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April 21, 1962

The Hockey News April 21, 1962

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;After two games in the Stanley Cup finals it became obvious to everyone that the Toronto Maple Leafs were back in form. They whipped the Hawks in both games and look like a powerhouse doing it. One of the outstanding players in the pair of victories was left winger Dick Duff. In the opening 4-1 win Duff was all over the ice, backchecking, forechecking and carrying the play to the Hawks. He and linemates George Armstrong and Dave Keon inspired the Leafs to the win, with Duff supplying the spark for his linemates.He&rsquo;s &lsquo;Your Kind of Player.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04213/1880058-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="248" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Duff</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Your Kind of Player

&ldquo;Daringly different&mdash;the SIZZLER brings an aliveness to the world of men&rsquo;s fashions. Bold&mdash;skillful&mdash;the SIZZLER features a pre-shaped crown in smooth or silk finishes. This brand New Style is slightly convex to give an overall appearance of unequalled dash and smartness.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1470/1880474-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="622" height="962"></div> &#9632;

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THE SIZZLER

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div>MUSKEGON, Mich.&mdash;The &ldquo;Cinderella Team&rdquo; of the International Hockey League, Muskegon&rsquo;s Zephyrs, knocked-off the St. Paul Saints, in the finals of the IHL playoff championship, to win the Joseph Turner Memorial Trophy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02358/1881176-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="268" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Hayden</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03311/1881169-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="277" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Moose Lallo</figcaption></div>It took Moose Lallo&rsquo;s charges but four games, in the best of seven set, to annex the crown.&ldquo;It was a team effort all the way&rdquo;, exclaimed the happy Lallo, who is the only hockey-playing grandfather in the sport. &ldquo;We worked together and it paid dividends.&rdquo;Muskegon took the first two in Muskegon, 7-6 (a double over-time win) and 7-4, while they swept past the Saints in St. Paul, 5-2 and 2-1 (another double overtimer).It was a pleasant surprise for General Manager Jerry DeLise and Lallo, who both, are in their second season at Muskegon. Many felt the Zephyrs would be lucky to make the playoffs prior to the start of the season.&ldquo;We felt we&rsquo;d finish not lower than third, behind St. Paul and Minneapolis&rdquo;, commented DeLise, &ldquo;But with Moose&rsquo;s fine leadership we won the regular season title and the championship.&rdquo;Prior to the season&rsquo;s opening, DeLise told his club &ldquo;Thirteen of us are here, and 13 of us can go all the way.&rdquo; The Zephyrs used the same 13 players the entire season, with the exception of Dennis Jordon, a goalie, who was sent to Edmonton (and later Hershey) by the Detroit Red Wings. His replacement was Jim McLeod.The reason for some of the Zephyrs&rsquo; success, was balanced scoring by the forward lines and defense&mdash;the other two, were Lallo and top-notch goaltending by McLeod.In playoff competition, the line centered by Warren Back for wingers Bryan McLay and Joe Kastelic accounted for 19 of the 52 Zephyr tallies. This trio bested the old IHL mark for a forward line scoring the most goals during a regular season 113, with 126.The foward combination of Lyle Porter, Ken Hayden and Stan Konrad blasted home 13 scores, while Larry Lund, Claude Boucher and Ron Step-henson accounted for five. Of the five goals scored by the third line, three of them were game winners in the nine Muskegon participated in post-season play.Gerry Glaude was a tower of strength on defense (both scoring and defensive work) along with Lallo and Joe Kiss. Glaude had 18 points, Lallo had nine (4 goals) and Kiss ten (6 goals).Lallo and DeLise lauded McLeod for his fine efforts, especially in the playoffs. &ldquo;He was in complete command all the way,&rdquo; asserted DeLise.&ldquo;Jim was as steady as a goaltender could be. He made the big save for us time and time again.&rdquo;DeLise had a lot of praise for three of his (eldest) veterans&mdash;Glaude, Hayden and Lallo, who are all in their late 30&rsquo;s. &ldquo;There willingness to help the kids and enjoying doing so, was an important factor in our seasons&rsquo; success.&rdquo;<h2>Highlights from Series &ldquo;C&rdquo;</h2>In the opening contest of the set, St. Paul led by a 5-2 count, scoring four times in the second period, but a four goal outburst by the Zephyrs tied it up within regulation time. Lyle Porter&rsquo;s tally at 15:40 of the finale evened matters. Joe Kiss scored in the second overtime to end the game, on relays from Joe Kastelic and Bryan McLay at 2:41.Muskegon made it 2-0, led by Gerry Glaude&rsquo;s three-goal hat trick. Both squads scored in the first session, while the Zephyrs added five counts in the middle frame to sew up the contest. Three scores by the Saints, two by Jean-Paul Denis in the third period, was anti-climatic.Ronnie Stephenson put Muskegon out into a 2-0 lead with first period scores at 3:14 and 8:17, in the third contest, as the Zephyrs had a rather easy time, coasting to a 5-2 win. Larry Lund got the winner at 8:59 of the third period. Ken Hayden, on a penalty shot and Stan Konrad lit the red light for the Zephyrs also in the last stanza. Gilles Thibault, in the first and Dick Bouchard in the third, tallied for St. Paul.Bryan McLay&rsquo;s goal at 0:50 of the second overtime period ended the series, giving the Zephyrs a 2-1 victory. Saint Paul, hoping to make a come-back drew first blood, when Bouchard took a pass from Joe Lund after only 16-seconds had been played in the game. McLay tied it up at 7:50 of the second. McLeod had 53 saves in the Muskegon goal.IHL NOTES&hellip;Muskegon won the IHL&rsquo;s &ldquo;Grand-Slam,&rdquo; winning the Fred Huber Trophy (Regular Season Championship) and the Turner Cup (Playoff Championship)&hellip;It was the first time since 1956-57, when Cincinnati blanked Indianapolis in three games, that a team failed to win a game in a playoff series.All will be quiet on the IHL scene until the league meeting, April 23 and 24 at Port Huron, Michigan&hellip;Final playoff series at Muskegon drew 4,248 and 5,199 while in St. Paul, it was 6,259 and 4,159.<h2>Standout</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04246/1881162-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="534" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Glaude</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Muskegon Dumps St. Paul In Four Straight For Crown

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div>(In The Toronto Star)TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;&ldquo;How about a deal&mdash;Litzenberger for Bathgate?&rdquo;This was shortly after Tommy Ivan became general manager of the Black Hawks. He addressed the question to Muzz Patrick, who had moved upstairs with New York Rangers. Their teams were in training camp and both could see the old issue coming up: Who was going to be last in the league&mdash;the Hawks or the Rangers?&ldquo;Are you serious?&rdquo; Patrick asked. Ivan said he was, but added: &ldquo;I think I should tell you it&rsquo;s George Litzenberger I have in mind&mdash;not his brother, Eddie.&rdquo; Patrick replied: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s all light. The Bathgate I have in mind is Frank&mdash;not his brother, Andy.&rdquo;&ldquo;When I took over the job, the Black Hawks had 19 professional players,&rdquo; Ivan sighed recently. &ldquo;Our farm system consisted of a half-interest in the Galt junior club. Boston had the other half. In a situation like that, you couldn&rsquo;t afford to pass up a chance to look at any player. When Ed Litzenberger asked if I&rsquo;d let his brother on the ice at our camp, all I asked was whether he could skate.&rdquo;In Ivan&rsquo;s first season, the Hawk roster showed Al Rollins in goal; Al Dewsbury, Lee Fo-golin, Bill Gadsby, Gus Mortson and Jack Price on defence. Forwards included Murray Costello, Bob Hassard, Ike Hildebrand, Lou Jankowski, Fred Saskamoose, Johnny McCormack and a few others&mdash;all of them gone. The only Hawk who has endured the Ivan regime is winger Ken Wharram. In seven years, that&rsquo;s a drastic turnover&mdash;or turnout.&ldquo;Not for the Hawks of that era.&rdquo; co-owner Jim Norris corrected. &ldquo;We used to have a turnover of 60 to 70 per cent in a single season. It was nothing to start the schedule with 12 or 14 fresh faces. We would go on the theory that they may not be good but, at least, they were new. If there were two players of approximately the same calibre, we&rsquo;d play the one who was more handsome. The idea was we might get some women into the stadium.&rdquo;Ivan&rsquo;s first duty was to establish connections for a farm system. Sometimes, this was an embarrassing business. Many amateur clubs wanted no part of the Hawks&mdash;although they were nice about it.Norris relied on an old friendship with the Jacobs brothers to complete an agreement with the Buffalo hockey club. This was the first move Ivan made and it proved to be a helpful one. The Bisons had Pierre Pilote, who now is the Chicago captain. Buffalo had a connection with the St. Catharines junior team, where Moose Vasko already was showing promise of becoming a big leaguer.Within a few years, St. Catharines sent Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita to the big team. By this time, of course, the mutual aid program was in operation. The Hawks had to put 13 prospects, whom they had scouted, into St. Kitts for the first season of the affiliation. Meanwhile, they were spreading out&mdash;moving into almost any hockey town that would accept them.Now, the Chicago rink is jammed with wild-eyed fans. You can&rsquo;t buy a ticket. People say Norris couldn&rsquo;t have it nicer if he held a license to print money. A few years ago, the only way he could get his friends to attend a game was to invite them out to dinner.&ldquo;We had gone through all this in 1930 at Detroit,&rdquo; Norris recalled. &ldquo;There was nothing new about it. When my father went to Detroit, the club was in receivership. The Red Wings had a few players, Larry Aurie, Herbie Lewis and Ebbie Good fellow were their big names. In an effort to build up the team, my father even took Gus Marker and Eddie Wiseman off the Shamrocks&mdash;a team he operated in Chicago.&rdquo;About 1934, Pop Norris shelled out $42,500 in cash, plus one player, Teddy Graham, for Syd Howe and Scotty Bowman, when the disbanding Ottawa Senators held their dispersal sale. Howe was the big prize, and the elder Norris actually gave up the equivalent of 50 G&rsquo;s to get him. Even for a wealthy operator&mdash;which Norris was&mdash;the deal was a show-stopper.&ldquo;On the night of a game, my father would call from out-of-town and ask how we did,&rdquo; Norris reminisced. &ldquo;If we won, he wouldn&rsquo;t inquire about the gate. If we lost, I&rsquo;d have to tell him the box office was only $2,800. Then he&rsquo;d ask why we didn&rsquo;t draw more on such a nice spring night. I&rsquo;d tell him the smelt were running. A lot of fans had gone fishing.&rdquo;<h2>Patient Man</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01428/1881069-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="541" height="1404"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Norris</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Took Tommy Long Time To Build Paying Farm

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01275/1881324-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The above pictures tell a playoff story with much more drama than a thousand words ever could. They were taken immediately after the Toronto Maple Leafs whipped the Chicago Black Hawks for the second time to take a 2-0 lead in games in the Stanley Cup Playoff final. Above left: Goaler Glenn Hall of the Hawks is a dejected man as he takes off his gear. On the right: a joyous Johnny Bower of the Leafs throws up his arms as the buzzer sounds to end the game. ((Photos by Michael Burns))</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Dejection And Happiness In Leaf, Hawk Final

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Doug Harvey&rsquo;s future with the Rangers is being determined now in New York and Montreal and likely will be established by the end of the month. A public announcement is expected to follow.At the moment there are several possibilities. They are:Harvey will return as player-coach and everything will be rosy.Harvey will retire as player and seek to return as coach and everything won&rsquo;t be rosy.Harvey will retire as player coach and return to his home in Montreal.More and more it appears that 37-year-old Doug has had it as a player. A proud All-Star, Harvey would like to leave the game in the same dignified manner as his former teammate Maurice Richard, while still a hero.If Harvey continues playing, his All-Star lustre is bound to tarnish and, by next season, he might very well be the target of the Garden hoot mongers.Doug is both aware of this and the cold fact that he ain&rsquo;t what he used to be. Several times during the last half of the season he confided that the spring had gone from his legs.He scoffed at his first half All-Star nomination and continually disparaged his play, even when it was superior.Once, the reporter congratulated Harvey late in the season after a key conquest of Detroit. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t give me any credit,&rdquo; Doug said significantly, &ldquo;I was lousy.&rdquo;After the Rangers&rsquo; playoff experience he said: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ll be playing much more.&rdquo; All of which indicates that it&rsquo;s doubtful that Harvey will return as player coach.According to his agreement with the New York brass, Harvey, despite a three-year contract, had the option to quit after a season. Now it develops that there&rsquo;s some uncertainty about the terms of his future contract.Originally it was believed that Harvey would continue receiving the $25,000 annual salary even if he quit playing. But&hellip;&ldquo;I think there&rsquo;s a difference in the money,&rdquo; Doug admitted, &ldquo;if I didn&rsquo;t play. I don&rsquo;t know if I could be just a bench coach. I&rsquo;ll have to talk to Muzz about it.&rdquo;From all indications Ranger g.m. Muzz Patrick will nix Harvey&rsquo;s retirement bid, if he possibly can. That&rsquo;s where the fuss might start.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a three year contract that I want to see completed with Doug as a player,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s an All-Star defenseman. He&rsquo;s the most important man in my plans.&rdquo;But Harvey&rsquo;s family happiness gets top priority and there&rsquo;s some suspicion that he&rsquo;s not entirely ecstatic with life in suburban Long Beach, a good hour&rsquo;s ride from the Garden.So the possibility exists that Harvey will retire as player-coach and return to his Montreal villa.&ldquo;I want to go to Montreal to straighten out some personal business,&rdquo; Harvey said after a goodbye speech to his players. &ldquo;My business partner in Canada died some time ago and I must give things in Montreal my attention for a couple of weeks. That&rsquo;s only fair to the business, myself, my family and the Rangers.&rdquo;What will Harvey decide? Right now it&rsquo;s anybody&rsquo;s guess.&ldquo;I want a chance to think things over for the next two or three weeks,&rdquo; said Doug. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll have all the answers I&rsquo;m looking for by May 1. When I return from Montreal I&rsquo;ll make my decision.&ldquo;What it will be I can&rsquo;t say at this point.&rdquo;<h2>Question Mark</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01373/1879682-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="518" height="886"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Harvey</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Doug Sets May 1st For Decision On Next Move

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Any way you look at Chicago&rsquo;s rousing semi-final series playoff victory over Montreal&rsquo;s once-mighty Canadiens, the hero of the Blawk Hawk triumph was little Stan Mikita.True, the Black Hawks must play as a team to win. And this they did&mdash;outplaying or staying even with the vaunted first place Canadiens even for the first two games in Montreal, which they lost. And they had heroes aplenty as they came back to win four straight and, for the second straight season, upset first-place finisher Montreal in six games.Bobby Hull, always a scoring threat, led the Black Hawks in goals with four. Veteran center Bronco Horvath came through with three big goals as did Hull&rsquo;s playmaking center, Red Hay.Every line husled all the way in the four victories, and Chicago&rsquo;s forechecking was particularly effective. Reg Fleming&rsquo;s all-out aggressiveness made him the standout of Chicago&rsquo;s initial victory, a 4-1, hard-checking affair in the Stadium. Eric Nesterenko, after a so-so season, was a standout in several games and especially the fifth game, a 4-2 win in Montreal, for his exceptional defensive play.The Chicago defense was steady throughout the series with Jack Evans, Pete Pilote, Moose Vasko and Dolly St. Laurent. And versatile Bob Turner played a key role in helping to stop the scoring antics of Montreal veteran Dickie Moore.In goal, Glenn Hall made 191 saves, and his save on Moore in the last game (a 2-0 win on Chicago ice) was definitely the turning point of the final game.But as you look back over the series one name stands out above the rest&mdash;that of the 165-pound Mikita. Consider the following:1. He scored Chicago&rsquo;s only goal in the opening game 2-1 loss in Montreal.2. He had a hand in 13 of Chicago&rsquo;s 19 goals during the series.3. He scored or assisted on Chicago&rsquo;s important first goal in five of the six games&mdash;and on the one time he didn&rsquo;t figure in the first goal he scored the winner.4. He scored the winner in Chicago&rsquo;s first triumph, assisted on four of Chicago&rsquo;s five goals in their 5-3 second triumph, assisted on two goals including the winner in their third 4-2 victory, and assisted on both goals in the final 2-0 victory.5. His 3 goals and 10 assists for the series made him far and away the high scorer for both teams.6. His brief but effective &ldquo;feud&rdquo; with Montreal bad man Lou Fontinato in the fourth game helped pave the way to Chicago&rsquo;s triumph and was typical of the Black Hawks&rsquo; fighting spirit and desire to beat Montreal for the second straight season.7. His great playmaking set up his &ldquo;Scooter Line&rdquo; wingmates, Ken Wharam and Ab McDonald, for three goals each. The line once again set the pace as they did in Chicago&rsquo;s upset victory in winning the Stanley Cup last year for the first time in 23 years.Mikita, who stands 5 ft. 9 in., is in his third National Hockey League season. Last year he tied for 15th in the individual NHL scoring race with a great surge in the second half of the season after scoring only three goals in the first half.This year he was Chicago&rsquo;s steadiest player as the team wallowed in fourth and fifth place over the first half of the season. He continued his pace over the second half, tying Detroit&rsquo;s great Gordie Howe for third place in the NHL scoring race (behind teammate Bobby Hull and New York&rsquo;s Andy Bathgate). He had 25 goals and 52 assists.At season&rsquo;s end he was voted to THE HOCKEY NEWS All-Star team at center and is playing in the post-season playoffs as if he were out to prove anew his right to such an honor.Chicago general manager Tommy Ivan has maintained all along that Mikita, despite his fine regular season showing a year ago, was even a better player than he had shown. He rates him as one of the league&rsquo;s fastest skaters and Mikita has already established his rating as one of the NHL&rsquo;s cleverest playmakers and headiest players. His 25 goals this year and 19 last season speak for themselves on his shooting accuracy.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s matured,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Black Hawks coach Rudy Pilous after the fourth game in which Fontinato tried his best to put Mikita hors de combat with four crashing checks. On two of them Mikita collapsed momentarily on the ice and Fontinato, who had charged half way across the rink, was penalized. Both times the Black Hawks scored&mdash;the margin of victory in their 5-3 triumph.<h2>Sparkler</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02355/1879713-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="514" height="885"><figcaption class="caption-body">Stan Mikita</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Biggest Hero Of Chicago Victory Over Dabs Was Stan-The-Man

<div class="byline">By FRANK ORR</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Maple Leafs&rsquo; 7-1 shellacking of New York in the wrap-up game of their semifinal series provided the swan song for Rangers&rsquo; Johnny Wilson, hockey&rsquo;s iron man.The industrious winger, who played in 580 straight games during his NHL career with Detroit, Chicago, Toronto and New York, announced his retirement after the game.&ldquo;Hockey&rsquo;s been wonderful to me,&rdquo; Wilson said. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;ve had enough living out of a suitcase. It&rsquo;s time I stayed home with my family. I have a fulltime job in Windsor.&rdquo;Wilson&rsquo;s string of consecutive games began with the final 20 tilts of the 1951-52 season and was broken at the start of the 1960-61 season when he was a minor holdout and Leafs sent him to Rochester. Later he was dealt with Pat Hannigan to Rangers for Eddie Shack.Johnny teamed with rookies Rod Gilbert and Dave Balon to form Rangers&rsquo; top scoring unit in the playoff series.<h2>Retires</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03323/1879744-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="477" height="861"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Wilson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Ironman Wilson Hangs Up His Gear Forever

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>(In The Toronto Star)TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;They look the same, the uniforms are identical and so are the numbers, &ldquo;but these aren&rsquo;t the same Black Hawks we&rsquo;ve been kicking around all season.&rdquo;Toe Blake, foreman of the vanquished Montreal Canadiens, was discussing the baffling transformation which has changed the Chicago team from the docile bumblers of November and December into the sleek, powerful hockey machine now playing Toronto for the Stanley Cup.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04247/1879775-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="277" height="398"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toe Bloke</figcaption></div>&ldquo;What happened during the schedule goes out the window now,&rdquo; warned Blake, &ldquo;and Leafs better remember it during the final series against Chicago. We had a better one and look where we are. Chicago must be a good money team. How else can you explain what happened to them last spring?&rdquo;Last season, Hawks finished their schedule 17 points behind the first-place Canadiens, then dumped them out of the Stanley Cup playdowns and whipped Detroit in the final series.This year, the turnabout has been even more pronounced. Hawks again wound up third but this time were 23 points back of Canadiens and 15 behind the second-place Leafs. And here they are, back in the finals again.How come? What goes on here? Have Hawks been dragging their feet all winter, or playing possum, or what?&ldquo;A lot of people picked us to finish first but that wasn&rsquo;t our fault,&rdquo; says coach Rudy Pilous. &ldquo;I think they were expecting a bit too much from a team that was 17 points off the pace just a few months before.&ldquo;A lot of things happened.&ldquo;For one thing, I don&rsquo;t push a team. I think it&rsquo;s better to take your time with certain players, soft-soap them, if necessary, and sort of let them settle into their best stride. That way they&rsquo;ll be flying at the right time.&rdquo;Pilous pointed out, too, that the head which bears the crown gets rocks thrown at it.&ldquo;As champions, we ran into 70 tough games, with no soft spots,&rdquo; Pilous explains. &ldquo;Everybody was waiting for us, saving their best shots.&rdquo;And hat sizes: &ldquo;We had a little trouble with egotism, which is to be expected after a big win like we had last spring. It took a while to get that ironed out.&rdquo;Injuries and slumps: &ldquo;We had a few guys hurt early, like Red Hay, Pierre Pilote, and Murray Balfour, all key players. And our big man, Bobby Hull didn&rsquo;t get rolling until the second half of the season.&rdquo;Then, again, it took time to fit Bronco Horvath into Tod Sloan&rsquo;s centre spot between Ron Murphy (now Reg Fleming) and Eric Nesterenko. That was the only significant change in Hawks&rsquo; successful lineup.To tell the truth, Hawks fattened their average at the expense of second-division teams. They took only eight points of a possible 28 against Canadiens and 12 of 28 from Toronto. That&rsquo;s why Hawks were 5-to-l outsiders in pre-playoff betting. &#9632;

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“Hawks Not The Same In The Playoffs, “Says Toe

<div class="byline">By VERN DEGEER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01372/1879813-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">One of the staunchest supporters of the Players&rsquo; Pension Plan is Coach Doug Harvey of the New York Rangers, and one of Doug&rsquo;s greatest admirers is Clarence Campbell. Above, Campbell pre-sents Harvey with All-Star momento while Elmer Vasko of Chicago looks on. Campbell had tough job to sell players on participating in plan that will help provide for them in the future.</figcaption></div>This is the final installment in the two chapter series on President Clarence Campbell of the National Hockey League. This week he tells Vern DeGeer about the job he had to do to sell the very successful players&rsquo; pension plan and his early days as an NHL referee.MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Trials, tribulations and an occasional tribute have followed Clarence S. Campbell through his 16 seasons as president of the National Hockey League.Along the route he has been referred at various times by a critical section of the press as; &ldquo;the enigmatic sheriff,&rdquo; &ldquo;the glorified office boy;&rdquo; &lsquo;butler for the governors,&rdquo; and countless other titles, few of them complimentary.To all this Clarence answers: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not trying to win any popularity contest. I have a job to do and I&rsquo;m doing it to the best of my ability. And I&rsquo;m not boasting when I say I feel my performance has been adequate.&rdquo;U.S. writers in particular used to harp on the theme that pro hockey &ldquo;needs a czar.&rdquo;Look what happened to the czar.Campbell explains his office with neatness and dispatch. &ldquo;Although my title is that of president, actually I&rsquo;m the general manager of the N.H.L. I haven&rsquo;t a dollar invested in an organization that is often described as a multi-million-dollar concern. My job is administration. I follow out the policies laid down by the owners of the six clubs. Consequently I can&rsquo;t and don&rsquo;t go around swinging a big stick. I&rsquo;m not paid to do that.&rdquo;The N.H.L. governors give him a set of traffic rules with specific powers. His most formidable badge of authority has to do with the enforcement of discipline among players, coaches and referees.The N.H.L.&rsquo;s third president doesn&rsquo;t attempt to assume any credit for the post-war boom in gate receipts and attendance figures. But his administrative efficiency hasn&rsquo;t passed unnoticed in the dizzy puckcashing whirl.Today gross receipts for the regular N.H.L. schedule and the playoffs are estimated at more than seven million dollars. It represents an increase of 55 per cent over the figures when Campbell took charge in 1946.His administrative problems have greatly increased through the stretching of the regular schedule to 35 home games for each club; elimination of all overtime except in the playoffs, Campbell has one of his toughest assignments in charting the schedule itself in order to crowd the big program into limited space, dovetailing preferred dates for such clubs as Montreal and Toronto (which do not book home games on Sundays); and arranging movements that combine economy with equitable home and away engagements.When Campbell took over in September, 1956 the average salary in the N.H.L. was $6,105, not including bonuses. Last season it was around $12,100. Bonuses and achievement awards put many of the players in the $15,000 bracket.This brings us around to the Players Pension Fund. His eyes sparkle. He comes out of his shell of reserve and cool deliberation when you mention the subject. His enthusiasm knows no bounds.&ldquo;The Fund,&rdquo; he tell you,&rdquo; gives me more satisfaction than anything I&rsquo;ve ever done, in or out of sport.&rdquo;&ldquo;It was a hard-sell job,&rdquo; Campbell explains. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t get much encouragement from any source. The players were skeptical. The governors didn&rsquo;t think it would work. It took me two years of hard plugging to get the movement under way. In the end I ran into only one violent challenger among the players. This player never did contribute to the fund.&rdquo;Today the fund has accumulated close to three million dollars, with the league contributing approximately $200,000.The Pension Fund was originally designed for players and coaches. Then referees and junior executives were added.Many of the players objected to paying in $900 a season, even for the purpose of future security.&ldquo;I had to do a lot of selling to put over my point,&rdquo; Campbell says. &ldquo;I found the answer when I told the players that they could save that $900 yearly contribution simply by buying a less fancy automobile.&rdquo;&ldquo;I had some auto experts figure it out. The answer was that if they bought a car with a six-inch shorter wheelbase, they&rsquo;d have the $900 right in their hands. And it worked.&rdquo;Few professional sport executives have risen through the ranks with more dedication, more practical experience. Campbell&rsquo;s came chiefly through hockey refereeing. He&rsquo;s handled amateur and professional games with equal aplomb. He got his basic training, wielding a cow-bell as a referee of amateur games in Alberta.Frequently he&rsquo;d bounce through a season, alternating between amateur and professional games, a most unusual experience, shared only by such celebrated arbiters as Mike Rodden and Lou Marsh.Campbell&rsquo;s refereeing was chiefly among the amateur puckchasers in the 1920&rsquo;s. His first big assignment came in 1928when he was one of the traffic directors at the Olympic hockey games at St. Moritz, Switzerland.Campbell was now on his way in the hockey world, Wintering on the ice lanes, and spending the off-season with a law firm in Edmonton. Between 1929 and 1940 he gathered experience and a reputation as an efficient traffic director in the Western Hockey League and American Hockey League. By the late 1930&rsquo;s he was a full-fledged member of the N.H.L. refereeing staff.Campbell was living dangerously by the time he reached the N.H.L. He was a stern ice disciplinarian. He was also ambitious. And he was attracting a spirited colony of detractors. These couldn&rsquo;t figure why a brilliant man of letters, a Rhodes scholar, and a lawyer, was spending his time ringing a cow-bell or blowing a whistle.These were the lean thirties and Clarence had the answer. &ldquo;I had to eat, and life as a lawyer in those days had few material rewards.&rdquo;Campbell was named to the N.H.L. refereeing staff in the Winter of 1936 by the late Frank Calder. That dour Scot encouraged Campbell to visit N.H.L. headquarters between assignments. Word got out that Calder was considering the lanky Westerner as assistant referee-in-chief. It wasn&rsquo;t long before wide-spread gossip had it that the versatile newcomer was ticketed for N.H.L. headquarters as the president&rsquo;s general assistant.This was too much for the N.H.L. brass, including two prominent club executives who were freely admitting at the time that they would be glad to take over the presidency, if and when Calder retired. Suddenly Campbell was in the line of fire. His uncompromising honesty as an arbiter didn&rsquo;t help.In his third N.H.L. season Campbell packed his skates and whistle and returned to Edmonton. His severest critics claimed he had been fired.&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t that way at all,&rdquo; Campbell told us, &ldquo;I had no dispute with anyone when I left. It was strictly a matter of economy and by that time I was a practiced hand at economy. The league had decided to drop its double refereeing system, and substitute one &lsquo;referee and a linesman. There wasn&rsquo;t enough work to make it worthwhile with only one referee in each game, so I quit and went back West.&rdquo;Doubtless Campbell figured at the time that he had burned the bridges behind him; that life for him belonged in the society of something besides cow-bells and whistles.Little did Campbell dream that one day he would return, championed by some of the very men who had damned him as a referee, and branded him as an over-zealous lawyer, to become their president-general manager.Here he stands, finishing his 16th season as president of the National Hockey League, watchdog over one of the world&rsquo;s most successful professional sport operations&mdash;and happiest in the thought that his Pensions Fund is a most gratifying reward for services rendered.<h2>A Happy Moment</h2><h2>Campbell Makes A Point</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02300/1879806-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1576" height="1035"><figcaption class="caption-body">There are few better after dinner speakers around than the NHL president. Above, as a guest speaker at dinner honoring veteran sports columnist Elmer Ferguson of the Montreal Star he held the attention of packed house. Left to right: Ferguson; Leo Dandurand, former coach and owner of the Montreal Canadiens; Campbell; Baz O&rsquo;Meara, veteran Montreal columnist and Frank Selke, general manager of the Canadiens.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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In End Only One Man Did Not Say Yes He Explains Position As League Boss

Founded October 1st, 1947-35Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Ken McKenzie, President and PublisherWill V. Cote, Vice-Pres.&Gen. Mgr.Len Bramson, Editor-in-ChiefYearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth; $4.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign Countries $4.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign CountriesPostage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y.Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash.Printed in CanadaVol. 15 MONTREAL. APRIL 21, 1962 No. 29 &#9632;

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01437/1879896-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="365" height="384"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02403/1879889-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="512" height="74"></div>&bull; CHICAGO&mdash; The Black Hawks are grooming Chico Maki to take over Murray Balfour&rsquo;s position at right wing on their Million Dollar Line&hellip;Maki is the star forward with Buffalo Bisons of the AHL who looked so impressive during the few games he played for the Hawks this season. He should be right at home on a line with Red Hay and Bobby Hull&hellip;Two veteran Toronto players say they are serious about retiring at the end of the current Cup playoffs&hellip;Some observers attending the finals here think Bobby Hull is shooting from too far out. They think hockey&rsquo;s latest super star is developing a bad habit as these shots of 70 to 80 feet out are invariably off the net&hellip;Toe Blake explained his reasons for picking Toronto for the Cup this way: &ldquo;The Hawks have trouble on Toronto ice and the Leafs are also a bit heavier than the Canadiens and it will be tough for the Hawks to push them around.&rdquo;&hellip;Rudy Pilous can&rsquo;t sleep nights during tht playoffs. The Chicago coach sat up until the wee hours of the morning yacking with Jim Vipond, sports editor of the Toronto Globe&Mail, during the games played in Toronto&hellip;Emile Francis, highly-rated young hockey executive with the New York Rangers management, is busy these evenings watching playoff games in the various pro and amateur loops in search of players that might help the Rangers next season&hellip;The Rangers took in over a million dollars at the box office this season for the first time in history&hellip;Jim Nielsen, 20-year-old defenseman with Kitchener-Waterloo, is being highly touted by the New Yorkers for next season. He&rsquo;s part Danish and part Indian, which recalls Tom Meany&rsquo;s remark about Rudy York: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s part Indian and part first baseman.&rdquo;&hellip;Bob Wilson, chief scout of the Black Hawks, plans to call his latest filly colt from his mare, Page Pug, a gift from Hawks&rsquo; co-owner Jim Norris, &ldquo;Hull 50&rdquo;&hellip;It was Wilson who discovered Bobby Hull&hellip;Included among the many out of town newspapermen covering the series is Jacques Beauchamp, sports editor of the Montreal Matin. Jacques, who knows more NHL players intimately than any writer on the beat, sees every game Canadiens play at home and on the road. He has only missed five road games in the last 12 years. He attended a game in Montreal a year ago while suffering from pneumonia.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03327/1879882-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="273" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chico Maki</figcaption></div>&bull; THE CHICAGO PRESS Club were hosts to newspapermen and hockey executives attending the playoffs at a fine luncheon on the Monday between the third and fourth games&hellip;The Hawks figure the acquisition of Bronco Horvath was one of the best things that happened to them during the off-season. Horvath was picked up in the draft from Boston. He was used sparingly in the early part of the schedule but still managed to score 17 goals on a part-time basis. His play in the playoffs has been terrific&hellip;Jack Adams, Detroit&rsquo;s General Manager, recently returned from a trip to the Western Hockey League. Asked how Howie Young, his former problem boy was doing, Adams replied: &ldquo;Not much. Just filling all the buildings.&rdquo;&hellip;Len Gaudette, manager of Canada&rsquo;s team in the World Championships, has been fired from his job as manager of the Galt Arena&hellip;Conn Smythe says he was completely fooled during the opening game of the finals in Toronto&hellip;When Referee Eddie Powers handed out four roughing penalties in the first-period fracas, Smythe exclaimed: &ldquo;If those weren&rsquo;t fights, I never saw a fight.&rdquo;&hellip;George Armstrong has been the outstanding player for the Maple Leafs both against Rangers and against the Hawks. The Leaf captain is playing the finest hockey of his lengthy career&hellip;Dick Duff, Tim Horton, Allan Stanley and Johnny Bower in goal have all played key roles in Leaf wins&hellip;Dave Keon and Bob Baun should also be included&hellip;After Toronto&rsquo;s first two wins most of the close observers on the scene are of the opinion the Leafs will win the Cup for the first time since 1951&hellip;Hawks figure their rabid fans give them a two-goal edge every game on home ice&hellip;&ldquo;The Hawks won&rsquo;t push the Leafs around the way they did us,&rdquo; said Frank Selke of the Habitants&hellip;&ldquo;We had six or seven little guys who couldn&rsquo;t stand the wear and tear.&rdquo;&hellip;When asked about Duff and Keon, a couple of little guys on the Leafs, Selke answered: &ldquo;Keon&rsquo;s too fast and Duffs too tough.&rdquo;&hellip;Glenn Hall has played sensationally in every playoff game this year. What a performer!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04271/1879875-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="286" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bronco Horvath</figcaption></div>&bull; IRVING MITCHELL FELT is the top man in the reorganization of Madison Square Garden. Felt becomes chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of the Rangers. William M. Jennings was appointed president and managing director and Edwin M. Ost Jr., vice president and secretary-treasurer&hellip;Admiral John J. Bergen, former president of the Rangers, recently requested that he be relieved of active participation in the Rangers&hellip;Bill Briordy of the New York Times was elected president of the New York Hockey Writers Association succeeding Mel Woody of the Newark News&hellip;Woody did a fine job during his tenure of office&hellip;Chicago&rsquo;s Stan Mikita has a good chance to better Gordie Howe&rsquo;s playoff record of most total scoring points. Mikita has 17. Howe&rsquo;s record is 20&hellip;Howe and his wife Colleen recently returned from a vacation at Las Vegas&hellip;Max and Doug Bentley having a great time here renewing old friendships. The Bentley brothers were two of hockey&rsquo;s most talented forwards and along will Billy Mosienko formed Chicago&rsquo;s finest forward line&rsquo;&hellip;Max and Doug both operate large farms near Delisle, Sask, and both have young upcoming hockey players&hellip;Max has a big (six-foot, 185 lbs.) 19-year-old who plays center. Several NHL clubs are interested in him. It looks like he&rsquo;ll play for Los Angeles of the WHL next season&hellip;Max says he hasen&rsquo;t felt so good for years and played all winter in a local senior league.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02339/1879868-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="256" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Max Bentley</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05243/1879934-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="313" height="483"></div><h2>A Man Who&rsquo;s Stuck With A Legend</h2>Nothing does so much for a story as the passage of time. And 24 years have elapsed since Alfie Moore, a minor league goalie, strolled from a pub to a place in posterity, right up there beside the Stanley Cup. That&rsquo;s the legend&mdash;and Alfie Moore is stuck with it. In vain, he protests that, usually he was as dry as a chip off the goal stick which he practically rammed down the throats of the Toronto Maple Leafs.&ldquo;I suspect it was Joe Farrell who started the story that I was primed with beer,&rdquo; Alfie said recently. &ldquo;Joe was a great publicity man and a wonderful guy. He was with the Black Hawks for many years.&rdquo;The yarn was good enough without the hops. Alfie was the unwanted ugly duckling. He wound up by being feted and showered with gifts in Chicago, as the man who inspired the Hawks to lick the Leafs for the Stanley Cup. That was in the spring of 1938. The two teams haven&rsquo;t hit head-on in the final heat for the big basin since&mdash;until last Tuesday.&ldquo;I had played the season in Pittsburgh,&rdquo; Alfie explained. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t intend to go near the Gardens that night when Chicago and Toronto started their series. Some friends wanted tickets. I got eight tickets from Bill Stewart, who was coaching the Hawks. When he was refereeing in the AHL, Bill fined me more often than he fined any other player. Despite that, we were friends.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06204/1879927-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="512" height="1476"><figcaption class="caption-body">Syl Apps</figcaption></div>A few hours later, Stewart was informed his godlie for the evening would be Alfie Moore. What had happened was that Mike Karakas, Chicago&rsquo;s regular net-minder, had been knocked out of the game when one foot swelled. An injury, which had been regarded as merely a bruise, turned out to be a broken toe. The sub goalie situation in big league shinny then was even more ridiculous than it is now. The Hawks&rsquo; alternate goalie, Paul Goodman, had been permitted to go home.&ldquo;Chicago wanted to use Davey Kerr as a stand-in,&rdquo; Alfie recalled. &ldquo;Leafs objected, and I guess you couldn&rsquo;t blame them. Davey, who belonged to the Rangers, had won the Vezina Trophy that season. The only other professional goalies in town were myself and Jakie Forbes&mdash;formerly of the New York Americans&mdash;but Forbes had been retired. When I got home for dinner that night, there was a message that I should go to the Gardens because I might have to play.&rdquo;<h2>Under Suspicion As A Leaf Stooge</h2>Moore found himself the middle man in a squabble of which he wanted no part. The Hawks had Davey Kerr on hand and claimed the Leafs had agreed they could dress him. This was denied by the Leafs. When Alfie arrived, the Chicago players suspected a plot in which Moore was a Toronto stooge.&ldquo;I never will forget Louis Trudel of the Hawks&mdash;one of my best friends, by the way&mdash;saying he wished I had broken my leg in Pittsburgh,&rdquo; Alfie said, with a laugh. &ldquo;When I convinced the Hawks I had no desire to play they suddenly wanted me. There wasn&rsquo;t anything else they could do.&rdquo;Moore blamed Leafs for putting him in this untenable situation. He told Conn Smythe, manager Of the Torontos: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll beat you tonight if I have to eat that puck.&rdquo; Smythe retorted: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s exactly what I want you to do.&rdquo;Alfie didn&rsquo;t eat the puck. He didn&rsquo;t have to. Leafs scored in a matter of seconds and it looked as if the panic might be on. It was the only goal they got as Alfie robbed them with both hands and stymied them with both pads. Leafs couldn&rsquo;t get the puck past him again.&ldquo;Mickey Ion, who was referee, gave me a break,&rdquo; Alfie confessed. &ldquo;Syl Apps broke away from the Leafs. He beat our defence. I was a dead duck, too, when he drew me far out of the net. As he went after me, I threw my stick. Apps, the goal stick, and the puck all wound up in the corner. Ian must have decided that Apps tore the stick from my hand. He ordered a faceoff. If he had ruled that a goal should be counted for Apps, I couldn&rsquo;t have said a word.&rdquo;Hawks beat the Leafs 3-1 and Alfie Moore got the same kind of press as Horatius at the bridge and the little Dutch boy who put his finger in the dike. He was considered such a hot number that he was declared ineligible as a Hawk replacement for additional games of the series.&ldquo;That was the best news I ever heard,&rdquo; Alfie admitted. &ldquo;I figured lightning couldn&rsquo;t strike twice. They let me escape before I cooled off.&rdquo; &#9632;

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MILT DUNNELL speaking on SPORT IN THE TORONTO STAR

<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01393/1879965-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toe Blake</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Although &ldquo;very disappointed&rdquo; about the downfall of his team in the Stanley Cup semi-final, Coach Toe Blake is not yet ready to give up the reins of the Canadiens.&ldquo;It has been my hardest year as coach, my most disappointing year.&rdquo; said Blake as he tried to fathom the Habs&rsquo; playoff elimination by Chicago Black Hawks in six games. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;m not giving up. I&rsquo;d hate to bow out a loser. So if the club will have me, I intend to be back on a one-year contract.&rdquo;Blake&rsquo;s statements squashed late-season speculation that he would retire this summer after seven years as Montreal coach in which he led the Habs to six league championships and five straight Stanley Cup titles.The five-in-a-row cup run from 1956 to 1960 was snapped last spring by the Hawks and again this year when Chicago moved into the Stanley Cup final against Toronto.Montreal fans found it hard to fathom how a team that finished 23 points ahead of third-placed Chicago could have been beaten by the Hawks in six playoff games. However they were not alone in their quandry. Blake was equally bewildered by the sudden downfall of his Habs along the Stanley Cup trail.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m terribly disappointed,&rdquo; said Toe after he met the players for the last time this season. The Habs were on hand for a team picture before hanging up their skates until training time next September.&ldquo;Despite all our injuries, I never thought for a minute that we would lose in the playoffs. I though we had enough balance to overcome injuries the same as we did so many times during the regular schedule.&ldquo;Our young players may have tightened up in the semi-final. But I can&rsquo;t understand why some of them couldn&rsquo;t get up for the series against Chicago.&rdquo;Blake was obviously referring to Canadien&rsquo;s well-balanced attack during the schedule which saw no less than seven of them hit the 20-goal mark. In the semi-final only one of them was producing, Claude Provost who got two goals in the six games after netting 33 during the regular season.The other Montreal big guns, Gilles Tremblay (32), Ralph Backstrom (27), Bernie Geoffrion (23), Bobby Rousseau (21) and Bill Hicke (20), failed to hit the scoresheet in the playoffs.&ldquo;Only one of our forward lines was really effective&mdash;Phil Goyette, Claude Provost and Dickie Moore who played well all through the series. The rest of them had a let down until that last game when Glenn Hall was just too hot for us.&rdquo;&ldquo;The only reason I can give for our defeat,&rdquo; added Blake, &ldquo;is that not enough of my men played well while every last one of the Hawks managed to get up for the semi-final series.&rdquo;Toe agreed that the absence of two fine playoff performers, Henri Richard, out since March 3 with a broken arm, and Marcel Bonin, sidelined through a back injury, Weakened the Canadiens. They also went into the playoffs with Jean Beliveau, Lou Fontin-ato and Don Marshall handicapped by injuries.&ldquo;However,&rdquo; said Blake, &ldquo;we were a lot better off than last season and I didn&rsquo;t see any reason why we couldn&rsquo;t beat the Hawks. As it turned out we suffered a letdown at the wrong time. My big regret is that everybody forgets the importance of the league championship. The Canadiens gave so much for 70 games but it&rsquo;s all forgotten in four playoff losses.&rdquo;Asked what he thought of the Hawks&rsquo; strategy to skate and check rather than hit the Habs as they did in that rough semifinal last season, Blake replied:&ldquo;They didn&rsquo;t hit as much because they knew we had a few fellows who could hit back. Still there&rsquo;s no reason why we couldn&rsquo;t beat the Hawks any way they chose to play. After all. we beat them by a wide margin during the schedule. We just fell apart in the playoffs.&ldquo;At the same time, I have to give the Hawks credit. When they put us out last season. I begrudged them the series because I thought they butchered us. We went into the series a crippled team and they took full advantage of our injuries. This time, even if it hurts, I have to admit that Chicago was the better team in the playoffs.&rdquo;Frank Selke, the Canadiens&rsquo; managing director, refused to alibi the setback.&ldquo;The Black Hawks played well and we didn&rsquo;t,&rdquo; said Selke. &ldquo;Our veterans disappointed us during the series and our rookies didn&rsquo;t produce. Next year we hope that our veterans will be back healthy and ready to play. Our rookies will be more mature.&ldquo;But now,&rdquo; added Mr. Selke, &ldquo;The wolves will start screaming about the fellows we traded and had to sell. They fail to realize that we just can&rsquo;t keep them all. But I&rsquo;ll tell you this much, the cranks are not going to talk me into getting rid of players who have meant so much to us down through the years.&ldquo;Whatever changes we decide to make will be carefully thought out. But I don&rsquo;t think we need to make any wholesale changes.&rdquo;No retirements are contemplated and despite all rumors Jean Beliveau, Dickie Moore and Boom Boom Geoffrion are expected back with the Habs next season.<h2>He&rsquo;ll Be Back &#9632;</h2>

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Disappointed Toe Will Not Give Up The Reins

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, III&mdash;The public address system announced &ldquo;One minute to play&rdquo; and a capacity Chicago Stadium crowd of 16,666 stood and cheered, tooted horns and blew whistles. When the final buzzer sounded 60 seconds later the third place Black Hawks had eliminated first place Montreal for the second straight season in the semi final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02360/1879996-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="269" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Hall</figcaption></div>Hero of Chicago&rsquo;s sixth game (they won four straight after losing the first two in Montreal) was goalie Glenn Hall. The Chicago players rushed to his side after the 2-0 victory. Chicago&rsquo;s &ldquo;Mr. Goalie&rdquo; had made 41 saves in that final game and 191 during the six-game series.Hall&rsquo;s save on Montreal scoring ace Dickie Moore midway through the second period was regarded by players, coaches and fans alike as the turning point in the game and, therefore, the play that probably won the series for Chicago.Chicago was leading 1-0 at the time with Montreal putting on the pressure. Suddenly Moore&middot; who had scored four of Montreal&rsquo;s 12 goals, broke in alone on Hall. He had perhaps 10 seconds unmolested, faked three times and finally drifted to his right and shot for the left corner from about five feet out.Hall, off balance from Moore&rsquo;s moves, managed to get his skate out to deflect the puck at the last moment.&ldquo;Hall&rsquo;s stop on Moore was the game&rsquo;s greatest moment and the turning point of the final game,&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hall’s Save On Dickie Sparked Hawks’ Players

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.K.&mdash;Now that a suitable mourning period for the Rangers&rsquo; lost playoff hopes has elapsed and the emotion subsided it is time to appraise the Blueshirts&rsquo; ill-fated bid for the Stanley Cup.In losing the semi-final round to the Toronto Maple Leafs four games to two, Doug Harvey&rsquo;s outfit did as much as could be expected of a team that finished a whopping 21 points behind its opponent.At that, Rangers came within a whisker of capturing the fifth game to take a 3-2 lead in the series when old pro Johnny Wilson&rsquo;s sudden death shot was stopped by Johnny Bower.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03289/1880027-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="281" height="471"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lorne Worsley</figcaption></div>Leafs broke Rangers&rsquo; hearts and hopes in the second overtime when Red Kelly fished the puck loose from a prostrate Gumy Worsley&mdash;who thought he had it trapped&mdash;and poked it into the net.Rangers beefed that referee Ed Powers should have blown his whistle stopping play before Kelly launched his puck probe.But Powers merely was performing his job and, besides, he was the same chap the Rangers were lauding a few weeks ago for calling a penalty shot against the Red Wings.Rangers hero in their first playoff since 1958 was Worsley who excelled in their two wins and stopped 58 shots in the sudden death killer. Gump&rsquo;s re-ward was the Macbeth Trophy courtesy of the N.Y. Hockey Writers Assn. as the playoff MVP.Rangers received stellar efforts from defensemen Harry Howell and, big surprise, Larry Cahan.Up front, the aces were Dave Balon, Rod Gilbert, Johnny Wilson, Guy Gendron and, occasionally, Ted Hampson and Earl Ingarfield.The flops: Doug Harvey, who apparently was worn out from a full season of playing and coaching; Andy Bathgate, who shot but one goal and that when it was too late; and the team as a whole for their uncanny inability to win on Toronto ice.By losing all four games at Maple Leaf Gardens, the Rangers ran up a sickly season total of 11 straight defeats in Toronto.Had the Rangers been hot in the first two games in Toronto they might have fared better. But Leafs, even when they were coasting, were superior, and took the first two bouts.In New York, the Blues played over their heads and Toronto remained mediocre. As a result, the Rangers squeaked by twice and now had momentum and the law of averages on their side.But the Leafs awoke and nearly skated the Rangers right out of Maple Leaf Gardens in the fifth game as they machine-gunned Worsley in the Blue goal.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how he got in front of those shots,&rdquo; said Frank Mahovlich, speaking for the entire Leaf team. Mahovlich was the culprit who started the play that sunk the Rangers.He bombed a long shot off Worsley&rsquo;s shoulder. The puck slipped down Gump&rsquo;s apron and. the goalie stretched on his back to smother it.&lsquo;The puck was under Gump for a few seconds,&rdquo; said Kelly, &lsquo;then it trickled loose and I shot it in.&rdquo;The Rangers died 7-1 in the finale and nobody but the incurable optimists were surprised. &#9632;

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Blues Did Better Than Expected In Semi-Final Series

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01463/1880117-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02344/1880110-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="1661" height="1399"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03245/1880103-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="1658" height="1221"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ace Toronto photographer Michael Burns caught all of the Stanley Cup final action in Maple Leaf Gardens. The pictures above were taken after game number one, which the Leafs won 4-1. In the top picture: the fight behind the Toronto goal. It all started when Murray Balfour slammed into Bob Baun after Leaf goaler Bower had frozen a shot. Baun threw a punch at the Chicago winger and the battle was on. Hull came in and took on Baun, then linesman George Hayes (9) came in to hold off the pair. Hay came in to mess with Baun and was stopped by Hayes. Then Carl Brewer and Jack Evans started a private fight of their own while Bob Pulford and Balfour wrestled behind the nets. Referee Eddie Powers gave Hull, Evans, Baun and Brewer minors for roughing but Balfour got off scot-free.In the middle picture: Johnny Bower comes up with a big save against Stan Mikita and gets sprayed with snow from the skates of teammate Allan Stanley, left. Keen is Leaf in the background.In the lower picture: Keen blasts first goal for Leafs to tie score 1-1.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04167/1880096-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="1036" height="1472"><figcaption class="caption-body">A penalty box scene in the first game. After the first period fight Brewer above, was sent to the penalty box with teammate Baun, hidden. Hawks sent off were Hull and Evans. A few moments later Eric Nesterenko, who also can be seen, joined them in the coop.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05139/1880089-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="1043" height="1398"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Keon was a sparkler in the first win over the Hawks. The starry pivot had many chances but couldn&rsquo;t capitalize on them. Above, he misses on a close-in chance on Hall.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Stanley Cup Playoff Action From Maple Leaf Gardens

<div class="byline">MILT DUNNELL</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;When the Leafs and Hawks started to fight in the first period of the first game it looked as though it might turn into a real pier sixer. And when Carl Brewer of the Leafs and Jack Evans of the Hawks started their own private fight fans waited for things to erupt.Just when it seemed that Brewer and Evans were destined to battle to the death, they went into a clinch and held it. Brewer explained an armistice was reached by mutual understanding. He said Evans suggested they cease fire and save their energies for hockey.&ldquo;I was willing,&rdquo; Brewer admitted. &lsquo;&lsquo;There was no sign of a linesman to break it up&mdash;and I sure was looking. This should be scored as a draw because neither of us landed a punch.&rdquo;A new strong man emerged. Linesman George Hayes put the arm on Bobby Hull, one of the most powerful men in sport. Hayes hung on and prevented Hull from contributing so much as a gentle slap to the Hawk assault.This fracas had no winners and no losers. It must have convinced both sides they can&rsquo;t fight.(Toronto Star) &#9632;

‘Score it As A Draw,’ Says Carl

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01414/1880179-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Former Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; stars Jimmy Orlando, left and Jack Stewart were caught in a reunion at the Montreal Forum some years ago. Orlando was named to the Detroit Hall-Of-Fame recently. Stewart is coach of the Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds of the Eastern Professional Hockey League. When they played together they were generally rated the roughest and toughest in the league.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Two of the most colorful, scrappy players in Red Wing history have been voted into the Detroit Hockey-Hall-of-Fame&mdash;Ted Lindsay and Jimmy Orlando.Lindsay, now a Detroit manufacturer&rsquo;s representative and television sports commentator, and Orlando, Montreal cabaret owner, were the 20th and 21st former Wings voted into the Hall by the Detroit Hockey Writers Association.Orlando first performed for the Wings in 1937 but only for a trial of five games. Jack Adams, then coach of the Detroiters as well as manager, picked Jimmy up from Pittsburgh in January, 1937, when Orville Roulston was injured.But then Adams sold him to Springfield. When Springfield didn&rsquo;t make the payment on time, Adams recalled Orlando, one of the best moves he ever made.Jimmy became one of hockey&rsquo;s toughest defensemen and played with Black Jack Stewart giving the Wings a blueline pair not to be fooled with.Orlando, novice welterweight champion of Montreal when he was 15, was handy with his fists as well as his hips.There was the New Year&rsquo;s night in Chicago when Jimmy kayoed socialite Charles Y. Freeman, Jr.It had been a hard-fought game with Chicago and Freeman had been riding Orlando much of the night.When the game ended and the clubs started filing to their dressing rooms, Adams, the matchmaker that night, told Orlando that the fan who had been razzing him all night said he would make the same statements to Orlando&rsquo;s face.That did it.Orlando went over to Freeman and Freeman started vocalizing. Jimmy listened a moment and then slugged him&hellip;dropping Freeman right at the feet of Red Wing owner James Norris, Sr.That one didn&rsquo;t cost Orlando any money but the Wings were in Chicago the next New Year&rsquo;s night and Jimmy belted linesman Donnie McFayden during the course of a brawl with Earl Seibert. Jimmy wound up with a match penalty and fine.There were matches with Johnny Mariucci, Gaye Stewart and many more in Orlando&rsquo;s stay in the NHL. Hockey was different in those days.&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t hit anymore,&rdquo; Orlando said recently. &ldquo;The only body-checker in the league is Leo Boivin of Boston. He hits standing up. Most of the checks you see these days are when a man gets under another player and rolls him over.&ldquo;And the forwards used to funnel the other forwards in to the defensemen. Now they move them out toward the boards,&rdquo; Orlando said.Like Orlando, Lindsay was also a fighter in his 16-season NHL career. He also scored goals&mdash;lots of them.Lindsay was one of two big &ldquo;steals&rdquo; by Detroit scout Carson Cooper from St. Michael&rsquo;s in Toronto. The other taken from under Maple Leaf noses was Red Kelly.Ted came to the Wings in 1944. When he hung up his skates after 13 seasons with Detroit and three with Chicago he had played 999 regular season games&mdash;a record that was broken by longtime teammate Gordie Howe this season.And Lindsay also finished as the highest scoring left winger in NHL history with 365 regular season goals and 44 playoff markers. Only Maurice Richard and Howe have scored more goals.Lindsay teamed with Howe and Sid Abel to form the Production Line, one of hockey&rsquo;s most famed units.And in their heyday, the Wings ripped off seven straight league titles and four Stanley Cups.Lindsay started his career as a defensive specialist and his main target was the Rocket. It wasn&rsquo;t long before opposing forwards and defensemen found the 5-foot-8, 160-pounder backed away from no one.Ted was a regular contributor to the league treasury for fines. There was the night he had an all-out, bloody fight with Bill Ezinicki in Boston, knocked Ezin-icki out and was fined $200 and suspended for the next three Detroit-Boston games.He drew a 10-game suspension for a fight with a fan in Toronto and was the target of another fan in Boston.Then there was the playoff series with Toronto in 1956. Lindsay received a threatening note before a game.So what did Ted do? He scored the tying goal that forced overtime and then fired home the winner. When the tumult died down and Lindsay was skating to the dressing room, he raised his stick like a machine gun and &ldquo;fired&rdquo; into the crowd.There was the night in the playoff finals against Montreal when Teddy snapped in four goals in a 7-1 victory over the Habs.And the time when the Wings won the cup when he scaled the old wire netting that surrounded the rink and climbed up into the stands to kiss his wife.That was Lindsay&mdash;colorful, talented and tough.When, after 13 seasons with the Wings&mdash;five of them as club captain, he was traded to Chicago, Lindsay gave his personal playing code.&ldquo;I have always played to win. They say I&rsquo;m cocky. Sure I am. But when I started playing for the Wings, I found out in a hurry that if a player lets it be known that he can be pushed around, then he&rsquo;s in trouble.&ldquo;Nobody ever pushed me around on the ice. Sure, I&rsquo;ve got the worst of it in some of my scraps. But I never backed away.&rdquo;Lindsay left the Wings in bitterness. He said that the only time Adams talked to him in the previous two years was when he went in for contract negotiations.Unfortunately, the animosity has remained between Adams and Lindsay, two of hockey&rsquo;s alltime warriors.Orlando&rsquo;s departure from Detroit also was tinged. Jimmy was charged with draft evasion during World War II. He left Detroit and joined the Canadian Army in 1943. When he got out, he played for Valleyfield, Que., in senior hockey before going into the night club business.<h2>Reunion Of Belters</h2><h2>All-Time Great</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02380/1880172-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="516" height="1117"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Orlando, Lindsay Named To Wing’s Hall-Of-Fame

<div class="byline">By CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO, N. Y.Coach Billy Reay was ready to send defenseman Ron Ingram back into action as the Buffalo Bisons prepared to face the Hershey Bears in the best-of-five semi-finals of the American Hockey League playoffs.Ingram, senior member of the blueline corps and voted the team&rsquo;s most popular player this winter, suffered a cracked left cheekbone in the regular-season finale with the Cleveland Barons.Although he was in uniform for both games of the first-round sweep over the Rochester Americans, Ingram didn&rsquo;t get off the plank.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03299/1880210-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="276" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Ingram</figcaption></div>Reay went all the way with Wayne Hillman, Ian Cushenan, Aut Erickson and Ed Van Impe, and got a first-class job from all four.Ingram was hospitalized for the first time in his life when he suffered a painful groin injury which sidelined him for six weeks earlier this season.&ldquo;We could have used Ingram by having him play with a football helmet,&rdquo; Reay said. &ldquo;But I was anxious for him to have at least 10 days off after breaking the cheekbone. A football helmet would have hampered him, and with the swelling gone, a small helmet would be good enough.&rdquo;Ingram was anxious to get back into the lineup. Now in his fifth term with the Herd, Ron found it rugged riding the bench.&ldquo;Let me out there and at them,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Watching this way is too tough on the nerves.&rdquo;The Bisons&rsquo; 3-2 win over Rochester in the opener was a cliffhanger. However, the Herd romped, 5-1, in the return match at Rochester, when the Amerks offered little more than token resistance.&ldquo;If we can play back to that form, we&rsquo;ll be tough no matter who we play or where,&rdquo; Reay said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m positive we&rsquo;ll do a good job against Hershey.&rdquo;ALONG THE BOARDS&mdash;Bill Mazer, the voice of the Bisons, was doing all the games, home and away, through Radio Station WGR&hellip;Many of the more ardent Buffalo fans were following the club on the road. Some 500 made the trip to Cleveland for the second-last game of the regular schedule, and at least that many were in Rochester for the second playoff game&hellip;Defenseman Bob Wilson Jr. and left-winger Doug Robinson moved up to the Herd from Sault Ste. Marie of the Eastern Pro League for the Calder Cup playoffs. Roger Crozier, three-time Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA all-star goalie with the St. Catharine Teepees, in the stanby netminder. &#9632;

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Reay Gets Ingram Back Into Lineup

&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01448/1880304-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="547" height="86"></div>Tuesday. March 27Chicago 1 at Montreal 2(Montreal leads best of seven series 0)Thursday, March 29Chicago 3 at Montreal 4(Montreal leads best of seven series 0)Sunday, April 1Montreal 1 at Chicago 4 (Montreal leads best of seven series 2-1)Tuesday, April 3Montreal 3 at Chicago 5(Best of seven series tied 2-2)Thursday, April 5Chicago 4 at Montreal 3(Chicago leads best of seven series 3-2)Sunday, April 8Montreal 0 at Chicago 2 (Chicago wins best of seven series 4-2)<h3>SERIES &lsquo;B&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02381/1880297-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="554" height="91"></div>Tuesday, March 27New York 2 at Toronto 4(Toronto leads best of seven series 1-0)Thursday, March 29New York 1 at Toronto 2(Toronto leads best of seven series 2-0)Sunday, April 1Toronto 4 at New York 5(Toronto leads best of seven series 2-1)Tuesday, April 3Toronto 2 at New York 4(Best of seven series tied 2-2)Thursday, April 5New York 2 at Toronto 3(Toronto leads best of seven series 3-2)Saturday, April 7New York 1 at Toronto 7(Toronto wins best of seven series 4-2)<h3>FINAL SERIES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03303/1880290-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="550" height="86"></div>Tuesday, April 10Chicago 1 at Toronto 4(Toronto leads best of seven series 1-0)Thursday, April 12Chicago 2 at Toronto 3(Toronto leads best of seven series 2-0)Sunday, April 15Toronto 0 at Chicago 3(Toronto leads best of seven series 2-1)<h2>Stanley Cup Point Parade</h2>(Including Game of Sun., April 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04237/1880283-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="569" height="1950"></div><h2>Game No. 1</h2><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 10</h3>Chicago 1 at Toronto 4(Toronto leads best of seven final series 1-0)TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leafs rated 8-to-5 favorites to capture their first Stanley. Cup in 12 seasons, took a one game lead in their final series against the Chicago Black Hawks here. They came from behind to whip the Hawks 4-1.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05180/1880276-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="289" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mahovlich</figcaption></div>The Leafs were badly disorganized and outplayed in the first period but came on strong in the second and third to take command. They checked the onrushing Chicago forwards into the ice.The Leafs spotted the Hawks a goal in the first period by Bobby Hull and then came on to score two in the second period and two in the third to get the victory.Hull gave the Hawks a 1-0 lead in the opening period. He scored on a powerplay while Tim Horton was sitting out a minor penalty. That was the last time the Hawks were able to put a puck past the Leafs&rsquo; brilliant Johnny Bower.Dave Keon, George Armstrong, Tim Horton and Frank Mahovlich scored for the Leafs.The goat, if there had to be one, was Eric Nesterenko of the Hawks who was sitting out a senseless penalty in the second period when Mahovlich broke a 1-1 tie that started the Leafs on the way.The former Leaf player, banished three times by Referee Eddie Powers during the some-times-rough game, slammed defenceman Carl Brewer against the boards on a routine play behind the Toronto nets. Eleven seconds later Mahovlich got his goal, which turned out to be the winner.Midway through the first period tempers got out of control and players of both sides picked partners for some fistthrowing and scuffing, but Referee Powers quickly clamped down. There were nine penalties in the opening session and, altogether, 17 minors. Chicago got nine.<h2>GAME 1 STATISTICS</h2>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defence: Pilote, Vasko, St. Laurent, Evans, Turn-er; forwards: Hay, Balfour, Hull, Mi-kita, Wharram, McDonald, Horvath, Nesterenko, Fleming, Melnyk, Kury-luk.Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower; defence: Brewer, Baun, Stanley, Horton, Ar-bour; forwards: Kelly, Mahovlich, Stewart, Keon, Armstrong, Duff, Pul-ford, Litzenberger, Nevin, Shack, Harris.Referee: Powers; linesmen: Wicks, Hayes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06145/1880269-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="550" height="667"></div><h2>Game No. 2</h2><h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 12</h3>Chicago 2 at Toronto 3(Toronto leads best-of-seven final series 2&mdash;0)TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leafs made it two in a row over the Chicago Black Hawks in the Stanley Cup finals as they whipped the Hawks 3-2 before a capacity crowd of 13,405.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07118/1880262-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="276" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Harris</figcaption></div>Captain George Armstrong scored what proved to be the winner at 16:08 of the final period.The Hawks, beaten 4-1 in the opener couldn&rsquo;t get untracked as the fire-up Torontonians kept them bottled up with tenacious forechecking throughout most of the 60 minutes.The series now moves to Chicago Stadium for the third and fourth games.The Hawks haven&rsquo;t hit their peak in this series, mainly through the tremendous checking of Leafs, and the Hawks might have to go without Murray Balfour, one-third of the Million-Dollar-Line of Bobby Hull and Red Hay. Balfour suffered a mild concussion in the first period when he was heavily checked by Toronto defenceman Carl Brewer.The Leafs, with seldom-used centre Billy Harris the sniper, led 1-0 after the first period. That was it until midway through the third when the Hawks&rsquo; Stan Mikita scored the first of two goals to tie the score.Big Frank Mahovlich made it 2-1 one minute later and Armstrong sewed it up with his goal at 16:08. Mikita got his second with less than two min-utes to play.Referee Frank Udvari called back two goals&mdash;one by the Hawks late in the second period and one by Leafs in the third.The Hawks charged around the referee, claiming he had blown the whistle while the puck was still in play. Mikita banged it in past goalkeeper Johnny Bower on a goal-mouth pileup but Udvari sounded the whistle before the puck crossed the goal-line.The Leafs&rsquo; no-goal ruling was made when Udvari said that Eddie Litzenberger, still seeking his first score of these postseason playoffs, had banged it in with his stick above his shoulder.<h3>GAME 2 STATISTICS</h3>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, St. Laurent, Evans, Tur-ner; forwards: Hay, Balfour, Hull, Mikita, Wharram, McDonald, Horvath, Nesterenko, Fleming, Melnyk, Kury-luk.Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower; defense: Brewer, Baun, Stanley, Horton, Ar-bour; forwards: Kelly, Mahovlich, Stewart, Keon, Duff, Armstrong, Pulford, Litzenberger, Nevin, Harris, Shack.Referee: Udvari; linesmen: Hayes, Wicks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08100/1880255-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="551" height="593"></div><h2>Game No. 3</h2><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 15</h3>Toronto 0 at Chicago 3(Toronto leads best-of-seven series 2-1)CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks, defending the Stanley Cup against the Toronto Maple Leafs, came up with their first win &gt;f the final series here by a 3-0 score.It was the second shutout in a row at home for Goaler Glenn Hall. He zeroed the Montreal Canadiens 2-0 in the sixth game of their semi-final series.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0982/1880248-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="291" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dollard St. Laurent</figcaption></div>Chicago, outplayed and out-bumped in the first two games at Toronto, which they lost 4-1 and 3-2, gave the Leafs a fancy beating. They roared out from the opening faceoff and completely overwhelmed the Leafs who couldn&rsquo;t mount any sort of a sustained offensive.The defending cup champion Hawks scored two goals in the second period and got their final with seconds remaining in the game and with goalkeeper Johnny Bower out in favor of an extra forward.Goalkeeper Glenn Hall&mdash;&ldquo;Mister Goalie&rdquo; to the bedlam-inclined Chicago fans&mdash;came up with his fourth shutout in three Cup seasons. He had plenty of help from a crashing defence corps, led by the veteran Dollard St. Laurent who spilled Leafs all over the ice with thumping body-checks.After a scoreless opening 20 minutes, the puck-happy Hawks scored twice in a period of just under four minutes.Centre Stan Mikita, a stickhandling wizard, scored his sixth of the playoffs this season at 4:35 and at 8:33 Ab McDonald shot another past Bower. The Toronto netminder, harassed most of the 60 minutes by the Hawks, finished with 33 saves against only 19 for Hall.Bronco Horvath, picked up by Hawks for the $20,000 draft price in 1961, finished the scoring with only 19 seconds remaining in the game with Bower out of the nets in favor of an extra forward.<h2>GAME 3 STATISTICS</h2>Toronto&mdash;goal, Bower; defence: Brewer, Baun, Stanley, Horton; for-wards: Kelly, Mahovlich, Stewart, Keon, Armstrong, Duff, Pulford, Lit-zenberger, Nevin, Olmstead, Harris, Shack.Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defence: Pilote, Vasko, St. Laurent, Evans, Turn-er; forwards: Hay, Balfour, Hull Mikita, Wharram, McDonald, Horvath, Nesterenko, Fleming, Melnyk, Mar-cetta.Referee: Powers; linesmen: Armstrong, Pavelich.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1068/1880241-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="553" height="498"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

GORDON&rsquo;S DRY GIN Makes a Martini Perfect<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01433/1880405-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="554" height="132"></div>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4Cleveland 4 at Springield 3SATURDAY, APRIL 7Cleveland 1 at Springfield 3SUNDAY, APRIL 8Springfield 4 at Cleveland 3WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11Springfield 2 at Cleveland 4SATURDAY, APRIL 14Cleveland 3 at Springfield 4SUNDAY, APRIL 15Springfield 4 at Cleveland 0<h3>SERIES &lsquo;B&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02409/1880398-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="545" height="112"></div>TUESDAY, APRIL 3Providence 2 at Hershey 7THURSDAY, APRIL 5Hershey 1 at Providence 3SATURDAY. APRIL 7Providence 2 at Hershey 3<h3>SERIES &lsquo;C&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03357/1880391-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="546" height="108"></div>WEDNESDAY. APRIL 4Rochester 2 at Buffalo 3FRIDAY, APRIL 6Buffalo 5 at Rochester 1<h3>SERIES &lsquo;D&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04301/1880384-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="553" height="109"></div>TUESDAY. APRIL 10Buffalo 2 at Hershey 3THURSDAY, APRIL 12Buffalo 5 at Hershey 1SATURDAY, APRIL 14Hershey 0 at Buffalo 1SUNDAY, APRIL 15Hershey 1 at Buffalo 2<h2>SERIES &lsquo;D&rsquo; THURSDAY, APRIL 12 Buffalo 5 at Hershey 1</h2>(Best of five series tied 1-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05238/1880377-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="537" height="715"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo; WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 Springfield 2 at Cleveland 4</h3>(Best of seven series tied 2-2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06202/1880370-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="548" height="548"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;D&rsquo; THURSDAY, APRIL 12 Buffalo 5 at Hershey 1</h3>(Best of five series tied 1-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07186/1880363-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="532" height="468"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo; SATURDAY. APRIL 14 Cleveland 3 ar Springfield 4</h3>(Springfield leads best of seven series<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08173/1880356-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="537" height="702"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;D&rsquo; Hershey 0 at Buffalo 1</h3>(Buffalo leads best of five series 2-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09169/1880349-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="526" height="525"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo; SUNDAY, APRIL 15 Springfield 4 at Cleveland 0</h3>(Springfield wins best of seven series<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10155/1880342-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="528" height="441"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;D&rsquo; Hershey 1 at Buffalo 2</h3>(Buffalo wins best of five series 3-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11132/1880335-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="546" height="504"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By SHEL FULLERTON</div>CLEVELAND, O&mdash;&ldquo;Hockey pucks bounce funny,&rdquo; some wag once remarked, but the particular bounces of a particular puck on the night of April 8 were anything but funny to the Cleveland Barons.Picture the Barons, locked in a 1-1 playoff series against the Springfield Indians, enjoying a 3-2 lead with about 45 seconds left to play in the third game on Cleveland ice.Picture the Springfield net wide open as goalkeeper Marcel Paille sat on the Indians&rsquo; bench.Picture Cleveland defenseman Aldo Guidolin cutting loose with a long shot designed to put the Barons into a commanding 4-2 lead.Then picture the puck striking one of the linesmen, remaining in the Cleveland defensive zone where six attacking Indians could pounce upon it. At 19:23, only 37 seconds before the final gong, Kent Douglas drove it into the Cleveland cage to knot up the score.Then go on and picture the two clubs locked in a suddendeath playoff, with Cleveland goalie Les Binkley performing brilliantly in the Baron net. Picture a puck slamming onto his unprotected kneecap as he bent over to ward off the shot.Binkley went down like a poled ox. Some 10 minutes later, he decided to continue, but in just nine seconds Dennis Olson cut loose with a relatively easy-to-handle shot that bulged the net behind the slowed-down Binkley and gave Springfield a 4-3 triumph.If Cleveland fails to weather the first-place playoff series&mdash;and the series will be over by the time you read this&mdash;one of the turning points will have been the fateful few moments that ended the third game.Up until the point when Fate decided to step in, the Barons had done a remarkable job. They had slapped down the Indians 4-3 in the series opener on Springfield ice in a game that went halfway through the third sudden-death overtime period before it was decided. Wayne Larkin canned the winning goal after 110:16 minutes of play to give the Indians their first playoff loss in three seasons.<h2>Hit The Headlines</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-12100/1880443-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="490" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body">Les Binkley</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1387/1880436-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="508" height="864"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Glover</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Barons Played Indians And Fate In 3rd Game

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<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;It&rsquo;s a good thing that the Springfield Indians have a pretty powerful secondary battery.The big guns have been either knocked out of action completely or for some strange reason have been less destructive than a set of &ldquo;pea shooters.&rdquo;And it&rsquo;s the lower men on the Tribe&rsquo;s scoring totem pole who have been carrying the team in the Calder Cup semi-final series against the Cleveland Barons.In the first four games of the best-of-seven set, here&rsquo;s the way the Indians &ldquo;Big Five&rsquo;&rsquo; stacks up in the scoring column:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01447/1880536-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="548" height="238"></div>If you notice, Douglas, Goegan and Harris are defenseman and Olsen and Kabel rated eighth and 10th respectively during the season for the Tribe in the scoring derby.In Springfield&rsquo;s first victory, 3-1, Goegan was the big man with a pair of markers and in the second triumph. 4-3, in overtime it was Olson with the Tribe&rsquo;s first marker and the winner.Up to now, the big guys, Bill Sweeney, the AHL&rsquo;s leading scorer with 102 points, and the other power boys, Jimmy Anderson (79), Floyd Smith (77) and Bruce Cline (77), haven&rsquo;t Shown much.However, we&rsquo;re not writing them off completely, Chief Eddie Shore said. &ldquo;I expect them to get started pretty darn soon&hellip;I only hope that it&rsquo;s not too late though, because this series doesn&rsquo;t have far to go.&rdquo;Two of the Tribe&rsquo;s biggest offensive weapons. Brian Kilrea (93 points) and Billy McCreary (76), are on the sidelines with injuries and their absences have been reflected on the performances of several other players.McCreary, still suffering from a &ldquo;charley horse,&rdquo; was the leftwinger on the line with Sweeney and Cline and the latter two have found their efforts less rewarding with several substitutes filling in.Kilrea, the victim of a double jaw fracture, was the middleman between Anderson and Smith and without Brian&rsquo;s play-making skills the two wingers have suffered no end.Both McCreary and Kilrea were still doubtful performers as the Indians headed into game No. 5 at the Coliseum Trainer Wally Barlow is hopeful that both will come around in time to see some action in this series, which found the Indians tied up at 2-2 in the first four games.<h2>Series Star</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02379/1880529-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="505" height="1217"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kent Harris</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Indians’ Big Guns Firing Blanks In Playoffs So Far

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;There&rsquo;s one American Hockey League goal Cleland (Keke) Mortson, 23-year-old Hershey Bears rookie winger, won&rsquo;t forget for quite a spell.It came at 4:27 of a sudden death overtime in the third and final game of the best-of-three series &ldquo;B&rdquo; playoff against the Providence Reds and it was the marker that kept Hershey in the running for the Calder Cup.The rising ten-foot blast gave the Bears the series, 2-1 in games, and sent them into the Cup semi-finals against the Buffalo Bisons, the AHL&rsquo;s western division runner-up.Hershey won the first game, 7-2, lost the second at Providence, 3-1, then came home April 7 to snag a 3-2 cliffhanging decision in the opening minutes of the first overtime session.&ldquo;The shot went in on a wing and a Protestant prayer,&rdquo; cracked Mortson, noted for being quite a clubhouse character.But the Reds easily could have won it all in regulation time except for the tremendous goal tending of Bobby Perreault, the 30-year-old veteran.With only seven seconds remaining Providence&rsquo;s fine center, Orland Kurtenbach, had Perreault in his sights from about a distance of four feet. He let fly a hard, low shot, which Perreault, with his lightning reflex action, managed to kick away at the last instant with his right toe.&ldquo;I thought he beat me,&rdquo; said Perreault, &ldquo;but the puck just nicked my right toe boot and skidded away.&rdquo;Kurtenbach, in this writer&rsquo;s opinion, was the standout all-around player in the series, despite being on the losing side. The big, agile skater even won the praise of the Hershey players.&ldquo;For a big man he&rsquo;s really shifty and tough to check,&rdquo; said Willie Marshall, the Bears&rsquo; ace top scorer. &ldquo;He can&rsquo;t miss making the National League.&rdquo;In the third game, Kurtenbach must have played at least 38 minutes and tallied the Reds first goal in the last period that set the club afire to tie the count and force an overtime.&rdquo;Perreault, as usual, once again rose to the occasion with the playoff money on the line, turning in a fine series against the Reds. He allowed seven goals, made 77 stops for a 2.33 average.Mortson only joined Hershey in the tailend of the season, being recalled from Sudbury when injuries set in the Bears&rsquo; ranks. In 24 games, the 5-10, 165-pound forward from Antifield, Que., scored 13 goals and 11 assists for a point-a-game record.Against the Reds, winger Al Johnson led the Bears in goal sniping with three, including the winner in the first game.The biggest factor in the series was Hershey&rsquo;s ability to kill off penalties. The Bears drew 14 minors and a major and didn&rsquo;t allow a powerplay goal. Killing the penalties were Les Duff, Mike Nykoluk, Ray Kina-sewich, Pete Conacher and Mortson.Also, it was Hershey&rsquo;s alternating third line of Duff-Nyko-luk-Mortson and Kinasewich that set the scoring pace. The quartet combined for five goals and six assists. Mortson and Kinasewich spelled off each other.Hershey&rsquo;s powerplay worked well with the Bears notching three goals with a Providence skater in the sin bin. Hershey also picked up one goal with one of its men in the coop and another with both clubs at 4-4 manpower. The defensive corps figured in six of the 11 goals.The three game series drew 16,097 fans, 10,680 at Hershey, despite the fact two of the games were weekday matches.Lynn Patrick, Boston Bruins general manager, took in the second game at Providence, evidently on a scouting trip.Rumor now has it that Boston may be interested in Perreault, who perhaps is the most underrated performer in minor leagues today.<h2>Stars</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03316/1880574-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="256" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Kinasawich</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04240/1880567-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="270" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Perreault</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bears Found Reds, Hard, Stubborn Crew To Beat

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RESIDENT SUMMER HOCKEY CAMP

Before you say SCOTCH &ldquo;say DEWAR&rsquo;S it never varies<h2>How The Race Goes</h2>SPOKANE&mdash;SAN FRANCISCOBest-of-three quarter-series<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01445/1880734-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="539" height="82"></div>TUESDAY, MARCH 27Spokane 4 at San Francisco 1THURSDAY, MARCH 29San Francisco 3 at Spokane 7CALGARY&mdash;SEATTLEBest-of-three quarter-final series<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02401/1880727-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="540" height="79"></div>(Calgary wins best-of-three series 2-0)THURSDAY, MARCH 29Calgary 2 at Seattle 1SATURDAY. MARCH 31Seattle 2 at Calgary 5PORTLAND&mdash;SPOKANEBest-of-seven semi-finals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03331/1880720-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="543" height="83"></div>SATURDAY, MARCH 31Portland 1 at Spokane 2TUESDAY, APRIL 3Spokane 1 at Portland 0THURSDAY, APRIL 5Spokane 4 at Portland 6SATURDAY, APRIL 7Spokane 2 at Portland 7SUNDAY, APRIL 8Spokane 2 at Portland 3EDMONTON&mdash;CALGARYBest-of-seven semi-finals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04269/1880713-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="542" height="86"></div>(Edmonton leads best-of-seven series 2-1)MONDAY. APRIL 2Calgary 4 at Edmonton 5WEDNESDAY. APRIL 4Calgary 4 at Edmonton 2FRIDAY, APRIL 6Edmonton 4 at Calgary 2<h3>MONDAY, APRIL 2 Calgary 4 at Edmonton 5</h3>(Edmonton leads best-of-seven series 1-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05229/1880706-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="541" height="727"></div><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 3 Spokane 1 at Portland 0</h3>(Spokane leads best-of-seven series 2-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07183/1880699-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="529" height="366"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 Calgary 4 at Edmonton 2</h3>(Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08178/1880692-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="532" height="466"></div><h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 5 Spokane 4 at Portland 6</h3>(Spokane leads best-of-seven series 2-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09169/1880685-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="542" height="800"></div><h3>FRIDAY, APRIL 6 Edmonton 4 at Calgary 2</h3>(Edmonton leads best-of-seven series 2-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10149/1880678-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="534" height="566"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 7 Spokane 2 at Portland 7</h3>(Best-of-seven series tied 2-2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11127/1880671-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="541" height="824"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 8 Spokane 2 at Portland 3</h3>(Portland leads best-of-seven series 3-2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12116/1880664-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="540" height="653"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Game of Sun., April 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06203/1880657-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="546" height="497"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By BOB HULEN</div>PORTLAND, Ore&mdash;There are many connected with the Western Hockey League who feel that this circuit must be considered in strength to be second only to the National League.Their opinions were fortified when president Al Leader revealed that in regular season play, no less than 22 records were broken and another 15 tied.This must indicate that the WHL has much better personnel and continues to approach major league status.Only disturbing part of the whole record picture lies in the fact that the &ldquo;joy boys&rsquo;&rsquo; from Spokane managed to topple the old mark for penalties by a team. And they made sure of that unenviable distinction in the final game of the regular season.The Comets went to Seattle for the closing regular contest some 14 minutes short of the old mark of 1,032 minutes set by the Totems in 1955-56. Not to be deprived of a place in WHL history, the Spokane players pro-ceded to rack up six minors and three misconducts for a 1,074 minute total.Naturally, Spokane had the league&rsquo;s penalty leader in defenseman Connie Madigan but this individual proved to be quite a hockey player in spite of his predeliction for spending time off the ice. Madigan set a new record for points by a rookie defenseman by making nine goals and 28 assists for 37 points.Another unpleasant part of the record picture concerns a fine young player who wound up by the end of the season with the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL. Edmonton&rsquo;s Larry Jeffrey not only set a new WHL mark but an all-time pro hockey record with seven penalties in one period in a game at Portland.One of the finest individual efforts only tied a record. This was when Portland&rsquo;s Tommy Mc-Vie made five goals off Los Angeles&rsquo; netminder Marcel Pelletier, who in a later game tied a record for assists by a goalie with two helping passes.It was a great year for scoring defensemen. Not only did Lloyd Haddon of Edmonton break the old record of 21 goals held by Calgary&rsquo;s Fred Hucul with 23 but Doug Barkley of Calgary, ex-Chicago Black Hawk, established a new standard of 25.Now team records included: most goals against an empty net in one season, Los Angeles, 8; most goalkeepers employed by one team in a season, Portland, 7; most goals and assists one period one team, Seattle at home against San Francisco, 8 goals and 13 assists for 21 points; most goals with a man advantage one season, Seattle, 51; most minutes in penalties, Spokane, 1,074; fastest five goals, Edmonton, at home against Portland, 3:34; fastest six goals, Edmonton at home against Portland, 4:51; most hat tricks, Edmonton, 12.Team records tied include: most points at home, Portland, 59; most goals in one period, Seattle, 8; longest unbeaten record at home, Portland, 22 games; team playing complete season without being shutout, Edmonton; fewest misconduct penalties, Calgary; fewest games won, Vancouver, 18; most goals against, Vancouver, 324.Individual records include: most points defenseman, Doug Barkley, Calgary, 75; most goals by a defenseman, 25; most points in a game by goalkeeper, Marcel Pelletier, 2; most assists one game by defenseman, Ron Matthews, Portland, 6; most games played all-time, Rudy Filion, Seattle, 817; most penalties one game, Larry Jeffrey, Edmonton, 7; most penalties one period, Larry Jeffrey, Edmonton, 7.Individual records tied include: most goals one game, Tommy McVie, Portland, 5; most points one game by defenseman, Ron Matthews, Portland. 5; most hat tricks one season by a defenseman, Doug Barkley, Calgary, and Lloyd Haddon, Edmonton, 1 each; most hat tricks in successive games, Warren Hynes, Edmonton, 2; fastest two goals, Roger Dejordy, Edmonton, eight seconds.Records set by rookies include: most goals, Jimmy Baird, Vancouver, 42; most hat tricks, Jimmy Baird, Vancouver, 2; most points for defenseman, Connie Madigan, Spokane, 37; most assists for defenseman, John Mis-zuk, Edmonton, 30: most penalties one game. Larry Jeffrey, Edmonton, 7: most penalties one period, Larry Jeffrey, Edmonton, 7.Records tied by rookies include: most first goals of game, Jimmy Baird. Vancouver, 9.<h2>Played Record Tunes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1394/1880786-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="264" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Jeffrey</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1470/1880779-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="255" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body">Con Madigan</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1551/1880772-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="260" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy McVie</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1636/1880765-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="259" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Barkley</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01434/1880855-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Bark&rsquo;</figcaption></div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;The goal scoring record for defencemen in the Western Hockey League now belongs to big Doug Barkley of the Calgary Stampeders.He fired 24 pucks past enemy goaltenders in regular League play during the past season, eclipsing team-mate Freddy Hu-cul&rsquo;s old mark of 21.Ironically, this was Barkley&rsquo;s sixth season in pro hockey, but only the first time that he had gone into double figures.In his debut with Calgary in 1956-57, the Lethbridge-born rearguard scored four times. Next year, which he divided between Calgary, Buffalo and Chicago Black Hawks, he flashed only three red lights.The following campaign he scored only twice for the Bisons. He was back in Calgary in 195960 and hit the target seven times, then last year at Buffalo he upped his scoring output to nine.So how is it that he suddenly blossomed into a sniper of record-setting proportions?&ldquo;Well, I guess it is because he is shooting more with us,&rdquo; opines Calgary coach Alf Pike. &ldquo;He is a key guy in our offense, lugs the puck a lot and works the point on power plays.&rdquo;Whether by design or otherwise, under Gus Kyle&rsquo;s regime at Calgary. Barkley did not carry the puck too much.And for the powerplays, it was Freddy Hucul and Sid Finney playing the point.And while he was at Buffalo, Barkley unfortunately had to serve the role of fifth defenceman, which of course sharply restricted his ice time.Coming back to Calgary, then, was a big thing in your Mr. Barkley&rsquo;s life, and he made the most of it with his record scoring output. While he was at it, he also contributed 41 assists to eclipse Babe Pratt&rsquo;s long-standing record for assists and total points by a defenceman.So whither now?Well, the chances are reasonably bright that Barkley will win a promotion to the parent Black Hawks next season, and this time make it stick.Needless to say, he faces a formidable assignment trying to crack the lineup of the world champions, but at this point he&rsquo;s willing to settle for a job as fifth denceman with the Chicageans.For his part, Black Hawk scout Tiny Thompson is fairly enchanted with Barkley&rsquo;s play this year, especially offensively. A big strong skater, Doug has often been recruited for the firing lines by his mentors, and some experts feel that is where his brightest future lies. Whatever the coming years hold for him, it is certain that Rudy Pilous will give the 6ft. 2in. Stampeder with the blazing slap shot a star a good look at training camp next fall.<h2>Rewrites Book &#9632;</h2>

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Barkley’s Record Year May Earn Him NHL Shot

<div class="byline">By BOB HULEN</div>PORTLAND, Ore.&mdash;Victoria will get a taste of professional hockey next fall&mdash;how big a taste remains to be seen.The Portland Buckaroos, first place finishers in the Southern Division of the Western Hockey League, will train at Memorial Arena in the British Columbia Capital City, starting probably late in September. In addition, the Buckaroos plan exhibition games there, number and opponents yet to be determined.This will mark the second straight fall in which a major professional team will set up camp at the Island metropolis. Last season the Montreal Canadiens trained at Memorial Arena along with Spokane of the WHL.There has been no regular professional hockey in Victoria since the WHL franchise there was transferred to Los Angeles at the close of the 1960-61 season.Portland trained at the new rink at Esquimalt, B.C., the naval center which is a suburb of Victoria, last fall and played two exhibition games there. The Buckaroos also played Detroit at Memorial Arena in Victoria, losing by a 4-0 score.Memorial Arena in addition was the site of a 4-2 exhibition win by Montreal over Spokane.These were the only two professional hockey games played in Victoria last season.Portland obtained the Victoria site when Montreal failed to decide on where its camp would be. However, there still is a possibility that the Canadiens may choose to try and share facilities with the Buckaroos. If so, an exhibition contest between Portland and Montreal would be a certainty.Other possible Portland opponents are Detroit and Toronto. Officials of both National League clubs expressed opinions that the long exhibition swings through the West were beneficial.However, Toronto might be more interested in an exhibition game in Portland in view of the 6,500 which attended such a contest between the Buckaroos and the Maple Leafs there last Fall.Victoria&rsquo;s ice plant holds approximately 5,500. &#9632;

Buckaroos Set To Train At Victoria Next Fall

National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the 1961-62 season N.H.L. Final Statistics free of charge. These handy-sized record cards contain the final standing of the Clubs, the individual Scoring Records for every player during the regular schedule and the Stanley Cup Play-offs, as well as the Goalkeepers Averages and the Penalty Records of each club.Requests should be mailed to:&mdash;N. H. L. Information Bureau601 Sun Life Bldg. Montreal, Que. &#9632;

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Don&rsquo;t be vague&hellip; say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKY<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01433/1880976-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="551" height="84"></div>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4Kitchener 3 at Hull-Ottawa IFRIDAY, APRIL 6Kitchener 4 at Hull-Ottawa 2SUNDAY, APRIL 8Hull-Ottawa 3 at Kitchener 2MONDAY, APRIL 9Kitchener 3 at Hull-Ottawa 2SUNDAY, APRIL 15Kitchener I at Hull-Ottawa 5<h3>SERIES &lsquo;B&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02391/1880969-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="548" height="84"></div>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4Sudbury 2 at Kingston 6FRIDAY, APRIL 6Sudbury 3 at Kingston 6WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11Kingston 3 at Sudbury 5FRIDAY, APRIL 13Kingston 4 at Sudbury 2SATURDAY, APRIL 14Sudbury 5 at Kingston 11<h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo; MONDAY, APRIL 9 Kitchener 3 at Hull-Ottawa 2</h3>(Ktichener leads best-of-seven series 3-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03357/1880962-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="541" height="576"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;B&rsquo; WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 Kingston 3 at Sudbury 5</h3>(Kingston leads best-of-seven series 2-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04323/1880955-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="538" height="649"></div><h3>FRIDAY. APRIL 13 Kingston 4 at Sudbury 2</h3>(Kingston leads best-of-seven series 3-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05275/1880948-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="540" height="519"></div><h3>SATURDAY. APRIL 14 Sudbury 5 at Kingston 11</h3>(Kingston wins best of seven series 4-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06236/1880941-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="552" height="1133"></div><h3>SUNDAY. APRIL 15 Kitchener 1 at Hull-Ottawa 5</h3>(Kitchener leads best of seven series 3-2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07222/1880934-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="537" height="441"></div> &#9632;

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">PAUL RIMSTEAD</div>KINGSTON, Ont.&mdash;Sudbury Wolves were sending up smoke signals after two games in series B of the Tom Foley Memorial Trophy playoffs in the Eastern Professional Hockey League.The crafty Kingston Frontenacs, the highest scoring team in the league this season, clipped Wolves 6-2 and 6-3 in the series openers at Kingston.One Sudbury S.O.S. was answered by the Toronto Maple Leafs&mdash;but they couldn&rsquo;t help Wolves even though they wanted to.Murph Chamberlain, the Sudbury coach, made a deal with Leafs to use the Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League as replacements.But EPHL President John J. Urie of Ottawa stepped in and told Sudbury it couldn&rsquo;t be done. &#9632;

Urie Nixes Sudbury Bid To Use Marlboro Juniors

<div class="byline">By PAUL RIMSTEAD</div>KINGSTON, Ont.&mdash;If you wanted to be real corny, you&rsquo;d say the most eager beaver in Kitchener these days is a guy named George Sullivan.George, playing-coach of the Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers, has the Eastern Professional Hockey League buzzing.The gritty redhead, captain of the New York Rangers last season, has his sights set on the Tom Foley Memorial Trophy.When THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press, Sully and his Beavers were chomping at Sam Pollock&rsquo;s champion Hull-Ottawa Canadiens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08209/1881038-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="254" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Sullivan</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09202/1881031-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="288" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Neilson</figcaption></div>And Canadiens were ready to topple.Beavers finished third in the regular schedule and had a record of three wins and one overtime loss in the first four games of their best-of-seven semi-final against Hull.And the player who acted as the team&rsquo;s sparkplug was kindly coach George.Canadiens, because of a brilliant finish which gave them first place in the second-last game of the season, were being touted as unbeatables.Beavers, in the New York Ranger fashion, were booted out of their own baliwick for the playoffs.The parent Rangers have had trouble for years during the playoffs because a circus takes over in Madison Square Garden.The Beavers bowed to a sportsman&rsquo;s show which moved into the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium.They had only one home game in their first four playoff contests&mdash;but faced the challenge and won on the road.In addition, Beavers were without Rod Gilbert and Dave Balon.Balon was called up by New York late in the season and Gilbert made a sensational debut as an emergency replacement in the Stanley Cup playoffs.Gilbert returned to Beavers when Rangers were eliminated, but Balon may be gone forever.George Sullivan, who is more commonly known as Red. was also on his way to New York as a replacement but a last-minute change left him with Beavers.And Kitchener fans, more loyal to Beavers than to Rangers, are happy.&ldquo;Did you find coaching and playing took more out of you this season than just playing with the Rangers last year?&rdquo; Red was asked.&ldquo;It takes a lot out of you,&rdquo; admitted Red. &ldquo;but I still like to get that uniform on. Playing gets rid of the tensions you build up as a coach.&rdquo;Sullivan may have been disappointed when he was shipped to the minors this year. He felt he could have played one more year in the NHL. but the season has turned out to be very satisfying.Balon and Gilbert aren&rsquo;t the only NHL prospects on his young team.The most outstanding prospect is probably big Jim Neilson, of Swedish-Indian descent, who could well be a future NHL all-star.The big defenceman from Prince Albert has been a standout this season.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s right,&rdquo; enthuses Red. &ldquo;Jim has everything going for him.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a tremendous skater for his size (200 pounds plus), has a good shot and has a good head on his shoulders.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s also a tough guy and is one of only two or three players we had who played all 70 games this year.&rdquo;Neilson, a rookie who played junior hockey with Prince Albert in the Saskatchewan Junior League last season, has also been a workhorse in the playoffs.&ldquo;As far as the playoffs go,&rdquo; said Sullivan, &lsquo;I have to give our defence full credit.&ldquo;Fellows like Jack Bownass, Al LeBrun, Neilson and Adam Keller have been solid.&ldquo;And Jack McCartan has been steady in goal all year.&rdquo;McCartan was the hero in the fourth playoff game, a 3-2 win for Kitchener in overtime. &#9632;

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Sully’s Beavers Making Champ Habs Take Notice

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AND YOU CAN’T FOLLOW FOOTBALL FULLY WITHOUT

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01405/1881131-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK<h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Pictured Maple Leaf player.4. A Los Angeles winger.7. Earl Ingarfield&rsquo;s daughter.8. First two letters of venier.9. Initials of 32 across.10. This Seattle rookie is called Jim.12. Goalie who set modern record for NHL shutout sequence.13. Home State of Providence Reds (abbr.)14. Nickname of Edmonton&rsquo;s coach.15. Initials of a Toronto defense. man.16. 6th & 18th letters of the alphabet.17. Team which ended third in 1960-61 NHL standing (abbr.)19. Month in which Dollard St. Laurent was born.20. Nickname of old Leaf line of Conacher, Primeau and Jackson.21. Bernie Geoffrion&rsquo;s wing (abbr.)22. Stannum (Sym.)23. Native province of Glenn Hall (abbr.)26. Initials of Green of Boston.28. Tellurium (Sym.)30. Initials of Guidolin of Cleveland.32: This Toronto defenseman hails from Sudbury, Ont.24. This Black Hawk scored 14 goals during 1961-62 schedule.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. Subbed for Worsley against Toronto last Feb.2. 21st and 1st letter of the alphabet.3. Month in which pictured star was born.4. Name given coach of Providence Reds.5. Initials of Almas, ex-Detroit goalie.6. Given name of Balon of Rangers.8. By way of.11. Initials of Nicholson of San Francisco.13. Carl Brewer is a&mdash;type of defenseman.14. Former Calder Trophy winner.16. Alex Delvecchio&rsquo;s nickname.18. Idem (abbr.)19. Initials of Hart Trophy winner of 1946-47.24. Pictured player was one on April 7.25. Former New York netminder.27. Doug Mohns once fractured this.29. Pictured player became one in 1954-55. (abbr.)31. Initials of Detroit&rsquo;s captain.33. Degree sought by pictured star (abbr.)<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1. Cahan3. G.S.5. Opal6. Molson10. Ry.11. Pilote12. BL13. G.G.15. Reg.17. Lea18. Car.20. Te.21. End22. Boston26. Do27. Armand28. R.N.29. M.E.30. Kent31. Howe<h3>DOWN</h3>1. Campbell2. Hall3. Garage4. Sly5. One7. Oil8. S. O.9. O.T.13. Grace14. Salesman16. Gordon19. Andrew20. Tor.22. Back23. Ta.24. Ont.25. N.D.29. M.O. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;The long-established Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league and the less than one-year-old Toronto Metro League are currently involved in a battle of their respective championship teams to decide the representative in the Memorial Cup playoffs.Hamilton Red Wings, who finished in second place in the six-team provincial league, then knocked off St. Catherines Teepees and Niagara Falls Flyers in the playoffs, had a 10-day layoff before meeting Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors, the defending Memorial Cup champions.The Majors, who led the Metro League during the regular season, lost three of the first four games in their own group finals to Toronto Marboros, then bounced back to win three straight to become the first champions of the league which came into being last fall.Although Hamilton was generally favored to win, they were blanked on home ice by a 2-0 score by the Majors who received sensational goaltending from their spare guardian Bill McNabb.Gary Smith, the regular St. Michael&rsquo;s goaltender was injured in the second minute of play and McNabb, who had acted as practice goalie for the Majors all season was rushed into service.Although obviously nervous he received great help from his defence to shut out the Wings and send the OHA champions down to their first defeat in nine playoff games. (Their only previous loss was also on home ice when they dropped the first game of the semi-finals to St. Catherines Teepees by a 5-1 score.)Hamilton however bounced back to trim St. Michael&rsquo;s 5-1 in Maple Leaf Gardens before the largest junior crowd of the season in Toronto&hellip;close to 8,000 paid.And in the nets for the Majors was their seasoned goaltender Gary Smith.Many hockey observers are watching the Ontario finals closely with a view to gauging the relative merits of the six-team provincial league and the five-team Metro group.Despite predictions to the contrary, both junior leagues enjoyed successful seasons.It was feared that the withdrawal of the two Toronto teams, the Marlboros and Majors, from the provincial group might destroy some of the crowd appeal in the remaining cities of Niagara Falls, Guelph, Hamilton and Peterborough. However the addition of Montreal junior Canadiens compensated for this loss and, with the exception of the last-place Petes, all teams had better seasons financially than the previous year.The Metro League also enjoyed a reasonably good first seasan although St. Michael&rsquo;s and Marlboros, on occasion, appeared to be too strong for Whitby, Brampton and Unionville.However better balance is promised next season and it would appear that there is plenty of room for two junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Leagues in Ontario. &#9632;

Wings, Majors In Battle To Stay In Hunt

<div class="byline">By VINCE LEAH</div>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;Building superintendent Russ Reid was keeping ice in the Arena until the end of April for a hockey school operated by Bill Robinson and Sugar Jim Henry and the hope that the Canadian Amateur Hockey association might transfer a playoff game or so here in anticipation of a healthy gate. Otherwise hockey is finished in our time save for a couple of travelling peewee teams that were headed for Goderich and Brampton, Ont., and Lynn Lake, Man., during the Eastertide.The Maroons bowed out to Saskatoon Quakers in the Allan Cup Western final. It was a great disappointment to their loyal fans, some of whom were heard muttering about the CAHA rule which allows the Saskatoon champion to pick up six replacements. But no beefs were heard from Maroons who gave a good try while it lasted. Future of the club is doubtful. Playing coach Bill Judzda, now in his 40&rsquo;s, has announced he is through as an active player and some of his teammates may follow suit.Perhaps only the promise of an overseas trip would keep the team together for another season.Brandon Wheat Kings carry the province hopes in the Memorial Cup and as this was penned they were preparing to meetEdmonton Oil Kings in the Western final. Brandon picked up Henry Goy from St. Boniface Canadiens and Bob Woyto-wich of Rangers as replacements. &#9632;

‘Peg Maroons May Drop Out Next Season

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;There will be no mass shakeup in Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; personnel despite their crushing defeat in the Stanley Cup semi-final, managing director Frank Selke Sr., said after Canadiens were defeated by Chicago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01121/1881255-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="268" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Selke</figcaption></div>Canadiens, odds-up Cup favorites, were eliminated, four games to two, by Chicago Black Hawks who had finished the schedule in third place, more than 10 games behind the champion Habs.&ldquo;We have no plans along those lines,&rdquo; Selke said, &ldquo;because we don&rsquo;t see a great deal to worry about. Certainly some of our older players were disappointing in the series but some of them were injured and certainly some of our younger players did not measure up to expectations. Next season, though the injuries will be healed and the young players will be a year older.&rdquo;Selke added: &ldquo;Hockey goes in cycles. A few years ago we were sending expendable players to Chicago and were winning Stanley Cups. Now they&rsquo;re on top and we could use the men we gave away. We&rsquo;re on our way back, but it requires patience.&rdquo;Both Selke and Coach Toe Blake squelched retirement rumors.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll keep the job until I&rsquo;m fired,&rdquo; Selke said.Blake, who has just completed a three-year contract, said: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll ask for a one-year contract and that&rsquo;s all. I don&rsquo;t like to bow out a loser but you know there comes a time when you realize you can&rsquo;t get the team up for the games any more, then you start thinking.&rdquo; &#9632;

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