Pilous Also Named Denver Team’s GM

DENVER, Col.- Rudy Pilous has been given new and wider powers with the new Denver Invaders of the Western Hockey League. Club president Don Bolger, in a joint announcement with Stafford Smythe of the parent Toronto Maple Leafs, disclosed that Pilous will also serve as vice-president and general manager of the Denver team as well as carrying out his coaching duties. Pilous, who coached the Chicago Black Hawks in the NHL the past few years, will be responsible for the operation of the Invaders from the ice up. Bob Scarlett has been general manager of the team. He will remain with the club’s promotion department.…

PASSING THE PUCK

• TORONTO — Frank Mahovlich with Toronto’s first two goals and Bobby Hull with the All-Stars second goal were the standouts of the 17th annual National Hockey League All-Star Game … This was one of the better All-Star tilts although play bogged down consider-ably in the second period…Eddie Litzen berger looked as if he belongs with Red Kelly and Manovlicn on ueais big line … NHL President Clarence Campbell revealed the League’s Pension Society had acquire! in excess of 4 million dollars for hockey player since the first All-Star Game in 1947 … Gordie Drillon, one of hockey’s great scorers, came all the way from Saint John, N.B. for the event … Di Clapper, only player to perform in the NHL for 20 seasons, was another one of the old…

Goalies Beware — Andy Set To Shoot More

NEWYORK, N.Y.— Look for Andy Bathgate to do more shooting this season in his ice capering with the Rangers. The Ranger captain, play-maker and the man-who muzzles his deva stating shot too much to suit hockey followers of the Blue-shirts, hopes to improve his game but most of all his goal production by shooting more at the net. The idea was passed along to Ranger Coach Red Sullivan by a writer on the New York hockey beat. Sullivan, in turn, gave Bathgate the word — SHOOT! In fact, Sullivan not only gave him the word, he painted it on Andy’s sticks. It all started when Sullivan revealed that Bathgate paints the letters S-L-O-W on his golf driver to remind himself to take a slow backswing. The writer suggested he translate the idea to hockey via the…

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