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March 2, 1963
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Wilson Feted With ‘Night’ By Herd Fans
BUFFALO, N.Y.— Larry Wilson, winding up his eighth season with the Buffalo Bisons, was honored with a “night” when he and his wife, Hilda, and their sons, Ronnie, Bradley and Randy, were showered with gifts. The Hockey Bisons Booster Club staged the affair, and gifted Wilson with an expensive camera. Mrs. Wilson was given a mink stole. The Buffalo management gave the Wilsons a sterling silver tea service, and the players gave them a hi-fi. In addition, the boys received bonds and autographed pictures of their favorite players. The 32-year-old Wilson, the Herd’s oldest player in point of service as well as calendar-wise, told a Memorial Auditorium gathering of 8,389 he hoped one of his sons would become a Bison. The three boys, dressed in Buffalo uniforms and all wearing Larry’s No. 9, treated…
Kelly Plans April Election Campaign As Well As Helping Leafs Defend Cup
TORONTO, Ont.— The month of April promises to be the busiest of Red Kelly’s life. He’ll be conducting two campaigns — one in hockey as Toronto Maple Leafs seek to retain the Stanley Cup and the other in politics where he’ll run for re-election as Member of Parliament for the Toronto constituency, York West. Kelly won the York West seat for the Liberal party in last June’s election. Two months earlier, he had been a key figure in Leafs’ first Stanley Cup victory in a decade. Playing the Leaf schedule this winter, attending off-day workouts and sitting in on every possible House of Commons schedule session proved to be a very tough schedule for 35-year-old Kelly. He’d been generally ineffective up until mid-January when he began to hit his customary stride and by the…
Hull Credits Fast, Acairate Shooting, More Confidence For Scoring Surge
CHICAGO, III.— Bobby Hull, Chicago’s “Golden Jet” who is off and flying at top speed, gives three reasons for his late-season scoring surge: 1—Getting his shots away faster. 2—More accuracy. 3—More confidence. These days you can’t talk about Chicago’s league-leading Black Hawks without talking about Hull. In Chicago’s last 13 games the strong left winger has scored 18 goals including two 3-goal “Hat Tricks.” Hull’s latest “Haf” came on Feb. 17 against Boston and accounted for all the Black Hawk scoring in a 3-1 victory. It was the second straight game against the last-place Bruins and goalie Ed Johnston in which Hull hit for the “hat”. “I try to get a score in the first period,” said Hull afterwards. “When I do I figure I could be in for a good night.” Hull didn’t score in the first…
Construction Start On New Garden Planned For June In New York
NEW YORK, N.Y.— New York City has officially given its green light to the $100,000,000 Madison Square Garden III, which will be the Rangers’ 25,000-seat arena in 1966. Legal go-ahead on the sprawling sports center was provided by the City’s Planning Commission and Board of Estimate, both of which had to approve the new Garden plans before construction actually can begin. “Work on the new Garden will begin in June,” Rangers’ President Bill Jennings told THE HOCKEY NEWS. “That’s when we’ll start tearing down Penn Station.” The Garden complex, comprising four buildings, will be built over Pennsylvania Station tracks, at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue. The present Garden is at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue. “We hope to have the new Garden completed in two-and-a-half to three years,” predicted Irving Mitchell Felt, chairman of the…
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