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October 24, 1964

The Hockey News October 24, 1964

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IN THIS ISSUE

National Hockey League Game Summaries

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01851/3241293-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="273" height="463"></div>(1) Let&rsquo;s make the first one for folks over forty. If you can recall the 1938-1 39 season you&rsquo;ll have a good chance to get this! one. Who was the first goaltender to win the! Calder Trophy?(2).Name the left winger; who holds the record&rsquo; for the most goals scored in one season by a&rsquo; portsider.(3) Besides being rear-Douglas and Jacques La-perriere have some-thing in! common-Every f a n! should get! this one. Whats the answer?(4) A former NHL player is known by the unusual nickname of &ldquo;Meatball.&rdquo; Maybe you can pick him out from those listed below.&rsquo; Gerry Couture, Metro Prystai, Leo; Gravelle, Jimmy Peters.;(5) Only three members of! the Boston Bruins have! honours as the NHL&rsquo;s top rookies. Can you! name them?(6) In which of the cities; listed below was the; 1955 NHL All-Star game; played? Toronto, De-; troit, Chicago.(7.) Clarence Campbell has; been NHL President for; a good many years, ever! since he replaced Red; Dutton. What year did; Dutton resign?(8)Kenny Wharram ended! a real dearth for Chic-ago when he won the&rsquo; Lady Byng Memorial&rsquo; Trophy last spring. Prior to that, the last&rsquo; time a Hawk copped the; honours was back in&rsquo; 1944-45. Who was the; winner then?(9) How about a nice soft; one now? Present Leaf; forward Dave Keon and; former Black Hawk Tod; Sloan also have some-; thing in common. What; is it?(10) Finally, who coached; the Boston Bruins in; 1954-55? This should! be a cinch.(Answers Next Week)Last Week&rsquo;s Answers(1) Bryan Hextali in 1941-42(2) The new defunct N.Y.Americans.(3) 86 points.(4) Jimmy Skinner.(5) Jean Beliveau.(6) 1959-60, when he scored: 18 goals.(7) Doug Harvey.(8) Buddy O&rsquo;Connor of the: N.Y. Rangers.(9) Gordie Drillon.(10) Jacques Plante. &#9632;

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HOCKEY… Quiz

<div class="byline">&#x2014; By Bill Libby</div>LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05333/3241835-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="320" height="486"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rudy Pilous</figcaption></div>As population patterns vary over the years, expansion in major sports leagues has been and will continue to be inevitable. However, the shifting of franchises is a poor substitute for expansion and provides an instability which is threatening public loyalty to and faith in these leagues. Baseball provides an excellent example with Milwaukee, Cleveland and Kansas City in real danger of joining cities which have lost their franchises. Milwaukee has held and Cleveland still holds the season attendance records in their respective leagues. Milwaukee and Kansas City have had their franchises for only limited periods. one wonders why league officials and owners prefer to blame the cities for attendance failures rather than their products or the way they package them?There was one franchise shift in the Western Hockey League this season. The Denver Invaders, the pennant-winners, were shifted after a single season to become the Victoria, B.C., Maple-Leafs. Victoria previously held a franchise which was shifted to Los Angeles four years ago. Denver is a fine city, but it had long years of allegiance to college hockey and memories of unreliable, bad-debt, short-lived professional operations in the recent past. It did not adequately support the Invaders at first, but was doing so in somewhat better fashion as the season ended, although the team was pushed out of its home arena twice at key moments for flower shows and such. Parent Toronto Leafs ran out of patience.&ldquo;I think we might have made a real go of it in Denver,&rdquo; says Rudy Pilous, coach and sometime general manager of the club. &ldquo;We were beginning to make real headway. We did not get a real fair shot at it. One year is not enough test for any city. I think it is a shame. I am disappointed, and I feel sorry for Denver. On the other hand, I am happy for Victoria. How well we will do there, we will just have to wait and see, but the potential is there, no doubt of it, and we are going to try to give them a good club. We did not, sell any season tickets before our first season in Denver. We sold &rsquo; 1,500 season tickets there before this season in an effort to save the franchise, but the men in charge did not think it was enough. We have sold 500 season tickets in Victoria, but we did not have very much time to work at it.&ldquo;The arena in Victoria is small. It is not bad for the spectators. &rsquo; But it is not entirely good either. There are a lot of supports in the upper portions which obstruct the view. The playing surface is very L good. No,&rdquo; he chuckled, &lsquo;&rsquo;we will not have the thin air which was &rsquo; supposed to be so much help to us in Denver. We will have to depend on damp ice.&rdquo;Victoria is a fine city, too. We wonder, however, if its fans can &rsquo; help looking over their shoulders at San Diego, which is supposed to ioin the league next season?<h2>ROOKIE WING IMPRESSES PILOUS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04449/3241828-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="270" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Len Holey</figcaption></div>Pilous is very high on Bill Flett, a 21-year-old, 6-1, 195-pound rightwing, who can sKate and snoot and is rugged. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s going to be &lsquo;rookie of the year,&rsquo; mark my words,&rdquo; Rudy says. &ldquo;And if he improves as we expect he will, he&rsquo;ll be up with the big club in a couple of seasons.&rdquo; &hellip; Another Victoria rookie, Ed Lawson, had a rough introduction to the pros. He was standing around on opening night when Howie Young charged him from 15 feet with forearms and stick high and knocked him flat on his back and out cold. Lawson suffered a left-eye cut requiring six stitches. Earlier, Young suffered a bloody nose. His nose was broken in an exhibition-season ficht with Raneer Jim Neilsen. Young nlaved very well, if crudely, m the Blades opening games and seemed to give the L. A. team a lot of muscle and zest &hellip; San Francisco Seals&rsquo; fiery holdout, Len Haley, conferred with general manager Bud Poile between the first and second periods of the Seals&rsquo; opening game, signed, and thus was able to play the remainder of the game.Seal veteran Charley Burns, henceforth to be known as the quiet leader, had seven stitches taken in his tongue &hellip; Portland rookie goalie Rick Charron blocked 27 shots in the last period as the Bucks upset Toronto 3-2 tn a late exhibition. Portland comes up with the rookie goalies. Dave Kelly was the best in the league last season. With veteran Don Head back, coach Hal Laycoe had a tough three way decision to make &hellip; Bill MacFarland, Seattle&rsquo;s lawyer, publisher, WHL player representative and a tremendous all-around hockey player, who might have made it in the NHL had he gone after a chance, has been switched from wing to centre by coach Keith Allen &hellip; Bad-man Larry Zeidel belted teammate Bobby Barlow with a right hand in a Seattle scrimmage. Since Barlow is the team&rsquo;s top goal-getter, coach Allen was deeply impressed by Zeidel&rsquo;s enthusiasm<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03580/3241821-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="303" height="498"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Turner</figcaption></div>George Agar, coach of the L. A. team its first season in the WHL, currently coach of the Blade juniors and a team scout, is recovering from a severe heart attack in Saskatoon Citj Hospital &hellip; Bob Turner, veteran defensemar acquired by the Blades in the off-season, did not report, and retired &hellip; Jack Evans, another veteran defenseman, who was Buffalo player-coach last season, should help the Blades. He does some NHL things seldom seen in the WHL, such as going down to block shots and belting opposing forwards away from the goal-mouth &hellip; Disgusted at his lack of ice time, third year defenseman Harley Hodgson a part-Indian, packed his bags just before the L.A. season opened and went home in a huff &hellip; Brian Smith, who scored only six goals in 58 games with Buffalo last season, debuted in L. A. by scoring a goal in the first 30 seconds and a second goal within seven minutes of the opener.Anyone who wishes to reach this writer may do so at 4049 Geber Place, (No. 31), Los Angeles 8, California. &#9632;

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Western Ad Lib

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01798/3241759-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="262" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Jankowski</figcaption></div>VICTORIA, B.CEarly returns are usually inconclusive, but it may be that the Victoria Maple Leafs will have some trouble defending the Western Hockey League pennant they won so easily last year. As the Denver Invaders, the team got off to a tremendous start and breezed in with 44 wins, three ties and only 23 losses for 91 points and an 18-point edge over second-place Portland.Moved to Victoria this season, with some notable absentees, coach Rudy Pilous&rsquo; team was blasted twice by the Blades in Los Angeles, 7-3 and 6-3, in its first two games while the four remaining WHL clubs were splitting their weekend openers.The Invaders were largely recruited from the Calgary Stampeders of the preceding season. Calgary was a last-place team. When the new club zoomed to first last season, many critics remained skeptical. Now in Victoria, the club will be watched closely in the opening weeks.Rudy Pilous&rsquo; teams usually get off to fast starts. But the boys from Calgary, Denver and Victoria may be getting a little upset by all this moving around.The team had four first-team All-Stars last season, forward Lou Jankowski, who led the league with 41 goals; defensemen Fred and Sandy Hucul, and goalie Al Millar, who led the league with a 2.83 goals-against average. All are back.Fred Hucul is 32 and Sandy, who had a long pre-season trial with Toronto, is 30. They are joined on defense by 34-year-old Bad Bill Shvetz and 23-year-old Barry Trapp. Rookie Ralph Winfield, 22, is the spare. In the opening action, the group played unevenly, subjecting the masked Millar to a merciless bombardment.John Sleaver, a 30-year-old, 6-2, 200-pounder is joined at centre by Milan Marcetta, 28, and rookie Ed Lawson, 23. It is a thin group.Jankowski, excellent 33-year-old wing plays the left side along with Dick Lamoureux, Larry Keenan and Ed Mazur. The right side is filled by Gordie Redahl, who had a preseason go at Toronto; Rollie Wilcox and the promising young rookie Bill Flett.Redahl and Keenan scored 25 goals each, Marcetta and Sleaver 23 each in the balanced offensive that carried the team to the top.Among the missing, at least as the season opened, however were Steve Witiuk, who counter 25 goals; Gary Jarrett, 22; Rudj Migay, 20, Bill Collins, 17, and Bruce Draper, 15.Pilous seems most concerned with the loss of Migay, who moved on to Tulsa as playingcoach, and defenseman Mart; Howe, who had found work and made a home in Denver and preferred to retire, rather that move out.&ldquo;Migay was a fine leader for us, while Howe was a very strong defensive player. We&rsquo;ll miss both of them and they&rsquo;ll be hard to replace,&rdquo; Pilous says.Of course, Toronto might provide the franchise additiona help when its final cuts wen made as the National League season opened.&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ll be a good sound club once we get squared away,&rdquo; Pilous says. Rudy put ii a request to the Leafs for more player help but was still walting for a reply. &#9632;

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Victoria Routed in Early Starts Shatters Old Pilous Tradition; Rudy Awaiting NHL Player Help

<h2>Detroit Vet In Seven Game Test</h2>DETROIT, Mich.Ted Lindsay knows the road back to the National Hockey League won't be easy. He found that out the first night he stepped on the Olympia ice after five years of retirement.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01184/3242259-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg" title="f0001-01" width="308" height="490"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption></div>While he sat immersed in a whirlpool bath to soothe his aching bones, the one-time Detroit left wing great said he wasn't going to fool around wasting his or the Red Wings' time.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll give it six more games. If I improve to the point where I think I can help the Wings, then I&rsquo;ll stick it out. If not. I&rsquo;ll pack it up as quickly as I returned,&rdquo; said Lindsay, who added that &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t need the money. It&rsquo;s just that I would like to end my career as a Red Wing.&rdquo;Lindsay saw his first action Oct. 15 against Toronto Maple Leafs and went pointless in the game. He, himself, wasn&rsquo;t impressed with his play but said he would like a few more games before deciding about making his comeback stick.Lindsay last played in the NHL back in 1960 with Chicago.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-02155/3242252-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="1810" height="1968"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here is rhe National Hockey League&rsquo;s newest brother combination. They are BOBBY HULL, left, and rookie DENNIS HULL, who are teammates this season with the Chicago Black Hawks. The younger Hull is attempting to make the jump from junior ranks directly to the NHL. Dennis is 19, Bobby 25.</figcaption></div><h2>Hulls Newest Brother Act To Hit NHL</h2>CHICAGO. Ill &mdash;The National Hockey League has a brand new brother combination this season.Bobby Hull, the &lsquo;Golden Jet&rsquo; of the Chicago Black Hawks, has been joined by his younger brother. Dennis.The two Hulls are the NHL&rsquo;s first brother pair since the great Maurice Rocket&rsquo; Richard played alongside his brother, Henri, for the Montreal Canadiens. Rocket retired after the 1959-60 season as hockey&rsquo;s all-time goalscoring champion, a distinction he has since relinquished to Gordie Howe.The 19-year-old Dennis has moved up from junior hockey ranks where he was a star with St. Catharines of the Ontario Junior League. He is attempting to make the big jump directly from junior ranks to the NHL. a feat perfromed by only a handful of big leaguers, including Dennis&rsquo; famed brother, Bobby, and his Chicago teammate, Stan Mikita.Dennis is a left winger who is still eligible to play junior hockey. The Hawks thought enough of his performance in training camp this season to offer him an NHL contract. There is always the chance that he may not stick in the big time because of his youth and inexperience. &#9632;

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Lindsay Puts Limit On Comeback

DETROIT, Mich. &mdash;It wasn&rsquo;t the money, but the &lsquo;love of the game&rsquo; that flushed the once-fiery Ted Lindsay out of the hockey moth balls this past week after five years of retirement.The 39-vear-old Lindsay highest scoring left winger in the history of the National Hoc key League, decided to give hockey another whirl when he announced Oct. 15 he was re turning to the game, promptly signed a contract and dressed for the Wings home opener against Toronto Oct. 15.A howling crowd of 14,323 largest ever to see a NHL in augural game in Detroit, greet ed old &lsquo;Scarface&rsquo; on his return to the same ice on which he rose to become one of hockey&rsquo;s stormiest and greatest performers with the Red Wings.Lindsay&rsquo;s sudden comeback stunned the hockey world to say the least. Why should a man who played in the NHL for 16 years, has been retired for five years and is the operator of highly successful business, wan to return to the punishing grim of trying to play big league hoc key at the unlikely age of 39?&ldquo;I guess the only answer is that I love the game,&rdquo; he confessed. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been thinking about this move for a long time and after discussing it with my; wife and business partner, decided to give it a shot.&rdquo;Lindsay, who scored 365 goal: and 458 assists during his career with Detroit and the Chicago Black Hawks, was one o the key men during the Wings &ldquo;glory years&rdquo; in the late 1940; and early 1950s when they won eight league championship: (seven straight) and four Stan ley Cups.He was Detroit&rsquo;s captain for four seasons and was a mem her of the famous &ldquo;production line,&rdquo; teaming with centre Sid Abel and right wing Gordie Howe to form the most potent scoring trio in the history of the NHL.Abel, Detroit&rsquo;s general manager-coach, said he was glad to have his former line mate back and was prepared to go along with Ted&rsquo;s plan for a comeback.&ldquo;I think he&rsquo;s ready to play and I think he can help us,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;Sure, he&rsquo;s 39-years-old, but he was a great one and natural ability is something you never lose.&rdquo;During his four-year absence from hockey, Lindsay worked in the Detroit areas as a television sports announcer and as a manufacturer&rsquo;s representative in partnership with former Wing teammate Marty Pavelich.Lindsay started his career at 19 with Detroit in 1944. He played 13 years with the Wings, winning the league scoring title in 1949-50 and being named to the all-star team nine times.In 1957 he quarrelled with the general manager Jack Adams and was traded to Chicago. He played three more years with the Black Hawks before retiring in 1960.Lindsay had been training with the Me aphis team of the CPHL at the Olympia but few took the one-time NHL hard-rock seriously when they saw him skating on the ice with the Red Wing farmhands.However, Lindsay jolted Detroit hockey followers when he came out an announced he was ready to try his hand at the game once more. &#9632;

Love For Hockey, Not Money Brought Lindsay Back To Game After Five-Year Retirement

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01796/3240862-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED LINDSAY &hellip;Baffled Ice World</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.When Ted Lindsay left the National Hockey League behind in 1959-60 one of his regrets was that he never did get to play in his 1,000th big league game.After five years of retirement, Lindsay returned last week to try an NHL come-back against the Toronto Maple Leafs Oct. 15 and in so doing performed his milestone game.Only three Other modern day NHL player: have played more games than Lindsay. Gordie Howe has participated in 1,189, Bill Gadsby in 1.129 and Red Kelly 1,122. &#9632;

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Lindsay Returns For 1000th Game

TORONTO, Ont.Dickie Moore isn&rsquo;t the least dismayed because Ted Lindsay beat him back on the comeback trail.The Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; left winger, who is still recuperating from a knee operation, said he doesn&rsquo;t want to rush his return to the NHL just for the sake of playing. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not ready to play yet,&rdquo; commented Moore.&ldquo;I want to be right when I skate out there for the first time this year,&rdquo; said Moore. &ldquo;I would like to get a little better and that may take another week or two. However, it could be mental and what I need is a game to find out,&rdquo; stated the one-time Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; star.Moore has signed a contract with Toronto, who drafted him from Montreal during the off season for $20,000, but he doesn&rsquo;t collect any big money until he actually sets foot on the ice in a league game.The Leaf winger has been in and out of the city visiting Montreal and returning here after last weekend to continue ice drills with the Toronto club.Moore has been skating but hasn&rsquo;t gone all out since his injured knee still tender and may require longer time to mend.Manager-coach Punch imlach is confident Moore will play for the Leafs. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m rushing him back,&rdquo; said Imlach. &ldquo;He will play when he feels he is ready.&rdquo; &#9632;

Moore Soys He’s Not Ready To Make Bow With Toronto

<div class="byline">BY MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01802/3240924-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="310" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Allan Stanley</figcaption></div>&mdash; TORONTO, Ont.Defenseman Allan Stanley would be concerned about his hockey future if he didn&rsquo;t hear that annual refrain, &ldquo;Stanley&rsquo;s all washed up. He won&rsquo;t be back in the fall, because he&rsquo;s too old and too slow.&rdquo; That chant usually begins late April and hits a peak in early September when the boys gather for training camp, so Allan just ignores the pessimists and turns up season after season as good or better than ever. One of his relatives recently remarked-with a wry smile: &ldquo;You know, they&rsquo;ve been saying that about Allan for years and now he&rsquo;s starting his 17th NHL campaign.&rdquo;The guessers will be right one of these years, but this isn&rsquo;t going to be their lucky season because the 38-year-old Stanley turned up at Toronto&rsquo;s training site in Peterborough, Ontario, as frisky as a rookie and was pronounced in the best physical condition of any man in camp.Maybe this is a significant omen for Allan. Ever since he was a rookie he has found training camps a tough and wearying experience and used to predict: &ldquo;1 guess I&rsquo;ll find it worse as I get older,&rdquo; but he didn&rsquo;t, they just stayed at the same arduous level until last month when he limbered up completely with a minimum of effort and would have found it all plain sailing if a flu bug hadn&rsquo;t wilted him in the third week. Just before leaving with the Leafs on a western tour he told relatives: &ldquo;Physically, this has been the easiest training session of my career.&rdquo;Actually, Stanley is a unique man who has definitely not found the fountain of youth, but has successfully combined natures&rsquo; blessings with a large quantity of common sense. He stands 6&rsquo;2&rdquo; and generally weighs in the vicinity of 187 pounds, though he never diets, never is hampered by excess poundage and often has to take measures to maintain his weight when he&rsquo;s playing. For a big man he displays a remarkably slim, straight figure when seen off the ice-looks much more youthful than his years would indicate and has a deep determination to succeed at everything he undertakes.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02676/3240917-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="2399" height="1579"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toronto&rsquo;s amazing defense star, ALLAN STANLEY, continues to pop up for NHL action. The big Leaf rear-guard, shown here taking Detroit&rsquo;s PARKER MACDON-ALD out of the play, is beginning his 17th year as a big leaguer and is showing no signs of slowing down,</figcaption></div>A good deal of Stanley&rsquo;s ability to extend his career must be attributed to his fast recuperative powers which the passing years have not diminished, although he has to put up with the irritating comments of those who regularly Say to him, &ldquo;The injuries won&rsquo;t real quickly now that you&rsquo;re getting older.&rdquo; Sometimes he must wonder just what he has to do to prove his point.Stanley has had plenty of injuries, both serious and minor but none of them ever kept him side-lined for any great length of time. A few years back when he was with the Rangers he sustained a shoulder separation similar to the ones more recently suffers by Kent Douglas and Larry Hill man. Ranger surgeon Kazuo Yak nagisawa performed the necessary operation and shortly after he came out of anaesthetic Stan ley was practicing running his fingers up and down the was above his bed, stretching his arm as high as possible.Six weeks later he request permission to return to action, s Dr. Yanagisawa thumped him of the affected shoulder and asked if the blow hurt. When Allan gave a negative reply he advised, &ldquo;G ahead and play; do anything to like.&rdquo; On Stanley&rsquo;s first shift of the ice Gordie Howe, the heft Detroiter, plowed right into hit flipping him over and onto the shoulder. Allan picked himself u and remarked to teammates &ldquo;Well, if that didn&rsquo;t do any harm nothing will,&rdquo; and from that moment on forgot he ever had surgery.Stanley has also overcome the effects of four operations on his two ankles, two of them to remove the sac near the ankle bone. Once, he was cut by a skate which penetrated the sac, then cut through the calf and forced the muscle out of his leg. Even with that handicap he finished out the game before entering hospital.In 1956-57, his first season with Boston, he tore all the ligaments in a leg and was in a cast from hip to toes. The injury was so serious the medics predicted Allan would never skate again, although that fact wasn&rsquo;t then made known to him. He later found out that the same doctors were amazed and shocked when he turned up at training camp the following fall.Besides absorbing literally hundreds of cuts, he has had his nose broken twice in a space of five days, missed only one game when his jaw was broken, and suffered through a severe facial cut. Three seasons ago he sustained a Charley horse in an October 22 game against Boston and when he entered Toronto&rsquo;s East General Hospital for treatment his leg began to balloon and henmorrhage. Consequently, the surgery which followed left a scar from his hip to just above his knee. Yet he was out of bed a couple of days later, agitated to be on skates by the end of a week then re-joined his club in early November.As a youngster in his native Timmins, Ontario, Stanley took to hockey for the sheer love of the game, spending every free minute on ice. In those times there was no organized hockey in that northern area, as a matter of fact he played a role in getting it organized, and kids played without the advantage of ultra modern equipment. At the age of eight, armed with a pair of size 12 skates and enough socks to enable his small feet to keep the boots on, he used to walk to Gilles Lake where a bevy of boys of all ages made up teams and played until 9 o&rsquo;clock under the floodlights. Among the shiny players were Dean Prentice&rsquo;s two older brothers, and Bep Guidolin and Pete Babando. Most of the defensemen and forwards used catalogues as pads while the goaltenders were protected by great wads of newspapers.In some cases economy accounted for the make-shift equipment, but for the majority it was because parents regarded the sport as a recreation for their offspring, one which required little financial outlay. It&rsquo;s now a standing joke in the Stanley family that Allan wore his size 12 skates for years, regularly discarding socks as his feet grew. Then when he was with a regular club and measured for size, he only took an 11.Eventually a yen for organization prompted Allan and his friends to approach Mr. Carol an employee of a large northern firm named Holman Plungers, and often an interested spectator at their shinny games. Through his efforts a team, named after his firm, was formed and the boys provided with sweaters, sticks and gloves. That was the start of supervised hockey in that locality and so deep was Stanley&rsquo;s gratitude that many years later, when he helped the Leafs win his first Stanley Cup, he put aside a bottle of champagne and announced, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s for Mr. Carrol. He deserves this.&rdquo;Since those days Stanley&rsquo;s career has been long and somewhat bump. He caught the interest of the Boston Bruins and eventually joined their farm club, the Boston Olympics, then was out of hockey while he spent two years in the Canadian Navy. Upon his discharge he was acquired by the Providence Reds with whom he spent two seasons before going to the Rangers in 1948 in a whopping $70,000 deal.<h2>A Hockey News Special</h2>In all, Stanley had played with Rangers, Chicago and Boston before moving to Toronto in the fall of 1958 in a trade for defenseman Jim Morrison. He was then 32 with 12 pro seasons behind him; some had been mediocre, others filled with accomplishment. But never had he enjoyed the success he has attained in his six campaigns as a Maple Leaf, years in which he has helped win three consecutive Stanley Cups and has twice been on the second All-Star team.The Toronto team boasts many brilliant performers, but Stanley&rsquo;s steady, brainy and effective play has seldom been overshadowed by his younger mates, a fact manager-coach Punch Imlach has always recognized. This point was emphasized even more emphatically last spring when Allan&rsquo;s defensive work contributed heavily to Toronto&rsquo;s cup triumph.Allan&rsquo;s wife of six years, a strikingly beautiful brunette who was the former Barbara Bowie of Timmins, maintains much of his consistently good play lies in his complete dedication, not just to hockey, but to everything he tackles. Regarding hockey, he has the philosophy that an athlete must live a disciplined life, adhering not to a diet, but to well balanced meals offering plenty of protein. He is constantly amazed and occasionally annoyed when acquaintances good naturedly rib, &ldquo;Training camp is coming up. Boy, you&rsquo;d better start changing the food you&rsquo;re eating.&rdquo; In Stanley&rsquo;s books that&rsquo;s utter nonsense, because he eats exactly the same type and quantity of food all year round. He gave up smoking eight years ago. but will take an occasional drink, devours an immense amount of fruit, usually between meals and regularly consumes oatmeal, cream soups, steaks, ice cream and fruit cocktails. He is careful not to overeat and claims he will maintain the same degree of self discipline when his career is over.Often, at the end of a campaign, he will measure his legs which have expanded through the winter with a tightening of fatty tissues and a build up of muscles. By the conclusion of the summer they have generally diminished by as much as two inches. Much of his present physical well being is attributed to the nine weeks he spent at Brynell Manor-a hockey school at Fenlon Falls, Ontario, where Pierre Pilote, Ed Chadwick, Red Sullivan and Milt Schmidt also served as instructors. Allan was up each morning at 6:30, spent two to four hours per day on the ice, ate sensibly and relaxed on weekends by cruising nearby lakes in his new boat.Many are surprised that Stanley is back in the Leaf line-up today. They&rsquo;ll be even more astounded to read that he plans to be around a few more years.<h2>Stanley&rsquo;s Uncle Now Hockey Hall Of Famer</h2>TORONTO, Ont.You&rsquo;ll find a lot of spunk and determination in Allan Stanley&rsquo;s family background. His uncles were hockey players; Barney once managing the Chicago Black Hawks and now is a member of hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame.His Dad is Timmins&rsquo; Fire Chief and his mother a noted radio personality in the North who recently authored a book. His only brother, Murray, lives in California.His maternal grandmother, now well into her 80&rsquo;s, insists upon living by herself in Paisley, Ontario, where she keeps abreast of the hockey games by radio.<h2>Allan&rsquo;s Kin Dies Watching Him Play</h2>TORONTO, Ont.When the Toronto Maple Leafs took on the Boston Bruins in a mid-September exhibition game at Treasure Island Gardens in London, Ontario, only one thing marred the event witnessed by 5,359 patrons.One of the fans died of a heart attack.At the time Allan Stanley had no idea the victim was Mr. Blue of Paisley, Ontario, one of two uncles who had made a special effort to get to the rink to see their nephew perform. &#9632;

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Stanley Continues To Astound Critics Finding New Stamina For 17th Season

<div class="byline">&#x2014; Berry</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05484/3241000-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Detroit Goalie Roger Crozier looks back at puck as Chicago&rsquo;s Eric Nesternko fires goal against the Red Wings rookie.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.It&rsquo;s up the ladder &ldquo;a spot or two&rdquo; this season for the Red Wings says boss Sid Abel.Of course, Sid may still have thought he&rsquo;d have Bobby Hull and Jean Beliveau, the linemates he assigned Gordie Howe in the All-Star game, with him all season and he might have been a little flushed at the Stars&rsquo; success.Then Abel came through, true to the coaches&rsquo; code, by making the prediction not quite so specific.&ldquo;I feel this is a better club than last year and I&rsquo;ll be very disappointed if we don&rsquo;t move up a spot ot two and, since everyone else says they&rsquo;re going to win it, I might as well say that we are too.&ldquo;One thing, two of us are liars but I think you&rsquo;ll have to wait 70 games to find out. It looks like another balanced season.&rdquo;&ldquo;The big man for us of course is Roger Crozier in goal. If he doesn&rsquo;t do the job, I&rsquo;ll be sitting out there in the stands next year like everyone else, wondering what the devil went wrong.&ldquo;But I have the utmost confidence in him &mdash; he&rsquo;s going to be a star in this league, he&rsquo;s quick and he&rsquo;s got fast hands,&rdquo; Abel said.Crozier wound up 30 periods of pre-season play with a sparkling 0.72 goals against per game average, finishing off with shutouts against Tulsa of the Central Pro League and the New York Rangers.Abel also made his prediction on a day that two leading members of the cast were in sick bay and a fine rookie prospect limped through the door, back with a broken leg after two games with Pittsburgh.Defenseman Bill Gatsby anchor of the blue line with Marcel Pronovost, was flat or his back, in traction, and Larry Jeffrey was hobbling on a burr knee.Gadsby aggravated a chronic back condition in the closing exhibition game and figured to miss the Wings&rsquo; first three regular games &mdash; he missed six last year with the same thing.Jeffrey, hitting stride after being reunited with Norm Ull man and Floyd Smith on the second line, scored a goal and set one up early in the second period of the Ranger game and then limped off less than 10 minutes later.Jeffrey&rsquo;s right knee, the one that caused him to miss a dozen games last season and cut his effectiveness for better than half the season, was hit again although not as seriously as a year ago.Still, the doctors put it in a removeable cast &mdash; one that could be taken off daily for treatments, and chalked him out of the opener at least and possibly the next two.In the same Ranger game, Eddie Joyal was hit around the right eye by teammate Parker MacDonald&rsquo;s shot, inflicting a 15-stich v-shaped wound around the eye.To shore up the weakened forces, Abel diverted Jerry Top-pazzini, the 12-season NHL veteran, to Detroit instead of Pittsburgh after swapping Hornet centre Hank Ciesla for Topper during the All-Star weekend.Also kept in town was defenseman Bob Wall who was to have left with Memphis for its Central Pro League opener.Passing through town, enroute home to recuperate for five more weeks, was centre Butch Paul, the 21-year-old Edmonton Oil King graduate who was turned pro last month and assigned to Pittsburgh after a flashly training camp.Paul scored a goal in his second game with Pittsburgh on his first shift of the night. On his next shift, he was clotheslined by Springfield defenseman Dave Amadio, squared off to fight and Amadio fell on him, bending Paul&rsquo;s leg back under and breaking it. &#9632;

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Abel Sees Wings Stepping Up Notch If Crozier Conies Through In Goal

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02811/3240969-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="518" height="964"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY BERGMAN &hellip; Catches Defense Berth</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03707/3240962-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="280" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Barkley</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.Training camp for B Sid Abel is like Christmas for a youngster. Every year, they&rsquo;re pretty sure of what they&rsquo;re going to get but there &rsquo; s always one pleasant surpriseits been mat way for me Detroit manager-coach.Like Doug Barkley a couple of years ago. Or Pit Martin and Roger Crozier last year.This year it&rsquo;s Gary Gunnar Bergman, a prematurely balding blond from Kenora, Ont., chained to the minors the last five seasons. Gary is one of three new Red Wings this season. Roger Crozier and AHL product Bob Dillabough are the others.Like Barkley, obtained from Chicago, Bergman isn&rsquo;t just out of junior &mdash; he was 26 on Oct. 7.But Barkley has become a fixture at the blue line, moved right in with the poise and self-assurance of a man who had been around the NHL for many seasons.Bergman isn&rsquo;t quite the same in temperament as big Doug but Abel feels he is the solution to the most pressing blue line problem &mdash; that of a fourth man, a swift skater, one who can move the puck.And Gary does move it, moves it at times so much that you kind of think he&rsquo;s playing left wing.&ldquo;You think I play close now,&rdquo; Bergman says, smiling, &ldquo;you should have seen me before.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always been an offensive defenseman and it&rsquo;s tough after all these years to learn to stay back but I&rsquo;m learning.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the big thing in this league &mdash; defense first and then whatever you can pick up after that.&rdquo;Bergman is a most happy fella these days after being just about ready to quit hockey and go into the construction business full-time with his father.He was one of a handful of Montreal-owned players on the independently-owned Winnipeg team that won the Memorial Cup in 1958.But it didn&rsquo;t buy him a chance in the big time. Doug Harvey and company still were around, the Canadiens were in the midst of a string of five straight Stanley Cups and who needed a youngster at that time?But even when the time did come that the Canadiens needed blue-line help, Bergman didn&rsquo;t get the call.&ldquo;I never played on an NHL team against another NHL team even in an exhibition game until our first exhibition this year against Toronto,&rdquo; Bergman said.&ldquo;I consider that my first NHL game even though it was an exhibition.Gary was ready to call it quits a year ago. He had a falling-out with a segment of the Canadian brass, something he doesn&rsquo;t want to talk about now, after spending one year in Winnipeg, another in Buffalo and two in Cleveland.But one Montreal official, now departed, talked him into trying one more year &ldquo;and see what happens then.&rdquo;So Bergman did. He was on loan to Springfield where owner Eddie Shore, four-time Hart Trophy winner with the Bruins, is known for his idiosyncrasies.&ldquo;He taught me some skating tricks,&rdquo; said Bergman, who always was an excellent skater.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04607/3240955-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="511" height="976"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB DILLABOUGH&hellip; Made The Big Jump</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I used to take an extra step turning and going back. I could get away with it in the American League because I could catch the man &mdash; but up here you do that and he&rsquo;s gone.&ldquo;Eddie showed me how to cut off that step and get back faster.&rdquo;&rsquo;&rsquo;He smiled at the thought of Shore.&ldquo;He has a story he tells: &lsquo;If I&rsquo;m spending $50,000 to build a house and 1 want the door built in the roof, that&rsquo;s where the door is going to go&rsquo;.&rdquo;Which is another way of saying that maybe what Shore does isn&rsquo;t popular, but he&rsquo;s the piper.So Bergman did play the year, wound up with 13 goals, tops for AHL defensemen.But he didn&rsquo;t think about the draft, didn&rsquo;t think about hockey, didn&rsquo;t think about a trade.&ldquo;I was just sick of the whole thing,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;When you lose your confidence, your desire &hellip; that&rsquo;s pretty bad.&rdquo;Then, at 8 a.m. one June morning, a neighbor boy heard on the radio that Bergman had been drafted from Montreal by Detroit. He rushed over to tell Bergman.&ldquo;I was sleeping. I said a prayer, thanking God, turned over and went back to sleep.&rdquo; He smiled as he said it, reliving the moment.Even then, Bergman didn&rsquo;t expect to get a big shot. &ldquo;But I got to Detroit and there it was &hellip; a shot at the big apple if I wanted to work hard enough for it.&rdquo;He did and was an immediate hit. He won the No. 4 spot over a number of candidates including returnee Al Langlois, an eight-season NHL veteran, dropping Langlois to the swing man post.&ldquo;Every one has helped me &mdash; Bill (Gadsby) and Marcel (Pronovost) talk to me all the time, tell me about the players on the other teams, what to do.&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve all been great &mdash; none of that &lsquo;rookie&rsquo; stuff &mdash; everyone. And the &lsquo;Big Fella&rsquo; (Gordie Howe of course) is just as down to earth as can be.&rdquo;Abel had his eye on Bergman last season after reports from Pittsburgh general manager Baz Bastien and he played coy before going to the NHL June meetings, saying that he thought the Wings might be able to cure some blue line ills with a player currently in the AHL but one who never had played an NHL game.It was the 6-foot 188-pound Bergman and if he can live up to advance billing and his preseason play, he will give Detroit all-around strength at the blue line it hasn&rsquo;t had in several years.That is, if Gadsby, 37, and Pronovost, 34, can keep the wheels moving &hellip; and, for the pessimistic, how long have people been saying that Toronto has been getting old?But Abel is certain on one thing: Christmas comes in September, not December.&ldquo;He was the find of the eamp,&rdquo; said Abel. &#9632;

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Bergman Proves Find Of Detroit Camp

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01793/3241038-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="305" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pierre Pilote</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash;Black Hawk coach Billy Reay has made no secret of the fact that ex-Bruin defenseman Doug Mohns is one of the keys to his team&rsquo;s plan for overcoming the one point that has separated the Hawks from the fervently-desired league title the last two years.It was Billy&rsquo;s contention that with the notable exception of Norris trophy winner Pierre Pilote, last year&rsquo;s collection of rearguards (Pilote teamed with Elmer Vasko and Al MacNeil and Wayne Hillman were paired) was a bit deficient in a phase of the game Reay likes to stress.They were effective enough at flagging down opposing puckcarriers but Reay felt that only Pilote moved well with the puck. Bill likes blue liners to grab the puck and wheel out of the defensive zone rather than look for the quick pass to a forward.First, he reasons that the less you pass in your zone the less danger there is that you&rsquo;ll give away the disc.&ldquo;Besides, I think the fans would rather see a defenseman lug the puck in a spot like that,&rdquo; he contends. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s spectacular and we can&rsquo;t forget that we&rsquo;re in business to make fans happy.&rdquo;Mohns,&rsquo;&rdquo; a free-skater with a good, &ldquo;heavy&rdquo; shot, seems ideally suited to Reay&rsquo;s style, although it represents quite a contrast from what he&rsquo;d become accustomed to during his 11 years at Boston.As Hillman&rsquo;s replacement with MacNeil, Mohns has been forced to play right defense for the first time in his career, but he&rsquo;s making the adjustment.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s still a little strange,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But I started getting the hang of it near the end of training camp and I think I&rsquo;ll get along.&rdquo;&ldquo;He sure is getting along,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;Doug&rsquo;s going to be a real asset to this team.&rdquo;The deal, which in essence sent Res Flemine. Murrav Balfour and Ab McDonald to the Bruins for Mohns, appears then to havt benefitted both the Hawks and Doug.He&rsquo;s as happy to be a Haw as they are to have him.He&rsquo;s not about to put down Boston, though. He liked the city so well that he settled there. But he&rsquo;s delighted with the switch. &ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t be happier,&rdquo; Doug insisted as he put on his Hawk gear in the Stadium&rsquo;s home team dressing room for the first time.&ldquo;I was a little shocked to be dealt away by the Bruins, but then again I really wasn&rsquo;t toe surprised. When a team isn&rsquo;t going well, you know changes are going to be made.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d always felt, though, that if I ever was traded I wanted to play in Chicago. I&rsquo;ve always liked the city and I&rsquo;ve always heard good reports about the organization.&ldquo;Besides, you really can&rsquo;t complain about being traded from the second division to a contender, particularly a contender that has all the talent you find around here.&rdquo; He wasted little time settling down in his new surround mgs. By the time the season opened, the Mohns family has moved into a rented home in sub urban Hillside.Doug&rsquo;s shot, which the Hawks earned to respect during his/ear with the Bruins, and his (lay-making ability, have so imp messed Reay that he&rsquo;s been moved into Pilote&rsquo;s spot at the right (cq) point on the Hawks lower play.This fact becomes impressive when you realize that the Hawks&rsquo; tanging attack was the most (effective in the league last year with Pilote as one of it&rsquo;s main-springs.HAWK NOTES &mdash; The Hawk mananagement must feel fairly certain now that it&rsquo;s efforts for the last six seasons have moved he team back into a prominent pot on the Chicago sport scene, almost on a par with the long established and successful Bears, Cubs, and White Six.Despite last year&rsquo;s late season fade and playoff collapse, and in the face of an word the board boost in prices, the Hawks&rsquo; sea. son advance is the highest its been since the mid-40&rsquo;s, before the fall which nearly saw Chicago&rsquo;s N.H.L. franchise die in the 1950&rsquo;sMuch of the interest has to have been generated by the fact that Ivan and Reay elected to go with several youngsters in place of veterans, who, with the exception of Fleming, were wearing out their welcome.The four farm hands who opened the season &mdash; left wings Dennis Hull, Johnny Brenneman, and Doug Robinson, and Centre Fred Stanfield, give the Hawks their largest rookie contingent in years.Kenny Wharram, who suggered a skull fracture during the exhibition season, is working out with he team but isn&rsquo;t expected to resume his right wing chores with Star Makita and Robinson for another week.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02679/3241031-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="511" height="930"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG MOHNS&hellip; Asset To Hawks</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Reay Says Mohns To Be Key Man In Bid For NHL Title

<div class="byline">&#x2014; BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.The Red Wings will have their greatest radio-television exposure in history this season.Budd Lynch again will do the home-and-away radio and all 20 road games after Jan. 1 will be televised back to Detroit on a new Ultra High Frequency channel.But newspaper exposure is something else. Detroit&rsquo;s two major newspapers have been struck by pressmen and paper and plate handlers&rsquo; unions since July 13 with no signs of settlement.The 76-page Red Wing Year Book, most complete in the NHL, is on sale now and can be obtained for $1 from the Red Wing Concession Dept., Olympia Stadium.The Wings scheduled an exhibition in Larry Jeffrey&rsquo;s hometown of Goderich, Ont., and like it usually happens, Jeff failed to get a point for the standing room crowd of 1,200. &#9632;

TV Fans To See More Of Wing’s

TORONTO, Ont.The National Hockey League board of governors have established a trophy to honor the late Lester Patrick.It will be presented annually to the executive, manager or coach making the greatest contribution to hockey in the United States. It is considered likely that the first award will go posthumously to Walter Brown of Boston.A selection committee composed of NHL president Clarence Campbell, a league governor, a U.S. wire service sports writer, a U.S. syndicated columnist, a playing member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, and the sports director of a U.S. television network, will be set up.Patrick, one of the game&rsquo;s statesmen, was associated for many years with New York Rangers as player, coach, manager and executive. His sons, Murray and Lynn, are vice-presidents and general manager of Rangers and Boston Bruins, respectively. Both played and coached in the NHL.The six governors approved themselves as a selection committee for the Conn Smythe Trophy. It was established at the annual meeting in June and will be presented, along with $1,000, to the most valuable player of the Stanley Cup playoffs.Announcement, of the trophy decision was made at the annual All-Star Dinner here in Toronto. &#9632;

NHL Establishes Patrick Trophy

<h2>Penalty Protest Rule Being Overly Enforced</h2>Hockey News Editor:I would like to lodge a complaint against the new rules in the NHL, AHL and CPHL forbidding the protesting on penalty calls.To see how ridiculous this rule is, I bring to point an AHL contest of Oct. 11 between Rochester and Buffalo. Referee Tom Smith called two misconduct penalties on Buffalo players for what seemed like &lsquo;frowning&rsquo; after they received minor penalties. Young referees get it into their heads to give as many penalties as possible. One of the misconducts was on the gentlemanly Larry Wilson.I hope the refereeing improves as the season progresses for this rule in my opinion is being overly enforced.John M. Smyntek, Buffalo, N.Y.<h2>Watch Lou Angotti For Rookie Award</h2>Hockey News Editor:Every season each team usually has a number of new players or rookies and the Blueshirts are no exception this year. They have Lou Angotti, who was a stickout in the 3-0 game the Canadiens beat Rangers.Lou was always getting in front of the net and he was getting the puck off good but always Charlie Hodge was just a little too sharp.I would say that Angotti is ne of the rookies to watch this ear.Donald Robins, Victoria, N.B.<h2>Say Hawks&rsquo; Nesterenko Will Be Surprise Star</h2>Heckey News Editor:&rsquo;A star for a Season&rsquo; is the topic of my letter. Every season here is a surprise player in the NHL. Last year it was Kenly Wharram who came up with 19 goals. He came out of the lark into the limelight after being used mostly as a utility player.Two years ago it was Parker &gt;MacDonald of Detroit, who scored 30 goals on the Production Line&rsquo;. Last year he counted only 20 and is quickly returning to normal. Three years ago it was Claude Provost who latched 32 goals and fell off to his old form last season.This season I predict Eric Nesterenko of Chicago, who counted only 7 goals last year, but will get 25 goals this sea-on.Timm Koppeser, Waterloo, Ont.(Hockey fans are urged to write to the Fan Forum with your opinions and thoughts about this great ice sport. Please be as brief as possible and direct your letters to FAN FORUM, The HOCKEY NEWS, Room 309, 1434 St. Catherine St., Montreal, Que.. &#9632;

FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzia</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01888/3241114-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="479" height="487"></div>&bull; WHAT&rsquo;S THE real reason behind Ted Lindsay&rsquo;s comeback? &hellip; That&rsquo;s the question most hockey followers are asking after the one-time Detroit great came out of retirement at the age of 39 to open the season with the Red Wings &hellip; Lindsay told this to reporters after his first NHL game since 1960 &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll Slive it six more games, it 1 improve to the point where I think I&rsquo;ll become an asset to the team, I&rsquo;ll stick. Otherwise I&rsquo;ll pack it up. I just wanted to end my career as a Red Wing.&rdquo; &hellip; Governor George Romney of Michigan attended the Red Wings&rsquo; opener which attracted the largest opening crowd in Detroit&rsquo;s history with 14,323 on hand &hellip; Comedian Johnny Wayne did an outstanding job as MC of the 18th annual All Star dinner. We&rsquo;ve attended every one of these events and this was by far the best &hellip; Cleveland Barons, the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Calder Cup champions, will broadcast all of their home and away games this season over WJW &hellip; Gail Egan, 33-year broadcasting and hockey veteran, will do the games. Egan is from Calgary originally and was one of Canada&rsquo;s best sports announcers before he went to Cleveland in 194f &hellip; Captain George Armstrong of Toronto figures Montreal and Chicago will be the teams that Leafs will have to beat out &hellip; &ldquo;Canadiens are skating fools and Chicago will be just as good as last year but won&rsquo;t get as many penalties without Reg Fleming,&rsquo; the Chief pointed out &hellip; Red Kelly back from a trip to Tokyo points out there are 70 rinks in Japan and that most organized hockey is played in the universities &hellip; Sweden&rsquo;s Ulf Sterner scored at least one goal in each of the exhibition games played by the St Paul Rangers of the CPHL &hellip; Joe Gordon has replaced Bill Torrey as publicity director of the Pittsburgh Hornets but Torre; will be broadcasting all the Hornet road games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03525/3241107-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="309" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Armstrong</figcaption></div>EDDIE SHORE was more than pleased when Roger Code joined his Springfield Indians just before the AHL season opened &hellip; Eddie can use all the scoring power he can muster &hellip; Quebec Aces are the hottest team in Jack Riley&rsquo;s loop to date &hellip; Coach Red Sullivan has been disappointed with the way his Rangers have been skating &hellip; &ldquo;If we&rsquo;re going to make the playoffs, we&rsquo;ve got to skate. That&rsquo;s how Detroit made it to the finals last year,&rdquo; he points out &hellip; Sullivan informs that the Rangers have a younger team this season and that a - &lsquo;if they can hold their own through the first 20 or 25 games they should be all right &hellip;Camille Henry thinks the Rangers will miss &rsquo; Andy Bathgate at the point on the power play. &ldquo;Andy had the big shot,&rdquo; said Henry &hellip; Canadiens opened their season at the Forum / with a number of presentations &hellip; Butch Bouchard, former Montreal captain, presented the _. Prince of Wales Trophy (NHL champions) to Coach Toe Blake. Maurice Richard handed over the Hart Trophy; to Jean Beliveau. Bill Durnan did the same thing with the Vezina Trophy to Charlie Hodge while Bernie Geoffrion gave the Calder Memorial Trophy to rookie winner Jacques Laperriere &hellip; Big Bill Durnan made everyone laugh at the All-Star dinner when he stood beside tiny Charlie Hodge and said: &ldquo;I want you to notice that you have to be big to play goal in the National Hockey League &hellip; Youth appears to be the keyword in the Chicago camp this season. John Brenneman, Phil Esposito and John McKenzie account ed for Hawks&rsquo; three goals in their first game of the schedule a: they blanked Boston, 3-0 .. Ron Ellis, 19-year-old Toronto rookie has fitted in-very well with the Stanley Cup champs, and is playing on a line with Frank Mahovlich and Andy Bathgate. Not a bad place to start for a rookie.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04364/3241100-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="297" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Sullivan</figcaption></div>THE RYERSON PRESS have done it again! Each year the outstanding Canadian publishing firm brings out a new book on hockey and this year is no exception. The latest hockey book i called &ldquo;The Stanley Cup Story&rdquo; and was written by Henry Rox borough of Toronto. Henry has written a number of fine sport books in the past but his latest on the colorful exploits of the Stanley Cup is his finest. &ldquo;The Stanley Cup Story&rdquo; is available at your book seller&rsquo;s for $4.50 &hellip; Willie Marshall has been appointed captain of the Rhode Island Reds. Willie is playing his 13th season in the AHL and is in his second with Fern Flaman&rsquo;s Reds &hellip; Flaman is both general manager and coach of the Rhode Island sextet and he is doing a splendid rebuilding job this year. Fernie has set his sights on finishing first in&hellip; Bruce Cline appears to be tuny recovered from his broken ankle and the clever little right-winger of the Hershev Bears has been his club&rsquo;s most consistent scorer so far this season &hellip; Jimmy relies is Commissioner, Sid Abel is Vice-President and Jack Paterson, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Detroit Junior Hockey League, a new circuit made up of six teams from Detroit and suburbs. This league replaces the Junior Wings program and will allow some 90 boys to play hockey in the up to 20 years category, whereas less than 20 boys participated in the Junior Wings program &hellip; Jack Stoddard, who played with New York Rangers, Providence, Cleveland and Owen Sound among other teams, is the new coach of the Owen Sound Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; Greys, who play in the OHA Central Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; League &hellip; Jack&rsquo;s playing career was terminated by a foot injury resulting from a car accident.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02443/3241093-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="312" height="505"></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">BY LEO MONAHAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01830/3241193-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="294" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Green</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.When Edward Jose] &lsquo;Teddy&rsquo; Green played li first game for the Bruin teammates snickered in the dressing room as he taped his stockings with bicycle tape. Most National League use white adhesive tape for this chore.This was just one of the things Ted Green had learn. He was, in fact green as grass. He address railroad conductors&mdash;to the dismay &mdash; as &lsquo;Say, Porter&rsquo; &mdash; and committed other little blunders normal to a rookie. well, mr green has learned and right now he&rsquo;s not only the bellwether of Boston&rsquo;s defense, but also one of the most underrated players in the NHL.Ted&rsquo;s problem, of course, is that he built a reputation as a rude and crude player. He&rsquo;s still a toughie, to be sure, but now at 24 years of age he has matured into a vastly improved player.&ldquo;Green,&rdquo; says Boston&rsquo;s General Manager Lynn Patrick, &ldquo;was one of our most consistent players last season.&rdquo;Coach Milt Schmidt seconds this, adding:&ldquo;Ted has improved in many ways, especially in his puck-carrying. He had a lot of trouble his first few seasons, but now he&rsquo;s pretty good at it.&rdquo;What caused the improvement? Mostly the opportunity to play regularly. Breaking in as a NHL defenseman is possibly the toughest of all hockey jobs. Look around. Most of the All-Stars and better defensemen are along in years. Toronto&rsquo;s Tim Horton, for example, is 34. His partner, Allan Stanley, is still arolund at 38.Detroit&rsquo;s 37 year-old Bill Gadsby and Marcel Pronovost, 33, are other examples as is Chicago&rsquo;s Pierre Pilote, who will be 33 in December. It takes longer eo become a top-flight NHL defenseman, but, too, they stick around longer than players at other positions.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know of anybody who wants to win more than Ted,&rdquo; says Schmidt. &ldquo;He has great spirit. If he does take a bad penalty or make: a mistake, it just inspires him to try that mud harder. He&rsquo;s a great team man.&rdquo;Green, from all appearances, finally is coming into his own. It will be more difficult for him to win recognition for his playing exploits becausi of the bullyboy label. Once you get a rep like that, it&rsquo;s hard to shake.The Bruins, however, use Green to man point on their power plays. He&rsquo;s usually on the ice when Boston is in a short-handed situation Schmidt increasingly is calling on Green in tight spots and, after all, who should know the ability of his personnel better than the coach?Yes, Ted Green is developing into a fine, all around defenseman. The trouble is not too man: people outside of Boston have noticed it yet.AROUND THE HUB. The Bruins drew capacity crowds to their opening games, indicating, again that Boston is a dedicated hockey town.&hellip; Last season the B&rsquo;s sold out the Garden 11 times &mdash; Boston&rsquo;s record is 12 &mdash; and from al indications that mark is in jeopardy &hellip; There recently-deceased Boston hockey figures were honored in a pre-game moment of silence befor the opening game against New York. The crow stood hushed to honor the memories of the late Walter Brown, Art Ross and Bobby Bauer. Tw Marine buglers sounded Taps from each end of the packed building.NHL President Clarence Campbell and Rt feree-in-Chief Carl Voss attended the opener and will be making a swing of NHL cities. Vos disclosed that he will oversee close to 1,100 pre fessional games this season in the NHL. AHL CPHL and Western League. &ldquo;Looks like L won be home much,&rdquo; said Carl.<h2>Campbell Says Pension Fund Hits $3,500,000 For NHL</h2>MONTREAL, Que.The current value of pension accumulated for National Hockey League players is $3,500,000, according to president Clarence Campbell.&ldquo;This means that a player who enters NHL ranks now would receive $1,640 pension monthly at the age of 65 if he played 20 years in the league,&rdquo; Campbell said.The new monthly retirement benefits, which will be ratified at a meeting of the NHL&rsquo;s pension society, will entitle the same player to a pension of $500, $657,$875 or $1,187 monthly if he decides to draw it at the age of 45, 50, 55 or 60.Death benefits, assuming that the participants has deferred pension benefits until date of death, would amount to $182,098 at the age of 65, dropping down to $27,315 for players who have been in the league only three years.Campbell said the same benefits apply to the referees, with one difference. The players and the clubs each put half the total amount into the fund while the NHL shares the cost with the referees. &#9632;

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Green Seen Most Improved Bruin, Thriving On Reaular Ice Time

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div>-MONTREAL QueA quartet who scored 20 goals or more for Canadiens last year are looking forward to a repeal performance this season.Jean Beliveau, Bobby Rous seau, Dave Baion and Gilles Tremblay are the Hab sharp shooters who will be out to make life miserable for opposing net minders. Between them, they racked up 99 goals last year, accounting for almost fifty percent of the team&rsquo;s production. Beliveau led the parade with 2f counters, followed by Rousseau (25. Balon (24) and Tremblay (22). The retired Bernard Geoffrion was also a member of the select circle with 21 goals in 55 games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01875/3241231-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="575" height="1723"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN BELIVEAU</figcaption></div>Without doubt, the most surprising member of the &lsquo;20-goal club&rdquo; was Dave Balon, a hardworking forward who was rated a good checker, but no great shakes as a scorer. He&rsquo;s amassed just 16 goals in what amounted to over 100 games with Rangers before coming to Montreal, and was expected to continue his checking role, here. Dave checked, alright, but in the process began rifling pucks into nets with surprising accuracy, and caused a change of thinking on the part of Toe Blake.&ldquo;I always knew this guy could check,&rdquo; said Toe, as he watched Balon catch fire with the Habs, &ldquo;but, I&rsquo;m certainly surprised at the way he can put that puck in the net.&rdquo;Balon, it goes without saying, will be trying for an encore this season, and if he holds to last year&rsquo;s pattern, he&rsquo;ll be spreading his goals pretty evenly&rsquo; around the circuit. He could point to no particular netminder as being easier for him to score on than others.The same wasn&rsquo;t true, however, of Gilles Tremblay. He got most of his goals against Toronto&rsquo;s Johnny Bower, and has also been highly effective against Terry Sawchuk. With both goalies guarding the same cage, this year, Gilles is understandably eager to take a crack at the Leafs. In the opening games this season. Tremblay was working on a line with Bobby Rousseau, thus uniting two of the top scorers on the team. If both play up to their potential, it could be one of the most productive partnerships around.However, despite the bright prospects among these big guns, Toe Blake can be expected to launch an all-out drive to get I more Canadiens into the 20-goal category. Since the retirement of Geoffrion. Blake has been stressing one theme, namely, it&rsquo;s going to take more effort from everybody to make up for the Boomer&rsquo;s absence. One way to do it, certainly, would be to unearth a few more 20-goal shooters, and there are at least two men on the team right now, who can qualify if they avoid extensive injuries. One is Henri Richard. The other is John Ferguson.Richard, of course, has already run into one injury which prevented him from starting the season on schedule, but the hope is that he&rsquo;ll be free of them from here on. If so, the likelihood is that Henri will figure prominently among the team&rsquo;s 20-goal men, as he has in all but three of the past nine seasons. As for Ferguson, he notched 18 goals last year in just 59 games, despite a bad thumb injury&rsquo;. He got off to a good start this season, with a goal in Canadiens&rsquo; opening game against Rangers, and looks ready for a big campaign.So, while the departure of Geoffrion has got to be considered a serious loss, Canadiens are by no means bereft of scorers, if anything, their 20-goal club could expand this year, if the for-wards come up to expectations. Ind, with rookie Yvan Cournoyer around, there&rsquo;s hope that still another scoring star has appeared on the Hab horizon.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03645/3241224-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="623" height="616"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE BALON</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Habs ‘20-Goal Club’ Shootina For Bia Year

<div class="byline">&#x2014; Smith.</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02777/3241262-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="300" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Roberts</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.The Cana-diensmay I have found 1 the answer to a problem in the person of rugged Jim Roberts.The problem concerns their penalty-killing record, which as of last season left much to be desired. Habs ranked no better than fourth in penalty-killing effectiveness at the end of the past campaign. They trailed Toronto, Detroit and Chicago, in that order. However, at the tail-end of the season they obtained the services of Roberts, and things were beginning to improve just as time ran out.This season, Roberts is back and early indications are that he&rsquo;s going to help Canadiens considerably whenever they&rsquo;re shorthanded. He was credited with turning in a topnotch effort against Rangers, recently, when Habs took three penalties in a row yet held New York to two shots on goal. Actually, Canadiens can &mdash; and do &mdash; count themselves lucky to still have Roberts around-after leaving him unprotected in the June draft. They would&rsquo;ve liked to protect him, but didn&rsquo;t, because as Toe Blake said &ldquo;&mdash;we simply couldn&rsquo;t protect everyone.&rdquo; Blake also said that he was highly relieved when no one claimed Roberts in the summertime sessions.Roberts is a native of Toronto, who came to Canadiens last season by way of the Omaha Knights. He is a Jack of all trades, in the sense that he can play up front or on defense as well as filling utility roles such as that of penalty killer. He&rsquo;s a sturdy looking customer at 5&rsquo; 10&rdquo; and 185 lbs., and at 24 years of age would seem to have quite a future in the ranks of the N.H.L. &#9632;

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Roberts May Be Answer To Penalty Killing Woes

(As Seen In The Toronto Star)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05298/3241324-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="553" height="962"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHNNY BOWER &hellip; Still Like A Boy</figcaption></div>How old is John William Bower, the former hamburger king of Saskatchewan? He&rsquo;s 25 &mdash; physically. And that&rsquo;s all that counts, isn&rsquo;t it? He doesn&rsquo;t play goal with his birth certificate.The estimate of 25 doesn&rsquo;t come from his Fan Club &mdash; nor from an insurance agent who is trying to sell him to the head office. It&rsquo;s the opinion of a medical expert. Dr. J. P. McKenna of Peterborough examined many of the athletes who are sharpening their reflexes for shinny ser vices in the far-flung Maph Leaf empire &mdash; at Toronto, Vic toria, B.C., Rochester, Tulsa Oklahoma, and Charlotte North Carolina.Dr. McKenna was ai athlete of sorts himself, where he lived in Western Canada No scout ever offered him 5 G&rsquo;s to sign with New Yor) Yankees&mdash;or even 50 bucks to sign with Winnipeg Monarchs He played for fun. In the pre cess, he toughened his ows framework and he became ac customed to rippling muscle beneath the hides of aging athletes.However, he was completely unprepared for John William Bower, who appears to contradict just about everything that appears in the text books. Dr. McKenna isn&rsquo;t re-auired to ask a hockey player&rsquo;s age before stalking him with his stethoscope. He seemed to recall some snide remarks which had appeared in the prints &mdash; something to the effect that John William was older than the rink at Vancouver.The doctor was told the real facts that&mdash;John William was born before the invention of the skate. It must have been before the skate was invented, because John William never seemed to get a pair. There were 9 kids in his clan and Santa Claus seldom left anything you couldn&rsquo;t eat or wear and hand down to the next in the line of succession.The NHL press book gives his birth date as November 8 in 1924 but nobody takes that too seriously. There have been boys who played junior hockey until streaks of silver started to show in their chin whiskers.<h2>Just playing goal is exercise</h2>&ldquo;If you didn&rsquo;t know something of this controversy about his age you could guess it was 25 &mdash; assessing him physically,&rdquo; Dr. McKenna said. &ldquo;I never have seen a man of his reported years in such wonderful condition. I don&rsquo;t know what he does to stay in shape. Definitely, he is doing something.&rsquo;&rsquo;This is one more respect in which the J. William Bower chassis deceives even an expert. Johnny was asked about offseason body-building. He looked a trifle suspicious. This could be the question of an operative in the employ of the Leaf front office. You never know at training camp. One Autumn, Conn. Smythe shook hands with every reporting peon. As he pumped their dukes, he checked their calluses &mdash; to determine whether they had been working all summer.&ldquo;Well, we get a set of exercises we&rsquo;re supposed to do for a few weeks before we came to camp,&rdquo; Johnny said cautiously. &ldquo;Yeah, I did mine. Faithfully? Yeah, I guess you could say faithfully. Look, I worked at a hockey school in B.C. for a month, so I was in pretty good shape anyway. Do I have any regular program of exercises? When you play goal in this league, you get enough exercise.&rdquo;This will surprise Dr. McKenna, who probably pictured John William in a small gym concealed back of the furnace room in his own cellar. The doctor even sounded unprofessional when he asked specifically about John&rsquo;s sturdy heart. He said: &ldquo;Ticker of a tiger.&rdquo;What about the eyes? Some goalies beat all the usual raps &mdash; bad knees, rusty reflexes, bursitis in the elbows &mdash; only to flunk because they can&rsquo;t see a little black button when it&rsquo;s going 90 MPH.Dr. McKenna replied: &ldquo;Some people have naturally good vision up to age 60. Bower probably is in that small percentage.So that&rsquo;s the best answer to John William&rsquo;s age: He&rsquo;s under 60. &#9632;

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Medic Finds Bower’s Reflexes Like 25 Year Old

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Hockey goalkeepers are normally lightly penalized individuals in the course of a season. Some National Hockey League puck-stoppers go from one year to another without even seeing the inside of the penalty box.But the NHL&rsquo;s new rule that forbids a goalkeeper from deliberately falling on the puck may change all that this season.For example, in the recent All-Star game, Goalie Charlietimized when he smothered Hodge of Canadiens was victhe puck and was given the first penalty ever incurred by a goalkeeper in the 18-year.Last weekend, the rule continued history of the classic.to play havoc with the padded set as Referee John Ashley banished both Toronto&rsquo;s Johnny Bower and Ed Johnston of Boston, although Ashley ruled that Johnston was actually thrown off because he deliberately threw the puck ahead after putting his hand on it.Two other league rules are giving the players a few headaches as well. Carl Brewer of the Leafs was chased for &lsquo;faceoff interference&rsquo; after stepping into a Boston player when the puck was dropped in the Leafs&rsquo; zone. This year it is an offence to make body contact on the faceoffs. It is strictly a stickto-stick affair now.The third rule change which the league is enforcing protests of penalty calls by is more of a clamp down on the officials. There have been more than a half dozen misconduct penalties meted out for arguing about a referee&rsquo;s call in the first week of the schedule. Camille Henry of the Rangers, who normally averages about four to six minutes in penalties for a season, was one of the unsuspecting victims when he was tagged with a 10-minute penalty, his first of a ten-year NHL career.Even boisterous Ted Lindsay forgot about the &lsquo;no talking&rsquo; rule. He was tagged with a misconduct on his return to the NHL last week after five years retirement.<h2>How they Stand</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02741/3241383-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="618" height="1024"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03597/3241376-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="537" height="739"><figcaption class="caption-body">CARL BREWER &hellip; Forgot The Rules</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04458/3241369-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="2440" height="1258"><figcaption class="caption-body">The honor of registering the first shutout of the 1964-65 National Hockey League season went to little CHARLIE HODGE of the Canadiens. The masked netminder stopped the New York Rangers 3-0 in his first NHL action. Hodge won the Vezina Trophy last season and is off to a flying start this year.</figcaption></div><h2>Player</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01854/3241362-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="1159" height="326"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-100/3241355-1-eng-US/f0010-1002.jpg" title="f0010-100" width="258" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kent Douglas</figcaption></div><h3>Kent Douglas &hellip; Toronto Maple Leafs</h3>It isn&rsquo;t very often that a National Hockey League defenseman is able to grab the point scoring lead away from the big name forwards but that&rsquo;s the way it turned out after the first full week of the 1964-65 schedule.The rearguard in question was Kent Douglas, who scored only one point last season, but already hasseven in his first three games of the new season. The Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; defenseman had a goal and six assists to lead Chicago&rsquo;s Stan Mikita, who had six and teammate Red Kelly, who had five points.It was a big start for the muscular Douglas, who spent 27 games of last season playing with Rochester in the AHL. The former AHL&rsquo;S top defenseman of the year, Douglas is in his third NHL season and if he keeps picking up the points at his present rate, the Leafs will have no recourse but to fit him into the regular defense pattern.Douglas, who is the NHL&rsquo;s player-of-the-week, got his chance when regular Allan Stanley came up injured for the opening week of the season.<h2>NHL Fines Six For Ice Brawl</h2>MONTREAL, Que.-National Hockey League fined six players $50 each for a brawl that erupted in an exhibition game Oct. 4 between Boston Bruins and New York Rangers.Reg Fleming and Ted Green, both of Boston, were fined an additional $100 each for keeping the brawl going.The $50 fine, automatic for game misconduct, also fell on F o r b e s Kennedy of the Bruins and on Rod Seiling, Dave Richardson and Earl Ingarfield of the Rangers.The brawl broke out at 4:57 of the third period. Boston defeated New York 8-1. &#9632;

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Not Even NHL Goalies Immune To New Penalty-Rule Calling

<div class="byline">BY GEORGE TAYLOR</div>BALTIMORE, Md. &mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04402/3241445-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="271" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mike McMahon</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I still say it&rsquo;s the best defense I&rsquo;ve ever coached.&rdquo;The guy doing the talking was Johnny Crawford making his first bid as coach of the Baltimore Clippers.The veteran American league coach went on record as praising his defense before the season started. And he refused to back peddle now that the campaign is in full swing.Even when Baltimore was blanked, 4-0, in the season&rsquo;s opener on home ice, Crawford would not place the blame on his defence. He said:&ldquo;If our defense can&rsquo;t hold its own, the fault should fall on my shoulders. I&rsquo;ve been so concerned trying to developed a scoring punch, I&rsquo;ve neglected to spend any time with the defencemen.&rdquo;The Baltimore blueliners, which Crawford points with pride, includes: Aldo Guidolin, the team&rsquo;s player --coach the past two years; Noel Price, the team&rsquo;s captain: Larry Ca-har, who spent most of last year with the New York Rangers; Ron Ingram, who came to the Clippers in a trade with Buffalo and Mike McMahon, the youngster who saw NHL action in New York last year.Crawford continued:My only concern is that our defense will draw too many penalties. Their style is certain to catch a lot of whistles. But, I&rsquo;m countin&rsquo; on them slowing down a few fowards in the process.&rdquo;Adding to Crawford s approval of the Clipper defense is the fact that Price, or even Guidolin, can be called upon for wing duty if ever a shortage of forwards should develop. Price was used regularly at wing during two pre season games and twice came up as the team&rsquo;s leading scorer.CLIPPER CLIPS &mdash; Clipper General Manager Terry Reardon pulled a major surpise when he Used the injured Jacques Plante in the nets &hellip; Plante, assigned to Balitmore to play himself back into shape, before returning to New York, took the goaltending assignment with only a brief workout &hellip; Although warning Reardon and Crawford: &ldquo;my knee still is not right,&rdquo; the six-time Vezina trophy winner held the Calder Cup champion Cleveland Indians to a 3-3 tie.After inspecting Plante&rsquo;s much discussed ailing knee, Dr. Ross Pierpont, the Clippers physician said: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not certain yet what we plan to do about the injury, but I can tell you this fellow is not faking"&hellip;Dick Meissner peeled off 15 pounds in an effort to increase his speed at right wing &hellip; Left winger Teddy Taylor has been hindered with an injured shoulder. &#9632;

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Crawford Sees Defense Rest He’s Ever Coached

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05300/3241483-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06246/3241476-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="293" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Hicks</figcaption></div>Wayne Hicks of the Qi Aces is off to another fast star the American Hockey League.The 26-year-old right winger the AHL&rsquo;s point leader for the k part of the first two months o schedule last season and he has ed up the tempo already this In his first six games with the power laden Aces, Hicks has pumped ii goals to match teammate Bill Sutherland&rsquo;s goal production.The two Quebec forwards are running one, two in the league point race as the Aces got off to their best start since coming into the league.Hicks has always been a prolific minor league scorer. Last season he hit for 36 in 70 games. He counted 22 for Buffalo in a 70-game schedule a few years back and shot 30 with Sault Ste. Marie in the old EPHL.Hicks had a full season with Boston in the NHL in 1962-63 and his addition to the Aces last year proved an asset to the Quebecers.HOCKEY NEWS is pleased to salute Wayne Hicks as the AHL&rsquo;s Player-of-the-Week. &#9632;

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Wayne Hicks Quebec Aces

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-100" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-100/3241514-1-eng-US/f0012-1002.jpg"></div><h2>Players Heed Riley&rsquo;s Threat</h2>ROCHESTER, N.Y.The American Hockey League&rsquo;s healthy bank balance is one of its best-kept secrets, but Jack Riley, the newly elected president of the league, readily admits an early rash of misconduct fines will weigh the scales even more.Riley, giving promise of doing more travelling than any of his predecessors, was pleased with the work of the referees, who are using a heavy hand in imposing misconduct penalties, and the accompanying $25 fine, on players who talk back.In addition, Riley is also pleased with the manner in which the faceoff interference rule is being called.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll either wind up with a lot of the players&rsquo; money, or they will learn to keep quiet in a hurry,&rdquo; Riley said. &ldquo;The fans pay to see hockey, not guys beefing and squawking all the time. That doesn&rsquo;t add anything to the attraction,&rdquo; &#9632;

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American Hockev Leaaue Summaries

<div class="byline">BY BUSTER CLEGG</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01820/3241552-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="494" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body">CON MADIGAN &hellip; Bruising Rearguard</figcaption></div>&mdash; PROVIDENCE. R. I.Police action &mdash; something lacking in the Rhode Island Reds for years &mdash; has returned to Providence in the form of the Roosters&rsquo; new &ldquo;M-squad".The &ldquo;M-squad&rdquo; consists of Larry McNabb and Con Madigan, two of hockey&rsquo;s most bruising blueliners.Coach Ferny Flaman, whose Reds finished third in the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Eastern Division last year, set out last summer to strengthen his club. His first move was to beef up the defense. In June, Flaman acquired the loan of McNabb from the Boston Bruins. Later, in September, he purchased Madigan from Los Angeles of the Western League. Both are tough fighters.&ldquo;These two fellows are going to improve our defense vastly,&rdquo; Flaman says. &ldquo;Why in our exhibition schedule they hit a few guys and scared them to death &ldquo;McNabb and Madigan will be especially helpful on the road, where the going gets real tough. We lacked roughness in &ldquo;recent years, but now we&rsquo;ve got plenty to spare.&rdquo;McNabb, only 25. has the credentials of a tough hombre. He compiled 444 minutes in three seasons in the WHL and played &gt;n two championship teams the last two years in San Francisco.Madigan, 30, led the WHL in penalties back in 1961-62 and is regarded as one of the toughest defensemen in hockey.The improved defensive play expected by Flaman took effect in the 7-game exhibition schedule as the Reds permitted only 19 goals for a 2.71 average. The club finished with a 3-3-1 slate.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02739/3241545-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="494" height="603"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY McNABB &hellip; Tough Hombre</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Reds’ New ‘M-Squad’ Seen Ready To Knock Heads

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, Pa.The &ldquo;mystery&rdquo; goalie due to arrive from Montreal just prior to the Hershey Bears launching the 1964-65 American League season never made it.Ever since the Bears sold veteran goalie Ed Chadwick to the Chicago Black Hawks, an ice curtain was dropped both here and in the camp of Montreal Canadiens as to the identity of Chadwick&rsquo;s successor. It turned out to be the worst kept secret of the sport. Chadwick. incidentally, is the man now&rsquo; between the Buffalo Bison pipes.Everyone from Three Rivers to Kirkland Lake &mdash; with the exception of the press corps &mdash; knew&rsquo; Ernie Wakely, 24, who backstopped Omaha last season to the Central League and post-season Cup titles, was the man coming here on loan and subject to immediate recall. Just for the record, this correspondent brike the Wakely to Hershey move in the Oct. 10 HOCKEY NEWS edition.In the meantime, the Canadiens graciously shipped in Claude Dufour, a well travelled minor leaguer, to serve as an &ldquo;extra&rdquo; goalie in order that Hershey would have two netminders for scrimmage purposes during training camp. Andre Gill. 23. the club&rsquo;s standby for the past two years, already was in the Bears lair.Well, to make a long story short, it seems Wakely, according to Hershey officials, suffered a knee injury during an exhibition game in Canada. He was reportedly playing for Montreal. The injury required surgery and the Canadiens brass took time out to inform Hershey two days before the season opener against Quebec (Oct. 10) that Wakely would be on the shelf for eight weeks.No sooner had this &ldquo;bright&rdquo; piece of news hit Hershey, than Dufour was inked to an AHL contract and handed the opening game assignment.It would have been nice to report he shutout the Quebec Aces &mdash; but it didn&rsquo;t happen, but not because he didn&rsquo;t give it a whale of a try.Dufour came up with 22 saves, eight difficult ones and two were turned in early in the third period with the score deadlocked 1-1. His clutch stops should have been enough to lift the club at that point. They didn&rsquo;t and the Aces went on to win, 3-1, with Lome (Gump) Worsley, another Montreal farmhand turning in a superb job. He kicked out 33 shots, 26 in the first 40 minutes.Hershey now finds itself w&rsquo;ith two goalies who don&rsquo;t have 100 AHL games of experience behind them. Gill, a hustling skater has been used only 27 times in the last two seasons.Dufour, who has made abbreviated stops at Quebec, Springfield and Cleveland, guarded Seattle&rsquo;s nets last season, posting a respectable 3.18 average for 70 games.The 28-y ear-old cage cop, who didn&rsquo;t even figure in the Bears plans, now finds himself on the spot.It&rsquo;s a great break for him, especially if he proves he can handle the assignment.Coach Frank Mathers, as well as the players, has confidence in Dufour and Gill. They will both get a shot at winning a permanent job &mdash; at least until Wakely shows. &#9632;

Dufour’s Puck-Stopping Surprises As Newcomer Takes Over Bears’ Net

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03672/3241607-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="293" height="472"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Chadwick</figcaption></div>&mdash; BUFFALO, N.Y.Holdout problems forced the Buffalo Bisons to open the American Hockey League season with five rookies, in eluding three-last minute recruits from st. Louis (raves of the Central Pro League, training at nearby Welland ont.Art Stratton, the AHL&rsquo;s all-star entre for the past two seasons, and Paul Popeil, a converted deenseman being used as a left-winger in his rookie season, were spectators as the Herd opened up with a 3-2 win over the Rochester Americans.The Herd&rsquo;s freshman coach, Phil Watson, brought up centre chuck Kelly and wingers Fred Evans and Larry Mickey from the Braves, and Kelly collected he Herd&rsquo;s first goal. It was Kelly&rsquo;s first shot as a pro.All three were returned to the Braves immediately after the game as General Manager Fred Sent resumed his contract negotiations with Stratton and Popeil.Watson, understandably pleased with the opening-night win over he Amerks, was upset over being without Stratton and Popeil.&ldquo;I can understand Stratton trying to get as much money as possible,&rdquo; Watson said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been an all-star for two seasons. I was a player myself.&ldquo;However, I think the club is being fair to both players, especially Popeil. He&rsquo;s been offered good money as a rookie and he must be getting some bad advice.&rdquo;ALONG THE BOARDS &mdash; Ed Chadwick, the Herd&rsquo;s new goalie, turned in a brilliant performance in the opener and held the club together through a two-minute double penalty &hellip; Pat Hannigan and the Amerks&rsquo; Wally Boyer staged the season&rsquo;s first fight, short but lively &hellip; The Bisons&rsquo; games are being broadcast through Radio Station WGR, with Ed Edwards handling the play-by-play. &#9632;

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Bisons Grab AHL Opener As Holdout Stars Watch

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04603/3241638-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="287" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Peter Stemkowski</figcaption></div>ROCHESTER. N. YIf experience is the best teacher, the Rochester Americans should teach American Hockey League opposition a few lessons this season.Only three members of the 1964-65 Amerks are under 25 years of age, while seven have reached or passed the 30 mark,And not one of general manager-coach Joe Crozier&rsquo;s squad was getting his first look at AHL action when Rochester opened its season Sunday, Oct. 11, in Buffalo. Both Pete Stemkowski and Terry Clancy, the two 21-year-old rookies, played a bit with last season&rsquo;s Amerks &mdash; Stemkowski appearing in three games and Clancy in a pair&rdquo;Even with Stemkowski and Clancy, average age of the 10 Rochester forwards is 29.2. Five of the 10 are over 30. Stan Smrke leads the &ldquo;old folks&rdquo; at 36, while Dick Gamble is 35. Bronco Horvath 34, Eddie Litzenberger 32 and Gerry Ehman 31. Les Duff will hit the 30-mark in December. Wally Boyer, at 27, and Red Armstrong, just turned 26, are the other forwards.The defense, while a bit younger &mdash; averaging 27.8 years of age, nevertheless has seen plenty of hockey action. Al Arbour is 31, Don Cherry 30, Larry Hillman 27, Duane Rupp 26 and Darryl Sly 25.Goalie Jerry Cheevers, at 23, joins Stemkowski and Clancy as the youngsters.No fewer than seven of the Amerks&rsquo; squad of 16 went into this season with a background of more than 500 games in the NHL and AHL.Horvath, runnerup to Ehman in the American League s individual scoring race last season, entered the &lsquo;64-65 campaign with a record of 754 National and American regular season games. Gamble had been in 712 NHL and AHL outings, Litzenberger 668, Duff 588. Ehman 583, Arbour 514 and Hillman 509.After having youth movements fail in more than one season here, the Amerks finally are patterning themselves after the successful &ldquo;grand old men of hockey", the ageless &hellip; but apparently unbeatable &hellip; Toronto Maple Leafs. &#9632;

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Loaded With Vets Amerks Patterned After Parent Leafs

<div class="byline">BY SHEL FULLERTON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05495/3241669-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="304" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body">Les Binkley</figcaption></div>Bent on successfully defending their Calder Cup championship, the Cleveland Barons wasted no time in producing two heroes as they fought to a victory and a tie in their first two American Hockey League games, bothOne was Andre Gagnon, spare goalie who played last season for the Montreal Canadiens in the Ontario Junior Hockev Leasue. The other was Wayne Larkin, who missed last spring&rsquo;s playoffs because of a severe shoulder separation.While Larkin was producing two goals in both the Barons&rsquo; opening 3-3 tie with Baltimore and a 4-2 conquest over Springfield, Gagnon was shining in the nets as he stepped in for regular goalie Les Binkley half-way through the season&rsquo;s first period of play.Binkley, nursing a tender groin muscle injured during the exhibition season, reinjured it when he came up with a save against the Clippers.Called upon to go in against boyhood idol Jacques Plante, Gagnon delivered sensationally to gain the tie, then came back the following night to post his first pro victory over the Indians.Never the scorer he originally seemed destined to be, Larkin finally may have found the range. The star of the Barons&rsquo; exhibition season, Larkin has carried his new-found scoring proclivity right into the AHL season.The Barons were fortified for the AHL campaign by the addition of five new men from the Montreal Canadiens. In addition to Gagnon, they acquired defenseman Frank Martin and forwards Bob Courcy, Wayne Freitag and Gordon Wilkie. They also inked defenseman Ted Lanyon, a star with Greensboro last season, to a pro contract.Other newcomers to the Barons this season, joining returning veterans Binkley, Bill Needham, Dick Mattiussi, Ron At well Joe Szura, Cecil Hoekstra, Bob Ellett, Larkin and Coach Fred Glover, are defenseman Bill Speer from Springfield and winger Doug Senior. &#9632;

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Fill-In Goalie Gives Barons Lift

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01821/3241728-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03555/3241721-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="310" height="500"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Mazur</figcaption></div>SEATTLE. Wash-The six teams of the Western Hockey League are sporting a total of 30 new faces this season &mdash; that is, faces that were not with any one of the teams when the season ended last spring, of the 34 new names that have appear with the teams in the first week of play, only 14 are new of the League. The remaining slayers have experienced West-ern League action either with he team that now employs them &gt;r with one of the other five dubs.The Los Angeles Blades like Vancouver Canucks, lead the way in this department as no less than six players were added over the summer months. Two &gt;f the six, however, were not too new to Blades fans. Lloyd Haddon was very familiar sight in Los Angeles as he played with the Blades two seasons back and Warren Hines played against the Blades two years ago when he was toiling with the now defunct Edmonton Flyers. A third, big Jack Evans, also has back Western League experience but it was way back in 1952-53 and 1953-54 when he played with the Saskatoon Quakers,Newcomer Brian Smith played 20 games with Edmonton in 1958-59 and another 11 for the same team in the &lsquo;60-&rsquo;61 season but is new to Blades fans this year. Ed Kachur, a veteran performer who has played in four professional leagues (Quebec League, Eastern Pro League, National League and Americar League) is making his first appearance this season in the West ern League with the Blades Finally, the Blades have rookie Bob Schmautz playing his first games of pro hockey. Schmautz played in the first two games in Los Angeles and will hit the road with the team visiting among other cities, Portlane where he may be assigned checking rede with orders to stop one or the other of hi: two brothers, Arnie and Cliff from firing goals behind Blades goalkeeper Jack Norris.The Vancouver Canucks also have six faces which were no present when the Canucks finished last season, but two sav limited action with Vancouver last year. Both Howie Hughes and Trent Beatty spent the firs part of last season with the Canucks but were shipped to the Central League for more ex patience and are now battling for regular starting position with the team.Newcomers Bill Burgee and Bev Bell are not strangers to WHL play, having played in tin circuit for the past several sea sons, last season with Los Angeles and Seattle respectively Gilles Boaster, replacing Marcel Paille in the nets for the Canucks also is a WHL veteran having played extensively for the Edmonton Flyers in pas seasons. Bob Plager, robust defenseman for the Canucks, is making his first appearance on the West Coast after spending his rookie year as a professional with St. Paul in the Central League.The Seattle Totems and the Victoria Maple Leafs both have five new names on their rosters. The Totems have added Maurice Mantha and Gerry Brisson, both of whom played for San Francisco last season and winger Ray Kinasewich who has spent previous seasons with Seattle and Edmonton in the Western League. The two newcomers are right winger Bill Dineen, who has spent all of his professional career between the National and American Leagues before joining the Totems this season, and rookie goalie Bob Gray who is a graduate of Michigan University.Victoria has added veterai Eddie Mazur, who is no strange to the city as he played ther-in 1949-50, 1950-51 and again ii 1952-53. He also played a ful season with Winnipeg in 1955 56. Another addition to the Leafs is Ed Lawson, who player with Portland in the 1961-6: season. In addition, Coach Red; Pilous has added three rookie to the team that formed the nucleus of the Denver Invader in the WHL last season.Defenseman Ralph Winfielid played a couple of games at the start of last season with Denver and forward Bill Flett played the last play-off game when the Invaders were eliminated by Los Angeles. Both thes players played amateur las season along with a third Rollie Wilcox, a left winger who played senior amateur with Yorktoh last season while Winfield and Fleet played with Charlotte in the Eastern Amateur League.San Francisco and Portland both have added four players for the 1964-65 season, two veterans and two newcomers t&rdquo; each team. The Seals gained Dallas Smith and Del Topolt who played with Portland and Seattle respectively last season and newcomers Gerry Ouellette and George Swarbrick. Ouellete played with Minneapolis in the Central League last season while Swarbrick played with the Canadian National Olympic Team. He is a rightwinger who has been touted as one of the finest professional prospects in recent years and is expected to make the adjustment from amateur to professional ranks quite easily.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02708/3241714-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="546" height="793"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB PLAGER &hellip; Robust Canuck Rearguard</figcaption></div><h2>How They Stand</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04405/3241707-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="612" height="969"></div><h2>Point Race</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05292/3241700-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="618" height="1111"></div> &#9632;

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Vancouver, LA. Lead In Player Changes

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WHL Summaries

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02708/3241866-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="273" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Johnson</figcaption></div>LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;For his outstanding scoring output in the opening games of Western League, player-of-the-week honors went to Los Angeles Blades&rsquo; centreman Norm Johnson. Johnson was par-ticularly effective in the second game against the Victoria Maple Leafs as he figured in five of the six goals scored by his team as they debated the Leafs, 6-3.Johnson scored once and assisted on four others for a five-point night. Special mention should be given to Portland&rsquo;s Tommy McVie, who also had a five point night against San Francisco. McVie scored two goals and assisted on three others as he led his mates to a 7-2 win over last season s defending Champions.The first goal of the new season was scored by newcomer Brian Smith of the Los Angeles Blades. Smith dented the twine behind Victoria goalkeeper Al Millar after only 30 seconds had been played in the opening game &hellip; First assists went to Johnson and Leo LaBine, who set up Smith for the goal &hellip; First penalty of the season went to San Francisco&rsquo;s Wayne Connelly for holding after 0:21 seconds of the first game, and the first misconduct, also to Connelly, was added on the same play. &#9632;

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Blades’ Johnson Sizzles

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01629/3241911-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02546/3241904-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="506" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body">RUDY MIGAY</figcaption></div>TULSA, Okla.In order to sell any product today, there must be high-calibre salesmen and Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings had this in mind when they considered Tulsa, Oklahoma and Memphis, Tennessee as ideal locations for professional hockey through the fall and winter of 1964-65.Tulsa, with a new eye catching arena completed about a year ago, was looked upon by Toronto as an ideal site for a young, hustling team comprised of talented puck stylists seeking their major goal &mdash; the National Hockey League.Memphis, with a new ice palace due for completion in early November, was viewed as fertile territorv where another group of dedicated young athletes would also work to attain status in their chosen profession.So it was necessary for the managements of the Toronto and Detroit clubs to send a couple of their top hockey &ldquo;salesmen &rsquo; into those areas with the job to provide an entertaining product for the people who were ready to pay their way to the performances.Toronto chose Rudy Migay, a 35-year-old tried-and-true hockey man who has worked his way up through the active and coaching ranks. After playing junior (under 20 years of age) hockey with Port Arthur (Ontario) Bruins and Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors, Migay was inked to a pro contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1948. Now 16 years later, Migay is ready to assume the reins as coach with a new team in a circuit in its second season.Migay was a centreman with a shot from the left side and was always termed an &ldquo;honest&rdquo; workman in the pro ranks. He was a denfensive artist and during his better than 400 games in the National League studied hockey and outside of Toronto, fans at Pittsburgh, Rochester and Denver found him the type of individual who never knew when to give up. As &ldquo;honest,&rdquo; Migay will work to the utmost to provide the best for Tulsa fans. He knows what is required through experiences, realizes the paying fans deserve the best and he will do his utmost to provide them with a well-coached club.Detroit looked toward Hamilton where a gentleman named Eddie Bush had proved success&rsquo; ful as a hockey teacher with junior players and saw in him the talent to put the city of Memphis on the pro hockey map.Like Migay, Bush is a veteran of the pro ice sport. He hails from Collingwood (Ontario) and it will be remembered that Sid Abel and Bush showed up at the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; fall training camp the same year and both had that special something that caught the eye of one Mr. Jack Adams.At that time, Jack Adams was general manager-coach of the Detroit Red Wings. He signed them both to professional contracts and both young men proved that Mr. Adams knew talent when he saw it.The same Mr. Adams today is the president of the Central Professional Hockey League.Bush took time out to serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force but his interest in hockey never waned through his career in the minor and major leagues as a rugged defenseman.At the age of 46, Bush had accepted the challenge to handle both the managing and coaching jobs at Memphis.Migay and Bush attended the training camps of the Toronto and Detroit, National Hockey League clubs, respectively and did an early appraisal of the talent they will handle in the coming season.Both men are capable, experienced hockey &ldquo;salesmen&rdquo; and in a couple of weeks, the Central Professional Hockey League will realize these two newcomers have plenty to offer in &ldquo;selling&rdquo; the ice sport not only in Tulsa and Memphis but throughout the entire six-team circuit.<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04336/3241897-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="606" height="1006"></div> &#9632;

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National Leaguers Hand Picked Bush, Migay To ‘Sell’ New CPHL Teams at Memnhis, Tulsa

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Central Pro Hockey League s 1964-65 Schedule

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01537/3241987-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="287" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Davidson</figcaption></div>CHARLOTTE, N.CJim McNulty, the sole survivor of Charlotte&rsquo;s first hockey team, is expected to be a key man for the Checkers this season as they strive to make advances in the Eastern Hockey League&rsquo;s Southern Division.New pilot Fred Creighton, who handled the New Haven coaching roles a year ago, is counting on a big season from McNulty to help the Checkers rise in the standings. Last year with a subpar team, McNulty still found time to tally 80 points to rank third best on the team behind only Moe Savard and Jackie LeClair.The veteran centre gained that lofty position despite missing several weeks of action while he toured Russia with the EHL All-Stars. Jim has been known throughout his career as a clutch scorer, the man who tallies the winning goal in a game. That reputation was upheld last season and Creighton hopes for more of the same this year from his pivot. McNulty is now making his home here after moving his family from St. Catharines.Jim was with Charlotte back in the inaugural 1956-57 campaign and has remained ever since while the other members of that championship club have scattered either around the league, to other leagues or to retirement.Creighton will build his club around veterans McNulty, Savard, Bob Duncan, Ken Coombes and goalie Gaetan Desaureault, The club also will be vastly improved on defense since Creighton himself also will be in action. The Checkers are expecting another big year from Savard a rugged individual who can put the puck in the net.JACKSONVILLE: Coach Jerry Walker figures his Rockets will be a high-scoring team although he&rsquo;s not positive how his defense will be. Emory Sampson, a 195-pound left winger, played for the University of Denver, where Walker also performed. GM Scotty Munro wants to use young talent and no seasoned performers. Munro turned down an offer of player assistance tendered by Charlie Rock of Baltimore since he felt he had enough men. The team has a rough start not opening at home Until Nov. 4.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03397/3241980-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="1165" height="1739"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hockey rivals around the EHL have come to respect MOE SAVARD (7) of the Charlotte Checkers. The rugged winger will again be on the firing line for the Southern team this season.</figcaption></div>NEW YORK: The club&rsquo;s goalie is Phil Headley, who was the All-Star netminder in the California League while playing for Bakersfield in 1962-63. The roster also includes John Vopni, last year&rsquo;s Manitoba Junior League scoring king. Headley incidentally is a native of England who played for Moose Jaw last season. Trevor Fahey, left winger, played for coach Steve Brklacich last season at Kitchener.NASHVILLE: Norm Ryder looks in the best shape of his career. He lost 15 pounds train ing at Providence and is dowi to 205 pounds. He&rsquo;ll again plaj wing and defense. A year ago ii similar split duty, he tallied 5 points. John Lumley looks read: for a big season similar to the one he had at Johnstown. Hi appears happier here than a Knoxville. Goalie Marv Edward: is as tough as ever. Florent Pilote, Lloyd Hinchberger an Ryder comprise a formidable de fense for John McLellan&rsquo;s club Harold Fleming has retired.GREENSBORO. Don Carter one survivor of original 195950 team. Loss of Pat Kelly and fed Lanyon has been eased by good play of Mike Kardash and Dan Blair. Kardash is the rough customer and Blair the smooth jperator. Ray Germain decided to return to school. Team is still strong up front with the likes of Don Davidson, Garry Sharp, Bobby Boucher, Ron Muir, and Jackie Nairn who topped the EHL rookies in scoring last season.KNOXVILLE. Clare Wakshin-ski is working as an insurance agent in Calgary and won&rsquo;t report. His brother Jerry, who was on loan to Philly last year, is back with the team. Pat Quinn got a big offer to go to Tulsa or else he would have returned here. Les Calder had a trial with Springfield. Knights received player assistance from exam, Ray Miron, now at Tulsa, and can count on more during the season if needed.CHARLOTTE: Many of the Checkers were late reporting because of tieups with Toronto&rsquo;s various training camps. However, all were in good shape. Frank Ridley, Duncan MacDonald, Bill Flett, Ralph Winfield, and Gus Brassard were examples.. Coach Fred Creighton nixed Jackie LeClair&rsquo;s demand that he get a salary increase before going To camp. Doug Paul drilled at Tulsa&rsquo;s camp before coming to the Checkers.LONG ISLAND: Ray Larose, young defensive ace last season, is now with Quebec. Coach John Muckier had 27 players at training camp. Four exhibitions including one with New York Rangers prepared team for season. Team is holding several youth sessions to help indoctrinate prospective customers in the fundamentals of hockey.CLINTON: Lome O&rsquo;Donnell went to Springfield camp. John Ayotte is said to have retired accroding to latest reports. New personnel includes Bob Rawson at Knoxville. Hec Lalande got a late training camp start because of some personal problems. GM Wren Blair thinks the Comets have the nucleus ofa repeat title-winning season.JOHNSTOWN: John Daley signed for third season as GM. Dick Ro&rsquo;berge at 30 and coach Dave Lucas at 32 are the oldesters on the predominantly young club.<h2>HOE THEY STAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02477/3241973-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="605" height="1569"></div> &#9632;

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Charlotte Original Jim McNulty Returns To Bolster Checker Hopes

<div class="byline">BY STANLEY BRINK</div>DENVER, Colo.When late November comes around it may be just the start jf another intercollegiate season to some United States schools &ldquo;but not University of Denver.&rsquo;&rsquo;New opponents, an old adversary under a new name, new eligibility rules taking effect, and what can be an electric eye finish are all ahead of Denver, winner of the 1963-64 Western Collegiate Hockey League blue ribbon and second to Michigan for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship.The collegiate roundup begins in Provo, Utah, December 7, with Brigham Young University, a hockey newcomer, better known for the prowess of its basketball teams. Occasionally &ldquo;BYU", as Brigham Young is known in the Rocky Mountain Region, comes up with note-&rsquo; worthy football aggregations.Other fleglings are College All-Stars of St. Paul, Minnesota, and McMaster University. The All-Stars are drawn from such Minnesota colleges as Hamline, St. Thomas, Macalester, University of Minnesota, Augsburg to mention a few.Denver greets a fellow member of the WCHA, under a new official name &mdash; Michigai Technological University for merly Michigan College o Mining and Technology. Still ti the people of Upper Michigan&rsquo; rugged &ldquo;Copper Country", the league, to the hockey world ii general, &lsquo;twill still be Michigai Tech.In spite of the change to air impressive official name Mi chigan Tech will continue survive both as an institution of scientific learning and as the home of hockey performer who make their presence know: and felt.Other highlights of the strictly collegiate schedule will be McMaster, another newcomer, also the Universities of Toronto, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Alberta.As for the WCHA outcome Coach Murray Armstrong of Denver sees Michigan, Michigan Tech, and North Dakota as stronger than last winter and a distinct threat to Denver&rsquo;s prospects. A possible cutting of Minnesota into the picture was omitted in the Armstrong forecast but around Minneapolis they have faith in John Mariucci to get more out of a squad than rivals like to experience.The league obligation is down to 12 games instead of the 16 and 18 formerly prevailing. Only two will be played with Colorado College instead of the customary four. There will be four each with North Dakota and Michigan Tech, two with Michigan. Minnesota and Michigan State will not be met.Regarding the new eligibility rules, both in the Big Ten and in the WCHA as of the season of 1964-65, enrollees at any member will lose one year of competition for any participation in a foreign country or in the United States after age 19.Proponents of the change believe that the adoption is a distinct advancement for the collegiate brand as far as regulation goes and will put the home bred player on a more comparable basis with the Canadians.In addition there is a further limitation on a junior A player and it reads as follows: Students who are junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; registrants with any amateur hockey organization and who have participated after their nineteenth birthday with any non-collegiate or non-secondary school hockey team shall not be eligible in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.&rdquo;Three members of the Big Ten &mdash; Michigan State, Michigan. and Minnesota &mdash; are also in the WCHA wheel.<h2>How They Stand</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01542/3242018-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="604" height="944"></div> &#9632;

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Denver University Pointing To Big Season

NEW YORK, N.Y.Commissioner Bill Chadwick, former NHL referee, announced the appointment of managers for the four teams in the reactivated Metropolitan Hockey League. They are:Brooklyn Kings &mdash; Ed Anderson.Long Island Jets &mdash; Joe Schaefer.Manhattan Arrows &mdash; Frank Megaffin.New Jersey Skeeters &mdash; Frank Traverso.Chadwick had also appointed Saul Maslow of Roslyn Heights, Long Island, as assistant to the Commissioner.The Met League will play an 18-game schedule as preliminary games to Saturday and Sunday afternoon New York Rover home games at Madison Square Garden. &#9632;

New York Loop Names Managers

GREEN BAY. Wis.The Green Bay Bobcats of the United States Hockey League will play the Russian national hockey team, reigning Olympic champions, at the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena Saturday, December 19, Bobcat General Manager John Biolo announced.It will be the first Wisconsin appearance in history for the Soviet Nationals, who last January swept to the Olympic championship at Innsbruck, Austria, going undefeated in the round robin competition.Arrangements for the Russians&rsquo; Green Bay visit were completed by Biolo in cooperation with Tom Lockhart, president of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States, which is setting up the Soviets&rsquo; American tour, and Donald M. Clark of Cumberland, Wis., vice-president of the AHAUS.The Bobcats, who will be bidding to regain the USHL title they relinquished to Waterloo&rsquo;s Black Hawks last season, will make their home debut against the league&rsquo;s newest entry, the Marquette Iron Rangers, at the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena Saturday, Dec. 5. Their latest previous inaugural came in their maiden 1958-59 season, which they opened on Nov. 29.Other USHL members are the Rochester Mustangs, in the midst of a vigorous rebuilding program after finishing second last season, and the St. Paul Steers.The Bobcats, who posted a 15-15 record last season after romping to the title with a 25-7 mark the year before, launch their bid for a third crown (they also won in 1959-60) on Nov. 14 when they invade Waterloo to challenge the defending champions. &#9632;

Green Bay Sets Up Game With Touring Russian Team

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01522/3242097-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2>Across</h2>1. Ranger player shown in centre.4. Charlie Hodge got one on Oct. 13 (abbr.)6. Home state of the AHL&rsquo;s Reds (abbr.)7. NHL scoring champion of 1943-44.8. Rochester rookie.10. Initials of Corbett who played with Rochester last season.11. Nickname of father of 8 across.12. Billy Harris once visited here.14. Initials of Gardner, ex-NHL player.15. Company (abr.)16. Name given an AHL coach.17. Native province of pictured star iabbr.)18. George Armstrong toured this province last spring(abbr.)19. Greeting (slang.)21. Month in which Gary Bergman was born (abbr.)23. Number of games Howe missed last season.25. Name given 8 across.27. Schock of Boston answers to this.<h2>Down</h2>1. Camille Henry injured this at training camp.2. One of the official colours of the NHL.3. Dean Prentice patrols one.4. Tulsa&rsquo;s goalie.5. Number of times Harry Lumley won Vezina Trophy.7. This player scored 13 goals for San Francisco last season.9. Mahovlich sometimes eats this between periods.13. Former Montreal centre star.19. Where players reside duringroad trips.20. Pictured player never played this brand of hockey.22. This man played 40 games for Denver last season.24. Denis DeJordy was born in this month (abbr.)26. Length of time Harvey coached Rangers.29. What some clubs put in newspapers prior to games. abbr.)32. 1st and 21st letters of the alphabet.33. Musical note.34. And (Fr.)LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTIONACROSS DOWN1. Stewart 1. Sceptre9. Champagne 2. Three11. Err 3. Earl12. PN 4. Wm.13. E.R. 5. Apps14. Pelts 6. Ran.15. Dig 7. T. G.16. Te. 8. Bergman17. L.M. 10. Neilson19. U.S.A. 18. Young20. Ego 19. USHL22. Son 21. G.E.23. E.U. 25. Thumb24. H.N. 26. Fifty27. Gary 28. Avid30. AI. 29. Reay31. VE 30. A.E.32. Def. 32. Dog33. Maniago 34. A.A.36. Baldy 35. N.L.37. Guy &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">BY FRED COLLINS</div>WINNIPEG, Man. &mdash;The Manitoba Junior Hockey League, now reduced to&rsquo; four Metro Winnipeg clubs, raised the curtain on its 1964-65 production with a pre-season tournament.Vying for the Charlie Gardiner Memorial Trophy in the first annual tournament were Rangers, Monarchs, Braves and Warriors, formerly the St. Boniface Canadiens.Rangers faced Braves and Monarchs went against Warriors Oct. 13 in the opening rounds. The winners advanced to the Oct. 16 final.Officially, the league doesn&rsquo;t open until Oct. 25. one of the latest inaugurals in the modern era.Several events highlighted the off-season.In no particular order, these included:The appointment of James A. Dunn as league chief. Dunn will fill the shoes worn by two men last winter, president Bill Johnston and commissioner Billy Robinson. Johnston and Robinson both resigned. Dunn needs no formal introduction to readers of HOCKEY NEWS. He is a former president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and still sits on the selection board of the Hockey Hall of Fame.The withdrawl of Brandon Wheat Kings and Fort Frances Royals. The perennial champion Wheaties joined the Saskatehewan League. Royals, meanwhile, hooked up with the more geographically suited Lake head League after one season in the MJHL.Reduced to four Winnipeg clubs, the league sliced the Metro area map into draft zones. The move has two motives. Firstly it will enable boys to play together from bantam B through junior A. This wasn&rsquo;t the case under the previous draft system. Secondly, the league hopes the mechanics of the new system will help foster ad did interest at the community club level.IN THE CREASE: A Mani-tog club scored what is believed to be a first for Canadian. amateur hockey &hellip;Brandon &rsquo; GM Jake Milford &mdash; he also serves in a similar capacity &rsquo; with St. Paul of the Central Professional League &mdash; has imported a young Swede, Yuhu Wilding &hellip; While other European-born players have starred on Canadian ponds (Stan Miki ta, Jack Evans and the late Charlie Gardiner to&rsquo; mention three, Yuhu is the first to actually be imported &hellip; The MJHL has each of their goalie: of last season returning. Rangers&rsquo; Don McDowell, Gerry Bochen of Monarchs, Braves Wayne Stephenson and Ton; Carpenter of Warriors &hellip; It: a good thing, because the league lost several defensemen through graduation, trades (Bill Bond o Monarchs to Brandon), trans fers by parent club (Rangers robust Terry Ball to Kitcherer of the Junior OHA) and university committments (War riors&rsquo; Edgar Rivelin and per haps Dick Chapman, also o Warriors) &hellip; The league&rsquo;s ros ters are dotted with what appears a high calibre of rookie &hellip; Freshmen to watch are Braves&rsquo; forward Roger Bam b u r a k, Rangers&rsquo; defensemanMike Kolody, a big (6&rsquo;3&rsquo;, 192) 19-year-old from Sioux Lookout, Ont., Monarchs&rsquo; blueliner Bill Ramsey and Warriors&rsquo; defensemen Don Lameroux and Dave Friesen and Bob Daneault, a speedy centre from La Broquerie, Man.&hellip; Ranger coach Gord Pennell is high on Brian Lefley &hellip; Despite, his age (15) the youngster from Grosse Isle shows exceptional polish&hellip; &#9632;

Western Loop Takes On ‘Metro Look As Four Winnipeg Teams Answer Bell

<div class="byline">BY PENTTI LUND</div>As Seen In The Fort William Times-Journal)FORT WILLIAM, Ont.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02448/3242152-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="282" height="471"><figcaption class="caption-body">Max Mekilok</figcaption></div>Moe Irving of Fort William, coach of Port Arthur North Stars for the past four seasons, a has been appointed coach of Fort William Canadiens for the 1964-65 season, it was announced by Canadiens officials.Irving replaces Mickey Hennessy, coach of Canadiens for the past 12 seasons.In announcing Irving&rsquo;s appointment Chris Asseff, president of Canadiens, said Hennessy is taking a new role as this area&rsquo;s full-time scout for the parent Montreal Canadiens.According to Asseff, Hennessy, in the new capacity, is no longer directly associated with Fort William Canadiens.Asseff also said that Canadiens would approach Joe Nigro, former Canadiens manager, about taking over managership of Fort William Canadiens again.Asseff said that Canadiens considered several names for the position including that of Max Mekilok who played pro hockey for Montreal Royals and Shawinigan Falls of the Quebec Hockey League, Rochester of the American Hockey League and his last five seasons with Spokane of the Western Hockey League before retiring following the 1962-63 season.Asseff said Canadiens will, however, utilize Mekilok&rsquo;s experience and hockey knowledge in the organization. Mekilok will likely conduct seminars for Fort William Canadiens&rsquo; minor hockey coaches during the season when his work as a brewery representative permits him.Irving, known as a strict disciplinarian, guided Port Arthur North Stars into the finals in each of the four seasons he handled the club.North Stars wound up in the finals against Canadiens the first season he handled the team in 1960-61 and they won the Thunder Bay championship in a seven-game series with Canadiens in 1961-62. North Stars again met Canadiens in both the following two finals, the latter going seven games and the former eight games with Canadiens the victors both times. &#9632;

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Irving Installed As Coach Of Fort William Canadiens

<div class="byline">BY MEL WOODY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01367/3242197-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="310" height="477"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marcel Faille</figcaption></div>NEW YORK. N.Y. &mdash;Regardless of how Marcel Paille does in subsequent games this v season, the pudgy Ranger goaltender laid a ghost to rest when he back, stopped the Rangers to a 6-2 victory over Boston in their opener.Paille carried a double burden into the nets that night. Boston had been his &ldquo;jinx&rdquo; team, and the metropolitan papers had been generally unkind when the Rangers hurriedly called him back from Vancouver&rsquo; four days before the season opened.Marcel Faille Jacques Plante and his ailing knee ligaments were sent to Baltimore for recuperation and Gilles Villemure, slated to bv Plante&rsquo;s stand-in this season, hadn&rsquo;t measured up. so there was a desperate note to the call for paille.The 31-year-old Paille had never lived down the six goals in 6% minutes pasting that Boston gave him in a Saturday afternoon TV game in 1957-8. That barrage, which seemed to have paralyzed Paille in the face of the furious assault, turned a 4-1 Ranger victory into a 7-4 loss. Paille also blew a 4-1 lead to Boston on three third-period goals later that season, so the good work he did before and after is forgotten each time he appears in the New York nets.After the Ranger&rsquo;s opener in Boston. Coach Red Sullivan said Plante was still the Ranger goal-tender, but that Paille would stay on the job as long as he could hold it.That sounds ambiguous, but there has to be ambiguity in discussing the state of Plante&rsquo;s health. Jacques played only one game on the Rangers&rsquo; exhibition slate and lost in a 6-2 drubbing to Boston. Plante seemed to believe his knee needed an operation but Dr. Kazuo Yanagisawa, the club physician, examined him three different times and didn&rsquo;t feel he did. So Plante was sent to Baltimore to play himself into shape.The Rangers had planned to carry Villemure, up from Baltimore, with them this year, so Gilles figured as Plante&rsquo;s replacement. But after doing well in several early engagements, he faltered badly in a 6-0 loss to Detroit and an 8-1 debacle with Boston. So Paille, even though he&rsquo;s been unprotected in the draft the last few years and even though he had that Boston Jinx hanging over him, was deemed the better bet at the moment.&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t nervous,&rdquo; Paille grinned. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m used to this sort of thing.&rdquo;One unexpected outcome of the opener came when rookie centre Jean Ratelle went home suspended after refusing to accept contract terms. Lou Angotti, right winger acquired from Rochestervia Baltimore, took over for Ratelie at centre between Vic Hadfield and newcomer Jim Mikol and scored a goal. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s made the club,&rdquo; said Sullivan.Phil Goyette, who had missed 10 days of training with a bruised wrist, played the first 10 minutes, then spent the rest of the game shivering with a sudden virus attack. Old pro handyman Donnie Marshall took over at centre, notched a goal and two assists and shared game honors with right wing Bob Nevin, who had a goal and helped on another.&ldquo;I was happy with the way we capitalized on our opportunities,&rdquo; Sullivan said. The Rangers scored three goals on power plays, using Marshall, Camille Henry and Rod Gilbert up front, with Harry Howell and Nevin on the points. Injuries to both Henry (back) and Goyette had precluded most attempts to smooth out a power play during&rsquo;the training games.The kid defensemen, Arnie Brown and Rod Seiling, were paired with Howell and Jim Neilson, respectively, and did well. &ldquo;If they keep it up, we&rsquo;ll have a good shot at the playoffs,&rdquo; Sullivan said.Then he added hastily, &ldquo;But there&rsquo;s a long way to go.&rdquo; How true.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02276/3242190-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="568" height="706"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB NEVIN</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03231/3242183-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="540" height="574"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN RATELLE</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Sullivan Says Plante Still Rangers’ Goalie If And When-Paille Comes Throuuh In Pinch

<div class="byline">&#x2014; Woody</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.Camille Henry got a 10 minutes misconduct, which ought to warrant a protest meeting by the Lady Byng Society members. He hasn&rsquo;t had as many as 10 minutes in penalties for an NHL season since his first with the club in 1953-54. He got it for yelping too long over a high-sticking penalty to Brown &hellip; F.M. Schaefer Brewing Co. and Household Finance Corp., are sponsoring broadcasts of 39 Ranger games &mdash; all Wednesday and Sunday games, home and away &mdash; with veteran Win Elliott returning to handle play-byplay &hellip; Rangers finished exhibition game slate with 3-6-1 record after getting off to 3-1-1 start &hellip; Manager Muzz Patrick said the new Ranger starting time for all games of 7:30 p.m., was set for benefit of those fans who want to see Ranger-sponsored Rovers of the Eastern League play afternoon game in Garden, have dinner, and watch Rangers at night. That reminds that the late Gen. John Reed Kilpatrick, former Ranger president, held out for the 8:30 starting time for years because he believed that nobody could eat a proper dinner and get to a game before then. &#9632;

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