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July 1, 1962
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Leafs, Wings To Play Game In Winnipeg Arena Sept. 22
WINNIPEG, Man.— Toronto Maple Leafs, Stanley Cup champions, and Detroit Red Wings will play an exhibition hockey game at the Winnipeg Arena Sept. 22, manager Percy Downton announced. Downton is also working on a Stanley Cup playback, with Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks going at it-If it comes off, the date will be Oct. 4. New York Rangers are also involved in Percy’s bickering for pre-season hockey activity here. It’s possible Rangers will fill in for Chicago against Leafs if the Hawks can’t make it.…
Lockhart Named U.S. Puck Boss By AHA For 25th Straight Season
DULUTH, Minn.— The United States Amateur Hockey Association put through the same motion it has submitted for the past 25 years—it named Tommy Lockhart of New York as its president again. The efficient Lockhart, who has been the guiding hand behind U. S. amateur hockey for more than two decades, will again head the AHA along with five other officers who were re-elected to office. Lockhart also declared that the 1963 convention will be held at Montreal in conjunction with the annual National Hockey League meetings. Re-elected as officers were Walter Brown, Boston, first vice-president; Frank E. Gallagher Jr., Dearborn, Mich., second vice-president; Donald Clerk, Cumberland; Phillip E. M. Thompson, Absecon, N. J., secretary-treasurer, and Vernon Thomas, Baltimore, executive assistant to the president. New selections to the board were Robert Fleming, Rochester, Minn., who replaced…
11-Year Disappearance Of Barilko Ended When Searchers Find Plane
TORONTO, Ont— The mysterious 11-year-old disappearance of Toronto Maple Leaf’s hockey star Bill Barilko came to a dramatic end June 7. when sear chers found the plane that carried him to his death after a stirring Stanley Cup championship victory following the 1950-51 season. The skeletons of Barilko and his long time friend, Timmins dentist Dr. Henry Hudson, were found strapped in the wreckage of their small cabin plane deep in the bush near Cochrane, Ont. Barilko. hero of the Leafs’ Stanley Cup triumph in 1950-51 when he scored the winning goal to beat the Canadiens in the de ciding game of’ the final, was lost Aug. 26, 1951 while returning from a summer of fishing on James Bay, near Timmins, Ont. It was the last news the hockey world heard of the handsome,…
‘GM’s Propose Pooling Losses To Keep In Operation
OTTAWA, Ont. In the foundering Eastern Professional Hockey League operates again next season—and there is a good indication it will—much of the credit belongs to the general managers of the five National Hockey League teams that have interests in the EPHL. At a closed session meeting here with league officials, the five GM’s of Boston, Chicago, Montreal, Detroit and New York—approved a plan whereby losses suffered by any of the six EPHL clubs in the future will be pooled and divided among the sponsoring NHL teams. The plan, still subject to approval of the NHL owners, appears to be the elixir needed to keep the struggling Eastern Hockey League from going under as had been predicted for the past few weeks. Rangers Asked Out The whole set-up threatened to blow up when the Rangers, after…
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