tournament Action

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Canadian-style hockey today was labelled a &ldquo;discordant symphony of holding and grabbing&rdquo; by a leading American coach. He advised the NHL to improve itself by adopting U. S. College rules.</p><p>The surprise criticism was made by Len Ceglarski, 35-year-old coach of the Clarkson College sextet, winners of the New York Holiday Tournament and the powerhouse of the East.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t like anything about Canadian pro hockey or the NHL-style game,&rdquo; said Ceglarski in an exclusive HOCKEY NEWS interview. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no real stickhandling and too much holding and grabbing.&rdquo;</p><p>The former American Olympian blamed Canadian rules for &ldquo;congesting the ice.&rdquo; He said U. S. college rules not only open up the game but provide an abundance of hip checks, passing and fancy stickhandling.</p><p>&ldquo;There are two rules that make the difference,&rdquo; Ceglarski explained. &ldquo;In our game a team can pass from its own zone up to the red line.</p><p>&ldquo;Our way is better because it makes for a longer range of passes and more end to end play. Also less piling into the corners.&rdquo;</p><p>The other significant rule difference involves bodychecking. American college rules allow bodychecking by a defending team ONLY in its defensive half of. the ice. The NHL allows unlimited bodychecking.</p><p>&ldquo;That means,&rdquo; argued Celgarski, &ldquo;the NHL player gets rid of the puck fast because he&rsquo;s always afraid of getting creamed. If they adopted our rule you&rsquo;d see more stickhandling, more plays, more skating and shooting.&rdquo;</p><p>A graduate of Boston College, Celgarski challenged the NHL and other pro leagues to try the American brand and compare. He said he already had proof it would be more appealing.</p><p>&ldquo;We have 19 Canadian boys on our squad,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;When they come here they have the idea they&rsquo;ll give everybody a high stick and an elbow, like it&rsquo;s done in the pros. But after we convert them to our style they love it. Much more than the Canadian way.&rdquo;</p><p>Ceglarski said the adoption of American rules would benefit the NHL in the long run because it would enable many collegians to jump to pro hockey after graduation, the same as U. S. collegians move to pro football.</p><p>&ldquo;Today this is a rarity because our kids aren&rsquo;t able to adjust to the holding and grabbing. It would take them three to four years to change their style. By that time it would be too late.&rdquo;</p><p>Judging by New York&rsquo;s response to its first taste of college hockey, Celgarski may have a point. Despite limited publicity and many preChristmas diversions, the two-day tournament drew more than 14.000 fans. Contenders were Clarkson, St. Lawrence, Boston College and Boston U.</p><p>The finale, a 6-5 Clarkson win over St. Lawrence in sudden death overtime, was as throbbing a contest as any seen in Madison Square Garden all year. What&rsquo;s more it featured thumping bodychecks&mdash;many of the old Bill Barilko style&mdash;clever goaltending and continuous rushing.</p><p>At one point in the finale, play continued uninterrupted for six minutes without a whistle. Many of the Chicago Black Hawks who saw the game left it distinctly impressed.</p><p>But Chi coach Rudy Pilous, a side arena observer, didn&rsquo;t think the American rules would go good in the NHL.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s like a girls game,&rdquo; said Pilous. &ldquo;Besides, our defensemen are having enough trouble with Canadian rules.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rah Rah Coach Says NHL Rules Poor

<h2><b>From Windy City To Manhattan To Motor City</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01329/1765196-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="955" height="917"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02268/1765189-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="972" height="1345"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03178/1765182-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="957" height="1348"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>One of the real veterans in terms of years in the NHL Bill Gadsby has been rumored on his way to a coaching career in the minors many times. At 34 Gadsby is now playing for his third NHL club. He started out with the Chicago Black Hawks, left, moved to the New York Rangers, centre and then was traded to the Detroit Red Wings during the off-season. At 34 Bill says he has a few more years left in him. &ldquo;You never want to see the end come,&rdquo; he says.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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‘Gads’ Looks Back; Rougher Then, Faster Now

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>At 34, Bill Gadsby hardly looks like an elder statesman. But no active player has been in the National Hockey League any longer than Bill and only one&mdash;Gordie Howe&mdash;has equalled Gadsby&rsquo;s years of service.</p><p>And, like Howe, Bill wants to stay around for a while longer.</p><p>&ldquo;You never want to see the end come,&rdquo; said Gadsby, now playing for his third National Hockey League employer, the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what it is about an athlete. You still feel that you have something left.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good life and the hours are terrific.&rdquo;</p><p>Bill has spent a lot of hours on the ice&mdash;he played 925 regular season games going into the current schedule. If he makes all 70 games he will rank third in NHL history trailing only Howe and Ted Lindsay.</p><p>Howe already is past 1,000 and Lindsay played 999 games before retiring.</p><p>Gadsby&rsquo;s string started with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1946.</p><p>&ldquo;My defense partner was Johnny Mariucci,&rdquo; Gadsby said. &ldquo;Say, that is going pretty far back.</p><p>&ldquo;Mariucci was a real tough guy. I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ve seen anyone as tough except maybe Jack Stewart.</p><p>&ldquo;One night they got into a fight. It was quite a battle and I&rsquo;d say it wound up in a tie.</p><p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t see much of that anymore and I don&rsquo;t think hockey has been hurt by the lack of it.</p><p>&ldquo;But I do think the referees have taken something out of the game in the last five years or so. Checks that I&rsquo;ve thought were good, clean, solid checks get penalties now.</p><p>&ldquo;Marcel Pronovost threw a couple of dandies this year but they&rsquo;d call tripping or kneeing or something like that. It&rsquo;s going to make you think about it a little.&rdquo;</p><p>Speed is the other change that has taken place in Gadsby&rsquo;s 16 seasons in the NHL.</p><p>&ldquo;The game is much faster with better skaters now. Henri Richard, Bobby Hull, Claude Provost&mdash;so many that really go. Andy Bathgate flies when he gets up a head of steam.</p><p>&ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t anything that &lsquo;can be taught. A boy is born a natural skater and improves himself on the way up.&rdquo;</p><p>But playing defense, Bill says, is much the same in that the partners &ldquo;have to be like twin brothers.</p><p>&ldquo;That means a lot. You know what each other is going to do.</p><p>&ldquo;When I made the All-Star team when I was with the Rangers, Jack Evans was my partner. I knew everything that Jack was going to do when he got the puck and he knew what I was going to do. It takes time.&rdquo;</p><p>Gadsby&rsquo;s assignment with the Wings is to work with Howie Young, the colorful but erratic basher of the blue line.</p><p>That was the Wings&rsquo; announced intention when they obtained Gadsby from the Rangers last June for minor leaguer Les Hunt and cash.</p><p>Wing general manager Jack Adams and coach Sid Abel figured they had a diamond in the rough in Young but he needed plenty of polishing.</p><p>&ldquo;Howie has a lot to learn,&rdquo; says Gadsby. &ldquo;But he has a lot of ability.&rdquo;</p><p>The coaching process goes on constantly&mdash;on the ice and on the bench between shifts. Sometimes Young looks like he has the makings of an All-Star and other times he can&rsquo;t get untracked.</p><p>An example of that was in the Wings&rsquo; 6-4 Christmas night loss to New York where Gadsby was left to handle two attackers while Young was trapped up ice.</p><p>Gadsby himself had an exceptionally early major league start for a defenseman. After playing junior hockey for the Black Hawks in Edmonton, he was promoted to Kansas City of the old United States Hockey League when he was only 19.</p><p>Bill was with Kansas City for only a dozen games&mdash;scoring two goals and assisting on three others&mdash;before he got the call to Chicago.</p><p>Gadsby spent eight seasons and part of another with the Black Hawks.</p><p>The Hawks were down when Gadsby was with them and that&rsquo;s been the story of his career as far as the playoffs are concerned.</p><p>&ldquo;We made it once when Sid (Abel) was coaching,&rdquo; Gadsby said. &ldquo;Almost made it to the finals too but we lost to the Canadiens in seven games and then Montreal went on to win the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;</p><p>And in seven terms with the Rangers, Gadsby got into only three playoffs. The Rangers soared to second place in 1957-58 and were dumped in six games by Boston.</p><p>Bill might have made the finals had that trade with Detroit gone through two years ago. Gadsby was Detroit &ldquo;property&rdquo; along with Eddie Shack for 10 hours.</p><p>He went to bed in a Detroit hotel as a Red Wing but became a Ranger again at breakfast when Red Kelly and Billy McNeill balked at the swap.</p><p>The Rangers finished sixth that season and were fifth last year when the Wings went to the finals. Now the Rangers look like they&rsquo;ll be in the playoffs and the Red Wings are a borderline case.</p><p>But Gadsby keeps playing and hoping.</p><p>&ldquo;That gives me something to look forward to and a reason to keep playing,&rdquo; says Gadsby who can&rsquo;t be classified as a pessimist.</p><p>Bill has had his share of honors in the NHL but you can&rsquo;t help but think there would have been more had he been playing for a club higher in the standings.</p><p>Gadsby ranks as the ninth top scorer among active players with 455 points going into this season.</p><p>Twice he was named to the All-Star second team defense while with Chicago and then with the Rangers, Gadsby was elected to the first All-Star team twice and the second unit once.</p><p>When he led the Rangers into the playoffs in 1955-56&mdash;the first time in for New York in six years&mdash;Gadsby was voted the Blues&rsquo; most valuable player.</p><p>He set a Ranger scoring record for defensemen in scoring with nine goals and 42 assists for 51 points.</p><p>Gadsby also owns the NHL record for assists by a defenseman in one season&mdash;46 in 1958-59.</p><p>Bill is going at a good clip for the Wings with four goals and-a dozen assists in the first 32 games. And this although he doesn&rsquo;t play the power play as he did with New York for a number of years.</p><p>Gadsby&rsquo;s achievements haven&rsquo;t all been on the ice. There was the players&rsquo; union that didn&rsquo;t quite materialize but has had some meaning for NHL players.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think the players&rsquo; association hurt&mdash;good came out of it. Now we have a players-owners council meeting every June and can talk over various items.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s resulted in an increase in playoff money and money for the regular league standings for the first four clubs.</p><p>&ldquo;I think the players are closer to the owners now than hockey players have been for the last 40 years or more.&rdquo;</p><p>When Gadsby&rsquo;s ice time is up, he wants to try coaching, preferably at home in Edmonton. When the Wings obtained Bill, there was talk that Gadsby would become player-coach of the Flyers in the near-future.</p><p>Bill would like a few more years in the NHL before turning to coaching, however.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think much about coaching until the last year or year and a half. I&rsquo;d like to do it around home&mdash;I&rsquo;ve been living in Edmonton the last 10 years and my wife is an Edmonton girl.&rdquo;</p><p>But first there&rsquo;s that business about never having played in the Stanley Cup finals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Mariucci, Stewart Rated Tops As Real Tough Guys

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;In 16 seasons, Bill Gadsby has seen a flock of great hockey players and he picks present teammate Gordie Howe as the best.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s tremendous,&rdquo; enthused Gadsby. &ldquo;He does more things with with a puck than anyone I&rsquo;ve ever seen.</p><p>&ldquo;Rocket Richard was a great goal-scorer and you can&rsquo;t take much away from him. But Gordie does more things.</p><p>&ldquo;He shows you the puck and takes it away before you can move. He&rsquo;s a play-maker, a back-checker and a scorer&mdash;he&rsquo;s the complete hockey player.</p><p>&ldquo;The guy is just fabulous. I only wish it hadn&rsquo;t taken me so long to get on his team.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Howe Gets Top Billing As Top Player In Bill’s Book

<p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT, Mich.&mdash;There&rsquo;s one piece of business that Bill Gadsby won&rsquo;t be able to tend to until he hangs up his skates&mdash;getting his nose fixed.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been broken seven times,&rdquo; Gadsby said, &ldquo;and now I can only breathe through one nostril. I&rsquo;m going to get it straightened out after I finish playing.&rdquo;</p><p>Gadsby has been sidelined for prolonged stretches only three times in 16 seasons&mdash;the longest for 45 games in 1950-51 when he was with Chicago.</p><p>Of a possible 1,008 games, Bill has missed only 83 going into the current season. A broken leg and shoulder separation were the chief injuries.</p><p>As a defenseman, he&rsquo;s been nicked for stitches by many pucks and sticks. &ldquo;But you don&rsquo;t lose time with cuts,&rdquo; Gadsby said.</p><p>Gadsby keeps in shape in the off-season at a health club in Edmonton.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Nose Job Coming When He Finishes

<div class="byline">By Ken mc Kenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02361/1765337-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="372" height="396"></div><p>&bull; DOUG HARVEY seems to have the Rangers off and winging again since his celebrated night out with the boys&hellip;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a challenge to Ingarfield,&rdquo; Harvey said in switching the high-scoring center to the third line&hellip;And Andy Bathgate didn&rsquo;t mind his move from right wing to the centre spot&hellip;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mind shifting to centre,&rdquo; Bathgate said. &ldquo;For me, a change is as good as a rest.&rdquo;&hellip;For years the New Yorkers have been one of the last penalized teams in the National Hockey League&hellip;Not this season, however, as the Broadway Blues have been running close to Canadiens all along as the most penalized team in the loop&hellip;Detroit Red Wings have been playing Howie Young at right wing on occasions of late and the robust defenseman doesn&rsquo;t look out of place, either&hellip;Young should be an NHL star before long&hellip;Only three of the 102 players in the NHL were born outside of Canada&hellip;They are Jack Evans and Stan Mikita of Chicago and Charlie Burns of Boston&hellip;Evans was born at Garnant, South Wales and Mikita at Sokolce, Czechoslovakia, while Burns was born at Detroit, which makes him the sole United States-born player in the NHL today&hellip;Larry Hillman has been scrimmaging with the Leafs and should be ready for action sometime in January&hellip;Toronto&rsquo;s Frank Mahovlich now weights in at 210 pounds&hellip;When Murray Oliver scored the &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; for Boston against Toronto the other night it marked the 10th &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; recorded in the NHL this season&hellip;Other players to score three goals in one game were Red Kelly, Billy Harris and George Armstrong of Toronto. Vic Stasiuk and Norm Ullman of Detroit, Bobby Hull and Ab McDonald of Chicago, Claude Provost of Montreal and Earl Ingarfield of New York&hellip;Most of the Maple Leaf players think Andy Bathgate will win the NHL scoring title&hellip;providing of course one of their own team members doesn&rsquo;t capture the honors.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03285/1765330-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="282" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Murray Oliver</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; FLEMING MACKELL</b> and Rocket Richard are refereeing in the same pay-as-you-play senior league in Montreal. It is a league formed along the lines of Montreal&rsquo;s famed Depression League&hellip;Mackell is now an insurance salesman in his home town&hellip;Knoxville Knights, newest entry in the Eastern Hockey League, are running second to Greensboro attendance-wise&hellip;The sports fans in Tennessee are starting to warm up to their hockey team and Ray Miron, general manager of the Knights, believes hockey has a very bright future in the South&hellip;Miron is a capable experienced hockey executive and if anyone can make the game a success in the sunny climes, he&rsquo;s the man&hellip;36 new box seats are being installed at Maple Leaf Gardens, raising the hockey capacity to 15,073&hellip;Anyone interested in obtaining a good sports announcer should contact Ed Robinson of Regina&hellip;Plans are in the offing for a Hockey Hall of Fame at St. Paul, Minnesota, for outstanding players in that area over the years&hellip;When Red Kelly scored his 200th NHL goal against Chicago recently, he became the 6th player in the League today to score 200 or more goals&hellip;The others are Gordie Howe, Bernie Geoffrion, Jean Beliveau, Dickie Moore and Bathgate&hellip;Canucks&rsquo; Claude Provost went 12 straight games with one or more points per game. They were the first 12 games of this season and Claude scored 13 goals and had 10 assists for 23 points during the streak, which is almost two points a game. No other player has matched this scoring streak this season&hellip;Five graduates of the Guelph Biltmores, 1952 Memorial Cup champions are still performing in the NHL&hellip;They are Andy Bathgate, Dean Prentice and Harry Howell of New York; Lou Fontinato of Montreal and Ron Murphy of Chicago&hellip;All five starred with the Rangers for a number of years as the Rangers sponsored the Biltmores&hellip;Frank Boucher was General Manager of the Rangers at the time and Alf Pike was the Guelph coach&hellip;Lloyd Turner, manager of the Calgary Stampeders of the Western Hockey League, informs me that the Stamps are very happy with their relations with the Chicago Black Hawks. This is contrary to stories which have been circulating throughout the WHL of late&hellip;Turner says the Hawks have cooperated 100 percent with the Stampeders and he hopes the relationship will continue for many years to come&hellip;Turner, incidentally, is one of North America&rsquo;s pioneer arena managers and hockey promoters.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04230/1765323-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="268" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05207/1765368-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="293" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Irv Spencer</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Every once in a while funny things happen in staid old Rangerville (even with Eddie Shack gone).</p><p>Like the night Irv Spencer, a defenseman, became <i>a</i> centre and Johnny Wilson, an invalid, turned healthy. And they scored a goal and became an instantaneous Garden hit.</p><p>For most of the season boyish Spencer has been sentry in charge of the Ranger bench. It has been his job to sit on the wooden slat while all his teammates play. Possibly the management doesn&rsquo;t want anybody to steal the bench while the Blueshirts are on the ice.</p><p>&ldquo;With me sitting on it,&rdquo; says 185 pound Irv, &ldquo;how could anybody run off with the bench?&rdquo;</p><p>But a couple of weeks ago kindly coach Doug Harvey became heartbroken over Spencer&rsquo;s penance and ordered him on the pond. Irv nearly fainted.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t want him to get stale,&rdquo; Harvey explained, &ldquo;yet I prefer using four regular defensemen. The next best thing was to put Irv up front.&rdquo;</p><p>Since Red Kelly converted from defense to centre at an absurdly advanced age, Harvey saw no reason why a young rag gamuffin like Spencer couldn&rsquo;t do it at 24 years.</p><p>Matter of fact, Spencer was so happy to get on the ice he probably would have put on the goalie pads if asked. He even denied that playing centre would cramp his style, presuming, of course, that a chronic bench-sitter has a style.</p><p>&ldquo;I never played center before,&rdquo; Irv admitted. &ldquo;But I can skate good. I&rsquo;m not in top shape so I guess this is the best way to get in condition.&rdquo;</p><p>When Harvey ordered Spencer to center Wilson and Vic Hadfield against the Detroit Red Wings Dec. 20 a strange thing happened. As soon as the puck dropped the ice seemed to tilt at a 45 degree angle toward the Detroit goal.</p><p>Led by Spencer&rsquo;s overbearing rushes, the Rangers tumbled&mdash;like down a hill&mdash;into Detroit territory, followed, naturally, by the Wings. Since the ice was tilted, it was only natural that Irv&rsquo;s line (Wilson put it in) finally score. Which they did.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t the winning goal but it helped stash away a 6-2 victory in one of those &ldquo;crooshial&rdquo; games in which the Rangers expect to indulge from now until mid-March. Wilson, incidentally, didn&rsquo;t know he&rsquo;d be fit to play until game time.</p><p>Harvey was so delighted over Spencer&rsquo;s effort he promised to throw him in at centre again, mostly to prepare him for future defense work, in the event a regular gets hurt.</p><p>&ldquo;Something&rsquo;s going to happen to someone pretty soon,&rdquo; Harvey said pessimistically. &ldquo;So it&rsquo;s better to keep Spencer in shape.&rdquo;</p><p>The coach is blatantly overlooking the possibility that Irv may become an All-Star centre like Kelly. A posibility, incidentally, which Spencer himself is overlooking.</p><p>&ldquo;Who knows,&rdquo; a friend suggested to Spencer after Irv&rsquo;s premiere, &ldquo;you may make a Frank Mahovlich out of Wilson.&rdquo;</p><p>Irv laughed. &ldquo;Better,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;If Wilson makes a Red Kelly out of me.&rdquo;</p><p><b>RANGERABILIA:</b> Eastern College Athletic Conference says it will stage another Christmas Hockey Tournament at the Garden next Winter&hellip;Crowd of 8,500 for the college final was more than the pro basketball Knicks drew the same week&hellip;Murray Murdoch, Ranger iron man and now Yale coach, was in town for the tournament&hellip;For balance purposes and because of Jean Ratelle&rsquo;s interminable slump, Earl Ingarfield was switched from the first to the third line. New units: Bathgate at center with Dean Prentice and Pat Hannigan; Ingarfield with Guy Gendron and Ken Schinkel&hellip;Ingarfield scored a goal on his first turn on the 3rd line.</p><p>Return of Wilson figures to help, despite John&rsquo;s inveterate modesty&hellip;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a big goal scorer,&rdquo; said Wilson, who only scored twice in his first 1961-62 game with the Blues after convalescing from a broken collar bone&hellip;Lou Fontinato sent a 44-cent special air mail Christmas card to the Ranger office. &ldquo;Knowing Louie,&rdquo; a Blue official cracked, &ldquo;he must have used the Canadiens&rsquo; stamp machine.&rdquo;&hellip;For the first time in memory a puck flew up to the mezzanine press box during the college tourney.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Harvey Tosses Spencer In—But As Centre

<p><b>IN THE TORONTO STAR</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06169/1765406-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="326" height="458"></div><h2><b><i>The Compacts Are Popular on Ice, Too</i></b></h2><p>This is the age of the compact on wheels&mdash;on skates, too. How else could a couple of overstuffed cruiser-weights like Pierre Pilote and Pat Stapleton mingle with the heavies as rearguards in hockey&rsquo;s toughest league? Pilote, you may say, made it easier for Stapleton. Monsier Pierre proved you don&rsquo;t have to be as big as Moose Vasko or Bill Gadsby to derail a forward who&rsquo;s travelling 35 miles per hour.</p><p>Last season, Pilote came pretty close to being the best defenceman on the NHL ponds. Even his most demanding critics couldn&rsquo;t make him any worse than the second all-star team. He was one of the solid reasons why Chicago Black Hawks could come out of third slot and win the Stanley Cup. Pierre and Pat both fattened on the same Chicago farm&mdash;the St. Catharines junior club. So, size wouldn&rsquo;t be held against Stapleton when his turn came. Pat claims to be five-feet-eight&mdash;but will admit that&rsquo;s only approximate if he&rsquo;s threatened with a lie detector test.</p><p>If Pilote opened the gate for Stapleton, you might expect they&rsquo;d be playing for the same team. Chicago owned them, body and body-check. Yet, the Hawks, who had such spectacular success with little man Pilote, never even invited Stapleton to their training camp. That&rsquo;s one of the things he never has been able to understand.</p><p>&ldquo;I was disappointed,&rdquo; he confessed, the other day, when the Boston Bruins came in to ruin Young Canada night by whacking the Leafs. &ldquo;After all, I was coming off a Memorial Cup club,&rdquo; he reminded. &ldquo;I thought the Black Hawks at least would give me a look. It was a bit of a shock when they assigned me to the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; camp.&rdquo;</p><p>From there, he was shipped to the Soo in the Eastern Pro League. The Chicago club finally lost him to the Bruins in the draft. This was a blatant sacrifice of youth for experience. Hawks grabbed Bronco Horvath off Boston&rsquo;s unprotected list. Horvath had battled Bobby Hull right to the wire for the scoring title, a year earlier. To get him, the Hawks had to give something. They left Stapleton unprotected. Bruins claimed him, despite his complete lack of big league background.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07143/1765399-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="554" height="802"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pat Stapleton</b></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>Tradition Is His Toughest Opponent</i></b></h2><p>Stapleton looks more like a tow-headed choir boy than a basher in a business that has produced Eddie Shore, Taffy Abel, Ching Johnson, and other names that still awe members of the trade. He doesn&rsquo;t play like a choir boy. There seems to be some unwritten law against awarding the Calder Trophy to a defence player. No blueliner ever has won it. That&rsquo;s the strongest argument anyone has against Stapleton as rookie of the year.</p><p>Even Boston Coach Phil Watson, who always has lived by the rule that if you spare the whip you will spoil the slave, erupts like a press agent when he praises Pat. The little freshman keeps making moves that Phil can&rsquo;t believe.</p><p>&ldquo;Other night against Detroit,&rdquo; Phil recounts, &ldquo;the score is 1-0 in our favor. We run into two penalties. First it&rsquo;s (Doug) Mohns, then (Leo) Boivin in the penalty box. That means our two best defencemen are lost. I send out Stapleton, along with Topper (Jerry Toppazzini) and Charlie Burns. In almost three minutes, the Red Wings&mdash;with Howe, Litzenberger, Delvecchio, and the rest of them trying to knock us off&mdash;don&rsquo;t get a decent shot on the net. That&rsquo;s the turning point in the game.&rdquo;</p><p>There&rsquo;s a legend that the established big leaguers don&rsquo;t like to see a runt carve out a career on defence. There&rsquo;s even a suspicion that any rookie, big or small, is tested to determine whether he will fight or retreat. If he backs up, they&rsquo;ll run him out of the league.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing to support these suppositions, as far as I&rsquo;m concerned,&rdquo; Stapleton claims. &ldquo;From what I have seen, most of these fellows are here to play hockey. They play it hard but that&rsquo;s what I expect.&rdquo;</p><p>Stapleton knows the occupational hazards of his profession. He was playing for his home town, Sarnia, against Dixie, in junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; hockey, when one of the Dixiecrats checked him in a corner and broke his arm. During his junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; apprenticeship at St. Kits, a torn tendon in his ankle kept him out four weeks.</p><p>If Pat had a vote in the rookie poll, he probably would cast it for teammate Don Head, who has the thankless task of playing goal for the Bruins. Head has seven rookies working in front of him at various stages of a game.</p><p>&ldquo;If we make a mistake, sometimes we can cover up,&rdquo; Stapleton explains. &ldquo;When Don makes a mistake, everybody knows he goofed.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-06

MILT DUNNELL speaking on SPORT

<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01350/1765444-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Boom Boom Geoffrion</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>If 92 points were enough to bring the Canadiens their fourth straight National Hockey League championship last season, Coach Toe Blake doesn&rsquo;t see why the same record shouldn&rsquo;t stand up for the title again this year.</p><p>And since the Habs had half that points total as the first part of the schedule neared its close last week, the usually cautious Canadiens&rsquo; coach felt they should do as well, if not better, through January, February and March contests.</p><p>Toe pointed out that, despite several injuries to key players, his club had held the League lead through the first half. It seemed only reasonbable to assume that with a fairly healthy team through the late months of the schedule, the Habs would reach or surpass the 92-points mark.</p><p>After 34 games, the Montrealers had chalked up 19 victories and eight ties for 46 points&mdash;prior to their first half windup game against Chicago.</p><p>Without sounding over-optimistic, Blake didn&rsquo;t seem worried about the second-placed Toronto Leafs who gave the Habs such a run for the League flag last season.</p><p>&ldquo;Who contributed the most to the Leafs&rsquo; success last year?&rdquo; asked Blake. &ldquo;Johnny Bower, Allan Stanley, Red Kelly and Bert Olmstead,&rdquo; he answered his own question.&rdquo; And everytime one of them was injured or in a slump, Toronto was in trouble. Since the four veterans are a year older how can the Leafs expect to do as well as last season?</p><p>&ldquo;Punch Imlaeh said some time ago that Jacques Plante&rsquo;s goaltending was the big factor in our success,&rdquo; Blake continued. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be the first to admit that. But he must know that without Bower, or without even one of the four players I&rsquo;ve mentioned, the Leafs are on the spot.&rdquo;</p><p>Although Bernard Geoffrion and Henri Richard are the latest of his stars sidelined by injuries, Blake figures that Canadiens are ready to start a hot second-half offensive. Big Jean Beliveau is starting to hit top condition and the coach is hoping that Dickie Moore will soon be going at top speed again. Moore has been hampered by a knee injury since the start of training camp.</p><p>&ldquo;With all of the fellows going at top speed,&rdquo; says Blake, &ldquo;we should be strong enough to stay ahead of the rest of the League through the second half of the schedule. And if our big guns can&rsquo;t do it, the smaller guns will probably carry the load the way they have through most of the schedule.&rdquo;</p><p>Success of the Canadiens so far has been due in no small measure to the way the players have responded to adjustments, made necessary through injuries, on both offense and defense. Time and again, Blake has had to shuffle his lines or his defence pairs and in each case his moves have paid off.</p><p>Just when things looked dark for the Habs last week, with Henri Richard out with a groin injury and Bernie Geoffrion sidelined with a gimpy knee, Blake came up with line changes that resulted in high-scoring wins over Boston and Detroit.</p><p>Blake shifted Jean Beliveau into centre between Marcel Bonin and Bobby Rousseau; Phil Goyette pivoting Claude Provost and Don Marshall; Ralph Backstrom centering Bill Hicke and Gilles Tremblay.</p><p>In a 6-1 romp over the Red Wings, Beliveau and Rousseau both scored twice with Bonin picking up two assists. The Backstrom-Hicke-Tremblay unit had a hand in three tallies as the Habs beat Boston 5-2.</p><p><b>NOTES:</b> Jean Guy Talbot; Canadiens&rsquo; steadiest defenceman through the first half was accused of playing Santa Claus at Boston on Christmas night.</p><p>It seems that on the Habs&rsquo; first goal, Talbot was credited with the tally. However, he advised the official scorer that Claude Provost really deserved it after deflecting the puck into the net.</p><p>Later in the game, Talbot told the scorer that the third goal didn&rsquo;t belong to him but to Ralph Backstrom when the puck hit the centre on the arm and bounced past Boston goalie Don Head.</p><p>That&rsquo;s when the scorer accused Talbot of playing &ldquo;Pere Noel&rdquo;. Claude Provost scored seven of his first 20 goals against Boston&hellip;Talbot, who has become a dangerous man on the power-play point had no less than seven shots on goal at Boston&hellip;For the second time this season, Jean-Claude Tremblay caught Don Head napping on one of his &ldquo;blooper&rdquo; shots&mdash;a 70-footer.</p><h2>Has Bad Knee</h2><h2>Hits Form</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02318/1765437-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="532" height="978"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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If Winner Takes All With 92 Then Canucks In Line

<p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;There are few more dangerous players around the net in the NHL than Camille Henry of the New York Rangers. He has a knack of picking up the garbage like no other player in the League&rsquo;s history. But Cammy also has a knack of knocking one in while playing on the Rangers&rsquo; powerplay or breaking away from centre ice and outguessing the opposing goaler. In short few players can pot the puck with the same authority or regularity as the little Ranger centre.</p><p>Now in his eighth season with the Blues Henry had scored 155 goals in the NHL up until last week. Before he quits he&rsquo;ll become a member of the slick 200 goal club, for sure.</p><p>A neat playmaker, with one of the sweetest shifts in the League, Henry, despite his 151 pounds has taken the rough going in the NHL for many years and never cries. He performs with the same greatness game in and game out. Few players are more consistant, few more dangerous. He&rsquo;s surely Your Kind of Player.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04185/1765506-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="276" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Camille Henry</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Your Kind Of Player

<p><b>TASTE THAT FLAVOR CRISP & CLEAR</b></p><p><b>LABATT&rsquo;S PILSENER</b></p><p><b>IS YOUR KIND OF BEER</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05125/1765537-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="906" height="790"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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YOUR KIND OF BEER

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03250/1765475-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Coach Toe Blake doesn&rsquo;t think Leafs will catch his club</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>In these days of firewagon hockey a scoreless draw usually is listed under the heading of turkeys.</p><p>Such was not the case as Chicago Black Hawks and Maple Leafs battled to a scoreless stalmate in a rowdy, robust National Hockey League struggle before 13,644 fans at Maple Leafs Gardens on Wednesday, December 28th.</p><p>It was scoreless because Toronto&rsquo;s Johnny Bower and Chicago&rsquo;s Glenn Hall turned in tremendous goaltending efforts. They &lsquo;topped the snipers at every turn, each blocking 30 shots.</p><p>The result dropped Leafs five points behind the leading Montreal Canadiens, who rolled over Rangers, 3-0, in New York, in the National Hockey League race.</p><p>It was the first scoreless NHL fixture since Boston and Chicago did the same in a game Dec. 28, 1957.</p><p>Toronto&rsquo;s last scoreless effort came again Canadiens at the Gardens Dec. 4, 1957.</p><p>Hawk players agreed Hall&rsquo;s save on Dave Keon at 18.10 of the final period was the big play of the game.</p><p>Keon, breaking in clear, tried to cut across Hall. Glenn went with him all the way and Dave then failed to whip a backhander through Glenn&rsquo;s legs.</p><p>&ldquo;I figured he was going to try and thread the puck through my legs when his deke failed,&rdquo; said Hall. &ldquo;I threw my legs straight across and took it on the side of the pads.&rdquo;</p><p>Keon agreed with the Hawk goalkeeper&rsquo;s version.</p><p>The game revived memories of the great goaltending duels indulged in by Turk Broda and Bill Durnan, in hectic Leaf-Canadien battles of yesteryear.</p><p>Both Bower and Hall had narrow squeaks. Bobby Hull beat Bower with a thunderbolt that crashed into the far goalpost and caromed out. Bob Nevin had Hall beaten on a perfect setup from Frank Mahovlich only to miss the open side of the net by a foot.</p><p>In the first period. Bower stopped Pierre Pilote, Stan Mikita, Ab McDonald and Ken Wharran with fine saves as Hawks outshot Leafs 10-4. Hall made a good stop on Carl Brewer and was fortunate on a try by Mahovlich.</p><p>In the second period, Hall came up with clutch grabs on Tim Horton and Red Kelly and Hull hit the post at the other end. Hawks outshot Leafs 12-10 in that session.</p><p>Leafs had a margin in the third, with Hall robbing Keon after making top saves on Brewer, Bobby Baun, Kelly and the Big M. Bower beat Pilote and Wayne Hillman at the other end. Hillman&rsquo;s blooper glanced off Johnny&rsquo;s glove, hit the post and skidded away.</p><p>Hawks appeared content with a tie in the final 20 minutes, seldom gambling and checking manto-man from end to end.</p><p>Hawk coach Rudy Pilous said: &ldquo;That was a helluva hockey game. It would have been a shame had either team scored in the last five minutes. Those goalkeepers were magnificent, earned their shutouts.&rdquo;</p><p>Leaf coach Punch Imlaeh concurred, then muttered: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how those guys (Bower and Hall) each gave up seven goals last Saturday. They must be reading each other&rsquo;s mail.&rdquo;</p><h2>He&rsquo;s Not Afraid<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Toronto Zeros First In Loop In 4 Seasons

<div class="byline">By FRED CEDERBERG (In The Toronto Telegram)</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The kid with St. Michael&rsquo;s Buzzers had a mop of hot red hair.</p><p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; said then Toronto coach Hap Day after a long look, &ldquo;he can&rsquo;t skate. He isn&rsquo;t good enough to be a Leaf.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;But I tell you, he gets better every time out. Come back in another week, try it and you&rsquo;ll see how he improves,&rdquo; pleaded the self-appointed scout. &ldquo;Then you&rsquo;ll understand why I asked you out to watch him.&rdquo;</p><p>Day shook his head. &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t use him.&rdquo;</p><p>The scout was Annis Stukus, back in the early forties, covering the junior hockey beat as a cub reporter.</p><p>Stuke didn&rsquo;t quit. He contacted the late Carson Cooper, chief scout for the Detroit Red Wings at the time. &ldquo;Carse&rdquo; came out to the west end arena, watched the youngster, arrived at the same conclusion as Day.</p><p>&ldquo;He can&rsquo;t skate.&rdquo;</p><p>Again, Stuke argued: &ldquo;Come back in a week or so and see the improvement. Then you&rsquo;ll see what I mean.&rdquo;</p><p>Cooper came back, took a quick look and minutes later the redheaded defenseman was on Detroit&rsquo;s. negotiation list.</p><p>For a dozen and a half seasons, the Leaf reject starred with Detroit. Then in one of those fluke deals, he shifted to Toronto.</p><p>Leonard Patrick (Red) Kelly, the kid who couldn&rsquo;t skate had become one of the smoothest, sweetest skating players in the NHL.</p><p>And Christmas night in Chicago, he collected the 200th goal of his career, not as a defenseman, but a centre.</p><p>Manager-coach Punch Imlach summed up.</p><p>&ldquo;When Kelly came to us, I wondered if he had lost that great skating edge he owned as a Red Wing. I figured there had to be something wrong with him or Detroit wouldn&rsquo;t have let him go for Marc Rheaume.</p><p>&ldquo;So, I worked him out against Carl Brewer&mdash;one of Leaf&rsquo;s strongest skaters. Kelly more than held his own. I knew I had that big centre we had always needed.&rdquo;</p><p>Imlach didn&rsquo;t stop there.</p><p>&ldquo;Kelly always skates with something in reserve&mdash;moving only as hard as he has to. That&rsquo;s his big secret. And it&rsquo;s why he looks like a lazy moving centre when he&rsquo;s out on the ice.</p><p>&ldquo;But watch him going either way&mdash;nobody gets away, even the speed merchants can&rsquo;t shake him when he&rsquo;s backchecking, a little chore he does so quietly and smoothly most people miss it.&rdquo;</p><h2>Hero</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03212/1765606-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="548" height="522"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Red Sinks 200th But Once Turned Down By Toronto

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05126/1765637-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="583" height="270"></div><h2><b>DECEMBER 30 TO JANUARY 5</b></h2><p>30&mdash;Alf Treen, Kingston, defense, 1931.</p><p>1&mdash;Art Jones, Portland, forward, 1935.</p><p>2&mdash;Gord Labossiere, Sudbury, 1940.</p><p>2&mdash;Bill Carter, Hull-Ottawa, forward, 1937.</p><p>3&mdash;Bobby Hull, Chicago, forward, 1939.</p><p>4&mdash;Earl Balfour, Pittsburgh, forward, 1933.</p><p>4&mdash;Bob Courcy, Sault Ste. Marie, forward, 1936.</p><p>5&mdash;Murray Wilkie, Vancouver, forward, 1932.</p><p>5&mdash;Zellio Toppazzini, Providence, forward, 1930.</p><p>5&mdash;Fred Glover, Cleveland, forward, 1928.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<div class="byline">By Scott Young (In The Toronto Globe and Mail)</div><p>Few people ever had seen Conn Smythe in a pink plastic sunbonnet until he rose at the head table to make his few remarks.</p><p>This was in one of the back rooms at Maple Leaf Gardens last Christmas, and if the Gardens&rsquo; management could pack in paying customers for hockey as tightly as they do guests for their annual Christmas dinner a new race of Torontonians would be the result&mdash;six inches across the shoulders, and with all the points knocked off their elbows.</p><p>The table where Conn Smythe sat was on a raised dais. Facing him across the room was a sign which read, CONN SMYTHE THEATRE (UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT)&mdash;a reference to the recent deal by which he relinquished the presidency of the Gardens.</p><p>Champagne was served at the head table and at one other table where several Gardens&rsquo; directors sat. The guests more modestly sipped punch. They had been living with this distinction for years with some kidding but no complaints; after all, there is no use removing ALL the incentives to becoming a Gardens&rsquo; director.</p><p>Beside Conn Smythe at the five-place head table was his son, Stafford, who is 40 but frequently looks younger.</p><p>In November he succeeded his father to the Gardens&rsquo; presidency.</p><p>&ldquo;We have had a lot of arguments about hockey around our house,&rdquo; said Conn Smythe. He has very clear blue eyes, and these gazed benignly out from under the brim of the sunbonnet. &ldquo;But my wife thoroughly approved of this deal. Stafford has had his hair brushed two times in a row, and that&rsquo;s something that never happened before he became president of Maple Leaf Gardens.&rdquo;</p><p>To me, this annual Christmas party is one of the warmest and most interesting tribal rites of hockey. No active players ever are present, but just about everyone else connected with the game in these parts is invited, along with men prominent in other sports. The grace is said by Sam Shefsky, the toast to the Queen is proposed by Conn Smythe, dinner is served along the crowded tables, the place is a din of hockey conversation.</p><p>While this goes on, a background unseen but certainly part of the evening is there within a radius of 100 yards of that small room&mdash;the normal atmosphere of a game night. Parking lots are filling up. Anxious people are accosting every passerby with the question, &ldquo;Any extras?&rdquo; Standing room customers are beginning to pack in against the high iron fences of the main corridors, waiting for seven p.m. when the gates will be swept aside and attendants will run for their lives as the standing room ticket holders stampede toward their favorite places.</p><p>In the dressing rooms the elite players of the game are padding around half-dressed, talking quietly, checking sticks and skates and having their injuries taped or inspected.</p><p>There has been no seat unsold for a National Hockey League game there since 1946. In pro hockey here this transcendent success overlays all else, and may be why Conn Smythe is the only man in town who has made a custom of providing a hall in which all comers may witness jibes against his person, his directors and his team, with no holds barred.</p><p>Those citizens who write outraged letters to the newspapers denouncing hockey, the Leafs and the Smythes would love the 40 minutes of skits which follow the dinner.</p><p>Everything the letter-writers denounce is there in glorious technicolor, written and acted by sportswriters and sportscasters. Fred Cederberg always is Stafford Smythe, full of rasping autocracy. Joe Perlove plays Conn Smythe as subtly as a steamroller.</p><p>The underlying theme this Saturday night was that Stafford and his merry men (Harold Ballard and John Bassett) had wrested the throne from King Conn by main force. In Ed Fitkin&rsquo;s excellent musical skit called Connelot, George Retzlaf&rsquo;s rendition of C&rsquo;est Moi on behalf of Punch Imlach (Sir Punchelot) was funnily done. Hal Walker and Bob Hesketh have one of the best costume skits every year, Walker as a Japanese sports interviewer called Wes-san (originally after Wes McKnight), Hesketh as the muscular, monosyllabic athlete being interviewed.</p><p>The main function of this tribal gathering of hockey people is to lampoon, with the chief targets being Conn and Stafford Smythe. Much of it is sharp enough to make a man forgot that the Gardens is paying for the staging, and that the Smythes seem to be laughing harder than anybody.</p><p>One skit had John Bassett and Harold Ballard, Gardens&rsquo; directors, protesting Stafford&rsquo;s assertion, that they had to start a youth movement. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to figure how to get the old guy out,&rdquo; Stafford had begun. Meaning his father. Ballard and Bassett argued heatedly and at length on behalf of the value of old guys. Stafford heard out their opposition to the end and then rasped. &ldquo;Okay. Now that we&rsquo;re all agreed, this is what we&rsquo;re going to do.&rdquo;</p><p>Which may be a true rendition. He is very likely to be a one-man show. Like his father.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Conn Smythe In a Sunbonnet

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03265/1765730-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"></div><p>Founded October 1st, 1947</p><p><b>$3.00</b></p><p>(Canada & British Commonwealth)</p><p><b>$4.00</b></p><p>(U.S.A. & Foreign Countries)</p><p><b>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.</b></p><p><b>Canadian Remittances $3.00 Payable by Postal, Bank or Telegraph Money Order.</b></p><p><b>U.S.A. Remittances $4.00 Payable by Postal or Express Money Order.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<p><u>&ldquo;you like 7up</u>&nbsp;<u>7up likes you&rdquo;</u></p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><h3><b>(Standings On Sat. A.M. Dec. 30)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1047/1765831-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="583" height="238"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1140/1765824-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="584" height="281"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY. DECEMBER 23 Detroit 1 at Montreal 6</b></h3><p>Detroit&mdash;goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goegan. Pronovost, Godfrey, Gadsby, Odrowski, Young; forwards: Delvecchio, Howe. Stasiuk. Ullman. Labine, Fonteyne. Glover, MacGregor, Johnson. Boileau.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;goal: Plante: defense: Johnson, J. C. Tremblay. Talbot, Gauthier. MacNeil: forwards: Backstrom, Geoffrion, Marshall, Provost. Beliveau, Hicke, G. Tremblay, Goyette, Rousseau, Bonin.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; Linesmen: Matt Pavelich. Ron Wicks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01405/1765817-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="580" height="708"></div><h3><b>Boston 7 ot Toronto 4</b></h3><p>Boston&mdash;Zoal: Head; defense: Stapleton, Boivin, Mohns, Westfall, Green; forwards: Oliver, Conelly,</p><p>Bucyk, McKenney. Gray, Pronovost, Beckett, Pennington, Meissner, Toppazzini. Burns.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower; defense: Brewer, Baun, Arbour, Horton, Stanley; forwards: Kelly. Mahovlich, Nevin, Harris, Duff, Armstrong, Pulford, Shack. Olmstead. Keon. Stewart.</p><p>Referee. Art Skov; linesmen, Bobby Frampton, Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02340/1765810-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="576" height="743"></div><h3><b>Chicago 3 at New York 7</b></h3><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Evans, St. Laurent, Turner. Vasko, Pilote Fleming; forwards: Hull, Hay, Wharram, Balfour, Horvath, Murphy, Melnyk, McDonald, Nesterenko, Mikita.</p><p>New York&mdash;goal: Worsley; defense: Howell, Cahan, Harvey, Langlois, Spencer; forwards: Henry, Hampson, Hebenton, Bathgate, Ingarfield, Prentice, Gendron, Schinkel, Hannigan, Wilson, Hadfield. &lsquo;</p><p>Referee: Eddie Powers; Linesmen: Neil Armstrong, George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03266/1765803-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="581" height="795"></div><h3><b>MONDAY. DECEMBER 25 Montreal 5 at Boston 2</b></h3><p>Montreal&mdash;goal: Plante: defense: Johnson. J. C. Tremblay. Talbot. Gauthier. MacNeil: forwards: Backstrom, Geoffrion. Marshall. Provost. Beliveau. Hicke. G. Tremblay, Goyette. Rousseau. Bonin.</p><p>Boston&mdash;goal: Head: defense: Stapleton. Boivin. Mohns. Westfall. Green: forwards: Oliver. Connelly, Bucyk. McKenney, Gray. Pronovost, Beckett. Pennington, Meissner, Toppazzini Burns.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04204/1765796-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="581" height="468"></div><h3><b>Toronto 3 at Chicago 3</b></h3><p>Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower: defense: Brewer. Baun. Arbour. Horton, Stanley; forwards: Kelly. Mahovlich. Nevin. Harris. Duff, Armstrong. Pulford, Shack. Olmstead. Keon. Stewart.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall: defense: Evans. St. Laurent. Turner. Vasko, Pilote. Fleming: forwards: Hull. Hay, Wharram. Balfour. Horvath. Murphy, Melnyk. McDonald. Nesterenko, Mikita.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05149/1765789-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="578" height="588"></div><h3><b>New York 6 at Detroit 4</b></h3><p>New York&mdash;goal: Worsley: defense: Howell. Cahan. Harvey, Langlois, Spencer: forwards: Henry. Hampson, Hebenton. Bathgate. Ingarfield. Prentice, Gendron, Schinkel, Hannigan, Wilson, Hadfield.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;goal: Bassen; defense: Goegan. Pronovost. Godfrey, Gadsby, Odrowski. Young: forwards: Delvecchio. Howe. Stasiuk. Ullman. Labine. Fonteyne. Glover, MacGregor, Johnson. Boileau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06116/1765782-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="579" height="734"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27 Montreal 3 at New York 0</b></h3><p>Montreal&mdash;goal: Plante: defense: J. C. Tremblay, Johnson, Talbot, Fontinato, MacNeil; forwards: Beliveau, Backstrom, Hicke, Moore, Provost, Rousseau, Bonin, Goyette, G. Tremblay, Marshall.</p><p>New York&mdash;goal: Worsley; defense: Harvey, Howell, Langlois, Cahan, Spencer; forwards: Hannigan. Gendron, Bathgate, Ingarfield, Hadfield. Hebenton, Wilson, Prentice Schinkel, Henry, Hampson.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari: linesmen: George Hayes. Waiter Atanas.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0790/1765775-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="577" height="505"></div><h3><b>Chicago 0 at Toronto 0</b></h3><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Hillman. Turner. Evans, Fleming. St. Laurent: forwards: Hull. Hav. Balfour, Horvath, Murphy, Melnyk. McDonald, Nesterenko. Wharram. Mikita.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower: defence: Brewer. Stanley. Horton. Baun. Arbour, forwards: Mahovlich, Kelly, Nevin, Duff. Armstrong, Keon. Pulford. Olmstead. Stewart, Harris. MacMillan.</p><p>Referee: Dalton McArthur: linesmen: Matt Pavelich and Neil Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0873/1765768-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="581" height="401"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY. DECEMBER 28 Chicago 2 at Detroit 2</b></h3><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall: defense: St. Laurent. Evans, Pilote, Hillman; forwards: Murphy, Turner. Nesterenko, Fleming. Hull. Balfour. Horvath, Hay, Melnyk. McDonald. Wharram. Mikita.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;goal: Sawchuk; defense: Pronovost, Godfrey. Gadsby, Goegan Odrowski; forwards: Stasiuk, Delvecchio, Howe. Laforge. Ullman. Mac Gregor, Fonteyne, Litzenberger, Glover. Labine, Boileau.</p><p>Referee: Dalton McArthur; linesmen: Matt Pavelich, Ron Wicks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0958/1765761-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="586" height="568"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL.&mdash;Clarence Campbel). president of the National Hockey League said this week Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; general manager Jack Adams did not violate any regulations in his verbal blast against referee-in-chief Carl Voss recently.</p><p>Adams entered the Olympia Stadium press box, where Voss was watching the Wings play Montreal Canadiens, and complaned to him that referee Eddie Powers was calling a bad game.</p><p>Campbell said this is not a matter for discipline.</p><p>&ldquo;Voss had no direct control over the game himself. As long as Adams doesn&rsquo;t challenge the integrity of an official, there are no violation of any regulations.&rdquo;</p><p>Campbell said Adams Can have &ldquo;an alley fight&rdquo; with Voss any time he wants to. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s entitled to that. It&rsquo;s part of Voss&rsquo; job.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams entered the press box just after a play in which Detroit&rsquo;s Vic Stasiuk was knocked down while racing toward the Montreal net. He said Canadiens&rsquo; defenceman Jean Gauthier should have been penalized.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Adams Didn’t Break Rules By Blasting Voss—Prexy

<p class="dropcap"><span>V</span>ANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;The lowly Vancouver Canucks got an offer of help from veteran Max Bentley last week. The former NHL great, in a letter to a Vancouver alderman, offered to take over the coaching job from playing coach Phil Maloney.</p><p>Bentley wrote Vancouver Aiderman Frank Fredrickson from Delisle, Sask., offering his services.</p><p>&ldquo;The letter was incorrectly addressed to me as hockey director,&rdquo; Fredrickson said, &ldquo;I am. of course, not a director of the club and have forwarded the letter to the Pacific National Exhibition.&rdquo;</p><p>Bentley, 41, praised the efforts of Canuck playing-coach Phil Maloney, but said he was under too much pressure as both coach and player.</p><p>Suggesting he could take some of the pressure off Maloney, Bentley, who racked up a total of 544 NHL points with Black Hawks and Toronto Maple Leafs, said he thought he could do a good job as coach.</p><p>It&rsquo;s unlikely the owners will take Bentley up on the offer. An official said Art Chapman will likely return to the team. He is a former Canuck coach and general manager. Vancouver is in last place in the league&rsquo;s northern division.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Max Bentley Offers Phil Chance To Shed Pressure

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<h2><b>Indians, Bears Split</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Springfield Indians won every series but one in the AHL last season. The Hershey Bears managed to break even with the Indians in 12 games. The Bears won six and the Indians won six.</p><h2>Ex-NHLers Coaching</h2><p>All eight coaches of the AHL played in the NHL at one time or another. Four of them played for</p><p>Boston. They are Pat Egan (Springfield), Fern Flaman (Providence), Larry Regan (Pittsburgh) Si and Jack Crawford (Rochester).</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><h3><b>(Standings On Sat. A.M. Dec. 30) EASTERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01390/1766032-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="599" height="139"></div><h3><b>WESTERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02368/1766025-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="593" height="134"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY. DECEMBER 23 Buffalo 7 at Cleveland 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03318/1766018-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="596" height="834"></div><h3><b>Providence 4 at Hershey 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04270/1766011-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="567" height="577"></div><h3><b>Quebec 4 at Pittsburgh 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05209/1766004-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="576" height="433"></div><h3><b>Rochester 3 at Springfield 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06175/1765997-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="569" height="553"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY. DECEMBER 24 Quebec 0 at Buffalo 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07164/1765990-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="580" height="464"></div><h3><b>Rochester 4 at Providence 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08152/1765983-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="588" height="773"></div><h3><b>MONDAY. DECEMBER 25 Cleveland 3 at Hershey 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09148/1765976-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="589" height="634"></div><h3><b>Springfield 3 at Providence 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10135/1765969-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="583" height="676"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26 Pittsburgh 2 at Quebec 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11113/1765962-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="585" height="506"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27 Rochester 4 at Buffalo 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1281/1765955-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="583" height="682"></div><h3><b>Hershey 2 at Cleveland 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1369/1765948-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="580" height="524"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY. DECEMBER 28 Pittsburgh 3 at Quebec 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1453/1765941-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="588" height="417"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>At one stage of his hockey career, Howie (Mighty Mite) Yanosik, gave up on any idea of making the professional grade.</p><p>Today, the 5-10. 160-pound Hershey Bears back liner, is one of the club&rsquo;s key blueliners and paces the defense corps in scoring with four goals and 13 assists for 17 points.</p><p>Yanosik, a native of Bracken, Saskatchewan, is the smallest defenseman in the American League, but despite his size plays a fearless game, banging away at much bigger men with authority.</p><p>It was only by accident that Yanosik returned to the pro game after a two year layoff at the age of 20.</p><p>&ldquo;I was playing intermediate hockey in my hometown of Lethbridge, Alberta and at Great Falls, Mont.,&rdquo; said Yanosik.</p><p>&ldquo;I was 22 at the time and had left junior ranks a couple of years before. Saskatoon had a couple of injured&rsquo; defensemen and my coach recommended me. I took another chance at it and finally made the grade.&rdquo;</p><p>Yanosik is one of the best pokecheckers in the game and he claims he learned the art through long hours of practice.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t go out of my way to cut anyone down,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But if I have to throw a hard check. I&rsquo;ll do it. I&rsquo;d rather rely on my stick.</p><p>&ldquo;When I was only a kid I practiced poke-checking for hours. I still practice it. At my size it saves a lot of wear and tear and unnecessary bumps and bruises.&rdquo;</p><p>Last year Yanosik was named to the AHL&rsquo;s second all-star team, picking up a $200 bonus, plus a matching stipend from the Bears though he appeared in only 52 games. He was sidelined at the tail-end of the season with a serious knee injury, since corrected by surgery.</p><p>Yanosik, of Czech., origin, has a brother and three sisters. His family has never seen him skate in the AHL.</p><p>&ldquo;Dad&rsquo;s a carpenter and in the off season that&rsquo;s my trade. We build homes and do all types of construction work.&rdquo;</p><p>Yanosik&rsquo;s lovely wife. Megan, is a Lethbridge girl, Who enjoys curling, sewing, knitting and golf.</p><p>&ldquo;We love to hike and camp out,&rdquo; said Mrs. Yanosik and we both fish.</p><p>Yanosik said that a few years ago &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t have given a nickle for my chances of making pro ranks, but I&rsquo;m glad I did, because hockey&rsquo;s been good to me.&rdquo;</p><p>Meanwhile, the Bears had their home record string of 11 games without a loss snapped Dec. 16 by Buffalo. Hershey had won ten and tied one at the Sports Arena before suffering a 4-0 setback. In that span, the club drew 69,542 fans&mdash;one of the best all-time early season attendance marks.</p><p>Then on Dec. 20, Hershey took a 5-2 decision at Pittsburgh against the Hornets in a game which saw league president Jim Balmer mete out fines totaling $500. Ten Hershey skaters were hit with $25 fines as were a like number of Hornets. They drew the fines for leaving the bench to take part in a free-for-all fight.</p><h2>Mighty Mite</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1621/1766063-1-eng-US/f0009-162.jpg" title="f0009-16" width="569" height="551"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Howie Yanosik</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Little Howie Yanosik Is Mr. Big On Bears Defense

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1962 World Hockey Tournament Broadmoor World Arena March 8-18, 1962

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01404/1766132-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="294" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gord Fashoway</b></figcaption></div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>More ways than one, Portland will be the host city for the fifth annual Western League All - Star game.</p><p>Not only will the classic be played in the posh Memorial Coliseum Monday January 8, but Portland will also supply most of the talent.</p><p>This starts right in the coach&rsquo;s box where Hal Laycoe will direct the traffic for the southern division club.</p><p>Three of the south&rsquo;s starting lineup will be Buckaroos&hellip;goalie Bruce Gamble, defenceman Ron Matthews and right winger Arnie Schmautz.</p><p>Then on the second line there will be last year&rsquo;s scoring champion Art Jones at centre ice and Bill Saunders on the left side, while the scoringest player in the minors of all time, (400 goals plus) Gordie Fashoway will patrol left wing on the third line.</p><p>Furthermore, Tommy McVie of the Bucks has been designated as the utility man.</p><p>That gives the Buckaroos representation of seven players, and Laycoe did not have a hand in naming any of them. The coaches did the voting this year, but they were not permitted to name anybody from their own team.</p><p>With Portland winning the title last year and making a runaway of the southern division race this time around, it is no surprise that the Buckaroos are so prominent on the dream team.</p><p>However, the Edmonton Flyers, who have been having things almost as much their own way in the northern division, were overshadowed by the Calgary Stampeders in the balloting.</p><p>Half of the north&rsquo;s All-Stars are supplied by the Cowboys, with Freddie Hucul and Doug Barkley on defence, and the single-season record goal-getter, Lou Jankowski on left wing. They also will be represented by sophomore John Kociancic at right wing on the second team, and ace centre Normie Johnson on the third.</p><p>Johnson ran into hot opposition for the centre ice assignment, what with Len Lunde of Edmonton and Phil Maloney of Vancouver to deal with. Finally, it was Lunde who prevailed in the voting, while teammate Chuck Holmes, the Edmonton captain, topped the right wingers.</p><p>Only other regular that Bud Poile, who will pilot the northerners, can call upon from his own club is defenceman Lloyd Haddon, who made the second platoon. However, Forbes Kennedy will be on hand for utility duty.</p><p>The north&rsquo;s first team is completed by Vancouver custodian Claude Evans.</p><p>Back to the south, the Spokane Comets gave the Buckaroos their chief argument with Sandy Hucul on defence and Gerry Brisson left wing for the first team. The Comets also placed two second choices and two thirds.</p><p>Gerry Goyer, the great Los Angeles Blade centreman who has opened up a lot of daylight in the points derby this year, rounds out the south&rsquo;s first stringers.</p><p>Following are the complete choices, in order of voting for positions:</p><p>SOUTH&mdash;goal, Gamble (Port); defence, Matthews (Port), S. Hucul (Sp), Ralph Keller (LA), Bill Shvetz (Sp); centre, Goyer (LA), Jones (Port), Max Mekilok (Sp); right wing, Schmautz (Port), Steve Witiuk (Sp), Bev Bell (Sp); left wing, Brisson (Sp), Saunders (Port), Fashoway (Port); utility, McVie (Port).</p><p>NORTH&mdash;goal, Evans (Van); defence, F. Hucul (Calg), Barkley (Calg), Hadden (Edm), Frank Arnett (Sea); centre, Lunde (Edm), Maloney (Van), Johnson (Calg); right wing, Holmes (Edm), Kosiancic (Calg), Ed Ehrenverth (Sea); left wing, Jankowski (Calg), Bill MacFarland (Sea), Ron Hutchinson (Sea); utility, Kennedy (Edm).</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS</b>&mdash;San Francisco Seals, hit by blanket fines twice by owner Coley Hall for failing to measure up to his expectations, didn&rsquo;t get a man named even to the third team&hellip;The league directors will break off from the AllStar festivities for a tete-a-tete to deal with Bud Poile&rsquo;s rap at the officiating&hellip;Accused the Flyer boss: &ldquo;The referees don&rsquo;t run the games in Seattle, Portland and Spokane. The fans do.&rdquo;&hellip;In rebuttal, Buckaroo manager Harry Glickman conceded his fans were raucous, but the customers in Calgary and Edmonton he maintained were unruly&hellip;Over a stretch of three nights, the Totems had two overtime ties and won a third game at 6:07 of sudden-death overtime&hellip;Almost 3&frac12; normal games in three nights Anyone top this, or who&rsquo;s for doubleheaders these days?</p><h2>In Nets</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02339/1766125-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="540" height="526"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bruce Gamble</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03286/1766187-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg"></div><p>HERSHEY, PA.&mdash;</p><p>Just imagine, if you can, a community with a population of approximately 5,000 people, which regularly has between 7,000 and 8.000 spectators at its hockey games. Sounds quite fabulous, and it is. That is the situation in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the home of the Hershey Bears Hockey Club of the American Hockey League.</p><p>Fans regularly travel from as far away as 100 miles to see the Bears in action, and this has enabled them to be always up among the leaders each year in league attendance. On any hockey night, if one stands high on the hill overlooking the beautiful Hershey Sports Arena, the headlights of cars may be seen from miles around, streaming into the town.</p><p>The Bears are now in their 24th season in the AHL, having missed only the first two seasons of league operation. During that time they have finished the regular season in first place on six occasions, and have added three Calder Cup Playoff Championships. They have also been in the final round of the playoffs six other times before bowing out. This is the type of high calibre hockey which has rewarded the loyal Hershey fans, for their coming from far distant places.</p><p>Hershey&rsquo;s interest in hockey began back in 1931, when the game was introduced to provide a use for the Convention Hall in the winter months. The Swarthmore Hockey Club was brought to Hershey to play their independent games, and by the end of the season the game had caught on so well that the Ice Palace was remodled to provide a larger ice surface and hockey became the main use of the building.</p><p>In 1932-33, Hershey had its own club, which became a member of the newly formed Tri-State League, and competed against teams from Baltimore, Atlantic City, and Philadelphia. Before the 1933-34 season started, the Eastern Amateur Hockey League grew out of the TriState League, with seven teams, Hershey, Atlantic City, Baltimore, and four from Metropolitan New York City, the Crescent-Hamilton Athletic Club, St. Nicholas, New York Athletic Club and the Bronx. Hershey finished third in that strong competition. In 1935 the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets joined the league, and this entry has led to the keen rivalry which exists today between the Bears and the present day Pittsburgh Hornets. A trophy is presented each season for the winner of the Pennsylvania State Title.</p><p>Lloyd Blinco, the present General Manager of the Bears hockey team, was one of the star players back in those days of the Eastern Amateur League. Among other players that time were Walt Russell, Nick Damore, Gus Mancuso, Harry Frost, Hank Lauzon, Audley Tuten and Harold Ingram.</p><p>In 1936, John B. Sollenberger, now the President of the Hershey Estates, realized that a new and larger arena was necessary in Hershey. His persistency in convincing Milton S. Hershey, the founder of the town, led to the present arena, one of the finest in America. The building seats 7,200, with ample room for many standees which is the situation more often than not.</p><p>After their new arena was completed, Hershey turned its thoughts toward professional hockey, and was granted a franchise in the AHL in 1938-39. No one, the fans, Hershey officials or the league has ever regretted the move, as the Bears are a tremendous asset to the league and hockey.</p><p>Down through the years since entering the league, Hershey has had many great and well known players. Among them were Terry Reardon, Alfie Moore, Gordon (Red) Henry, Herb Cain, Gordon Bruce, Wally Kilrea, Frank Mario, George (Red) Sullivan, Lorne Ferguson, Dunc Fisher, Joe Bell, Hy Buller, Babe Pratt, Roly McLenahan, Andy Branigan, Arnie Kullman, Red Hamill, Dave Creighton and a host of others, including their present roster of leading contenders for league honors this season. Frank Mathers, their coach, was an all time all star defenseman during his playing days.</p><p>The Hershey record is of high grade, with 700 victories and 154 ties in the 1472 games they had played in the league up to the end of last season. Sullivan holds the Hershey and league records for seoring points (119) and assists (89), both set in 1953-54. Bell scored the most goals in a season of any Hershey player, 46 in 194546. Larry Zeidel of the present Bears set the penalty mark of 211 minutes in 1956-57 and Moore and Damore each had 7 shutouts, Moore in 1938-39 and Damore in 1944-45.</p><h2>The Hershey Arena<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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<h2><b>Shvetz Back On Top</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>pokane Captain Bill Shvetz took over the penalty lead in the past week as he picked up six minors to up his season total to 82 minutes. A new name appears close by in second place as Los Angeles&rsquo; Blades defenceman Ralph Keller has now totalled 78 minutes in penalties. Larry Jeffrey, Edmonton rookie, is in third place with 72 minutes.</p><h2><b>Lou Breaks Loose</b></h2><p>As the 1961-62 season nears the half way mark a noticeable surge on the part of last season&rsquo;s record breaking goal scorer, Calgary&rsquo;s Lou Jankowski, becomes very evident. Jankowski broke loose in a game against Vancouver on December 23 for 4 consecutive Calgary goals to lead the Stampeders to a 7-1 victory against the hapless Canucks.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><h3><b>(Standings On Tues. A.M. Dec. 26) SOUTHERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01403/1766361-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="574" height="134"></div><h3><b>NORTHERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02359/1766354-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="577" height="127"></div><h3><b>(Intersectional Play)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03293/1766347-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="583" height="233"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY. DECEMBER 19 Los Angeles 5 at San Francisco 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04236/1766340-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="568" height="540"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 2 at Calgary 9</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05198/1766333-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="571" height="678"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 20 Seattle 4 at Los Angeles 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06176/1766326-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="568" height="481"></div><h3><b>Spokane 1 at Portland 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07156/1766319-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="568" height="429"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 2 at Edmonton 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08151/1766312-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="566" height="497"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22 Spokane 5 at Los Angeles 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09142/1766305-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="569" height="871"></div><h3><b>Seattle 4 at San Francisco 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10124/1766298-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="571" height="568"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 3 at Edmonton 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11103/1766291-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="578" height="483"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY. DECEMBER 23 Spokane 2 at Los Angeles 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1293/1766284-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="571" height="593"></div><h3><b>Seattle 0 at San Francisco 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1371/1766277-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="569" height="381"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 1 at Calgary 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1448/1766270-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="571" height="631"></div><h3><b>MONDAY, DECEMBER 25 Los Angeles 1 at Portland 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1529/1766263-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="583" height="516"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 2 at Seattle 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1618/1766256-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="582" height="352"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games Of Mon., Dec. 25)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1712/1766249-1-eng-US/f0011-172.jpg" title="f0011-17" width="575" height="457"></div><h3><b>(Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-188/1766242-1-eng-US/f0011-182.jpg" title="f0011-18" width="574" height="267"></div><h3><b>(The Leaders)</b></h3><p>Most Points: Gerry Goyer, Los Angeles 55.</p><p>Most Goals: Gerry Goyer, Los Angeles 25.</p><p>Most Assists: Bruce Carmichael, Los Angeles 32.</p><p>Most First Goal Of Game: Gerry Goyer, Los Angeles 5.</p><p>Most Game Winning Goals: Tom McVie, Portland 7.</p><p>Most Game Winning Assists: Len Lunde, Edmonton 7.</p><p>Most Hat Tricks: Gerry Goyer, Los Angeles 3.</p><p>Most Goals Scored With Man Adv.: Gerry Goyer, Los Angeles and Don Chiupka, Seattle, 7.</p><p>Most Goals Against When Serv. Pen.: Bill Burega, Los Angeles 8.</p><p>Most Min. In Penalties: Bill Shvetz, Spokane 82.</p><p>Most Shutouts: Bev Bentley, San Francisco 3.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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WESTREN LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-20" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-205/1766423-1-eng-US/f0011-202.jpg"></div><p><b>JANUARY ISSUE Now At YOUR NEWSSTAND</b></p><p><b>WORLD&rsquo;S OFFICIAL HOCKEY MAGAZINE</b></p><p><b>Hockey Blues Strike Oil With Earl Ingarfield</b></p><p><b>ALSO</b></p><p>&bull; <b><i>Hockey Six Biggest Fights</i></b></p><p>&bull; <b><i>My &lsquo;Million Dollar&rsquo; Buddies (By Murray Balfour)</i></b></p><p>&bull; <b><i>Get The Money, Says Plante</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY PICTORIAL

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>By-products of the worst start in the history of the Vancouver Canucks have understandably turned Phil Maloney&rsquo;s coaching debut into a veritable nightmare.</p><p>What with certain people in high places turning on him, Maloney&rsquo;s personal morale must have been hitting a record low, as well.</p><p>Likely, though, he was cheered by some bait that manager-coach Bud Poile of the Edmonton Flyers recently threw to the Pacific National Exhibition, operator of the WHL franchise in Vancouver.</p><p>&ldquo;I have news for some guys who seem to have the hammer on Maloney,&rdquo; he declared during a visit to Vancouver.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;If they don&rsquo;t want him as a coach, I&rsquo;ll be glad to take him. I will do this: I&rsquo;ll get them a coach, and throw in a player, too.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;I&rsquo;d love to have Maloney at centre ice for our club. What&rsquo;s more, I would make him our playing coach.&rdquo;</p><p>A vote of confidence, but perhaps a misplaced one&hellip;because he has been having a wretched time of it at Vancouver.</p><p>It didn&rsquo;t start out that way, though. In fact, not only did the PNE give Phil the coaching job when he became available from Buffalo Bisons, but it was in the works to make him the general manager, as well.</p><p>But there were a few points with which Maloney was not satisfied, and he hung back for a time. All of a sudden, the offer was with-drawn, and the manager&rsquo;s appointment was awarded instead to the PNE&rsquo;s Forum manager Dave Dauphinee.</p><p>All the while, the Canucks&rsquo; former coach Art Chapman had been experting the situation all the way from his new home in Long Beach, Calif. He accused Maloney of not instilling a system into the Vancouver club&rsquo;s play, and insisted the team was considerably better than its cellar dwelling in the northern division of the WHL.</p><p>For one thing, Chapman felt that the Canucks should have been higher in the standings than at least Seattle.</p><p>The PNE asked Chapman back to do some trouble-shooting, but it was a sorry &ldquo;homecoming,&rdquo; indeed. With Artful Arthur looking on, the Canucks were bombed 7-1 by the Calgary Stampeders in their first home game after a gruelling and unsatisfying road trip.</p><p>To make matters worse, there were only 850 fans in the pews, which should have been excuse enough for somebody to press the panic button.</p><p>Furthermore, NHL president Clarence Campbell informed a Vancouver columnist that it was definitely probable that San Francisco and Los Angeles would become members of his league in three years. However, he expressed doubt that Vancouver would be a candidate in the foreseeable future.</p><p>Thus, the buzz began anew that the PNE might be inclined to sell its WHL franchise to private interests, after all&hellip;instead of waiting vainly for an opportunity to get back the quarter of a million dollar investment that former owner Coley Hall had pocketed.</p><p>For where is the sense in whipping a dead horse?</p><p>Ice Chips&mdash;Edmonton Flyers have conceded to experience and have called in Gilles Boisvert from the Hershey Bears to do their goaltending while Dennis Riggin recovers from his second eye injury in three years&hellip;Normie Johnson of Calgary is the latest author of his 200th Western League goal&hellip;It was a long time between shutouts when Portland&rsquo;s Bruce Gamble finally whitewashed San Francisco Seals. Something like two seasons&hellip;Bill Folk, the Spokane Comet defenceman whose career ended with a heart attack in the club&rsquo;s home opener, is now out of danger and taking it easy at his home in Spokane.</p><h2>On The Spot</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-198/1766392-1-eng-US/f0011-192.jpg" title="f0011-19" width="540" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Maloney</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Poile Strays To Coast To Give Phil His Okay

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div><p>OMAHA, Neb.&mdash;</p><p>Ken Wilson, Omaha Knights general manager strengthened his club, with the addition of defenseman Ted Leboda. To make room for the husky 6&rsquo;2&rdquo;, 200-pounder, Wilson released Merv Famulak.</p><p>Injured goalie Glenn Ramsay&rsquo;s condition remains a question mark. Ramsay has been taking his turn in the nets during practice sessions, but the club&rsquo;s physician does not want to take the chance of further injury to the netminder&rsquo;s broken thumb.</p><p>Ramsay broke the thumb at a Knights practice. It is currently in a small cast.</p><p>Kinghts coach Howie Milford commented, &ldquo;We must put together a string of victories in order to make a serious bid for league honors.&rdquo;</p><p>The Knights are 15-13 on the year and are four games out of first place.</p><p><b>Ft. Wayne&hellip;</b> Ron Baryluk scored his fifth winning goal of the season, in a 4-3 win at St. Paul&hellip;Baryluk is playing right wing on a line with Reggie Primeau and Johnny Goodwin&hellip;Goalie Reno Zanier stopped 41 shots in victory against St. Paul.</p><p><b>Indianapolis&hellip;</b> Former Ft. Wayne Komet line of Lloyd Maxfield, Sid Garant and Billy Wilkes playing well for the Chiefs&hellip;Alex Shibicky getting mileage out of Bobby Rivard, Jean Therrien and defensemen Marcel Goyette and Grant Morton.</p><p><b>Minneapolis&hellip;</b> Cy Whiteside, Miller captain, directed the club to a 6-3 win over Ft. Wayne, while Coach Ken Yackel was ill&hellip;Paul Johnson tallied hat trick for Millers in the game&hellip;Millers and St. Paul are running neck-and-neck for league honors.</p><p><b>Muskegon&hellip;</b> Defenseman Gerry Glaude returned after being out with a back injury&hellip;Lyle Porter, Ken Hayden and Stan Konrad hottest Zephyr line at present&hellip;Jim McLeod has regained form in nets after replacing Dennis Jorodn, who was sent to Edmonton&hellip;McLeod was spotty in opening games.</p><p><b>St. Paul&hellip;</b> Jerry Melnychuk, was released when Michel Legace returned to lineup&hellip;Melnychuk, obtained from Minneapolis, scored three goal hat trick and another tally in pair of contests with Saints&hellip;Jacques Marcotte is back in action after suffering concussion&hellip;His place to be taken by Al Davidson.</p><p><b>Toledo&hellip;</b> Effort to add some scoring punch came about when Merc G. M. obtained Walt Bradley and Len Kazowski from Eastern Pro and Des Maroney from Western League&hellip;Bradley centers a line for Maroney and left winger Gerry Moore&hellip;Mercs can&rsquo;t shake slump&hellip;Have only won three and tied one, in 26 outings&hellip;Coach Jim Henry feels that he needs help in goal.</p><p><b>IHL Notes&hellip;</b> League Commissioner Frank Gallagher is calling a meeting of the league Governors, in conjunction with the all-star game in St. Paul, January 4&hellip;Main topic of discussion, will be plans for next year.</p><p>The International Hockey League yearbook is available at all IHL arenas and International Hockey League, 2250 Seymour Avenue, Cincinnati 12, Ohio, for One Dollar&hellip;Book contains pictures of every IHL championship team, dating back to the 194546 season, in addition to many other interesting features.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Omaha Hoping To Make A Bid For First In Last Half

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01394/1766478-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Walter Bradley</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The Robin Hood Trophy for the most valuable player in boys&rsquo; minor hockey leagues across Canada will again be available for competition in the 1962 season. All boys between the ages of nine and 13 years playing in organized minor leagues are eligible. George H. McIvor, C.M.G., chairman of the board of Robin Hood Flour Mills Limited, made this announcement at a meeting with C.A.H.A. officials in Montreal. The Canadian Amatur Association sponsors Minor Hockey Week in Canada each January.</p><p>Since the Robin Hood trophy program was launched three years ago, more than 1,800 leagues in Canada&rsquo;s ten provinces, the Yukon and N.W.T. have registered, and it is expected that in 1962 nearly 2,000 trophies, along with a crest and a parchment scroll will go to individual winners. Every player (about 150,000) receives an identification card containing the players&rsquo; creed, and leagues receive attractive, colored, large-size creeds to display in dressing rooms.</p><p>The creed, in addition to urging the boy to train and keep fit in order to play to his peak capacity, emphasizes the importance of good behaviour at home, at school, at church and in all realms of community activity. Local league officials select the individual winners, on the basis of the creed, during the season&rsquo;s play.</p><p>In announcing the continuance of the trophy program, Mr. Mclvor said that the gratifying and heartwarming response from trophy winners, league officials and community leaders had proved the worth and merit of this annual award. &ldquo;It is a pleasure to be working with these dedicated people who devote so much of their leisure time to provide organized hockey for hundreds of thousands of Canadian boys,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Their guidance and counselling cannot help but produce finer citizens which is also the main objective of our trophy program, and we are happy to co-operate in this worthwhile activity.&rdquo;</p><h2>Joins Toledo<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Kids Will Take 2M Robin Hood Trophies Home

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The longest undefeated streak in more than 10 years of Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; competition was brought to a halt by the Hamilton Red Wings.</p><p>Montreal Canadiens, who had put together 14 victories, two ties in 16 games and climbed from far down in the six team standing into a tie for the lead, were beaten 6-3 before a capacity crowd in the Hamilton Forum.</p><p>The Hamilton win not only fractured the sensational string of successes by the newest entry in the provincial league, but also prevented the Canadiens from taking over undisputed possession of first place.</p><p>Hamilton, which started off as if they would win the pennant by a country mile, regained the lead on the strength of the two points picked up from the Canadiens.</p><p>In the scoring race, Pit Martin retained his lead with a goal and two assists against the Canadiens and now has 49 points on 26 goals, 23 assists in the first 23 games.</p><p>Andre Boudrias of the Canadiens held second spot with 18 goals, 28 assists while Lowell MacDonald, of Hamilton, was third with 44 points split evenly between goals and assists.</p><p>Three Canadiens&mdash;Rejean Richer, Norm Dennis and defenceman Jacques Laperriere&mdash;claimed the next three positions.</p><p>While the Hamilton Red Wings and Canadiens were scrambling for the lead, St. Catharines Teepees took a fairly sound grip on third position with a 4-1 victory over Peterborough Petes and an 8-4 victory over the fourth place Guelph Royals.</p><p>The Teepees, highly-rated in pre-season predictions, now hold a five-point margin over Guelph while Niagara Falls and Peterborough trail another four points behind.</p><h2>Nears Top</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02315/1766516-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="542" height="722"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lowell MacDonald</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR &lsquo;A&rsquo;</b></h2><p>(Standings On Thurs. a.m., Dec. 28)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03245/1766509-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="582" height="232"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Junior Canucks Streak Stopped After 16 Games

<p><b>NOW&rsquo;S THE TIME TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF&hellip;</b></p><h2><b>THE 1961-62 EDITION OF THE N.H.L. PRESS & RADIO GUIDE</b></h2><p>The 1961-62 N.H.L. Press & Radio Guide also includes Hendy&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who in Hockey and is the finest Hockey Guide published.</p><p>This compact 236-page book answers every question imaginable about the National League. Gives complete professional records of every player in the National, American, Western and Eastern Professional Leagues. It&rsquo;s a must for hockey fans everywhere.</p><p><b>ALL THIS FOR ONLY $1.00 (Postage Paid)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05120/1766568-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="274" height="388"></div><p><b>ANOTHER BIG SPECIAL!&hellip;</b></p><p><b>THE THIRD EDITION OF</b></p><h2><b>THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY ANNUAL 1962</b></h2><p>This 96-page book is &iexcl;am-packed with full-length features about your favourite hockey stars&hellip;biographical sketches and pictures of over 120 National Hockey League players&hellip;birthdates and places of birth too&hellip;All at a glance!</p><p>You can&rsquo;t afford to pass up the opportunity of availing yourself of a copy of this outstanding hockey publication.</p><p><b>SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY!&hellip;ONLY 50 CENTS (Postage Paid)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0695/1766561-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="336" height="440"></div><h2><b>OFFICIAL N.H.L. RECORD BOOK. 1917-61</b></h2><p>(This is not the N.H.L. Press & Radio Guide but an entirely different book).</p><p>The Official N.H.L Record Book includes complete team standings and individual scoring records of every season from 1917-18 up to the present.</p><p>This 350-page &ldquo;Hockey Masterpiece&rdquo; contains statistics and records unobtainable in any other publication. It is the most complete Record Book on Hockey ever published.</p><p>The supply is limited and books will be sold on a First Come&mdash;First Served basis.</p><p><b>SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY&hellip;$1.25 PER COPY (Postage Paid)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0780/1766554-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="284" height="408"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0867/1766547-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="1661" height="554"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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ATTENTION HOCKEY FANS!

<h2><b>Money From Heaven</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>here are many ways for the hockey referee to pick up extra money these days. In a game at Kingston last week referee Bill Fry. day amassed a total of 18 pennies that were thrown on the ice by fans.</p><h2><b>Among Those Missing</b></h2><p>Only nine players played the full 70 games in the EPHL last season. Another seven missed Just one game during the season and another five missed playing two games during the year.</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><h3><b>(Standings On Fri. A.M. Dec. 29)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01396/1766669-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="580" height="187"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY. DECEMBER 22 North Bay 2 at Sudbury 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02354/1766662-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="584" height="488"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23 Sault 0 at Kitchener 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03322/1766655-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="581" height="388"></div><h3><b>North Bay 3 at Kingston 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04290/1766648-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="580" height="485"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24 Kingston 1 at Hull-Ottawa 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05247/1766641-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="579" height="437"></div><h3><b>Kitchener 1 at Sault 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06208/1766634-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="575" height="534"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24 Sudbury 4 at Sault 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07195/1766627-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="577" height="652"></div><h3><b>Kingston 6 at Kitchener 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08184/1766620-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="586" height="719"></div><h3><b>Hull-Ottawa 0 at North Bay 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09178/1766613-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="583" height="387"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28 Kitchener 2 at North Bay 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10172/1766606-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="579" height="503"></div><h3><b>North Bay 1 at Hull-Ottawa 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11153/1766599-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="568" height="502"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By RON REUSCH</div><p>KITCHENER, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The desire to be involved in the game, which is a prerequisite of all good hockey men, was what brought Jack Stewart to the Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds of the Eastern Professional Hockey League.</p><p>The fourteen year veteran of the National Hockey League is in his first year as a coach of a pro hockey team. His ability as a coach is enhanced by twelve years with the Detroit Red Wings, from 1938 to 1950 with a couple of years off for the war. He also spent 1950 to 1952 with the Chicago Black Hawks. During those years as a defenseman he picked up the name &ldquo;Black Jack&rdquo; from his many fans.</p><p>After leaving the big league, Jack took up the chore of coaching a senior hockey team. He formed, owned, managed, coached and played for the Chatham Maroons of the OHA Senior league from 1952 to 1954. The second year of his stay there, his team made the playoffs. It was after that that he severed connections with them to take over the now defunct Kitchener Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Canucks (now Peterborough Petes) of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior series. He stayed there two years and his record was almost parallel to Chatham. The second year the Canucks finished in second place in the league.</p><p>A desire to be close to his home in Detroit, made Jack take over the Windsor Bulldogs of the Senior League. He handled them for two more years. In 1958, he announced his retirement from the game. At least he thought it was a retirement.</p><p>Since then, Stewart became a familiar figure around the rinks in hometown Detroit, helping kids develop in the minor leagues in the city.</p><p>Says Jack:</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s hard to leave something you&rsquo;ve worked at and loved for 20 years. I found myself at the rinks whenever I could make it. When Chicago offered me the job of coaching the Thunderbirds I didn&rsquo;t hesitate in accepting.&rdquo;</p><p>Black Jack Stewart&rsquo;s work is cut out for him this year.</p><p>The Thunderbirds finished in second place in the EPHL last year, and went right to the seventh game in the finals against Hull-Ottawa.</p><p>However, some of the team&rsquo;s key men were traded or graduated to the NHL from the Soo in the off season.</p><p>Fred Hilts, who scored more goals than any other in the league last year, and was third in the scoring race, was traded to Hull-Ottawa Canadiens.</p><p>Pat Stapleton, a rock on the Soo defence was picked up in the National League draft and is now with the Boston Bruins.</p><p>At the moment the Soo is in the League basemnt.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re losing steadily,&rdquo; Stewart commented, &ldquo;But the team has not lost the desire to win. There have been a lot of heartbreakers. Games, where the opposing team has won by just one goal.&rdquo;</p><p>The soft spoken coach went on, &ldquo;I think when we get Norm Guimond and Don Grosso back into shape and in the lineup, we&rsquo;ll have the punch needed for us to start winning games.&rdquo;</p><p>The Thunderbirds started the season with just two defencemen. They&rsquo;re now using three, after picking up Rich Healey from the Detroit organization&rsquo;s Sudbury Wolves. Healey is on loan for the rest of the season.</p><p>Norm Guimond, one of the big men on the defence, won&rsquo;t return to the lineup until the middle of January.</p><p>Don Grosso, a sophomore forward, has just returned to the ice after suffering a knee injury in the first game of the season. The first game he was in the lineup the Soo beat the leading Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers 5-1 on their own ice. Although he didn&rsquo;t figure too much in the scoring, it is possible that his presence is just enough extra to make the team go.</p><p>The Thunderbirds are going with a two platoon goaler system. They are the only club in the league to carry two netminders. The Toronto Maple Leafs have put starry Jerry Cheevers on loan to the Chicago organization for the rest of the season.</p><p>Punch Imlach, the Maple Leaf mentor, decided that Cheevers wasn&rsquo;t getting enough work or experience around Toronto and loaned him to Chicago.</p><p>Because the Maple Leafs haven&rsquo;t a team in the Eastern. Pro League, permission must be received from the league executive before any Toronto farmhand may play in the league. In the case of Cheevers, this was granted. The ex-St. Michael&rsquo;s College Major star has turned in some outstanding work for the Soo, including a shutout against the Kitchener Waterloo Beavers 5-0. He also came within 10 seconds of blanking them again, in that 5-1 win for the Soo, mentioned earlier.</p><p>Cheevers is sharing his job with Roy Edwards, who started the season.</p><p>The rebuilding of the Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds has started, and Black Jack Stewart says, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve no place but up to go and I think we&rsquo;re bound to start moving as soon as the team hits full strength. We proved we can beat the best in those two games against Kitchener.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12136/1766700-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="297" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Stewart</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Black Jack Still Hoping T-Birds Will Find Power

<p><b>Playing&hellip;</b></p><p><b>THE ARENA PHILADELPHIA, Pa.</b></p><p><b>December 25 to January 7</b></p><p><b>Coming To&hellip;</b></p><p><b>MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.</b></p><p><b>January 9 to January 21</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

ICE FOLLIES OF 1962

<div class="byline">By HUGH TOWNSEND</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02308/1766762-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="286" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Normand Jacques</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW GLASGOW, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Nelson Wilson, one of the all-time great lamplighters of Maritime hockey circles, crashed into a unique cat egory with the 300th goal of his senior career which has dated back to the 1950-51 season.</p><p>Wilson, a star right winger with New Glasgow Rangers for the past ten years after a two-year hitch with Stellarton Royals, fired the milestone marker at 10:28 of the second period in a Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League game against Moncton Beavers on December 21 at the New Glasgow Stadium.</p><p>Although only 700 fans sat in on the contest, Wilson received one of the warmest tributes ever paid a local athlete. The crowd gave him a standing ovation that lasted for several minutes after he beat Moncton netminder Ron Boomer. At the start of the third period the crowd rose again and applauded the veteran Ranger.</p><p>Linemate Daryl &ldquo;Big M&rdquo; MacMillan raced for the historic puck and presented it to Wilson as a souvenir.</p><p>The 300th tally put Wilson into a class with such Maritime greats as Roy &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Whitlock and the late Tic Williams. He wasted no time starting for his 400th goal&mdash;he scored number 301 in the following period.</p><p>While Wilson stole the highest headlines during the last part of December, there was a major change taking place in the camp of the defending champion Amherst Ramblers.</p><p>Goaltender Charlie MacTavish, who was reported to be on thin ice with the Rambler management anyway, went to the sidelines after a fracas with referee Floyd Keddy in a game at Halifax. MacTavish, one of the most tempermental goalies in Maritime history, received a match penalty and later was suspended for four games by league president John C. Mullane.</p><p>The incident apparently ended MacTavish&rsquo;s days in the Rambler goal. Not only did the Amherst management announce that Emery &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Cormier would fill in temporarily, but said that goalie Normand Jacques was being brought in from Charlotte of the Eastern United States Hockey League as the new Rambler cage cop.</p><p>MacTavish spent two years with the Windsor Maple Leafs before joining the champs to fill the Vacancy left by Jacques Monette. When announcing that Normand Jacques was being purchased, Rambler heads also stated that Monette had been sold to Greensboro of the EHL. Earlier the CAHA had suspended Monette when he failed to return to Amherst.</p><p><b>ATLANTIC BREEZES&hellip;</b> Alain Caron of the Ramblers has been cooled off slightly by opposing netminders but he has still been able to open up a 16-point margin at the top of the loop&rsquo;s scoring race. Caron scored 33 goals and 22 assists for 55 points in Amherst&rsquo;s first 19 games. Linemate Germaine Munger was in second slot with 39 points&hellip;Bob Judge of Niagara Falls, Ontario, who became a sudden star with New Glasgow, was sidelined with a broken bone in his left ankle. He left hospital just before Christmas but was not expected back in Ranger colors before playoffs, if at all&hellip;Lowell MacDonald, Pictou County native who is starring with Hamilton Red Wings in the Ontario junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop, enjoyed Christmas at home&hellip;Lowell, incidentally, is a nephew of Rangers&rsquo; Nelson Wilson&hellip;</p><h2>Hits Milestone</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01392/1766755-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="546" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Nelson Wilson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wilson’s 300th Maritime Blast Highlights Week

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div><p>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>There was plenty of action in the Senior Western International Hockey League last week, with most of it directed from league headquarters in Trail.</p><p>Ruling with an iron-hand, League President Ernie Cook handed Trail coach Bobby Kromm a five game suspension, and followed it with a two game suspension to Nelson coach Mickey Maglio.</p><p>The spark that lit the fire started when Kromm let loose with his tongue, lambassing the officiating in the W.I.H.L., during a radio interview.</p><p>The peppery Smokies pilot accused referee Sarge Sammartino, also of Trail of being &lsquo;inconsistent&rsquo; in his calls, which was also causing damage to league attendance.</p><p>When Kromm had said his part, Maglio took over via a local newspaper. Maglio was quoted as saying the league and referees were being run by Trail Smoke Eaters.</p><p>Earlier in the season, Cook said utmost respect must be shown to the executive and officials, and that criticism from players and team officials would not be tolerated.</p><p>Commenting on his suspension, Kromm expressed hostility.</p><p>&ldquo;What I said on the radio has been building up all season. Numerous club officials and players feel the same way as I do.&rdquo; The colorful Trail pilot added &ldquo;When the league president tells you that you are detrimental to hockey, after being in the league for ten season&rsquo;s that&rsquo;s the last straw.&rdquo;</p><p>On the ice the world champions continue to dominate the league. They have amassed sixteen wins against one loss in league play. Nelson Maple Leafs are quite a distance back in second place, while Rossland and Kimberley follow in that order.</p><p>In the neighboring Okanagan junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; hockey league, directors of the Kelowna Buckaroos treked to Penticton where they appeared before the directors of the British Columbia Amateur Hockey Association, to appeal the two year sentence handed their star winger Wayne Horning.</p><p>The 18-year-old Kelowna boy was suspended by Association president Ivan Temple, for his actions against referees Bernie Bathgate and George Morrish in a game played at Penticton. Kelowna officials are still awaiting the outcome of the meeting.</p><p>On the ice lanes, Kamloops Rockets remain in first place in the four team loop, holding a five point edge over runner up Kelowna Buckaroos. Don Slater Penticton Vees are in third, and the Canadians from Vernon are deep in the basement.</p><p>Kamloops sharp shooting centreman Jackie James leads the scoring parade with 21 goals and 19 helpers in 15 games. Linemate Glenn Richards is seven points back, while Kelowna centreman Bob Gruber is third with 32 points&hellip;The leagues top netminder is Peter Sternig also of Kamloops. With two shutouts to his credit Sternig has a 2.57 goals against average. Two Kelowna netminders follow. Sid Shussel has a 3.70, while Don Kennedy holds a 3:80.</p><h2>Iced</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03229/1766793-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="582" height="884"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Mickey Maglio</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Maglio, Kromm Suspended For Blasting Refs

<div class="byline">By Jack Thomson</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04176/1766824-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="508" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alf Baccari</b></figcaption></div><p>FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>THE Western Hockey League Seattle Totems, in a move to develop a supply of junior hockey talent, have agreed to sponsor the Fort William junior Hurricanes of the Lakehead junior loop. The agreement gives the Western Hockey League club first call on any Hurricane players and the Totems agreed to pay the club one thousand dollars for any player moving up to Seattle and four thousand dollars for any player advancing to the National League. This would be in addition to the first thousand. Stan Craib, the president of the Hurricane organization is very happy with the arrangement and more than pleased that he can now protect his players&hellip;Ex-Lakehead junior are on the move in the United States. Lou Kosowski, sold last year by the Fort William Canadiens to Peterborough Petes of the OHA, went into pro company this year for a try-out with North Bay of the Eastern Pro circuit, and has now been sent back to amateur company with the Toledo Mercuries of the International League. Brian Graver, who turned pro this year with the Detroit organization, and was later shifted to Toledo, has now been sold to Charlotte of the Eastern Hockey League. Also joining the Charlotte club will be Barry Hogan, who began the season with the Long Island Ducks of the same league.</p><p>TERRACE Bay Superiors, last year&rsquo;s western Canada finalists for the Intermediate honors, are having their difficulties with Amby Leblan again. Seems this year that he has shown up in the camp of the New Glasgow Rangers of the Maritime Senior League, and the Terrace Bay Club won&rsquo;t release him until some deal is made with them for his card. It seems the club had to pay money for him last year to the Kapuskasing of the OHA senior&hellip;It seems quite definite now that the Finnish National team will play a two game exhibition series in the Thunder Bay on their way to the world tournament at Colorado Springs&hellip;Rumors out of Kenora, have another junior club forming there to challenge for the district title&hellip;Twenty seven officials attended the annual referees school at Kenora this past month. CAHA Official Vic Lindquist handled the school this year&hellip;Ex-National Leaguer Charlie Rayner has returned to the helm of the Kenora Intermediate Thistles for another year&hellip;Billy Dixon former Port Arthur North Star junior, who is now attending the University at Colorado Springs on a hockey scholarship came home for the holidays. Billy tells us that the preparations being made for the World Tournament there in March are just out of this world. He says they are sparing no expense to see that this is the greatest tournament of them all&hellip;Don Brownlee has stepped down from the managers chair of the Fort William Hurricanes after many years of service and he is being replaced by Karl Lazinski&hellip;Winnipeg Maroons trying to arrange an exhibition series in Winnipeg with the Port Arthur Bearcats in January when they return from overseas&hellip;The Bearcats who are on tour overseas have had their stay lengthened by three days because of the European tournament in Sweden which won&rsquo;t be over until January fifth&hellip;Ex-American leaguer Alf Baccari, is working with Mickey Hennessey&rsquo;s Fort William Canadians&hellip;Don&rsquo;t be surprised if there are some drastic changes in local junior hockey before too long&hellip;</p><p>THERE may be trouble between the Port Arthur Bearcats and AMAHA. It seems Brian Graver who played for them last year, and tried out with the Detroit organization this season has been returned to the amateur ranks by Detroit for more seasoning. He was first sent to Toledo of the International League and now has been sold to Charlotte of the Eastern League. CAHA rules state that a player must return to the club he played for last year if they still have a card open for him, and it seems the Bearcats have just that&hellip;The Lakehead&rsquo;s Brian McLay affected in Court in St. Paul on Dec. 28th along with two other players from the Muskegon Zephers of the International League on a charge of assaulting an officer at a game there in November&hellip;Merv Dubchuk, who had a pro tryout with Montreal this year and Wayne Garrow who was to join the Hamilton Red Wings in the OHA junior division, will both be playing for Charlie Rayner&rsquo;s Kenora Thistles&hellip;Julian Klymkiw, who last year acted as the trainer for the Winnipeg Warriors has joined the Warroad Lakers and will play goal for them this year&hellip;CJLX, Lakehead, is carrying direct reports from overseas on the Bearcat tour, broadcasting each day the Bearcats play.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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New From The Lakehead Area

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01368/1766855-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><p><b>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</b></p><h2>ACROSS</h2><p>1. Chicago player shown in centre.</p><p>5. Initials of Turner of the Black Hawks.</p><p>7. Nickname of Heller, ex-Ranger star.</p><p>9. Conn Smythe attends these.</p><p>12. Month in which pictured star celebrates his birthday (abbr.)</p><p>13. Nickname of Boston&rsquo;s Pat Stapleton.</p><p>14. Initials of a Toronto defenseman.</p><p>15. One of the Leafs answers to this.</p><p>17. A Vancouver forward.</p><p>18. Native province of pictured player (abbr.)</p><p>19. Famous river, the&hellip;Grande.</p><p>20. Short for given name of Smith, once a Boston defenseman.</p><p>23. Profession of Mrs. Glenn Hall before her marriage.</p><p>26. Initials of player who wears No. 20 for Toronto.</p><p>28. Grain (sing.)</p><p>29. Pictured star was born under this sign of the Zodiac.</p><p>30. Upon.</p><p>31. Pictured player&rsquo;s&hellip;is 5&rsquo;11&rdquo;. (abbr.)</p><p>32. Initials of a former Toronto captain.</p><h2>DOWN</h2><p>1. Month in which the Stanley Cup playoffs begin (abbr.)</p><p>2. Second name of Hal Laycoe, Portland&rsquo;s coach.</p><p>3. Last October 7 Chicago played&hellip;to the NHL All-Stars.</p><p>4. 24th & 20th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>6. Howie Young&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>8. Former Toronto centre star who was traded to Detroit in 1946-47.</p><p>10. All NHL teams play 35 games&hellip;from home.</p><p>11. Initials of a former Chicago coach.</p><p>16. A former Red Wing forward.</p><p>17. Birthplace of Terry Gray of the Bruins.</p><p>21. Al MacNeil is now noted for his ability to&hellip;</p><p>22. An AHL coach.</p><p>24. Occasionally, high scoring games turn into a&hellip;</p><p>25. Native province of Boston&rsquo;s Gray. *</p><p>27. Mrs. Johnny Wilson.</p><p>30. Otherwise.</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</b></h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1. Richard</p><p>6. Eye</p><p>8. Creighton</p><p>11. Knee</p><p>12. Ru.</p><p>13. Ont.</p><p>14. Toe</p><p>16. IG.</p><p>17. L.R.</p><p>18. Ted.</p><p>20. Y.S.</p><p>21. Se.</p><p>22. Wm.</p><p>23. T.J.</p><p>24. Spencer.</p><p>29. Colour</p><p>30. Oct.</p><p>32. Sask.</p><p>33. Day</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1. Rocket</p><p>2. Cheevers</p><p>3. Aug.</p><p>4. Detroit</p><p>5. Ten</p><p>7. Youngest</p><p>9. R.N.</p><p>10. I E</p><p>15. Olympics</p><p>19. Dejordy</p><p>22. W.S.</p><p>25. N.C</p><p>26. Cook</p><p>27. E.L.</p><p>28. Road</p><p>31. Ta.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div><p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>A fire which partially destroyed the chilly Minto Arena in Prince Albert last month could well have provided the death blow to a once-proud and prosperous Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League haven.</p><p>Mintos, who have watched their fan appeal decline steadily over the past four or five years, were forced out of their Prince Albert home when fire swept the north end of the rink during a game against Estevan Bruins.</p><p>Steve Ruznisky, owner-manager of Mintos, will play out his schedule committments at some other point, preferably Dauphin, Man.</p><p>For some time now Prince Albert has been the low man on the SJHL totem pole. But it wasn&rsquo;t always that way. In the early fifties Mintos were the marvel of Canadian junior hockey and, in 1952-53, despite finishing last, averaged more than 2,000 fans per game.</p><p>Lionel Wilson, who penned a column for the Prince Albert Daily Herald during the Mintos&rsquo; heydeys, recently recalled some of the good days. His thoughts, in part, were as follows:</p><p>&ldquo;The early fifties were the days when little things excited the big crowds. Scotty Munro would bring his Humboldt Indians into a packed rink almost every game because the fans expected Scotty and his boys to rile them. They rarely failed Munro openly boasted that he was responsible for the big crowds in Prince Albert.</p><p>&ldquo;When Bill (Legs) Frased took over as Minto coach the fans&rsquo; enthusiasm brimmed over. Fraser, who was an excitable as the fans, found Mpnr) an easy man to dislike. When their players weren&rsquo;t brawling on the ice, Munro and Fraser were exchanging derogatory remarks or, as happened in Prince Albert, were brawling in the alleyways, which presented somewhat of an absurd sight, since Fraser was six-foot-three and all bones and muscles and Munro was, well, not quite as tall, or lean or muscular.</p><p>&ldquo;Next to Munro, perhaps the Prince Albert fans&rsquo; best pet hate was Murray Armstrong and his Regina Pats. The fans disliked Armstrong for a number of reasons. His teams had a nasty habit of beating the Mintos in playoff rounds and he had the nerve to keep his team in the Western Junior League when he should have been playing in the Saskatchewan League.</p><p>&ldquo;Fraser stayed in Prince Albert for only a year and a half, but he supplied plenty of newspaper copy. One day he abruptly walked out of the Minto job in a disagreement with the executive.</p><p>&ldquo;Fraser&rsquo;s successor, Ken Ullyot was as much an introvert as Fraser was an extrovert, a compart son which was always to haunt Ullyot during the four years of coaching and, in the final three years, managing the Mintos.</p><p>&ldquo;Ullyot, however, was the more knowledgeable coach and hi teams, though rarely of high calibre individually, managed to reach the league final every year. Despite the fact that Mintos&rsquo; attendance had dropped to 1,200 per game by his last year because of the influx of television, Ullyot had spent money so predently, in comparison to former regimes, that the Mintos were able to realize small profits.</p><p>&ldquo;After Ullyot left for Fort Wayne, Indiana, Minto fortunes almost collapsed overnight.</p><p>&ldquo;Now the sport is dead in Prince Albert and likely to remain so. Many reasons could be advanced for its demise but perhaps the most glaring is the short-sightedness of Minto executive of 10, nine and eight years ago, who shovelled money to outside points instead of building a sound minor system at home.</p><p>&ldquo;Soon Prince Albert was almost without juvenile players and the junior team has lived to regret it, especially when that early gusher ran dry and the money was not there to bring in the outside boys.&rdquo;</p><p>This month&rsquo;s Fire only quickened the end for Mintos. The rink had been sold from under the club and was to be torn down in the spring. The sad part about it was that nobody in Prince Albert appeared too anxious to find another home for the Mintos.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Arena Fire May Spell Finish To Junior Mintos

<div class="byline">BY FRANK MAHOVLICH</div><h2><b>THE SLAPSHOT</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>his is probably hockey&rsquo;s most powerful but overrated shot. And it&rsquo;s not a good shot for a youngster, say playing pee-wee, bantam or midget hockey.</p><p>A boy in that age bracket doesn&rsquo;t have his full strength, something needed to supply the zooming power which is the slap shot.</p><p>In the first place, you cannot get the slap shot away as fast as a wrist shot; second, you sacrifice accuracy for sheer power.</p><p>Very few of the National Hockey Leaguers are experts with the slapshot.</p><p>The one player I think can control this heavy, fastmoving shot is Montreal&rsquo;s Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion. He&rsquo;s deadly with it. And about the only one I think fits in that category. Others are good, but not in Boom Boom&rsquo;s class</p><p>If a youngster insists on trying it, or he is above average in size and strength for his age (and some boys are), there&rsquo;s only one way to practise: Line up a dozen pucks and slap at them until you get the feel of the delivery and a reasonable amount of control.</p><p>But let me repeat: I don&rsquo;t think a boy should learn the slapshot until he has mastered the business of shooting naturally by wrist.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02327/1766948-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="522" height="1362"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERNIE GEOFFRION</b></figcaption></div><h2>Made The Sparks Fly</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03292/1766941-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="548" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Legs Fraser</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04236/1766934-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="562" height="548"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Scotty Munro</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOCKY SCRAPBOOK

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NHL Decals

<div class="byline">By DOUG MARTIN</div><p>SUDBURY. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Sudbury District Juvenile Hockey League, living <i>a</i> year-to-year existence, must achieve one of two objectives if it is to survive.</p><p>(1) The re-entry of a Sudbury team to give the league four clubs.</p><p>(2) An inter-locking schedule with Huntsville teams to provide enough variety of visiting clubs.</p><p>As the league stands now. the senior member Garson-Falcon-bridge Native Sons, the all-Ontario champion Espanola Lions and the first-year Levack Knights are the only clubs operating.</p><p>The Sudbury Red Wings&mdash;sponsored last year by their Detroit namesakes&mdash;dropped out this year because of conflicts with the strong Sudbury high school league.</p><p>High school coaches did not like the idea of a student playing for two teams&mdash;juvenile and school&mdash;and, of course, it was the nonschool league that suffered.</p><p>Other Sudbury coaches, and sponsors, are wary of forming a new juvenile club, fearing the teachers will demand the boys play for the school when developed.</p><p>The inter-locking schedule with Huntsville, about 180 miles southeast of Sudbury, has already begun&mdash;but not on a large enough scale to prevent fans becoming bored with a three-team round robin.</p><p>The juveniles&mdash;since breaking away from the Sudbury District Minor Hockey Association six years ago&mdash;have encountered rough skating.</p><p>The glory years came when the juveniles were part of the minor hockey system rather than an independent organization.</p><p>It was in those years, players such as Capreol&rsquo;s Doug Mohns, Falconbridge&rsquo;s George Armstrong and Tod Sloan. Copper Cliff&rsquo;s Jerry and Zellio Toppazzini, Garson&rsquo;s Gerry Foley and Sudbury&rsquo;s Irwin Spencer, and Al Arbour graduated.</p><p>Since the change, the National Hockey League prospects have dwindled to Roger Cote, Jim Pappin and a handful of junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; and &lsquo;B&rsquo; players.</p><p>The best of the juniors are probably Chi Chi Farenzena. with Espanola last season, and Leo Oliver, with Unionville and expected to turn pro for the Toronto Maple Leafs next season.</p><p>According to most juvenile observers. the calibre has become better instead of worse with the decrease in teams.</p><p>Trevor Boyce, Garson-born coach of the Native Sons, points to three of his boys as good junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; prospects (&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t call a boy a pro prospect until he plays junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; &ldquo;).</p><p>They are Kerry Bond, a 5&rsquo;, 11&rdquo; 175-pound. 16-year-old utilityman, who won the junior high school scoring championship last season, and Dave Delpapa and defenceman Danny Budzak, a pair of 170-pound-plus players. &lsquo;</p><p>The provincial champs, Espanola Lions, have lost many good prospects already, five boys going south to junior teams.</p><p>Best of the Espanola prospects would have to be the recordbreaking, 14-year-old goaltender Ken McNally, who has already set marks this season for consecutive minutes&rsquo; of shutouts, both league and exhibition play.</p><p>Then there are Ralph Palm quist, Ron Allain, a defenceman leadings the scoring race, Bob Jones and Doug French.</p><p>Levack&rsquo;s Mike Callaghan is the best prospect on the Knights&mdash;especially if his skating improves. He&rsquo;s 5&rsquo;, 9&frac12;&rdquo;.</p><p>All of the boys&mdash;Levack&rsquo;s, Garson-Falconbridge&rsquo;s and Espanola&rsquo;s&mdash;are well under the legal limit of 18.</p><p>Boyce explained this with. &ldquo;If we can&rsquo;t win with young players, we lose. This league is for boys interested in hockey as a career.&rdquo;</p><p>Red McCarthy. Espanola&rsquo;s recreation director and coach of the Lions, is impressed with the calibre of play in the league despite the large number of youngsters.</p><p>&ldquo;The toughest games we played last year (on way to provincial crown) were right in our&rsquo;own league,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The only games that could compare would be the playoff against New Liskeard.&rdquo;</p><p>McCarthy is a former St. Mike&rsquo;s and Barrie junior and played senior with the old Sudbury Wolves.</p><p>McCarthy, however, admits to the pressing need of more teams in the juvenile age bracket.</p><p>&ldquo;We must have 30 teams in the area in the pre-juveniles.&rdquo; he points out. &ldquo;There are nine high school junior teams, there&rsquo;s a city midget league and the playground league.</p><p>&ldquo;When those kids get older, there are only nine teams they can go to. The three juvenile teams and six high school senior teams.</p><p>&ldquo;That means kids who want to play hockey can&rsquo;t.&rdquo;</p><p>Despite the league&rsquo;s problems, its likely answers will be found.</p><p>They&rsquo;ve been finding them since 1932. when the juveniles were part of the minor hockey system.</p><h2>Laced On First Skates In Sudbury</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0212/1767017-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="546" height="525"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tod Sloan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0311/1767010-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="551" height="525"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>George Armstrong</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-047/1767003-1-eng-US/c0004-042.jpg" title="C0004-04" width="545" height="522"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Mohns</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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January 6, 1962

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