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November 16, 1963

The Hockey News November 16, 1963

<div class="byline">By PAUL LIPPMAN</div>PORTLAND, Ore.-Don Head, unanimous All Star goaltender in the Western League last season, was pulled from the nets midway of a Portland home game the other night in a move so sudden and decisive that the only person in the arena who wasn&rsquo;t stunned was the man who yanked him, Buckaroo coach Hal Laycoe.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01804/3118124-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="371" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Head</figcaption></div>It was midway of&mdash;the second period in a game with the San Francisco Seals, and the Bucks were down 2-0 when Laycoe called Head to the bench, and sent in Dave Kelly, a 20-year-old rookie out of the Ontario junior ranks who was virtually unknown in Portland.The fans gasped. Pulling Head was considered something tantamount to sheer heresy, but Laycoe yanked him, and may have been justified in doing so. The kid showed plenty of poise for the remaining 30 minutes of play, allowing no goals while his team posted one, and then he figured strongly in a 4-2 victory over Denver two nights later and a 1-1 tie with San Francisco the following evening.Laycoe had a reasonable explanation for the move.&ldquo;Things were going so badly in the early part of the game that I thought I had to do something,&rdquo; he said afterwards. &ldquo;I thought putting the kid into the nets might jolt the club into a better effort.&rdquo;What he meant by &ldquo;badly&rdquo; was Head&rsquo;s inability to stop a couple of reasonably soft goals, and the club&rsquo;s total disregard for turning on the red light. Head was sporting a 2.83 average at the time, but the Bucks weren&rsquo;t getting any goals for him.The move did have fair results when you consider the team managed a victory and a tie in the ensuing two games, but then again old pros always will try to flash some skate and take the heat off of a rookie netminder&mdash;for awhile. About the first time he lets six or seven big ones slip through, he&rsquo;ll be just another goalie as far as the vets are concerned.Head likely will be back in the nets soon. He&rsquo;s too good to be riding the bench anywhere. His final average for last season was 2.54, which was 47 points better than the second best goalie in the WHL.The Los Angeles Blades are the oldest club in the league this year. They have only seven players under 30.Ron Leopold, a short-term Los Angeles performer after playing for Calgary for several seasons, has been sold to the Portland Bucks.The Vancouver Canucks are taking a back seat to the red hot B.C. Lions these days, but general manager Max McNab at least is trying to hold his own. He has installed television sets in the main lobby of the Forum so that bi-partisan fans can watch the football game during hockey intermission when there is conflict.The Seattle Totems, victors in their first six of seven games at home, lead the league in nine of the eleven possible scoring categories. Guyle Fielder has most points (17), most assists (17) and most game-winning assists (4); Bob Barlow has most goals (9), most hat tries (2) and most game-winning goals (2); goalie Claude Dufour leads in shutouts (2); Jim Powers has the most goals with man advantage (2), and defense-man Larry Zeidel has penalty minute honors (29). Dufour, incidentally, went two full seasons without a shutout prior to this campaign, and now has two gooseeggs already.Bob Perreault was the person most responsible for San Francisco&rsquo;s recent excellant showing on the road, round Robert allowing but six goals in his last four games. This carried the Seals home with five victories, two ties and three losses in 10 straight games away. They also came home for a long November stand with the league lead, and that isn&rsquo;t bad for road time. Bobby was so pleased that he treated himself to a brand new golf bag before leaving Portland, and if you think that&rsquo;s rubbing it in, you&rsquo;re right. Our players hit the golf links every day of the year. One of the factors influencing Nick Mickoski&rsquo;s return to hockey this season was the daily 18 holes. He wants to be ready for the Canadian Amateur next year.<h2>WHL Summaries</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02692/3118117-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1301" height="2754"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03547/3118110-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="669" height="264"></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Head Yanked From Net In Favor Of Junior Recruit

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;A national newsmagazine reporter came seeking Gordie Howe at the Olympia as Howe closed in on for the coup de grace on Rocket Richard&rsquo;s 544 goals record.&ldquo;What does he want me for,&rdquo; asked Howe typically, then, turning to Wing publicity director Elliott Trumbull, he added: &ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you talk to him&mdash;you can tell him everything.&rdquo;Howe, the greatest thing on ice since Scotch, just doesn&rsquo;t like to talk about himself.And, surprisingly, this is n&rsquo;t the record that Gordie has coveted most.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01763/3117489-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="786" height="821"><figcaption class="caption-body">MAURICE RICHARD &hellip; His Record Shattered</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I hadn&rsquo;t really thought too much about it,&rdquo; said Howe of the 545th goal. &ldquo;Actually, the thing I&rsquo;ve wanted most is to play 20 seasons in the NHL and I&rsquo;ve still got two more to go after this one.&rdquo;Well, are the goals getting any tougher to score?&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been tough for &hellip;,&rdquo; he looked at the ceiling, figuring, &ldquo;&hellip; 17 years.&rdquo;Well, now, you had 14 goals in the exhibition season, started right off with two in the season opener, another in the second game. Is that an omen for a really big year?&ldquo;I scored a goal in my first game with the Wings and then got only six more the rest of the season,&rdquo; Howe replied.Gordie obviously wasn&rsquo;t cut out for this publicity business but he&rsquo;s changed since the gangling youth of 1945-46 when he played at Omaha, his only year in the minors.&ldquo;Gordie was so shy he used to crawl out a window in the dressing room to avoid the crowds, especially the girls, waiting outside,&rdquo; said Red Wing chief scout Jimmie Skinner, who was a teammate in I Omaha.Skinner had another Howe story, of the times the Wings used to train in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.&ldquo;He was always thoughtful. The regulars had their cars up there but few of the rookies had cars. The players had a favorite eating place some ways away from the hotel.&ldquo;Naturally the regulars stuck together more but Gordie would always pick up a batch of the rookies and drive them out there,&rdquo; Skinner said.The two stories are typical Howe. He&rsquo;s still on the reticent I side and still thoughtful.He jokes now about going for the money. At the opener, NHL President Clarence Campbell presented Howe with the Hart and Ross Trophies as most valuable and leading scorer for the sixth time.Afterward, a writer asked him if he kept the trophies in a special case at home.Howe told him the trophies weren&rsquo; this to keep&mdash;they are displayed at Olympia and then go to the Hockey Hall of Fame for the summer, and on to the next winner.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02638/3117482-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="451" height="573"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03429/3117475-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="2429" height="2268"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE &hellip; Great Winger Centre of Admiration From Red Wing Teammates</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Well what do you get out of it,&rdquo; the writer asked.&ldquo;Money,&rdquo; Gordie answered, smiling.But, instead of the plaque that goes to the player, Howe asked for six miniature Harts so he could give his wife, Colleen, a bracelet of them.Again, Howe wasn&rsquo;t thinking himself.Among his memorabilia, Gordi has only one &ldquo;milestone&rdquo; puck left&mdash;the one that was his 500th goal, It was mounted by the Wings and t given to him&mdash;he gave the stick he used to former general manager Jack Adams.The other pucks were snatched by Gordie&rsquo;s oldest boys, Mark and Marty, for shinny play.And, oddly enough, the 500th was one of two milestone goals that came in a losing cause&mdash;Howe; killing a penalty, went by Doug Harvey, changed hands and shot left-handed, beating New Yorker. Gump Worsley on March 14, 1962.That tied the score but Andy Bathgate later scored on a penalty shot to beat the Wings, 3-2, and New York went on to beat out the Wings for the final playoff spot.When Howe collected the tieing 544th against Montreal, the Canadiens walked off with the decision 6-4.Sid Abel can&rsquo;t see why all the fuss was made over Howe&rsquo;s run at. Rocket Richard&rsquo;s goal record.&ldquo;Barring injury, Gordie is going to score 30 to 40 goals again this season,&rdquo; Abel said.<h2>Worsley, Lumley Top Howe Victims</h2>59 Harry Lumley*59 Gump Worsely53 Al Rollins42 Jacques Plante42 Johnny Bower34 Glenn Hall28 Gerry McNeil30 Jim Henry21 Turk Broda20 Jack Gelineau18 Charlie Rayner18 Ed Chadwick16 Don Simmons15 Bill Durnan12 Terry Sawchuk12 Frankie Brimsek11 Emile Francis11 Ed Johnston6 Marcel Paille6 Bruce Gamble5 Hank Bassen5 John Henderson*5 Charlie Hodge3 Don Head3 Bobby Perreault2 Lorne Anderson1 Paul Bibeault1 Denis Dejordy1 Julian Klymkiw1 Cesare Maniago1 Jack McCartan1 Al Millar1 Gil Mayer1 Danny Olesevich*&mdash;Yielded 544th goal.&bull;*&mdash;Yielded 545th goal &#9632;

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Playing 20 Years Still Howe’s Big Goal

<div class="byline">BY HARRY MOLTER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01757/3117413-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN MCKENZIE</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, Illinois&mdash;John McKenzie, a rodeo cowboy in the off-season, is set to ride high in his third try at the National Hockey League.He&rsquo;s getting every chance to make good with the Chicago Black Hawks as right winger on the high-scoring Bobby Hull-Billy Hay line.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a terrific break for me,&rdquo; says the husky, 170-pound forward who first came up with the Black Hawks five years ago. He also spent a season and a half with Detroit Red Wings before going back to the minor leagues for the past three seasons.McKenzie came &ldquo;back home&rdquo; to the Black Hawks this season and was put right on the HulT-Hay line in training camp by new coach Billy Reay, under whom McKenzie had played at Buffalo in the American Hockey League last season.&hellip; &ldquo;It's My Big Break&rdquo;Given Chance&ldquo;We played together most of training camp and I soon realized it was up to me to make the most of the chance. The Black Hawk management was giving me every opportunity to make the grade. Bobby and Bill were a big help. Every line has a different style of play and we talked over our moves. They not only told me how they manoeuvered but asked how I liked to move into the net and where I liked to get passes. It made me feel part of the line,&rdquo; says the 25-year-old forward.At first, McKenzie was tense. &ldquo;I was afraid to mess things up by making a bad pass or letting my check get away. I felt I could put the puck in the net after scoring 65 goals the last two seasons at Hershey and Buffalo. Reay stressed backchecking with me up here. His approach is that if the man against you doesn&rsquo;t score you&rsquo;ll probably get a couple of good chances each game and if you make good on even one of them it can make a difference in the game. I try to take care of my lane and make the most of the chances I get. The season is still young but I feel a lot more at ease already.&rdquo;Tallied WinnerTwo goals in Chicago&rsquo;s first eight games went a long way toward making McKenzie feel at home&mdash;particularly when he scored the winning goal in the Black Hawks ' opening 3-1 victory over the New York Rangers.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m aggressive and I could throw my weight around some in the minors,&rdquo; says John. &ldquo;Up here the game is much faster and you have to think quicker or you give the other team a scoring opportunity. Besides, I 'm too small to push my way around up here or hurt the team with had penalties. I try to stick to my lane ' and take my scoring chances as they come.&rdquo;The Black Hawk management, seeking more scoring punch from its right wings this season, is high on McKenzie. Says General Manager Tommy Ivan:&ldquo;He&rsquo;s aggressive&hellip; got a lot of desire and we know he can put the puck in the net.&rdquo;Adds coach Billy Reay: &ldquo;We like the way he hustles. We got 12 goals at that spot last season. We figure McKenzie should up our production at that position.&rdquo;John is married to the sister-in-law of Willie Marshall, his teammate at Hershey who introduced him to his wife, Terry. The McKenzies have two children.<h2>Better Prepared For NHL This Time Says New Black Hawk McKenzie</h2>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;This is John McKenzie&rsquo;s third crack at the National Hockey League.Of his earlier tries McKenzie says; &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t ready. I was only 19 and just out of junior hockey. I 'm much better prepared now and have more confidence.&rdquo;John Albert McKenzie, born in High River, Alta., played his junior hockey at Chicago&rsquo;s St. Catherines Tee Pees under Rudy Pilous who, for the past five years, was Black Hawk coach. Among his teammates were Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Wayne Hillman, Chico Maki and Dennis De Jordy, all current teammates with Chicago. McKenzie had come to St. Catherines as the one import from the West, having been scouted by Tiny Thompson.McKenzie, who stands five-feet, nine-inches and weighed about 170 pounds then as he does now, played 32 games for the Black Hawks during the 1958-59 season.&ldquo;I rode the bench most of the time,&rdquo; he recalls. &ldquo;When I did get on the ice it was with a pickup fourth line with players like Lome Ferguson and Danny Lewicki. At the end of the season the Black Hawks didn&rsquo;t protect me and I was drafted by Detroit.&rdquo;With the Red Wings, McKenzie got in 59 games in the 1959-60 season. He played on a pretty good line with Norm Ullman and Alex Delvecchio and managed 8 goals and 12 assists. But he was injured and missed the last five weeks of the season. When the next year started he lasted only 16 games and then was sent to Hershey in the AHL &ldquo;for more seasoning,&rdquo; as the club put it.McKenzie lit the red light 19 times in 47 games with Hershey the remainder of that season, scored 30 the next year and&mdash;after coming to the Chicago or ganilation with center Len Lunde in exchange for defenseman Doug Barkley&mdash;gained All-Star rightwing honours at Buffalo last year with 35 goals and 46 assists. &#9632;

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Off-Season Rodeo Cowboy, Hawk Winger Riding High

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National Hockey League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="C0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0002-0114/3118393-1-eng-US/c0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE &hellip; Hockey&rsquo;s New All-Time Scoring Champion</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&rsquo;The Detroit Red Wings won&rsquo;t be effected any longer. The National Hockey League can return to normal once more and the legion of newspaper, magazine writers and cameramen can stop track&rsquo;ing Gordie Howe around at great expense.The suspense is over and everyone including the great Howe himself, seems considerably re&#8208;lieved.The starry Detroit right winger finally came through with the record 545th goal of his glorious NHL career to become the new all&rsquo;time goal scor&rsquo;ing champion replacing Maurice Richard of Cana&rsquo;diens.The ironic part of the &lsquo; big goal&rsquo; was that Howe, pressed into service as a penalty killer, counted when few among the capacity 15,027 fans in the Detroit Olympia expected it. The Canadiens were also caught flat&#8208; footed on the play with blond Billy McNeill setting up the milestone goal with a fine pass. Said the overjoyed McNeill, &ldquo;it was a perfect goal.&rdquo;The Wings won the game Sunday, Nov. 10,3&#8208;0 and that in itself had a visual effect on Howe, who lamented the fact he got the tieing 544th to; equal Richard's mark Oct. 27, also against Mont-real, but the Wings lost the game 6&#8208;4 and Detroit coach Sid Abel was screaming.Abel came out last week with a statement to the effect, the whole Red Wing team was being effected by Gordie&rsquo;s bid for his record goal.The NHL was in a continual upheaval as the re&#8208;sult of the affair with officials running from city to city attempting to be in on the &lsquo;kill&rsquo;. Pressmen and red&#8208;eyed photographers and TV men were on the job continually to be sure to be on hand when the big moment came. Many confessed it was costing money but they had to do it.Howe admitted the pressure had begun to get to him. In fact he visualized the scoring of the goal as a means of &ldquo;re&#8208; establishing himself&rdquo; with his Red Wing teammates.&ldquo;It got so that the boys on the team stayed away from me. Everybody from the press was following me around and they didn&rsquo;t feel right, barging in. Now that it's over I hope we (the rest of the Wings) can get together again.&rdquo;Howe described the goal, which came in his 1,132nd NHL game (Richard counted 544 in 978 games) as probably &ldquo;the best pain&#8208;killer pill ever invented. I feel altogether different. Maybe now, I&rsquo;ll stop being jittery and put an end to this incessant blinking that has bothered me lately,&rdquo; added Howe.Abel and Richard both paid tribute to Howe after he scored. The Detroit manager-coach said, "I 'm relieved for Gordie&rsquo;s sake that it&rsquo;s over. I 'm glad he got it. He&rsquo;s a great player and it was great to see him score the big one the way he did&hellip; it was a heck of a shot.&rdquo;Richard, who denied that he had shown any animosity towards Howe in the weeks leading up to the record goal, said that Howe, &ldquo;can not start playing his usual game and go on to score 600 goals.&rdquo;&ldquo;I knew he would get it. He&rsquo;s a great player. How about that, scoring both goals (his 544th and 545th) against my old team,&rdquo; said the retired Richard in reference to the Canadiens, who yielded both goals to Howe. Gump Worsley gave up the tieing goal and little Charlie Hodge, filling in for the injured Worsley, fanned on the big 545th counter.Howe said he would welcome the opportunity to settle back now and concentrate on playing hockey. &ldquo;It beats all this pressure stuff,&rdquo; he said. &#9632;

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Howe’s 545th Ends Suspense

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Terry Sawchuk, the 33&#8208; year&#8208; old masked netminder of the Detroit Red Wings, hasn&rsquo;t been getting too many headlines these days with his famed teammate, Gordie Howe, bent on his celebrated goal-record spree, but actually he is deserving of the accolades.The veteran Detroit goalie pulled even with the late George Hains&#8208; worth as the NHL&rsquo;s 'shutout king&rsquo; after blanking Montreal 3&#8208;0 Nov. 10. It was Sawchuk&rsquo;s 94th collar job during his 13 years in the big time and enabled him to tie Hainsworth, who set the mark while playing with Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs for better than a decade.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02704/3117444-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="552" height="1226"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption></div>Terry&rsquo;s next NHL blanking will push him into sole possession of the record and it is a fitting climax to Sawchuk 's great puck-stopping in recent years that he should rank as the top shutout man.Sawchuk hasn&rsquo;t won a Vezina Trophy&mdash;as leading NHL netminder&mdash;in 10 years and the Wings are pulling for him to come through this season. Sawchuk, who has been a Red Wing goaler during 11 of his 13 years in the NHL, is wearing a mask for the second straight season and according to the Detroit veteran, it has been the difference in his ice play.&ldquo;If it hadn&rsquo;t been for the mask I don&rsquo;t think I would be around the NHL today,&rdquo; said Sawchuk, who decided last season to wear it after Jacques Plante, then with Montreal, had such great success with the face protector. &#9632;

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Sawchuk Ties Record For Shutouts In NHL With 94th ‘Collar’ Job

1 Oct. 16, 1946, at Detroit, in a 3-3 tie with Toronto, Turk Broda in goal. First NHL game.100&mdash;Feb. 17, 1951, at Montreal, in a 2-1 Detroit victory on Maurice Richard Night with Gerry McNeil in goal. 283rd NHL game.200&mdash;Feb. 15, 1953, at Chicago, in a 4-1 Detroit victory, Al Rollins in goal. 422nd NHL game.300&mdash;Feb. 7, 1956, at Detroit, in a 3-2 victory over Chicago, Rollins in goal. 624th NHL game.400&mdash;Dec. 13, 1958, at Montreal, in a 2-2 tie with Jacques Plante in goal. 805th NHL game.500&mdash;March 14, 1962, at New York, in a 3-2 Ranger victory, Gump Worsley in goal. Scored while short-handed. 1,045th NHL game.544&mdash;Oct. 27, 1963, at Detroit, in a 6-4 Montreal victory, Gump Worsley in goal. Scored on power play. 1,126th NHL game.545&mdash;Nov. 10, 1963, at Detroit in a 3-0 Detroit win, Charlie Hodge in goal. Scored with Wings shorthanded. 1,132nd NHL game. HOWE&rsquo;S HIT PARADEChicago 130; Boston 110; New York 108; Toronto 106; Montreal 91<h2>Overtime Playoff Goal Only One Howe&prime;s Missec</h2>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;You name it, Gordie Howe has accomplished it in the National Hockey League or is on the verge of it.All except one thing &hellip; Howe, who has scored more game winners (96) than any player in NHL history, has never scored an overtime goal in the playoffs. &#9632;

Howe’s ‘Big’ Goals

<div class="byline">By Ken Mc-Kenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01821/3117572-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="620" height="598"></div>&bull; DAVE BALONhas been playing great hockey for Canadiens. I He might be the real sleeper in last summer&rsquo;s Canadiens-Rangers controversial trade&hellip; He scored two goals in a game three times this season and shared the goal scoring leadership of the NHL last week&hellip; He has been a most effective performer for Canadiens every time he&rsquo;s been on the ice&hellip; Montreal Canadiens now have two entrances to their penalty box. The lettering on one door read Canadiens. Good guys. The other door was lettered visitors: Bad guys. Ruby Pastor, owner of the Buffalo Bisons of the AHL, and his wife Bernice, became grandparents for the first time recently when their daughter, Mrs. Donald Altman, gave birth to a daughter &hellip; Baltimore Clippers of the art, averaged more than 5,000 a game during the first month of play. General Manager Terry Reardon thinks this is terrific considering all the competition for the sports dollar in Maryland at this time of year &hellip; Incidentally, ticket prices in Baltimore are the third highest in pro hockey, exceeded only by New York and Chicago of the NHL&hellip; There is talk about that Rangers may. make a deal, for Don McKenney &hellip; &ldquo;I 'd trade McKenney, says Muzz Patrick, &ldquo;if could get a real good player for him.&rdquo; &hellip; The former Boston star who came to the Rangers last season in a trade for Dean Prentice hasn&rsquo;t been playing on a regular line of late and is being used in spots&hellip; Some New York fans have been hooting at Coach Red Sullivan for not using him more&hellip; Jim Neilson, sophomore New York defenseman, has been a disappointment this season and is now used as the fifth defenseman on the club&hellip; Jim Norris, Chicago owner, has entered the harness racing field with the purchase of three pacers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02773/3117565-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="393" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Sullivan &hellip; Cracks Whip</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03671/3117558-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="372" height="607"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Balon &hellip; &lsquo;Sleeper&rsquo;</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04572/3117551-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="375" height="605"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don McKenney &hellip; On The Block</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05455/3117544-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="387" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al MacNeil &hellip; Big Surprise</figcaption></div>&bull; CHICAGO BLACK HAWKS set a new club record when they tied Canadiens, 2-2, last week. It brought their unbeaten streak to 10&hellip; seven wins and three ties&hellip; The former mark of nine was set by the 1938-39 team&hellip; This is the best start any Chicago club has made in years and Coach Billy Reay is highly enthused with his charges&hellip; &ldquo;Whether they&rsquo;re happier now, like some folks says, I wouldn&rsquo;t know. But I know every one of them is trying his best,&rdquo; commented Reay in Montreal recently&hellip; Canadiens presented Gordie Howe with a Tex Coulter painting when he set the new NHL goal scoring record&hellip; Red Sullivan has broken up the Doug Harvey-Junior Langlois defense combination&hellip; &ldquo;They depended too much on each other to cover up,&rdquo; he growled, &ldquo;and nobody covers up&rdquo; &hellip; Sullivan is quite a task master&hellip; Pittsburgh Hornets look like the team to beat in the American League. The Hornets are loaded with good talent&hellip; Murray Balfour is being used sparingly by the Hawks this season&hellip; Tom Lockhart, president of the AHA of the US and Walter Brown, chair-man of the United States Olympic hockey committee, attended meetIngs in Los Angeles and Anchorage, Alaska this week &hellip; The number of amateur players from these regions registered with the AHA has increased so much in the past few years that Lockhart thought it was time he and Brown made a personal visit&hellip; Amateur and professional hockey teams in the United States that play to paid gates are being asked to contribute to the Olympic hockey fund&hellip; As defending champions at the 1964 Olympics, the USA squad is endeavouring to raise $60,000 this way&hellip; Al MacNeil has been one of the top defensemen in the NHL during the opening month of play&hellip; The boyish-looking Chicago rearguard has a hard accurate shot from the point and is becoming most adept at clearing the puck. He revels in the rough going, too. &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Defensive shortcomings were the explanation for the sluggish way the Toronto Maple Leafs began their 1963-64 National Hockey League schedule.Leaf&rsquo;s defending league and Stanley Cup champions, lost four of their first nine matches. More important, they lost both their games against Chicago Black Hawks and fell six points off Hawks&rsquo; red-hot pace.The causes of these blueline problems were the continued absence of all-star Carl Brewer and the failure of Kent Douglas to regain the rookie-of-the-year excellence he'd displayed during the 1962-63 campaign.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06357/3117603-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="368" height="529"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Arbour</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not moving the puck out of our own zone quickly,&rdquo; one Leaf analyzed, &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s been our major problem. That&rsquo;s something we always did well, coming out of there fast.And that, of course, is one of the things Brewer and Douglas, when they&rsquo;re right, do best. Both are skillful passers and playmakers.Brewer still is recuperating from a broken arm suffered in the final playoff game last spring. He made an unexpected return to action against Chicago, Nov. 9th, but obviously wasn 't in the best of form.Brewer&rsquo;s rugged deportment also was missed severely in the early losses to the Black Hawks, who pushed Leafs around considerably.Douglas is a more complex problem. He wasn't in top condition when he reported to training camp and a series of minor injuries has slowed him down.Punsh Imlach, Leafs&rsquo; coach and general manager, recalled Al Arbour from his American League farm team at Rochester and announced he&rsquo;d stay until Brewer was normal again. Arbour moved in as Tim Horton&rsquo;s defence partner. Allan Stanley and Bobby Baun were paired. Douglas went to the bench as spare man and then down to Rochester of the AHL again to play himself into shape.Ron Stewart, who had served as the fifth defenceman, was needed for right wing duty since a bruised ankle had side lined Bobby Nevin. Right-winger Jerry Ehman also was promoted from Rochester to fill in on the forward line but later returned to the to the minors.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s more than personnel,&rdquo; Imlach said, when criticizing his athletes even after an impressive victory over Montreal Canadiens. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re not hustling the way they shoud be.&rdquo;A few days later. Leafs showed what Imlach was talking about by letting Hawks outskate and out bump them.Brewer watched from the blue seats and suffered silently.Obviously, Leafs aren&rsquo;t going far without him.Which is not criticism of the club, really, except that their depth may not be as great as some observers contended. But what team can lose a first-string all-star and continue winning as though the man weren&rsquo;t missing? Answer: no team. Brewer isn&rsquo;t a hundred per cent yet but at least he&rsquo;s back. &#9632;

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Brewer-Douglas’ Punch Lacking As Leafs Display Big Weakness In Moving Puck From Own Zone

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01763/3117648-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="777" height="818"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILLY HICKE &hellip; Suffers Concussion</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02656/3117641-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="776" height="816"><figcaption class="caption-body">GILLES TREMBLAY &hellip; Cheekbone Broken</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;He&rsquo;s 32 years of age, and, according to the form charts, he&rsquo;s supposed to round into shape slowly.It&rsquo;s become traditional to say of him, that &ldquo;Big Jean never really hits his stride till around Christmas.&rdquo;But, for Jean Beliveau, off to a blazing start in the N.H.L. scoring race, Christmas came early this year.The veteran Hab star, with a whopping 20 points (5-15) in the first 10 games, had made the most impressive start of his NHL career. Besides leading the league in scoring, he was skating in mid-season form and lifting the team, repeatedly, with inspired performances. It had been like that almost from the first days of training camp, this year, when Big Jean flashed up and down the practice rink in a way he&rsquo;d never done before. And, what made his bang-up performance all the more intriguing was the fact that nobody&mdash;including Beliveau&mdash;could really pinpoint the reason for it.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03485/3117634-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="384" height="574"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption></div>There were theories, of course, to account for his fine showing. One was that he was far more relaxed, this year, than before. Another was that he&rsquo;d been caught up in the new spirit of Canadiens, which is definitely better than it&rsquo;s been the past couple of seasons. A third was that he was determined to wipe out the memory of last year and the one before, which saw him in a seemingly endless slump.Whether any or all of these things are behind the resurgence of Big Jean, this season, his performance has been an eye-opener. Not only has he been racking up scoring points in impressive fashion, but he&rsquo;s racked up a few opponents along the way, too. One of the most significant aspects of Beliveau&rsquo;s early showing has been his willingness to toss his weight around. Big Jean (6&rsquo; 3&rdquo;&mdash;205 lbs.) has been rattling the opposition with bodychecks, this year, almost as much as he rattles them with his playmaking and scoring ability.The net result of Beliveau&rsquo;s leadership, was to boost the Canadiens into the upper strata of the standings by the first week of November. Though Habs were having their troubles with Chicago and Toronto, their record against the remainder of the league, in the early going, was classy. They&rsquo;d trounced Rangers and Detroit twice in as many outings, won and tied in two meetings against Boston. And, as though to prove that they could respond to Beliveau&rsquo;s leadership, some of the other Hab gunners were beginning to hit the target, too.Dave Balon, who serves the Hab cause as penalty-killer, relief forward and power play operator, was one who&rsquo;d begun to click around the nets. Balon had 11 points (8-3) in 11 games, and while his goals weren&rsquo;t fancy, they were certainly helpful. The ex-Ranger was developing an amazing ability for being in the right spot at the right time to tip in long shots, or act as a target for pucks to bounce off into the net.But the news wasn&rsquo;t all good for the Canadiens to say the least. Following a bruising game with Chicago, Canadiens reported left wing Gilles Tremblay was operated on for a fractured cheekbone and that right winger Bill Hicke was undergoing treatment for a concussion and possible shoulder injury.Both players were injured in the 2-2 tie with the Black Hawks. The Canadiens called up Claude Larose from Omaha of the CPHL and Wayne Hicks from Quebec Aces to fill the void.Tremblay, who suffered a double facial fracture last year, was expected to be out of action for at least two weeks. However, if his cheekbones had to be wired, he might be out for as long as two months. He sustained the injury when hit by John McKenzie.Hicke suffered his injury when ridden into the boards by Bobby Hull. He received a 12-stitch cut just below the hairline in addition to his other injuries. &#9632;

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Beliveau, Baton Spurt Cheers Habs As Hawks Rack Up Tremblay, Hicke

<div class="byline">By Andy O&#x2019;Brien. </div><div class="byline">REVIEWED BY GIL SMITH</div>The Ryerson Press. 132 pp. $3.50In &ldquo;HEADLINE HOCKEY&rdquo;Andy O&rsquo;Brien has taken on the difficult task of giving a very condensed and informal history of the game&rsquo;s most significant events.He has handled it well&mdash;. choosing carefully from a wide selection of material that&mdash;stretches back to before the turn of the century, and finishes up in 1963. O&rsquo;Brien, however, has skillfully avoided the pitfall of attempting to write an overly-weighty book; and has come up instead, with a brief and entertaining volume in which there is something for everyone.Oldtimers will chuckle over the hilarious recounting of the challenge for the Stanley Cupby the Klondikers, in 1905, when they took on the Ottawa Silver Seven. The middle-aged will relive the days when the meteoric Howie Morenz made people forget the depression. And, the youngsters will enjoy the inside stories about Beliveau, Mahovlich and Bobby Hull; while profitting from a number of tips on the finer points of the game, as well.O&rsquo;Brien does not confine himself to writing only of NHL personalities and events, however. He deals with the Olympic picture, too, and gives a graphic recounting of the 1955 contest between Canada and Russia, in which the Penticton Vees scored their memorable triumph. He describes the pressure surrounding that game as the most intense he has ever witnessed.This is a well-written book, by a man whose connection with sport extends back for a great many years. An outstanding athlete in college, he went on to become one of Canada&rsquo;s best-known sportswriters, and is currently sports editor of Weekend Magazine. His earlier book, &ldquo;Rocket Richard,&rdquo; was an immediate best seller, and he writes from the standpoint of a man on the &ldquo;inside&rdquo; of sports events.&ldquo;HEADLINE HOCKEY&rdquo; is inthe O&rsquo;Brien tradition of informative, fast-paced writing; and, it also contains a new and quite different plan for the full-scale expansion of hockey, which should prove interesting to all followers of the game. &#9632;

“HEADLINE HOCKEY”

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;Bobby Hull, regarded by many as hockey&rsquo;s most exciting player, is a &ldquo;combination of Rocket Richard and Gordie Howe".So says Billy Reay, new head coach of Hull&rsquo;s team, the Chicago Black Hawks. Reay played with Richard at Montreal, against Detroit&rsquo;s Howe and now coaches Chicago&rsquo;s Hull.Reay made his remarks at his first public speaking appearance since being named Chicago coach last summer. The somewhat unusual &ldquo;platform&rdquo; was the weekly luncheon meeting of Chicago&rsquo;s American football &ldquo;Quarterback Club".&ldquo;Richard was the most explosive scorer,&rdquo; said Reay in answer to a question to compare the three. &ldquo;He was a great clutch player&hellip; the greatest. His play-off scoring records attest that.&rdquo;Howe is the greatest all-around player I&rsquo;ve seen. He&rsquo;s a leader, a great shooter, playmaker and team man,&rdquo; continued the former Montreal forward.&ldquo;Hull is a combination of the two. He skates faster, and his shot, especially his slap shot, is harder than either Richard&rsquo;s or Howe&rsquo;s. And this year he is showing he can do something besides score goals by killing penalties and playing 35 to 40 minutes a game.&rdquo;Other comments by the new Black Hawks coach, in answer to questions:Reg Fleming is the &ldquo;roughest player on the Black Hawks. He&rsquo;d rather have bodily contact than score.&rdquo;Gordie Howe is not a &ldquo;clean&rdquo; hockey player. &ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t go into a game looking for trouble but if any trouble comes up he knows how to take care of himself.&rdquo;Reay wouldn&rsquo;t trade center Stan Mikita for Toronto&rsquo;s Dave Keon. &ldquo;Keon is a faster perpetual motion skater but Stan is a better scorer and playmaker.&rdquo;Howie Young has terrific potential and &ldquo;can do as much or more than any defenseman I know. He is victimized to the extent that officials make a call and then hover around as much as to say &ldquo;I caught you that time. They should treat him like any other player &hellip; make the penalty call and then go to the bench and record it.&rdquo;Murray Hall, Murray Balfour and Fleming (Chicago&rsquo;s extra forwards) will see more action when the schedule calls for three and four games a week.Dennis De Jordy is our spare goalie and will be carried with the club as we originally planned. But he isn&rsquo;t seeing much action (only once in Chicago&rsquo;s first 11 games) because regular goalie Gleen Hall had a great training camp and is off to a terrific start in competition.Howie Young will play more as the season goes on. &ldquo;We are trying to feel our way along with him. It&rsquo;s a matter of how well he can control himself. We have to be careful he does not hurt the cut with penalties, which he hasn&rsquo;t done so far. He does have a habil of temper, though.&rdquo; &#9632;

Reay Says Scoring Ace Bobby Hull “Combination Of Howe And Richard”

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01851/3117727-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ICE GRMB MHT:Two of hockey&rsquo;s greatest living performers, GORDIE HOWE, left, and BOBBY HULL, get together. Chicago coach Bill Reay called the brilliant Hull, &ldquo;a combination of Howe and Richard."</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;Chicago coach Billy Reay is confident his scoring star, Bobby Hull, can score 50 goals this season for the second time in his NHL career.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m looking for 50 goals from Hull. Why not, he&rsquo;s the best player I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; added Reay.Hull counted 50 times in 1961-62 and is one of three in the NHL to achieve the feat. Maurice Richard and Bernie Geoffrion are the others. &#9632;

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Reay Feels Hull Should Score 50

CHICAGO, III.&mdash;Goalie Glenn Hall of the Black Hawks finally was forced to yield to a substitute the night of Nov. 9 when he came down with stomach flu.Hall, who holds the NHL record for most consecutive games played by a goalkeeper, 508, played one period against the Maple Leafs and then retired with his stand-in, Denis De Jordy, taking over.De Jordy was in goal the next night when the Hawks were beaten 4-2 by the Bruins.<h2>Hawks Clip Own Unbeaten Record</h2>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;The Black Hawks set a new all time club record for undefeated games Nov. 7 when they tied Montreal Canadiens 2-2 for their 10th straight without a loss.The Hawks pushed their mark to 11 games when they tied Toronto Leafs 3-3 two nights later before losing to Boston Bruins Nov. 10. Over the span the Hawks won seven and tied four.The old Chicago team record of six wins and three losses was set in 1939-40 when the Hawks finished fourth in the league. &#9632;

Stomach Flu Forces Hall To Make Way For De Jordy

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Milt Schmidt has become the ace of practicality as coach of the Bruins.A Schmidt venture into the realm of t baseball is; providing the Bruins with depth they&rsquo;ve never had be-fore.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01796/3117789-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="373" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jerry Toppazzini</figcaption></div>The Bruins have some players who can play many positions, and many players who can play more than one position. And, it may be added, they have many playefs, as many as the rules permit them to dress for National League games.As a close follower of all professional sports, Schmidt for many years has watched the New York Yankees play the Red Sox at Fenway Park. He recognized the versatility of the Yankees under Casey Stengel and, more recently, under Ralph Houk.It is this Yankee-type versatility which the Bruins have developed this season.&ldquo;The thing which has always impressed me about the Yankees,&rdquo; said Schmidt, &ldquo;is that because they&rsquo;ve had to play they&rsquo;ve never sat around hurting without one, two or three players.&ldquo;Or if one of their players falls into a slump, they&rsquo;ve always had another able to move into the slumping player&rsquo;s position. I&rsquo;d guess they have more players who can play more different positions than any other baseball team.&ldquo;That makes good sense to me in hockey, too,&rdquo; said the Bruins&rsquo; coach, &ldquo;and even more so than in baseball, perhaps. In our game injuries are more common. Sometimes there&rsquo;s time to bring in a player as a replacement for one injured, but sometimes there isn&rsquo;t.&ldquo;So while I like the idea of men playing set positions as much as possible, I also like the idea of players being able to play other positions. That&rsquo;s something I&rsquo;m continuing to encourage.&rdquo;A check of the Bruins roster reveals these examples of versatility:Tom Williams can play both right wing and center.Orland Kurtenbach and Forbes Kennedy can play both center and left wing.Capt. Leo Boivin can play both left and right defense and left wing.Johnny Bucyk can play both left wing and left defense.Ted Green can play both left and right defense, right wing and kill penalties as a forward.Andy Hebenton can play both left and right wing.So can Guy Gendron.Ed Westfall can play both left and right defense and right wing.Bob McCord can play both left and right defense and center.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02691/3117782-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="750" height="1004"><figcaption class="caption-body">LEO BOIVIN &hellip; More Effective</figcaption></div>Jerry Toppazzini is the only player in the NHL who has played all six positions in league games. Doug Mohns isn&rsquo;t far behind for Mohns, now playing left defense, has played all five starting positions.The most recent addition to the list of versatile Bruins is Boivin of the fireplug physique, now a regular left wing and emergency defenseman, a reversal of the roles he filled until the second week of the season.Schmidt moved Boivin from defense to a line with Bob Leiter and Wayne Connelly, seeking additional checking strength in his forward squad. Milt has come out of the deal with the best set of left wings he has had here in years.&ldquo;Boivin has been even more effective on left wing than I hoped he would,&rdquo; said Schmidt.&ldquo;There was a possibility that we might lose the benefit of his body-checking as a defenseman, I suppose, but that isn&rsquo;t the way things have worked out.&ldquo;Now, instead of catching the other guys at our blue line he&rsquo;s catching them in their own zone often enough. There aren&rsquo;t many guys blitzing out of that zone while he&rsquo;s out there, I&rsquo;ll tell you. They&rsquo;re looking first, and that&rsquo;s been helping us get set defensively.&ldquo;With Dean Prentice&rsquo;s defensive ability and digging, the speed Gendron can give me when we need it, and Bucyk&rsquo;s pickup I don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;ve ever been better fixed for left wings while I&rsquo;ve been coaching here.&ldquo;And Boivin is proof,&rdquo; added Schmidt, &ldquo;that a team can increase its depth by increasing its versatility. Why, he&rsquo;s even getting the offensive tricks down and anything he does on offense is shear porfit to us.&rdquo;Never since Schmidt has been coaching the Bruins has he been able to use 17 players regularly as he has this season. The Bruins as a result have showed little of that pale third period look they&rsquo;ve had at times in the past.&ldquo;I think I have 17 major league players,&rdquo; said Milt, &ldquo;so I&rsquo;m using them. Some have been playing more than others, depending on circumstances, but all have been playing. We play a long season and if our-greatest strength is our depth, I&rsquo;m going to get all the mileage out of it I can.&rdquo;By calling on his combination of depth and versatility, Schmidt has used as many as seven defensemen and as many as 14 forwards in a single game. His nominal complement is 12 forwards and six defensemen, besides Goalkeeper Ed Johnston.The Bruins, it is true, cannot be compared with the Yankees in certain other respects, but there is no doubt of their improvement. And Schmidt, it is said, is considering giving up cigarettes for Houk&rsquo;s brand of cigars. &#9632;

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Schmidt Exploiting Bruins’ Depth, Borrows Leaf From Yankees’ Book

<div class="byline">&#x2014;MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, III&mdash;It couldn&rsquo;t have happened to a nicer guy.The &ldquo;nice guy&rdquo; is Ken Wharram of the Chicago Black Hawks who scored the first hat trick of his National Hockey League career in Chicago&rsquo;s 5-1 triumph over Detroit in Chicago Stadium on Oct. 29.&ldquo;If anyone deserves a night like this&hellip; it&rsquo;s this guy for all the work he does up and down the ice,&rdquo; commented All-Star teammate Bobby Hull, who shares a corner of the Black Hawk dressing room next to Wharram.On the other side of 155-pound Wharram, one of the smallest men, in the NHL, sits All-Star center&rsquo; Stan Mikita. Center on the &ldquo;Scooter Line&rdquo; on which Wharram plays right wing, Mikita seemed almost as happy about the big three-goal night as Wharram.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s shooting more this year,&rdquo; said Mikita, who fed Ken two of the passes that led to scores. Scooter left winger Ab McDonald set up. the third on a rebound off Detroit goalie Terry Sawchuk with Wharram trailing in on the play.&ldquo;Ken digs into the corners against big Beliveau and the others and patrols up and down that wing all night. He hustles every second on the ice. It&rsquo;s great to see him have the big scoring night like this,&rdquo; said Mikita.At week&rsquo;s end Mikita was No. 1 on the Hawks in scoring with 18 points on 9 goals and 9 assists, and Wharram was close behind with 13 points on 6 goals and 7 assists.This is the fastest start of Wharram&rsquo;s career which dates back to the 1951-52 season when he played one game with the Black Hawks. Little Ken quit hockey for one season, faild to stick on two other chances with the Black Hawks, kicked around the minor leagues for five seasons, and finally came up to stay in the 1958-59 season. Ken was 30 last July but still skates and backchecks with a rookie&rsquo;s enthusiasm. He also has survived two broken jaws, playing with a face mask. He had his best scoring season last year with 20 goals after netting 14, 16, 14 and 10 in his previous Black Hawk years.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03516/3117820-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="757" height="806"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEN WHARRAM &hellip;Shooting More His Secret</figcaption></div>Wharram, in friendly manner, gives teammate Hull and Hull&rsquo;s family a big &ldquo;assist&rdquo; for his quick start this year. Because the Chicago apartment in which Ken and his wife and three children are to live during the season was not available until early November, Wharram was staying with Hull, his wife Joanne and their two young sons.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s that Hull cooking,&rdquo; says Bobby. &ldquo;Work&rsquo;s wonders for everyone,&rdquo; says the man who scored 50 goals two seasons ago.Whatever the reason for Ken&rsquo;s fast start, the Black Hawk brass and fans are delighted. And everyone agrees he deserves it. &#9632;

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‘Nice Guy’ Wharram Off To Fastest Career Start, Nets First NHL Hat Trick

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The already embarassed Jacques Plante has vowed not to say another word about his former Montreal Canadiens teammates.Plante has become a somewhat penitent orator since his candid comments about the debility of the Canadiens prodded the Habs to efforts above and beyond the call of their ability.In three games, two in Montreal, the other in New York, Plante was stoned with 131 shots and permitted 15 goals. He lost all three games.Some of Jacques&rsquo; teammates suggested he would have been better off declaring an embargo on future anti-Canadiens&rsquo; statements.Jacques agrees.&ldquo;I am not saying any more about Montreal,&rdquo; Plante observed at a recent N.Y. hockey writers&rsquo; luncheon. &ldquo;All I did was get them mad at me.&rdquo;The Canadiens endorsed his statement without equivocation.&ldquo;We were delighted to beat him,&rdquo; said Jean Beliveau, the Montreal captain, after he set up three goals in New York. &ldquo;Especially after some of the statements he made last summer.&ldquo;The best way to give it back to him is to score against him.&rdquo;Montreal coach Toe Blake, who never was accused of being Plante&rsquo;s press agent, agreed that Jacques&rsquo; comments were such an effective stimulus in the opener, Blake could have remained mute.&ldquo;He sure pepped up our boys,&rdquo; said Toe.Although hockey sages still are debating the merits of the Plante-Lorne Worsley trade, Blake believes the Habs had no alternative but to barter Plante.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think he could have played for us anymore,&rdquo; said Blake. &ldquo;He had too many ailments. If he stayed, it probably would have been a repeat this year of his ailments.&ldquo;After he got traded, he admitted he got in the best shape he&rsquo;s been in years.&rdquo;And thanks to Jacques, the Rangers&rsquo; box office is in fine condition, perhaps the best in history.With Plante capturing much newspaper ink, the Blues drew 70,937 to their first five games, setting them up for a possible eclipse of the record-breaking 478,277 attendance of two years ago.The Montreal-Ranger game on Nov. 3 drew a capacity 15,925 and had the biggest money gate in team history. &#9632;

Plante Not Talking Anymore—About Hubs

NEW YORK, N.Y.-Now that the horse show has vacated adison Square Garden, the Ran gers gallop home with whal, may be a the i roughly realigned defense combination.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01838/3117896-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="406" height="608"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Neilson</figcaption></div>Coach Red Sullivan said veterans Doug Harvey and Al Langlois, will be separated and the promising young defenseman Jim Neilson had better giddyap, or else!&ldquo;Harvey and Langlois will not play together again,&rdquo; said Sullivan. &ldquo;They lean too much on each other to cover up. And nobody covers up.&rdquo;The two ex-Canadiens were defense-mates at Montreal and also during the past two years in New York.Harvey missed training camp because of business problems in Montreal. Langlois has been a regular but earned Sullivan&rsquo;s wrath when Bill Hicke went around him for an important goal Nov. 3rd.&ldquo;Langlois doesn&rsquo;t like extra work,&rdquo; Sullivan snapped. &ldquo;But he&rsquo;s going to get it.&rdquo;The tall, beefy Neilson has not distributed his weight in the manner Sullivan hoped. So: &ldquo;He should be playing better with all the ice he&rsquo;s had. If he doesn&rsquo;t want to move, he won&rsquo;t be here. I&rsquo;m not waiting&rsquo;til it&rsquo;s too late before making changes.&rdquo;Despite recent assaults on the Ranger goal, Sullivan exonerated goalie Jacques Plante from blame.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s been playing well, overall,&rdquo; the coach said.<h2>Player of the week</h2><h3>Gordie Howe Detroit Red Wings</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03617/3117889-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1505" height="423"></div>All of hockey joined to salute Gordie Howe of Detroit Red Wings this week as he completed his long-awaited feat of becoming hockey&rsquo;s greatest all-time goal scoring champion.Howe scored the big one&mdash;his 545th NHL goal&mdash;to leave the retired Maurice Richard of Canadiens behind as top goal scorer in the National Hockey League.Howe&rsquo;s momentous goal came the night of Nov. 10 in the Detroit Olympia in a qame with the Montreal Canadiens, the same team against which he counted the tieing 544th goal six games ago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04419/3117882-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="383" height="642"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div>The record-setting marker was scored as the Habs went down to a 3-0 loss on Detroit ice with Howe scoring ironically while the Red Wings were shorthanded.It was a night to remember for the 36-year-old Red Wing great and the ovation he received from a&rsquo;sellout&rsquo; 15,027 fans in the Detroit Olympia will long linger in his ears.As player-of-the-week, Howe now embarks on a move to establish a new goal-scoring mark for the NHL with experts predicting he will attain the 600-mark before he hangs up his skates.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05321/3117875-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="686" height="1178"></div> &#9632;

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Sully Shakes Up Rangers’ Defense Neilson On Spot

<div class="byline">By CHARLEY BARTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01829/3117979-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROY EDWARDS &hellip; Made It In Round About Way With Bisons</figcaption></div>BUFFALO, N.Y&mdash;The late Frank Eddolls was a charter member of the Coaches Hard Losers Assn., and this was in Springfield, where the former coach of the Buffalo Bisons was sitting with a Buffalo sportswriter less than an hour after taking a 10-1 trouncing from the champion Indians.It was Dec. 17, 1960, and Eddolls was pondering a goal-tending change.Roy Edwards, the Bisons regular backstop had been given extended periods of rest in order to help him regain his confidence and poise after a siege of balky nerves. The 10-1 bombing shook him up again.The previous season, Edwards posted a 3.71 goals-against average, and four shutouts, in 72 games the Bisons missed the playoffs. Now, he owned a 4.27 average, and one shutout, in 30 games.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to bring in Denis De Jordy from Sault Ste. Marie,&rdquo; Eddolls said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been convinced for some time that we had to make the change, but this isn&rsquo;t, the type of move you go into without a great deal of thought.&ldquo;The careers of two fine prospects are at stake. This action. should not be misinterpreted as a lack of confidence in Edwards, Instead, we feel a change will help him regain his old form, and we also feel De Jordy will J give us first-rate goal-tending.&rdquo;De Jordy steered the Bisons into the playoffs, where they were eliminated in the first round. Denis remained with the Herd for the next two full seasons, the Herd being eliminated in the Calder Cup finals by Springfield two years ago, and beating Hershey for the title last spring.Now De Jordy is with the Chicago Black Hawks as Glenn Hall&rsquo;s backup man, and Edwards, after stops at Sault Ste. Marie, Pittsburgh, Portland, Spokane and Calgary, is back with the Bisons.The 26-year-old Edwards started the season as the Black Hawks &ldquo;swing&rdquo; goalie. He trained with the Bisons, and remained with them when the season started, although Cesare Maniago was the No. 1 goalie. Edwards was avail, able in case of injury to Maniago 1 or Jack McCartan, the St. Louis Braves goalie.He replaced McCartan for two games when the former Olympic star was hospitalized. Then the Bisons, losers in five of their first eight, benched Maniago and gave Edwards a crack.In three spectacular performances within five days, he allowed only one goal in 190 minutes as the Bisons won, 3-1, at Springfield, earned a scorelss overtime tie at Providence and beat Rochester 5-0 giving Edwards two shutouts.The Buffalo job belonged to Edwards, and what Frank Eddolls predicted 2% years earlier, was finally a fact. Edwards had proved just what a fine prospect he was.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02712/3117972-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="702" height="2971"></div> &#9632;

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Edwards Makes Good As Eddolls Predicted

<div class="byline">By BUSTER CLEGG</div>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;The Rhode Island Reds early fight for the Eastern Division lead held its usual excitment in American Hockey League circles, but sharing the spotlight was the recent controversial argument waged between owner Lou Pieri and league headquarters concerning the suspension and fining of Providence players involved in an incident at Springfield on October 26th.Pieri, whose Reds are in the thick of the Eastern Division race, filed an official protest to James Balmer, league president, claiming that penalties sentenced to his players by the league were too severe, that a thorough investigation of the incident was lacking.Balmer, in a telegram to the club, had suspended defenseman Matt Ravlich for three games for his part in a fracas with linesman Alfred &ldquo;Junie&rdquo; Fontana at the conclusion of the game, which was won by Springfield, 6-5. Balmer stated Ravlich had been barred for &ldquo;pushing, bumping, holding and using vile and abusive language to Fontana.&rdquo; Ravlich sat out three games over the weekend of November 1-3.In addition to Ravlich&rsquo;s assessment, Balmer declared that for-wards Norm Corcoran, Harry Ottenbriet and Bob Beckett each were fined $100 for their part in the Fontana incident. According to reports from several Providence players, Beckett was sitting in the Reds&rsquo; dressing room through the entire encounter and never was present on the ice after the game ended.Pieri, angered at the league action, made known his disagreement with Balmer&rsquo;s ruling. &ldquo;The penalty given to Ravlich was too severe. My understanding is that Ravlich wasn&rsquo;t the aggressor, but that the linesman threw a punch at him while being questioned about a particular call.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01820/3118010-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="745" height="870"><figcaption class="caption-body">MATT RAVLICH &hellip; Sat Out 3 Games</figcaption></div>A column printed in a Springfield newspaper corroborated statements issued by Reds players that Fontana, while the Red were persuing him in heavy arguement at the end of the game, swung first at Ravlich, causing tempers to grow even hotter.Pieri elaborated by saying he felt Ravlich&rsquo;s three-game suspension served to penalize the Reds and not the player himself. &ldquo;We were dealt with unjustly without the benefit of a complete investigation. The fact that they fined Beckett, a man who wasn&rsquo;t even involved, leads me to believe that more testimony&mdash;possibly from players of both clubs and newspapermen&mdash;was needed in making a fair judgement.&rdquo;Pieri said the only reports he knew of that were issued to Balmer were from referee Bruce Hood, Carl Voss, referee-in-chief who was present at the game, and from Reds coach Ferny Flaman, who was walking to the dressing room when the incident occured and who missed most of the activity. &#9632;

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Penalties Against Reds’ Players Too Severe Claims Team’s Owner

<div class="byline">By GEORGE TAYLOR</div>BALTIMORE, Md.&mdash;It&rsquo;s a good thing Aldo Guidolin is a little impatient as a hockey coach.Otherwise the Baltimore Clippers might still be without their desperate need of strength at left wing.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03621/3118041-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="396" height="579"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Konik</figcaption></div>After weeks of begging and borrowing failed to produce the right man for the left post, Guidolin looked over his own line&mdash;up and put the finger on defenseman George Konik, as the player best equipped for a conversion.The 205-pound Konik, was an immediate hit at his new leftwing position, scoring once and assisting on two other goals in Baltimore&rsquo;s 4-3 victory in Rochester.Guidolin said:&ldquo;As far as I&rsquo;m concerned, I hope our defense can afford Konik to stay on left wing the rest of the season.&ldquo;Most important is the fact that George gives us a man up front who can throw his weight around.&rdquo;It is ironic that a converted defenseman has added scoring punch for Baltimore. It was the defensive unit which prevented the Clippers from a complete collapse in the early going this season. Of the first 13 games, only once did the Clippers allow more than four goals in a single contest.The Clipper defense now includes Noel Price, Duane Rupp, Don Johns and Guidolin.Another bright spot in Baltimore&rsquo;s otherwise cloudy beginning has been the utility work of veteran Harry Pidhirny, &#9632;

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Rookie Rearguard Konik Big Hit As Left Winger

<div class="byline">By JIMMY JORDAN</div>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02746/3118079-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="736" height="868"><figcaption class="caption-body">VIC STASIUK &hellip;Suffers Broken Leg</figcaption></div>The Hornets, off to their best start since the 1951-52 season when ling Clancy engineered them into the American Hockey League crown md the Calder Cup, can see some rough ice ahead in the immediate future.The Hornets were 7-2 for their first nine games and were perched atop the Western Division standings of the AHL after nipping Rocheser, 3-2, Nov. 2..But as they prepared for the first game of the season in the Civic Arena with the Hershey Bears they were short two necessary components if the squad hopes to remain in first place.Playing Coach Vic Stasiuk, veteran of a dozen years in the National Hockey League, was side lined with a fracture of the right leg.Doug Messier, the former Edmonton school teacher who came to the Hornets when the franchise in his home town folded, was nursing a knee injury.Stasiuk was expected to miss five or six weeks of the season. Messier&rsquo;s tenure in the infirmary was an uncertainty.Stasiuk suffered his injury when he was carried into the boards by Darryl Sly of Rochester in the third period of a slam-bang game with the Americans. When he hit the boards his right ankle was dislocated, but in some manner &ldquo;popped&rdquo; back into place.However, the fibula, or small bone, in his right leg was fractured near the knee.&ldquo;It is a clean break, and should knit with no trouble,&rdquo; Dr. John Best said after studying X-rays of the fracture at Divine Providence Hospital.&ldquo;He will be out several weeks, depending on how rapidly it knits.&rdquo;However, he expected to be on the bench directing the Hornets when Hershey invaded the Civic Arena.Just when Messier would be ready to play was anybody&rsquo;s guess. With the former Edmonton defenseman sidelined, Stasiuk had just four players available for picket duty&mdash;Lou Marcon, Adam Keller, John Miszuk and Warren Godfrey&mdash;and the parent Detroit Red Wings were in the same situation.Doug Barkley of the Wings was called home to Lethbridge, Alta., by the critical illness of his father. Detroit called up Irv Spencer from Cincinnati to fill in for Barkley.Spencer had suffered a shoulder separation in the first scrimmage of training camp, and was playing with the Capitols in an effort to work himself into condition.Meanwhile, Stasiuk had a problem of replacing himself at left wing. Ted Hampson and Pit Martin. One of these probably will be moved to left wing, at least pro tem.Incidentally, soon after Stasiuk was carried off the ice, with the score tied at 2-2, Floyd Smith scored the winning goal with but a minute and 11 seconds of playing time remaining.<h2>American League Summaries</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04516/3118072-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="2734" height="2879"></div> &#9632;

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Hornets Fly Into Lead Despite Losing Stasiuk

<div class="byline">By BOB REED</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02716/3118169-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="753" height="824"><figcaption class="caption-body">IRWIN GROSS &hellip;Bagged Winner</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04593/3118162-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="673" height="2280"></div>FORT WAYNE, Ind.&mdash;The home start of the International Hockey League champions, the Fort Wayne Komets, lacked something from an artistic standpoint, with the Turner Cup holders losing a thriller in the last second to Windsor but it was all for the good from the box office standpoint.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03656/3118155-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="368" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Ullyot</figcaption></div>The Komets, almost always the IHL leaders in attendance, set a mark to shoot at the rest of the season when a capacity crowd of 8,013 turned out and three or four hundred were turned away. Business Manager Colin Lister said he believed it was the biggest crowd in Fort Wayne and possibly IHL history. In the Komets first year in the IHL, 1952, there were several crowds approximating 8,000 but Lister said, on this occasion, extra seats had been placed in every available spot and he didn&rsquo;t see how any more could be accomodated.Toledo, too, got off to a rousing start. In an attempt to revive hockey after a year&rsquo;s absence, General Manager Ken Wilson was happy to see a capacity turnout of 5,688.Port Huron, which has built up considerable fan interest at the close of last season, had 2,259 for its opener. Muskegon drew 3,610. Windsor had 1,509. Chatham&rsquo;s official figure was not available but was reported to be about 1,800. In all 21,370 saw the IHL openers.Windsor, Port Huron and Toledo all won their first three games to tie for first place.MUSKEGON&mdash;The Zephyrs started with five newcomers in their lineup, including sub goalie Leo Facette &hellip; It was the general opinion that the club, in spite of losses, looked better than at the start last year &hellip; Claude Boucher scored twice in the 6-4 loss to Port Huron &hellip; The Zephyrs had three rookies&mdash;Ken Campbell, center; Jack Barzee, left wing and Ken Pascoe, defense &hellip;TOLEDO&mdash;Don Westbrook, who joined the Blades only a week before the opening sifter a try-out with Springfield in the American League, sceowi the winning goal in the 2-1 overtime victory over Des Moines &hellip; Glenn Ramsay had a great night in goal with 36 saves &hellip; Chick Chalmers was almost a holdout, being signed just before the opener. Defensemen Larry Maverty was playing with a broken thumb.FORT WAYNE&mdash;Len Thomson and Eddie Long, the veteran Komet scoring combination, both had bad backs to start the season and it was doubtful up to game time whether either would start &hellip; Gary Young, last year&rsquo;s star defenseman, was signed by Springfield of the American League &hellip; General Manager Ken Ullyot was dickering with Merv Dubchak, last year with St. Paul and Emil Gilles, a former Komet &hellip;PORT HURON&mdash;Lloyd Maxfield scored the winning goal after 14 seconds of the overtime in beating Des Moines, 8-7. Ken Saunders got the &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; in the same game, his third sending it into an overtime. Billy LeCaine sustained a cut behind his ear in practice that required six stitches but he was able to make the opener &hellip;DES MOINES&mdash;Coach Minnie Menard was trying out various forward combinations, keeping only the Langrell-LeClair-Connors line intact&hellip; Pat Ginnell suffered a groin injury before the Leafs took off on a three-game road trip, but he remained in the line-up. Menard drew an automatic $25 fine for spearing and Moe Collins had a $15 assessment for misconduct.WINDSOR&mdash;Defenseman Tom Micallef had a deep slash cut in his thigh in the game at Fort Wayne and was probably side lined for three to four weeks &hellip; Irwin Gross scored the winning goal for the Bulldogs at Fort Wayne with only one second remaining when his team got the faceoff on an icing penalty against the Komets. The Bulldogs scored two goals within 16 seconds of the second period to break open the game with the Komets at Windsor, in which Komet goalie Chuck Adamson stopped 35 shots &hellip;CHATHAM&mdash;The schedule called for the Maroons to make only one start in the IHL in the first week and that was a 2-1 loss to Windsor&mdash;Newcomer Jerry Binns was out of the opener with a pulled leg muscle &hellip; Other new Maroons were George Kren, Bob Judge, Reg Mullholl and Alf Cleary &hellip; Commissioner Andy Mulligan was present for the opener. &#9632;

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Record Crowd Attends Fort Wayne Opener; Toledo Blades Sharp In Return To Hockey

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;Rochester hockey fans were treated to something unusual this season&mdash;a fast start by their Amerks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01784/3118200-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="394" height="614"><figcaption class="caption-body">Arnie Brown</figcaption></div>For the first eight games of this American Hockey League campaign, Rochester boasted of six wins against only two defeats. Projecting those figures over a 72-game schedule would give 54 victories, which would just happen to be an AHL record (Springfield&rsquo;s great 1960-61 outfit posted 49 victories).Only one team in the seven previous seasons the Amerks have been in business owned as glossy arecord after eight games. In fact, this year&rsquo;s squad squad is only the third of the eight to be above the 500 mark through the Initial eight outings.The 1959-60 Americans rushed off to an identical 6-2 record, and went on to 8-2 before losing the next two. Thanks to that fine start, Rochester roared to a second-place finish in the seven-team circuit, closing with a 40-27-5 mark.Only other Amerk club to be better than 500 was the 1960-61 aggregation which listed a 4-3-1 record at the same stage of the campaign.The 6-2 record this season very well could have been 8-0. Both defeats were by one-goal margins&mdash;5-4 to Buffalo here and 5-4 to Herahey in Hershey.ICICLES&mdash;Coach Joe Crozier, who operated with only a handful of players at times while coach and general manager of Charlotte in the Eastern Amateur League the past two seasons, finally began to feel at home here over the Nov. 1st weekend when he found himgelf with only four defensemen and eight regular forwards plus Andre Champagne, borrowed from the Toronto Marlboro OHA Junior A team. This was a far cry from the 21 skaters on hand for the Americans AHL opener Oct. 9. Les Duff (broken ankle), Mike Corbett (throat infection), Gus Brassard (sent back to Charlotte because he had played his allowable five games as an amateur), Al Arbour (recalled by Toronto) and Gerry Ehman (also recalled by Toronto) accounted for the suddenly depleted staff.Defenseman Arnie Brown had his best offensive night as an Amerk Nov. 2, with two goals and two assists in the 5-2 win over Providence. Brown played one shift at center on Nov. 3. &#9632;

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Americans Cross Home Town Fans With Fast Start

<div class="byline">By HARVEY POLLACK</div>KNOXVILLE, Tenn.&mdash;Even though Knoxville has jumped away to an impressive start in the Eastern Hockey League&rsquo;s Southem Division, general manager Ray Miron is leaving no stone unturned in an effort to provide coach Don Labelle with the personnel to win league laurels.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01786/3118238-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="356" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body">Reg Grigg</figcaption></div>The latest acquisition is Reggie Grigg, a 31-year-year-old right winger who played with the Quebee Aces the last two seasons. He also has performed with the Montreal Royals and the Cincinnati Mohawks and averaged around 30 goals a season at most stops.&ldquo;I believe Reggie can get us 30 or 40 goals this year,&rdquo; said Miron who knew Grigg from being one of his minions when Ray was the mogul at Cornwall, Ont. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a fine skater, good penalty killer and can put the puck in the net,&rdquo; he added.At the same time the division pacesetters also added Wayne Claremont, a 20-year-old 170-pounder who went to the club&rsquo;s training camp in Welland, Ont., but had been held out of the line-up. Miron liked Claremont&rsquo;s play at camp but waited to see how several other, players progressed before making the line-up change.Meanwhile, the Knights were pacing the Southern division and boasting three of the league&rsquo;s top scorers in Clare Wakshinski, Guy Trottier, and Gene Achtymichuk. Claremont replaced Harold Fletming on the roster when the latter suffered a severe cut on his leg upon falling on a Charlotte player&rsquo;s skate.LONG ISLAND:Gordie Stratton side lined with ankle injury and 3 Don Perry with twisted knee. Ray Crew officially purchased from Knoxville and defenseman Lloyd Gallant sent to Rangers junior farm club at Kitchener.NEW HAVEN:George Gosselin and Norm Doyle setting club scoring pace. Rookie Ben LeBlanc and goalie Jim Armstrong big reasons for team&rsquo;s resurgence. Don Bamburak, reinstated pro from Vancouver, made impressive debut. Don DiBerardino dropped and picked up by Philly. Bobby Ertel has club&rsquo;s lone hat trick.CLINTON:Ted Szydlowski on 30-day injured list with ankle injury. Young Bill Glashan missed several games after concussion sent him to hospital. Pete Babando picked up first hat trick. Dusty Blair missed by coach Benny Wait. EHL Prexy Tom Lockhart presented Comets with pennant for finishing first in North last season. Gary Hammer dropped and Dick Morin added to fill in for Szydkowski.GREENSBORO:Don Carter and I Don Davidson posted hat tricks to join Ted Lanyon in helping Generals lead league in this department. Noel Lirette and Joe Bju-doso dropped when former Boston Bruin Jack Caffrey was made active. Latter has rejuvenated club with his play on line and defense. Ron Muir&rsquo;s two goals beat Nashville. Jacques Monette off to fine start at goal.PHILADELPHIA: Goalie Pat. Rupp came here instead of trying for Olympic team. Ex-Rambler Doug Adam returned as coach when Bob Bailey was fired. Reggie Meserve&rsquo;s torn knee tendons improved quickly under trainer Frank Lewis treatment.NASHVILLE: Don Graham was dropped and rookie Jhon Thomson failed in try out. Marcel Tessier released also after good training camp showing. Club fined $25 for players going on ice during altercation. Goalie Marv Edwards leads club in penalties.KNOXVILLE:Tennessee foot ball team guests at game. Sparc n goalie Brian Lunney went home to Winnipeg. Don Labelle missed three games with ankle injury n Gene Achtymichuk&rsquo;s goal with 21 seconds left beat Greensboro. He also had 6 assists and goal I against Charlotte.CHARLOTTE:Gerry McNamara I had 48-save game against Nashville and club still lost. Team had 4-1 lead against Knoxville and lost f 10-4 as John Lumley and Les Calder each had four goals.JOHNSTOWN:Jets protested game with Long Island on off-side I call by Bob Glovati. Defenseman Larry Johnston&rsquo;s foot hurt by flying puck. Mike Denihan released. Marcel Mingrain scheduled to replace Tony Bukovich when he leaves.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02672/3118231-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="765" height="1175"><figcaption class="caption-body">DON LABELLE &hellip; His Knights In Front</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Leading Knoxville Adds More Power

<div class="byline">By HUGH TOWNSEND</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01760/3118269-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>NEW GLASGOW, N.S.&mdash;A playing coach singing the hit parader &ldquo;Sugar Shack&rdquo; over the radio; a goalie riding a horse through the main street of town; and three forwards and a defenseman combining their talents as the &ldquo;French Quartette".Sounds absurd?Well, it really happened here and it may have saved the Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League from becoming a thing of the past.It all started when New Glasgow Rangers were forced to open the 1963-64 season in nearby Stellarton while repairs were made to New Glasgow Stadium. Fans just wouldn&rsquo;t go the extra distance to see games and within two weeks the club was threatening to quit the four-team league because of critical financial problems.The players, however, not wanting the team to call it quits, combined with team management on an emergency money-raising campaign.The drive was highlighted by two nights of programming on the local radio station.And that&rsquo;s where it happened.Coach Bobby Serviss, a Moose Jaw, Sask., native, was requested by money-backing fans to sing. After struggling through &ldquo;Sugar Shack&rdquo; in western style, he turned the mike over to the four Quebecers who quickly received the title &ldquo;French Quartette". The singing hockeyists were forwards Julien Gagne, Nels Tremblay and Rene Ecuyer and defenseman Jock Archevesque.But the campaign wasn&rsquo;t over. Another Moose Jaw native was put into action when goalie Gary Vaugh was sent down the main street on horseback. And the westerner looked just as much at home as he does in the nets!The drive netted the club enough folding stuff to keep Rangers in action&mdash;at least until they get back to their own rink. A big boost came to the drive when players agreed to take temporary pay cuts.ATLANTIC BREEZES &hellip; WhileRangers were having their troubles, Windsor Maple Leafs weren&rsquo;t. The Valley club shot welt in front in the loop with eight wins in their first nine games &hellip; Julien Gagne, less than 24 hours after his singing appearance, fired all New Glasgow&rsquo;s goals in a 6-4 loss to Moncton Hawks &hellip; Rangers dropped Rudy and Nick Balon, brothers of Montreal Canadiens Dave &hellip; Don Young, former Providence Red property, joined Halifax Tartans &hellip; Tartans swapped players with Moncton, sending the Hawks defenseman Ralph Sheppard in return for forward Dick Vansnick &hellip; Hugh McGonijM, dropped by Halifax, was picked up by Hawks.<h2>HOCKEY CROSSWORD &#9632;</h2>

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Fund Drive Saves New Glasgow

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;The Toronto Marlboros were setting the early pace for the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A league race and no one was disputing the Dukes ice superiority.They looked great in their 11 OHA starts and even came out ahead 7-6 in their first &ldquo;showdown with the strong Montreal Canadiens.Kitchener coach Steve Brklacich said the Marlies oozed class and he was expecting the worst when his Rangers encountered the Toronto farm hands.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02681/3118300-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="366" height="611"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Smith</figcaption></div>The Marlboros lost only five of a possible 22 points in their first 11 games, dropping a close 7-6 decision to second place Peterborough and, surprisingly, being held to a 6-6 tie by the last-place Hamilton wings.With 17 points the Dukes, re-entered in the provincial league after an unsuccessfuly two years with the now-defunct Toronto Metro League, head the eight-team circuit followed by Peterborough with 14 and Montreal 13.In the individual scoring race before the Nov. 8 weekend Yvan Cournoyer headed the list with 22 points on 13 goals and nine assists. Fred Stanfield, three-year veteran with St. Catharines Black Hawks, moved up from fifth to second spot with 21 points while Bob Charlebois, also of the Canadiens was third with 19. Andre Champagne, who took time off for two games with Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League, and his Toronto teammates Mike Walton and Grant Moore share fourth spot with 15 points.The only goaltenders in the league with one full season or more of junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; experience shared top honors in this department.Chuck Goddard of Peterborough and Gary Smith of the Marlboros, son of former NHL star Des Smith, had identical records of 29 goals against and one shutout in nine games for a 3.11 average. &#9632;

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Marlboros Display Class To Head Early Loop Race After ‘Showdown’ Win

<div class="byline">By BOB KRAGH</div>CINCINNATI, Ohio-The Central Professional Hockey League has relocated the Indiana polis Capitols here in Cincinnati for the balance of the 1963-64 season.The Caps, farm club of the Detroit Red Wings, were slated to play their first game in the Cincinnati rink Nov. 14 against St. Louis Braves.Indianapolis general manager Johnny Mitchell said the Caps had been granted use of the arena here following the disastrous explosion that ripped through the Indianapolis Coliseum two weeks ago killing 68 people and rendering the building unusable for an indefinite period. The Red Wings terminated their lease on the rink, and moved the team to Cincinnati.Meanwhile, Omaha Knights continued to roll along in the team race with captain Bill McCreary, a former NHL and AHL player, at the helm of the club. McCreary, who may get the job on a permanent basis, took over the Knights when coach Scotty Bowman resigned unexpectedly after his team won seven straight games.Knights vice-president Rod Morrison temporarily took to the players bench to direct the team when Bowman departed.Bryan Watson the Knights great young defenseman, has been called up by Montreal Canadiens. In the mean-time the Knights have the services of Bob Wall. Wall has been showing exceptional promise playing for Quebec in the American League.The Knights, idle for the first week in November held daily practices without the aid of goaler Ernie Wakely. He was called up to Quebec when the Aces goalie, Charlie Hodge, was rushed to Montreal to fill in for the ailing Gump Worsley. Further complicating matters was the injury to Jean Guy Morissette in practice the day after Worsley was inpured. Morrissette was due to join Omaha.In other CPHL news, the Caps again had the services of three position man, Irv Spencer. The 24 year old wing, center, defenseman was called back to Detroit by the Wings then returned here Nov. 8.St. Paul's Marcel Pelletier scored his second shutout of the season in blanking the Minneapolis Bruins 3-0 the first weekend in November. The Bruins still without the services of playing coach Harry Sinden. Sinden, who suffered a broken jaw in October, will be out of action until the first of December.CPHL president Jack Adams believes the league will produce $300,000 worth of draftable hockey players in the next few years.Speaking at the 34th annual convention of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association in Toronto, the former Detroit Red Wing general manager said the new five-team league could supply the answer to the National Hockey League's need for new star material. &#9632;

‘Homeless’ Caps Shifted To Cincinnati

<div class="byline">By JACK THOMSON</div>FORT WILLTAM, Ont.-Port Arthur North Stars and Fort William Canadiens opened the junior season with a tie in a slam bang affair that had over thirty penalties called.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0262/3118362-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="256" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mickey Hennessy</figcaption></div>Both Moe Irving, coach of the North Stars, and Mickey Hennessy, coach of the Canadiens, report they have the biggest clubs in height and weight that they have ever had. Steve Black, coach of the Junior Hurricanes, has quite a rebuilding program going for him this winter.All three senior clubs are in high gear for the coming season, and it looks like a real big one for them.Dayton Crafstrom, has been named as coach of the Warroad Lakers of the Ontario-Minnesota League. He succeeds Cal Marvin, who will remain as manager of the club. Dryden Rockets report four new prospects in camp for them. Everything was set to launch the new ice plant at the Dryden arena.Sorry to hear about the injury to Kenora Thistles coach Johnny Beda. Johnny had surgery on his eye in Winnipeg last week. The injury happened while the Thistles, who won 't have ice for weeks yet if the weather doesn't change, were playing touch football in the arena to get in shape&hellip;Warroad Lakers play the United States National team in Warroad December 15. It will be the seventh meeting of the two clubs, Warroad has won the last five games.Former coach of the Edmonton Flyers, Charlie Rayner, has moved his home from Kenora to Winnipeg, with his appointment as chief Western scout for the 1Detroit Red Wings.Kenora goaltender, Allie Reynard, has been offered a job by the Warroad club. Terrace Bay's Ron Shock signed for try-out with Boston of the National Hockey League.Fort Frances Royals surprising everyone with their marvellous play in the Manitoba Junior League. Kenora will probably not operate the junior Thistles this year. Fort William Beavers could be a real powerhouse if they sign all the ex-pros who are in their training camp. Well known Lakehead hockey star Freddie Baccari has taken over the job of coaching the Beavers from Joe Nigro. Baccari stared in junior hockey at the Lakehead before turning pro. He has coached in the Fort William Canadians minor ranks for the last few years.<h2>New Puck Coach Just 21 Years Old</h2>WINNIPEG, Man.-The Winnipeg Monarchs have the distinction of hiring the youngest hockey coach in Junior 'A' circles throughout Canada. He's only 21 years old.Bruce Wright, a former Monarch star, has agreed to replace Paul Platz, one-time pro hockey star, as coach for the remainder of the 1963-64 season after Platz resigned the post.Wright played two seasons with the Monarchs and in 38 games last season scored 15 goals and 17 assists. In 37 games the previous year he scored six goals and assisted on 12.He was the only Monarch player to emerge penalty-free last season when the club ammassed a total of 759 minutes and received the league 's outstanding and most gentlemanly player award.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0182/3118355-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="677" height="1090"></div> &#9632;

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