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July 1, 1964

The Hockey News July, 1964

OMAHA. Neb.Gary Peters, 21-year-old center of the Omaha Knights, and Paul Popeil, young defenseman for the St. Louis Braves tied for the rookie-of-the-year honors in the Central Professional Hockey League.Peters scored 32 goals and assisted on 49 others, for a total of 81 points in his 72 game schedule. He played his junior hockey with the Regina Pats, a Canadian sponsored club, where he led the Saskatchewan Junior League in scoring last year. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Peters, Popeil Tie For Rookie Honors

<div class="byline">BY MARGARET MALCOLM</div>EDMONTON, Alta. &mdash;&ldquo;Please Sir. Can I play now?&rdquo; the high-pitched voice pleaded.&ldquo;Not yet. Were out to win this game.&rdquo; was the gruff reply.The hockey player, nine years old. screwed-up his face to hold back the tears and squatted on the snowbank shivering. He didn&rsquo;t understand. The coach let him play a few times at the beginning of the season. And now all the boy did was sit and shiver and hope &mdash; maybe next time.That scene was enacted at our community league rink and, I am told, at many others. The only boys who played house-league hockey this winter, were either fairly good players, or they had an exceptional coach, who played all his players &mdash; good or bad.But the exceptional, impartial coach was definitely in the minority.It all began in early December when the fellows who weren&rsquo;t good enough to make &ldquo;Mites&rdquo; and between the ages of nine and twelve, were banded together on house-league teams. The coaches &mdash; all volunteering their time assured the parents that, &ldquo;every kid plays.&rdquo;It began with the purpose of teaching our boys good sportsmanship and the rules of hockey. A wonderful idea! Imagine in a busy city, where there are so many children that they all could learn to play hockey, if they desired.And then something happened. It was a creeping thing, that slowly smothered sportsmanship and rules of the game. The children were forgotten &mdash; forgotten on a snowbank if they wobbled on their skates, or passed the puck to the other team. The purpose became &mdash; to win at all costs.One father told me his boy arrived home in tears.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re in the semi-finals and coach says I can&rsquo;t play anymore. He says the team we&rsquo;re playing are hand-picked. He wants to beat them.&rdquo;In this case the coach didn&rsquo;t beat the &ldquo;hand-picked&rdquo; team. When he benched the boys he considered his poorer players, he crushed any team spirit. The boys just couldn&rsquo;t pull together.In another community there was a team with one super player. He was almost a legend. The other boys were scared silly of him. He won all the games. He played the full time. And some of his teammates sat bewildered, and waited for their turn. It never came.They call it house-league hockey. It&rsquo;s a laugh &mdash; a farce by the end of the season.There are some good coaches who don&rsquo;t lose sight of their purpose. They never win the championship. Their boys never win a trophy. But they all play, fat and skinny &mdash; good and bad.One night as I stood watching a game I overheard one coach say, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll forfeit the game. Let all your kids play.&rdquo; He was an exception. He hated to see the boys on the bench.What a hollow victory it must be for the others. Because, so what? So what that they won? They were out to win for their own glory &mdash; not to help the kids.One boy said after they lost their game. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll clobber&rsquo;em next time, or the coach will kill us.&rdquo;Wouldn&rsquo;t the boys be better off not playing at all, than with an attitude like that? Sure, it&rsquo;s fun to win But that is not the purpose of house-league. And it should not be important.In my opinion, one way to stop the glory-seeking coaches, would be to set down a rule in the beginning. &ldquo;Every boy who comes out faithfully for hockey must be allowed to play.&rdquo;Possibly then the main idea would not be shoved into the background. I know it would help a lot of heartbroken boys whose complaint is, &ldquo;Coach wants to win. I&rsquo;m benched.&rdquo; &#9632;

THEY CALL IT HOCKEY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03604/3072103-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNARD GEOFFRION, right, talks over his contract with club general manager ROBERT MARTINEAU after signing as coach of the Quebec Aces for one year.</figcaption></div>QUEBEC. P.Q. &mdash;Bernard&rsquo;Boom Boom&rsquo; Geoffrion, hockey&rsquo;s third highest goal scorer of all time, has embarked on a new hockey life.The Boomer has become the coach of the Quebec Aces of the American Hockey League bringing down the curtain on one of modern day hockey&rsquo;s great ice careers.With 371 goals to his credit in regular NHL play after 13 seasons as a top right winger with the Canadiens, Geoffrion steps out of the big time where he ranked only behind Gordie Howe of Detroit with 566 goals and retired Maurice Richard with 544 among the NHL&rsquo;s greatest goal-scoring exponents.He will succeed Floyd Curry at the helm of the Aces and his major task appears to be to win the Calder Cup after five years of reaching for the brass ring and missing it every time.Curry resigned his Quebec post to devote more time to his oil business in Montreal where he will also coach a junior&rsquo;B&rsquo; team and work directly with the parent Canadiens&rsquo; organization.Geoffrion said he will definitely not play again. He said he has been placed on the NHL&rsquo;s voluntary retirement list.Sam Pollock, new general manager of Canadiens, said Geoffrion&rsquo;s old club will do everything possible to help him in his new job. Canadiens have a working agreement with Aces.Geoffrion&rsquo;s move did not come completely as a surprise. There had been some speculation about the move, which was heightened when he came here for the wedding of Montreal teammate Gilles Tremblay.Geoffrion returned to his Montreal home but came back the next day and signed a one-1 year contract with Aces general manager Robert Martineau.He said he suffered &ldquo;so many injuries&rdquo; during his NHL career that he welcomes the chance to take a coaching job.He has managed to get through only one full 70-game season &mdash; 1954-55, when he won his first scoring title. The year he scored 50 goals, he missed six games.His 39 points in the season just ended equalled the low mark of his career, his sophomore season. He did score often enough, however, to displace Ted Lindsay, an old Detroit and Chicago warrior, as third man on the all-time goal scoring list.Geoffrion scored 30 goals or more in four seasons and passed the 20-goal mark 12 times, missing it only in the 1956-57 season.A native of Montreal he retires from the NHL with a life-time record of 759 points on 371 goals and 388 assists. Only Howe and Beliveau among active players have better totals. &#9632;

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Geoffrion Through As Player, Eyes Calder Cup, New Career In Becoming Quebec Aces Coach

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03584/3072237-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg"></div>&mdash; MONTREAL, Que.Due to an oversight in our publication of the June statistical issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, the complete goalkeeping records of the American&rsquo; Hockey League were omitted.They are herewith published in their entirety:<h2>STATISTICS &#9632;</h2>

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AHL Goalkeeping Records

<div class="byline">BY BOB HARRIS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01156/3072619-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The recently completed NHL summer meetings in Montreal brought out both players and executives. In this informal picture top, Leafs&rsquo; BOB PULFORD, left. MURRAY OLIVER of the Bruins and Rangers&rsquo; HARRY HOWELL, right, discuss player problems over dinner as team representatives. In bottom picture, GM LYNN PATRICK of Boston, left, and SID ABEL of Detroit, compare notes before draft.</figcaption></div>&mdash;MONTREAL, Que.Despite the fact Montreal Canadiens didn&rsquo;t make a deal for Goalie Gump Worsley during the recent National Hockey League meetings here, hockey observers still insist the veteran netminder will wind up in the uniform of another NHL club before the 1964-65 season gets underway.The feeling is the Canadiens hold the biggest hockey bait in the league in Worsley and they figure the Detroit Red Wings&mdash;or even possibly the Boston Bruins&mdash;may come fishing for the 35-year-old goalie if their present netminding plans don&rsquo;t work out to their satisfaction.There are those who think the Gumper will be trying harder than ever to regain his job at training camp with the Canadiens, which he lost to little Charlie Hodge last year after he was injured.But the most logical thinking is that the Canadiens will put a high asking price on Worsley if the Red Wings come calling for an experienced goaler now that Terry Sawchuk has been drafted by the Toronto Leafs. The Wings plan to start the year with rookie Roger Crozier, a 22-year-old puckstopper who is unproven as far as the NHL is concerned. Backing up Crozier will be two equally unknown goalkeepers, George Gardner and Bob Champoux. Neither Rookie has tasted big league action outside of a one game playoff shot by Champoux when Sawchuk was injured last spring.One trade that was bounced around at the recently concluded NHL meetings involved Worsley and Red Berenson, who would go to Detroit in exchange for left winger Larry Jeffrey and one or two minor league prospects.The Canadiens might also be persuaded to part with Worsley in a straight player swap for Jeffrey if the Wings get desperate about early October.Abel himself admits he had planned to start the season with Crozier and if he found that he needed more experience in goal, then he could always go back to Montreal and grab Worsley.It goes without saying that new Canadiens&rsquo; GM, Sam Pollock, will be waiting with both palms open.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-02128/3072612-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="1135" height="1700"></div> &#9632;

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Canadiens Still Rate Worsley Top Trade Bait

One of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s closely guarded secrets are the official protected player&rsquo;s lists of the six teams.They are not readily made available to anyone other than the six NHL clubs. They are particularly not permitted to fall into the hands of press, radio and TV writers.However, during the recent NHL meetings here, one such set became&rsquo;available&rsquo; and was published by The Montreal Star in an exclusive. Therefore, the complete lists before the 1964 draft are herewith republished by THE HOCKEY NEWS on page 2. &#9632;

A Rarity In Hockey, NHL Lists Revealed

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0362/3072674-1-eng-US/f0001-032.jpg" title="f0001-03" width="293" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roger Crozier</figcaption></div>&mdash;DETROIT, Mich.Toronto managercoach Punch Imlach may have caused a furore by grabbing Terry Sawchuk &mdash; and Dickie Moore &mdash; in the biggest two player coup since the NHL draftstarted back in 1953, but as far as Sid Abel of the Red Wings is concerned, he had to get started on a youth movement.Abel said he regretted the move, because Sawchuk had given Detroit faithful service, but he pointed out he allowed the dean of NHL puck-stoppers to go in the draft because &ldquo;Roger Crozier figured to be our regular goalie next year.&rdquo;Crozier, 22-year-old rookie who divided his time last season between Pittsburgh (43 games) and Detroit (15 games), was picked up last year by the Red Wings in a trade with Chicago. He was actually a thrown in on the deal.The Wings dropped the 34-year-old Sawchuk from their protected list on the third round of the NHL draft in Montreal to pick up rookie goaler George Gardner from Boston. Sawchuk was immediately grabbed by the Leafs, who had claimed Canadiens&rsquo; Dickie Moore as their first round pick.&ldquo;We knew that everybody else would probably pass on Sawchuk and that Toronto would likely take him if they didn&rsquo;t draft Gump Worsley,&rdquo; Abel commented. &ldquo;As it turned out we were right.&rdquo;&ldquo;Actually, it may have solved a problem for us because we may have had to ask Terry to play at Pittsburgh next year and this is something we would not have wanted to do,&rdquo; said the Detroit manager-coach.Abel said the Wings were very high on Crozier. &ldquo;In fact I wouldn&rsquo;t trade Roger for Charlie Hodge, who wound up the second half as all-star goalie as well as winning the Vezina Trophy,&rdquo; he told a United Press writer at the NHL meetings.Sawchuk was personally shocked that Detroit gave him up to the Leafs. However, he said he planned to join the Toronto club.&ldquo;I had a hunch this would happen,&rdquo; Sawchuk said. &ldquo;But what are you going to do? Yeah, I&rsquo;ll report to them. I&rsquo;m not happy but I&rsquo;ll report,&rdquo; added Terry. &ldquo;I guess I&rsquo;m moving up a notch. They&rsquo;ve got a good hockey team.Despite an injury-riddled last few years, Sawchuk still reigns as king of the NHL goalies with the most shutouts, 96, in a 14-year big league career.Imlach said he is confident that Sawchuk and Moore will be with the Leafs and giving their best when the 1964-65 season opens in early October. &#9632;

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Abel Decided To Go Along With Crozier

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01739/3071465-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="293" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Req Fleming</figcaption></div>CHICAGO. Ill &mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks more or less monopolized the trading mart during the recent National Hockey League meetings.In fact, if it hadn&rsquo;t been for the Hawks, player swapping would have been limited to one insignificant minor deal that sent defenceman Barclay Plager back to Montreal from Detroit, who drafted him from the Habs in the first place two years ago.The Hawks. Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings provided the spirited hockey trading between them.First, the Hawks dispatched veteran left winger Ab McDonald and utility forward-defenseman Reg Fleming to the Bruins in exchange for Doug Mohns, a versatile but aging performer who divided his time between the defense and forward line in his 11 years with Boston.Hardly had the news of the swap been out when the Hawks turned around and dealt off Murray Balfour, a left winger, and minor leaguer Mike Draper to Boston again for seasoned centre Jerry Toppazzini and Matt Ravlich, who has been a standout the past three years in the AHL.Just to keep things humming, the Hawks made it three deals in two days as they sent centre Ron Murphy and defenseman Aut Erickson to Detroit for centre Art Stratton and rear-guards John Miszuk and Ian Cushenan.When the smoke had cleared the Hawks had Mohns, Toppazzini. Ravlich. Stratton, Miszuk Cushenan in their fold.Boston Bruins had Ab McDonald, Fleming, Balfour and Draper on their club.Detroit wound up with Murphy and Erickson.The Hawks were known to be searching for a defenseman who could get the puck out of his own end without too much difficulty and they appear to have their man in Mohns, who has a lifetime record of 118 goals and 219 assists, and has a great desire to carry the puck.The likelihood is that all the ether new Hawks will end up with the Chicago&rsquo;s affiliated Buffalo farm club in the AHL with the possible exception of Stratton, a top playmaker, who may get a good shot at one of the Hawks&rsquo; centre ice positions.The Bruins are certain to work McDonald, Fleming and Balfour into their plans for next season. McDonald, member of the Hawks&rsquo; top scoring Scooter Line for several years, will be a big help to the Bruins.Boston coach Milt Schmidt said the Bruins were in need of a little front line strength and some heavy checking and the club may have solved these problems with the acquisition of McDonald and Balfour. Fleming will likely be-come one of the club&rsquo;s penalty killers with the departure of Toppazzini.The Detroit Red Wings were eager to get Murphy and may also find a spot for Erickson, who showed marked improvement last year when he was called up from the minors to replace the wayward Howie Young on the Chicago defense.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03564/3071458-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="552" height="729"><figcaption class="caption-body">AB McDONALD Becomes A Bruin</figcaption></div>Murphy, 31 and a veteran of 11 years in the NHL, had fallen out of favor with the Hawks in the past two seasons. The Wings feeling is that he still has several good years of hockey left in him and they hope to bring out this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04394/3071451-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="569" height="1062"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON MURPHY Grabbed By Wings</figcaption></div>No other trades were completed at the NHL meetings although trade winds blew thick and fast with names like Larry Jeffrey, Gump Worsley, Eddie Shack, Dean Prentice, Red Berenson, Don Simmons, and others tossed about but no action developed. &#9632;

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Black Hawks Keep Summer Ice Sessions Boiling By Trading McDonald, Murphy, Balfour, Fleming

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02688/3071510-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="287" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Marshall</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;Several of professional hockey&rsquo;s better-known names Including goaltender &ldquo;Gump&rdquo; Worsley and forward Don Mar shall were among those left unprotectedand ignored &mdash; during the 1964 NHL league draft.Worsley, Marshall and others like Detroit&rsquo;s Parker MacDonald and Andre Pronovost were left off the original lists filed by the teams. After the drafting session was launched, however, others joined them in the unprotected status. Prominent among these was Junior Langlois, the former Canadiens and New York defenceman.Canadiens protected all of the men who finished the season with the team last year with one exception, Jim Roberts was left open. Newcomers protected were Ted Harris, a defenceman. and Gary Peters, of the Omaha team. Claude Larose also was protected, as was Ernie Wakely, a goaltender.The Boston Bruins went along without protecting Wayne Connelly, once considered an outstanding prospect for NHL competition. And Detroit, in addition to leaving off MacDonald, Pronovost and later Langlois, filed its list without the names of players like Alex Faulkner, John MacMillan and Irv Spencer.Jean Gauthier, who was included on the Canadiens&rsquo; list last season, wasn&rsquo;t protected this time around. Neither was Leon Rochefort, acquired from New York last season.Following are the original protected lists filed before the draft by the teams:<h2>Montreal</h2>Ralph Backstrom, Dave Balon, Jean Beliveau, Gordon Berenson, John Ferguson. Terry Harper, Ted Harris, Bill Hicke, Jacques Laperriere, Claude Larose, Gary Peters. Claude Provost, Henri Richard. Bob Rousseau, Jean-Guy Talbot, Gilles Tremblay, Jean-Claude Tremblay, Bryan Watson, Goal-keepers: Charles Hodge, Ernie Wakely.<h2>New York</h2>Arnie Brown, Bill Collins, Dick Duff, Rod Gilbert, Phil Goyette. Vic Hadfield. Camille Henry, Harry Howell, Earl Ingarfield. Don Jahns. Mike McMahon, Jim Neilson. Bob Nevin, Bob Plager. Jean Ratelie, Edward Taylor, Bill Taylor, Bob Woytowich, Goalkeepers: Jacques Plante, Gilles Villemure.<h2>Toronto</h2>George Armstrong. Andy Bathgate, Bob Baun. Carl Brewer, Kent Douglas, Gerry Ehman, Billy Harris, Larry Hillman, Tim Horton, &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly, Dave Keon, Frank Mahovlich, Don McKenney, Jim Pappin, Bob Pulford, Eddie Shack, Allan Stanley, Ron Stewart. Goalkeepers: John Bower, Gerry Cheevers.<h2>Boston</h2>Don Awrey, Murray Balfour, Leo Boivin, John Bucyk, Gary Dornhoefer, Reg Fleming. Ted Green, Tom Johnson. Orland Kurtenbach, Bob Leiter, Wayne Maxner, Bob McCord. Ab McDonald, Murray Oliver, Dean Prentice, Wayne Rivers, Ed Westfall, Tom Williams. Goalkeepers: Ed Johnston. Jack Norris.<h2>Chicago</h2>John Brenneman, Ray Cullen, Phil Esposito, Bill Hay, Wayne Hillman. Bobby Hull, Al MacNeil, Chico Maki, John McKenzie. Doug Mohns, Stan Mikita, Eric Nesterenko. Pierre Pilote, Paul Popiel, Doug Robinson. Ed Van Impe, Elmer Vasko, Ken Wharram. Goalkeepers: Dennis Dejordy, Glenn Hall.<h2>Detroit</h2>Doug Barkley, Alex Delvecchio, Bob Dillabough, Aut. Erickson, Bill Gadsby. Paul Henderson, Gordie Howe, Larry Jeffrey, Ed Joyal, Al Langlois, Lowell MacDonald, Bruce MacGregor, Pit Martin, Ron Murphy, Marcel Pronovost, Floyd Smith, Norm Ullman, Bob Wall. Goalkeepers: Terry Sawchuk, Roger Crozier.<h2>NHL Player Changes</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05276/3071503-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="1215" height="1255"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06181/3071496-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="1134" height="1577"><figcaption class="caption-body">AUT ERICKSON &hellip; Moves To Detroit In Trade</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Big Hockey Names Absent From Draft Lists

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02620/3071548-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="870" height="707"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICKIE MOORE &hellip; Leafs Take $20,000 Gamble Veteran Will Play Again</figcaption></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01744/3071555-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="142" height="241"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 142px">Doug Mohns</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The annual June meetings in Montreal are over for another year, and Toronto appears to have stolen the show with the surprise grabbing of two veterans.Leafs snatched the unprotected Terry Sawchuk from Detroit and Dickie Moore from Canadiens, in the only major switches of a relatively quiet draft session.In pre-draft trading, however, Chicago and Boston engaged in a flurry of activity, which saw the Hawks acquire veteran defenceman Doug Mohns for forwards Reg Fleming and Ab McDonald: and right winger Jerry Topazzini for Murray Balfour. The Hawks also dealt briefly with Detroit, picking up center Art Stratton and defenceman John Miszuk and Ian Cushenan, in exchange for left-winger Ron Murphy and rearguard Autry Erickson.The snatching of Sawchuk was the real shocker of the meeting, and the main surprise was that Wings took him off their protected list. This came about when Detroit drafted youthful goalie George Gardner from the Boston organization, and elected to protect him and Roger Crozier. Both Gardner and Crozier are youngsters compared to Sawchuk, and Wings decided to go with their youth.</div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>Leafs Snubbed Worsley</h2>Accordingly, Sawchuk was dropped from the list of the protected, and Toronto grabbed him. In so doing, Leafs abandoned their original plan, which was to draft Gump Worsley from Canadiens, and use him as an alternate goalie with Bower. Toronto obviously felt, however, that despite his 34 years, the acquisition of Sawchuk was something of a coup.&ldquo;This gives us the two goalies who fought it out for the Stanley Cup.&rdquo; bubbled Ass&rsquo;t Manager-Coach King Clancy. &ldquo;What more could we ask?&rdquo;The reasons for drafting Dickie Moore, however, were harder to figure. The 33-year-old veteran has scarcely been on skates in a year, and indications are that his knees are still in poor shape. Moore, himself, was unavailable for comment, but there were strong rumors circulating that he would not report to the Leafs&rsquo; camp. Toronto, however, was obviously counting on Moore&rsquo;s competitive spirit to lure him back to the game for another whirl, and they felt confident enough to gamble the $20,000 draft price on their judgment. If Dickie doesn&rsquo;t play, he&rsquo;ll cost Leafs the twenty grand, for there are definitely no refunds.Says King Clancy: &ldquo;We always deal for the best, and we regard Moore as a topnotch left-winger. We&rsquo;ve been looking for a guy on that side to replace Dickie Duff. We&rsquo;ve had to go along with right-wingers like Gerry Ehman playing the left side, and. as Moore was available in the draft, we were glad to get him.&rdquo;The claiming of Moore came as a complete surprise to Canadiens, who hadn&rsquo;t protected the veteran, thinking that no one would want him. Commenting on the move, Toe Blake said that while he was surprised at the development, he didn&rsquo;t agree with those who felt that Moore wouldn&rsquo;t even go through with the deal.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d have to say that if he agreed to go anywhere outside of Montreal, Toronto would be the logical spot,&rdquo; said Toe. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe he&rsquo;d even consider playing anywhere else. But, whether he&rsquo;s actually capable of playing, considering the trouble he has had with his knees, is another question. We certainly gave him every opportunity to make our team last year, but he just couldn&rsquo;t do it.&rdquo;Outside of the activity involving Sawchuk and Moore, the draft, itseslf, was rather uneventful. Detroit was the busiest, drafting three players all told. In addition to picking up George Gardner from Boston, they got forwards Gary Bergman from Montreal and Murray Hall from Chicago. New York and Boston also engaged in a brief raid that saw the brothers Patrick in action. It began when Muzz Patrick plucked the unprotected Jim Mikol from Bruins, and concluded when Lynn Patrick drafted Robert Woytowich from N.Y.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03415/3071541-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="263" height="560"><figcaption class="caption-body">TERRY SAWCHUK</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Leafs Steal Spotlight In Draft By Grabbing Sawchuk, Moore

<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04244/3071586-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="141" height="257"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 141px">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div>DETROIT. Mich. &mdash;The Detroit Red Wings boldly gambled on Terry Sawchuk in the NHL draft and lost.This was confirmed by Red Wing great Gordie Howe during a stopover in Moncton. N.B., on his cross Canada tour, when he said the Wings gambled that nobody would grab the veteran goalkeeper if he were left unprotected in the NHL draft.Toronto&rsquo; Leafs made the Wings the losers by picking up the 34-year-old Sawchuk for the draft price of $20,000.Howe said Punch Imlach, Leafs&rsquo; general manager-coach pulled &ldquo;a real bombshell&rdquo; bypicking Sawchuk and Dickie Moore from Montreal.&ldquo;Sawchuk was happy in Detroit and the Red Wings were happy with him. but we wanted to protect other players and gambled by leaving him unprotected.&rdquo;He added: &ldquo;What&rsquo;s Imlach going to do with Sawchuk? He has a great goalie in Johnny Bower.&rdquo; &#9632;</div>

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Wings Lost Vet Cooler On’Gamble’

MONTREAL. Que.There is no such thing as brotherly love when it comes to major league hockey.That became humorously apparent at the recently concluded NHL draft meeting.New York Ranger general manager Muzz Patrick assured his brother Lynn, general man-ager of Boston Bruins, that Rangers would not be active in the draft.Then Muzz Patrick opened the draft session by claiming Boston&rsquo;s 24-hour right-winger Jim Mikol.Lynn temporarily broke up the session with the stage whisper, &ldquo;No. 2 son is a liar.&rdquo; Later he was still talking to himself and demanded of one reporter: &ldquo;How could two sons1 of the same parents turn out so differently.&rdquo; &#9632;

No Brotherly Love As ‘Muzz’ Crosses Lynn In NHL Draft

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-05142/3071641-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg"></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;National Hockey League teams dipped into the minors for a record 11 players in this year&rsquo;s interleague draft.Surpassing the 1958 season high of 10 drafted players, the six clubs each selected at least one minor leaguer with the Toronto Maple Leafs making the biggest indent by grabbing four in what was described as a bookkeeping affair involving Toronto-owned players with the Denver Invaders of the Western League.The most prominent names in the minor league draft were those of Jim Mikol of Cleveland Barons and Marc Reaume of Hershey Bears.Boston Bruins chose Mikol as their No. 1 draft choice from the Barons then proceeded to lose the hard-checking left winger to the Rangers the next day in the NHL&rsquo;s intra-league draft. The Bruins also grabbed John Gravel, a solid young defenseman who isa product of the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; organization. Gravel star-red with Toledo&rsquo;s championship IHL team this past season and was on the Cleveland list when the Boston team selected him.Toronto snapped up four players, including the veteran Reaume, who returns to the team with which he began his NHL career back in 1955-56. Reaume could end up in Tulsa. The Leafs also picked Alex Hucul, a de-fence man, and forwards Lou Jan-kowski and Gordon Redahl from their Denver club for $60,000 to help defray some of the club&rsquo;s financial losses of last season.Detroit Red Wings drafted George (Dukei Harris from St. Louis of the Central Pro League and Fred Hilts from Spring field of the AHL. Hilts did not play last season being under suspension for not reporting to the AHL club.Rangers grabbed Norm Johnson off the Baltimore Clippers&rsquo; list.Both the Chicago Black Hawks and Canadiens also selected lesser known amateurs in the draft. The Canadiens grabbed Robert Barber off the Pittsburgh Hornets&rsquo; list while Chicago drafted Fred Evans from Buffalo Bisons of the AHL. Barber is a product of Detroit&rsquo;s Edmonton Junior Oil Kings while Evans performed on the wing with University of North Dakota last season.<h2>How They Drafted Them &#9632;</h2>

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NHL Drafts Record 11 Minors

TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;The annual All-Star hockey game between the Toronto Maple Leafs, Stanley Cup champions, and a select National Hockey League team, will be held here Sat. Oct. 10.Punch Imlach of the Leafs and Sid Abel of Detroit, will again be the rival coaches for the game at the Maple Leaf Gardens.The NHL will open its 1964-65 schedule Monday, Oct. 12 in Boston when New York Rangers will meet the Bruins on Columbus Day, a legal holiday in the U.S. &#9632;

NHL All-Star Game Set For Toronto Ice Oct. 10

&mdash; MONTREAL, Que.The National Hockey League has taken steps to curb spearing on the ice by imposing fines on players and has decided to restore the art of stickhandling to faceoffs and eliminate body contact when the puck is dropped.These two changes were the major ones announced by the NHL&rsquo;s rules committee during the summer meetings just concluded.In regard to spearing, the penalty will remain a five-minute major and will be called at the discretion of the referee. However, an offender will be assessed $25 and $50 if the speared player becomes injured as the result of the infraction.NHL President Clarence Campbell was jubilant at the success of the two motions, both of which could become eye openers in the future of the game.Campbell said not only did the fans want to see an end to the dangerous practice of spearing a man. but so did the players themselves.Campbell described the new faceoff regulation as one of the most drastic rule changes in years. Unanimously, the league adopted the ruling that faceoffs would be stick-to-stick with no body contact whatsoever. A minor penalty will be imposed for an infraction.&ldquo;The faceoff has been one of the most unsatisfactory features throughout the history of hockey.&rdquo; Campbell said. Rules regarding faceoffs have been changed five or six times within the last few years, and &ldquo;it&rsquo;s a matter of some doubt if we improved it,&rdquo; said Campbell.&ldquo;This tactic of tying-up the man in the faceoff has always been wrong, Campbell said. &ldquo;Tying-up the man, permissible under the old rule, had the affect &ldquo;of nullifying faceoffs.&rdquo;&ldquo;Now, it has got to be a clean stick-to-stick faceoff and nothing else. This will restore some of the skill to the game, and we hope to get this problem solved once and for all.&rdquo;A motion by Canadiens to end the current rule by which a player returns immediately from a minor penalty if a goal is scored against his team, was defeated. The Canadiens have been campaigning to have the old rule whereby a player would remain in the penalty box for the full two minutes, restored. &#9632;

NHL Votes To Clomp Down On Spearing Offenders; Clean Faceoffs New Rule

<div class="byline">BY KEN McKENZIE</div>&mdash; ZURICH. SwitzerlandHerman Pedergnana, who is a citizen of both Switzerland and Canada, said the time was ripe for pro hockey in Europe by 1965. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a trend that can&rsquo;t be stopped,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;In Europe, frontiers are crumbling in every field &mdash; why not in sports?Now the time has come to integrate sports by forming major leagues. EUROPRO (European Professional Hockey League) will be the first such Major League. It will start off with teams from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and possibly Italy, patterned after the NHL. As there are not enough good European players around, there will be a sizeable number of imports. The import player rules will be similar to those of the Canadian Football League.&rdquo; (The CFL permits its clubs to fill about half their roster with U. S. imports).Pedergnana told THE HOCKY NEWS: &ldquo;By major league I mean the organizational set-up, not the caliber of play. Measured against NHL standards, it will of course not be up to par, that&rsquo;s for sure, but measured against European standards, it will be major league.&rdquo; He predicted that within one or two years. EUROPRO teams would be as strong as the Russian Nationals.He expects the league to start with six to eight teams and to later add a Northern Section comprising the Scandinavian countries and possibly Great Britain. The two groups could then play an interlocking schedule. He said the league by-laws and rules will be essentially the same as those of the other pro leagues, and much of the fan appeal would stem from the fact that the game will be played under the more exciting Canadian rules.He said they all expected stiff opposition by the IIHF, which is ruled by Bunny Ahearne, but sooner or later such differences could be ironed out. More important was, he said, to come to an agreement with the NHL and the other pro leagues. All key pro officials, including NHL President Clarence Campbell, had indicated their support upon certain conditions, Pedergnana said.Among the steps proposed was a novel kind of transfer plan under which an amateur club which had developed a slayer from the age of 15 to 20 will get the full transfer sum, which will be paid in five yearly rates, provided the player stays pro for that length of time. He suggested a pro club would do well hiring young Europeans and to import Canadians, Swedes and Americans of senior A or minor pro caliber.One of the advantages of such a league would be that it should draw the many foreigners that live in European countries. Hundreds of thousands of Italians live in Switzerland. France and Germany. There is also a sizeable number of Austrians, Germans and French residing abroad. The Italian and German teams would probably get first call on Canadian imports of Italian or German origin, French Canadians would be placed in France or French Switzerland. The team with the greatest number of American citizens within its region would get first call on U.S. players.&ldquo;I checked with the U.S. embassies, and there are thousands of Americans living around Paris, Geneva, Zurich, Milan, Frankfort, Stuttgart and Munich. I&rsquo;d expect their interest to&rsquo; be rather high,&rdquo; he said in a special interview with THE HOCKEY NEWS.Pedergnana lived in Canada for six years and had ample time and opportunity to study the hockey set-up there. &ldquo;I talked to several of the minor pro executives and OHA officials, and I want to avoid the mistakes that were made in Canada. Hockey is in pretty bad shape on the Continent, so we have the advantage to start with a weak league by Canadian pro standards and still give the European fans better hockey than they have ever seen. After one season, these teams should be up to par with the Czech or Russian Nationals. After a few years, we could be thinking about a transatlantic interlocking schedule.&rdquo;Each team will represent a region, rather than a city. This permits the team to split up its home games. Options have been taken out for Northern Germany, Ruhr, Bavaria, French and German Switzerland, Austria. Further possibilities are France, and Italy.As things stand now, only one amateur team would join the league, and only one team will be financed by the arena. AU others will be put up independantly and backed by independent groups.Boycott threats already made will not affect the project, as long as the league has NHL support. The arenas will benefit from such a league, which assures them a guaranteed intake, and could not care less about boycotts. Only difficulty will be with player contracts which have to be made, in the case of Europeans, over a longer period than otherwise. Moneywise, this will be compensated by the omission of transfer moneys to amateur clubs, for which there is no need in such a case.As is customary, teams will play about 60-64 regular schedule games per season, plus semi-final and final playoff series between the four first-placed teams for the European Cup.A European Pro League would certainly make the CAHA a lot of concessions to enable it to field a strong entry in the amateur World Championships. These would include much better terms for exhibition games than those teams have been getting until now. &#9632;

European Pro League Planned For 1965 With Six-Eight Teams; High Calibre Of Play Seen Aim

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01804/3071686-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="433" height="465"></div>SID ABEL made one of the boldest moves in his career when he removed Terry Sawchuk from Detroit&rsquo;s protected list after drafting George Gardner. Little did he realize that Toronto would pick up the starry netminder and a proven NHL All-Star. It might also turn out to be one of Sid&rsquo;s biggest boners. Only time will tell &hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02757/3071679-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="301" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Allen Stonley</figcaption></div>If Toronto hadn&rsquo;t drafted Dickie Moore from Canadiens and Sawchuk from Detroit the much-discussed NHL draft would have been flatter than water on a platter &hellip; Many in attendance at the draft session were surprised that Don Marshall, Al Langlois and Gump Worsley were not picked up for the $20,000 price tag &hellip; A number of experienced National Leaguers were left unprotected this year &hellip; When someone kidded King Clancy about Toronto&rsquo;s preference for picking up old players, and this was before the draft. Clancy came back with: &ldquo;Do you know the best players we had last winter were oldsters. I keep track of all the players&rsquo; performances and our best player game in and game out was Allan Stanley. He was a standout on defence, particularly in the playoffs. Imlach doesn&rsquo;t pick up old players because he is playing hunches. He figures they are serious enough to keep in the big money and they go all out at all times. Some of the younger fellows think they have it made when they have a good season, but the old boys have been very serious. Look at Johnny Bower and what a sensation he has been,&rdquo; enthused Clancy &hellip; It is expected that the NHL will soon hire a New York public relations firm to act as a press liaison office for the league &hellip; Bill Jennings, president of the New York Rangers, and Bruce Norris, president of the Detroit Red Wings, have both been in favor of such a move for some time now &hellip; The owners of the U.S. - based clubs would like to see some of the major American columnists such as Red Smith and Jimmy Cannon, among others, write on hockey occasionally, something they do not do today &hellip; It is also felt that by publicizing hockey more in the States it will help to attract sponsors for national television of NHL games throughout the United States.GEORGE GARDNER, drafted by Detroit, belonged to the Boston Bruins and played last season with Minneapolis of the Central Pro League. He is said to be an outstanding goalkeeper and possesses all the equipment to make it big in the NHL &hellip; If Dickie Moore refuses to report to the Maple Leafs&rsquo; training camp the Leafs do not get their $20,000 back &hellip; But Moore would then be placed on the suspended list &hellip; Gordie Howe will make a cross-Canada tour on behalf of the T. Eaton Co. Ltd. He will make a series of public appearances in Eaton&rsquo;s stores across the Dominion in his new public relations-merchandising job &hellip; Howe will also officially open the annual Saskatoon Fair in mid-July &hellip; Hardworking Ken Wilson, owner-general manager of the Toledo Blades of the International Hockey League, has sold over $8,000 worth of season tickets for next season &hellip; Frank Gallagher&rsquo;s Port Huron team also has an excellent advance sale for the upcoming season &hellip; The IHL is getting ready for what is expected to be their finest season in years, A new entry will be Dayton, Ohio &hellip; There is a new building in this city with 6,000 seats and Dayton is ideally located for the league &hellip; Fort Wayne, Muskegon and Des Moines are all set for next season&rsquo;s IHL play &hellip; Baz O&rsquo;Meara of the Montreal Star was 72 recently. Over the years he has been one of hockey&rsquo;s greatest writers &hellip; A welcome guest at the NHL meetings was Johnny Walker of Saskatoon. Johnny is a long-time scout of the New York Rangers and has been instrumental in many prominent NHL&rsquo;ers turning pro &hellip; Herb Elkis the publicist of the newly-formed New York Rovers of the Eastern Hockey League and he is anxious to hear from any former Rovers (Before the team was disbanded a number of years ago).Former Rovers may reach Herb at Madison Square Garden, 307 West 49th St&hellip; . The Charlotte Clippers of the EHL are looking for both a general manager and a coach. A great opportunity for the right parties &hellip; Ed Fitkin resigned as publicity director of Maple Leaf Gardens and Toronto Maple Leafs. He will spend most of his time with radio and TV but will continue to edit the Maple Leaf program.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03659/3071672-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="314" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Gardner</figcaption></div>TORONTO&rsquo;S SUMMER Hockey League starts its 10th year in July. This league is composed of eight teams and games are played at the East York Arena, same place where Maurice Black runs his famed Toronto Hockey School, which incidentally will have boys attending from 12 different States this year &hellip; Frank D. Smith, a member of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame and founder of the Toronto Hockey League, passed away recently after a lengthy illness &hellip; The old Beaches Hockey League, which later became the THL was organized in Smith&rsquo;s home in December, 1911. He was appointed secretary-treasurer and held the post until 1962. He received the Toronto Civic Award of Merit in 1961 &hellip; &ldquo;Tumba&rdquo; Johannsson, Sweden&rsquo;s ace hockey player, became a father for the second time while we were in that country &hellip; Isstadion is the name of Sweden&rsquo;s top stadium. It seats approximately 10.000 &hellip; We had lunch one day in Stockholm with Rudy Eklow. vice-president of the Swedish Ice Hockey Association and sports editor of Sweden&rsquo;s biggest daily. Rudy plays a very prominent role in European hockey activities &hellip; Curt Sjoborn, secretary-general of the Swedish Ice Hockey Association, presented us with a beautiful souvenir from his organization during our stay in Stockholm &hellip; Tommy Lockhart&rsquo;s Eastern League will have two new entries for 1964-65 in Jacksonville, Fla. and the New York Rovers and Tommy and his associates are very enthusiastic about the upcoming campaign &hellip; Detroit Red Wings look to better days with their CPHL franchise in Memphis. Tenn. than they had in Cincinnati last year &hellip; The job of coaching the team is a big challenge to Eddie Bush and the former Hamilton Jr. leader is looking forward to it very much. &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

Commencing this October THE HOCKEY NEWS will add four more pages to the 30 weekly issues published during the season.We have some great plans and ideas in store for next season but in an all-out effort to make certain that YOU the reader receives the very finest in hockey coverage each week we would welcome any suggestions or ideas you might have on how we might improve the paper.Send along your ideas and suggestions on stories you would like to see appear each week. What features you would like to see added. What you like and dislike about the paper and what we can do to improve your weekly reading about the world&rsquo;s fastest sport.We want to hear from you &mdash; and we want your honest opinion. Give it to us straight from the shoulder. It is our most cherished ambition to supply YOU the hockey fan with the very finest in hockey literature &mdash; so won&rsquo;t you help us by writing today.Many thanks for your wonderful assistance over the years.Cordially,ken McKenziePublisher &#9632;

A MESSAGE TO OUR READERS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01747/3071848-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Reay, Jim Norris, Tommy Ivan, Mike Wirtz.</figcaption></div><h2>CHICAGO BLACK HAWKS</h2><h2>MONTREAL CANADIENS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02643/3071841-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1173" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sen. H. Molson, Dave Molson, Sam Pollock, Toe Blake.</figcaption></div><h2>NEW YORK RANGERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03475/3071834-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1401" height="623"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Ost, Red Sullivan, Bill Jennings, Muzz Patrick. Emile Francis.</figcaption></div><h2>TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04321/3071827-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="1636" height="618"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Davidson, King Clancy, Harold Ballard, Staff Smythe, Punch Imlach.</figcaption></div><h2>BOSTON BRUINS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05208/3071820-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="1668" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">Walter Brown, Milt Schmidt, Lynn Patrick, Weston Adams, Baldy Cotton.</figcaption></div><h2>DETROIT RED WINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-06129/3071813-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="1331" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bruce Norris, Sid Abel, Jim Skinner, John Mitchell, Baz Bastien</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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NHL Delegates Gather At Annual Draft Sessions

MONTREAL, Que &mdash;Unlike past years, the top performer in the 1964-65 Stanley Cup playoffs will be honored with a $1,000 bonus and possession of an award to be designated the Conn Smythe Trophy.This was the outcome of the annual club owners meeting held during the NHL&rsquo;s summer session here and the move was hailed by all six clubs. The trophy will be donated by the Maple Leaf Gardens.The trophy, which will honor the man who built up the Leafs and the Gardens to its present I day high level, will go to the outstanding player in the playoffs along with the cash award from the NHL.Manner of choosing the winner will be decided later, probably at the league&rsquo;s semi-annual meeting in Toronto next Oct. 10. Players in the cup semi-finals likely will be considered, as well as those in the final.In other business, an agreement was reached at a meeting of owners-players council to add $27,000 to the cash awards distributed to players of the top four teams after regular season play, increasing this annual disbursement to $81,000.Under the usual allotment of 18 units to each dub. the approximate amount for each player on the club finishing first will be $2,250 instead of $1,500.Second-place finishers will receive $1,250 as against $750: and third-place finishers $750. against $500. Fourth-place money was left unchanged at $250.The council also announced a two-thirds increase in players&rsquo; pensions to $300 from- $180 a month for a 10-year-man The pension fund has accumulated a reserve of $3,500,000. A 10-year-man will now have a pension equivalent to $3,000 at age 45.The owners also made tentative plans for &ldquo;heightening the image&rsquo;&rsquo; of hockey in the United States through special public relations arrangements and investigated the possibility of returning NHL games to television in the U.S.A number of lesser items were dealt with, ranging from the amateur draft to reduced payments by trainers entering the players&rsquo; pension fund. &#9632;

NHL To Reward Top Player In Stanley Cup Playoffs With $1,000 Bonus, Trophy

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01834/3071917-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="268" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gory Dornhoefer</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;Kenny Wharram, All-Star right winger with Chicago-Black Hawks, and rookie Gary Dornhoefer of lastplace Boston Bruins led the National Hockey League sharpshooters during the 1963-64 season.Statistics released and compiled by NHL publicity director Ron Andrews show&rsquo; that among players taking 100 or more shots on goal, Wharram had the best scoring percentage. He scored 39 times on 191 shots for a 20.4 percentage. Among players who scored 10 goals or more, Dornhoefer led with a percentage of 27.3 based on 44 shots and 12 goals.An interesting contrast is Wharram&rsquo;s percentage compared with teammate Bobby Hull, who led both in goals, 43, and shots, 408. Hull had more than twice as many shots as Wharram but scored only four goals more. He had a scoring percentage of 10.5.Following are the top five players in scoring accuracy among those who had 100 or more shots: Wharram, 39 goals, 191 shots, 20.4 per cent; Camille Henry, Rangers, 29 goals, 153 shots, 19.0 percent; Phil Goyette, Rangers, 24 goals, 135 shots. 17.8 percent; Gilles Tremblay, Canadiens, 22 goals, 141 shots, 15.6 percent: Don McKenney, Rangers and Toronto, 18 goals, 117 shots, 15.4 per cent.Followling are the top five players in scoring accuracy among those who had 10 or more goals; Dornhoefer, 12 goals, 44 shots, 27.3 percent; Bill Hicke, Canadiens, 11 goals, 44 shots, 25.0 percent; Wharram; Henry; Goyette.The statistical analysis of the 1963-64 season also shows that Chicago, which finished second a point behind the champion Canadiens, scored more important goals than any of the other five clubs.The statistical review also reveals that Chicago had the best power-play in the league, scoring 51 goals while enjoying a one or two-man advantage 279 times. Actually, Hawks scored 50 goals with a one-man advantage and one goal during the seven times they held a two-man edge. Their power-play scoring percentage was 18.3.In penalty-killing, Toronto led with 30 goals against during the 266 times they were a man short. The Leafs successfully killed 88.7 per cent of their penalties and did not allow&rsquo; a goal while being two men short 13 times.<h2>NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGIE TEAM RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02678/3071910-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="1256" height="2435"></div><h2>INDIVIDUAL PLAYERS&rsquo; RECORDS-OFFENSIVE ' DEFENSIVE</h2><h3>CHICAGO &ldquo;BLACK HAWKS&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03494/3071903-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="1921" height="4323"></div> &#9632;

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Wharram, Dornhoefer Top Hockey Shots

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01778/3071948-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ICE GREAT HONORED: Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; great scoring right winger GORDIE HOWE, right, receives wrist watch from chairman JOE KRAMER of Montreal&rsquo;s Knights of Pythias group as the man who did most to combat juvenile delinquency in Canada lost season. Looking at presentation is DOLLARD ST. LAURENT, former Canadiens and Chicago defenceman, who is now retired. Howe was feted at testimonial dinner by Pythions.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL. Que. &mdash;Frank J. Selke, recently retired Managing Director of the Montreal Canadiens and now ViceChairman of the Board of the Canadian Arena Company and the Canadiens. was honored with a sterling silver tray presented at a private dinner partyKnown throughout the world of hockey as an outstanding builder of teams, Selke&rsquo;s association with the game goes back to 1906. when as a lad of 13 he put aside aspirations to make the grade as a player, and formed his first team in his home town of Berlin (now Kitchener) Ontario. Thus began a career of coaching and managing which is without parallel in hockey history. His teams have won Memorial and Allan Cups in amateur competition plus countless league championships. In professional ranks, he was associated with three Stanley Cup winning Toronto teams and managed six Montreal teams to Cup titles.A powerful force behind the formation and eventual construction of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Selke has himself been elected to the Hall as a builder of hockey.While his long career was eminently successful in amateur hockey in Kitchener and later Toronto, and with the Maple Leafs from 1929 to 1946, Selke&rsquo;s greatest success came after assuming management and control of the Montreal Canadiens in July of 1946. He took over an aging team sprinkled with a handful of super stars and rebuilt around these stars with young and colorful players developed in the Quebec Junior League he expanded as one of his first moves after joining Montreal.From Selke&rsquo;s first season with Canadiens, in 1946-47, the team ran up a record of eight first-place finishes, six seconds, three thirds and in 1947-48, one fifthplace finish. They have been third or better for the last 16 years and have finished on top seven of the last nine seasons.One of the last of hockey&rsquo;s &ldquo;Old Guard&rdquo; &mdash; a group which included such famous hockey men as Conn Smythe, Jack Adams, Art Ross. Lester and Frank Patrick, General John Reed Kilpatrick and James Norris Sr. &mdash; Selke was like these dedicated men, one who labored long and hard, if quietly, to bring major league hockey to the prominence it now enjoys. Though shy and retiring by nature, he has been one of the most influential of all, in inner NHL circles regarded as one of hockey&rsquo;s most powerful figures of the last 20 years.The presentation to Selke is the second one made by the League Owners-Governors. Two years ago, Conn Smythe, who had been NHL Governor of the Toronto Maple Leafs from February. 1927, until his retirement in February, 1962, was presented with a similar tray and was also the first man to be made an honorary life governor of the league. &#9632;

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NHL Honors Retiring Frank Selke Making Him Lifetime Governor

BOSTON, Mass. &mdash;The Boston Bruins will train for the coming National Hockey League season in London, Ont., which has a new hockey rink.General Manager Lynn Patrick announced that the training season was tentatively scheduled to open Sept. 8.This will be the second time in nine years the Bruins have trained outside of Boston Garden, where they play regular season home games. The Bruins trained at Niagara Falls, Ont., three years ago.Patrick said the proximity of the new training site to those of other league teams will permit easier scheduling of exhibition games. He said two such games already were arranged and a third was pending.One reason for the shift was the fact the Billy Graham evangelistic crusade will be at Boston Garden for three weeks in September. &#9632;

Bruins Select New Arena At London To Conduct Training Camp Sessions

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02680/3072003-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="256" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Hebenton</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins will undergo a consider able face-lifting this seasonin an effort to get out of last place in the NHL.With the acquisition of Murray Balfour, Reg Fleming and Ab McDonald from the Black Hawks in summer hockey trades. Coach Milt Schmidt will be doing some fancy player shuffling.Two departed Bruin regulars, Doug Mohns and Jerry Toppazzini will be replaced. The club front office is ready to peddle Jean-Guy Gendron, who will likely land in Quebec The Aces are anxious to get him for&rsquo; new coach Bernard Geoffrion. Andy Hebenton was removed from the club&rsquo;s protected list and placed on the San Francisco roster, meaning that he will likely be with the Seals or Portland this year instead of the Bruins.The Bruins have several young players coming up and have some rousing prospects from last season including Gary Dornhoefer, Don Awrey and Wayne Rivers, to fit into their plans. Schmidt will likely use Balfour at right wing with Johnny Bucyk at left and Murray Oliver at centre. Tommy Williams, injured most of last year, will also be back.The Bruins will have rookie goalie Jack Norris from LA. Blades coming into camp this i year to try and dislodge No. 1 backstop Ed Johnston. The club also needs more scoring punch. &#9632;

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Andy Hebenton Out In Bruins' Plans To Revamp Squad

<div class="byline">BY KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-06199/3072034-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="294" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tumba Johannsson</figcaption></div>STOCKHOLM, Sweden &mdash;It will take another five years before a Swedish player performs in the National Hockey League (that is if Ulf Sterner doesn&rsquo;t I do it with New York Rangers before that lime). But whether it&rsquo;s five or 10 years the day of players from this country playing in hockey&rsquo;s top circuit is a certainty according to most i of the Swedish ice hockey leaders we talked with on our visit to this hockey-mad nation.Over 100,000 players are registered with the Svenska Is hockey Forbundent (Swedish Ice Hockey Association) right now. There are 1,600 teams affiliated with this giant hockey movement which employs a full-time staff of 10 on a year-round basis to administer its developments.Arne Stromberg, coach of Sweden&rsquo;s National Team and a former outstanding player himself, is anxious to have a good Canadian junior team play a series of games against Swedish teams between Christmas and New Year&rsquo;s.&rsquo;&rsquo;That is the fastest and best way for our boys to improve. By playing against top junior clubs from Canada where the boys are more advanced than our boys at a similar age level,&rdquo; Stromberg informed us.&rsquo;&rsquo;Without fear of exaggeration it is safe to say that our hockey players have improved 200 percent during the last five years,&rdquo; stated Stromberg. &rsquo;The weakest part of our game is forechecking and backchecking. Our National players are very adept when they have possession of the puck. They are not as good when their opponents have the puck. They are still learning positional play.&ldquo;You notice the biggest difference between forwards and defensemen. The forwards are more closely matched with Canadian players than are the rearguards. But I still think a Swedish goalie has the best chance to make it big in pro hockey in America, for the simple reason that he doesn&rsquo;t have to change his style,&rdquo; continued Stromberg, who has coached Sweden&rsquo;s National Team for the last three years.Right now there are 85 artificial rinks in Sweden but only five of these are inside. One of these five rinks is located at a place called Kirung, which is north of the North Pole, and darkness reigns throughout day and night during December and January. In the summer months the sun shines at midnight. According to Uffe Jansson, outstanding hockey writer with Idrottsbladet, Sweden&rsquo;s national sports weekly, there is a young 17-year-old player from Kirung who might turn out to be Sweden&rsquo;s greatest player. &ldquo;Tumba&rdquo; Johannsson, who starred on Sweden&rsquo;s National Team m the World Championship at Innsbruck, has been called the outstanding player developed in this country thus far. &ldquo;Tumba&rdquo; who is 33 years old now will be retiring from the National Team shortly but will be associated with the game in a coaching role. He is a prosperous Swedish businessman and has a number of things going for him.The best goalkeeper in Europe is Kjell Svensson, who starred for Sweden&rsquo;s National Team. He is 25 years old and attended Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; training camp last fall. He recently developed with his father an excellent skate sharpener and there is a possibility he may stick strictly to business and discontinue his hockey-playing career.Every year, there is a big tournament held in Sweden for boys 14 and 15 years. Teams representing the different landskaps (provinces in Canada, states in the U.S.A.) play against each other and the games are televised all over the country. &#9632;

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Swedes Expect Their Top Stars To Make NHL

(As seen in The Toronto Star)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01820/3072072-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="629" height="630"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERT OLMSTEAD</figcaption></div>TWO SHINNY MEN used the word &ldquo;shame&rdquo; when Boom-Boom Geoffrion got around to confirming he will coach Quebec Aces. One was his old boss Frank Selke, who said: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a shame that a man who has given 14 years to the league (NHL) can&rsquo;t move on to the next stage of his career &mdash; in this case, coaching &mdash; without controversy. That&rsquo;s something for which I&rsquo;ve been fighting, and I like to think I&rsquo;ve had some success. There has been a kind of gentleman&rsquo;s agreement in the NHL, for years, that a player who has a chance to become a coach will not be claimed on waivers.&rdquo;Harold Ballard, executive vice-president of Maple Leaf k Gardens, said: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a shame that a playe of Geoffrion&rsquo;s color and capabilities is allowed to leave the league. Do you mean to tell me he couldn&rsquo;t help a club like f Boston? A guy who gets 21 goals will help almost anybody. We&rsquo;ll take him.&rdquo;Leafs, in fact, served notice on the Habs, some weeks ago, that Boomer had better stick to the bench when he deals himself in with the Aces. If they discover he is firing his slap shot in the American League, he will be claimed, body, soul and skate rivets, by Toronto Maple Leafs, reigning champions of shinny.That&rsquo;s where the Boomer sounded somewhat vague when he was asked whether he would be strictly a bench skipper. There&rsquo;s no reasonable doubt of what&rsquo;s in the minds of the Aces. A Boomer on right wing would sell more tickets than a Boomer with one hand under his chin and the other in his hip pocket. He also would win more hockey matches. So the Aces will be doing some politicking from now to next November.Unless Leafs have a change of heart &mdash; or succumb to some inducement, such as the loan of a player for one of their farm properties &mdash; the Boomer will be immobilized henceforth. Leafs adhere to the principle that his playing skills belong to the NHL, as long as a team in the big league can use him.The best proof that such a team exists is right in the book &mdash; meaning the Leafs&rsquo; cheque book. They&rsquo;d be willing to spring for the waiver price of 20 G&rsquo;s if he were available. They said the same thing a year ago, when Habs asked, around the league, whether it would be safe to leave Geoffrion&rsquo;s name off their protected list. Leafs were blunt about it. They said: &ldquo;Protect him or lose him.&rdquo;<h2>If You Want Him Protect Him</h2>THE PROTECTED LIST is responsible for much of the distrust and suspicion with which the hockey operators regard each other. The Habs, for instance, ask: &ldquo;You wouldn&rsquo;t claim one of our oldest and most distinguished employees in his twilight, surely?&rdquo; To the Leafs or the Black Hawks, the question comes out like this: &ldquo;If we leave Geoffrion off our protected list &mdash; so we can keep you from stealing one of our young prospects &mdash; you wouldn&rsquo;t have the gall to grab Geoffrion, surely?&rdquo;The answer always is the same: &ldquo;If you want him. you&rsquo;d better make sure he&rsquo;s protected.&rdquo; That way, the Habs are forced to use up one of the 18 precious places in their quota. Maybe they will have to leave off some young sprout who looks like a shooter of the future.Sometimes, deals are made &mdash; and sabotaged. At the 1958 draft meetings, Billy Reay, then managing the Leafs, had a hands-off pact with Muzz Patrick of the Rangers. Leafs wouldn&rsquo;t steal any Ranger stock. Leafs wouldn&rsquo;t lose any to the Rangers.The treaty didn&rsquo;t prevent Canadiens and Leafs from playing footsie. In the previous season. Leafs had finished absolutely last &mdash; which meant they got first grab in the draft. Canadiens had been first: Rangers second. Naturally, the Rangers didn&rsquo;t expect Canadiens to be drafting players. What they didn&rsquo;t know was that Habs and the Leafs already had reached an agreement whereby Toronto was to get Bert Olmstead.Once the wheel started to spin, it was obvious what was happening. Rangers were helpless to prevent it. Leafs passed when offered their first pick, although they had only 17 men on their list. Canadiens. who had the last grab, claimed Danny Lewicki from Rangers They took Olmstead off their list to make room for him. Now, it was Leafs&rsquo; turn again. They claimed Olmstead.So, if the Habs and the Leafs are suspicious of each other in the Geoffrion affair, it&rsquo;s understandable. They know, from experience, that the best way to get clobbered in their business is to get complacent.<h2>Boomer&rsquo;s Lifetime Record</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02730/3072065-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1207" height="621"></div> &#9632;

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Leafs Waiting For The Day Boomer Steps Back On Ice

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01797/3072158-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"></div>CLEVELAND, Ohio. &mdash;Two players each from the Pittsburgh Hornets and Rochester Americans were named to the American Hockey League All Star team for the 1963-64 season, with one player each from the Calder Cup champion Cleveland Barons and Quebec Aces. (Goalie Lorne Worsley) completing the first team.Cleveland and Quebec each placed two players on the second team, with Pittsburgh, Rochester and the Springfield Indians each placing one player on the second unit. Seven second team choices result from a tie in the balloting for the goaltender&rsquo;s position. &#9632;

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Worsley, Arbour Named On First American League All-Star Team

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Western and American hockey leagues have reached a basic agreement on closer operations between the two big minor pro circuits but they are still kicking around the suggestion that the two loops meet in some sort of a post-season playoff series.Executives of both leagues met here during the NHL summer hockey meetings. There has been some talk that the two loops will amalgamate and ultimately seek major league status.The AHL invited WHL president Al Leader to their annual gathering in Providence where the possibility of a post-season playoff between the two circuits will be discussed.Leader himself said that the two leagues have &ldquo;unlimited possibilites, such as a closer working agreement and an interlocking schedule of a playoff.&rdquo;The AHL, oldest of the minors, has operated more or less independently for some time. It ended its draft agreement with the NHL some years ago. Revival has been talked of but has yet to materialize. Only NHL-owned players now can be drafted from AHL clubs.It is believed that should the AHL and WHL ever amalgamate, the larger cities would form a new circuit. Geographical locations also would have a bearing. The other cities presumably would set up another league.Changes over the years have left the WHL with only one Canadian City &mdash; Vancouver. Since Los Angeles and San Francisco came into the circuit, both with undisguised major-league aspirations, proponents of this status have been far from inclined to let the subject drop.The WHL pulled itself up on a par with the AHL as far as officiating is concerned by completing an agreement with the NHL entrusting Carl Voss, its referee-in-chief, with assigning WHL referees for the 1964-65 season. In the interests of conformity, the WHL will revert back to the NHL rule of the two-line offside.At the recent NHL meetings, the major league turned down the WHL&rsquo;s suggestion for a general adoption of the Western League&rsquo;s red-line rule.Under the WHL rule, if a play starts in the end zone behind the blue line, a player at the centre ice red line can take the pass even after the puck has crossed the red line ahead of him. The player is considered to have been put onside by the pass, and he can overtake the puck.In the NHL, play is stopped when the puck crosses two lines.A spirited exchange developed between NHL President Clarence Campbell acid Hal Laycoe of the WHL during discussion of the proposal. Some NHL coaches, including the Canadiens&rsquo; Toe Blake, favored the NHL version.Campbell said the rule would result in too much bad play with a player lingering in centre ice for a possible pass-out. Laycoe, a former NHL performer and general-manager of Portland in the WHL, charged that Campbell was stressing the disadvantages rather than the advantages. &#9632;

AHL, WHL Agree On Closer Tie-Up As Step To Future Merger Action

&mdash; ROCHESTER. N. Y.The Rochester Americans have secured defenseman Duane Rupp and right wing Ed Ehrenverth from the Baltimore Clippers in exchange for centre Lou Angotti and winger Ed Lawson.The straight player trade was announced by Joe Crozier, the club&rsquo;s new general manager and coach. Crozier will succeed Jack Riley as GM of the Americans as well as coach the club. Riley has become the new president of the AHL. &#9632;

Rochester, Baltimore Pull Off Trade

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02717/3072268-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="268" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Bush</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The Central Pro Hockey League has announced the inclusion of Tulsa, Okla., and Memphis, Tenn., as two new entries for the 1964-65 season.CPHL President Jack Adams said Tulsa, to be known as the Empires and operated by the Toronto Maple Leafs, will become the sixth team making a balanced circuit.Memphis was also approved as the new site for the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; CPHL franchise, which was shifted to Cincinnati from Indianapolis last season when an explosion during an ice show wrecked the Indianapolis rink.The CPHL is now set with six teams including Tulsa Empires, Memphis Red Wings, Omaha Knights, Minneapolis Bruins, St. Paul Rangers and St. Louis Braves.No coach has been named for Tulsa but it is expected the parent Toronto Leafs may assign Mark Reaume as player-coach.Detroit Red Wings announced that Eddie Bush has been appointed general manager and coach of the Memphis club.Bush, a former defenceman with the National Hockey League club, coached Hamilton Red Wings in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A series for the last four years and brought the city its first Memorial Cup in 1961-62.The new Memphis club will play home games in the Mid-South Coliseum, a new building with a hockey-seating capacity of 10,000.Meanwhile, the Board of Governors of the National Hockey League introduced a new trophy to the world of hockey; a trophy named after a man who has made outstanding contributions to the game of hockey as well as to the entire world of sports.The J. J. &ldquo;Jack&rdquo; Adams Trophy was presented to Adams, who is president of the CPHL by Clarence Campbell, President of the National Hockey League, during a dinner in connection with the NHL&rsquo;s summer meetings in Montreal.Created by some of Canada&rsquo;s finest craftsmen, the tall, 30 inch, sterling silver trophy will be awarded yearly to the Central League playoff champions. Additional bases may be added to the trophy, allowing it to display the names of the league&rsquo;s playoff winners for many years to come.The dinner guests, Whose names could fill a &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s Who In Hockey", came to pay tribute to a man who has devoted a lifetime of skill and sportsmanship to the world of sports, which he loves so well.Known affectionately to Detroiters as &ldquo;Mr. Hockey", Jack Adams is widely acclaimed for his years of work in developing top-notch hockey teams and a sports orientated city. &#9632;

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Tulsa, Memphis New Entries Making CPHL Six-Team League

&mdash; MONTREAL, Que.The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association announced that the Central Professional Hockey League will supply training competition for CAHA&rsquo;s National Team that will compete in the world championship and in the 1968 Olympic Games.The National team this year will train at Winnipeg, starting possibly around Sept. 10.Agreement for the CPHL to aid in training was reached at a meeting with the National Hockey League, whose clubs operate farms in the CPHL.Gordon Juckes, secretary-manager of the CAHA, said one difficulty in the past has been suitable training opposition and that the new plan will provide a continuing program.Juckes said that sources of players for the CAHA&rsquo;s National team training camp will. be from the Winnipeg area, those available from the 1964 squad and new players from other sources in addition to Winnipeg. The training camp, open to all aspirants, is expected to have at least 35 to 40 players on hand.Arrangements will be made for CPHL teams to swing over to Winnipeg after playing scheduled games in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Other CPHL teams are St. Louis, Omaha and two newcomers next season &mdash; Tulsa and Memphis. &#9632;

CPHL Teams To Provide Test For Canada’s National Squad

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01813/3072323-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="283" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chirp Brenchley</figcaption></div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.The St. Catharines Black Hawks have been assured that the parent Chicago Hawks will not move the Ontario Hockey Association franchise from this city.Ken Campbell, former coach and manager of the Junior Hawks, made the announcement while disclosing that Chirp Brenchley will become the new coach of the OHA club succeeding Campbell, who is reportedly taking over the scouting role formerly held by Bob Wilson with Chicago.Wilson has left the Black Hawks&rsquo; organization.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll definitely be back in St. Catharines,&rdquo; said Campbell. The Juniors will be starting their 22nd year of representation in the OHA series.Brenchley, who coached Port Huron Flags of the International Hockey League the past few years, will take over his new duties immediately. He is the second new OHA coach named in recent weeks.Scotty Bowman was appointed coach of the Montreal Junior Canadiens to replace Yves Nadon.The appointment was one of several announced by Sam Pollock, new general-manager of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League.Bowman last season divided his coaching time between Omaha Knights of the Central Pro League and the N.D.G. Monarchs of the Montreal Metropolitan League. He is a former coach of the Peterborough Petes.Pollock also announced the reappointments of Bill McCreary as coach at Omaha, and Frank Mario as pilot of the Peterborough team.Bobby Kirk was named to coach the Regina Pats. &#9632;

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Brenchley, Bowman Named Coaches Of Junior Hawks, Hubs In OHA

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02697/3072354-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="296" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Steve Brklacich</figcaption></div>&mdash;NEW YORK, N.Y.The hunt for coaches among Eastern Hockey League teams is on for the 1964-65 season.The New York Rovers, re-admitted to the EHL May 29 along with Jacksonville, Fla., as 1 the new league entries, have solved their problem with the appointment of Steve Brklacich I as manager-coach.Brklacich, 34, who coached Kitchener I Juniors in the Ontario Hockey Association last season, was a former Rover defenseman before the team dropped out of the EHL in 1952. He served as general manager of the Nashville Flyers, also of the EHL, two years ago after a similar role with Johnstown Jets in 1961-62.Three other EHL clubs, Charlotte, New Haven and Jacksonville are seeking coaches.Al Manch of Charlotte is hunting for a general manager with me idea of acquiring a playing coach later to replace Turk Broda, who has not been rehired by the Checkers.Fred Creighton, who coached New Haven last year, is a candidate for the Charlotte job along with Checker star forward Jackie LeClair. Johnny McLellan is still pondering whether he will return to Nashville as coach. He is still unsigned.The rest of the EHL teams are reportedly set in the coaching ranks. &#9632;

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EHL Teams Seeking Coaches, Brklacich Inked By New York

SAN FRANCISCO. Calif.&mdash;The San Francisco Seals, champions of the Western Hockey League, will train at the Cow Palace next fall in a session including exhibition games with Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League.General manager Bud Poile announced the Leafs would meet the Seals on Oct. 4. Date of the exhibition against the Bruins will be announced later. &#9632;

Seals To Oppose Bruins, Leafs On Cow Palace Ice

&mdash;OTTAWA, Ont.The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and the National Hockey League have agreed to set up study committees to delve into the matter of a&rsquo;universal overage draft&rsquo; of junior players in Canada.This was the outcome of a meeting in Montreal between representatives of the NHL and CAHA, which frowns on the pros drafting junior players &mdash; even 16-year-olds &mdash; for rights to their future services.The CAHA has been seeking a more equal contract with the NHL, which pays the Canadian body an annual stipend of $40,000 to follow the rules set down by the pro teams.The CAHA has made it known it would like to see an amateur player left alone until he passes his 20th birthday. The major complaint is that most top minor stars are too tied up by the pro clubs and it is proving detrimental to the CAHA.In other CAHA business at its 50th annual meeting here in Ottawa during May, it was decided the association would seek to find a formula to provide Canada with a hockey team that is both eligible and competitive in international circles, seek a better financial arrangement with the NHL and to find out how to become a brother member of the International Ice Hockey Federation and forget their partonizing and fancied image in world ice circles.The CAHA said it agreed with itself that a national team is the answer to competing against amateur teams overseas, but instead of a concrete plan, the problem was dumped in the lap of a committee.And as far as future relations with the IIHF are concerned, the CAHA admitted that it was time they gave &ldquo;top priority&rdquo; to its position with the world body, but they added the rider &hellip; &ldquo;If we want to have (world) competitions run as we would like them.&rdquo;IIHF president Bunny Ahearne threw up his hands in disgust when he heard this attitude.A Russian club and the Czech national hockey team will play exhibition games in Canada next season secretary-manager Gordon Juckes of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association said.The Russians will play one game in the east and seven or eight in the west.The Czechs are taking part in a U.S. tournament in December and afterwards will play four or five games in eastern Canada.The CAHA annual meeting also was informed that applications have been received from three Canadian senior teams to make overseas tours. They are Ottawa Montagnards, Saskatoon Quakers and Winnipeg Maroons. &#9632;

CAHA, NHL Agree To Study Matter Of Universal Junior Hockey Draft Russians, Czechs To Tour Canada

<div class="byline">BY STANLEY BRINK</div>MADISON, Wis. &mdash;Longer and more attractive schedules, better teams is the forecast for hockey at University of Wisonsin following the game&rsquo;s restoration in 1963-64 after a 30 year lapse.In spite of injuries to key players over the last half of the season, handicaps that were never overcome, Wisconsin closed with an 8-5-3 record. Ten gamer were against Minnesota institutions: St. Mary&rsquo;s of Winona: Hamline, Macalester, and St. Thomas of St. Paul; and Carleton of Northfield.Only three out of 16 players will be lost by graduation and their places next winter will be filled from among a group of sophomores and transfers. The game&rsquo;s gradual growth in the state&rsquo;s elementary and high schools will in another decade assure Wisconsin of an annual influx of talent.Eventually Wisconsin hopes to meet such Canadian institutions as McGill, University of Toronto, Western Ontario, and Queen&rsquo;s. From Eastern United States, Wisconsin wants to play Boston University, Boston College, Harvard, Yale, Colgate, Brown, and Dartmouth, among others.In time the Big Ten, of which Wisconsin is a member, will have its own championship flight in which Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, possibly Illinois and Ohio State, will have places.Chan Young, a wing, of Madison, and John Russo, defenseman, from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, are co-captains for 1964-65. Long range plans mention building of the university&rsquo;s own arena on or near the campus and hockey&rsquo;s inclusion on the intramural program.Seven of the revivalist squad of 16 came from Madison where hockey has a firm foothold in the city&rsquo;s high schools. Only four members were from outside the state.Former players John Riley and Art Thomsen served as coaches. Considering the game had been absent for 30 years, attendance, while low by Canadian standards, exceeded expectations. &#9632;

Hockey Outlook Seen Bright As Wisconsin Restores Game

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01803/3072488-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN AUGUST ISSUE</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02732/3072481-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="1266" height="1681"></div> &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

FORT WAYNE, Ind. &mdash;The International Hockey League is looking ahead to the 1964-65 season with considerable optimism.The 1HL recently selected Dayton, O., as its new entry to replace Chatham, Ont., Maroons, who will not be back in the loop this season because of operating and financial difficulties.Windsor Bulldogs are still in the doubtful category but are expected to be ready to start the new season along with Dayton, Muskegon. Fort Wayne, Des Moines, Toledo and Port Huron making the IHL a seven-team loop.Three of the IHL teams are on the lookout for coaches. Port Huron lost Chirp Brenchley to the St. Catharines Black Hawks of the Junior OHA. His successor has not been named. Both Dayton and Muskegon are also in the market for coaches. Gerry Delise, who performed both roles as manager-coach of the Zephyrs last year, will give up the coaching end. &#9632;

Dayton Entry Newest Addition To International Puck League

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01785/3072557-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="288" height="478"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Bentley</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.The selection committee of the Hall of Fame this year added the names of four former ice greats of the National Hockey League to their growing honor roll.Included in the new entries will be the late Babe Siebert, former defense star of the Montreal Maroons and Canadiens in the late 20&rsquo;s who tragically drowned many years later: Bill Durnan, another standout Canadiens&rsquo; performer who won hockey&rsquo;s Vezina Trophy six times as the NHL&rsquo;s leading goalkeeper: Black Jack Stewart and Doug Bentley, who rose to stardom in the big leagues with Chicago Black Hawks along with his brother Max, who has not been admitted to the hall as yet.Stewart, one of the league&rsquo;s hardest hitting backliners, was a three-time first team NHL all-star with Detroit Red Wings from 1942 to 1949. Bentley, himself a league all-star three times was one of the top left wingers of his day and scored 219 goals in his lifetime.Also included in this year&rsquo;s Hall of Fame additions under the heading of builders were Angus D. Campbell of Northern Ontario and Frank Dilio of Montreal Bill Chadwick, the NHL&rsquo;s top official for more than j a decade was admitted as a referee.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02674/3072550-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="551" height="918"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Stewarr</figcaption></div>Campbell was named for his work in stabilizing hockey in Northern Ontario while Dilio was chosen for his 35 years of ardent service to the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association as secretary.Under the regulations, the selection committee was at first empowered to choose only players up to 1939 but Siebert was the only one approved among several nominations. Durnan, Stewart and Bentley were picked from the 1939-45 period.Honorable mention among players went to Harry Oliver, Marty Barry. Red Horner, Hugh Aird, Pit Lepine and Alex Irvin.NHL owners have authorized presentation of a signet ring to every living member of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame. It is a replica of the Hall&rsquo;s emblem, and carries a suitable inscription.The latest additions brought the Hall of Fame grand total to 136, 97 of which are hockey players, 33 are builders and six are referees.The death of Frank D. Smith, 70 years of age, June 11 in Toronto, came two years after he was admitted to the Hall of Fame as a builder. He spent 50 years of his life founding and operating the Toronto Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03534/3072543-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="1098" height="1818"><figcaption class="caption-body">OLD ICE GREATS MEET: greatest performers of the past, NEWSY LALONDE, left, and FRED (CYCLONE) TAYLOR both Hall of Famers, met at this year&rsquo;s NHL summer meetings at which seven new Hall members were added.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Stewart, Durnan, Doug Bentley Admitted With Late Babe Siebert

<div class="byline">BY VERN DEGEER</div>MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;Jack Marshall, St. Vallier, Quebec-born and Montreal-raised athletic wizard celebrated his 87th birthday last March 18.Over a span of more than 40 years in active sports competitions from Montreal to Winnipeg and intermediate points Marshall accumulated an imposing stockpile of medals, silver trophies, pennants, caps and countless articles of merchandise for proficiency at rugby, football, baseball, soccer, lacrosse. ten-pin and duckpin bowling, track and field, and ice hockey.Since the turn of the century Canada has produced few athletes to match Marshall&rsquo;s all-round excellence in top-flight sport circles.Yet Jack&rsquo;s name again was missing when the latest additions were announced to the Hockey Fame Hall by the NHL.The last of our Little Men of Iron remains neglected, forgotten or whatever.It&rsquo;s a sad situation as we&rsquo;ve said many times before.Marshall played major hockey from 1901, starting with Winnipeg of an almost forgotten Manitoba League until his swansong season of 1917 with Montreal Wanderers.Along the route he appeared in seven Stanley Cup championship series and with four title teams (five if you include a trophy defence by his Montreal side in 1903.. Available records provided by hockey&rsquo;s leading historian Charles L. Coleman of North Hatley, Quebec, credit him with 99 goals in 132 games over the 1901-1917 seasons and 13 in 18 playoff games.His teams included Winnipeg Vics; Montreal A.A.A.&rsquo;s Little Men of Iron (1901-02) of which Marshall is the only living member: Wanderers, Montagnards, Shamrocks and Toronto (three years). &#9632;

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Peters, Popeil Tie For Rookie Honors

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Geoffrion Through As Player, Eyes Calder Cup, New Career In Becoming Quebec Aces Coach

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