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September 1, 1964

The Hockey News September 1, 1964

<div class="byline">BY BOB HARRIS</div>TORONTO, Ont.The Toronto Maple Leafs are still hockey&rsquo;s most potent professional team and for seven good reasons &mdash; Brewer, B a u n, Horton, Mahovlich, K e o n, Pulford and Bathgate.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-02130/3076631-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="286" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Bathgate</figcaption></div>No other National Hockey League team can match the three-time Stanley Cup champions in the matter of super stars and it is usually the club with the most big guns that shoots down the rest of the N.H.L. and the Leafs fit the description perfectly.Leafs and the other six teams have only broken from their training camp barriers across the East and already there are rumblings that both the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks will surpass the wondrous Leafs this seasons.Fact of the matter is neither the Canadiens nor Hawks come close to Punch Imlach&rsquo;s ageless crew in front-line performers despite their 30-plus years that covers more than half the team. It seems the Leafs are like a good wine. They get better with the years.With a seasoned but solid goalkeeping one-two of Johnny Bower and Terry Sawchuk, and a rock-ribbed defense of Tim Horton, Carl Brewer. Bobby Baun and Allan Stanley, it seems the Leafs will be most difficult to score against this season. They could conceivably end up with their best goals-against record in some time if the old legs hold up.What other club can match offensive power of Andy Bathgate, Dave Keon, Bob Pulford, Don McKenney, George Armstrong, Frank Mahovlich and others ?Bathgate and McKenney only joined the Leafs midway in last year&rsquo;s campaign and it wasn&rsquo;t long before the team became a force that led to their third straight cup win. With the two ex-Rangers in the fold from the very start this year, the Leafs could even be tougher than they were last season.Even if Dickie Moore does not report (mostly because he is hobbling about on crutches after knee surgery) and Red Kelly is forced to see limited servce because of the pressure of his Government job, the Leafs can still get home free and possibly to their fourth World hockey title.The seers may say the Leafs won&rsquo;t make it over the long, gruelling 70-game schedule, but few are willing to hazard a guess they&rsquo;ll finish out of the top spot. In fact, a&rsquo;general consensus is that it will be 1, Toronto. 2, Chicago. 3, Montreal. 4, Detroit. 5, Boston and 6, New York in that order come next March. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Super Stars Big Factor For 4th Cup

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

CLEVELAND O &mdash;Cleveland Barons and Springfield Indians pulled off a two player swap involving a pair of promising youngsters. As a result, the Barons have a new defenseman. He is Billy Speer, who was a rookie with the Indians last season. In exchange, Barons&rsquo; General Manager Jack Gordon sent 22-year-old Pete Shearer, a right winger, to Springfield. &rsquo;Shearer appeared in only 12 games for the Barons last season before he was shipped to Cincinnati of the Central Professional League for more seasoning. Pete came to the Barons with an illustrious amateur record. During his first year with the Barons (1962-63 season) he scored one goal and one assist in 42 ice appearances. Shearer, however, came back strong during last year&rsquo;s training camp sessions. Hopes that he could handle AHL competition began to rise, but after the season began Gordon felt he could use more seasoning.Speer appeared in only 28 games for Springfield last season, netting two goals and four assists. Despite the fact that he was used sparingly, Gordon was quite impressed with Speer&rsquo;s performances against the Barons. Speer is 23 years-old, 5-10 and 187 pounds.&rsquo;I feel that Pete will someday mature into a fine player,&rdquo; said Gordon. I was a little reluctant in trading him at first, but then a need to bolster our defensive corps is in order at this time, Gordon added.The Barons opened training camp September 15 in Montreal.The American Hockey League champions will begin defending their crown October 10 in BaKimore. The Barons open at home on October 17 against the Rochester Americans.The Barons have a new training camp site this season. After nine years of training in St. Thomas, Ont., the club moved its training camp to Montreal.Camp opened in the Montreal Forum, which will also serve as the training base for the Montreal Canadiens and the Omaha Knights of the Central Professional Hockey League.The teams will eventually move over to the new Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal. A heavy exhibition schedule between the three clubs teams is being formulated. The Barons will leave camp on October 9 and journey to Balitmore for the 1963-64 opener. &#9632;

Cleveland Swaps Shearer For Indians’ Bill Speer As Barons Shift Ice Camp

<div class="byline">&#x2014;BERRY.</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The Red Wings will plunge head-first into &ldquo; television this season, televising all 18 road games the second half of the campaign in their entirety back to Detoit.The break-through came with the formation of WKBD, a new Ultra High Frequency station which will begin operating Jan. 1 and is owned by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. The station will specialize in sports programming including the Wings, Detroit Pistons pro basketball, and all athletic events of the University of Detroit, University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Detroit High School athletic events. The station, second of five for which Kaiser has licenses, plans on carrying six hours of sports daily. Kaiser already has one UHF station operating in Hawaii and has licenses for California, Chicago and Philadelphia.The hooker is the UHF but Red Wing business manager Lincoln Cavalieri isn&rsquo;t worried about it. Most stations are VHF &mdash; Very High Friquency. However, since April 30 this year, all sets manufactured in the United States were required to be UHF-equipped as well as VHF. J &ldquo;Adapters run from $20 to $40,&rdquo; said Red Wing business manager Lincoln Cavalieri who handled the TV negotiations and has been a prime mover to get the Wings on the screen since he came to Olympia.In order to avoid a scrap with Toronto Maple Leaf fans in neighboring Windsor, Cavalieri said that on the three nights when the Wings have schedule conflicts with the Leafs, they will allow the Leaf games to be shown on CKLW-TV.However, the Leaf games are picked up in progress whereas the Wings&rsquo; games will be shown from the start.&ldquo;This could be the start of a national hockey network on UHF stations,&rdquo; Cavalieri said.The NHL had talks going with the American Broadcasting Co. to televise games after the football season ended but they fell through and ABC picked up the National Basketball Association instead.&ldquo;The beauty of UHF is that you don&rsquo;t have to worry about network commitments during the prime evening hours,&rdquo; Cavalieri said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s always been one of the biggest stumbling blocks towards a national hockey network.&rdquo; &#9632;

Red Wings’ New Television Deal May Be Start Of Hockey Network

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Roger Crozier is a little man as hockey goal keepers go but the raw - boned Detroit rookie is probably facing the biggest test of any player in the National Hockey League this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0363/3076662-1-eng-US/f0001-032.jpg" title="f0001-03" width="308" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roger Crozier</figcaption></div>That of filling Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s big ice brogans.The 22-year-oId Crozier knows only too well that he is on the spot with the Red Wings this year.As Sawchuk&rsquo;s understudy in 1963-64, Crozier participated in but 15 games and yet today he finds himself tossed into the breach as the No. 1 netminder with the Red Wings.Crozier says the thought of the Wings relying on him for an entire 70-game schedule has given him a few sleepless nights during the off season, but he isn&rsquo;t letting it get him down.&ldquo;Yes, I know the pressure will be on me but it is something I have to live with if I hope to become an NHL goaler,&rdquo; said Crozier at the Wings&rsquo; pre-season training camp.Crozier will get plenty of chance to show his wares with Detroit playing eight of its 13 exhibition games against other NHL clubs.Selected as the American League&rsquo;s rookie of the year last season with Pittsburgh Hornets, Crozier has moved into the top spot in less than one year. Looking at the Detroit back-up men, he had better not falter or the Wings will be forced to scour the NHL for goaling help.But the Red Wings&rsquo; coach Sid Abel is confident Crozier can do the job. &#9632;

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Crozier On Hot Seat As Red Wings ’ No. 1 Goaler

<div class="byline">BY LEO MONAHAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01158/3076600-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">WALTER BROWN &hellip; Heart Attack Fatal To Hockey Exec.</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass. &mdash;Tributes from all walks of life &mdash; sports, business, government-poured in for a great sportsman, Walter Augustine Brown, who died suddenly Sept. 7 of a massive coronary. He was 59.The world of sports and hockey in particular had lost a great friend in the death of Brown, president and founder of the Boston basketball Celtics, a member of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame, general manager of the Boston Garden, &lsquo;angel&rsquo; of the Boston Marathon and a man prominent on the international scene for nearly four decades.The greats of sports &mdash; and Brown certainly was one of them &mdash; paid their final homage here in Boston Sept. 11. There were personal tributes from men like Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Governor Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts, co-owner Lou Pieri of the Celtics, NHL President Clarence Campbell, Boston Garden president Weston Adams and Frank J. Selke of the Montreal Canadiens among many more.&ldquo;Walter&rsquo;s passing was a great shock to every sportsman in the world, but an even greater loss to those of us who were fortunate enough to be numbered among his host of friends,&rdquo; said Weston Adams. Brown&rsquo;s long-time Bruins&rsquo; associate.From all over the nation, former Celtics and Bruins, associates in the National Basketball Ass&rsquo;n. National Hockey League, U.S. Olympic Committee and the many other ventures with which Brown was connected, sorrowed at his unexpected passing.<h2>Hockey Brown&rsquo;s Favorite Sport</h2>Hockey was Brown&rsquo;s favorite sport. Once he said: &ldquo;Heck, it&rsquo;s the only one I know anything about.&rdquo; This wasn&rsquo;t quite true, but Brown, despite his renown, was a modest man. NHL President Campbell summed up Brown&rsquo;s many contributions. Said Campbell:&ldquo;He has been devoted to the game all his life. He has done more for hockey in the United States than any other person &hellip; in 1951 he restored the Boston Bruins to public confidence and a sound financial basis &hellip; there was no facet of Boston&rsquo;s sporting and charitable community effort to which he had not contributed leadership and enthusiastic support.&rdquo;Only recently, Brown, a visionary, was establishing a Boston entry in the Eastern Hockey League to develop players for the U.S. Olympic effort. It was under Brown&rsquo;s direction that the U.S. won the Olympic hockey title in 1960.Brown succeeded his father, the late George V., as general manager of Boston Gardens in 1937. He was one of the first to &lsquo;book&rsquo; Ice Follies, a show that, along with Ice Capades, of which Brown was one of the founders, annually provides the difference between profit and loss in a Garden season.A promoter, an entrepreneur, a public relations expert, Brown came up with the idea of an indoor ski show: girl&rsquo;s softball games; the Boston Olympics. He helped found the National Basketball Ass&rsquo;n. in 1945 and when the Celtics had heavy sledding, he &mdash; along with Providence&rsquo;s Lou Pieri &mdash; purchased the team from the GardenArena Corp, and turned it into a money-maker.Brown&rsquo;s &ldquo;office,&rdquo; often times, was a suite in a Toronto hotel, on a plane flying to Sweden or Switzerland, virtually any place in the world. He took planes like we&rsquo;d use the MTA. Still, important and busy as he was, he&rsquo;d always be available to a Garden fan for a chat in the East Lobby, a word of greeting, a handshake.&ldquo;Heck,&rdquo; he&rsquo;d say, somewhat shyly, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just a hick from Hopkinton trying to make a living like anybody else.&rdquo;Brown&rsquo;s list of affiliates is lengthy. He was vice-president of the Amateur Hockey Ass&rsquo;n., past president of the International Hockey Federation, representative of the AHA to the U.S. Olympic Ass&rsquo;n., president of the Arena Manager&rsquo;s Ass&rsquo;n.,; vice-president of Ice Capades, president of the Celtics, a member of the NBA&rsquo;s Board of Governors, president of the Bruins and a member of the NHL s Board of Governors.He was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962 as a builder of the game he loved so much. &#9632;

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Sports World Mourns Loss Of Walter Brown

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich. &mdash;Sid Abel&rsquo;s plan to get the Red Wings off to a quick start in the National Hockey League season is reflected in the Wing&rsquo;s 13-game exhibition schedule.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01741/3075421-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="295" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>Eight of the 13 games are against NHL teams &mdash; three with both Stanley Cup champion Toronto and Chicago and one each with New York and Boston.&ldquo;The boys put out harder against NHL clubs and I think get into shape faster,&rdquo; Abel said in explaining the preponderance of major league opponents.Three of the other games will be against the Pittsburgh-Memphis farm hands and the other two with Toronto&rsquo;s new Tulsa, Okla., farm club at Tulsa.One of the Pittsburgh-Memphis encounters will be played in left wing Larry Jeffrey&rsquo;s hometown, Goderich, Ont. Another will be at Gordie Howe&rsquo;s suburban Detroit rink.Taking advantage of the NHL&rsquo;s new policy on exhibition games against member clubs in NHL rinks, the Wings will face both Toronto and Chicago at Olympia.The Maple Leafs will help open the Wings exhibition campaign Sept. 17 at Olympia, just 11 days after Abel opens camp, and the Hawks will be in Sept. 27.Detroit-area fans will have plenty of opportunity to appraise the Wings before the season officially opens here Oct. 15 with the Leafs, the club Detroit closed against in the seventh game of the Stanley Cup finals last spring.In addition to the two Olympia exhibitions and the one at Howe&rsquo;s Hockeyland, the Wings will helo the New York Rangers kick off their new Junior B team in cross-river Windsor on Oct. 7.There also will be a Detroit vs. Pittsburgh&mdash;Memphis exhibition in nearby Leamington, Ont., and, of course, the Wings will hold their training camp at Olympia for the seventh straight year.It will be a split camp with the Red Wing regulars from last season plus newly acquired players and outstanding farm prospects reporting Sept. 8 and the rest of the players come in Sept. 14.Activity at Olympia started Aug. 10 with the third annual Red Wing School under the direction of Johnny Mitchell, administrative assistant to Abel.Following are Wings Exhibition games:Sept. 17 Toronto at Detroit.Sept. 19 at Toronto.Sept. 20 Toronto at Kitchener&mdash;matinee.Sept. 22 Boston at London.Sept. 24 Chicago at Hamilton.Sept. 26 Chicago at St. Catharines.Sept. 27 Chicago at DetroitSept. 29 Pittsburgh-Memphis at GoderichSept. 30 Pittisburgh-Memphis at LeamingtonOct. 1 Pittsburgh-Memphis at Hockeyland.Oct. 4 at TulsaOct. 6 at Tulsa.Oct. 7 New York at Windsor<h2>Our &lsquo;All-Star&rsquo; Issue</h2>Commencing with the first 1964-65 edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS, which will come off the press the week of Oct. 5, we will present our annual All-Star game issue in tribute to the 18th National Hockey League classic which will again be played this year in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens.This special issue will contain pictures, post-game stories, statistics and highlights of the star-studded game, which this season will bring together the Toronto Maple Leafs, Stanley Cup champions, and a select team of all-stars from the other five NHL clubs.Hockey fans consider this All-Star game issue a collector&rsquo;s item. Don&rsquo;t fail to get your copy. &#9632;

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Wings Play Eight Exhibition Games Against NHL Teams

&mdash; DETROIT, Mich.Alex Faulkner, the only Newfoundlander to make the NHL, has informed the Detroit Red Wings he will not be returning to the team this season.In fact, Faulkner said he planned to remain at home in Harbor Grace, Nfld., where he will play senior amateur hockey with his two brothers, George and Jack.Faulkner, who is 28, said he had other reasons for wanting to stay in Newfoundland this winter, one of which concerned a business deal. He said he had quite a bit of trouble with iniuries last year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02690/3075452-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="300" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Faulkner</figcaption></div>Faulkner said he will be paid a salary &lsquo;comparable&rsquo; to what he would receive if he played with Pittsburgh, roughly $9,000.The loss of Faulkner was reported just as the Wings plunged into the start of training camp at the Olympia.38 players skated onto the ice at Olympia Stadium ice for the opening day of training camp. For the seventh consecutive year, Manager-Coach Sid Abel&rsquo;s team and its affiliates are working out on the Wings&rsquo; home ice in Detroit.With the camp being divided into two groups for the first time this year, Abel and Head Scout Jimmie Skinner have invited to the first session all of last season&rsquo;s Red Wings regulars, all newly-acquired and drafted players, plus the top prospects from Detroit&rsquo;s pro clubs &mdash; Pittsburgh and Memphis.Also taking part in the drills were five former amateurs Who were with the Junior Edmonton Oil Kings last year. They are defenseman Bert Marshall, and forwards Glen Sather, Stewart &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Paul, Greg Pilling and Max Mestinsek. Abel plans to take a long look at these highly-ranked youngsters.On hand in the first group of 38 skaters were four goalies, 11 defensemen, 9 left wings, five centers and 9 right wings. The second group numbers 39, for a total of 77 players at the monthlong camp. Looking over the &ldquo;troops&rdquo; during the entire camp will be, in addition to Abel and Skinner, Vic Stasiuk, Pittsburgh player-coach and Eddie Bush, new Memphis coach.Players coming to their first Red Wing camp are left wing Ron Murphy and defenseman Aut Erickson, obtained from Chicago this summer; and four draftees &mdash; goalie George Gardner (from Boston), defenseman Gary Bergman (Montreal), left wing Murray Hall and right wing George &ldquo;Duke&rdquo; Harris (both from Chicago).Only one familiar face is missing from the Red Wing camp this fall &mdash; veteran goaltender Terry Sawchuk, who was drafted by Toronto. Filling Terry&rsquo;s no. 1 sweater will be 22-year-old Roger Crozier, the American League&rsquo;s rookie-of-the-year last season. He also played 15 games with Detroit in 1963-64. &#9632;

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Faulkner Quits Red Wings As Abel Opens Big Camp; 77 Seekina Club Berths

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01746/3075514-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="270" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Hall</figcaption></div>CHICAGO. Ill. &mdash;Denis DeJordy, surely the highest-paid practice goalie in hockey history last year, may be assured that he&rsquo;ll spend considerably more time tending t h e Black Hawk nets in National Hockey League competition this season.This assurance comes from no less an authority than Hawk Coach Billy Reay, who developed a tremendous regard for the abilities of the St. Hyacinthe, Que. youngster two years ago when Denis tended the nets for Billy&rsquo;s Buffalo team that swept all the honors in the American league.In fact, Billy brought Denis along with him from the Bisons when he took over the Hawks from Rudy Pilous last season and announced, with the approval of Manager Tommy Ivan that DeJordy would spell regular goalie Glenn Hall whenever it was felt that the 32-year-old star would benefit from a rest.&ldquo;It was a reasonable plan but things just never worked out,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Billy. &ldquo;When the race (which the Haw&rsquo;ks lost by a point on the final night) tightened up, we felt that we had to go with Glenn, who was having a great year.&rdquo;Denis played his last game for for the Hawks during the regular season New Year&rsquo;s night in the Stadium, losing 5-1 to the Rangers. Thereafter, he replaced Jack McCartan in the St. Louis nets once and played one period during the Hawks playoff loss to Detroit.&ldquo;All I really can say is that Denis will work more regularly,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to set up any schedule and there certainly isn&rsquo;t any plan to alternate them.&rdquo;DeJordy-seemed to take his rather strange role of traveling practice goalie in stride, but he did admit that he was having trouble staying sharp without the benefit of competition.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02622/3075507-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1770" height="1158"><figcaption class="caption-body">DENNIS DEJORDY &hellip; Readv For Reqular NHL Goaling Duty</figcaption></div>At no time, though, did he indicate that he&rsquo;d prefer playing regularly in the minors, although he knew that a demotion would cost him nothing as far as salary is concerned.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think that the inactivity hurt Denis at all last year,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;And neither does he. In fact, he told me that he thought he learned a lot just watching from the press boxes around the league and studying the styles of the various players.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a very level-headed kid, has a good temperament, and I&rsquo;m sure he&rsquo;ll play this year as though he&rsquo;d been playing all along.&rdquo;During Denis&rsquo; two years with Buffalo he generally was regarded as the best netminder in the American League. Last year, it was felt that he was the best non-working goalie in the National league. This year, apparently, he&rsquo;s going to get the chance to prove whether or not he deserved all the tribute.Reay says the Hawks this season &ldquo;will be a young one overall, with some added strength through summer trades, particularly at defence.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Reay Sees More Net Work For Hawk Standby DeJordy

CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash;The Black Hawks will play all NHL teams except Montreal during their exhibition schedule this year starting with the World Champion Toronto Maple Leafs on Sept. 13.There will be two games with Toronto, Sept. 13 and 22; three with Detroit, Sept. 24, 26 and 27; two with Boston Sept. 18 and 19, and one with the Rangers on Oct. 6.After opening camp on Sept. 8, the Hawks will meet the world champs five days later in the St. Catharines rink on Sept. 13, so Coach Billy Reay won&rsquo;t have to wait long to see how his boys are shaping up.Longest trip will be to Quebec where the Hawks meet Montreal&rsquo;s farm team, the Aces, in a pair at Quebec and Soreil on Oct. 3 and 4. Earlier that week they will play a pair with their own farm team, the Buffalo Bisons.Following is the complete schedule:Sun. - Sept. 13 Toronto Maple Leafs, St. Catharines, Ont.Fri. - Sept. 18, Boston Bruins, London, Ont.Sat. - Sept. 19, Boston Bruins, St. Catharines, Ont.Tues. - Sept. 22, Toronto Maple Leafs, Peterborough, Ont.Thurs. - Sept. 24, Detroit Red Wings, Hamilton, Ont.Sat. - Sept. 26, Detroit Red Wings, St. Catharines, Ont.Sun. - Sept. 27, Detroit Red Wings. Detroit, Mich.Tues. - Sept. 29, Buffalo Bisons, Welland, Ont.Thurs. - Oct. 1, Buffalo Bisons, St. Catharines, Ont.Sat. - Oct. 3, Quebec Aces, Soreil. Quebec. &rsquo;Sun. - Oct. 4, Quebec Aces, Quebec City, Que.Tues. - Oct. 6, New York Rangers, Kitchen or. Ont. &#9632;

Hawks To Play Four NHL Teams In Camp Games

NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash;Sweden&rsquo;s Ulf Sterner, who&rsquo;s been called the best hockey player in Europe, is attending the New York Rangers&rsquo; training Camp at Winnipeg. Mani-toba. He is the first European ever to seek a berth with the Rangers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03417/3075576-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="273" height="474"><figcaption class="caption-body">Arnie Brown</figcaption></div>Sterner, who starred last year for the Swedish National team in the Winter Olympic Games at Innsbruck, Austria, also attended the Ranger camp last season. He was scheduled to have a five-game National Hockey League tryout, but European amateur regulations prevented it.Ranger coach George (Red) Sulivan is high on Sterner. &ldquo;I never saw anyone improve as fast as he did last year,&rdquo; Sullivan said.Sterner, 23, is normally a center, but he can also play left wing.The Rangers will have four full weeks to get ready for the new season. The team opens the National Hockey League schedule in Boston, October 12, and plays the next night in Madison Square Garden against the Montreal Canadiens.The Rangers are training this year with their top farm club, the Baltimore Clippers of the American Hockey League. This is the second straight year the Rangers have trained at Winnipeg and the facilities there are among the best in Canada.&ldquo;The large ice-surface at the Winnipeg Arena is ideal for training,&rdquo; Sullivan noted. &ldquo;Some of the other NHL clubs start their drills a few days earlier but our squad is generally in pretty good shape.&rdquo;There are several newcomers in camp this year, including the five men obtained in last season&rsquo;s big trade with Toronto. Veteran forwards Dick Duff and Bob Nevin, who played the final month of the season with the Rangers, are making their first appearances at a Ranger camp along with the three rookies in the deal, Arnie Brown, Rod Seiling and Bill Collins.Brown and Collins finished last season with Baltimore. Brown figures to be a regular member of the Ranger defense corps this year. Seiling, only 19, can play defense or forward. He showed well in a two-game trial with the Rangers last year. He&rsquo;s in his first year as a pro after a star-studded junior career.Another new face in camp is Jim Mikol. who played the past four years with the Cleveland Barons of the American League. He can play left wing or defense. The Rangers got him in the summer draft.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04246/3075569-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="522" height="598"><figcaption class="caption-body">ULF STERNER</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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European Ace Ulf Sterner Seeking NHL Berth

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Hawks’ Camp Lineup

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Rangers’ Training Roster

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01805/3075690-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="224" height="240"></div>&bull; HOCKEY and the world in general lost one of its finest citizens in the passing of Walter Brown on September 7. President and NHL Governor of the Boston Bruins, president and founder of the Boston Celtics and general manager of the Boston Garden, Brown was indeed one of God&rsquo;s chosen gentlemen. Of all the people we&rsquo;ve encountered in hockey, both professional and amateur, he was by far the most universally liked and respected &hellip; The Boston newspapers devoted reams of copy on the sudden passing of the 59-year-old sportsman. Tributes were paid to him on the editorial pages of the Boston papers as well as in the other sections. We particularly liked the following which appeared on the editorial page of the Boston American:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02759/3075683-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="155" height="247"><figcaption class="caption-body">Walter Brown</figcaption></div>&ldquo;WALTER BROWN&rsquo;S devotion to sports, both as an ardent fan and as a successful promoter, won him deserved recognition as an outstanding sportsman.This reputation was built mostly upon his achievements as president of the Boston Garden Corporation, and as president of the Boston Bruins and the Boston Celtics.Less widely known was the interest he devoted to helping his fellow men; to amateur athletes and athletics. Although professionally he was a promoter, personally he was a modest man who led an exemplary family life.He devoted so much time and talent, travel and money to welfare programs affecting the unfortunate that it had become almost a Boston custom, when help was needed for a deserving cause, to appeal to Walter Brown. He never refused.His sudden death from a heart attack robs Boston not only of a pre-eminent figure in the world of sports, but also of a distinguished citizen and a grand guy. He will be sorely missed.&rdquo;&bull; FOUR of the six writers picked Toronto to finish first in the annual pre-season poll conducted by HOCKEY PICTORIAL. One writer named Chicago for first while another went for Montreal &hellip; These pre-season predictions appear in the September issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL which also has a complete rundown on the strong and weak spots, question marks, new faces and outlook on all six National Hockey League clubs &hellip; Excellent story in this issue on Jack Riley, the new president of the American Hockey League. . HOCKEY PICTORIAL will run a Hockey Crossword puzzle in each issue this season &hellip; Johnny Bower has become an Easterner for good. He sold all his holdings in the West and recently purchased a house in Toronto &hellip; Andy Bathgate celebrated his 32nd birthday covering the Carling $200,000 golf tournament at Oakland Hills for the CBC. Andy works as a sports announcer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the summer months &hellip; Buster Brayshaw, coach of the Edmonton Oil Kings, just finished running a rookie camp and says it was the best group of 16-year-olds he has had during his five-year tenure &hellip; Hammy Moore, former trainer of the Boston Bruins, now manages three golf clubs operated by the same company in the Boston area.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03661/3075676-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="155" height="250"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption></div>&bull; COACH BILLY REAY is said to be worrying because two of his Black Hawks are ailing. Bobby Hull&rsquo;s hand injury has not responded as expected and Stan Mikita is unable to put back the 10 pounds that would bring him back to his normal playing weight &hellip; Only five players have worn sweater No. 7 of the New York Rangers. They are Frank Boucher, Phil Watson, Don Raleigh, Red Sullivan and the latest, Rod Gilbert &hellip; New York Rovers of the Eastern Hockey League will play 16 Sunday afternoon dates at Madison Square Garden &hellip; Dollard St. Laurent will be the manager-coach of the Verdun Pirates, a new entry in Len O&rsquo;Donnell&rsquo;s Provincial Senior Hockey League operating in Quebec. Other teams in the circuit are Granby, Drummondville, Sherbrooke and St. Hyacinthe &hellip; New York Rangers hired a first-rate publicist when they replaced the recently resigned Herb Goren with John Halligan &hellip; A 1963 graduate of Fordham University, Halligan served as Goren&rsquo;s assistant last year, and was one of the best publicity men in hockey. He is a former sports editor of the Palisades Newspaper Group in Englewood, N.J. and a former member of the sports staff of the Associated Press.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04565/3075669-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="153" height="234"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rod Gilbert</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">BY ELMER FERGUSON</div>(As Seen In The Montreal Star)EIGHTEEN years ago, the governors of the National Hockey League made one of the smartest moves they ever accomplished&mdash;beneficial for the League itself, even more beneficial for the players therein, and most of all, for major professional hockey as a career, rather than as a hit-or-miss sort of game.That night of September 4, 1946, the League heads elected as president Lieut. Col. Clarence Sutherland Campbell, and if, perchance, Clarence Campbell should quit the job tomorrow he will leave behind him a lasting monument, in the Players Pension Fund, the richest in any professional sport. It is the Fund that he originated, and which makes professional hockey at the top level a career, rather than a passing pastime.We recall that on the night Clarence Campbell was hired for the job, a League governor made this observation: &ldquo;What we need is a man with a judicial mind &mdash; a man of stature. He should have sufficient means or, at least, a profession in which he can earn a first-class living, so that he doesn&rsquo;t need the job. This will increase his independence. It&rsquo;s a case where the job should seek the man, not the man seek the job.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05451/3075721-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="211" height="304"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLARENCE CAMPBELL</figcaption></div>Clarence Campbell filled all such requirements. As a student, he won a Rhodes scholarship. He knew hockey, as a player and a referee. He had been a soldier who did active service through World War II, and a lawyer who played a brilliant part in one of the great post-war dramas, as one of the prosecuting counsel in the trial of the Nazi general, Kurt Meyer. This product of the fanatic Hitler Youth Movement was accused in his capacity of general of the 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitler Jugend) of responsibility for the brutal slaying of nineteen Canadian soldier prisoners who gallantly refused to talk, stubbornly declined, though clubbed and beaten, to divulge any military information. And so they were walked, one by one, into the garden of ancient Abbey Ardennes, and there either shot in the back of the head, or clubbed to death, then hastily buried. Meyer was sentenced to death. Then, by military order, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and part of his term the Nazi general, now dead, served in Canada.ELECTION of the quiet, grey-haired Campbell, precise and clipped in his utterances, apparently of non-sentimental nature, created one of the sharpest contrasts of personality the League had known. For Campbell replaced boisterous Mervyn &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Dutton, who after a few years at the helm of hockey&rsquo;s major group, had decided to return to his contracting business in Alberta.But beneath a cool exterior, there&rsquo;s plenty of warm sentiment. For instance, Campbell carries in his pocket even now a picture of the grave of Freddy Wigle, famous McGill football and hockey player, Lieut. Col., DSO, OBE, of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. Wigle, killed in action, was one of his personal friends. He seems aloof, only until you talk to him, and find him friendly, and highly interesting.Campbell was pension-conscious from the very moment he became president of the NHL. He had been in office only a few days when he told this agent: &ldquo;Hockey is a career, either lifetime or temporary, to which any Canadian parent should be able to conscientiously direct a son who shows exceptional aptitude for the game.&rdquo;The pension plan has done that.Occasionally, there&rsquo;s talk that two referees would be better than one, handling this highspeed game. Says Campbell: &ldquo;I like the one referee system, with two linesmen, much better. There&rsquo;s always a disparity in the standards of efficiency, and in interpretation of rules and plays. Two referees are liable to make slight differences of interpretation, and confuse the spectators, not to say annoy them.&rdquo;CLARENCE CAMPBELL is the second western-born president of an organization that operates exclusively in the east. &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Dutton was the other. Dutton came east, when the western hockey confederacy collapsed, to play with Maroons. He was traded to Americans, financed that team in part when the Bill Dwyer money ran short. When, at about the same time, Frank Calder died, and the presidency became vacant, Dutton was steered into the job. He didn&rsquo;t particularly like it and we got the impression he was rather glad to retire on his own volition. Campbell was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, and in his earlier days his family was undecided whether sport or music should be his recreational career. After listening for six months or so to his efforts to produce melody from the family piano, they enthusiastically decided on sport.Though 50 per cent Scottish by descent, Campbell is a fluent talker, speaks rapidly, but precisely, with the precision that comes from extensive legal training, from military and sports discipline. His memory for dates and names is almost phenomenal in its accuracy. The Scots are traditionally a folk of a few words, so it is possible that from his Irish ancestry, which constitutes the other 50 per cent of the Campbell racial background, he got his gift of the gab. &#9632;

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Setting Up Players Pension Fund Major Step In President’s Career

&mdash; CHICAGO, Ill.Stan Mikita, National Hockey League&rsquo;s leading scorer and All-Star center, will be only too happy to meet prospective hockey players at the four locations where he is planning a hockey school this fall.The Stan Mikita hockey school opened Sept. 12 with 12 week courses at River Forest, Park Ridge, Dolton and 7425 S. Loomis in Chicago.Special instructors will give skating lessons and hold scrimmages for the classes which will be kept to a maximum of 20 students each. Mikita stresses the necessity of hockey players learning how to skate. So one hour per week will be devoted to skating and one hour to scrimmage work with intersquad games held between the classes and between the various schools.Michael Kirby, former skating star of various ice shows, has joined with Mikita in presenting the hockey schools. &#9632;

Hawks’ Star Stan Mikita Plans Hockey Schools In Chicago Area

The response to our suggestion box m the July issue was to put it mildly, tremendous. We asked you the readers to give us a straight, honest opinion of what new ideas and improvements could be made in THE HOCKEY NEWS which will be expanded to 20 full pages for the new season.We are pleased to announce that many of your suggestions have been adopted and they will be incorporated in the 1964-65 editions throughout the hockey year.The publisher of THE HOCKEY NEWS, Ken McKenzie, wishes to thank everyone who responded to our request and in particular we would like to tip our hat to the following people for their constructive letters:Rose E. Peterson, Trenton. Ont.John J. Horgan, Saint John, N.B.William Taylor, New Hyde Park. N.Y.David Johnston, La Grange Park, Ill.S. Kaplan, Brooklyn, N.Y.Fred Bloom, no given address.Lt. D. W. Platt, USN, Ewa Beach. Hawaii.Raymond Greenaugh, Newport, N.S.Richard Feddor, Chicago, Ill.Mrs. J. R. McDermott, Detroit. Mich.Mrs. Robin Kenyon, Squilax, B.C.Diane J. Eby, St. Catharines, Ont.J. A. Belyea, Saint John, N.B.Raymond F. Bell, Albany, N.Y.Charles A. Adamek, Lombard. Ill.Joseph Kane, Toronto, Ont.Kenny Jansen, Ridgeway. Ont.Karl Marsh, Guilford, Conn.Orval Allen, Engelbert, Ont.Bill Lukachuk, Lachine, Que.B. Shadbolt, Greenford, Middlesex, Eigland.Robert E. Oade, Royal Oak. Mich.Joe M. Cates, Port Alberni, B.C.Gerald Modell, Chicago, Ill.Ronald La Traverse, Linciln, R.I.G.H. Anderson, Barrie, Ont.Andrew A. Nowicki, Stavely, Alta.Mike Davis, San Francisco, Calif.Mr. and Mrs. Robert Giles, Sydenham, Ont.H.Wargocki, Bronx, N.Y.J. Callary, Spryfield, N.S.Mrs. A. Sigourney, Nahant, Mass.John Schofield. Chicago, Ill.Bernard Brinnitzer, Algonquin, Ill.Paul M. Winnell, Toronto, Ont.Herbert A. Loeb, Chicago, Hl.Mr. and Mrs. William H. Drury, Chelmsford, Mass.Tom Bailey, Ridgeville, Ont. &#9632;

Thanking Our Readers

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL Que.The Montreal Canadiens, long noted for their powerful attack and scoring strength, could be icing a more defensively - minded unit in the season ahead.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01749/3075800-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="151" height="235"><figcaption class="caption-body">Charlie Hodge</figcaption></div>That&rsquo;s just a theory, of course, but one that can be viewed in the light of their classy defensive record and not-so-classy scoring total, last season. By the time the shooting was over, last Spring, Canucks had held the opposition to a meagre 167 goals but had managed only 209 themselves. It was the least number of goals the team has netted in the past 10 seasons.The swing to defensive strength began in the second half of last season when Hodge finally came into his own, the rookie defence tightened, and forwards began to backcheck with a vengeance. As a result, the defensive record of the club in the last half of the season was vastly improved over what it had been earlier. Habs gave up only 75 goals in the last 35 games of the schedule. They&rsquo;d allowed 92 in the first half.The change-over to a defensive role paid off in terms of a Vezina Trophy for Hodge, a Calder Cup for Laperriere, and a league title for the team even though they were outscored by Chicago. Who could blame them if they decide to follow the same pattern again, this year?Toe Blake pointed out, recently, that the element of youth on the Hab blueline &mdash; notably Laperriere and Harper &mdash; meant that improvement could be expected from them in the season ahead. Though both of these young rearguards came up with outstanding performances last year, the fact that they&rsquo;re only at the beginning of their careers indicates that they&rsquo;ve yet to achieve their full potential. When they do, they could provide Canadiens with one of the strongest defenses in hockey.Then, too, there are some highly rated prospects on the farm who could play big defensive roles with Canucks in the near future. In addition to Ted Harris and Bryan Watson, both of whom had flings last season and will be watched carefully at camp, this month, there&rsquo;s a young man named Noel Picard on the way up. A 205-lb. chunk of muscle, he&rsquo;s tabbed as one of the toughest customers to come down the pike in a long time. He played for Omaha last year, and will be with Canucks in training. &#9632;

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Habs’ Strength Could Be Defensive With Hodae Aaain Backbone Of Team

<div class="byline">By LEO MONAHAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01836/3075831-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="557" height="913"><figcaption class="caption-body">ART ROSS</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Art Ross, 78, hockey pioneer, innovator, strategist, promoter and Hall of Famer, died here Aug. 5 ending a great era in Boston hockey.Ross, perhaps more than any other man, established professional hockey in Boston. As Manager-Coach, he assembled the Bruins team that played its first game here Dec. 1, 1924 at the Arena. Five years later Ross directed the club that brought Boston its first of three Stanley Cup championships.Eddie Shore, Mr. Hockey to many Bruins&rsquo; fans, was a Ross discovery, protege and, at times, feuding partner, Ross&rsquo; colorful and fantastic career traced to his days as an outstanding player for teams in the booming Northern Ontario mining towns of Cobalt and Kenora, continued with the Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa Senators before he turned to refereeing, then coaching.It was Ross who strung together Boston&rsquo;s famed Dynamite-Line of Clapper, Weiland and Gainor, who brought to Boston goaltender Tiny Thompson and his successor Frankie &lsquo;Mr. Zero&rsquo; Brimsek and it was Ross who formed and trained the Stanley Cup champions who boasted players like Harra Oliver, George Owen, Lionel Hitchman and Cy Denneny and, later, the powerhouses anchored by Bill Cowley, Roy Conacher, Johnny Crawford, Flash Hollett, Mel &lsquo;Sudden Death&rsquo; Hill.One of Ross&rsquo; greatest moves was forming the famed Grant Line of Milt Schmidt, Bobby Bauer and Woody Dumart. He spotted Schmidt as a swift-skating 16-year-old out of Kitchener, Ont. and ; told intimates :&ldquo;No player I&rsquo;ve seen was much better than Schmidt.&rdquo;Ross had few peers as an innovator. He invented the Art Ross I puck and Art Ross net, in use today. Just a few years back when officials were puzzled how to distinguish the center red line from the blue lines for TV, Ross had an instant solution : &ldquo;Make it a i striped line.&rdquo;As a promoter, Ross was extremely imaginative. He feuded long and loud in a pseudo-serious vendetta with Toronto&rsquo;s Connie Smythe. He knew how to pack the Garden, not only with standout i teams, but through publicity.Arthur Howey Ross was born January 13, 1886 in Naughton, Ont. He was the 12th of 13 children of Thomas B. Ross, boss of a Hudson Bay fur trading largely with Ojibway Indians. He spoke fluent Ojibway. He learned to skate on Whitefish Lake, using clamp-on blades and, at 19, 5-feet-ll and 180 pounds, after travels had taken him to St. Johns, Que., and Montreal, he was one of Canada&rsquo;s outstanding athletes, proficient not only at hockey but as an ambidextrous baseball pitcher, a left-footed football star and a motorcycle racer.It was truly fitting that Art Ross lived to see his name etched in Hockey&rsquo;s Hall Of Fame. &#9632;

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Hockey Innovator, Hall Of tamer, Ari Ross Dead At Age 78

<div class="byline">BY DINK CARROLL</div>(As Seen In The Montreal Gazette)<h2>The Late Art Ross</h2>Art Ross, who died in Boston at the age of 78, was a fine all-round athlete, though we never saw him perform. But the late Lester Patrick and others who played both with and against him used to say that he was one of those natural athletes who could excel at any game he took up.When he was a youth in Westmount there wasn&rsquo;t so much emphasis on professional sport and the seasons did not overlap as they do today. Boys played baseball or lacrosse in the summer, football in the fall, and hockey in the winter. Sometimes they also participated in aquatic sports, track and field meets, tennis, and did a bit of boxing or wrestling. They didn&rsquo;t play golf because the game hadn&rsquo;t yet become popular, though Art Ross took it up later and spent much of his time on the golf course or in the clubhouse.You don&rsquo;t find his type around any more. In this era of specialization, a boy picks his particular sport and concentrates on it. If he is good enough at it, the pros spot him early and his course is charted for him.Art eventually did become a professional hockey player, but the game wasn&rsquo;t as highly organized as it is today and the money wasn&rsquo;t so good. You couldn&rsquo;t make a good living at hockey alone.But he was still a comparatively young man and a big name in hockey when the National Hockey League expanded in the 1920s to take in cities in the United States. He became the organizer and first coach of the Boston Bruins, a team financed by Charles F. Adams, a multimillionaire chain store operator.He put together some fine teams in Boston, teams that won their share of league championships and Stanley Cups. He recruited some great players and undoubtedly the most spectacular was Eddie Shore, who was &ldquo;Mr. Hockey&rdquo; in Boston.Shore was a difficult man to sign and every season he and Art had an argument over Shore&rsquo;s contract. It became a little like the annual contract squabble between Babe Ruth and Col. Jake Ruppert when the latter owned the Yankees. Shore usually got what he wanted because he was the rinkfiller and everybody knew it. Once when Shore was a holdout, Lester Patrick, who was bossing the New York Rangers then, wired Art suggesting a deal that would take Shore to the Rangers. Art&rsquo;s wired reply read:&ldquo;You are so far from Shore you need a lifeline.&rdquo;He was a keen judge of hockey talent and he really hit the jackpot when he signed three youngsters from Kitchener &mdash; Bobby Bauer, Woody Dumart and Milt Schmidt&mdash;who became the famous &ldquo;Kraut Line.&rdquo; If we aren&rsquo;t mistaken, he signed Dumart and Bauer first and then got Milt at the behest of the other two.Of all the fine players he had on the club, he probably felt closest to Dit Clapper, who served the Bruins first as a forward, then as a defenceman, and finally as a coach. They used to go on annual fishing and hunting trips. It&rsquo;s a coincidence that Clapper should have suffered a heart attack at almost the same time.He had an inventive mind and the goaling nets, the puck and some protective devices used by the players today are his ideas.He and Conn Smythe feuded for years, though it was doubtful how much of it was genuine and how much for publicity purposes. He was fond of gags, as Frank Selke could tell you. Once when the Toronto Maple Leafs were playing in Boston Garden, he planted a guy behind the Toronto bench who kept hurling insults and challenges at Smythe and the Toronto players. The guy turned out to be &ldquo;Beano&rdquo; Green, a notorious Boston hood.Most of his contemporaries and associates in hockey have predeceased him. Men like Lester Patrick, Frank Patrick, Leo Dandurand, Sprague Cleghorn, Frank Calder, George Boucher and Tommy Gorman. He made a big contribution to hockey and, as a member of the Hall of Fame, his place in the game is assured.<h2>Rangers Appoint Halligan As PRO</h2>NEW&rsquo; YORK, N.Y.John Halligan has been appointed publicity director of the New York Rangers, it was announced by Muzz Patrick, Ranger general manager.Halligan succeeds Herb Goren who resigned to accept a post with Fred Corcoran, new promotional consultant of the National Hockey League.A 1963 graduate of Fordham University, Halligan served as Goren&rsquo;s assistant last year and is a former member of the sports staff of the Associated Press and sports editor of the Palisades Newspaper Group in Englewood, N.J. &#9632;

the Playingfield

<div class="byline">BY JIM KEARNEY</div>(As Seen In The Vancouver Sun)I see by the public prints that city council plans to have a full dress debate on that fast fading dream known as the downtown coliseum.This event, one suspects, comes under the same general heading as locking the stable door after the horse has departed.Any remaining chance that Stafford Smythe will erect that projected $8 million building pretty well evaporated with his latest pronouncement from Toronto.The same as all his others &mdash; give me the land, outright that is, and I&rsquo;ll finish the job &mdash; it was his answer to the city&rsquo;s proposal that he accept, instead, a 125-year lease of the two downtown blocks he had in mind.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02680/3075886-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="295" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Staff Smythe</figcaption></div>His out-of-hand rejection of the city&rsquo;s proposal indicates to this casual student of human behavior that he would dearly like to get off the hook he fashioned for himself last May at the Western Hockey League annual meeting in Seattle.For what other reason would he dismiss the city&rsquo;s proposal so abruptly ?For financing purposes, a entury-long lease is as good as out-right title. Also, under a lease irrangement, the city could, and apparently was willing, to give ax concessions during the first few years of operation.Where property is owned outright the city is not permitted to give tax concessions, except to charitable institutions. Stafford Smythe, son of Conn, has been accused of many things. But never of being a charitable institution.The idea of a lease arrangement was to make the deal more palatable for the ratepayers, whose 60 per cent approval would be needed in a plebiscite.Mayor Rathie and his coliseum committee were certain city property owners wouldn&rsquo;t go for a give-away, but felt a deal that would eventually return the property to their great grandchildren would be approved.But we&rsquo;ll never know because Smythe won&rsquo;t play.There was a time, in the first blush of enthusiasm and hip hooray early this summer, when the ratepayers might just have given him the land.In light of the city&rsquo;s lease arrangement offer, however, and Smythe&rsquo;s refusal to budge two inches from his original stand, it&rsquo;s doubtful if the ratepayers would now give him even the right time.One thing they&rsquo;ll do for him, though. If his proposal goes to a plebiscite in December, they&rsquo;ll get him off the hook. Clearly and easily.And why, you may ask, does he want off ?Let&rsquo;s as they say in the mystery stories, reconstruct the scene in light of certain events. The brand of retrospect is strictly my own, and while it&rsquo;s not guaranteed to be 100 per cent correct, I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s too for off.Smythe&rsquo;s original offer to build the coliseum was launched from an emotional springboard. When he made it, via your agent, last May in Seattle, he had just come out of a WHL meeting where he had learned about the large amounts of money Fred Hume was losing on his Canucks operation.Smythe said that having to play in a dump like the Forum was pretty shabby treatment and when was Vancouver going to get a decent building?Informed that the idea of a new hockey arena in Vancouver was used the world over as the basic standard for remote possibilities, he said okay, he&rsquo;d build it if the city would give him the land.Looking back, I&rsquo;m certain he didn&rsquo;t expect his offer would make the news it did. I&rsquo;m also certain he hoped it would awaken latent civic pride in these precincts and some local consortium or other would arise, waving money, and take the play away from him.There was no such arising. Smythe was hailed as a latter day savior of sorts and would be please supply more details.From what I&rsquo;ve heard since, I&rsquo;m sure his Toronto Maple Leafs directors were a little less enthusiastic. &#9632;

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Vancouver Coliseum Deal Called Off By Smythe, Rejects City Land Offer

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01780/3075917-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="289" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tom Johnson</figcaption></div>BOSTON Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins kicked off their 1964-65 training camp at London, Ont., and the first man to show up was veteran defense. man Tom &rsquo;&rsquo;Johnson.Johnson, 36-year-old rearguard had the distinction of being the first arrival to be greeted by coach Milt Schmidt. Three of the Bruins&rsquo; new comers&rsquo; Reg Fleming, Murray Balfour and Ab McDonald, all obtained from the Black Hawks, followed.Ron Schock, 20, with Niagara Falls junior Flyers last year, is the only amateur to report.Other members of the team are goalies Ed Johnston and Jack Norris; defencemen Don Awrey, Leo Boivin, Ted Green, Johnson, Bob McCord, Joe Watson, Bill Jackson, Ed Westfall and Bob Woytowich.Coach Milt Schmidt will have six centres, six right wingers and six left wingers attending the drills. Schock, Jeannot Gilbert and Bill Knibbs are after the centre spots along with returnees Orland, Kurten-back, Bob Leiter and Murray Oliver.Three of the right wingers are newcomers; Balfour, Mike Draper, who came from Chicago, and rookie Wayne Rivers. Tommy Williams, Gary Dornhoefer and Forbes Kennedy are regulars.Fleming, McDonald, Dean Prentice, Johnny Bucyk, Wayne Maxner and Jean Parise are after left wing spots.&ldquo;I honestly thought we&rsquo;d make the playoffs last season,&rdquo; said General Manager Lynn Patrick, &ldquo;and others shared this feeling, Why, Jean Beliveau was on TV during the playoff games. Somebody asked him what was his biggest surprise of the season and he said: &lsquo;The fact that Boston didn&rsquo;t make the playoffs.&rsquo; &ldquo;Outside of a few positions, the B&rsquo;s pretty well could name their starting roster today.&ldquo;We have the strongest leftwing crew in the league in Bucyk, Prentice and McDonald,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;At centre we have Oliver, Kurtenbach and Schock, the rookie. I&rsquo;m convinced Schock will make it big. He played five games for us last season and we won or tied four of them. That&rsquo;s a pretty interesting statistic.&ldquo;Kurtenbach has had a full season under his belt. He&rsquo;ll be a lot better. He was one of our most underrated players last year. There&rsquo;s a question whether Awrey can make it on defense, but I&rsquo;m convinced Johnson can play at least another season. Johnson&rsquo;s 36. sure, but Allan Stanley&rsquo;s still with Toronto and he&rsquo;s 39.&rdquo;Is Patrick overly optimistic? Could be. But any hockey fan will tell you that the B&rsquo;s will have the largest collection of toughs of any NHL team. They resemble, faintly at least the rough-and-tumble teams of a few years ago. The addition of Reginald &ldquo;Reggie&rdquo; Fleming from Chicago has enhanced that bullyboy image. Reginald of the bull neck and bellicose attitude is, Patrick claims, much more than a mere roustabout.&ldquo;The guy&rsquo;s a good team man. He hates to lose. He&rsquo;s a pretty fair stick-handler and scorer. I think he&rsquo;ll help us. He plays forward, defense and kills penalty. The Garden fans always go for the tough guys. They&rsquo;ll love Fleming,&rdquo; said Lynn.It should be pointed out that if the going gets rough, Schmidt can toss out a combination of Kurtenbach, Fleming and Balfour up front with Green and McCora on defense.I&rsquo;ll stake them against anybody in the league. There just aren&rsquo;t five tougher guys,&rdquo; said Patrick.Time, of course, will tell, but it appears Boston&rsquo;s devoted hockey fans will get a better shake this season.The Bruins face a 13-game exhibition schedule, which follows:Sat., Sept. 12: Toronto at Peterborough, Ont.Tues., Sept. 15: Toronto at London. Ont.Fri., Sept. 18: Chicago at London. Ont.Sat., Sept. 19: Chicago at St. Catharines, Ont.Tues., Sept. 22: Detroit at London. Ont.Thurs., Sept. 24: Victoria at Victoria, B.C.Fri., Sept. 25: Vancouver at Vancouver, B.C.Sun., Sept. 27: Portland at Portland, Ore.Mon., Sept. 28: San Francisco at San Francisco, Calif.Wed.. Sept. 30: New York at Winnipeg, Man.Fri.. Oct. 2: New York at London, Ont.Sat., Oct. 3: New York at Syracuse, N.Y.Sun., Oct. 4: New York at Boston Garden, 7:30 p.m. &#9632;

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Johnson First At Bruins’ Camp As New Faces Boost Team Hopes

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05265/3075948-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="564" height="1231"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL WATSON</figcaption></div>&mdash; BUFFALO, N.Y.Phil Watson, former coach and player in the National Hockey League, was named coach of Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League.Watson, 50, signed a one-year contract. He succeeds Jack Evans, who spent a year here as player-coach after a long career as an NHL defenceman.Watson has been out of coaching since the NHL Boston Bruins fired him during the 1962-63 season, when he had more than a year to go on a three-year contract. &#9632;

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Watson Back As New Coach Of AHL Bisons

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02681/3075993-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="281" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Corl Wetzel</figcaption></div>PITTSBURGH, Pa.The Pittsburgh Hornets are expecting a real dog fight for the job of succeeding Roger Crozier as goalkeeper with the AHL club this season.Present plans call for Crozier, last season&rsquo;s netminder and AHL rookie of the year, to spend the coming winter stopping pucks for the Detroit Red Wings. On the surface this would appear to give the Hornet job to Hank Bassen, who was the darling of the local fans two years back when he almost led the Wasps single handedly into the Calder Cup Playoffs. However, such is not the case, according to General Manager Baz Bastien.Bastien expects to have four other goalies in camp any one of whom could wind up between the pipes for the Hornets.True, Bassen will be given first crack at the job, but Hank had his troubles last year and must make a strong comeback to win his old post back. He was a holdout last year, causing him to miss most of the pre-season training period, and when he eventually did sign the amazing Crozier had locked up the position. Bassen was also plagued by injuries most of the year, with both his back and right knee giving him considerable trouble. He had the knee operated on this summer and reports from his home in Calgary that it&rsquo;s as good as new and he&rsquo;s anxious to get started.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04373/3075986-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="563" height="636"><figcaption class="caption-body">HANK BASSEN&hellip; Surgery May Help</figcaption></div>Bob Champoux and George Gardner are expected to provide stern competition for the veteran Bassen. Champoux played all of last year at Cincinnati, of the CPHL, but really won bis spurs in the Stanley Cup Playoffs when he replaced the injured Terry Sawchuk in the early moments of the second game of the semi-final series against Chicago, and went on to defeat the Black Hawks.A native of the United States, Carl Wetzel of Detroit, will also be gunning for a spot with the Wasps, Wetzel was just recently released from the U.S. Army and is a graduate of the Jr. Red Wings. Before entering military service he played one year of pro hockey with Sudbury.<h2>Bruins&rsquo; Camp Roster</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03512/3075979-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="1227" height="1146"></div> &#9632;

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Bassen Facing Tough Battle To Win Crozier’s AHL Job

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02732/3076038-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="257" height="292"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB KABEL</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01822/3076045-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="153" height="220"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Ingram</figcaption></div>BALTIMORE. Md. &mdash;Seven new faces were among 23 candidates who reported to coach Johnny Crawford of the Baltimore Clippers when the local skaters opened training camp at Winnipeg. Manitoba September 14.Donning the Orange and Black livery of the Clippers for the first time in their careers were Lou Angotti, center and Ed Lawson, left winger, acquired this summer from Rochester; winger Ray Brunel, one of last year&rsquo;s stars of the Calder Cup champion Cleveland Barons; winger Bob Kabel. from Vancouver; rookie center Jimmy Johnson from St. Paul; and defensemen Ron Ingram, with Detroit and New York last winter, and Les Hunt of Vancouver.Returnees from last year&rsquo;s squad who figure to serve as Coach Crawford&rsquo;s nucleus include left wingers. Mel Pearson and George Konik; right wingers Ken Schinkel, Dick Meissner and Marc Dufour; centers Dave Creighton. Bryan Hextali, Gordon Labossiere and Harry Pidhirney; and defensemen Aldo Guidolin, last year&rsquo;s playercoach; Noel Price and Jack (Red) Bownass.Three other rookies who spent last fall in the Clipper training program prior to putting in a full season elsewhere were Buzzy Deschamps the sensational scoring star of the Eastern League&rsquo;s Long Island Ducks and wingers Paul Andrea and Dave McComb with the St. Paul club of the Central Pro League. Deschamps, who was purchased outright recently by Clippers general manager Terry Reardon, topped the EHL in goals scored, while Andrea enjoyed a 27-goal season at St. Paul en route to a 57 point output, and McComb clicked for 43 points on a 71 game card.While veterans Kabel, Meissner, Dufour, and Bownass are not entirely new to Balitmore hockey fans, none of the quartet has spent an entire year here. Kabel was in training camp two years ago, played six games and went West. The others were in Baltimore briefly at various times through last winter.Coach Crawford&rsquo;s initial look at his Clippers should develop some interesting possibilities prior to the start of the regular AHL season against Quebec at the Civic Center on Friday, October 9 as his skaters will play five pre-season exhibition games.In addition to the already announced pair of practice games with the Hershey Bears in Hershey on Saturday, September 26 and Wednesday, September 30 the Clippers have three prior dates with the New York Rangers and the St. Paul Rangers.The family duels with the National League Rangers will take place on Saturday, September 19 at Brandon and either Monday or Tuesday of the following week in Winnipeg. On Thursday, September 24 the Clippers will play their St. Paul affiliates of the Central Professional League in Brandon and then enplane for Hershey and the pair of contests with the Bears.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03606/3076031-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="292" height="290"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK BOWNASS</figcaption></div><h2>Clippers&rsquo; Camp Roster</h2>LEFT WINGERS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04414/3076024-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="607" height="785"></div> &#9632;

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Clippers Introduce Seven New Faces Crawford Starts Camp At Winnipeg

HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;The Hershey Bears have sold their No. 1 netminder, Ed Chadwick, but he will remain in the American Hockey League with another club &mdash; the Buffalo Bisons.General-Manager Sam Pollock of the Montreal Canadiens announced that Hershey sold Chadwick in order to get one of Montreal&rsquo;s netminders.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05318/3076076-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="334" height="508"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Chadwick</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We have a goalie Hershey would like to have very much,&rdquo; Pniinrk said &ldquo;Rut in order tomake room for him on their team, they had to trade Chadwick. It&rsquo;s as simple as that.&rdquo; Hershey is a farm team of the Canadiens.The Bears announced earlier in Hershey they had sold the veteran 31-year-old Chadwick to the NHL Chicago Black Hawks.Pollock said it was a straight one-player deal with Chicago. No terms were announced. The Hawks will on turn assign Chadwick to Buffalo.&ldquo;We will loan two or three players to Hershey, including a goalie,&rdquo; Pollock said. He said he can&rsquo;t give names until after the Canadiens complete their training camp.Last season defenseman Marc Reaume, right winger Keith McCreary and center Chuck Hamilton were on loan-to Hershey from the Montreal organization. During the off-season, Reaume, American Hockey League&rsquo;s all-star defenseman two seasons back, was drafted by the Toronto organization and will train with the Leafs. Reaume had been sold to Montreal by Hershey and Hamilton and McCreary were part of the deal last year.Chadwick came to the Bears for the 1962-63 season from the Boston Bruins along with defenseman Barry Ashbee in the deal that sent goalie Bobby Perreault to the Bruins.Last season, the 31-year-old Chadwick, who has seven years of professional hockey behind him, was in and out of the Hershey nets due to injuries; posted a 3.32 goals against record in 57 games. In the Calder Cup playoff series with Providence and Cleveland he allowed 30 goals in six games for an average of 5.00. In 268 AHL games Chadwick has an average of 3.16 and in 33 Calder Cup games his average is 3.24.Over six seasons with Toronto and Boston in the NHL, Chadwick&rsquo;s goals against record reads 2.99 in 184 games.Meanwhile, Hershey opened its training season in the Sports Arena September 21st. The Baltimore Clippers, who will also utilize the Sports Arena&rsquo;s ice for pre-season workouts, will meet the Bears in pre-season games on Saturday, September 26th and Wednesday, September 30th.The Montreal Canadiens will appear in the Sports Arena against the Bears on Saturday, October 3rd.Hershey opens its 72-game American Hockey League schedule with the Quebec Aces in the Sports Arena on Saturday, October 10th. &#9632;

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Bears’ Goalie Headed For Buffalo

PROVIDENCE. R.I. &mdash;The Providence Reds have announced a 44-man squad, including 16 returning veterans, for the opening workout of the season at R.I. Auditorium.<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06260/3076131-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="143" height="218"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 143px">George Ranieri</figcaption></div>The Reds third-place finishers in the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Eastern Division last year, are making preparations for competition in their 39th consecutive season of pro hockey.Ferny Flaman, general manager and coach, is directing the 44-man training camp &mdash; one of the largest ever held in Reds&rsquo; history.Among the returning veterans is right-winger Zellio Toppazzini, team captain, who will be starting his 13th year with the Roosters.Other holdovers from last year are Willie Marshall. Stan Baluik. Jimmy Bartlett, Pierre Brillant. George Ranieri, Serge Boudreault, Ed Mazur, Norm Corcoran. Ed MacQueen, Harry Ottenbriet, Bob Blackburn, Steve Kraftcheck, Gil Moffatt, Ross Brooks and Ed Giacomin.Ranieri, shelved the last two months of 63-64 after sustaining a critical head injury, reports complete recovery and that he&rsquo;s eager to resume skating. Despite the mishap, Ranieri finished with 20 goals.Following is the complete training camp squad:Goal &mdash; Ross Brooks, Kurt Brown. Andre Daoust, Ed Giacomin.Defense &mdash; Bob Bla kburn, Steve Kraftcheck, Jean Yves LeProulx, Larry McNabb, Wayne McQuaig, Gil Moffatt, Reg Rathwell, Roger Richer, Norm Ryder, Reg Whaley.Centers &mdash; Stan Baluik, Gaeton Bernier, Bill Christodol, Claude Coursol, Gilles Gosselin, Gerard LeBoeuf, Robert LeDuc, Tom Marcotte. Willie Marshall. Jack Martin, Harry Ottenbriet, Ronald Proulx, Billy Reid.Right Wings &mdash; Moe Bartoli, Pierre Brillant, Norm Corcoran, Jean Pierre DeGagne. Don Graham, Ed MacQueen, Gerry Rempel, Zellio Toppazzini.Left Wings &mdash; Jimmy Bartlett, Serge Boudreault, Gilles Cartier, Jean Pierre Mallette, Eddie Mazur, Matt Oreskovich, George Ranieri, Michel Rochefort, Len Ronson. &#9632;</div>

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Ranieri Set As AHL Reds lce 44 Hopes

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02719/3076169-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="283" height="302"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB TURNER</figcaption></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01799/3076176-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="124" height="225"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 124px">Brian Smith</figcaption></div>LOS ANGELES. Calif.&mdash;The Los Angeles Blades have embarked on a rebuilding program for the 1964-65 season and three of their new faces will be Ed Kachur, Bob Turner and Lloyd Haddon.Turner and Kachur were secured from Buffalo Bisons of the American League while Haddon returns to the Blades from St Louis Braves of the CPHL.The Blades also secured Brian Smith, onetime leftwinger for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League.Smith, 27, a 6 ft., 180-lb. native of Creighton Mines, Ont., played the last three seasons with Buffalo of the American League. In 58 games last year he scored six goals and recorded three assists.</div><div style="clear: both;"></div>Smith broke into pro hockey with Detroit in the 1957-58 season and subsequently played 61 NHL games. He also saw action with Edmonton of the Western League and Hershey of the American League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03586/3076162-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="246" height="294"><figcaption class="caption-body">LLOYD HADDON</figcaption></div>Turner. 30, a versatile defenseman and eight-year veteran of National Hockey League competition with Montreal and Chicago, was obtained from Buffalo where he played 68 games last year, scoring 6 goals and recording 15 assists for 21 points. The 6 ft., 175-pounder spent 84 minutes in the penalty box.Although listed as a defenseman, Turner car also play forward and this dual capacity has made him one of the best penalty-killers in hockey.Turner broke into pro hockey with Shawinigan of the Quebec League in 1954 - 55 and played there 1% years before movinfe into the big time where he played 478 NHL games, including 68 Stanley Cup Playoff games before moving to Buffalo.Kachur, 30-year-old former Chicago Black Hawk forward, is a 5 ft. 8 in., 170-pound native of Ft. William, Ont., He is a right-winger who broke into pro hockey with Shawinigan of the Quebec League in 1954-55.Kachur played 96 games for Chic ag o from 1956 through 1958. For the past two seasons he had been with Buffalo. Last year, in 64 games, Kachur scored 13 goals and bagged 14 assists.Haddon, a smooth-skating, hard - shooting defenseman who scored 19 goals with the Blades two years ago, has been acquired once again by the L A. club, it was announced by Jack Geyer, Blades general manager.The 27-year-old Sarnia, Ont., native performed last year for St. Louis of the CPHL where he played in 72 games, scored 14 goals and recorded 49 assists for 63 points. He spent 24 minutes in the penalty box.Haddon came to the Blades in the 1962-63 season when Los Angeles purchased five players outright from the Detroit Red Wings.At the same time Geyer announced that the New York Rangers recalled three players who performed for Los Angeles last year. The three are forwards Jim Baird and Marc Dufour and veteran Defenseman Bill B&rsquo;-.rega. Burega had been with the Blades since the club came to Los Angeles in 1961.The Blades open their Saskatoon camp September 15, play there against Toronto Maple Leafs Sept. 25 and the New York Rangers Sept. 27 before heading for Los Angeles and their exhibition games against Toronto at Long Beach Arena Friday and Saturday, October 2-3.Los Angeles opens its Western Hockey League season against Victoria at the Los Angeles Sports Arena Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9-10. &#9632;

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LA. Blades Secure Turner, Kachur From Hawks, Lloyd Haddon Rejoins Club As Team Rebuilds

VANCOUVER. B.C. &mdash;Vancouver Canucks general manager and coach Max McNab has appointed two coaching assistants for the coming season and with this announcement all teams are now decided and well set in coaching staff for the 1964-65 season which will open on Friday, October 9th with a full slate of games.<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04488/3076207-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="135" height="226"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 135px">Larry Popein</figcaption></div>Now that the successful San Francisco executive, Bud Poile, has &ldquo;moved upstairs&rdquo; to assume managerial duties only, Seattle&rsquo;s Keith Allen and Portland&rsquo;s Hal Laycoe take over as the League&rsquo;s most experienced mentors.Allen rates as number one in point of service to one team as he gets set to start his ninth con-secutive season as coach of the Seattle Totems. Last season was the first time that Allen failed to make the playoffs with his squad and during his eight years he finished first twice and won the Lester Patrick Cup once.Portland&rsquo;s LAYCOE is presently looking toward his fifth season as the brains behind the Buckaroo bench. The bespectacled former defenseman coached three years in New Westminster and one year in Victoria before moving to Portland. His greatest coaching success, however, has been reached in Portland where, in his four years, he has gained two first-place finishes and two second-place finishes while winning the Patrick Cup once.In point of service in the league the Los Angeles Blades&rsquo; coach, Alf Pike, follows closely in third place. Pike, though starting only his second season in Los Angeles, will be entering his eighth season of coaching in the Western League. Four of those years were spent with Winnipeg and two with Calgary before he headed south to Los Angeles last season. Pike also coached one season with the National League New York Rangers. His most successful season eame in his first year of professional coaching in Winnipeg when he led the 1955-56 Warriors to a first place finish and the Play-Off Championship.McNab is making final preparations to begin his fourth season in the Western League. Max started out his WHL coaching career in San Francisco when the Seals first returned to the League in 1961. He then moved to Vancouver where he has been the past two seasons. In the coming season he will have centerman Larry Popein and an unnamed defenseman to act as coaching assistants. This will be the first fling in the coaching ranks for Popein.The Victoria Maple Leafs will be a new entry into the Western League this season but the coach and at least some of the players will be very familiar to fans around the circuit. Rudy Pilous has only one year of Western League coaching behind him but it is a most impressive one. &#9632;</div>

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Max McNab Picks Veteran Popein As Vancouver Coaching Assistant

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. &mdash;Nick Mickoski, a 17-year veteran of professional hockey, has hung up his skates to concentrate on a bench coaching role.San Francisco general manager Bud Poile announced that the 36-year-old Mickoski, who guided the Seals to the Western Hockey League championship last year in his initial season as a coach, had signed a contract to pilot the Seals again but this time from the bench.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05379/3076238-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="240" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body">NICK MICKOSKI &hellip; Playing Days Over</figcaption></div>Mickoski took over the coaching duties of the Seals last year after more than the season was completed and brought it along to the division title, then the league crown. Mickoski had replaced Poile as coach when Poile was relieved of the job to concentrate on the position of general manager.Mickoski, who spent 12 of his 17 years in the NHL with Chicago, Boston, Detroit and Rangers, played a total of 721 big league games, including playoffs. He spent the last three years as a player with San Fancisco.The signing of Mickoski was the secbnd announced by Poile. Goalie Bob Perreault has also accepted terms and will again tend goal for the Seals this season. &#9632;

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Mickoski Ends 17-year Career Tn Cnach ’Frisco From Bench

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07284/3076269-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="604" height="466"></div>PORTLAND, Ore. &mdash;The Portland Buckaroos sold veteran players Tom McCarthy and Orval Tessier to National Hockey League Clubs and announced the acquisition of two youngsters.<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06323/3076276-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="143" height="227"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 143px">Tom McCarthy</figcaption></div>McCarthy was sold to Toronto and is expected to be assigned to Tulsa of the Central Hockey League. Tessier went to Montreal, where he will be reassigned to some minor league club.The youngsters are Vic Buchy, a center who played for Fort Francis in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League last year, and Mervyn Dubchak, a right wing who was with Ft. Wayne of the International Hockey League.General Manager Hal Laycoe invited 21 players to report to the Portland Buckaroos training camp.The Bucks will work out at the Coliseum until September 28 when they will move their training site to the new Silver Skate rink.On the training camp agenda are two exhibtion games at the Coliseum with National Hockey League teams. The Buckaroos will meet the Boston Bruins on Sunday night, September 27, and the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday night, October 6.The Portland training camp squad consists of three goalkeepers, six defensemen and 12 forwards. Western Hockey League rules permit each club to dress 16 players so the roster will be trimmed prior to the league opener in San Francisco October 9.The status of veteran forward Arlo Goodwin is still in doubt. Goodwin, a star penalty killer and checker for the Bucks the past four years, underwent surgery after the season and team doctors have not given him approval to report to training camp. A final decision will be made later.</div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>Buckaroos&rsquo; Camp Roster &#9632;</h2>

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Buckaroos Sell Puck Veterans To NHL Clubs

<div class="byline">By HARVEY POLLACK</div>PHILADELPHIA. Pa., &mdash;Philadelphia proper will not have a representative in the East-ern Hockey Hockey League next year, but there will be a team in the area at Had donfield, N.J.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01815/3076307-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="278" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bud Dudley</figcaption></div>That is the sum total of some 11th hour juggling of franchises and new applications for EHL membership that had president Tom 1 Lockhart in a dither.The new team will operate out of the Cherry Hill Arena in Haddonfield. N.J., just a stone&rsquo;s throw from Philly. This is the J second time that a team operated there for the former Jersey Larks played there until Ray Miron moved the club to Knox-ville. This year, however, will be the first time that Jersey has had the field all to itself for there was a Philly Ramblers club in operation the last time Jersey was in business.Philadelphia proper will be without an EHL entry for the first time since the 1954-55 campaign. George Davis led a group that brought it back into the loop in 1955-56 and Bud Dudley took over the bankrupt franchise four years ago.Her&rsquo;s what happened in the hectic August developments. It seems the Ramblers lost money last year &mdash; estimates range from ($20,000 to $40,000). When the losses were totaled, some of the owners wanted to sell. Two minority stockholders Bill Green and John Desmond agreed to take over the club, and supposedly Leonard Tose and Lou Lasch. who each owned 40 percent of the team, agreed to the deal.After the papers were drawn. Lasch backed out of the deal. Tose and the other stockholders then offered Lasch the club but he refused. So the Ramblers were betwixt and between and they ran into league trouble when they failed to post their escrow money by August 1. Lockhart gave then an extension but still the money failed to materialize.About this time a league meeting was held in Cherry Hill and the Jersey group applied for a franchise. About the same time another group led by Pete Tyrrell, owner of the Arena here. and. including Doug Adam, the Ramblers&rsquo; coach and general manager last year, filed for a franchise.Lockhart agreed to grant both franchises if they met certain financial responsibilities. The Jersey group met the deadlirie, but Philly didn&rsquo;t do so. It wasn&rsquo;t because they couldn&rsquo;t do it either for Tyrrell had the $1,000 membership fee and and $6,000 escrow deposit ready. But Tyrrell wanted the rights to the players who performed last year with the Ramblers.&ldquo;We were willing to step in and save hockey for Philadelphia, &ldquo;Tyrrell said, &ldquo;but I didn&rsquo;t want to wind up with a team of discards. Our plans were all contingent upon keeping the Philadelphia team as a nucleur for our entry.&rdquo;Lockhart also said that under the league by-laws, the old Ramblers&rsquo; franchise cannot be forfeited officially until after Oct 14, the opening day of the season. At present the Ramblers merely are under suspension by the league, Tyrrell wanted the Ramblers players but under Lockhart&rsquo;s ruling they would no be available until Oct. 14.Thus last year&rsquo;s Rambler: players were frozen until Sep tember 1 when they will becorm free agents. But in reality, by a &ldquo;gentleman&rsquo;s agreement&rsquo; among the EHL owners the Jersey team got first crack at them. The Jersey team is headed by two groups &mdash; one headed by Philly advertising executive Vic Kirsh and the other by a Cherry Hill Arena combine.Bud Dudley, who was president of the Ramblers for the last four years, will serve as league representative and board member for the Cherry Hill team, He said the team would play on Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at their 4, 600-seat rink and that a name would be selected shortly, possibly the Devils.&ldquo;Several men are being considered for the coaching job,&rdquo; Dudley said, but Adam is not one of them. Doug had a 3-year pact with the old Philly franchise, but he has no team to pilot for the next two years at this point.Dudley earlier had resigned in the middle of the squabble between Lasch and the other stockholders. He personnaly feels two local teams in the league &mdash; in Haddonfield and Philly &mdash; would be good for the league. However, that wasn&rsquo;t meant for this seasorn but next year or the year after. It remains to be seen whether the area could support two hockey franchises.The league now consists of a Northern Division of New York, Clinton, Long Island, New Haven, Johnstown and Haddonfield and a southern division of Jacksonville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Nashville, and Knoxville. The coming league schedule will call for only one Southern trip by each Northern team and one Northern trip by the Southern teams. All other games will be with division foes. This lessening of travel will be better for the players and also will curtail club expenses considerably.The Ramblers made money in the 1962-63 season for the only time in Dudley&rsquo;s four years with the club. The previous Philly owners also lost money most years they were in operation. It is expected that expenses will be cut considerably in Haddonfield.<h2>Lucas To Coach Johnstown Jets</h2>JOHNSTOWN, Pa.There&rsquo;ll be a new coach and captain for the Johnstown Jets in the Eastern Hockey League this season.Dave Lucas has taken over the coaching chores from Butch Martin, while Dick Roberge will replace Lucas as the club captain. Lucas, a star defenseman, will be a player-pilot. Roberge, the standout right winger, will be playing his 10th season with the Jets and will be shooting for several of Don Hall&rsquo;s marks. &#9632;

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Haddonfield Takes Over Franchise in 11th Hour Move

TULSA, Okla. &mdash;Rudy Migay has been appointed player-coach of Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; new Central Professional Hockey League farm team, the Tulsa Empires.Migay, a former Leaf centre, coached Rochester Americans of the American League two years ago and played last season with Denver Invaders of the Western Hockey League.He played eight seasons with the Leafs in the National Hockey League and participated in 433 league and playoff games.Migay is presently attending the parent Toronto training camp at Peterborough, Ont., where he will assemble his CPHL team.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02699/3076338-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="507" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body">RUDY MIGAY</figcaption></div>A revised Central Hockey League schedule of 35 home games and 35 away was adopted by representatives of clubs.<h2>EHL Opener Set For October 14 With Double Bill</h2>NEW York, N.Y.The Eastern Hockey League will begin its 1964-65 season Wednesday, Oct. 14 and close Sunday, March 7, it was announced by President Tom Lockhart.New York Rovers will be at Johnstown and Haddonfield Devils at New Haven in opening games.The. new Jacksonville team makes its debut Oct. 17, facing Clinton Comets in the latter&rsquo;s arena.Jacksonville and New York were awarded franchises two months ago, and Haddonfield replaced Philadelphia. Other clubs in the 11-team league Knoxville, Nashville, Charlotte, Greensboro and Long Island.New York Rovers will open their 36 game home schedule against Nashville at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, October 18th.The recently reactivated Eastern Hockey League farm club of the Rangers has scheduled 16 Sunday afternoon tilts at Madison Square Garden. Face-off time will be 3 p.m., with an &ldquo;amateur&rdquo; Met League game getting under wav at 1.05. &#9632;

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Leafs Select Rudy Migay To Coach Tulsa In CPHL

NEW York, N.Y.The Eastern Hockey League will begin its 1964-65 season Wednesday, Oct. 14 and close Sunday, March 7, it was announced by President Tom Lockhart.New York Rovers will be at Johnstown and Haddonfield Devils at New Haven in opening games.The. new Jacksonville team makes its debut Oct. 17, facing Clinton Comets in the latter&rsquo;s arena.Jacksonville and New York were awarded franchises two months ago, and Haddonfield replaced Philadelphia. Other clubs in the 11-team league Knoxville, Nashville, Charlotte, Greensboro and Long Island.New York Rovers will open their 36 game home schedule against Nashville at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, October 18th.The recently reactivated Eastern Hockey League farm club of the Rangers has scheduled 16 Sunday afternoon tilts at Madison Square Garden. Face-off time will be 3 p.m., with an &ldquo;amateur&rdquo; Met League game getting under wav at 1.05. &#9632;

EHL Opener Set For October 14 With Double Bill

PORT HURON, MichLorne Davis, a former National Hockey League winger, and Lloyd Maxfield, long an International Hockey League standby, are two new coaches who will be serving with NHL teams this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03613/3076400-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="258" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lloyd Maxfield</figcaption></div>Davis has agreed to coach the Muskegon Zephyrs while Maxfield has been named playing-coach of the Port Huron Flags, a team he has led in the scoring the past two years.The signing of Davis to direct the Zephyrs will relieve fiery Jerry DeLise of the coaching reigns of the Muskegon club. DeLise has been doubling as coach and manager with the Zephyrs for several years.Davis, who signed a one-year contract, Saw service in the NHL with Detroit, Chicago and Montreal as a right winger. The 34-year-old Western Canada native coached the Saskatchewan Caps of the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League in 1963-64.Meanwhile, the hiring of Maxfield as coach of Port Huron is certain to prove a popular move with Flags&rsquo; fans. The 27-year-old scoring star will be making his coaching debut with Port Huron.&ldquo;We feel Maxfield is an excellent choice to replace Chirp Brenchley who has been taken into the Chicago Black Hawks organization as coach of their St. Catharines team,&rdquo; general manager Frank Gallagher said. &ldquo;Maxfield knows our players - &rsquo; and we&rsquo;ll help him all we can.&rdquo;. I Maxfield will be starting his sixth season in the IHL. He played two years with Fort Wayne, one with Indianapolis and the last two with the Flags.He scored 102 points in the Flags first season in the IHL, getting 50 goals and 52 assists. Last year he accounted for 106 points on 49 goals and 57 assists.Last year Maxfield was named to the IHL&rsquo;s second team All-Star unit and finished second to Fort Wayne&rsquo;s Len Thomson in the scoring race, and tied for fifth two years ago. His 49 goals was a league high this past season.Maxfield said, &ldquo;This is a real challenge for me. Every hockey player thinks about coaching and I&rsquo;d like to give it a try.&rdquo;A native of Saskatoon, Sask., Maxfield was under contract to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League and played two seasons at Spokane, Wash., before moving to Fort Wayne, Ind.His Flags teammates voted him Most Valuable Player each of the past two seasons.In replacing Brenchley, who led the Flags to a third place finish last year and a record of 37 wins, 31 losses and two ties and a fifth place finish in 1962-63 with a record of 28 wins, 36 losses and six ties, Maxfield expects to leave his Fort Wayne home within two weeks and return to Port Huron with his wife Ellen and their four children, Terry, 6, Karen, 4, Richard, 2, and Timmy, six months.&ldquo;Maxie and I will make trips to a number of the National Hockey League team camps, including the Chicago Black Hawks, to check on players we might be able to acquire,&rdquo; Gallagher said. The Flags will have a farm club tie-up with Chicago this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04514/3076393-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="575" height="938"><figcaption class="caption-body">LORNE DAVIS &hellip; Coach Of Zephyrs</figcaption></div>The Flags will open their training camp in McMorran Sports Arena on Oct. 20. &#9632;

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Davis Signed To Direct Muskegon, Maxfield Player Pilot For Flags

GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;Lou Fontinato, the big, rugged National Hockey League defenseman whose major league career was sadly ended by a broken neck, is back in hockey as a coach.The former NHL &rsquo;bad man&rsquo; will. return to the game this season as coach of the Orangeville entry in the OHA Junior &rsquo;C&rsquo; division.Fontinato&rsquo;s colorful playing career ended abruptly on March 9, 1963, when he incurred a broken neck, after being hit into the boards in a Montreal-New York game. An eight hour operation, to fuse the damaged verterbrae was followed by months of convalescence.Except for a stiff neck Fontinato has fully recovered from the ordeal and successfully operates his own farm on the outskirts of Guelph.Fontinato has been in demand as an after dinner speaker this past year but otherwise has been inactive in hockey.The Orangeville appointment will mark the former New York and Montreal rearguard&rsquo;s debut in coaching ranks.Fontoinato will be remembered as the robust rearguard of the New York Rangers and later Montreal Canadiens who piled up a total of 1,247 penalty minutes in a nine-year NHL career during which time he led the league three times in penalties.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05423/3076431-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="590" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body">LOU FONTINATO &hellip; Orangeville Pilot</figcaption></div>A native of Guelph, the 32-year-old Fontinato was a home town product of the Guelph Biltmores of the OHA Junior A series who went on to a brief three-year minor career before stepping into the big time in 1954-55 with Rangers. He played a total of 556 NHL league and playoff games. &#9632;

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Fontinato Returns To Hockey As Junior ’C’ League Coach

FORT WILLIAM, Ont. &mdash;Mickey Hennessy, a longtime hockey coach for Fort William Junior Canadiens, has been appointed chief scout for the Lakehead - Manitoba - Northern Ontario district by the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06370/3076462-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="286" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Marcon</figcaption></div>Hennessy, who first came to this city 12 years ago, will hunt down Canadien prospects around Fort Frances, Kenora, Winnipeg, Sault Ste. Marie and the Lakehead. He will also remain on the executive of the local Junior Canadiens, a team he directed to nine league titles, nine playoff championships and two Western Canada Memorial Cup finals.During his tenure as coach, Hennessy has sent between 25 and 30 players into pro hockey, the most notable of whom were Pete Goegan, Lou Marcon, Stan Baliuk, Ed Kachur, Don Johns and Jean Gauthier.No successor has been named as yet to Hennessy, who said the Fort William team will again be a powerhouse this year with only Wes Walchuk too old for junior hockey.Hennessy&rsquo;s sterling hockey record as a coach has provided the Lakehead with some exciting junior hockey and has enabled this district to be in the forefront of playoff action for the past decade. &#9632;

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Hennessy Quits Coaching To Become Scout

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.A program will be required to identify the coaches as much as the players when the Ontario Hockey Association junior A league opens Oct. 9 with a single game between Niagara Falls Flyers and Oshawa Generals in Niagara Falls.The mortality rate among the junior coaches during the off-season was the highest in years.Of the eight who finished the 1963-64 season only three will be returning.Oddly enough it appears as if only the teams in the middle of the league felt that no changes were needed.Niagara Falls, fourth during the schedule, will continue with Hap Emms and Bill Long; fifth place Peterborough will stick with Frank Mario and Jim Cherry will be back with the sixth position Oshawa club.With those exceptions it&rsquo;s a new slate.Jim Gregory, who coached the Toronto Marlboros to the Memorial Cup last spring, has been elevated to the position of manager and his coaching duties have been taken over by former National Hockey League defense star Gus Bodnar.Montreal Canadiens, second to the Dukes, shelved Yves Nadon and installed Scotty Bowman, who coached Peterborough three years ago and last season started the year as pilot of the Omaha Knights of the CPHL before quitting the job.In St. Catharines, the third place Black Hawks will have Chirp Brenchley at the helm. Brenchley, who coached Port Huron Flags in the International League last year, replaces Ken Campbell, who was promoted to the position of director of player personnel for the National League Hawks and will also continue as manager of the St. Catharines team.At the other end of the league Hamilton Red Wings named another one-time professional player, Danny Lewicki as coach to take over from Eddie Bush, who will handle the Memphis team for the Detroit Red Wings in the Central Professional League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01787/3076538-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="563" height="653"><figcaption class="caption-body">GUS BODNAR &hellip; Marlboros&rsquo; Coach</figcaption></div>The Wings finished seventh last year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02676/3076531-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="598" height="591"><figcaption class="caption-body">DANNY LEWICKI,. . To Succeed Eddie Bush</figcaption></div>Lewicki, 33, previously played for Toronto, New York and Chicago in the NHL and Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Quebec in the American Hockey League. He retired at the end of the 1962-63 season after playing with Quebec Aees.Last place Kitchener Rangers will have Butch Martin as coach. Steve Brklacich, who handled the Rangers last year, will take over the New York Rovers in the Eastern League.The eight teams will continue with a 56-game schedule but to give a little more breathing space have scheduled the opening games two weeks earlier than last season.The regular league closes Sunday, March 7, and six of the eight teams will qualify for the playoffs.<h2>Petes Make Deal With NHL Habs</h2>PETERBOROUGH, Ont.Peterborough Petes have started a move they believe will be beneficial to their club for the Ontario Hockey Association junior A 1964-65 season.The Petes and Montreal Junior Canadiens have completed a player deal in which several of the younger Petes players from last season have been assigned to Montreal in return for two veteran forwards.The only name released has been that of winger Leo Thiffault, who will join Peterborough.Last season, Thiffault had 23 goals and 38 assists as a left winger on Montreal&rsquo;s big line with scoring champion Andre Boudrias and all-star right winger Yvan Cournoyer.<h2>Greensboro Inks Sponq To Fifth Coaching Pact</h2>GREENSBORO, N.C. &mdash;The Greensboro Generals have signed Ron Spong for a fifth season as coach of the Eastern Hockey League Club.Under Spong&rsquo;s leadership, the Generals have won four consecutive Southern Division championships and two league titles, and posted a record of 157-107-8. Greensboro lost to Clinton Comets in last year&rsquo;s championship playoffs. &#9632;

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Ex-NHL Star Lewicki Named To Coach Hamilton Juniors

SASKATOON. Sask &mdash;Doug Bentley, former great with Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, and a new member of the Hall of Fame, was named coach of Saskatoon Quakers o f the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03536/3076569-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="303" height="482"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Bentley</figcaption></div>A native of Delisle, Sask., Bentley was named to the first NHL all-star team twice and won the League scoring title in 1942-43.Bentley was playing coach of the Quakers when they won the Pacific Coast Hockey League playoffs in 1952. He also coached Saskatoon junior Quakers for three years.Bentley, 48, succeeds Vic Lynn who announced his retirement because of business pressure. He and his brother, Max, coached in California last year.<h2>ST. LAURENT NAMED COACH</h2>Dollard St. Laurent, former defenceman with Montreal and Chicago in the National Hockey League, has accepted the coaching job with the Verdun Pirates of the Quebec Provincial Senior Hockey League.The Pirates are a new entry in the league that includes Granby, Drummondville, Sherbrooke and St. Hyacinthe.<h2>HILDEBRAND REAPPOINTED</h2>&rsquo;Ike&rsquo; Hildebrand was named to a second term as coach of the Western Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; Hockey League champion London Nationals.The Winnipeg-born Hildebrand directed the Nats from a lastplace finish in 1962-63 to second place and the Western championship last year.Hildebrand, a right winger during his playing days, served with New York and Chicago of the National Hockey League, Cleveland of the American Hockey League and Montreal Royals of the old Quebec League.He was player-coach of Belleville McFarlands when they won the world championship at Prague in 1959.Wilson&rsquo;Copper&rsquo; Leyte was named to his fourth term as coach of Chatham Junior Maroons, one of three new entries in the Western Junior&rsquo;B&rsquo; Hockey League.&rsquo;Big Red&rsquo; as he was known while helping Chatham Maroons to the Allan Cup in 1960-61, led the Junior Maroons to the Border Cities title last season and to the provincial quarter-finals where they lost in seven games to Ontario champion Waterloo Siskins.Leyte&rsquo;s Maroons won the Border Cities title in two of the three years he coached them. Twice they reached the provincial quarter-finals. &#9632;

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