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April 28, 1962

The Hockey News April 28, 1962

<div class="byline">By CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO. N.Y.&mdash;A season-long feud between Coach Bill Reay of the Bisons and Owner Eddie Shore of the Springfield Indians will undoubtedly bring about a fresh flow of bitter words during the American Hockey League Calder Cup finals.The outspoken Reay condemned the Indians&rsquo; slow, control-type of play following a training camp game between the clubs at Welland, Ont., last September, and Shore lost no time in hitting back.Harsh words were exchanged again in mid-March following a home-and-home weekend series when the Indians took a 3-1 decision in Buffalo following a 1-1 tie in Springfield a night earlier.&ldquo;I sincerely hope those two points are the one which keep Buffalo from winning the Western Division title,&rdquo; Shore said after the victory.&ldquo;Imagine a guy like Reay trying to tell me how to run my hockey club. That 1-1 tie in Springfield was the worst contest I&rsquo;ve ever seen, and it was all Reay&rsquo;s fault.&ldquo;All the Buffalo club did was keep dumping the puck back into our end. I had a man keep track, and by actual count they iced the puck 89 times. It was a disgraceful exhibition.&rdquo;Reay laughed off Shore&rsquo;s remarks&hellip;with an acid retort.&ldquo;What I said in training camp still goes,&rdquo; Reay said. &ldquo;That deliberate style of play may be successful, but it puts the customers to sleep. And Shore has too good a hockey club to play it that way.&ldquo;If he thinks we&rsquo;re going to play it wide open for him, he&rsquo;s just plain silly. There&rsquo;s only one way you&rsquo;ve got a chance in that tiny Springfield rink, and that&rsquo;s to play it their way. Open it up, and they&rsquo;ll murder you.&ldquo;Shore certainly never worried about providing the Buffalo fans with a pleasing style of hockey, so it follows that I can&rsquo;t be concerned with his customers.&rdquo;<h2>Harpoon Each Other</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09187/1985896-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="524" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Reay</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10173/1985889-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="510" height="535"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shore</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Reay, Shore Feud Fueled For Indians, Herd Final Playoff

<div class="byline">By PAUL RIMSTEAD</div>KINGSTON, Ont.&mdash;The fact that National Hockey League scouts refuse to discuss the merits of Brian Smith in the open is more indication that the youngster from Ottawa is rated highly as a prospect.Montreal Canadiens own him and if they don&rsquo;t protect him it won&rsquo;t be surprising if another team snaps him up in the shinny market at Montreal this summer.Smith has been one of the main reasons the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens made such a brilliant comeback in the playoffs.When THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press, Smith and his teammates were preparing for a seventh game against the Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers at Hull.Beavers led the series three games to one at one time, but Sam Pollock&rsquo;s Habs fought back with two wins to knot the set.Smith, son of former Boston Star Des Smith, scored only 15 goals in the schedule&mdash;but has five big ones to his credit in the playoffs.He scored twice in the fifth game when Habs kept their hopes alive with a 5-1 win at Hull.And he was a hero in the sixth game when his overtime marker at Kitchener made a seventh game necessary.Pollock rates Smith high on his list of prospects.The Ottawa native weighs 180 and stands 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;.Beavers appeared to have the Canadiens running early in the series, but it didn&rsquo;t last long.Red Sullivan&rsquo;s crew lost the services of valuable Leon Rochefort for the balance of the season with a leg injury and Habs grew stronger.Canadiens were solid favorites to take the seventh game which was scheduled for their home ice April 18.The winner will be involved in a final series against the Kingston Frontenacs when you read this.That series was expected to set a record for attendance.<h2>Hits Stride</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01461/1986470-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="589" height="604"><figcaption class="caption-body">Brian Smith</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Scouts Keeping Close Watch On Hab Brian Smith

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01309/1986749-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">When the Toronto Maple Leafs whipped the Chicago Black Hawks 8-4 in the fifth game of the Stanley Cup final series Big &lsquo;M&rsquo; Frank Mahovlich was one of the standouts with two goals. Michael Burns, our cameraman in Toronto caught the power and the glory of one of Mahovlich&rsquo;s goals as he skates right past Hall via sheer strength and determination. Note the pressure he puts on his stick as he starts to drive the puck into the net. Moose Vasko is hidden Hawk trying to hold off the Toronto star.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Leafs Win First Cup In 11 Years

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Hockey In The Summer?

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll Montreal Gazette</div><h2>Fanning With Frank Seike</h2>Frank Seike was around the Forum last week, which made us wonder why he wasn&rsquo;t in Toronto for the Playoffs.&ldquo;Nobody seems very happy to see you when you&rsquo;re out of it,&rdquo; he said, smiling. &ldquo;But if it goes seven games, I may go to Toronto.&rdquo;The past is history and it isn&rsquo;t as useless as Henry Ford once declared it to be, because sometimes you can learn something from it. The Canadiens&rsquo; managing director wasn&rsquo;t averse to talking about the recent semi-final series between the Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks, though it did have its painful aspects.&ldquo;We have a pretty good hockey team,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Chicago beat us in a best-of-seven series, but we finished 23 points ahead of them and 13 ahead of Toronto over the 70-game schedule.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01410/1985153-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="516" height="760"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Seike</figcaption></div>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s true that some of our boys didn&rsquo;t play well in the series and maybe they weren&rsquo;t hungry enough. Everybody seems to have forgotten that we won the Stanley Cup for five years in a row before we lost a year ago.&rdquo;The Canadiens haven&rsquo;t won the cup since Maurice (Rocket) Richard retired. Did he really mean that much to the team in the playoffs?&ldquo;Maurice was a great clutch player, a man who could go out and get that big goal for you,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;He had great determination and drive. But since I&rsquo;ve been here we&rsquo;ve lost a number of real tough hockey players. In that category I&rsquo;d put Butch Bouchard, Doug Harvey, the Rocket, Elmer Lach, Bert Olmstead and Marcel Bonin. We just haven&rsquo;t been able to replace them with the same type of player.&rdquo;<h2>Surplus Creates Problem</h2>The Canadiens have also had a problem in recent years through a surplus of good players.&ldquo;We couldn&rsquo;t protect them all,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;Some of them like Bill Hay, Ab McDonald, Dollard St. Laurent and Reg Fleming have been beating us lately. But I&rsquo;ve never believed in keeping a player down in the minor leagues if he can play in the big league. It isn&rsquo;t fair to the player.&ldquo;A fellow we missed badly in our series with Chicago was Henri Richard. If you want to look it up. you&rsquo;ll find that Henri outscored Stan Mikita in our games with Chicago. Take some of those 19 points away from Mikita and give them to us. as would have been the case if Henri had been able to play. It would have made quite a difference.&rdquo;He had a word of praise for Dickie Moore, who was the Canadiens&rsquo; standout in the series with the Black Hawks.&ldquo;Dickie was unlucky and Glenn Hall was lucky in that last game in Chicago,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;When Dickie broke in on Hall he deked him off balance&mdash;he&rsquo;s pretty good with that deke, you know&mdash;but when Hall went off balance it pulled his foot off the ice and that&rsquo;s how he managed to stop the shot.&ldquo;Dickie made one mistake on that play, but maybe he wanted to be sure he wouldn&rsquo;t miss the net. He lobbed the puck instead of drilling it, or it would have been in the net before Hall&rsquo;s foot came up. If it had gone in the score would have been tied, and it would have been a new hockey game.&rdquo;<h2>Optimistic About Future</h2>There has been the usual talk after a losing series that there would be wholesale changes on the club between now and next season.&ldquo;There may be a few changes, but they will be minor changes,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We have a number of good young players coming up and we have to make room for them.&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ll have the best rookie in the league next season in Red Berenson, and we&rsquo;ve got a boy named Kell who was the highest-scoring junior in the Winnipeg area this season. Jacques Laperriere is definitely a good NHL prospect as a defenceman. He could use a few more muscles and we&rsquo;re going to send him to a camp this summer in an effort to beef him up.&ldquo;I may sound overly-optimistic, but I think we&rsquo;ll win the league championship again next season and I also think we&rsquo;ll win the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;There was another item that he wanted to get straight, which was that the Canadiens are not going to change ownership.&ldquo;We had a meeting of the Canadian Arena Company on Wednesday,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and the rumor was discussed. No one on the board of directors has ever been approached by a prospective buyer, not even Senator Molson. No one knows how or where the rumor started, but it isn&rsquo;t true.&rdquo;This, the 30th issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS for the 1961-62 season, marks the final weekly edition for this season. However, monthly issues will be published throughout the summer. The May edition, featuring a complete round-up of the cup finals in hockey, both pro and amateur will come off the press next week. We will return with our weekly issues next October.If you are not a subscriber, fill in the form on another page of this issue to be sure to get your summer issues.Incidentally, the June issue will feature complete scoring statistics of all leagues. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Now that the Canadiens have had some time to lick their wounds of defeat by Chicago Hawks in the Stanley Cup semi-final, Coach Toe Blake and the club brass can count at least two bright spots from the playoffs.Veteran Dickie Moore played close to old-time form in every game against the Black Hawks and it&rsquo;s almost a sure thing that the 31-year-old winger will be back with the Habs again next fall.Gordon (Red) Berenson was the other shining star of an otherwise disappointing playoff performance by the league champions. Signed just before the semi-finals, after an impressive four-games trial at the end of the schedule, Berenson saw enough playoff action to score two goals.&ldquo;Berenson broke in with confidence,&rdquo; Blake pointed out, &ldquo;and he should be alright with Canadiens next season. He&rsquo;s big. He can shoot and he can skate. And he sure knows what to do with that puck when he&rsquo;s around the net.&rdquo;Forum fans who didn&rsquo;t have too much to cheer about after the Habs&rsquo; victories in the first two games, saw Berenson get one of the most spectacular goals of the series in the fifth game which Canadiens lost 4-3.Red took a long pass from Jean-Claude Tremblay at the Chicago blueline and practically carried Eric Nesterenko on his right arm as the Hawk winger tried to hold him. Somehow Berenson managed to get away a one-handed backhander that beat Glenn Hall on the far side.It was Berenson&rsquo;s third NHL goal. He got the Habs&rsquo; only tally in their 4-1 third playoff loss at Chicago and scored their last scheduled goal when Canadiens beat Detroit in the season windup. The goal broke Montreal&rsquo;s record for most goals in one season, giving them 259 for the 1961-62 campaign.Berenson will probably be given a whirl at centre when the Habs hit training camp, probably opt west again in September. With the University of Michigan, where he gets a business administration degree in June, Red made All American all-star rating as a centre for two seasons.Dickie Moore should rival Goalie Jacques Plante as the comeback player of the year with Canadiens.After suffering a knee injury in the first week of training camp at Victoria, Moore needed over half the season to get back into shape and at various times was written off for future big-time hockey. However he kept on digging and by the close of the season&mdash;just before being hurt again&mdash;Dick was reaching the 20-goal mark. He ended up with 19 goals, the first time he missed 20 in the last six seasons.A week or two before the end of the schedule, Blake was asked if Dickie might be expected back next season.&ldquo;He certainly will, said the coach. &ldquo;We expect him to undergo another operation on the knee which should make it as good as new.&rdquo;Moore had surgery for cartiledge trouble in the knee last summer. However calcium deposits and a cyst developed in back of it during the past winter and hampered his play.Latest report from Bill Head, the club physiotherapist, is that the new operation on Dickie&rsquo;s knee may not be necessary.&ldquo;Dickie is tentatively scheduled to have an operation at the end of the month,&rdquo; Head pointed out. &ldquo;But right now surgery doesn&rsquo;t appear necessary. He&rsquo;s taking a couple of weeks rest after which the condition of his knee will be re-assessed to determine whether an operation is really needed.&rdquo;Head said that the swelling back of the winger&rsquo;s left knee had &ldquo;gone down considerably&rdquo; when he hit the playoffs and that Dickie was skating so strongly that the operation didn&rsquo;t appear necessary.&ldquo;Moore complained of less iritation when he finished the play offs than when he started,&rdquo; Bill pointed out. &ldquo;So maybe he skated the trouble right out of the knee.&ldquo;In any case, Dick&rsquo;s condition is very encouraging. But we will know his status definitively in a week or two after he has rested and the knee is examined and X-rayed in its normal state.&rdquo;Defenceman Lou Fontinato, hampered by an old groin injury during the late weeks of the schedule and through the playoffs is taking things easy at his home in Guelph. Fontinato may also require surgery but Head is hopeful that Louie may come around without it.&ldquo;Fontinato&rsquo;s groin condition was two years old when we first treated it during the season,&rdquo; said Bill. &ldquo;He wasn&rsquo;t able to get the required rest but it responded well to treatment at the end of the season.&ldquo;Louie&rsquo;s groin condition will also be assessed after a month&rsquo;s rest. I&rsquo;ve assigned him some exercises&mdash;medical gymnastics&mdash;and if he can do them without trouble, no operation may be necessary.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02392/1985198-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="284" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore</figcaption></div><h2>Rooks Big Moment</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03355/1985191-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="1032" height="884"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Berenson, signed by the Montreal Canadiens at the tail end of the season proved himself in the playoffs against Chicago. The Habs are counting on him for left wing next season. He will replace Marcel Bonin. Above: Berenson scores one of his two goals against Hawks. This came in third game in Chicago when Hawks whipped Canadiens 4-1.</figcaption></div><h2>Relaxing</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04270/1985184-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="446" height="1198"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Fontinato</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Toe All Smiles Thinking Of Moore And Berenson

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01409/1985236-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill (Red) Hay&hellip;&hellip;Earned His Place</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Of the top twenty scorers in the National Hockey League this past season only one&mdash;Bill (Red) Hay of the Chicago Black Hawks, had less than 20 goals.Hay&rsquo;s goal total was 11 but his 52 assists, which tied him for second in the league, gave him a total of 63 points and ninth place in the individual NHL scoring list. He missed nine games during the season.Top assist man was New York&rsquo;s Andy Bathgate, with 56, while All-Star center Stan Mikita. Hay&rsquo;s teammate on the Black Hawks, tied Red with 52 assists.It has been said of Hay that if he shoots the puck at the net early in the game and doesn&rsquo;t score a goal, he spends the rest of the evening passing the puck to his linemates.In Hay&rsquo;s case, this isn&rsquo;t a bad idea since his regular left wing is Bobby Hull. Two seasons in the past three Hay has helped set up the goals for Hull to win the NHL individual scoring title. Included this year were a record-tieing 50 goals for Hull, for which Hay was the mainspring on assists.The big center, who just completed his third season in the NHL, may possibly be the most unselfish player in the league.Look at it this way. In his rookie season, when he won the Calder Trophy as the NHL&rsquo;s top rookie after only one season of minor league hockey (he had played college hockey for Colorado College in the United States), Hay scored 18 goals.That was the season the &ldquo;Million Dollar Line&rdquo; of Hay at center, Hull at left wing and Murray Balfour at right wing was formed in mid-season and scored 50 goals in Chicago&rsquo;s last 50 games to lead the Black Hawks from their worst start in history to third place in the NHL regular season standings. In addition to Hay&rsquo;s 18 goals for the season, rookie Balfour scored 19 and Hull, on his way to the league scoring crown, 39.In the last two seasons Hay&rsquo;s assists have risen from 37 his first year to 48 last season and 52 this year. But his goals have dropped to 11 each of the last two seasons.Says the big (6 ft. 3 in., 190 pound Hay):&ldquo;I knew I had to earn a place for myself that first season and I went out to try and score goals. That&rsquo;s the quickest way for a rookie to let people know he&rsquo;s around.&ldquo;Admittedly, I don&rsquo;t shoot the puck as much now as I did my first year. But why should I? I have two wings who know how to score. My big job is to get the puck to them in front of the net. My ambition is to keep Bobby and Murray scoring goals, They&rsquo;re the best two wings in the league.&rdquo;Added the red-head: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll change when somebody tells me lack of shooting hurts our hockey club. In the meantime I get just as much satisfaction out of being the playmaker. Take Bobby&rsquo;s 50 goals. It means as much to Murray and me to see him reach that record because we were part of it. If one of us had a shot at is Bobby would work just as hard to help us.&rdquo;Although Hay didn&rsquo;t score much in the regular season he burst into a comparative shooting madman in the semi-final series of the 1962 Stanley Cup playoffs against Montreal. He began peppering away at Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante and before the surprised Canadiens realized what was happening he had scored three goals&mdash;one in each of the first three games the Black Hawks won as they swept four straight from Montreal (after losing the first two) to move into the Cup finals against Toronto.Hay has one of the longest reaches and uses one of the longest sticks in the NHL. This helps give him uncanny control of the puck as he moves, almost slow-motion, up ice looking for a teammate to feed. He also is one of the best in the NHL at intercepting passes by the opponents&mdash;again because of his extra long reach and his anticipation.Says linemate Balfour:&ldquo;Bill&rsquo;s reach and shift are physical assets but where his biggest improvement has come this year is in his aggressiveness and anticipation. Perhaps, like with me, he has become more aggessive each year with the added confidence of playing in the NHL for several seasons. And his anticipation in intercepting opposing passes, and his fore-checking, are a result of experience and studying the other teams&rsquo; moves&mdash;particularly those of the defensemen.&rdquo;<h2>He Gets His Points Across</h2><h2>His First Silverware</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02333/1985229-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1045" height="1318"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Hay with Calder Memorial Trophy as NHL&rsquo;s top Rookie for the 1959-50 season</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Satisfied To Be The Playmaker 52 Assists Tied Pivot For Second

CHICAGO, III&mdash;Toronto Maple Leafs are back on top of the hockey heap after 11 seasons of failure and frustration.They won the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1951 and the eighth time since the club was established in 1927.City Clerk C. Adgar Norris was busy after the 2-1 over Chicago arranging a ticker tape parade and civic reception for the Leafs.&ldquo;Nothing is too good for the Leafs,&rdquo; said Controller Philip Givens, the acting mayor, who ordered the parade arrangements. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve really put Toronto back on the hockey map.&rdquo;They didn&rsquo;t take the easy way out, either. They dethroned last year&rsquo;s champions, Chicago Black Hawks, by defeating them, 2-1, before 20,000 noisy and hostile spectators in Chicago stadium. Leafs&rsquo; edge in the best-of-seven final was four victories to two.Dick Duff shot the cup-winning goal. He delivered his knockout punch almost four minutes after Bob Nevin had wiped out a Chicago score by Bobby Hull.Duff was the hero of 2,000 fans who showed up at Toronto International Airport at 3:30 in the morning to greet Leafs.This was Leafs&rsquo; first playoff victory away from Maple Leaf Gardens this spring. They were 9-to-5 underdogs, so certain were observers that Hawks would tie the series, forcing a decisive game in Toronto.The Chicago crowd, which went into its customary debris-throwing routine after Hull&rsquo;s goal, littering the ice with eggs, paper and hats, wound up applauding Leafs&rsquo; comeback.The victory was worth $4,250 in National League bonuses to each Toronto player. &#9632;

Leafs Take Cup Away From Hawks

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Ken McKenzie, President 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 Countries Postage 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 28. 1962 No. 30<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01473/1985291-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="149" height="58"></div> &#9632;</div>

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Is New York capable of supporting a second major league hockey team?This question was raised as the Rangers set a new Madison Square Garden attendance record of 478,277 for 35 games. Counting two sellout playoff games the Blues went over 500,000 this happy semester.&ldquo;You&rsquo;d have to say this was our best money year, too,&rdquo; said a remarkably restrained general manager Muzz Patrick.Asked whether the Rangers&rsquo; 13,600-plus per game average indicated there&rsquo;s room for more NHL hockey in. New York, Patrick hesitated.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think so,&rdquo; he finally said. &ldquo;Remember, New York had two teams before the War and the second team, the Americans, rarely filled the house.&ldquo;Matter of fact, in the last few years the Americans were supported by the league.&rdquo;The Americans retired from the NHL in 1942. At the time the Amerks and Rangers played a 24-game home schedule for a total of 48 Garden games, 13 more than at present with one team.Patrick pointed out that it &ldquo;wouldn&rsquo;t be good business&rdquo; for the Garden to accept a second NHL club. However, he allowed that considering the current state of shinny mania it just might be a good idea.&ldquo;As a hockey man,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d invest in a second New York franchise, if it was available.&rdquo;Rangers&rsquo; previous attendance record was 429,822 set in the 1946-47 season of 30 home games. The Blushirts wound up out of the playoffs that year.Apparently Patrick&rsquo;s theory about expansion in New York is supported by his employers, the Graham-Paige Corp., owners of the Rangers.&ldquo;A second New York hockey team would be silly,&rdquo; Ranger president Admiral John Bergen told THE HOCKEY NEWS. There&rsquo;s no more reason for that than there is for two Yankee teams.&rdquo;But the Admiral wasn&rsquo;t overlooking the current high financial state of his organization and its implications on the Ranger brass.&ldquo;I guess you&rsquo;d have to say,&rdquo; Adm. Bergen observed, &ldquo;that Murray Patrick is the manager of the year.&rdquo;Rangerabilia: Gump Worley&rsquo;s 2.90 goal against average for the year matches his best full season mark of the 1955-56 campaign. Barring a surprise trade (Boston or Detroit?), Gump&rsquo;s return to Broadway is assured&hellip;Most optimistic Ranger is Junior Langlois who sees victory no matter what. Must be the Canadiens influence that rubbed off&hellip;Blues carried Gilles Villemure as goalie for playoffs. He&rsquo;s looked good enough in workouts to warrant consideration in future plans&hellip;Despite healthy home crowds, Rangers have no intentions of reactivating the New York Rovers for Sunday afternoon consumption to handle the Ranger overflow and educate the younger element&hellip;Leaf goalie Don Simmons observation: &ldquo;After the big stars like Hull, Bathgate, Mahovlich, Geoffrion and Howe, everybody else in this league is a fringe player.&rdquo;&hellip;Garden sleuths can&rsquo;t seem to understand why the once abundant banners overhanging the balcony have disappeared. Only a few show. Best of the season was one up for the final score. It read: &ldquo;Thank you. Doug.&rdquo;&hellip;Judging by local hockey interest the proposed 25,000-seat Garden would have bulged for the playoff games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05277/1985381-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="310" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Muzz Patrick</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Two NY Teams? “Who Needs It”, Muzz’s Answer

<div class="byline">MILT DUNNELL</div>IN THE TORONTO STAR<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06236/1985419-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="320" height="478"></div><h2>Referee Explains His Philosophy</h2>CHICAGO&mdash;In the seething cadron that is the Chicago Stadium, sound wells out from the tiers of humanity like the continual roar of a waterfall. Every move of the hometown Hawks brings hysterical applause. Visiting players are received with the same cordiality that would be accorded an invading army from Mars. Shrill shrieks and angry shouts tell officials that a crime has been committed&mdash;against the Hawks, of course.&ldquo;In this atmosphere, the visiting club is a cinch to get at least two extra penalties per game,&rdquo; a Leaf partisan suggested to Carl Voss, who has the thankless job of bossing referees and linesmen in the NHL. &ldquo;What I mean is that a referee wouldn&rsquo;t be human if he were not affected or influenced, to some degree, by this Chicago crowd,&rdquo; the Leaf partisan hastened to explain.&ldquo;The referee you&rsquo;ll see to. night has the reputation for handing out more penalties to the home club than he does to the visiting team,&rdquo; Voss replied coldly. &ldquo;No crowd intimidates this guy. I can say the same thing for all our officials&mdash;but this guy doesn&rsquo;t even know crowds exist.&rdquo;The &ldquo;guy&rdquo; to whom Voss referred was Eddie Powers, son of a famous athlete and coach, a veteran of war in the skies as well as on skates, a man who is contemptuous of athlete, club executive or spectator who would attempt to interfere in his work. It&rsquo;s easier to understand Powers after you&rsquo;ve learned he spent five years flying long-range fighter planes.&ldquo;I was no war hero,&rdquo; Powers insists, &ldquo;but in the air force you did develop a philosophy that you lived from day to day. In this game, there is always a tomorrow, so being a referee doesn&rsquo;t bother me a bit. Does the Chicago crowd get on my nerves? Not at all. They pay their money, so let them yell. This is just another rink. There&rsquo;s only one&rsquo; thing that makes it tougher to work here&mdash;the junk which people throw on the ice.&ldquo;I suppose I like the job or I wouldn&rsquo;t be doing it. Don&rsquo;t ask me whether I&rsquo;d take the same money and do something else. I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;d say. One thing I can tell you is that, when I&rsquo;m refereeing, I&rsquo;m going to do it my way and to hell with people who don&rsquo;t like me. I couldn&rsquo;t care less.&rdquo;<h2>Players Make Mistakes Too</h2>When Bill Klem was one of baseball&rsquo;s most celebrated umpires, he earned immortality of a sort by proclaiming that he never made a bad call. Bill probably realized he had over-gilded the lily, so he amended his testimonial to say he might have erred with his head but he never erred in his heart.Powers is more realistic&mdash;more candid, too. He admits there scarcely is a game in which he doesn&rsquo;t blow at least one call. Players realize that officials must make mistakes, he argues, because they make them, too. If the day ever comes when every player achieves perfection, then the athletes will demand the same of the referees.&ldquo;Sometimes, it amuses me when I ponder what people consider a well-handled game,&rdquo; Powers admits. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s say we have a game in which there are no penalties. Everyone calls it a well-officiated match. Actually, it wasn&rsquo;t, because the referee had nothing to do.&ldquo;The next night, a referee hands out 28 penalties. He works himself to a shadow to keep the game in hand. Everybody agrees he did a lousy job. Let me tell you something. The easiest thing in the world would be to go out there looking for trouble. Call every trivial thing in the book. Hand out 60 penalties. Who would want to see it&mdash;and how long would you have people in the rink?Basically, Powers has a deep respect for hockey players. This may surprise them, but he thinks they are a dedicated group. He also realizes that, if there were no hockey players, he wouldn&rsquo;t have his lucrative, interesting winter-time employment. When spring comes to the west coast, Powers migrates to Vancouver where he works in the mutuel departments of the race tracks. In the winter, hockey provides him with a gracious living and he&rsquo;s grateful to the game.He realizes that players have living expenses, too, so he&rsquo;s slow with the trigger finger when it comes to handing out penalties that involve fines. Leafs&rsquo; Dlck Duff goaded Powers into giving him a $25 misconduct in the final minute Sunday night.&ldquo;I tried to warn Duff that his quota of yacking was running out,&rdquo; Powers said after the game. &ldquo;He wouldn&rsquo;t listen, so he had to go. Nice guy, but what can I do?&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07195/1985412-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="542" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">Carl Voss</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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speaking on SPORT

<div class="byline">BY KEN MC KENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02440/1985350-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="373" height="415"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08153/1985343-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="512" height="74"></div>&bull; CHICAGO&mdash;ONLY two games in the entire 1962 Stanley Cup playoffs were won by the visiting team and they were the fifth game of the Montreal-Chicago series at the Forum and the sixth game of the finals. This year&rsquo;s followers are still unable to understand the Hawks collapse at Toronto in the fifth game of the finals when the Leafs bombed them, 8-4&hellip;which, incidentally, was the most total goals scored in any Stanley Cup final in history&hellip;Most total goals scored in a playoff game was 13 and this high-scoring game took place in Montreal on March 29, 1945 when Canadiens blasted Toronto, 10-3&hellip;Toronto had 19 shots on Chicago in the third period alone in the 8-4 contest, which is as many as they had in the entire game played a week ago Sunday&hellip;Chicago&rsquo;s Stan Mikita set two NHL playoff records with his second assist in the 8-4 game. Stan&rsquo;s record then read six goals, 15 assists, 21 points. He set a new record for most assists in playoff play and most total points&hellip;Mikita picked up at least one or more scoring points in all but one of the 12 playoff games engaged in by the Hawks&hellip;If Chicago had won the Stanley Cup it would have been the sixth time on a Cup winner for Bob Turner. He played on five winners for Montreal.&hellip;It&rsquo;s popular in Chicago for the fans to yell &ldquo;Charge&rdquo; every time a rabid Hawk fan blows a trumpet&hellip;Toronto fans did their best to ape the Black Hawks followers in the last game played on Toronto ice what with throwing articles on the ice and yelling and cheering&hellip;The chant of &ldquo;Go Leafs Go&rdquo; sounded like the cheering section at a college football game&hellip;The Toronto fans have been watching the antics of the Hawks fans in televised games played here&hellip;Never before have we heard the usually sedate Toronto fans as noisy as they were in the 8-4 win last Thursday&hellip;George Agar, coach of the Los Angeles Blades of the Western Hockey League, saw one of the Cup finals played here. George is busy lining up players for next season. He reports the Blades took in $400,000 at the box office this season. This is about half of what an NHL team has to take in to break even.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03364/1985336-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="280" height="471"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Turner</figcaption></div>&bull; TINY THOMPSON, Western Canada scout for the Black Hawks, attended one of the games played here. He left after one game to go watch the junior playoffs in Western Canada. Tiny had his first look at Dave Keon of the Leafs and was most impressed by what he saw&hellip;Another former NHL goalkeeper around for the playoffs was Wilf Cude. Long a resident of the Rouyn-Noranda area, Cude told me he hasn&rsquo;t missed a Stanley Cup final since 1929&hellip;&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been either a participant or a spectator every year since 1929,&rdquo; he informed&hellip;Besides playing for Detroit and Canadiens Wilf was also a standby goalie for the NHL and a good one, too&hellip;Bobby Baun played great hockey for the Leafs during the playoffs. He is one of the most underrated defensemen in the league&hellip;Torchy Peden, former 6-day bike rider and now a sales representative of Nestor Johnson Skates, a spectator at the games played here&hellip;Moose Vasko of the Hawks has been wearing Torchy&rsquo;s Nestor Johnson skates much to his delight&hellip;Dollard St. Laurent certainly enjoyed his greatest playoff series in years&hellip;Dick Williams of New York and Bingo Christie of Toronto, veteran NHL minor officials, watched the finals&hellip;Williams and Christie along with Fred Pike of Detroit are the senior minor officials still active in the NHL&hellip;Fred Glover was recently honored by Cleveland fans who presented him with a number of gifts including a 1962 auto. Fred has played nine seasons with the Barons and holds just about every record in the American League record book&hellip;Detroit&rsquo;s two crack junior teams, the Edmonton Oil Kings and Hamilton Red Wings, will likely clash in Canada&rsquo;s Memorial Cup finals&hellip;Spokane upset the highly-favored Portland Buckaroos in the Western Hockey League playoffs&hellip;Spokane had three tough defensemen who rocked the Portland players around pretty much at will&hellip;Bud Poile&rsquo;s Edmonton Flyers are favored to knock off Spokane in the WHL finals&hellip;Jack Adams is busy watching all his affiliated clubs in action plus taking in a number of the Stanley Cup playoffs games&hellip;Jim Norris, co-owner of the Black Hawks, has his own ideas about NHL expansion. He regards Pittsburgh and St. Louis as cities that should get a look before the NHL goes to the West Coast.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04306/1985329-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="299" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Baun</figcaption></div>&bull; GEORGE ARMSTRONG should be a cinch to win the J. P. Bickell Memorial Cup given each season to the Leaf player displaying the most outstanding merit&hellip;Armstrong&rsquo;s play all season has been great and it was just as good in the playoffs&hellip;The Chief is one captain who really gives his team leadership&hellip;Eric Nesterenko played well for the Hawks and did a pretty fair job of keeping Frank Mahovlich in check&hellip;Bob Pulford also played well for Toronto and his three-goal effort the other night was the top scoring performance by a player in this year&rsquo;s playoffs&hellip;Reg Fleming, Chicago&rsquo;s most versatile player and one of the stars of the playoffs, recently purchased a 240-acre farm 100 miles from Montreal. He plans to spend the summer getting the 11-room house on the property in shape&hellip;Only twice in the last 16 Stanley Cup playoffs has a goalie had to come out of the stands to replace an injured goalkeeper&hellip;Gord Henry replaced Sugar Jim Henry in the Boston goal on April 11, 1953&hellip;and then of course Don Simmons replaced Bower on April 15, 1962&hellip;Jack Evans, rugged Hawk defenseman, figures the Chicago-Montreal series was a cake-walk compared to the rugged Toronto games&hellip;Pilous was critical of some of the penalties incurred by his players in the 8-4 game&hellip;Brian Kilrea returned to play one game for Springfield in the AHL finals but doctors advised him to stay out of hockey until next season. He suffered a badly broken jaw near the end of the season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03293/1985322-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="286" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Reg Fleming</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;Unaccustomed as they are to having playoff money to spend, the New York Rangers were suitably stupefied when questioned about their off-season projects.Veterans of many a losing season reacted by conditioned reflex and announced that they would work. Then, realizing they no longer are in the poor house, some discussed vacation plans.Harry Howell, one eminent member of the Blueshirts &ldquo;nouveau riche,&rdquo; held a press conference&mdash;attended by one reporter&mdash;and disclosed that he would spend his playoff loot on a Puerto Rican vacation.Not to be outdone, Harry&rsquo;s benchmate, Irv Spencer, said he would go to Acapulco, Mexico with his buddy, Eddie Shack.Andy Hebenton said he&rsquo;d go back to work in a Victoria, B. C. shipyard. When asked why he wasn&rsquo;t spending his extra cash on a vacation. Andy shot back: &ldquo;Because my wife got it spent already.&rdquo;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m vacationing in L.A.,&rdquo; piped Earl Ingarfield, &ldquo;that&rsquo;s Lethbridge, Alberta. Maybe I&rsquo;ll run another trampoline concession with my friend, Aut Erickson.&rdquo;Ted Hampson plans to invest his money in a college education.&ldquo;&lsquo;I&rsquo;m thinking about the University of Manitoba,&rdquo; Ted admitted, &ldquo;and a general arts degree.&rdquo;Lots of golf and a little fishing cram Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s agenda. Sandwiched in between is another instructing stint with Glenn Hall at a summer hockey school.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to enter as many golf tournaments as I can,&rdquo; said Bathgate.Rookie Dave Balon promised to do as little work as possible with the exception of bulding his own house at Prince Albert, Sask.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to take it easy down at Lake Waskesieu,&rdquo; said Dave &ldquo;and eat Johnny Bower&rsquo;s humburgers.&rdquo;Larry Cahan returned to Vancouver where he&rsquo;ll work on a beer truck and Vic Hadfield motored to Oakville, Ont., where his wife is expecting her second child. After settling in hometown Montreal, Junior Langlois will teach a hockey school in Worcester, Mass.Ti-Guy Gendron has marriage on his mind followed by a pro job at a Montreal golf course. Pat Hannigan will golf, in between minding a trailer park in Red Deer, Alberta.Troubled by a bad back, Dean Prentice will take it easy in Guelph, Ont., and see how the injury reacts.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve given up golf, quipped Dean. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m getting too old for the sport.&rdquo;Another casualty, emaciated Camille Henry, hopes to conquer his run-down condition with a Summer of relaxation in Quebec City.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m just going to rest,&rdquo; said Cammy, &ldquo;and do nothing else. I&rsquo;m not even going to play golf.&rdquo;Player-coach Doug Harvey headed north to Montreal where he will settle his business affairs. He&rsquo;s then due to return to New York for a conference with Muzz Patrick about his future&mdash;if there is a future&mdash;in New York.Montreal also is the destination of player star, Rod Gilbert, who would like to play baseball (he&rsquo;s a pitcher) if the Rangers give him an okay.Johnny Wilson and Ken Schinkel will be working in Windsor and Fonthill, Ont., respectively.Which leaves Gump Worsley, who should be regaining his senses after a merciless playoff bombardment by Toronto. True to form, Worsley was cryptic about his plans.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll wait &lsquo;til Summer comes,&rdquo; said Gump, &ldquo;then I&rsquo;ll give it a whirl.&rdquo;Buy &ldquo;HOCKEY PICTORIAL&rdquo; APRIL ISSUE Now on NEWSSTANDS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01430/1985450-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="296" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Bathgate</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rangers Break For Homes-Some To Work Others Play

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;&ldquo;This has to be the best game Dolly has ever played.&rdquo;The speaker was Chicago Black Hawk coach Rudy Pilous after his defending Hawks had blasted their way back into contention in the Stanley Cup finals against Toronto with a 3-0 win in game No. Three and the first game of the series on Chicago ice.Stan Mikita, Ab McDonald and Bronco Horvath scored the Chicago goals and &ldquo;Mr. Goalie,&rdquo; Glenn Hall, picked up his second shutout of the playoffs (the other in the semi-final round finale against Montreal).But it was veteran defenseman St. Laurent, an oft-abused player during the season by the Chicago fans, who was singled out as the star of the game. As an example, Hall, who seldom comments on individual players and who praised the entire defense after the game, finally commented to one Chicago writer:&ldquo;Did you ever see a defenseman put on a better display?&rdquo;Added Pilous: &ldquo;When St. Laurent belted their Dave Keon at the blueline at the start of the game it picked the whole Black Hawk team up and set the pattern for our play the rest of the game. He was the star of the game&mdash;the best man on the ice&hellip;We&rsquo;re just getting back our vigor and bounce after six rough games against Montreal and losing the first two in Toronto.&rdquo;St. Laurent, in his tenth NHL season (the first six with Montreal) has had a rough year this season. Chicago fans rode him some in mid-season when the entire team was having its troubles.When asked about this somewhat touchy subject, St. Laurent commented recently: &ldquo;In this game you have a bad elbow or don&rsquo;t feel well or have a bruise on your leg or body but you don&rsquo;t complain or tell anyone about it.Some nights you aren&rsquo;t up to par physically but you play anyway and maybe you are slowed down a little and somebody gets by you. Sure, it bothers you when the fans are on you. But you keep on giving your best&mdash;and if you check the records of goals against I think you will find they are pretty even among our defensemen.&rdquo;St. Laurent talked with the pride of a veteran hockey player&mdash;the pride to which Pilous refers when he says: &ldquo;This hockey team may have lost those first two games in Toronto but it has too much pride not to fight back to defend the Stanley Cup it won last year.&rdquo;<h2>Chi Bouncer</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02396/1985481-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="510" height="874"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dollard St. Laurent</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Dollard Turns Fan Boos Into Earned Cheers

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ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS!

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div>(In The Toronto Star)CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Clarence Campbell, president of the National Hockey League, has cracked down on the cheerleading tendencies of Bob Foster, the public address announcer in the Chicago stadium.No longer will Foster be permitted to introduce Chicago&rsquo;s great goaltender, Glenn Hall, as &ldquo;Mr. Goalie.&rdquo; Nor will he be allowed to distinguish the Black Hawks&rsquo; long-striding Eric Nesterenko as &ldquo;Swoop.&rdquo;Campbell was angry following last week&rsquo;s 3-0 victory of the Black Hawks over Toronto Maple Leafs in the third game of the Stanley Cup finals. He told Hawks&rsquo; general manager, Tommy Ivan: &lsquo;The public address system is a part of the game and the announcer, in effect, is a game official. He must act impartially at all times. To act like a cheerleader is completely wrong.&rdquo;Although he didn&rsquo;t spell it out, Campbell made it clear that he regarded the public address system as a potential menace in stirring up the crowd if it were used improperly.One league official commented: &ldquo;If he (the announcer) is permitted to work out his own ideas, the next thing we know he is liable to be second-guessing the officials.&rdquo;Foster gave a detailed explanation after Stan Mikita&rsquo;s goal, pointing out that it was Mikita&rsquo;s 17th point of the playoffs and that he was only three points short of equalling the all-time record.Campbell said he had no objection to the fans receiving the information but he felt that it could have been given during a stoppage of play and that it should not have been included in the announcement of the goal.Ivan said the club would abide by Campbell&rsquo;s ruling. &#9632;

President Campbell Cracks Down On Long-Winded Chicago PA Announcer

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Quote THE HOCKEY NEWS of April 14&hellip;&ldquo;Imlach will have to get much more mileage out of Mahovlich and Pulford if he expects to win.&rdquo;In the fifth game of the Stanley Cup final game in Toronto Imlach got more mileage out of this pair and the Leafs won 8-4, taking a 3-2 lead in games in the series. Pulford scored three goals and Mahovlich two.Pulford, one of the headiest players in the league as well as one of it&rsquo;s speediest, gives the Leafs strength down the middle and when he isn&rsquo;t going the Leafs&rsquo; aren&rsquo;t going. But quiet Bob never stops trying. He&rsquo;s &lsquo;Your Kind Of Player.&rsquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03321/1985560-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="268" height="472"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Pulford</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bob Pulford…Toronto Maple Leafs

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01500/1985598-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02381/1985591-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="2731" height="2031"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goaler Don Simmons, replacing Johnny Bower, lets one in and keeps one out in the fifth game of the Stanley Cup final. In the top shot masked Simmons is beaten by Murray Balfour, In the lower shot he grabs the puck as Hull fires one and Horton of the Leafs comes in to help. Sandwiched between Hull and Horton is Mikita. Photos by Michael Burns.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Stand-In Standout Standing Off Shooters

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01451/1985643-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02416/1985636-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1291" height="1908"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03333/1985629-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="2741" height="2028"><figcaption class="caption-body">In the above pictures photographer Michael Burns caught Glenn Hall on a tough night. In the fifth game of the series Hall allowed eight goals. In the top picture left, Hall is beaten by Dave Keon. On the right, he races back to net after bumping with Bert Olmstead. In the lower picture he stops shot off the stick of Bobby Pulford. Pulford missed this one but scored three in 8-4 win.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Mr. Goalie Gets His Fill In The Gardens

&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>SERVES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01485/1985695-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="556" height="88"></div>Tuesday, March 27Chicago 1 at Montreal 2(Montreal leads best of seven series 1-0)Thursday, March 29Chicago 3 at Montreal 4(Montreal leads best-of-seven series 2-0)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/f0008-02418/1985688-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="557" height="87"></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/f0008-03337/1985681-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="552" height="87"></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)Tuesday, April 17Toronto 1 at Chicago 4(Best of seven series tied 2-2)Thursday, April 19Chicago 4 at Toronto 8(Toronto leads best of seven series 3-2)Sunday, April 22Toronto 2 at Chicago 1(Toronto wins best of seven series 4-2)<h2>Stanley Cup Point Parade</h2><h3>Final Statistics</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04265/1985674-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="563" height="1425"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

CHICAGO, Ill&mdash;For the second straight game the Chicago Black Hawks used their weight and speed to all but chase the Toronto Maple Leafs out of Chicago Stadium as they racked up their second straight win&mdash;4-1&mdash;to tie the best-of-seven Stanley Cup final series 2-2.A capacity crowd saw the Hawks and Leafs go at it with sticks and fists on occasion.It was one of the roughest and toughest Cup games in many years as fights broke out in each period, climaxed by a sticks winging duel between Chicago&rsquo;s Stan Mikita and big Frank Mahovlich of Toronto. No damage was done in this vicious duel as both players stood back and took wild&mdash;but far off the mark&mdash;pokes.Referee Frank Udvari slapped them with game-misconduct penalties with less than three minutes remaining and both skated to their dressing-rooms. Mahovlich was pelted with debris from the frantic Chicago fans as he left the ice.All told, Udvari called 24 penalties&mdash;the two game misconducts, one misconduct, four majors and 17 minors.The Hawks, who shutout the Leafs 3-0 in Sunday&rsquo;s third game here after two straight losses on Toronto ice, last night used the same success formula of hitting hard from the opening faceoff.They hammered at the Leafs for the opening two periods&mdash;when all the goals were scored&mdash;and then played it cozy in the last 20 minutes.It could be a costly game for the Leafs, who lost goalkeeper Johnny Bower, a non-combatant, in the first period when he pulled a leg muscle after doing the splits to save on an ankle-high blistering drtve by Bobby Hull from the Toronto blueline. Bower limped off and spare goalkeeper Don Simmons was called in from the stands.And it was Hull and penalty killing Reggie Fleming who killed the Leafs with goals. Each got a pair while Toronto&rsquo;s scoring was handled by veteran Red Kelly in the first period after Hawks had built up a 2-0 lead.Fleming&rsquo;s first goal&mdash;at 15:41 of the opening period&mdash;turned out to be the winner and it was an ironic touch to the proceedings. Fleming hadn&rsquo;t been able to score against Leafs in 14 Toronto-Chicago National Hockey League games over the season.Bower was beaten on Hull&rsquo;s first goal and the masked Simmons, who gave up hockey a year ago to sell milk rather than play in the minors, yielded the other three.<h2>4TH GAME STATISTICS</h2>Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower, Simmons; defense: Brewer, Baun. Stanley, Horton; forwards: Kelly, Mahovlich, Stewart, Keon, Armstrong, Duff, Pulford, Litzenberger, Nevin, Olmstead, Harris, Shack.Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, St. Laurent, Evans, Turner; forwards: Hay, Balfour, Hull, Mikita, Wharram, McDonald, Horvath, Nesterenko, Fleming, Melnyk, Marcetta.Referee: Udvari; linesmen; Pavelich, Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07140/1985733-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="558" height="768"></div><h2>Dents Twine</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05206/1985726-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="506" height="866"><figcaption class="caption-body">Reg Fleming</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hawks Even Series When Hull, Fleming Net Pairs

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leafs got three goals from Bob Pulford and two from Frank MaliovIich as they whipped the Chicago Black Hawks 8-4 to take a 3-2 game lead in the best-of-seven games final series for the Stanley Cup.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06169/1985778-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="272" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Pulford</figcaption></div>During the game Chicago&rsquo;s Stan Mikita set two new playoff records when he assisted on two goals by Ab McDonald. Mikita&rsquo;s two assists raised his total points in the playoffs to 21 and gave him a new playoff record for points. The old record of 20 points was set by Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe in 1955. His 15 assists also gave him a new record for assists in a playoff series. The previous record was held by Boston&rsquo;s Fleming Mackell. He picked up 14 in 1958.The 8-4 score was also a record for goals in a final game.The Leafs took a 2-0 lead in the first period only to have the Hawks come back to cut the margin to 2-1 with one minute and 55 seconds remaining in the period. Bob Pulford scored two first period goals for the Leafs and Murray Balfour scored his first of the playoffs for Chicago.The Toronto fans, taking a cue from the boisterous Chicago Stadium crowd, tossed three hats, two overshoes, three eggs and programs on the ice. The Toronto crowd, usually silent, kept up a repeated &ldquo;Go, Leafs Go&rdquo; chant.Nevin was penalized for boarding Hay at the 31-second mark of the opening period. The public address announcer told fans to &ldquo;refrain throwing anything on the ice&rdquo; and the crowd, unusually noisy, greeted this announcement with boos.Chicago tied it, at 2-2 at the 59-second mark of the second period when McDonald took the puck from Horton at the red line, skated along the left boards and beat Simmons with a high shot into the righthand corner. Mikita and St. Laurent received assists on the play.Duff was chased for charging at 1:53 and at 3:07 of the middle frame Chicago went ahead 3-2 on McDonald&rsquo;s second goal of the night. Hull carried the puck into the Toronto zone, laid down a drop pass for McDonald who fired from about 15 feet out. The Black Hawk player used Brewer as a screen on the play.Shack went off for high sticking and Fleming for crosschecking at 8:11 of the second period and 20 seconds later Toronto tied the score at 3-3 when Harris tipped in a blueline drive by Horton.Toronto went ahead 4-3 at 9:50 of the second on Keon&rsquo;s fifth goal of the playoffs. Horton shot from just inside the Toronto blueline and Mahovlich grabbed the rebound but Hall got in front of his short drive. Keon swooped in to take the second rebound and flip it into the corner on Hall&rsquo;s left.Toronto doubled the score 6-3 at 4:41 of the final period when Armstrong tipped in Brewer&rsquo;s shot from the right boards. The Toronto defenceman appeared to be trapped by Evans but shot as he was hit.Toronto made it a runaway with its seventh goal at 6:31 of the last frame when Mahovlich let go with a waist-high drive as he fell to the ice. The puck whizzed past Hall&rsquo;s right arm.Fleming was chased at 10:12 for high-sticking Brewer. And 19 seconds later Bob Turner took a pass at the Toronto defence from Nesterenko and lofted a high one past Simmons to make it Toronto 7 Chicago 4Pilote was penalized at 12:43 for cross-checking and one minute and eight seconds later Pulford scored his third goal of the last frame. Pulford snared Harris&rsquo; drive as he fell to the ice He flicked the puck in behind Hall who had moved out a step or two.<h2>FIFTH GAME STATISTICS</h2>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, St. Laurent, Evans, Turner: forwards: Hay. Balfour. Hull, Mikita, Wharram, McDonald. Horvath, Nesterenko, Fleming, Melnyk, Marcetta.Toronto&mdash;goal: Simmons; defense: Brewer, Baun, Stanley, Horton, Arbour; forwards: Kelly, Mahovlich, Stewart. Keon. Armstrong, Duff. Pulford, Nevin, Olmstead, Harris, Shack.Referee: Powers; linesmen: Wicks, Hayes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-04103/1985771-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="548" height="965"></div><h2>SIXTH GAME STATISTICS</h2>Toronto&mdash;goal: Simmons: defense: Brewer, Baun. Stanley, Horton, Arbour; forwards: Kelly, Mahovlich, Stewart. Keon. Armstrong. Duff. Pulford, Nevin, Olmstead, Harris, Shack.Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko. St. Laurent. Evans, Turner; forwards: Hay, Balfour, Hull, Mikita, Wharram, McDonald, Horvath, Nesterenko, Fleming, Melnyk, MarcettaReferee: Udvari; linesmen: Pavelich I and Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0526/1985764-1-eng-US/c4-052.jpg" title="C4-05" width="555" height="594"></div> &#9632;

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Pulford’s Trio Leads Leafs To Big 8-4 Victory

GORDON&rsquo;S DRY GIN Perfect with any mixGORDONS 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/f0009-01470/1985858-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="574" height="144"></div>(Springfield wins best of seven seri 4-2)WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4Cleveland 4 at Springfield 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/f0009-02444/1985851-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="562" height="118"></div>(Hershey wins best of three series 2-1)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/f0009-03391/1985844-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="558" height="116"></div>(Buffalo wins best of three series 2-0)WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4Rochester 2 at Buffalo 3FRIDAY, APRIL 6<h3>SERIES &lsquo;D&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04330/1985837-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="560" height="116"></div>(Buffalo wins best of five series 3-1)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<h3>SERIES &lsquo;E&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05261/1985830-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="570" height="138"></div>(Springfield leads best-of-seven final series 3-0)WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18Buffalo 0 at Springfield 4SATURDAY, APRIL 21Buffalo 1 at Springfield 2SUNDAY, APRIL 22Springfield 3 at Buffalo 2<h3>SERIES E&rsquo;</h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 Buffalo 0 at Springfield 4 (Springfield leads best-of-seven series 1-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06224/1985823-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="560" height="452"></div><h3>SERIES &ldquo;E&rsquo;</h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 21Buffalo 1 at Springfield 2(Springfield leads best-of-seven final series 2-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07205/1985816-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="556" height="304"></div><h3>SERIES E&rsquo;</h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 22 Springfield 3 at Buffalo 2SERIES A&rsquo;(Springfield leads best-of-seven final series 3-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08191/1985809-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="564" height="586"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">GARRY BROWN (The Springfield Union)</div>SPRINGFIELD. Mass.&mdash;A familiar figure dropped in at the Springfield Coliseum for the first game of the finals and he was warmly greeted by all.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01484/1985927-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="283" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Pidhirny</figcaption></div>He&rsquo;s Harry Pidhirny, the down-to-earth fellow who gave most of his hockey career to Springfield Indians teams. This past season he played for the San Francisco Seals in the Western League&mdash;and topped the 20-goal mark-as usual.Harry had 24 goals for the Seals, who were eliminated in the first playoff round by Spokane, which now is in the finals with Edmonton.He wound up being voted the most valuable player on his club.After watching two periods, of the first period, Harry said of the Indians, &ldquo;they&rsquo;re as good as ever.&rdquo;&ldquo;I thought Buffalo would give them more trouble,&rdquo; Harry added, &lsquo;but the Indians are making them look bad.&rdquo;A series prediction.&ldquo;Four straight,&rdquo; said Harry quickly.Pidhirny arrived at his home on Amostown Rd., West Springfield but he didn&rsquo;t boot Brian Kilrea and his family out. The Kilreas, who rented the Pidhirny home this winter, are staying on until the season ends.Harry, by the way, is job hunting. This popular guy shouldn&rsquo;t have any trouble finding one. &#9632;

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Remarkable Mr. Paille In Zero Act

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02415/1986013-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goalie Marcel Paille of the Springfield Indians is shown making a neat save on Billy Dea of the Buffalo Bisons in playoff game. His brilliant goaltending streak of shutout minutes is 157.08 in playoff hockey, just 16.8 short of American League record.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Spoiling A Nice Night For Dea

NOW&rsquo;S THE TIME TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF&hellip;THE 1961-62 EDITION OF THE N.H.L. PRESS&RADIO GUIDEThe 1961-62 N.H.L. Press&Radio Guide also includes Hendy&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who in Hockey and is the finest Hockey Guide published.This compact 236-page book answers every question imaginable about the National League. Gives complete professional records of every player in the National, American, Western and Eastern Professional Leagues. It&rsquo;s a must for hockey fans everywhere.ALL THIS FOR ONLY $1.00 (Postage Paid)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04264/1986072-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="277" height="412"></div>THE THIRD EDITION OFTHE OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY ANNUAL 1962This 96-page book is i am-packed with full-length features about your favourite hockey stars&hellip;biographical sketches and pictures of over 120 National Hockey League players, birthdates and places of birth too&hellip;All at a glance!You can&rsquo;t afford to pass up the opportunity of availing yourself of a copy of this outstanding hockey publication.SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY!&hellip;ONLY 50 CENTS (Postage Paid)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05197/1986065-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="338" height="461"></div>OFFICIAL N.H.L. RECORD BOOK 1917-61(This is not the N.H.L. Press&Radio Guide but an entirely different book). The Official N.H.L. Record Book includes complete team standings and individual scoring records of every season from 1917-18 up to the present. This 350-paqe &ldquo;Hockey Masterpiece&rdquo; contains statistics and records unobtainable in any other publication. It is the most complete Record Book on Hockey ever published.The supply is limited and books will be sold on a First Come&mdash;First Served basis.SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY&hellip;$1.25 PER COPY (Postage Paid)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06158/1986058-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="280" height="424"></div>THE AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE YEAR BOOK FOR 1961-62(Fifth Annual Edition)&bull; Contains complete professional records of all American Hockey League players, both present and past.&bull; Complete team and individual records for the twenty-five year history of the American Hockey League.&bull; Pictures of league officials, championship teams, trophies and star players of the past and present.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07119/1986051-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="333" height="453"></div>AVAILABLE FOR ONLY 50 CENTS PER COPY<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0893/1986044-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="1604" height="624"></div> &#9632;

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ATTENTION HOCKEY FANS!

<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Marcel Paille of the Springfield Indians must be rated professional hockey&rsquo;s &lsquo;goalie of the year&rsquo; for his work this season.As this story was submitted, the stubby French-Canadian was only 16 minutes and 21 seconds from the American Hockey League&rsquo;s playoff record for shutout goaltending.He blanked the Cleveland Barons, 4-0, in the sixth and final game of the semi-finals set and then went on to whitewash the Buffalo Bisons by the same count in the first game of the championship series.Prior to that, he had 27.08 of shutout tending in a double overtime 4-3 victory over the Barons.His total, going into the second game against the Bisons, was 157.08.The AHL playoff standard is 173.28, set by Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh back in the 1952-53 season. If Marcel can survive through 16.21 of the first period of his next game, he&rsquo;ll be the owner of the new standard.During the season, Marcel was instrumental in helping two clubs, his Indians and the parent New York Rangers, gain playoff spots.He had the AHL&rsquo;s best average for goaltending during the regular season, with a mark of 2.56 goals allowed per game.Then, it may be recalled, that Marcel was called up to fill in during an emergency for the parent Rangers, at a time when the Broadways were floundering and seemingly &ldquo;blowing away&rdquo; their National League playoff chances.ner in four; held to a tie in another, while dropping the other two. Those vital nine points barely put the New Yorkers into the final playoff position.While Gump Worsley is deserving of the lions&rsquo; share of the credit for the Rangers&rsquo; success, Paille certainly gave the club a lift when the Gumper was sidelined at the critical point in the campaign.Although Marcel believes that luck is a vital factor in a goaltender&rsquo;s success, when he shutouts the opposition for 157 minutes and eight seconds he must have something more than luck.Paille is a solid goaltender. He does everything well. But his strongest forte seems to be an uncanny defense against breakaways. &#9632;

Totals 157.08 Minutes Of Shutout Hockey Over Cleveland And Buffalo

Before you say&nbsp;SCOTCH say DEWAR&rsquo;S&nbsp;it never varies<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>SPOKANE&mdash;SAN FRANCISCO</h3>Best-of-three nuarter-finai series<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01482/1986159-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="561" height="130"></div>(Spokane wins best&mdash;of-three series 2-0)TUESDAY, MARCH 27Spokane 4 at San Francisco 1THURSDAY, MARCH 29San Francisco 3 at Spokane 7<h3>CALGARY&mdash;SEATTLE</h3>Best-of-three quarter-final series<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02438/1986152-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="559" height="109"></div>(Calgary wins best-of-three series 2-0)THURSDAY, MARCH 29Calgary 2 at Seattle 1SATURDAY, MARCH 31Seattle 2 at Calgary 5<h3>PORTLAND&mdash;SPOKANE</h3>Best-of-seven semi&mdash;finals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03367/1986145-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="556" height="132"></div>(Spokane wins best-of-seven series 4-3)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 9Spokane 2 at Portland 3TUESDAY, APRIL 10Portland 1 at Spokane 4FRIDAY, APRIL 13Portland 2 at Spokane 3<h3>EDMONTON&mdash;CALGARY</h3>Best-of-seven semi-finals(Edmonton wins best-of-seven series 4-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04301/1986138-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="562" height="137"></div>MONDAY, APRIL 2Calgary 4 at Edmonton 5WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4Calgary 4 at Edmonton 2FRIDAY, APRIL 6Edmonton 4 at Calgary 2MONDAY, APRIL 9Edmonton 5 at Calgary 2WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11Calgary 2 at Edmonton 9<h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including games of Friday, April 13<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05257/1986131-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="559" height="635"></div><h3>MONDAY, APRIL 9 Edmonton 5 at Calgary 2</h3>(Edmonton leads best-of-seven series 3-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06230/1986124-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="552" height="620"></div><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 10 Portland 1 at Spokane 4</h3>(Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07210/1986117-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="549" height="474"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 Calgary 2 at Edmonton 9</h3>(Edmonton wins best-of-seven series<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08204/1986110-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="547" height="675"></div><h3>FRIDAY, APRIL 13 Portland 2 at Spokane 3</h3>(Spokane wins best-of-seven series<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09194/1986103-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="556" height="450"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By BOB HULEN</div>SPOKANE, Wash.&mdash;End of Portland dominance of the Western Hockey League came on a hot, humid April eveling some 377 miles from home.The Portland Buckaroos went down fighting in the final game of a best-of-seven WHL semi-final series with the Spokane Comets. They lost, 3-2, after trailing by a 3-0 score at the end of two periods.The well-earned Spokane victory in this final game of a fantastically hard fought series gave the Comets the dubious pleasure of having to play rough and ready Edmonton in the final for the Lester Patrick Cup. Earlier in the semi-final round, the Flyers easily disposed of Calgary in five games.The Portland loss, in turn, meant the end of the line for the team which had dominated the league the whole regular season and had taken the Patrick Cup in a &ldquo;rags to riches&rsquo;&rsquo; performance the previous season. Portland had won the Southern Division title in regular season play.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a good season,&rdquo; was the comment of Portland General Manager Harry Glickman after the final playoff game. &ldquo;Now we&rsquo;ll start thinking about next year.&rdquo;It was a strange series between Spokane and Portland, strange in many respects. With the exception of one period, every game was tense from the opening to the closing moment. Unexpected as well as expected individuals were the heroes.Finest individual effort had to go to a member of the losing team, center Art Jones. The Buckaroo veteran spent at least 45 minutes on the ice in the final game. Previously he had made the first penalty shot in the history of modern Portlanc hockey and had come through with the winning goal in the lone overtime contest.Other outstanding Buckaroos were veteran goaltender Al Rollins, who replaced injured Dor Head, and the entire defensive corps of Dale Rolfe, Bill David son, Ron Matthews and Jack Bionda.It was player-coach Colin Kilburn, finding new vitality a center, who pushed the Comet to the win in the final game. Goaltender Ed Johnston was great and so was all-purpose player Bev Bell for Spokane.It was Bell who came through magnificently when all appeared lost for the Comets. After rearguards Sandy Hucul and Bill Shvetz suffered broken hands in the middle of the series, Bell moved from wing back to defense. He was brilliant in checking, passing and bringing the puck up ice. The latter was a key factor in thwarting Portland tactics of dumping the disc into the corners and then fore-checking briskly.The series started in Spokane with the Comets recording a 2-1 win on the basis of wing Gerry Brisson&rsquo;s pair of goals.Then it moved to Portland for the next four games and these contests were marked by violence.Johnston came up with the lone shutout of the series, 1-0, in the first contest in the Rose City. This was a tight, down-to-the-wire contest which saw Gordon Stratton, a 54-goal performer with New Haven of the Eastern Amateur League last season, coming up with the winning score.At this point, things looked bleak indeed for the defending WHL champions. They looked even bleaker after the first period of the third contest. Then, the Bucks trailed by a 4-2 score.But, the Portland team came back to tie the score at 4-4 after two periods and finally won, 6-4, as Tommy McVie came through with the winning tally on a power play in the third period.The only rout of the series followed, the Buckaroos erupting for five goals in the third period for a 7-2 victory. It was in this game that Jones made the penalty shot, beating Johnston with a quick flip just off the ice to the right corner of the net. The Spokane netminder didn&rsquo;t even get a chance to move on the play.The first penalty shot in Portland since the sport was reactivated in the fall of 1960 was awarded by Referee Scotty Morrison when Buckaroo right winger Arnie Schmautz was attacked from behind by Stratton while breaking in alone for a shot on goal. Schmautz hit a post going in on goal and was unable to take the shot.Portland shot to a 3-2 lead in games the following evening. It seemed only fitting that Jones should come through with the winning goals in this sudden death overtime contest Just before the end of regulation play, he had been cut on the head by Shavetz&rsquo; stick and several stitches were needed between periods.The series then shifted again to Spokane and the Comets equalized the playoffs with a 4-1 win. This game featured excellent Spokane forechecking and two goals each by Stratton, just a spare man at the end of the season who wears contact lenses, and Yves Locas.And then came the decider, also in Spokane and on a night more suited to baseball than hockey. Largest crowd in Spokane hockey history saw the game, 6,534. Kilburn scored two of the Comet goals, including the winner, both on rebounds. The first came somewhat miraculously while the Spokane team was shorthanded. He batted a rebound as it bounced in the air off the ice at Rollins and then hit a similar rebound off the ice into the net.Red Johansen, who had missed the early part of the playoffs with a bad knee, made the other goal on a breakaway.Captain Gordon Fashoway applied two. third period goals for the Buckaroos and the Spokane team was fighting for its life at the final horn.Kilburn perhaps summarized the Spokane victory in the series after that final game. &ldquo;We won on desire and guts. It was the hardest playoff series I have over engaged in.&rdquo;And perhaps it was Kilburn who showed the most desire. The ageless veteran appeared to b, a worn out wing a month ago, lacking in speed. But, then Johansen became injured and the Comet coach was forced to move to center.He proceded to be a fine playmaker and overall leader. He was pugnacious along with Hucul and Shvetz and wing Steve Witiuk in the early playoff contests. Then, he settled down in cool fashion to lead the Comet checking line in the final two games, the ones in which Hucul and Shvetz were missing.Now instead of wondering what comes next, the 34-year-old Kiburn is undoubtedly looking forward to a few more seasons as a centerman.<h2>The Spark</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10174/1986190-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="517" height="1032"><figcaption class="caption-body">Colin Kilburn</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Spokane Ends Portland’s Short Reign As Western League Kings

Playing&hellip;Memorial Coliseum Portland, Ore.May 1 to May 6Coming To&hellip;WINTERLANDSan Francisco, Calif.June 13 to Sept. 2 &#9632;

ICE FOLLIES OF 1962

<div class="byline">By SHEL FULLERTON</div>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;A 4-0 defeat at the hands of the Springfield Indians on April 15 blasted the Cleveland Barons out of the Calder Cup playoffs and set the wheels in motion toward building for the 1962-63 American Hockey League campaign.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01467/1986252-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="272" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jackie Gordon</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I need a few new men,&rdquo; summarized General Manager-Coach Jack Gordon the day after the Barons bowed out of the playoff picture, &lsquo;but really haven&rsquo;t given too much thought, as yet, as to whom we may obtain.&rdquo;The Barons have a fairly strong nucleus on which to build, although there are several question marks, just as there were at the outset of the 1961-62 season.Goaltender Les Binkley no longer is one of the question marks. He performed brilliantly in his first professional season and there is little reason to doubt that he should improve with a full year in the AHL under his belt.Al Cullen, who had to step into the playoffs when Binkley was injured, did well enough to indicate that he may be of further help, if needed.The defense seems solid, although Tommy Williams is well along in years for a hockey player. The redhead played a fine game all season and showed no signs of slowing down. Aldo Guidolin and Bill Needham are in their prime. Both Gary Bergman and Murray Davison occasionally showed signs of inexperience, but both should develop into capable defensemen.Of the forwards, Fred Glover and Cal Stearns are pushing the upper age limit, but both delivered well during the just-concluded season. The other forwards all are young enough to warrant hope that they will continue to improve.Three Barons, Bergman, center Ron Attwell and winger Bill Sutherland, belong to the Montreal Canadiens, to their continued service with Cleveland depends entirely on the whim of the Canadiens&rsquo; management.Of the younger forwards on the team, Wayne Larkin and John Ferguson, especially the latter, came along well during the latter half of the campaign. Ferguson has the size and spirit to become a fine hockey player as he adds finess. He worked well on a line with Hank Ciesla and Dick Van Impe.Ciesla and Van Impe, both obtained from Rochester, worked well into the Cleveland picture. Ciesla was a strong centerman throughout most of the season, as well as being one of the club&rsquo;s better scorers both in the regular season and the playoffs. Van Impe, while his goal-producing efforts fell off, was one of the assist leaders despite injuries that handicapped him off and on during the season.If any member of the Barons can be said to be on the hot seat, it most likely is Eddie Mazur. The big likeable forward, a veteran, showed some signs of slowing down and was used sparingly at the end of the season. He still managed to produce 24 goals during the regular campaign, putting him fifth on the club in that respect.When all is said and done, the 1961-62 Barons gave their fans reason to be proud. The team did better than even its more loyal supporters had a right to figure it would in winning the Western Division championshipIn the playoffs, the Barons gave Springfield a terrific battle. before bowing out in six games, three of which went into overtime.<h2>On Thin Ice</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02384/1986245-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1049" height="1383"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Mazur</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Barons On Hunt For A Few New Men For Fall

BOYS 8-18 Yrs.Excellent Heals & Accommodation Top Sports Instructions In Hockey&mdash;Golf&mdash;Water-Skiing&mdash;Swimming Golf Course&mdash;Football Field&mdash;Baseball Diamond on the Camp GroundsHEAD COACHES Milt Schmidt Alf Pike Ed Litzenberger GUEST INSTRUCTORS Bobby Hull&mdash;Chicago Black Hawks Leo Boivin&mdash;Boston Bruins Reg Fleming&mdash;Chicago Black Hawks Marcel Pronovost&mdash;Detroit Red Wings at BYRNELL MANOR-BOYS&rsquo; CAMPFenelon Falls&mdash;Ontario, Canada on Cameron LakeFrom June 24 to August 25&mdash;Three Sessions of Three Weeks EachFor a coloured Brochure & Rates, please Write CAMP DIRECTORS Anna & Frank StukusEnquire Now! Registration Limited!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05139/1986335-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="307" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">MILT SCHMIDT Ex-N.H.L. Coach Boston Bruins</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06110/1986328-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="300" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALF PIKE Ex-N.H.L. Coach New York Rangers</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0791/1986321-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="295" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">ED LITZENBERGER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0875/1986314-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="243" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY HULL</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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RESIDENT SUMMER HOCKEY CAMP

<div class="byline">By BOB HULEN</div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Still nothing of any definite nature for Vancouver&rsquo;s immediate Western Hockey League plans.Since lumberman L. D. (Poldi) Bentley of Vancouver disclosed a definite possibility of Montreal Canadiens moving into the B.C. city, there has been a pregnant silence.As impatient as any to learn if Canadiens really do figure in Vancouver&rsquo;s future is the Spokane Comets colony headed by Roy McBride.The Comets would be in a bad spot if they found themselves without a major league tieup.It was less than a year ago that they sorted themselves out after Detroit Red Wings and the Comets came to the parting of the ways.&ldquo;I have to interpret no news as being good news,&rdquo; McBride comments.&ldquo;I believe that Montreal would announce its plans as quickly as possible. If the Canadiens did contemplate a change, I think they would let us know in lots of time so that we could work something else out.&rdquo;The Vancouver proposition seems to be that Bentley would put up 75 grand, with the Canadiens matching that figure, in order to take over the franchise.Meanwhile, Edmonton&rsquo;s future seems to be bright enough, despite Portland manager Harry Glickman&rsquo;s hints that the coast precincts would be happy to unload the Alberta precincts.&ldquo;Nobody is going to shove us out, if we don&rsquo;t want to go,&rdquo; Flyers manager-coach Bud Poile insists.&ldquo;Just as long as Calgary, Spokane and we wish to stay around, why, that is the way it&rsquo;ll be, that&rsquo;s all.&ldquo;What has got to be done is a better distribution of the gates. Our clubs do more than their share in putting on the show, and we should be compensated accordingly.&ldquo;It is all well and good for clubs like Portland and Los Angeles and San Francisco to get fat. But they can&rsquo;t do it all by themselves. They need us, whether they like to admit it or not.&rdquo;To which Spokane manager Roy McBride breathes a fervent amen.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether Los Angeles and San Francisco will eventually become members of the National League,&rdquo; McBride states, &ldquo;but one thing I do know is that if they do defect, it won&rsquo;t leave us strapped.&ldquo;We would still be mighty solid geographically, with six clubs in the Pacific Northwest.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say the future gets brighter all the time, and with a crowd like 6,534 showing up for our finals against Portland Buckaroos, I have to go along with the general (Mel Smith, the Comets&rsquo; secretary) that the ghosts of the amateurs have been forever laid away.&rdquo;A large segment of Spokane fandom appeared to resent the transition to pro hockey a few years back, but obviously they have been slowly won over. Even in the city&rsquo;s amateur hey-day, no attendance figure ever matched that 6,534.<h2>Golden Silence</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04210/1986283-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="530" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roy McBride</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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All Is Peaceful On The Vancouver Hockey Scene

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/f0013-01466/1986408-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="559" height="133"></div>(Hull-Ottawa wins best of seven series 4-3)WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4(Kitchener 4 at Hull-Ottawa 2)FRIDAY, APRIL 6Kitchener 4 at Hull-Ottawa 2SUNDAY, APRIL 8Hull-Ottawa 3 at Kitchener 2MONDAY, APRIL 9Kitchener 3 at Hull-Ottawa 2SUNDAY, APRIL 15Kitchener 1 at Hull-Ottawa 5MONDAY, APRIL 16Hull-Ottawa 3 at Kitchener 2WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18Kitchener 3 at Hull-Ottawa 4<h3>SERIES &lsquo;B&rsquo;</h3>(Kingston wins best of seven series 4-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02423/1986401-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="565" height="135"></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;C&rsquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03387/1986394-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="556" height="113"></div>(Best of seven final series tied 1-1)FRIDAY, APRIL 20Kingston 3 at Hull-Ottawa 4SUNDAY, APRIL 22Kingston 3 at Hull-Ottawa 1<h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h3>MONDAY, APRIL 16 Hull-Ottawa 3 at Kitchener 2(Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04351/1986387-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="556" height="526"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 Kitchener 3 at Hull-Ottawa 4(Hull-Ottawa wins best-of-seven series 4&mdash;3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05299/1986380-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="554" height="629"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;C&rsquo;</h3>FRIDAY, APRIL 20 Kingston 3 at Hull-Ottawa 4(Hull-Ottawa leads bestr-of-seven series 1-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06259/1986373-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="562" height="599"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;C&rsquo;</h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 22 Kingston 3 at Hull-Ottawa 1(Best-of-seven final series tied 1-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07245/1986366-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="559" height="545"></div> &#9632;

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By PAUL RIMSTEAD</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08231/1986439-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kingston Frontenacs&rsquo; new &lsquo;Explosion Line&rsquo; of Don Blackburn, Bobby Leiter and Terry Gray shower after blasting Sudbury Wolves out of the Eastern Professional League playoffs in five games. All three played a leading role in the Fronts win and stand an excellent chance to rewrite the league&rsquo;s playoff record book.(Photo by Cliff Knapp, Kingston Whig-Standard)</figcaption></div>KINGSTON. Ont&mdash;There is no need to be alarmed over the muffled blasts you have probably heard coming from Eastern Ontario.Unless, of course, you have a hockey team in the Eastern Professional Hockey League playoffs.The sounds do not emanate from a new nuclear testing area, but from Kingston Frontenacs&rsquo; exciting new &lsquo;Explosion Line&rsquo;.The fellows making the noise are Don Blackburn, Bobby Leiter and Terry Gray, who were united at the start of the EPHL semi-finals against the Sudbury Wolves.One would have thought these fellows came from a long line of bounty hunters the way they treated Murph Chamberlain&rsquo;s Wolves.The trio, none of which had been particularly startling throughout the schedule, scored 16 of 30 goals Frontenacs registered in five games.As a result, Sudbury lost 6-2 and 6-3 in the first two games, managed a 5-3 win, then lost 4-2 and 11-5.With a full series before them, the &lsquo;Explosion Line&rsquo; already has eclipsed two playoff scoring records and tied another.Leiter leads the way with six goals and eight assists and Gray is close behind with eight goals and four assists.There is some discrepency in the scoring records, but until an official announcement is made, Blackburn is being credited with two goals and 10 assists.Teammate Tom McCarthy set the record for points when he scored 20 for the Sudbury Wolves two years ago.McCarthy had 12 assists the same year, another mark.Bobby Rousseau, currently with the Montreal Canadiens, holds the goals mark with 12 he scored last season.All three records are within reach of Leiter, Gray and Blackburn.Leiter and Blackburn each scored a hat trick in the Sudbury series to tie the most-goals-pergame record.And both have had five-point nights to eclipse the old mark of four points in a game, which was shared by McCarthy, Rousseau and Ed Kachur of the Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds.Blackburn had four assists, unofficially, in one game and this is one better than the record held jointly by teammate Harry Sinden and Wayne Connelly (now with the Boston Bruins) of the old Montreal Royals.The trio&rsquo;s outburst came at a very good time for the Frontenacs.McCarthy and Orv Tessier, who scored 53 and 54 goals respectively this season, were held in check and show signs of tiring after the gruelling schedule.&ldquo;We were happy to pick up the slack,&rdquo; smiled Blackburn, who is thrilled to be going so well. &ldquo;Those guys carried us all season.&rdquo;Blackburn, because of injuries etc., has had a poor year and his playoff record has made him forget.Gray, who started the season with Boston, was a disappointment when he joined Kingston late in the season.He wasn&rsquo;t getting much ice time with Bruins and wasn&rsquo;t in top condition when he came here.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m skating better now than I have since training camp,&rdquo; says Gray. &ldquo;And Leiter gives me those passes when I want them.&ldquo;I like to take a pass on the the fly and carry the puck in myself.&rdquo;Phil Watson, coach of the Bruins, has announced several times recently, that Gray is going back to Boston next season.And, playing the way he is now, Gray should be a can&rsquo;t miss prospect.Leiter has been the pleasant surprise in the Frontenac picture this year.The youngster from Winnipeg barely made the team at the start of the year but has blossomed into a full-fledged star in the league.A bright young man, Leiter knew what he had to do to make it in the pro ranks and worked hard.The stocky little centre played with Winnipeg Braves last season in the Manitoba Junior League.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re skating,&rsquo; said Leiter of his wingers, &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s the key to the line.&rdquo;But Leiter is also a key. He shows the poise of a veteran and plays with much more confidence than is expected from a rookie.In addition, he&rsquo;s a chippy fellow and won&rsquo;t back down from anyone.Leiter is a strong and deceptive skater, although not one to impress you with blinding speed and he has a very good shot.If they stay healthy and effective&mdash;and they continue to skate&mdash;the &lsquo;Explosion Liners&rsquo; may rewrite the record book before they&rsquo;re finished.Nothing would please Kingston&rsquo;s rabid fans more.<h2>Explosive Trio Cool Off &#9632;</h2>

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‘Explosion Line’ On Verge Of Rewriting Book For Kingston

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div>(In The Toronto Star)TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;Max Bentley, the old dipsy-doodler from Delisle, watched Chicago&rsquo;s Eric Nesterenko playfully sawing away at Carl Brewer&rsquo;s neck with the handle of his stick Comradely Carl chucked Eric under the chin&mdash;with his fist. The Hawks&rsquo; Murray Balfour hit the boards so hard&mdash;with Brewer steering&mdash;that he couldn&rsquo;t even remember whether it was Thursday in Toronto or Sunday in Chicago. On this evidence, Balfour was excused for the balance of the match.&lsquo;&lsquo;Don&rsquo;t tell me the game was this rough when I played,&rdquo; Bentley gasped. &ldquo;Why, I wouldn&rsquo;t even have gone on the ice.&rdquo;It was suggested to Maxie that his memory must have failed. Had he forgotten Bill Barilko, who posed as Bentley&rsquo;s policeman on many occasions when both played for the Leafs? And how about Ted Lindsay? Now, there was a mild-mannered, gentle type of kid. Gus Mortson, Bill Ezinicki and Fern Flaman were others who would trade an elbow for a knee, with anybody who wanted to get tough.&ldquo;Yeah, and there was Black Jack Stewart, too,&rdquo; Maxie exclaimed, as if the book of his mind has been opened at some gory chapter of the past. &ldquo;Yeah, I guess there&rsquo;d be some casulties carried out, if fellows like Barilko and Black Jack were playing tonight. But it does seem pretty rough.&rdquo;What Maxie might have meant was that it&rsquo;s much safer in the Fertile Valley League, where he played for Delisle this season. He felt so good and went so well that he decided he had goofed when he didn&rsquo;t accompany his brother, Doug, to Los Angeles. Doug played for the L.A. pro club&mdash;called the Blades&mdash;whilst drawing a well-earned pension from the NHL.&ldquo;Doug told me I could have played for L.A. this season,&rdquo; Maxie reported proudly&hellip;&ldquo;After all, I&rsquo;m three and a half years younger than Doug. He&rsquo;s 45.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s a wonder Doug didn&rsquo;t spread the word that Max was available. The Black Hawks first found Doug when he was playing for Drumheller, Alberta. Doug got to Chicago and told the Hawks about the brother they had overlooked. The Hawks did a retake and realized Doug wasn&rsquo;t speaking purely from brotherly love.Too bad there are not some more Bentleys coming out of the west. At one time, the Bentleys and beer were about all the Chicago Stadium had to sell. They were a bargain at double the price. In today&rsquo;s hopped-up game, they (the Bentleys&mdash;not the beer) would be an even greater hit than they were then.&ldquo;Best Bentley is still to come,&rdquo; Max reported slyly. &ldquo;This one&rsquo;s got every move I ever had&mdash;and he&rsquo;s bigger, tougher. This guy is only 19. He&rsquo;s better than I was at his age. Doug says he&rsquo;s better than Doug was at 19.&rdquo;Max created the suspicion he might be referring to a son. Such proved to be the case. The boy&rsquo;s first name is Lynn. He was named for a Chicago sportscaster, Lynn Brandt. Next sea-son, he likely will play for Los Angeles.&lsquo;Any big league club that wants to sign this guy will have to see me,&rdquo; Max emphasized. &ldquo;Looks like he will have plenty to sell. He prefers Chicago or Toronto. It wouldn&rsquo;t matter so much to me, as long as he gets a good deal.&rdquo;Max was a pretty good salesman of his own talents, so he should do well for his own son. It can be predicted the boy will not be the first to report at training camp. Max usually found the grain crop unexpectedly heavy in Saskatchewan about the time letters went out from Maple Leafs Gardens, telling the athletes when and where to check in.His departure from Delisle inevitably was delayed by the golden harvest still in the fields. Sometimes the perspiring serfs at St. Catharines&mdash;or wherever the Leafs happened to be&mdash;would read in the paper that Max Bentley played for Deslisle in a baseball tournament and hit a home run. Presumably this was during his lunch hour.&ldquo;Only thing I regret when I look back on my career,&rdquo; Max volunteered, &ldquo;was that time I took off from Toronto and nobody knew where I was. I was hurt&mdash;that&rsquo;s all&mdash;and Hap (Day) was bringin&rsquo; me back too fast.&rdquo;Max had a bad back. He rode all the way to Delisle in a car. It was supposed to be the end of his shinny career. He was through. Years later, Max got ulcers&mdash;from worry because he feared he was washed up.&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t think I ever wanted to quit hockey?&rdquo; Max demanded. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d be playing yet if I could.&rdquo;<h2>Still On Scene</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02368/1986501-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="518" height="1178"><figcaption class="caption-body">Max Bentley</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Max Says Best Bentley Is Yet To Land In NHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03279/1986532-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg"></div>AND YOU CANT FOLLOW FOOTBALL FULLY WITHOUT&hellip;Canada&rsquo;s breezy, fact-filled, authoritative Football Weekly&mdash;now beginning its 12th year of publication. Every pro team in Canada is covered thoroughly each week by the nation&rsquo;s foremost football writers.Mail the coupon now&mdash;it brings you 18 issues for just $2.00. (First issue comes out on Aug. 11th). &#9632;

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“You can’t tell the players without a program”…

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01438/1986563-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><h2>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1. Chicago player shown in centre.5. Initials of 6 down.7. Initials of Pidhirny, last season with Springfield.8. To exist.9. Team which ended fourth in 1961-62 NHL standing.13. Former Boston player known as Paul.14. This Black Hawk is a native of Saskatooon, Sask.16. Initials of Mortson, ex-NHL star.17. Position played by 14 across (abbr.)18. Name given the immortal Cobb of baseball fame.19. Initials of Montreal&rsquo;s Vice-President.20. 16th and 9th letters of the alphabet.21. Prefix.23. Dick Duffs brother.25. Players like this to be hard and fast.26. Red Kelly&rsquo;s political party.28. Native province of Parker MacDonald (abbr.)29. Allan&rsquo;s Stanley&rsquo;s Ontario birthplace.32. This Ranger hails from Wakaw, Sask.<h3>DOWN</h3>1. Given name of Balfour of Chicago.2. Hart Trophy winner of 1954-55.3. Pronoun.4. Month in which Tim Horton celebrates wedding anniversary (abbr.)5. Initials of Boyer of Rochester.6. Coach of Rochester Americans.10. Anno Ordinis (abbr.)11. Initials of a Montreal forward.12. This Leaf player will participate in an ice show in Toronto this month.15. Nationality of Mrs. Ed Litzenberger.18. Tim Horton wears the same one while on a winning streak.20. Vezina Trophy winner of 1961-62.22. Given name of Stewart, deceased NHL great.24. Teams often go into one.25. Iridium (Sym.)27. Mrs. Eddie Powers.30. Initials of &ldquo;Ace&rdquo; Bailey, old time star.31. 19th and 12th letters of the alphabet.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1. Duff4. Ford7. Rae8. Ve.9. A.A.10. Baird12. Durnan13. R.I.14. Bud15. A.S.16. FR.17. Chi.19. May20. Kid21. Rt.22. Sn.23. Sask.26. T.G.28. Te.30. A.G.32. Arbour234. Wharram<h3>DOWN</h3>1. Dryden2. UA3. February4. Fern.5. R.A.6. David8. Via11. A.N.13. Rushing14. Backstrom16. Fats18. Id.19. M.R.24. Star25. Kerr27. Jaw29. Pro.31. G.H.33. B.A. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div>TRAIL. B.C.&mdash;The Western Canada Allan Cup finals are well underway and the perennial favorites, the Frail Smoke Eaters hold a game lead as this is being written.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02383/1986594-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="268" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Smith</figcaption></div>Battling it out with the Smokies are the veteran packed Saskatoon Quakers, who have given the Smokies some much needed opposition for the first time this season.Not to be taken lightly by any means, the Saskatchewan champions are heavily sprinkled with former professionals from across the country, who now call Saskatoon their home.The first three games in a best-of-seven series were played in Trail&rsquo;s own back yard. The 1961 World Champions came up with a big win in the opener as they shutout the Quakers six to nothing. Outstanding performances by Trail&rsquo;s Harry Smith and netminder Seth Martin paved the way for the victory.Smith a 26-year-old stickhandling defenseman, earlier joined the Galt Terriers in quest of the World Amateur title.A native of Trail and one who belongs in the professional ranks, the big blueliner scored twice and assisted on another to lead all snipers.The Quakers showed reversal of form in the second game as they checked, skated and took command from the start and never looked back in their 6-4 win.The third game saw the British Columbia champions move one game ahead, scoring a 6-2 win.A goal by the Quakers early in the first period was all that was necessary to get the Smokies rolling. They roared back in the middle stanza with three consecutive markers by centreman Dave Russnell, Hal Jones and Addie Tambellini. The Smokies also dominated the final period as they outscored the Quakers three to one. Other Trail marksmen were Gerry Penner, Don Fletcher and Russ Kowalchuk. &#9632;

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Trail Gets 1st Real Test From Saskatoon Team

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;The controversy over the relative merits of the long-established Ontario Hockey Association junior &lsquo;A&rdquo; league and the new Toronto Metro junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league was settled far this year at least when the Hamilton Red Wings of the provincial group eliminated the defending Memorial Cup champion Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors.St. Michael&rsquo;s finished in first place in the Metro group, 11 points ahead of the second place Toronto Marlboros, then eliminated the Marlboros in the league finals.However to do it the Majors had to come from behind a 3-1 deficit in games, sweeping the last three starts of the best-of-five series.Hamilton placed second in the provincial league, three points behind Montreal Canadiens. They eliminated St. Catharines Tee Pees in the semi-finals, then knocked off Niagara Falls Flyers four straight in the finals to qualify for the series with the Metro champs.The Red Wings dropped the first game of the Ontario-Metro finals on home ice, then scored four straight victories to advance into the Eastern Canada finals against Quebec Citadels.Hamilton was not expected to have too much trouble ousting Quebec and won the first game of the best-in-seven series 6-2.The survivor of the Hamilton-Quebec round will meet the Western Canada champions, either Edmonton Oil Kings or Brandon Wheat Kings.The Memorial Cup finals this year are held in the east. &#9632;

Red Wings Prove OHA Jr. Stronger

SIMCOE, Ont.&mdash;President Jack Roxburgh of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association said last week that &ldquo;there isn&rsquo;t a country in the world that lives up to the Olympic oath.&rdquo;Roxburgh was asked to comment on a resolution passed by the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association that the Canadian Army take over the training and sponsorship of the Canadian hockey representative to the 1964 Olympics.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good idea and would have to be given full consideration at our meeting in Ottawa at the end of May,&rdquo; he said.The President said the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association could only act on the Alberta suggestion by disregarding the present Olympic oath, which, if strictly interpreted, wouldn&rsquo;t allow even the army to sponsor a team if the players were paid while attending training camp.&ldquo;I realize lots of other countries do this,&rdquo; he said &ldquo;In fact, there is no nation that can send a team to the games and truly live up to the oath. But when we shut our eyes to something we are teaching the youth of the country to shut their eyes to what is right and wrong.&rdquo;Roxburgh said the present Olympic oath, which demands strictly amateur status, should be broadened, possibly to allow athletes some remuneration so long as their particular sport is not also their main source of income.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see how we could send a team to the 1964 Olympics with the present oath,&rdquo; he said.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03334/1986649-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="284" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Roxburgh</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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All Countries Fail To Meet Olympic Rules

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The opening gun in the post playoff trade derby has been fired by Detroit g.m. Jack Adams who listed three Red Wings &ldquo;Untouchables&rdquo; and said he&rsquo;s on the lookout for a left winger.&ldquo;How about Dean Prentice of the Rangers?&rdquo; a reporter asked.&ldquo;Fine,&rdquo; said Jack, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;m afraid the Rangers will ask too much for him.&rdquo;Adams said neither Gordie Howe, Alex Delvecchio nor rookie Larry Jeffry was obtainable from Detroit. Jack didn&rsquo;t think any explanation was necessary, so he didn&rsquo;t explain.&ldquo;There are plenty who are available,&rdquo; he went on.&ldquo;Like who?&rdquo;&ldquo;Marc Boileau, Val Fonteyne and Parker McDonald.&rdquo;Adams, who deserves the reputation he has as an active trader, said he hadn&rsquo;t conducted serious barter talk with his New York counterpart, Muzz Patrick, but there was every indication he would.&ldquo;Muzz is a good friend of mine,&rdquo; he said heartily.Could be he was thinking of last Summer&rsquo;s deal when the Rangers sent Bill Gadsby to Detroit for an inconspicuous minor league defenseman named Les Hunt.&ldquo;Gads did more than we expected of him,&rdquo; Adams eulogized. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know where we&rsquo;d have been without him.&rdquo;Nonetheless, Jack admitted he was on the prowl for backliners.&ldquo;Last season I asked a number of friends who they thought was the best defenseman in the American League.&ldquo;Most of them said it was Noel Price. So I traded Goegan, who wasn&rsquo;t going well with us. Price was not bad but not that great either.&rdquo;Another name likely to come up in the Patrick-Adams conference is Gump Worsley, the Rangers stubby goaltender. With the Red Wings netminding situation uncertain, Gump would be an attractive catch.&ldquo;Worsley has always been one of my favorites,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;Looking back I wish I&rsquo;d have picked him up when Rangers left him unprotected in the draft a few years ago.&rdquo;It was suggested that one of Adams&rsquo; standbys, defenseman Marcel Pronovost, may be on his way out.&ldquo;Marcel didn&rsquo;t have a good year,&rdquo; Adams continued. &ldquo;But it wasn&rsquo;t &lsquo;til the season was over that we found out why&mdash;he was suffering from high blood pres-sure.&ldquo;He used to complain that his head would get hot. He felt bad during games. Now we know why. But we don&rsquo;t know the reason. Anyhow, he&rsquo;s had a rest and now the pressure&rsquo;s gone down.&rdquo;Rangerabilia: More than 30,000 mail responses were received by New York radio station WINS after the station queried listeners about resumption of hockey next season. From all indications, the network will carry the Blue games again&hellip;Congratulated for his 50-plus saves in the double overtime playoff loss to Toronto, Worsley quipped: &lsquo;Don&rsquo;t congratulate me, I couldn&rsquo;t get out of the way.&rdquo;&hellip;Andy Bathgate was scouting a new Toronto golf course over which he may be pro next Summer&hellip;Worsley was the three-star selector in Chicago for the third game of the Stanley Cup final. True to the goalkeepers union he picked Glenn Hall and Johnny Bower as two of his three aces.<h2>Wings For Good</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01134/1986687-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="546" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-02133/1986680-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="534" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Delvecchio</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Adams Lists Trio—The Rest Can Be Dealt For

CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leafs won their first Stanley Cup since 1951 as they defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 2-1 in the sixth game of the 1961-62 Stanley Cup final series.The Leafs, who outplayed and outskated the defending cup champions throughout most of the suspense-filled game, spotted the Hawks a goal midway through the third period and then scored a pair in less than four minutes.The winning goal was scored by Dick Duff at 14:14 with Chicago winger Eric Nesterenko sitting out a holding penalty.The big crowd, that hollered and screamed when Bobby Hull, Chicago&rsquo;s blond bomber, put the Hawks in front 1-0 at 8:56 of the third period, hardly let out a whoop or a holler as Clarence Campbell, National League president, presented the cup to captain George Armstrong at centre ice post-game ceremonies.Twenty-thousand frenzied, debris-throwing fans held up the game for minutes after Hull&rsquo;s goal when they plastered the ice with eggs, red-ink, paper, hats, peanuts&mdash;anything they could get their hands on&mdash;but the wild hulla-baloo lasted less than two minutes after play resumed.Bobby Nevin tied it at 10:29 and the disgruntled fans sat on their hands. Their dejection was complete when Duff got the winner.After the game fights broke out in the stands and ushers and police were kept busy for minutes as fists and feet flew.Coach Rudy Pilous of the Hawks said in an afternoon hotelroom bull session that his club, down three games to two to the Leafs, would &ldquo;stone&rdquo; coach Punch Imlach&rsquo;s club and make a seventh game necessary in Toronto Tuesday night.But he was dead wrong. The Leafs, who had been hammered and belted about in their two losses on Chicago Stadium ice in this series, handed out bump for bump, and it appeared to be only a matter of time as they literally bombed Hawks goalkeeper Glenn Hall.The nimble, dark-haired iron man netminder who has played a fantastic 539 consecutive games in the NHL, came up with the big saves as wave after wave of Leafs poured in on him for most of the game.After Hull scored the Leafs went after the tired and fast fading Hawks and wrapped up their world championship title after an 11-year drought.Hall made 35 saves against only 20 for Don Simmons, called in after Johnny Bower was injured during the first period of the fourth game. And he also made some great stops but nothing like the almost-impossible performance turned in by Hall.The Leafs, forechecking fiercely, rarely gave Chicago breathing space to mount any sort of at sustained offensive. It was curtains for the Hawks when Duff came up with his clutch goal.They pulled Hall out of the nets with 58 seconds of the game remaining and would-be Chicago snipers were checked almost into the ice by the Leafs who held out as the final seconds ticked off.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-03125/1986718-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="242" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Duff</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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