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September 19, 1962

The Hockey News September, 1962

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04294/2118120-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg"></div>PRESENT ATTACH LABEL HEREIf you&rsquo;re moving, please let us know as soon as possible. Place address label here and print Your new address below together with the date the change should take effect. &#9632;

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TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Detroit hockey star Gordie Howe has a lot of fans in the Toronto area but he probably won&rsquo;t have a more staunch now on than Fred Baker, a steward at booster from the suburban Mississauga Golf Club.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01460/2116897-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="299" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div>Baker approached Howe about signing an autograph for his son while the ice great was performing during the proamateur celebrity golf play which preceeded the regular CPGA championships.Young Richard Baker, 11, read that Howe was to be among the guests at the tournament and prevailed upon his father to bring him home an autograph when he returned from the golf club.The incident slipped Howe&rsquo;s mind, so the elder Baker thought when Gordie left for home. But Howe, realizing his forgetfullness, drove back to the club several miles where Baker was still working.Fred Baker took the cherished autograph home to his waiting son a happy and contented man.&ldquo;It was the nicest thing that ever happened to me,&rdquo; added the steward. &#9632;

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Howe Wins Fan—Returns For Autograph

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

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By Ken mc Kenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01523/2117252-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="365" height="384"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02488/2117245-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="512" height="74"></div>&bull; DETROIT RED WINGS will play fewer pre-season exhibition games this year. Most seasons the Wings played anywhere from 10 to 15 pre-season schedule contests. This year they have scheduled eight warm-up tilts&hellip;Six of these eight exhibitions will be played in Western Canada as the Red Wings make their fifth consecutive tour through that part of Canada&hellip;&ldquo;In past years we&rsquo;ve played as many as 10 games on those Western swings,&rdquo; stated Manager-Coach Sid Abel, &ldquo;but this year we&rsquo;ve shortened the trip and cut the number of games. This will give us more time to drill at Olympia during those important days just prior to the start of the season.&rdquo;&hellip;For the first time in a number of years the Wings will play games in Windsor and Toledo during the training season. Both games will be against Pittsburgh Hornets, Detroit&rsquo;s new farm club and coached by former Wings great, Jack Stewart&hellip;Danny Gallivan, the &ldquo;Voice&rdquo; of the Canadiens, has developed into a first-class horseshoe player this summer&hellip;Boston&rsquo;s Wayne Connelly married Regina Gagnon of Rouyn, Que. recently&hellip;&ldquo;Our best schedule in years&rdquo; is the way Bruins&rsquo; manager Lynn Patrick describes the 1962-63 NHL schedule&hellip;His enthusiasm was motivated by the fact that in the first two months of the season the Bruins play 12 of 19 games at the Boston Garden compared to 11 at home and 11 away over the same period a year ago&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03412/2117238-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="259" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>&bull; THE aggressive Eastern Hockey League will have nine clubs this season with Nashville being the latest club, to join this far-flung hockey circuit. Knoxville Knights open the schedule in New Haven on October 17&hellip;Last season was a most successful one for these fine United States cities in the EHL and from all indications the 1962-63 season will be the greatest ever&hellip;Ray Kinasewich, rightwinger of the Hershey Bears, has a younger brother who will play with Harvard in the Ivy League this upcoming season&hellip;Freddie Hunt, General Manager of Buffalo of the AHL, has an 11-year-old son who hopes to make a career as a professional player. Like his Dad, he is a right winger&hellip;Omaha Knights expect to sell over 1,200 season tickets before the season starts on November 2&hellip;Lil and Lou Gilner (Lil is Mom Gumbel&rsquo;s daughter) are the happy parents of a new baby girl, Linda Marie&hellip;56 youngsters reported to the first annual Detroit Red Wings hockey school. Sid Abel officially welcomed the boys with a few words of greeting. Bruce Norris, owner-president of the Wings was also on hand for the first day&rsquo;s activities&hellip;Jamie Kneibler, 13-year-old nephew of Norris, was one of the students at the school&hellip;Quiet, poker-faced Henri &lsquo;Pocket&rsquo; Richard is getting to be quite a funster&hellip;During a recent interview with Gil Smith of HOCKEY PICTORIAL, Richard asked Smith if he had heard about the fellow who insisted on paying cash for everything&hellip;&ldquo;He paid cash for his car, paid cash for his gas, cash for his oil and then charged his battery&rdquo;&hellip;Are Training Camps Really Necessary? is the title of a feature story in the September issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL&hellip;This September issue of the Pic is a special Preview Edition and gives hockey fans a real rundown on the respective strengths and weak points of the various NHL clubs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04353/2117231-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="275" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Henri Richard</figcaption></div>&bull; IRVING MITCHELL FELT, chairman of the board of Madison Square Garden and Bill Jennings, president of the New York Rangers, handed out graduating diplomas and trophies to the 55 students attending the Rangers&rsquo; fourth annual summer school last month&hellip;This school held in New York each summer is proving very popular with hockey-playing youngsters in the Eastern United States&hellip;Harold Linden Jr., an 18-year-old from White Plains, N. Y., was selected by the Ranger faculty as the leading senior player in the two-week semester&hellip;Muzz Patrick, Emile Francis, Harry Howel] and Rod Gilbert served on the faculty&hellip;Bob Wilson, Chicago scout, will call his yearling thoroughbred Mr. Stanley Cup&hellip;One of the students attending the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; hockey school left after the first practice. The youngster packed up and went home because the rules required him to take a shower when he came off the rink&hellip;Gordie Howe amazed onlookers at the recent CPGA golf tourney in Toronto with his bulging biceps&hellip;Toronto&rsquo;s Dave Keon has developed into a top-notch golfer in about six weeks time. After that length of time with the game he was shooting in the low 80&rsquo;s&hellip;Elliott Trumbull, ace publicist of the Detroit Red Wings, was married early this summer&hellip;Free NHL schedules will be sent to anyone writing the NHL Information Bureau, 601 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Canada.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05320/2117224-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="237" height="381"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Keon</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;As the Chicago Black Hawks head for training camp there are recur&not;ring reports that trade winds are blowing for the 1960-61 Stanley Cup champions.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01346/2118399-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="295" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Ivan</figcaption></div>General manager Tommy Ivan of the Hawks said that some deals are on the fire but declined to mention what players or teams were involved.&lsquo;We can&rsquo;t say anything at this time.&rdquo; Ivan commented.The Hawks are reportedly seeking more strength down the right side where the club was noticeably weak last season.Chicago publicist Johnny Gottselig said the Hawks were interested in securing a right winger and a right defenceman.&ldquo;We are also seeking another centre to back up Mikita and Hay,&rdquo; said Gottselig. Third-string centre Ron Murphy was a disappointment last year to the club. He was out of action with injuries for 22 games.The Black Hawks gave up the Stanley Cup last season to Toronto and Ivan said the club would be strengthened in order to make a serious bid to win it back. Ivan said he has his eye on two players and if he can trade for them, the Hawks will be tough again. &#9632;

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Club Seeking More Strength On Right Side

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02237/2118430-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Harvey</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The New York Rangers, desperate for the return of Doug Harvey for at least one more year, made the star defenceman such an attractive offer that he couldn&rsquo;t refuse it.This was the outcome of Harvey&rsquo;s announcement that he had reconsidered his plans to retire and would rejoin the Rangers in training camp at Vancouver.The 37-year-old Harvey, who was the club&rsquo;s playercoach last year is reported to have been offered and accepted a contract calling for $30.000 for the season to serve the Rangers strictly on a player basis for the 1962-63 campaign.Harvey thus becomes the highest paid player in history and at his advanced age, it is all the more remarkable. In addition, the seven-time Norris Trophy winner was given other considerations, like being allowed to skip practice if he desired and fly home to be with his family in Montreal.Harvey, who said originally he was quitting because he could no longer remain away from his family, admitted the new Ranger offer was simply, &ldquo;too good to turn down.&rdquo;General manager Muzz Patrick was the driving force behind the return of Harvey to the Blues. He never for one minute gave up trying to persuade the veteran defenceman to come back.Patrick, influenced by the fact Harvey led the Rangers into the playoffs last season for the first time in many years and helped them register their most lucrative year at the box office. negotiated with the Montrealer almost weekly since the June hockey meetings.Patrick said he was pleased that Harvey changed his mind and was certain that the Blues would be a contender again this year. It was believed the return of Harvey would open the way for veteran Bert Olmstead, drafted by the Rangers from Toronto during the off-season, to report here. Olmstead said he was giving up hockey to concentrate on farming in Western Canada but officials have pointed out that Harvey and Olmstead are friends from a way back and Doug&rsquo;s decision was likely to influence the former Toronto Maple Leaf winger into reporting to training camp at Vancouver.The return of Harvey means the Ranger&rsquo;s coaching alignment will look something like this. Patrick will handle the club from the bench during league games and will consult with Harvey during the course of a game. Emile (Cat) Francis, now assistant general-manager to Patrick, will become the club&rsquo;s &lsquo;practice&rsquo; coach leaving Harvey free to fly back and forth to his Montreal home.Meanwhile, Harvey was conditioning himself for the start of training camp but ran into an unexpected obstacle when he broke a knuckle on his left hand while instructing a bunch of kids in how to play&mdash;football.Harvey, it seems, was making a point with a piece of chalk on a blackboard when he stubbed his finger. A cast was placed on the hand but the hockey star said he was certain he would be allright by the opening of training camp. &#9632;

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N.Y. Offer Too Good-Harvey Returns

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Old linemate Sid Abel has stripped Gordie Howe of his Detroit Red Wing captaincy.But it&rsquo;s nothing to worry about. Howe has a new title&mdash;&ldquo;Assistant Coach.&rdquo;And Alex Delvecchio, an 11-year National Hockey League veteran and 200-goal man, will succeed Howe as Red Wing captain.&ldquo;Gordie will handle the team in practices when I&rsquo;m not able to be there,&rdquo; said Abel, who has taken on the added duties of general manager as well as coach.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02440/2116928-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="550" height="1427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Delvecchio&hellip;Leader on the ice</figcaption></div>Actually, Howe has done that occasionally in the past. Many have read into the changes another signpost that Howe ultimately will become the Wing coach.It&rsquo;s doubtful that such a move will take place for some time, though. When Abel was made GM in the spring there was talk that it&rsquo;s too tough for one man to handle both the managing and the coaching simultaneously.Abel made it clear then that he was hired to fill both posts and that&rsquo;s &ldquo;hat he intends to do.Now the honors&hellip;and pay&hellip;will be spread around a little more. Howe, of course is the Wings&rsquo; and probably the NHL&rsquo;s highest paid performer, after Ranger defenceman Doug Harvey.Delvecchio will receive a pay hike for the captaincy and he was due for an increase anyway because of his work in 1961-62 when he scored 26 goals and assisted on 43 others for 69 points and sixth place in NHL scoring.The point total was the highest in Delvecchio&rsquo;s career and he moved his total goals to 212.Delvecchio was one of a small handful of Red Wings who had good years as the Detroiters finished fifth, four points out of the last playoff position.Delvecchio is the fourth Detroit captain since Abel left the job he held for seven seasons. Ted Lindsay was captain for four years, Red Kelly for two seasons and Howe for four.As an NHL captain, Delvecchio joins a rather quiet but esteemed group&mdash;Jean Beliveau of Montreal, George Armstrong of Toronto, Don McKenney of Boston. Andy Bathgate of New York and Pierre Pilote of Chicago.Pilote is the more loquacious of the sextet when it comes time to discuss matters of state with the referees but none of the six is noted as a firebrand.The 30-year-old, graying Delvecchio is cut from a similar line&mdash;he goes about his job in workmanlike fashion and had only 18 minutes in penalties last season.Delvecchio was one of the early arrivals at the Wing camp this season having worked as an instructor, along with Howe and Terry Sawchuk, in the Wings&rsquo; hockey school in August.The school drew 117 boys aged 12 to 18 from Michigan and Canada.Hamilton Junior Wings coach Ed Bush, who led the juniors to the Memorial Cup championship, also was a member of the on-ice staff of the school.The school, divided into two seven-day sections for boys 12 to 15 and those 16 to 18. provided 2&frac12; hours on the ice daily plus 2&frac12; hours in the classroom.ICE CHIPS: After a one-week vacation, Abel returned to work, visiting Pittsburgh, the Wings&rsquo; new affiliation in the American Hockey League, with coach Jack Stewart and then Abel paid a visit to Edmonton with the Flyers&rsquo; new boss, Charley Rayner.The Wings continued to spruce up Olympia, coating the lower exterior of the building with a marbleized-like material and installing a huge Red Wing crest adorning the front of the building.Warren Godfrey, for seven years a Red Wing and an off-season Detroit resident, was scheduled to show his prowess with another kind of stick&mdash;golf clubs. Godfrey, drafted by the Boston Bruins in June, was entered in the Michigan Open. &#9632;

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Howe Steps Down From Post, Moves Up As Assistant Coach

Commencing with the first 1962-63 edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS, which will come off the press the week of Oct. 6, we will present our annual All-Star game issue in tribute to the 16th National Hockey League classic which will be played this year in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens.This special issue will contain pictures, pastgame stories, statistics and highlights of the star-studded game, which this season will bring together the Toronto Maple Leafs, Stanley Cup champions, and a select team of all-stars from the other five NHL clubs.Don&rsquo;t fail to get this All-Star game issue. &#9632;

Our All-Star Came Issue

MONTREAL, Que.Former National Hockey League star Buddy O&rsquo;Connor can taekle the fairways with the best of them.The one-time Rangers&rsquo; centre shot a 74 during a recent golf match and to cap the day&rsquo;s outing, fired a holein-one at Montreal suburban Summerlea Golf Club.Playing with Frank Goff, Bill McCullogh and Gerry Raymond, Buddy counted his &lsquo;ace&rsquo; on 230-yard 8th hole using a driver. &#9632;

Buddy O’Connor Shoots Montreal Golf ‘Ace’

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The National Hockey League has added 20 new members to the Hall of Fame in an effort to catch up with the heavy backlog of old ice stars.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03394/2117014-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="295" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Laviolette</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04299/2117007-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="295" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Didier Pitre</figcaption></div>The Hall&rsquo;s Selection Committee decided at its summer meeting in Montreal to get all the former hockey greats into the Hall of Fame before next year.All 20 of the new additions played prior to the 1926-27 season.Named to the Hall were: Billy Gilmour, Bouse Hutton, Joe Simpson, Shorty Green, Harry Cameron, Billy McGimsie, Rusty Crawford, Barney Stanley, Tom Hooper, Harry Westwick, Marty Walsh, Riley Hern, Fred Whitcroft, Didier Pitre, Jack Laviolette, Jack Darragh, Jimmy Gardiner, Jack Ruttan, Phat Wilson and Harry Watson (who is no relation to the Harry Watson of Toronto Leafs fame). Laviolette and Pitre were great performers with the old Montreal Canadiens. Laviolette later coached the team.Those of the 20 new members still living will be invited to receive Hall of Fame crests next year here at the CNE.The new selections were announced at a special directors&rsquo; luncheon of the Canadian National Exhibition held here to honor some of Canada&rsquo;s sports greats and 13 new Hall of Fame members who were selected last June at the summer pro meetings in Montreal.This group included Harry Broadbent, Sweeney Schriner, Fred &lsquo;Steamer&rsquo; Maxwell, Mike Rodden, Frank Smith, Harry Hyland, Ambrose O&rsquo;Brien, Walter Brown, James D. Norris, and the late Alfred Smith. They all received special crests.Tommy Ivan, general manager of the Chicago Black Hawks, received the crest for Jim Norris, who was in Europe, while Norman Smith took the award on behalf of Alfred Smith, who died in 1953.NHL president Clarence Campbell made the presentations to the newly inducted members of the Hall of Fame.Meanwhile. Hall curator, Bobby Hewitson, reports that the coveted Stanley Cup is by far the most popular exhibit with the children at the Hall of Fame building in the CNE.&ldquo;Next in popularity are the hockey sticks and pictures of the players who scored 200 goals or more in the NHL,&rdquo; said Hewitson.The new $500,000 Hockey Hall of Fame building, opened at the CNE last year, is gaining in popularity. Hewitson says 750,000 people passed through the turnstiles during the exhibition last year, but more than 800,000 visited the Hall this year. &#9632;

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Hall Of Fame Opens Doors To Twenty Hockey Greats Of Games Fabulous 20’s

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;Flushed with their greatest money year in history, the New York Rangers look forward to 1962-63 with abundant enthu$ia$m.There are three very good reasons for such optimism&mdash;turnstilewise.1. Rangers have come up with their best home schedule in history.2. They&rsquo;ll have a nearly-full season of home and away radio broadcasts on CBS with which to entice fans.3. The return of Doug Harvey.One source of joy is that the Blueshirts open their NHL season at home against Detroit on Thursday, Oct. 11 (Columbus Day eve). Rangers have made their seasonal debut on New York ice as infrequently as they&rsquo;ve won the Stanley Cup.What&rsquo;s more, 19 of the 35 home games are tabbed for the select Sunday nights, one more than a year ago. Two Saturday afternoon contests, Nov. 17 and Feb. 9, also are listed, both against Chicago.Regular mid-week night, as usual, is Wednesday. For a changer, the Blues have listed a Thursday bout during Christmas week&mdash;Dec. 27th against Boston.The Blueshirt front office was appropriately jubilant over the 62-63 calendar.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the best home schedule we&rsquo;ve ever had,&rdquo; said general manager Muzz Patrick. &ldquo;We got more preferred dates than ever before.&rdquo;The brass is no less delighted over radio coverage by CBS. For the past few years Ranger followers were starved of play-by-play for home or away games.But late last season, station WINS resumed broadcasts on a trial basis. The thought was that if reaction was keen enough, games would be aired during the entire 62-63 campaign.Announcers Les Keiter and Jim Gordon handled the games and suggested that listeners advise the station of their desire for more radio. WINS was bombarded with mail and it seemed certain that it would be back for more this Fall.But in mid-Summer the station was sold. The new owner nixed sportscasts and that&rsquo;s where CBS came in. &#9632;

Rangers Eye Turnstiles With Top Home Schedule

TORONTO, Ont.Having wound up the warm weather and summer vacation, Punch Imlach got right to the point with his Leafs. He advises: (a) All jobs are in jeopardy because Leafs are loaded with slaves. (b) Anyone who is more than seven pounds over last spring&rsquo;s playing weight had better be able to explain if it&rsquo;s because he got his playoff loot changed into silver dollars which he&rsquo;s carrying in a secret money belt beneath his undershirt. (c) Any Leaf who doesn&rsquo;t come into camp in condition to do at least 20 pushups and 30 kneebends, the second day of training, is inviting banishment to the moon.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01459/2117076-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="521" height="840"><figcaption class="caption-body">PUNCH IMLACH&hellip;He&rsquo;s Doing The Talking</figcaption></div>It develops there are exceptions to Imlach&rsquo;s rules. Skinny Leafs like Billy Harris and Dave Keon are not to go into the sweat box if they have acquired a few pounds of suet. On them, extra poundage would be welcome. If they report 10 pounds over last spring&rsquo;s tonnage, Punch will be happy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02370/2117069-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="538" height="794"><figcaption class="caption-body">GEORGE ARMSTRONG&hellip;He&rsquo;s Doing The Listening</figcaption></div>He has been told that Jim Pappin, a rookie from Sudbury, added 15 pounds since he hung up his tack for the off-season. The news tickled Imlach. Pappin is a growing boy. He must weigh something like 190 now. The extra weight will give him greater authority.On the other hand, Pappin&rsquo;s extra poundage is a reminder to Leafs such as Eddie Shack and George Armstrong that they should stay slim and trim. &#9632;

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“Stay Slim” Punch Warns Leafs

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Eddie Shack was married Aug. 18. Norma Given was the bride&hellip;Some Leaf players have been keeping in shape by playing softball for the National Hockey League all-stars, others on the golf course&hellip;Dick Duff and Bob Pulford have been attending university in Hamilton&hellip;Cal Gardner may get one of the vacant coaching jobs in Leafs&rsquo; organization&hellip;Add Tim Horton to the list of Leafs who&rsquo;ll be seeking big salary increases this season. He had a great year in 1961-62. &#9632;

Duff, Pu1ford Go To College

TORONTO. Ont.The Toronto Maple Leafs are going to encounter the &lsquo;new&rsquo; Eddie Litzenberger when the big winger reports to training camp this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0592/2117169-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="272" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Litzenberger</figcaption></div>And furthermore, Litz has personally decreed that he will shoot for 30 goals.The 30-year-old, 194-pounder said he never felt better in his life and that he was prepared to make the critics, who said he was washed up. eat their words this season.Litz said he would work harder than ever before at training camp and was confident he would make the club.&ldquo;I think I have four or five more good years of hockey left in me and I don&rsquo;t intend retiring. After all I&rsquo;m only 30.&rdquo;Litzenberger. who has spent much of the summer instructing at a hoekey camp in Fenelon Falls. Ont., was reported looking like his old self on the ice by visiting hockey observers.A 30-goal man for three straight years with Chicago, Litzenberger said he was confident he could do it again.Litz came to the Leafs last season from Detroit midway in the schedule. His 1961-62 record included 18 goals and 22 assists for 40 points in 69 games with both clubs. &#9632;

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Litzenberger Aims For 30-Goal Season

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03241/2117114-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB ARMSTRONG</figcaption></div>TORONTO. Ont.One time defenceman Bob Armstrong was asked what he thought of Punch Imlach, who had been his coach at Springfield in the American League during the last half of the 1957-58 season, and in the Calder Cup playoffs.&ldquo;I love the little so-and-so&rdquo;, Armstrong said. &ldquo;If he told me to skate through the end of the rink, I&rsquo;d give it a try.&rdquo;Armstrong will get his chance this fall to demonstrate his devotion.Imlach. coach and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, incumbent Stanley Cup champions went out of his way to acquire the 31-year-old Armstrong this summer. Armstrong, who was playing coach of Ottawa-Hull Canadiens last winter and won the Eastern Pro League championship, came to Leafs&rsquo; organization in a trade which sent Bill Dineen to Montreal Canadiens. Later, Dineen was sold to Quebec Aces.&ldquo;I never would have let Armstrong pass out of the league on waivers except I knew he was going to be made playing coach with Ottawa-Hull&rdquo;, Imlach said.He got Armstrong as defence insurance. Having acquired Kent Douglas from Springfield and with Al Arbour and Larry Hillman anxious for work, Im-lach is well-fixed for young defencemen. But Allan Stanley is ageing and Imlach foresaw the possible need of an experienced hand back of the blueline. That&rsquo;s where Armstrong fits in. He has been playing professional hockey since 1951.Imlach doesn&rsquo;t believe Armstrong&rsquo;s major league days are over. If he&rsquo;s wrong, Big Bob would be an important acquisition for Leafs&rsquo; farm club at Rochester.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04144/2117107-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1078" height="1727"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALLAN STANLEY</figcaption></div>Imlach tried to get Armstrong in 1958 when he was moved into the Leaf organization as assistant general manager. He had been head man at Springfield that spring and Armstrong, demoted temporarily by Boston Bruins, was there. Imlach liked Armstrong and the feeling was mutual.However, Bruins got Imlach to take Stanley instead, in exchange for Jim Morrison.Armstrong&rsquo;s condition will be the centre of attention when Leafs open their 1962-63 training camp at Peterborough, Ont., in mid-September. People have the impression that Armstrong is old, simply because he&rsquo;s prematurely bald. At 31, he should have three or four productive seasons left.The battle for defensive jobs will be a feature at Peterborough. Leafs&rsquo; regulars are good&mdash;Tim Horton. Stanley. Bobby Baun, Carl Brewer. Hillman and Arbour must be considered and so must the widely-publicized Douglas. Now there&rsquo;s Armstrong.After a western trip during which he lined up Leafs&rsquo; preseason exhibition tour, Imlach prepared a letter and sent it out to all his players. Generally, it was designed to jolt them out of any complacency they may have developed in their new status as world professional champions.He emphasized that all jobs were wide open, that all players were expected to report in top physical condition and that any player turning up more than seven pounds over last spring&rsquo;s playing weight would be in trouble.Looking ahead to training camp, Imlach estimated that replacing Bert Olmstead would be the major problem. He confessed he was somewhat con-cerned about Stanley but figured Big Sam was apt to turn up in first-rate condition.Rookies Jim Pappin, Bruce Draper and Larry Keenan from Rochester and Jim Mikol from Cleveland would be scrambling to win a forward job from the 1961-62 regulars&mdash;Dave Keon, Dick Duff, George Armstrong, Frank Mahovlich, Red Kelly, Bob Nevin, Bob Pulford, Ron Stewart, Eddie Shack and Billy Harris. &#9632;

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Leafs To ‘Back Up’ Ageing Stanley

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Here is the complete 10-game training camp exhibition schedule for the Canadiens:Saturday, Sept. 22&mdash;At Verdun, intra&mdash;squad game. Sunday, Sept. 23&mdash;At Syracuse against new team in EPHL. Thursday, Sept. 27&mdash;At La Tuque (Hull-Ottawa).Friday, Sept. 28&mdash;At Trois Rivieres (Hull-Ottawa). Saturday, Sept. 29&mdash;At Shawinigan (Hull-Ottawa). Sunday, Sept. 30&mdash;At Quebec (Quebec Aces).Monday, October 1&mdash;At Ottawa (Hull-Ottawa). Tuesday, October 2&mdash;At Kingston (Kingston Frontenacs).Wednesday, October 3&mdash;At Peterborough (Rochester). Thursday, October 4&mdash;At St. Thomas (Cleveland). Sunday, October 7&mdash;At Forum (Hull-Ottawa). &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The Red Wings will get a later than usual start on home ice in the 1962-63 season but it will be earlier.Sound confusing? Not really. The Wings don&rsquo;t open the Olympia portion of their campaign until Oct. 14 and by that time they will already have played at New York and Chicago.But they&rsquo;ll be starting their Sunday home opener at 7 p.m., earlier by 30 minutes than last season&rsquo;s Sunday faceoff time.The league champion Montreal Canadiens will help the Wings open at Olympia and it&rsquo;s the first time that the Habs have been Detroit&rsquo;s first home opponent.As usual, Sunday and Thursday nights are the most popular hockey nights in Detroit with 16 Sunday dates&mdash;Toronto will be in for six of them and Montreal four. There are a dozen Thursday games.The Wings will remain as much a part of the holidays for the local fans as turkey, Christmas trees and New Year&rsquo;s resolutions.The Canadiens will be in for Thanksgiving, the Stanley Cup champion Maple Leafs for Christmas and the Rangers on New Year&rsquo;s Eve.Manager-coach Sid Abel is continuing the matinee tradition started by retired Jack Adams with three matinees set for the young fans, two of them against Chicago and the other with Boston.Abel also finalized the Red Wing exhibition schedule which calls for six games in the West and games with the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American League in Toledo and Windsor.Following are the Red Wing exhibition and 1962-63 home schedules:<h2>EXHIBITIONS</h2><h3>September</h3>21&mdash;Friday: Edmonton at Brandon22&mdash;Saturday: Toronto at Winnipeg23&mdash;Sunday: Edmonton at Flin Flon25&mdash;Tuesday: Calgary at Calgary26&mdash;Wednesday: Edmonton at Edmonton27&mdash;Thursday: Los Angeles at Saskatoon30&mdash;Sunday: Pittsburgh at Windsor<h3>October</h3>2&mdash;Tuesday: Pittsburgh at Toledo<h2>REGULAR SEASON</h2><h3>October</h3>14&mdash;Sunday: Montreal18 Thursday: Boston21 Sunday: Chicago28&mdash;Sunday: Toronto<h3>November</h3>1&mdash;Thursday: New York4&mdash;Sunday: Chicago22&mdash;Thursday: Montreal25&mdash;Sunday: Chicago29&mdash;Thursday: New York<h3>December</h3>2&mdash;Sunday: Toronto6&mdash;Thursday: Boston9&mdash;Sunday: Toronto13&mdash;Thursday: New York15&mdash;Saturday: Chicago20&mdash;Thursday: Boston23&mdash;Sunday: Montreal25&mdash;Tuesday: Toronto31&mdash;Monday: New York<h3>January</h3>6&mdash;Sunday: Boston13&mdash;Sunday: New York17&mdash;Thursday: Boston20&mdash;Sunday: Toronto24&mdash;Thursday: Montreal26&mdash;Saturday: Chicago<h3>February</h3>3&mdash;Sunday: Montreal7&mdash;Thursday: Boston10&mdash;Sunday: Toronto16 Saturday: Boston17&mdash;Sunday: Montreal21&mdash;Thursday: Chicago26&mdash;Tuesday: New York<h3>March</h3>5&mdash;Tuesday: Montreal14&mdash;Thursday: New York17&mdash;Sunday: Chicago.24&mdash;Sunday: Toronto&bull; Matinee&mdash;Weekday games start 8 p.m.; Sunday games, 7 p.m.; matinees, 2 p.m. &#9632;

Habs-Wings’ Opener First For Olympia

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

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BOSTON, Mass.The Boston Bruins will select their 1962-63 National Hockey League squad from among 34 members, it was disclosed by general manager Lynn Patrick.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06269/2117283-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="282" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Warren Godfrey</figcaption></div>That&rsquo;s all the players the Bruins intend having at training camp, which this year will be held in the confines of the Boston Garden.Patrick said 15 of the Bruins are holdovers from last year&rsquo;s cellar-dwelling club. Three were acquired in the June NHL draft at Montreal and seven are from Boston farm clubs.Returning from last year&rsquo;s Bruin team are goalie Bruce Gamble, defensemen Pat Stapleton, Ted Green, Doug Mohns, Leo Boivin and Ed Westfall, forwards Don McKenney, Tom Williams, Andre Pronovost, Cliff Pennington, Johnny Bucyk, Murray Oliver, Wayne Connelly, Charlie Burns and Jerry Toppazzini.The draftees are defenseman Warren Godfrey of Detroit, left winger Guy Gendron and defenseman Irv Spencer, both from New York.Also coming to training camp are goalies Bob Perreault and Eddie Johnston, both minor league stars last year. Perreault was purchased from Hershey of the American League while Johnston was grabbed from the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; Spokane farm in the minor league draft.Two of the Bruins&rsquo; farmhands who will show at the camp include Bob Leiter and Terry Gray, both of whom played with Kingston last season.The Bruins are In dire need of defensive strength this season and Patrick believes the club could go a long ways if fellows like Perreault and Godfrey play up to their potential.Perreault is an unathletic looking athlete&mdash;short and stout. But he can play goal. His long professional record proves that. Only in his first two years as a pay-for-play performer did he have a high goals against average. That was with a poor Providence team and only as a part-time netminder.<h2>Played In NHL Before</h2>Since then, he has played nine games in the N.H.L., six for Montreal and three for Detroit, and earned a 2.33 mark. He also has played ten years in minor hockey and in that wide-open, free-skating competition 3.26 was the worst mark against him.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s quick,&rdquo; insists his coach the past five years at Hershey, Frank Mathers. &ldquo;He has a fast catching hand, one of the fastest if not the fastest in the business.&ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t appear to move quickly but he does. He&rsquo;s a standup goaltender and he plays his angles well. He must because he stops that puck.&rdquo;At 31 Perreault is no youngster getting his big chance in the N.H.L. but, Johnny Bower was 34 when he took over in the Toronto nets.&ldquo;Goaltenders mature later than most players,&rdquo; claims Coach Phil Watson. &ldquo;There are exceptions but for the most part goalies don&rsquo;t hit their peak until they&rsquo;ve stopped tons of rubber.&rdquo;Of Godfrey. Watson says he could be the man to put the Bruins in the N.H.L. playoffs this next Spring. That&rsquo;s putting ol&rsquo; Rocky on the spot, it would seem, but that&rsquo;s why the Bruins drafted him last June, from Detroit.Godfrey is an experienced defenseman. Although a left shot, he can play either side and that is what the Bruins wanted.Last year, lack of experience on the right side hurt the Bruins. They went with two rookies. Tea Green and Westfall after Bob Armstrong had been traded to Montreal Canadiens.&ldquo;Godfrey is a major league defenseman, make no mistake about that,&rdquo; pointed out Watson. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll help us not only by playing that right side if we want him to, but by coaching our young players, too.&rdquo;Why would the Bruins want him if the team directly above them in the N.H.L. standings didn&rsquo;t think highly enough of him to protect him?&ldquo;Detroit left him unprotected because they thought it best to put their young defensemen on the protected list,&rdquo; explained Lynn Patrick.&rdquo; At 31. Godfrey is not old A defenseman seems to later than fowards.&ldquo;Look at same of your top defensemen in the league. They&rsquo;re well over the 30 year mark Doug Harvey is 37; Allan Stanley, 36: Bill Gadsby, 35; and Tex Evans, 34.&rdquo;&ldquo;We feel Godfrey will give us not one but a few years of good service.&rdquo;Rocky makes Detroit his home now, although he is a Toronto native. But he&rsquo;s happy to be back with the Bruins because he feels he&rsquo;ll get a chance to play regularly on a team which has a good shot at a playoff post. &#9632;

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Bruins May Lack Depth Again, Only 34 Attend Garden Camp

QUEBEC, Que.&mdash;Jean Beliveau said there is no question of him quitting the National Hockey League at this time.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01480/2117431-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="843" height="1255"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption></div>The big, rangy centre, plagued by injuries last year, was asked by Quebec newspaper columnist Lou Fusk, if he was contemplating retiring when his contract expires.&ldquo;I will continue to play hockey as long as I feel I can help the team. This will be my 10th season and each year it increases the amount of my pension. I like the game and will continue to play as long as possible,&rdquo; he said.Beliveau wasn&rsquo;t quite as enthusiastic when he was asked if he had been quoted as saying the Canadiens expected too much of him last season when he missed 27 games because of injuries.&ldquo;I definitely did say it and I mean&rsquo;t it. I missed 27 games and I was still expected to be up with the leaders,&rdquo; he added.Beliveau said he planned to reside in Quebec when he was finished in the NHL. &#9632;

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No Question Of Quitting—Beliveau

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<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN</div>The Canadiens are ready for training camp closer to home this year and there is an air of optimism about the club directorate.Both vice-president Ken Reardon and Coach Toe Blake are confident the Habs will have a successful training period and feel that combining camp with the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens their No. 1 farm club will prove beneficial to both clubs.Reardon has listed 10 exhibition games for the Habs, who will train this season at nearby Verdun in the city&rsquo;s recently-renovated 5,000-seat auditorium. Last year the Habs drilled in Victoria. B.C.The defending NHL champions will tackle Hull-Ottawa Canadiens, five times and will also meet Syracuse, Quebec, Kingston. Rochester and Cleve-land. The 10 practice games will be spread over a period of only 15 days.&ldquo;There are a lot of fellows on the Hull-Ottawa roster that bear watching,&rdquo; said Reardon. &ldquo;Our best exhibition games were against Sam Pollock&rsquo;s team last year. Some of those kids will surely make our fellows hustle again.&rdquo;There will be 51 players in camp, including the 16 holdovers from last year&rsquo;s team which captured the league championship for the fifth straight season but bowed out in the Stanley Cup semi-final against Chicago for the second successive year.Attending camp will be four goalies, Jacques Plante. Charlie Hodge. Cesare Maniago and Ernie Wakely; 14 defencemen; 11 centres and as many left and right wingers.Providing all of last season&rsquo;s regulars hold their jobs, there are only two spots on the team open since the sale of Defenceman Al MacNeil to Chicago and the retirement of left-winger Marcel Bonin.Jean Gauthier, the rugged rearguard who was beaten out by MacNeil at training camp in last September but who enjoyed a fine season at Hull-Ottawa, will be fighting again to make right defence. Most of his opposition is expected to come from Jacques Laperriere, the tall standout with Junior Canadiens who will likely get one year of seasoning in the pro minors.Gordon (Red) Berenson, the college boy who made a hit in the playoffs, has the inside track on the left-wing berth but Brian Smith, standout portsider with Hull-Ottawa, will be watched carefully by Canadiens&rsquo; brass.&ldquo;We had two big question marks when we started at Victoria last fall&rdquo;, Toe pointed out. &ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t know what to expect from Jacques Plante and Dickie Moore came to camp with a bad knee that wasn&rsquo;t right until the playoffs. Now we&rsquo;re not worried about Dickie, he&rsquo;s been skating and seems all right. We&rsquo;re not worried about Plante, either. He may have another big season like the last one.&rdquo;Reardon sized up the Habs thusly:&ldquo;Look at it this way. We may not get as many goals from Claude Provost (33), Gilles Tremblay (32), Ralph Backstrom (27) or Bobby Rousseau (21) as last season. But Boom Boom Geoffrion is quite sure to get a lot more than 23 goals and we can expect better from Jean Beliveau and Henri Richard.&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t forget,&rdquo; added Reardon, &ldquo;Beliveau played only 43 games of the schedule and Henri Richard missed a total of 27 games. They are two pretty solid hockey players and we still managed to finish in first place by 13 points.&rdquo;Blake chimed in: &ldquo;Last season&rsquo;s playoffs should have straightened them all out. I think the Canadiens will come to camp a little hungry.&rdquo;Boom Boom Geoffrion, somewhat bewildered through a mediocre 1961-62 season, is in a bright frame of mind these days and anxiously awaiting the start of training camp. The Boomer has been playing handball regularly to get in shape and has already been skating.Contrary to rumors, Henri Richard&rsquo;s arm is reported okay. The Pocket started the rumors himself by playing no less than 36 holes of golf a day or two after the cast was removed in early summer. The arm swelled up like a balloon. However Richard has been taking things easier in recent weeks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02443/2117400-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="553" height="533"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Plante&hellip;Another Big Year?</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03357/2117393-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="534" height="525"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bernie Geoffrion&hellip;Eager To Get Going</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04250/2117386-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="544" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore&nbsp;&hellip;No Knee Worries</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Habs’ Brass’ Confident Of Good Camp

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Frank Mahovlich will get $50,000 this season from the Toronto Maple Leafs&mdash;unless he&rsquo;s out of his mind. And no person ever has accused the Big M of being unbalanced in his evaluation of a dollar.Tim Horton has to try for 45 G&rsquo;s, Red Kelly and Davey Keon should split 60 G&rsquo;s right down the middle&mdash;despite Kelly&rsquo;s periodical defections to Parliament Hill when the Liberals need him to complete a quorum.Punch Imlach. keeper of the keys to the Maple Leaf money vaults, may not know of these impending salary demands. Being a realistic individual, Punch probably suspects something of the sort since Muzz Patrick raided the poor box at Madison Square Garden in order to round out the grubstake for hockey&rsquo;s honest fisherman, Doug Harvey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01549/2117517-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="523" height="807"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Bathgate</figcaption></div>If Harvey, at 38 (in December) is worth 30 G&rsquo;s, how is Imlach going to niggle if Mahovlich, 24, puts a modest price tag of 50 grand on his talents? Imlach wouldn&rsquo;t trade one Mahovlich for half a dozen Harveys. A few years ago it would have been different&mdash;but this isn&rsquo;t a few years ago.If Harvey is worth $30,000, a Horton hold-out for $45,000 Would be warranted. Imlach was one of those who decried the voting-by-habit for Harvey as an allstar defenceman last season, at the expense of overlooking candidates such as Horton. Now&rsquo;s the time for Punch to prove his convictions&mdash;with dollars.Nor is Imlach the only general manager in big league shinny who will be asked to shell out. Tommy Ivan, who runs the Chicago show, will shrink from the piercing gaze of Bobby Hull, last season&rsquo;s 50-goaI shooter. Harvey will be getting more loot than Hull, who is on a long contract. That&rsquo;s a mis-carriage of justice which Ivan will be hard put to justify.Gordie Howe will have cause to cuss the haste which prompted him to sign in mid-summer with the Red Wings. At $22,000, Howe was near the top of the totem pole financially. With Harvey getting $30,000, Sid Abel, new GM of the Detroit club, has to tear up Howe&rsquo;s contract&mdash;unless Sid wants his conscience to plague him all winter.Patrick almost certainly will have some talking to do in his own front office. Andy Bathgate is an outspoken man who has carried the Rangers on his back for several seasons. Up to now, Andy never has been close to 30 G&rsquo;s. He had been under the impression that hockey couldn&rsquo;t stand that kind of overhead. Now, he knows it can.Harvey, who was a leader in the players&rsquo; association a few years back, made an honest effort to obtain improved working conditions for the serfs on skates. Although the association died, many of its demands were realized. So Harvey made a worthwhile contribution&mdash;but nothing to compare with what he has done for his fellow&rsquo; journeymen by forcing the Rangers to give until it hurts.Every slave now will use the Harvey scale to measure his own worth, come contract time. Based on 30 grand for Doug, most of them are due for substantial increases. The Harvey of last season was close to the end of the line&mdash;especially toward the close of the schedule. No person was more aware of it than Doug. When he was named to the allstar team, he growled: &ldquo;They are voting from memory.&rdquo;It isn&rsquo;t going to do the clubs any good to point out the obvious: That the Rangers just about had to sign Harvey, even if they were forced to give him a piece of the Garden. They had their best year of all time at the gate last season and the club hung on long enough to make the playoffs.Harvey&rsquo;s inspiration and leadership were partly responsible for that success. In the minds of the New York fans, happy days came with Harvey. It would have been a terrible blow to the prestige of the Blueshirts if they hadn&rsquo;t been able to bring Doug back for another term. Some of the Garden clients still remember that Red Kelly scorned Gotham&mdash;then jumped at the chance to join Toronto. &#9632;

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Doug Harvey Lifted The Austerity Curtain

<div class="byline">By JOHNNY GOTTSELIG</div>CHICAGO, Ill.Members of the Chicago Black Hawks and their farm club affiliates had better be ready for a lot of gruelling work because general manager Tommy Ivan has promised this year&rsquo;s training camp will likely be one of the hardest fought in many years.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02427/2117548-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="286" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rudy Pilous</figcaption></div>Ivan&rsquo;s warning came as the Hawks moved into St. Catharines, Ont., to train for the seventh straight season.Approximately 30 players will report to Coach Rudy Pilous, who is starling his fifth full season as pilot of the Black Hawks.For the third year in a row the Black Hawks will have a second training camp at Welland. Ont., about 15 miles from St. Catharines, where some 40-odd pros and amateurs, including members of the Buffalo Bisons of the A.H.L., Syracuse Braves of the Eastern Pro League and St. Catharines TeePees juniors&mdash;Black Hawks farm affiliated team&mdash;will report to Coach Billy Reay of Buffalo and Gus Kyle of Syracuse.Ivan who will be in charge of operations, starting his ninth season, states. &ldquo;This promises to be one of the most hard-fought camps we&rsquo;ve had in years. We have several positions open to be filled and it could turn out that all players will have to battle for their jobs. It&rsquo;s a healthy situation because we feel we have the players to fill the spots.&rdquo;Far from standing pat after losing to the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Stanley Cup finals last spring the Black Hawks picked up three new players, all with N.H.L. experience, in the offseason N.H.L. draft and trading mart.The Hawks made a move to strengthen their defence when they acquired defenseman AI MacNeil from the Montreal Canadiens for a minor league right winger, Wayne Hicks of Buffalo and an undisclosed amount of cash.MacNeil, 26, is a rugged 5&rsquo;10&rdquo;, 185 pounder who was with Canadiens all last season.The Hawks picked up forwards Len Lunde and Jack McKenzie from Detroit Red Wings in exchange for defenseman Doug Barkley who played for Calgary of the Western League.Lunde, 26, a tall, rangy center, 6&rsquo;0&rdquo; and 185 lbs. spent 3&frac12; unsuccessful years trying to crash the Wings regular lineup.&ldquo;We may have come up with a sleeper in Lunde,&rdquo; said Ivan. &ldquo;He may have been rushed along too rapidly. Perhaps all he needs is a little more experience and confidence.&rdquo;McKenzie, 25, a right winger, 5&rsquo;9&rdquo; and 170 lbs., returns to the Hawks after a 4 year hiatus in the Detroit organization. A stocky player. John is a rough-tough competitor who can dish it out as well as take it. He garnered 30 goals in 51 games for Hershey of the A.H.L. last season.A couple of youngsters who are looked upon highly to fit into the Hawks&rsquo; future plans are little Chico Maki and big Wayne Hillman.Among the promising rookies who will get a good looking-over are forwards Murray Hall and Doug Robinson and defenseman Aut Erickson.Black Hawks holdovers who are returning from last year&rsquo;s team which finished third, and who are expected to be battling for regular berths are defenseman Pierre Pilote, an N.H.L. Second All-Star team choice last year. Elmer &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Vasko, Jack Evans, and handy-man Bob Turner; Centers Stan Mikita. N.H.L. First All-Star team choice. Red Hay, and Jerry Melnyk; Left Wings Bobby Hull, N.H.L. First All-Star team and N.H.L. Scoring champion, Reg Fleming, Ab McDonald and Ron Murphy; Right Wings Murray Balfour. Eric Nesterenko and Kenny Wharram.The one position that won&rsquo;t be up for grabs is that of goalie&mdash;and the reason is simple, Glenn Hall practically owns the position. &#9632;

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Ivan Promises Plenty of Action Hawks Set For Training Camp With 30 Seeking Berths

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03314/2117586-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">HARRY HOWELL&hellip;His Efforts Overlooked</figcaption></div>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;The first time we spoke to Marilyn Howell, defenseman Harry Howell&rsquo;s wife, a few years ago, we thought she was kidding.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s about time,&rdquo; said lovely blond Marilyn, &ldquo;that the NHL put up two more trophies&mdash;for the best defensive defenseman and the best defensive forward.&rdquo;When Mrs. Howell accompanied her husband to New York recently for the annual Rangers&rsquo; Summer Hockey School, she was campaigning as vigorously as ever for her idea. &ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you write something about it?&rdquo; she asked.Nothing is more difficult than closing one&rsquo;s ear on a pretty woman&rsquo;s plea, so we listened. Here&rsquo;s what the most vocal Ranger defenseman&rsquo;s wife had to say:&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you think it&rsquo;s about time defensive players got some recognition? And please don&rsquo;t bring up the Norris Trophy. I agree that that&rsquo;s for defensemen but the ones who win it are always offensive-minded.&rdquo;A check of the NHL Press and Radio Guide proves Marilyn mostly right. Since the inception of the Norris Trophy in 1953-54, winners have been Doug Harvey, Red Kelly and Tom Johnson.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not knocking Doug or the others,&rdquo; Marilyn continued, &ldquo;but what about Harry? (That&rsquo;s her husband.) You don&rsquo;t hear about him because he stays back and does his job on defense. Something should be done about players like him.&rdquo;Marilyn proposes that the NHL give a trophy to a defenseman with the best goals-againston-ice record.And she&rsquo;d like to see still another piece of silverware given to the forward with the best goals against mark.&ldquo;These,&rdquo; she reasoned, &ldquo;are the real heroes of hockey. You take a forward like. Andy Hebenton. Well, he&rsquo;s never going to make the All-Star team or win the scoring championship.&ldquo;But he&rsquo;s one of the most valuable forwards in hockey because he&rsquo;s doing a defensive job. Same with Ron Murphy (Marilyn&rsquo;s brother-in-law). It gets me when people say &lsquo;Oh, he&rsquo;s not so hot. What&rsquo;s he scored?&rsquo;&ldquo;That&rsquo;s not the point. The point is Ron&rsquo;s doing backchecking while his teammates are getting caught up ice. But does he get credit for it?&rdquo;Although Marilyn does not plan to make a league-wide issue of her idea, she would appreciate it if hockey officials gave it some thought.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve already won some support,&rdquo; Marilyn said with a grin.Turns out that three of her strongest backers are Mrs. Andy Hebenton. Mrs. Ron Murphy and Mr. Harry Howell.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01501/2117579-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="512" height="818"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dollard St. Laurent</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Wives Speak Out For Defensive Players

QUEBEC CITY. Que.&mdash;The Quebec Aces are building a contending team in the opinion of coach Floyd Curry.The &lsquo;darlings&rsquo; of the box office the past two years in the American Hockey League, the Aces this season will make an all out attempt to crash the playoffs.Curry figures the club&rsquo;s offseason trading will do the trick. Like their recent acquisition of defenceman Dollard St. Laurent from the Chicago Black Hawks.The 37-year-old 11-year veteran of the National Hockey League was considered expendable by the Hawks. The Aces made a bid for him and were able to secure his services.Curry feels his presence on the club is certain to bring the team a big defensive boost.St. Laurent is just one of a half dozen newcomers who will be seen with Quebec this season. The others are Bill Sutherland, Gary Bergman, Ron Atwell, Bob Courey and Bill Dineen.Add to this group the names of Goalie Charlie Hodge and defenceman John Hanna, both holdovers from last year&rsquo;s team, and you would have to say Curry has a pretty fair working neucleus.The Aces have acquired Sutherland, Bergman and Att-well from Cleveland via the Montreal Canadiens, who owned their contracts.Courey comes to Quebec from Buffalo Bisons, courtesy of the Chicago Black Hawks, who held rights to him.Curry said that 13 members of last year&rsquo;s cellar-dwelling club have been invited to training camp here, including Hodge and Hanna.Four of the Aces, Sutherland, Bergman, Hanna and Hodge, will report to the Canadiens camp in suburban Montreal but all four will return here in time for the club&rsquo;s first exhibition test against Boston Bruins Sept. 22.The Aces open league play Oct. 12 in Providence. Their first home game is Oct. 14 with Springfield the visitors.Curry said one player who will not be returning to the Aces is veteran centre Jackie Leclair, who has been released by the club and reinstated to amateur ranks. The 32-year-old Leclair spent four seasons with the Quebec team after three years in the NHL with Canadiens &#9632;

Quebec Aces Boost Defence, Get St. Laurent

<div class="byline">By SHEL FULLERTON</div>CLEVELAND. O.&mdash;It is said that the only sure things in this world are death and taxes. General Manager Jack Gordon and Coach Fred Glover of the Cleveland Barons will go along with that.Just like they would like to think their new working agreement with the Montreal Canadiens will become a lasting thing.Gordon completed the deal with the National Hockey League team with less than a month before the opening of training camp at St. Thomas, Ont.Gordon said the Barons would probably be furnished with one forward line. A certain acquisition to the team will be Fred Hilts, 23-year-old left winger who starred with Hull-Ottawa Canadiens of the EPHL last season.The new deal with the Canadiens will help ease the player problem which had become acute with the Barons, who underwent a big line-up change but realized few additions.As reported previously, Eddie Mazur has been sold to Providence and three players, Gary Bergman, Ron Attwell and Billy Sutherland have been traded to the Quebec Aces by the Montreal Canadiens, who owned their contracts.Another vital loss is Aldo Guidolin, the Barons&rsquo; captain of the past two seasons, who has been transferred to the new Baltimore Clippers by the New York Rangers, who owned his contract.Currently, the roster contains the names of goalie Les Binkley, winner of the rookie-of-the-year trophy in 1961-62; defensemen Tommy Williams, Bill Needham and Murray Davison; centers Hank Ciesla and Cal Stearns; and wings Fred Glover, John Ferguson, Wayne Larkin. Jim Mikol and Dick Van Impe.Several promising amateurs have been signed to tryout agreements, the leading candidate being Jean Marc Asselin, 22-year-old forward from Wood-stock of the OHA Senior League. At Woodstock, Asselin compiled a 26-25&mdash;51 mark in 36 games and is tabbed by Gordon as a good skating, fast-breaking prospect who deserves, and will get, a good look at camp.Others signed to tryout agreements are Peter Shearer, 20-year-old forward from the Whitby Junior A&rsquo;s; Bob Seager, 20-year-old forward from the Brampton Junior A&rsquo;s and Aldston Watson, 20-year-old defenseman. also from Brampton.In 1961-62, Shearer had a 1314-27 record in 36 games, Seager a 17-30-47 mark in 36 games and Watson a 3-3-6 record in 27 contests. Probably none of the three are yet ready for the Barons, but Gordon would like to be wrong about this.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02461/2117641-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="491" height="797"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jackie Gordon</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Gordon Secures NHL Tie-Up With The Montreal Canadiens Rangers Transfer Guidolin

BUFFALO, N.Y.The Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League handed coach Billy Reay, a new two-year contract.Reay, former player with Montreal Canadiens, joined the Bisons as coach last fall after the death of Frankie Eddolls.Reay brought the Bisons to the playoffs, where they were beaten out by Springfield Indians. &#9632;

Bisons Give Billy Reay New Two-Year Contract

Second EditionAny person wishing to obtain a copy of this book by mail, should forward one dollar to Hockey Hall of Fame, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto 2B, Canada. &#9632;

NOW AVAILABLE Hockey Hall Of Fame Book

<div class="byline">By JOHN DOSER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;Rudy Migay, 34. popular captain and center of the Rochester Americans two seasons ago, is the new Rochester hockey coach.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03374/2117720-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="530" height="519"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rudy Migay</figcaption></div>Announcement was made in Toronto by Amerk General Manager Jack Riley and Toronto Maple Leafs GM-Coach Punch Imlach.Migay signed a one-year contract for an undisclosed salary. He replaces Johnny Crawford, Amerk coach last season whose one-year contract was not renewed by the parent Maple Leafs.Migay spent two seasons and part of a third with Rochester and in 1958 shared the American Hockey League&rsquo;s most valuable player award with teammate Billy Hicke. now with the Montreal Canadiens.Migay said he is happy to be returning to Rochester. He has been absent from pro hockey the last two seasons but has remained in good playing shape by performing with the amateur Port Arthur, Ont., Bearcats. He went to Europe last year and played with the Bearcats on an exhibition tour behind the Iron Curtain.During the 58-59 season with the Americans he eentered a line between Hicke and Gary Aldcorn, a trio which scored 257 points and 102 goals of a team (goal) total of 242. Migay himself scored 82 points including 58 assists, still a team record.Plagued with injuries during the &lsquo;59-60 season, his last with the Amerks before retirement, Rudy managed to score 64 points, 48 assists in 50 games.Rudy is unmarreid and is the eighth coach to lead the Amerks in seven seasons. The others were Billy Reay, Roly McLenahan, Bucko McDonald, Sam Pollack, Steve Kraftcheck, Jack Riley and Crawford. &#9632;

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Rudy Migay Named Rochester Coach

SEPTEMBER ISSUE Now At YOUR NEWSSTANDWORLD&rsquo;S OFFICIAL HOCKEY MAGAZINEEXPERTS PREVIEW NHL CLUBS FOR 1962-63ALSO&bull; Are Training Camps Necessary?&bull; Hockey&rsquo;s Immortal &lsquo;S&rsquo; Line&bull; Will Leafs Repeat As Cup Champs?Read it and more, in the September issue!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04287/2117751-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="971" height="689"></div> &#9632;

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HOCKEY PICTORIAL

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01535/2117789-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ED CHADWICK&hellip;New Blocker For Bears</figcaption></div>HERSHEY, Pa.Eight new skaters will be among the 21-man Hershey Bears&rsquo; hockey squad reporting to coach Frank Mathers at the club&rsquo;s training camp at Stamford, Ontario.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02466/2117782-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="295" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mathers</figcaption></div>The American League outfit reports Sept. 18 for physicals and the following day begins a three week training grind to ready for the season opener here Oct. 13 against the Pittsburgh Hornets.Mathers, beginning his sixth year at the club&rsquo;s helm, is now busy arranging for exhibition games against Boston, Cleveland and Buffalo.The three most noted among the newcomers are goalie Ed Chadwick and defensemen Dale Rolfe and Barry Ashbee.Chadwick, 28. five-year National League veteran with Toronto, and Ashbee were obtained from the Boston Bruins in a trade for all-star goalie Bobby Perreault. Rolfe, 22, a Western League standout for Portland last season, is on loan from the Bruins as part of the Perreault deal.Mathers revealed he is attempting to make a trade involving one of his four centermen.He also reported he is awaiting a player from the Detroit Red Wings for former standby goalie Al Millar. The Wings took Millar in a trade with Hershey and announced they would give the Bears a topflight skater in return.&ldquo;So far the players they have offered me for Millar are unsuitable,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;I hope we can agree on a player before camp opens. I want a forward for Millar and a good one. too.&rdquo;<h2>Wings Drop Hershey Farm</h2>Detroit broke off its working agreement with Hershey and has tied up with Pittsburgh.Though no Hershey official will admit that the club has some sort of an arrangement with Boston, it&rsquo;s fairly evident there is a connection with the Bruins loaning the Bears four players.In addition to Rolfe, the Bruins are sending in left wingmen, Howie Dietrich. 21 and Jean Paul Parisi, 21. both of which skated for Niagara Falls Junior club last season, along with right winger Dick Meissner, 20, who played 67 games for Boston in 1961-62.Meissner was used chiefly as a penalty killer and spare forward. Mathers is high on the young player, claiming he&rsquo;s &ldquo;a terrific skater who can score goals.&rdquo;Meissner didn&rsquo;t get very much ice time as a regular forward, but I&rsquo;ve heard excellent reports about him. I think he&rsquo;ll make our club.&rdquo;Hershey also will have a brother tandem battling for a defensive position with Howie and Ron Yanosik both in the fold. Ron, 25, was an all-star choice in the Alberta Bix Six senior league last campaign. Howie has been with Hershey for five seasons.Mathers said he will carry five defensemen, ten forwards and two goalies.Wayne Rutedge, 20, goalie for Niagara Falls last year, will receive a tryout for the spare job behind Chadwick.Mike Mahoney, a strapping defenseman who played well in his rookie year for the Bears, may be given a shot at a forward post. Mahoney is an excellent skater with a good, hard shot.&ldquo;We have eight defensemen coming to camp and I&rsquo;ll probably give Mahoney a shot at the front lines,&rdquo; said Mathers.&ldquo;Im going to switch Cleland Mortson from wing to center because he looks like he can get the job done at that position.&rdquo;Mortson. who played most of last season with Sudbury in the Eastern Pro League, hooked on with the Bears at the tailend of the campaign and played well, scoring 13 goals in 24 games.The remainder of the Bears squad includes, defensemen, Larry Zeidel, Marc Reaume, Nick Polano; left wingers, Les Duff. Myron Stankiewicz; centers, Willie Marshall. Hec LaLande, Mike Nykoluk; right wingers, Pete Conacher and Ray Kinasewich. &#9632;

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Hershey Gets ‘New Look’ As Chadwick, Meissner Head Player Additions

BALTIMORE. Md.&mdash;George &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Sullivan, a veteran of 13 years in professional hockey, has been named the playing coach of the new Baltimore entry in the American Hockey League.The 32-year-old one-time centre of the New York Rangers, was reportedly in the running for the National Hockey League club&rsquo;s coaching post during the summer hockey meetings in Montreal. The Rangers have since announced that Muzz Patrick, the club&rsquo;s general manager and Emile (Cat) Francis will divide the coaching duties this year leaving Sullivan free to pilot the Baltimore Clippers.Plans for the new AHL club are still not completely settled. Sullivan will report to the Rangers&rsquo; training camp at Vancouver where the Blues will announce what players are going to be made available to him.It was announced last week that defenceman Aldo Guidolin, with Cleveland Barons the past two years, is one certain starter with the Baltimore club. Several members of the Springfield Indians will also be with Baltimore. The Rangers dropped their working agreement with Eddie Shore at Springfield and said they would move their players out to their own farm clubs at Vancouver, Baltimore and Sudbury.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03382/2117820-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="492" height="827"><figcaption class="caption-body">&lsquo;Red&rsquo; Sullivap</figcaption></div>Sullivan last season was playing-coach at Kitchener. He will play and coach at Baltimore as well.A seasoned performer who played nine years in the NHL with Boston, Chicago and New York, Sullivan totalled 107 goals in his active big league career, half of which were scored while a centre and later inspirational captain of the Blues.Sullivan wound up his NHL playing days after the 1960-61 season with Rangers. Last year at Kitchener he participated in 61 games, scoring 16 goals and 46 assists for 62 points. His Kitchener team ended in third place and was ousted in the first round of the EPHL playoffs. &#9632;

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Ex-Ranger Red Sullivan To Pilot Baltimore Entry

YOU CAN STILL ORDER YOUR COPY OF<h2>THE 1961-62 EDITION OF THE N.H.L. PRESS & RADIO GUIDE</h2>The 1961-62 N.H.L. Press & Radio Guide also includes Hendy&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who in Hockey and is the finest Hockey Guide published.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/f0008-04299/2117879-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="268" height="373"></div>THE THIRD EDITION OF<h2>THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY ANNUAL 1962</h2>This 96-page book is jam-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/f0008-05236/2117872-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="331" height="409"></div><h2>OFFICIAL N.H.L RECORD BOOK 1917-61</h2>(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 &lsquo;&lsquo;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.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06195/2117865-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="270" height="376"></div>SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY&hellip;$1.25 PER COPY (Postage Paid)<h2>THE AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE YEAR BOOK FOR 1961-62</h2>(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.AVAILABLE FOR ONLY 50 CENTS PER COPY<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07162/2117858-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="319" height="397"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08136/2117851-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="1554" height="552"></div> &#9632;

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ATTENTION HOCKEY FANS!

PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;With the release of the 1962-63 American Hockey League schedule, the Pittsburgh Hornets find themselves opening their season with three games on the road prior to their initial engagement at the Sports Arena.The Hornets first test of combat will come Wednesday, October 10th, when they face the Barons in Cleveland. Following that they will journey to Hershey for a Saturday night game on October 13th with the Hershey Bears and then culminating their first road trip with the Buffalo Bisons in Buffalo on October 14th.The Hornets then return to Pittsburgh where they will open their home session on Saturday, October 20th, facing for the first time, the American Hockey League entry, the Baltimore Clippers.With the home schedule showing a total of 36 games&mdash;22 Saturday nights&mdash;14 Wednesday nights, plus their new affiliation with the Detroit Red Wings, the Hornets look forward to great expectations for the coming season. As in the past all Wednesday night games will start at 8 p.m. and all Saturday night games will get under way at 8:30 p.m.<h2>Play Detroit Twice</h2>Meanwhile, Pittsburgh Business Manager, Baz Bastien, also announced in conjunction with Sid Abel, of the Detriot Red Wings, that the Hornets will play two pre-season exhibition games with the Detroit Red Wings, the first game in Windsor, on Sunday, September 30th, and following that the Red Wings and the Hornets will meet on October 2nd in Toledo, Ohio.Bastien also announced that he has received agreement with the Cleveland Barons to play two exhibition games with the dates to be announced later.The Hornets will hold their fall training camp in the Detroit Olympia.A second major step on the road back to success has been taken by the Pittsburgh club. Following a meeting with the Auditorium Authority and Allied Maintenance, the Hornets have arranged a practice schedule at the Sports Arena for the coming season that should give the team the practice time that is so vitally important. It will be remembered that last year practice time was not readily available, particularly in the earlier portion of the season although this was corrected during the latter part of the year.The major problem confronted by the Hornets in trying to work out practice time is the heavy schedule of events that are booked into the Sports Arena through the winter. Out of the meeting the Hornets find themselves with a total of 62 practice sessions which are spread out from October through the end of March. &#9632;

Hornets Play Cleveland In Opener

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Pat Egan has signed a new contract to coach the Springfield Indians this season and shoot for his fourth straight American Hockey League title and Calder Cup.The 12-year veteran of National Hockey League play coached at Providence for two years before coming to Springfield three years ago. &#9632;

Egan Signs New Pact To Coach Springfield

<div class="byline">By BOB HULEN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01520/2117979-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="558" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">DON HEAD &hellip;No. 1 Netminder</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02493/2117972-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="579" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body">AL ROLLINS . May Be Traded Off</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03439/2117965-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="521" height="511"><figcaption class="caption-body">GENE ACHTYMICHUK&hellip;Ice Vet Returns</figcaption></div>PORTLAND, Ore.Hal Laycoe, the former rugged National Hockey League defenseman who coaches the Portland Buckaroos of the Western Hockey League, thinks he might be &ldquo;trump poor&rdquo; when training camp opens at Victoria, B.C., on Sept. 16.That&rsquo;s because the highly successful tutor, who has assumed general manager duties of the Portland Hockey Club for the coming season, will have no less than 18 experienced professionals on hand. In addition, Laycoe has invited seven rookies.And all of these players are either owned by the Buckaroos or are on their negotiation list, (something virt ually unheard of outside The National League). In the case of the rookies, this means the fact that the Port land club has been helping junior teams at Ke1owna, B. C., and Unionville, Ont., finally is bearing fruit.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04374/2117958-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="509" height="767"><figcaption class="caption-body">Orval Tessier</figcaption></div>In addition. Boston of the National League has promised an experienced defenseman to take the place of big Dale Rolfe, who toiled for the Bucks the past two seasons. Rolfe is expected to be assigned by the Bruins to Hershey of the American League.With this wealth of talent, Portland once more can be expected to be a top contender for WHL honors. Two seasons ago, the Buckaroos claimed the Lester Patrick Cup in a revival of the ice sport in the Rose City after an absence of 10 years. Last season, Portland won the Southern Division title of the WHL by a wide margin but bowed to a rough, tough and surprisingly talented Spokane team in the division final playoff.Not satisfied with a bumper crop at camp, which will be whittled down to 16 by the time the regular season opens, Laycoe revealed that &ldquo;we have other negotiations under way.&rdquo;Portland has limited agreements with Boston and Toronto of the NHL.In a year when players up for cash dealings have been relatively scarce on the market, with the exception of the big six-man sale by Detroit of the NHL to Los Angeles of the WHL, the Bucks have been able to acquire three in-dividuals outright for cash. Bought from Toronto was Mike Donaldson, tenacious 165-pound defenseman who played for Rochester of the American League last season. Boston let loose left wing Tom McCarthy and right wing Orval Tessier.This high scoring pair was at Kingston in the Eastern Professional League last season, scoring a total of 107 goals between them.Another purchase, which didn&rsquo;t involve adding a player to the 1961-62 team, saw outstanding center Art Jones&rsquo; papers transferred from Montreal of the NHL. Jones had been drafted by the Canadiens in June in a move which brought screams of anguish from Portland club officials in view of the fact that Montreal already had five proven centers on their list.Goalkeepers to report at Memorial Arena in Victoria are Don Head, WHL Most Valuable Player of 1960-61 in his rookie year, old pro Al Rollins and rookie Don Charron from Unionville. Head will be No. 1.Rollins, who filled in for injured Head at the close of last season and was outstanding in the playoffs, probably will remain on the squad as a standby or may be traded to another WHL team. Charron, if he does well in camp, will be signed to a contract and farmed out.Defensemen include holdovers Bill Davidson, Ron Matthews and Jack Bionda. Donaldson and rookies Phil Larden of Kelowna and Leo Oliver and Walter MacLean from Unionville.Davidson and Bionda underwent surgery following last season while there is a slim possibility that Matthews, after his finest season in 1961-62, may retire as he has purchased a drive-in restaurant in New Westminster, B.C.Larden. a tough 165-pounder. has a year of junior left. Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty, coach at Unionville, is high on Oliver while Harold Cotton, Boston scout, is impressed with MacLean. Laycoe only says, &ldquo;We ll see what we have in camp.&rdquo;Veteran left wings include Captain Gordon Fashoway, second highest scorer in pro hockey who some think may finally quit, Arlo Goodwin and Bill Saunders. Others are McCarthy and rookies Fred Thomas of Kelowna and Jerry Walker, a former United States college star from Saskatchewan.Walker trained with the New York Rangers of the NHL last fall and played with Omaha of the International League in Saskatchewan Senior competition&mdash;where he scored 19 goals in 10 games. He had 65 goals for the National Collegiate champion Denver University team in 1961. Thomas, a fine stickhandler who also can play center, has another year of junior remaining.Holdover Bucks at center are Jones, Gene Achtymichuk and George Knippleberg. The latter qualifies for the rookie spot on the club as he didn&rsquo;t play 30 games last season because of attendance at the University of Michigan and an injury.Only three right wings are on the camp roster and this group includes first WHL AllStar Tom McVie, who has been competing in lacrosse this summer along with Bionda and Donaldson, and holdover Arnie Schmautz. Tessier fills out this position.Buckaroo prospects at the box office are excellent, too. Managing Director Harry Glickman said that the season ticket sale was almost equal to that for the previous campaign as of the first of August. &#9632;

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Seeking Lost Ice Laurels, Portland Boasts 18 Pros

VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;A source close to the Vancouver Canucks said that three members of the Portland Buckaroos, Ron Matthews, Jack Bionda and Gordie Fashoway, would like to play their hockey closer to home this year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05298/2118010-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="306" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Bionda</figcaption></div>All three have a big following in New Westminster, a suburb of Vancouver and a former entry in the Western Hockey League.Vancouver GM Max McNab undoubtedly would like to have the three players but hasn&rsquo;t said whether the Canucks were bidding for their services at this time.Matthews and Fashoway played hockey for the defunct New Westminster Royals for years and Bionda is presently the biggest name in Westminster lacrosse.Matthews, who makes his home in Burquitlam in the off season, is now in business there. He purchased a drive-in this spring.Bionda returned to Westminster after a two-year absence and is working for a local hotel.Fashoway has always been the apple of the eye of Vancouver owner Fred Hume. Hume personally put up the money to purchase Fashoway from the Chicago organization for New Westminster Royals in 1950. Hume, at the time, was part-owner of Royals. &#9632;

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Will Canucks Get Portland Hockey Trio?

VERNON, B.C.&mdash;Bobby Ballance, one of the smoothest right wingers ever to play for the Vancouver Canucks Hockey Club, is dead.Ballance died of a heart attack while water skiing. He was 39.Ballance first joined Vancouver (then amateur) in 1947. He went to Calgary the following season but returned early in 1949 and turned pro with the Canucks.Ballance had his biggest season in 1949-50 when he had 43 goals and 43 assists for 86 points to finish fourth in the then Pacific Coast League&rsquo;s northern division.He was named right wing to the PCL&rsquo;s first all-star club and finished fifth in the voting for the most valuable player award.Bobby, who also took a turn at centre on occasions, remained with Vancouver until the early fifties. He played briefly for Seattle and Victoria before moving to the Okanagan where he played several seasons with Vernon Canadians.In recent years he confined his hockey activity to coaching the intermediate Lumby Flying Frenchmen.Ballance was a partner in a local real estate firm at the time of his death. &#9632;

Ex-Canuck Star, Ballance Dies

EDMONTON, Alta.Anxious Edmonton hockey fans heard it straight from the top. The Western Hockey League Flyers are still Detroit&rsquo;s No. 1 minor league farm club no matter what they had heard or read.Detroit&rsquo;s manager-coach Sid Abel and Edmonton&rsquo;s new GM, Charlie Rayner, set them straight on the facts on their recent visit here together.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01534/2118065-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="516" height="1052"><figcaption class="caption-body">SID ABEL&nbsp;&hellip;Settles Edmonton&rsquo;s Fears</figcaption></div>Abel was particularly concerned with beating down the gossip that Edmonton no longer rated as Detroit&rsquo;s primary minor league interest.&ldquo;Possibly it wasn&rsquo;t properly explained when Jimmy Skinner&rsquo;s comments in July were interpreted to mean we were planning on giving Pittsburgh equal play with Edmonton,&rdquo; said Abel.Little interpretation seemed to be involved when Skinner earlier under repeated questioning maintained the two farm clubs were equal.&rdquo;&ldquo;Let me assure you that there will be no change from the past. Our connection with Pittsburgh will be approximately the same as the tieup we formerly had with Hershey in the same American League.&rdquo;&ldquo;We have lots of players to be placed, you know. After staffing the Red Wings and the Flyers, we will still have plenty of talent on our hands. Especially with nothing more at Sudbury.&ldquo;Pittsburgh won&rsquo;t affect Edmonton at all. The Hornets own eight of their own players, so we&rsquo;ll send them about nine players. These would be the fellows we would formerly have been sending to Hershey.&ldquo;Look at it this way. Pittsburgh can&rsquo;t help us in developing new kids. Edmonton is still our life-blood, and we don&rsquo;t intend ever to hurt our situation here. This city is No. 1 with us.&rdquo;Meanwhile, Rayner, the new boss of the Edmonton Flyer operation, reveals that the Flyers will be arriving here from camp about Sept. 25 to complete their preparations for the Western Hockey League campaign.The training sessions at the Detroit Olympia will open Sept. 8. though the four score-odd players will arrive the previous day.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s not too much I can say about our Edmonton club just now,&rdquo; says Rayner.&ldquo;Expect maybe one thing. I&rsquo;ve always been strong for kids. And it looks as if we&rsquo;ll have another hustling young club this year.&ldquo;With two many older fellows around, a team can sometimes get into a bad rut. So we&rsquo;re happy with the arrangement of turning over that type of player to the American League. I think it will save me some headaches.&rdquo;Something that is definite is that Detroit will not platoon its goaltenders this year. Latterly, the Wings have carried both Terry Sawchuk and Hank Bassen but Abel frowns on that sort of arrangement.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll keep one of them, and a young kid will stay around. Probably the same arrangement at Edmonton. It looks as if Dennis Riggin will be as right as rain again, which is really good news. We have several good kids around, and well have a standby here.&ldquo;Maybe he&rsquo;ll be Harrison Gray, who really came on big for the Oil Kings last spring.&rdquo;The loser of the Bassen-Sawchuk duel will likely go to Pittsburgh. because it wouldn&rsquo;t be practical for Edmonton to meet Terry&rsquo;s major league salary, for instance. That responsibility is willingly conceded to the Hornets.While in Edmonton. Abel and Rayner were consulting with their western connections. Among these are Al Anderson, general manager of the Edmoton Exhibition Association, the franchise-holder of the Flyers; Buster Brayshaw, Oil King coach; Clarence Moher, chief western scout: and Ed Bruchet and Bill Ramsden, bush-beaters in the Southern Alberta and Peace regions respectively. &#9632;

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Abel Assures Flyers Of Top Billing

LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;The Detroit Red Wings and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League will play exhibition games against the Los Angeles Blades at the latter&rsquo;s Saskatoon, Sask., preseason training camp.The Blades will open training under Coach George Agar Friday, September 21, and will face the Red Wings Thursday, September 27 and the Rangers Tuesday, October 2.Los Angeles will open its Western Hockey League campaign at Edmonton Friday, Oct. 12, and will make its first Southern California appearances against Portland at the Sports Arena Thursday and Friday, October 25-26. &#9632;

Blades To Face Wings, Rangers In Exhibitions

LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;Frank Arnett, a rough and ready defensive standout, and Gordon Labossiere, a rangy center, have been obtained in a trade from the Seattle Totems of the Western Hockey League by the Los Angeles Blades, it was announced by Blade General Manager Jack Geyer.In the transaction Seattle received Terry, Slater, center, and Jim Powers, forward, both of whom played for the Blades last season, and Defenseman Jim Hay, loaned to San Francisco by the Blades last season.The addition of Arnett strengthens the Blades&rsquo; defensive unit, their weakest spot last season. The 30-year-old Arnett, a 5 ft. 10 in., 170-pounder, is one of the league&rsquo;s roughest performers. He led the WHL in penalty minutes during the 1958-59, 1959-60 and 1960-61 seasons.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02463/2118158-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="518" height="747"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Arnett</figcaption></div>Arnett turned professional for Seattle in 1952. With the Totems last season the native of Carman, Manitoba, played the entire 70 games, accounted for four goals and 16 assists spent 116 minutes in the penalty box.Labossiere, a 22-year-old 6 ft. 1 in., 190-pounder, broke in with the Saskatoon-St. Paul club of the WHL in 1957. He scored 25 goals for Saskatoon in 1958-59, 20 for Edmonton in 1959-60 and 22 for Edmonton and Winnipeg in 1960-61. Last season Labossiere played 30 games for Sudbury of the Eastern Professional Hockey League and scored 10 goals and 11 as-sists before joining Seattle for 21 games where he tallied 4 goals and was credited with four assists.The addition of Arnett and Labossiere is another step in the right direction for the Blades in their bid to become a contending team in the WHL.Their hopes to get up with the rest of the league are based on the addition of new players, which now total eight.Six of the new players were purchased in June from the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League.The deal netted the Blades an 11-year veteran of NHL acttion with Boston and Detroit&mdash;rightwinger Leo Labine.To offset the loss of high-scoring center Gerry Goyer to the Toronto Mople Leafs in the summer draft, the Blades also picked up Marc Boileau, Gordie Red Haworth and Myron Stankiewick from Detroit. Also included in the purchase well Lloyd Haddon, defenseman from the Edmonton Flyers and Ed Diachuk from the Vancouver Canucks.Geyer indicated that the makeup of the team for the coming season would be divided about equally between old hands from last year and new arrivals.Among last year&rsquo;s team assured of a berth this year was fleet Willie O&rsquo;Ree, first negro player to don NHL skates.Geyer said the Blades will open the season at Edmonton Oct. 12 and will play six road games before making their first home appearance Oct. 25.An innovation this season will play one Monday, two Tuesdays, find the Blades playing four Sunday afternoon games with the remaining 31 contests taking place at night.In addition to the four Sunday clashes, the Blades will six Wednesdays, ten Thursdays, six Fridays and six Saturdays.This will mark the Blades&rsquo;-second year in Los Angeles. Last year the club averaged 7,000 persons a contest.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03386/2118151-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="491" height="1375"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Labine</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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L.A. Blades Hoping New Additions Will Make Club Contender In WHL

OMAHA, Neb.Omaha&rsquo;s ironman defenseman, Moe Benoit, signed a two-year contract, Knights&rsquo; General Manager Ken Wilson announced.Benoit, 29, had one of his best years during the 1961-62 season, scoring 17 goals and 34 assists to rank sixth in the Knights&rsquo; scoring.A sturdy 190 pounder, Benoit was a stalwart performer for the Knights, playing in all 68 games without relief. The veteran rearguard logged nearly 40 minutes a game of playing time, more than average for a defenseman.Moe, in his third year with the Knights, is making his home in Omaha. He and his family moved here in 1961. He is working for the hockey club on promotion, advertising and season tickets during the off-season. &#9632;

Omaha Veteran Moe Benoit Signs New Two-Year Contract

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01531/2118213-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Pictured Canadian player.8. Given name of Mikol, new member of the Leafs.9. Aurty Erickson&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)12. Initials of Leonard of Seattle.13. Nickname of team coached by 5 down.14. Cec Hoekstra was born in this month (abbr.)16. Native city of 5 down (abbr.)17. This player scored 11 goals for Chicago last season.19. 7th and 14th letters of the alphabet.20. Initials of 1961-62 Byng Trophy winner.21. Short for given name of Klukay, ex-Toronto forward.23. Baltimore&rsquo;s manager.26. Mrs. Jack Stewart.28. Kent Douglas excels at this game.31. Type of tree.32. Pittsburgh&rsquo;s new coach.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. Position formerly played by 15 down.2. Native province of 5 down.3. 6th and 10th letters of the alphabet.4. Players do this with puck when penalty killing.5. An NHL coach.6. Old English abbr.)7. John Hannas native province (abbr.)10. Given name of a Boston defenseman.11. Initials of Faulkner, recently drafted by Detroit.15. Edmonton&rsquo;s new manager.18. Gone.21. Another name for Albert Langlois.22. Syl Apps once represented Canada at Olympics in pole&mdash;event.24. Initials of Lewicki of Quebec Aces.25. Denotes scoreless tie.27. Day Toronto opens home season (abbr.)29. Osmium (Sym.)30. Iron (Sym.)<h2>LAST MONTH&rsquo;S SOLUTION</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1. Duffy4. SC.6. Vasko8. Lunde9. Pat.10. Skate11. Re.12. Can.13. Ere15. Hat16. OHA17. Of19. Gilles23. MacNeil26. Neil28. Roger29. K.D.<h3>DOWN</h3>1. Delvecchio2. Fontinato3. Yves4. Skater5. Cote7. Spare goalie14. Vasko18. FM19. G.C.20. In21. Len.22. Elik24. Aug.25. L.R.27. L.D. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

TORONTO, Ont.Canada&rsquo;s hockey hopes in the next Olympics will rest on a collegiate all-star team set up by a former top junior coach.Rev. David Bauer, brother of ex-Boston hockey great Bobby Bauer and the man who coached St. Mike&rsquo;s to the Memorial Cup championship in 1961, has been given the job of building an Olympic hockey team for Canada to participate in the 1964 Olympic Games.The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, after listening to Father Bauer&rsquo;s pitch for the Olympic plan, gave him the go ahead to organize the squad at University of British Columbia in Vancouver where the team will be quartered and trained for a two-year period prior to the Games.Father Bauer came to the CAHA meeting here armed with an application supported by UBC to train players at the Vancouver campus. He had already spoken privately with most executive members and gained their support be-fore the meeting.He said he will try to attract both outstanding students and top hockey players to UBC for two years of his coaching.Players who have reached the age of 19 need more than a single year to adapt themselves to the Bauer coaching method, he said.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll need two years anyway, and I may need to strengthen the team at the end of that time.&rdquo;Besides college all-stars, he said he might have to recruit players who couldn&rsquo;t make the scholastic standings at UBC but who might be willing to live and train in Vancouver anyway.Father Bauer already has his eye on a number of players. He mentioned goaltenders Ken Broderick of Brampton, Ont., and Harrison Grey of Edmonton, defenceman Dave Chambers of St. Michael&rsquo;s and forwards Gary Dineen and Andre Champagne of St. Michael&rsquo;s, Bobby Cox of Edmonton and Peter Kelly of UBC.Canadian Army authorities had told the CAHA the idea of an Army team was not practical giving the collegiate scheme the green light.The CAHA also approved the Canadian tour of a Russian select team Nov. 10 to Dec. 2. Tentatively, games will be arranged in Halifax. Montreal, Hull. Que., North Bay or Sudbury, Kitchener, Windsor and Toronto. &#9632;

College All-Star Squad Selected To Carry Canada’s Olympic Hopes

THE CANADIANfOOTBALL NEWSHal Patterson is showing some of the great form that once marked him as &lsquo;Mr. Wonderful&rsquo; in Canadian football. The deft pass-catching end of the Hamilton TiCats has helped breathe new life into the Bengals. You can follow Hal&rsquo;s progress and all the other great names in our grid past-time by reading the FOOTBALL NEWS every week. Subscribe today if you are not already a reader.Get in on the ground floor and become a regular reader of Canada&rsquo;s informative football weekly. Enjoy the feature stories, columns and statistics every week. This fact-filled football newspaper is in its 12th year of catering to the Canadian football public.Don&rsquo;t miss getting your subscription early. There are 18 thrilling issues for only $2.00.&bull; Gome by game statistics.&bull; Special weekly features.&bull; Behind The Scene Photographs.&bull; Reports On U.S. Pro Leagues.&bull; Best Football Columns In Canada.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02485/2118275-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="555" height="997"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03412/2118268-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="969" height="670"></div> &#9632;

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All New for ‘62!

SYRACUSE, N. Y.Professional hockey is returning to this city after an absence of eight years.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01146/2118313-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="291" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gus Kyle</figcaption></div>The Chicago Black Hawks have announced that they will move their Sault Ste. Marie franchise in the Eastren Professional Hockey League to Syracuse with former National Hockey League star defenceman, Gus Kyle, as coach.Tommy Ivan, Chicago general manager, told Syracuse businessmen interested in the new pro hockey set-up, that he hoped the move would prove a popular one. He highly recommended Kyle, who played in the NHL with Boston and New York, as coach for the Syracuse club. Kyle, who formerly coached Calgary in the Western League, was a Chicago scout last year.Ivan also revealed that the Hawks selected Syracuse over Toleoo, Ohio as the site for their new EPHL operations.Because of the new age limit in effect in the EPHL this season&mdash;teams must carry nine players under 23 years of age, three between 23-25, and two over 25&mdash;Ivan says the Syracuse team will bear little resemblance to last season&rsquo;s Soo Thunderbirds.&ldquo;We have 10 players turning-over age from our junior team at St. Cath-arines.&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and out of the west.&rdquo;The last hockey team to operate at Syracuse was owned by Eddie Shore and played in the American League until 1954.Syracuse has been without professional hockey since. The new team, to be called the Braves, will play at the new War Memorial rink.The assignment of the Sault team here completes the EPHL lineup for the new season. The league will be a four-team loop including Syracuse, Hull-Ottawa, Sudbury and Kingston. The New York Rangers pulled their team out of Kitchener and moved to Sudbury, where the Detroit Red Wings were formerly the club sponsors.In a move to bolster game attendance, the EPHL has arranged an interlocking schedule with the International Hockey League next season.If the arrangement works out, it could mean a two-division league in the 1963-64 season.EPHL President John Urie said that each EPHL club will meet each of the six IHL teams four times.Teams belonging to the IHL. a professional league, are Omaha. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Fort Wayne, Muskegon and Port Huron.Entering its fourth season, the EPHL was forced to make radical changes because of withdrawal of the Red Wings&rsquo; sponsorship in Sudbury.Montreal Canadiens are returning to Hull-Ottawa and Boston Bruins will again sponsor Kingston Frontenacs.North Bay. a composite team sponsored jointly by the five-member NHL organization last season, will not operate.Toronto Maple Leafs have never been connected with the league.In the new interlocking schedule, each EPHL team will play a home-and-home series with each team in the IHL. Points in the game will count in the respective team standings.<h2>Hamilton Red Wings&hellip;&hellip;Memorial Cup Champs</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-02144/2118306-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="2743" height="1454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hamilton Red Wings, who defeated Edmonton Oil Kings in five games to win the 1961-62 Canadian junior hockey championship are pictured above. Both the Red Wings and Oil Kings, are affiliated with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. The Memorial Cup holders, above, front row, from the left, Bob Wall, Bob Dean, Howie Menard (captain), John Gofton, Bob Hamilton. Pit Martin. Centre row, Jack Wildfong, Larry Ziliotto, Paul Henderson, Coach Eddie Bush, Roger LaFreniere, Earl Heiskala, Jim Peters. Back row, Joe Budjoso, Lowell MacDonald, Wayne Rivers, Harvey Trainer Harry Meisenheimer, Buddy Blom, Ron Harris, Bryan Campbell.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Syracuse Set As EPHL Entry With Kyle To Coach

BARRIE. Ont.Paul Meger, the former Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; forward who had his big league career ended by a serious head injury in 1957, is returning to hockey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-03131/2118344-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="298" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Meger</figcaption></div>Meger has been named coach of the Barrie Falcons of the Georgian Bay In-termediate A Hockey League.Meger, who toiled with the Canadiens from 1951 to 1957, replaces Al Shewchuck, former American League defenseman, as coach of the Falcons.Meger was a strong contender for the Calder Cup rookie award in his first year with the Canadiens. He scored 24 goals. The cup was won by Boom-Boom Geoffrio&hellip;Earlier. Meger had played for the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A Barrie Flyers. He makes his home in Barrie.Meanwhile out west, another former hockey star. Paul Platz has been signed as coach of the Winnipeg Monarchs of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, succeeding Gordon Simpson, who took the club to the finals after a second place finish last season. &#9632;

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Meger Barrie Pilot, Platz Guides Monarchs

OTTAWA. Ont.The Hull-Ottawa Canadiens of the Eastern Professional Hockey League appear to have played their last hockey in the Hull Arena. Their new home will probably be the Ottawa Auditorium.This was the conclusion drawn by the recent announcement that the Canadiens and the Hull Arena Commission are at odds over the price of rental fees for the Hull rink.The Canadiens&rsquo; option on the arena expired in June and has not been picked up by general manager Sam Pollock.Pollock advised the arena the Canadiens would be playing 20 scheduled games and five exhibition games at the Ottawa Auditorium. He said he would like to play 16 scheduled games and one exhibition at the Hull arena, with the first game scheduled there for December 9.&ldquo;If we had accepted this request.&rdquo; said Heldiore Charron of the Hull Arena Commission, &ldquo;the first hockey would have been played in Hull when the fever was almost diminished.&rdquo;Charron then explained the counter-proposal made by the arena commission.He said a rental of $800 a game had been requested for Sunday games, of which there were 14. and $550 for five week games. The average, he said, would make the rental about $750 a game.&ldquo;In the 1960-61 season&rdquo;, said Charron, &ldquo;the Arena paid the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens after the rental, $180.659.31. And last year, total was $129,116.81. So we do not think the increased rental is too high.&rdquo;He then concluded by saying that if the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens do not accept the raise in rent, no games would be played at the Hull Arena, and a letter to that effect was sent to Pollock. &#9632;

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