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November 21, 1964

The Hockey News November 21, 1964

<p><b><i>Before you say</i> SCOTCH</b>&nbsp;<i>say</i>&nbsp;<b>DEWAR&rsquo;S <i>it never varies</i></b></p><p><b><i>Before you say</i> SCOTCH</b>&nbsp;<i>say</i>&nbsp;<b>DEWAR&rsquo;S <i>it never varies</i></b></p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><h3>(Standings on Tues., Nov. 17)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01454/1956895-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="562" height="250"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues., Nov. 10</b></p><p>Victoria 4. Los Angeles 3</p><p><b>Wed., Nov. 11</b></p><p>Portland 7. San Francisco 2</p><p>Los Angeles 5. Vancouver 3</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 13</b></p><p>Los Angeles 6. Portland 3</p><p>Vancouver 7. San Francisco 6</p><p><b>Sat., Nov. 14</b></p><p>Portland 7, Los Angeles 4</p><p>Seattle 4, Vancouver 3</p><p>San Francisco 6, Victoria 5</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 15</b></p><p>Seattle 5, San Francisco 4</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Tues., Nov. 17</b></p><p>San Francisco at Vancouver</p><p>Portland at Victoria</p><p><b>Wed., Nov. 18</b></p><p>Seattle at Portland</p><p><b>Thurs., Nov. 19</b></p><p>Seattle at Los Angeles</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 20</b></p><p>Victoria at San Francisco</p><p>Portland at Vancouver</p><p><b>Sat., Nov. 21</b></p><p>Seattle at Los Angeles</p><p>Victoria at San Francisco</p><p>Vancouver at Portland</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 22</b></p><p>Seattle at San Francisco</p><h2><b>Point Race</b></h2><p>(Scoring records as of November 9)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02361/1956888-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="564" height="545"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03272/1956881-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="557" height="211"></div><p>MOST MINUTES IN PENALTIES: Howie Young, L.A. 78.</p><h2><i>Western League Summaries</i></h2><h3><b>Wed., Nov. 4 VANCOUVER 5, LOS ANGELES 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05159/1956874-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="557" height="605"></div><h3><b>Thurs., Nov. 5 VANCOUVER 4 SAN FRANCISCO 9</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06133/1956867-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="561" height="854"></div><h3><b>Fri., Nov. 7 VANCOUVER 3, LOS ANGELES 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0798/1956860-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="568" height="813"></div><h3><b>VICTORIA 3, SEATTLE 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0881/1956853-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="553" height="773"></div><h3><b>Sat., Nov. 7 SEATTLE 0, VICTORIA 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0969/1956846-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="561" height="398"></div><h3><b>LOS ANGELES 4, PORTLAND 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1059/1956839-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="561" height="950"></div><h3><b>Sun., Nov. 8 VANCOUVER 4, SAN FRANCISCO 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1150/1956832-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="566" height="578"></div><h3><b>LOS ANGELES 0, SEATTLE 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1245/1956825-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="568" height="469"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

WESTERN LEAGUE

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THE HOCKEY NEWS

<h2><b>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p>(Standings on Mon., Nov. 16)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0120/1957593-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="562" height="151"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Fri., Nov. 13</b></p><p>Guelph 5, Galt 0</p><p>Welland 6, Oakville 5</p><p><b>Sat., Nov. 14</b></p><p>Galt 5, Woodstock 4</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 15</b></p><p>Oakville 8. Woodstock 4</p><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><p>(Including games of Fri., Nov. 13)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0221/1957586-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="557" height="544"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0316/1957579-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="556" height="154"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Wed.. Nov. 11</b></p><p>Sherbrooke 6. Verdun 4</p><p><b>Thurs., Nov. 12</b></p><p>Granby 3, Drummondville 1</p><p>St. Hyacinthe 5, Sherbrooke 1</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 13</b></p><p>Drummondville 5, Verdun 1</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 15</b></p><p>St. Hyacinthe 5, Verdun 3</p><p>Sherbrooke 4, Granby 2</p><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h2><p>(Including games of Fri., Nov. 6)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0410/1957572-1-eng-US/c0004-042.jpg" title="C0004-04" width="557" height="227"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-055/1957565-1-eng-US/c0004-052.jpg" title="C0004-05" width="566" height="457"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hockey Races

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.</p><p>Hershey Bears&rsquo; coach Frank Mathers has borrowed a page from &ldquo;Parseghian&rsquo;s Book&rdquo; and it&rsquo;s been reaping big dividends.</p><p>For the novice Canadian fan of American collegiate football, Parseghian is Ara Parseghian, head coach of Notre Dame, who in his first season at the helm of the &ldquo;Fighting Irish&rdquo; piloted the club to seven straight wins and No. 1 national ranking.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01459/1956677-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="277" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Mathers</b></figcaption></div><p>His theory is simple: &ldquo;Fit the man to the position.&rdquo;</p><p>Mathers has duplicated the strategy with his ice club and from Oct. 21 to Nov. 8 the Bears racked up seven wins and a tie while losing only two games.</p><p>The streak came on the heels of four straight defeats.</p><p>Mathers, &ldquo;Dean&rdquo; of the American League coaches, began shuffling his forward lines like a deck of cards, benching several skaters in the process. He switched wingmen from left to right and viceversa, utilized centres as wingers and constantly rotated his five man defensive corps with different pairings.</p><p>All this maneuvering projected Hershey right back into the thick of the Eastern Division pennant race which for awhile was dominated by the Quebec Aces. The Canadian club won 11 of its first twelve games, including ten straight. It appeared the Aces were off to a rout.</p><p>As to Mathers&rsquo; strategy, here&rsquo;s a few examples.</p><p>He benched veteran winger Pete Conacher for eight games. Conacher was given a second chance Nov. 8 against Buffalo and he promptly responded by getting the lead goal&mdash;his first of the season&mdash;to spearhead the team to a 4-2 win at the Bisons&rsquo; rink. The victory extended the Bears&rsquo; road skein to five games.</p><p>Centre Bruce Draper, who had sat out the early going, was inserted in the lineup after the first five games. He came on to score five goals, including two game winners in the next three weeks.</p><p>Winger Myron Stankiewicz was given a new centre to work with. The big, strong skater suddenly caught a hot hand, rapping in seven goals and setting up a half-dozen more in a ten game span.</p><p>Mathers gave defenseman Ralph Keller a free hand to wheel the puck anytime he saw fit. It paid off. Keller set up 11 goals in as many games, alternating between left and right defense.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Mathers’ Player Shifting Puts Life In Bears

<p>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Six games don&rsquo;t necessarily make a winner out of a hockey club but when the team tastes defeat only once in that stretch, there is hope for the future.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the situation the lowly Boston Bruins find themselves in this week as they await two big weekend clashes with Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs on Boston ice.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01302/1957710-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="288" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Bucyk</b></figcaption></div><p>The disappointing Bruins, who went nine games at the outset of the NHL season before they finally won a game, have come on strong in their last six starts and Hub coach Milt Schmidt is smiling for the first time.</p><p>It seems the aroused Bruins are not picking their spots either. They have twice toppled the Chicago Black Hawks and this past week added the cupchampion Maple Leafs to their list of victims. They came out of a game with Montreal holding a tie which all added up to three victories, two ties and one defeat in their last six games, hardly a performance for a lastplace team.</p><p>The Bruins have been getting some tremendous defensive play from Goalie Ed Johnston and a dash of offensive spark from Johnny Bucyk. Dean Prentice, rugged Reg Fleming, Ted Green and rookie Ron Schock.</p><p>Bucyk, the &lsquo;Big Chief&rsquo; of the Bruins, was beginning to hit top form after a slow start when he ran into a weekend injury and was forced to the sidelines.</p><p>But at least the Bruins are starting to show signs of getting back on a level with the rest of the NHL teams.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02204/1957703-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1671" height="1467"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Boston Bruins are beginning to hold their own in the early NHL race and players like ORLAND KURTENBACH, left, shown here tussling with Chicago&rsquo;s PIERRE PILOTE, for the puck, are starting to make their presence felt around the league.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bruins Finally Flex Hockey Muscles

<p>CHICAGO. Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Bobby Hull may have designs on another 50-goal season at the rate he&rsquo;s scoring this season.</p><p>The &lsquo;Golden Boy&rsquo; of the Black Hawks has already counted 11 times in 13 games and this past week he rattled in three goals in one game for the second time this season and for the 13th &lsquo;hat trick&rsquo; of his illustrious NHL career.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0381/1957741-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="269" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bobby Hull</b></figcaption></div><p>Hull, who appears to be the next threat to NHL all-time scoring honors currently held by veteran Gordie Howe, has already moved past the 200-goal mark in the league. He started the current campaign with 225 and has added 11 to raise his career high to 236.</p><p>Alex Delvecchio of Detroit suffered a fractured cheekbone in Toronto when struck by a puck by Red Kelly. Because he missed the two weekend games, Delvecchio&rsquo;s consecutive - game streak was snapped at 548. The centre hadn&rsquo;t missed a game since Dec. 13, 1956, when he returned after a 22-game layoff with a broken leg.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hull Flying, Scores 13th ‘Hat Trick’

<p>Following are the latest player movements in hockey:</p><h2><b>NATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p>BOSTON&mdash;Wayne Rivers, forward, recalled from Hershey of AHL.</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Lorne Worsley, goalkeeper, recalled from Quebec of AHL. Bryan Watson, defenseman, returned to Quebec.</p><p>DETROIT&mdash;Jimmy Peters, forward, brought up from Hamilton of Junior OHA on pro tryout basis. Johnny Mac-Millan, forward, recalled from Memphis of CPHL.</p><h2><b>AMERICAN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Bob Beckett, forward, returned to team from Portland of WHL.</p><p>BALTIMORE&mdash;Jean Ratelle, forward, assigned by New York of NHL after suspension lifted.</p><h2><b>WESTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>PORTLAND&mdash;Dick Van Impe, forward, secured fromCleveland of AHL.</p><p>CENTRAL LEAGUE MINNEAPOLIS&mdash;Red Ouellette, forward, optioned from San Francisco of WHL.</p><p>OMAHA&mdash;Danny Belisle forward, obtained from Vancouver of WHL.</p><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p>DAYTON&mdash;Ed Swiss and Chris Finnerty, forwards, assigned to Halifax of Canadian Maritime League. Sid Garant, forward, picked up from Port Huron of IHL. Bob Bailey, forward, secured from Fort Wayne of IHL.</p><p>TOLEDO&mdash;Bobby Brown, defenseman, sent to Dayton of IHL.</p><p>DES MOINES&mdash;Bruce Lea, forward, rejoined team from Minneapolis of CPHL, after pro tryout.</p><p>MUSKEGON&mdash;Rene L&rsquo;Ecuyer and Scott Watson, forwards, released. Yvan Chasle purchased from New Haven of EHL.</p><h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Bob Pallante, defenseman, secured from Knoxville of EHL. Jerry Rempel, forward, loaned by Providence of AHL. Clare Wakshinski, forward, bought from Knoxville of EHL. Brian Perry, forward, dropped.</p><p>CHARLOTTE&mdash;Ted Baylis, forward, released. Bob O&rsquo;Leary, forward, added to roster.</p><p>NEW HAVEN&mdash;Gaston Bouchard, forward, dropped, Hartley Estabrooks, forward, left team to return to Maritime Senior League.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Movements Of Players

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Ah, what a difference a year makes.</p><p>A year ago the Red Wings were off to an ordinary start, quickly slipped below .500 and didn&rsquo;t get above it until the fifth last game of the season, then barely made it at the end by one game.</p><p>This season they stumbled momentarily at the gate, losing their first two games, and then boomed away.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01400/1955451-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="284" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bruce MacGregor</b></figcaption></div><p>Among the differences: Floyd Smith, caught in the downward trend last season, quickly was farmed to Pittsburgh, not to return until later in the season. This year Smith has nailed three goals in the early going.</p><p>Bruce MacGregor, anemic around the net since turning pro, turned tiger with a five goals in five games outburst.</p><p>Ted Lindsay, while unable to score, heightened spirits and did no harm at the gate with attendance up even for Boston and New York games, normally poor draws.</p><p>Norm Ullman, who started poorly a year ago, moved in on the NHL&rsquo;s 200-goal club with his first four markers all proving game winners.</p><p>And how about this difference, not from a year ago, but going back to the big days&mdash;Howe and Lindsay carried the club then.</p><p>But this year Howe was butted up against another Rocket Richard mark&mdash;most goals including playoffs&mdash;and, like last year when he was going for 545, it&rsquo;s been a slow process. And, as noted, Lindsay didn&rsquo;t get a goal until after the first month.</p><p>The production has been coming from the second and third line both of which were barren for long stretches last year.</p><p>&ldquo;The kids have got more experience now,&rdquo; said manager-coach Sid Abel, &ldquo;and that has to be part of it.&rdquo;</p><p>Abel figured that the experience gained in 14 playoff games last spring was a full season&rsquo;s worth for Pit Martin, Paul Henderson and Larry Jeffrey and so far, it seems he&rsquo;s right.</p><p>He hasn&rsquo;t hesitated to use Martin and Henderson, who haven&rsquo;t been in the league a whole year yet, as penalty killers. The Jeffrey-Martin-MacGregor line usually stirs up more excitement than any other.</p><p>The Wings also are much tighter defensively with the spring-winter combination of Roger Crozier, at 22 the youngest goalie in the NHL, and Bill Gadsby, at 37 the second oldest defenseman, the anchormen.</p><p>The schedule helped, too, with an abundance of early games at home. Now the Wings are involved in their biggest test to date, a stretch of seven out of eight games on the road while the annual fall ice show takes over Olympia.</p><p>But they&rsquo;ve gone into it with a firm foundation.</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> A freak accident sidelined left wing Ron Murphy for a week.</p><p>Murphy sprained his shoulder in a game against New York when both of his skates were entangled in the Ranger net. Before play stopped, a player landed on Murphy, injuring the shoulder.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad we didn&rsquo;t get them fresh,&rdquo; Gadsby said after Montreal&rsquo;s first Olympia appearance, a 2-1 Red Wing victory.</p><p>The Wings stoned Charlie Hodge with 27 shots in the first two periods but had only a 2-1 lead. They had to hold off a hot Hab third period assault despite the fact that the Wings went into the game with two days&rsquo; rest while Montreal had a tough game the previous night against Chicago.</p><p>The Wings also caught Toronto coming off a Chicago game when they registered their first victory of the season over the Maple Leafs.</p><p>But in the current Wing journeying, it&rsquo;s Detroit that plays the back-to-back games.</p><p>Howe has shown himself a master of yet another craft&mdash;fencing. Montreal&rsquo;s Ralph Backstrom, who had earlier skirmishes with Ullman and Gadsby, started stick-fighting Howe with 11 seconds to play after Howe had taken him into the boards.</p><p>Backstrom swung wildly with two-handers which Howe ex-pertly fended off like an Errol Flynn or Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess he was mad, eh?&rdquo; here understated.</p><p>Crozier&rsquo;s shutout streak over Boston ended at 10:10 of the first period in the third game between the Wings and Bruins.</p><p>Crozier, who blanked the Bruins twice in three meetings last season, whitewashed them in two periods of an exhibition game this fall and then threw back-to-back shutouts at them last month.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03347/1955444-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="481" height="884"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NORM ULLMAN&hellip;Four Winning Goals</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wings’ Surprise Start Credited To New Goal-Scoring ‘Tigers’

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02382/1955482-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="454" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE&hellip;Leaves Rocket Behind</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;</p><p>Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe has added another record to his ever-growing list of new hockey marks and as has been the case so many times, the Montreal Canadiens again became the victims of the great right winger.</p><p>Howe this week tallied his 627th lifetime goal in the National Hockey League covering both league and playoff games to pull away from the retired Maurice Richard of Canadiens, who quit the game after registering 626 goals in 1,111 games.</p><p>Howe, who attained another milestone when he participated in his 1,200th NHL game recently, also an NHL mark, has been feasting on the Canadiens. Last year when he needed a goal to tie the all-time mark of Richard&rsquo;s, he scored the goal at the expense of the Habs. When he needed another to break the record, he again picked on the Canadiens.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Howe Scores 627th Goal For Record

<div class="byline">BY MEL WOODY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01399/1955520-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Here&rsquo;s EMILE FRANCIS settling down to his new hockey duties with the Rangers. The &lsquo;Cat&rsquo;, as he was known in his hockey-playing days, succeeds Muzz Patrick as general manager of the Blues. Francis said he plans few changes in the club.</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>If you judged such things on a pound-for-pound basis, you might say the Rangers are getting short-changed in their new general manager. Emile (The Cat) Francis is 5&prime; 7&Prime; and weighs only 145 pounds when he has a lot of lint on his trouser cuffs.</p><p>But the former goalie is one of those good, small packages you hear about. The consensus is that the Rangers were lucky to have Francis in the office down the hall when they decided they needed Murray (Muzz) Patrick as vice president of the glittering $100,000,000 Madison Square Garden Centre complex under construction here at Pennsylvania Station.</p><p>Unlike some new GM&rsquo;s Francis won&rsquo;t have to start from scratch. He knows all about the 600 Ranger controlled players in their farm system having personally seen each one on ice travelling by plane, train and almost everything else except dog sled to see the New York chattels in action.</p><p>You might say Francis has been preparing for this Ranger job, or one like it, ever since he was 12-years-old and a parochial school student back in North Battleford, Sask.</p><p>&ldquo;We only had nuns at the school,&rdquo; Francis recalled the other day, in between a flood of telephone calls that spanned the continent. &ldquo;So I wound up organizing and coaching baseball and hockey teams at school.&rdquo;</p><p>Emile got used to doing things pretty early, because his father died when he was six. His mother worked as a nurse, so Francis and his younger brother lived with their grandparents.</p><p>Today, people know that Emile&rsquo;s word is good, but there was one time, he reports with a grin, when he told a fib.</p><p>&ldquo;I lied about my age and joined the Army Reserves when I was 14,&rdquo; Francis said. &ldquo;I was a sergeant by the time I was 15, but when I was 16, the colonel found me out and raised cain with me. He told me he couldn&rsquo;t even give me private&rsquo;s pay legally, that I was only eligible for boys&rsquo; pay until I was 18. But then he relented and made up the difference between boys&rsquo; and sergeants&rsquo; pay out of the canteen fund&rdquo;</p><p>It was about this time that Cat began his goaltending travels, starting with stops at Philadelphia (when he was 16) and Washington. He went into the regular Army when he was 18, but that was just about the tailend of World War II, so he was turned loose to go back to stopping pucks for the Moose Jaw Canucks of the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; system.</p><p>&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t lose a game in dur 36-goal schedule that year,&rdquo; the Cat recalled. &ldquo;We had some good boys on that team, including Bert Olmstead and Metro Prystai (both of whom reached stardom later in the NHL),&rdquo; Francis said.</p><p>Next spring, the Black Hawks wanted him to turn pro with Kansas City, but the money was better with the Regina Caps of the Western Canada Senior League, and that&rsquo;s where he played. But Chicago scout Tiny Thompson kept an eye on him, and when the Hawks needed a goalie, Francis got the call.</p><p>&ldquo;We beat Boston the first game,&rdquo; Francis reported. &ldquo;But then we went to Toronto for a Saturday night and they rattled us, 12-2, with 62 shots on goal. The next night back in Chicago the Leafs beat us, 2-1, but with 53 shots. One of the Chicago sports writers wrote that I was too small, that I couldn&rsquo;t see over the heads of my own players. I told him goalies would have to be seven feet tall to do that, but one thing was sure. If I was going to stay with Chicago long, I was going to have to get a lot wider!&rdquo;</p><p>Another time, Chicago and Montreal were in a 1-1 game when the winning goal went in for Chicago, or at least Referee King Clancy, now assistant manager at Toronto, said it did. &ldquo;I protested that it didn&rsquo;t cross the line, that I had it,&rdquo; Cat said. &ldquo;I must have griped too loud because King, as he reported the goal to the official&rsquo;s bench, told them, &lsquo;and give Mr. Francis one &lsquo;I had it&rsquo; plus a $25 misconduct fine.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p><p>Then there was the time Cat was goaltending for Spokane and Jackie McLeod, who saw action five seasons with the Rangers, thought he had put one by Francis but couldn&rsquo;t get anyone to agree. Finally in exasperation, he turned to Francis and said, &ldquo;You tell him the puck was in.&rdquo; The Cat pulled McLeod to one side and whispered, &ldquo;You know it was in and I know it was in, but let&rsquo;s keep it a secret&rdquo;</p><p>The way Francis came to the Rangers is a classic. The Hawks were playing an exhibition in St. Louis and that night, Chihawk coach Charley Conacher told Francis, &ldquo;Ignore the criticism. You&rsquo;re my goalie, so you stay in there and fight.&rdquo; Next morning, Cat got a call from Bill Tobin in the Chicago office: &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve been traded to New York.&rdquo;</p><p>Francis filled in for Chuck Raynor of the Rangers the last time in 1952, then bounced around the American and Western Leagues the rest of his career. He finished at Spokane in 1960, and what a finish!</p><p>&ldquo;The year before I was the league MVP, but I had trouble with my shoulders this year,&rdquo; Francis said: I had a chronic dislocation condition in my left shoulder, so I was playing with the thing all taped up and a chain on it so I couldn&rsquo;t raise my arms too high. Then I got wracked up, tore a knee ligament and dislocated the other shoulder too. So I finished up in fine shape.&rdquo;</p><p>But since Spokane was out of the WHL playoffs. Vancouver selected him as standby goalie and he went to Los Angeles with Vancouver. In LA he met Muzz Patrick and that started a long chain of events that wound up with the Cat making good his plans to retire and accepting Patrick&rsquo;s offer to coach the Rangers&rsquo; junior farm at Guelph.</p><p>At Guelph, Francis&rsquo; charges included Rod Gilbert of the current Rangers and Jean Ratelle and Mike McMahon, who also have had spells with the Blues. &ldquo;We went 22 games without losing at one stretch the first year and finished first. The next season was a rebuilding one for us and, but even with 12 new kids, we just missed the playoffs by one point on the last day of the season.&rdquo;</p><p>After that season, Patrick brought Francis to New York to be his assistant in charge of personnel.</p><p>Francis is highly appreciative of the fact that Patrick gave him his administrative break. &ldquo;I never had more respect for a man than I have for Muzz,&rdquo; Francis said.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02323/1955513-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1661" height="1140"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Francis saw service in the NHL both with Rangers and Chicago.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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‘Cat’ Francis Well Groomed For Hockey Post After Viewing 600-Ranger Controlled Players

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Matt Ravlich&rsquo;s trip took 12 years and contained side trips to such way stations as St. Catharines, Ont., Three Rivers, Que., Sault Ste. Marie, Providence, Boston, and Buffalo but the tour seems at last to have come to an end in its original destination, the Chicago Stadium.</p><p>Matt was called up by the Black Hawks from Buffalo Oct. 27 to replace injured Doug Mohns in a home game against the Rangers, and the 26-year-old defenseman handled himself so capably on a regular shift as Elmer Vasko&rsquo;s running mate, and has done so well since, that he&rsquo;s almost certain to be retained even after Mohns&rsquo; fractured foot bone heals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01463/1955558-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="282" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wayne Hillman</b></figcaption></div><p>The burly Sault Ste. Marie native was pointed for the Hawks 12 years ago when he joined the Chicago - sponsored junior B team in Woodstock, Ont. as a 14-year-old.</p><p>The team won its league title that year, thanks primarily to the play of another pudgy 14-year-old named Robert Marvin Hull.</p><p>Matt and Bobby continued to team up as Junior A. players in St. Catharines but in 1957, Bobby turned pro and moved directly to the Hawks as an 18-year-old wonder. Matt remained with the then TeePees another season, then turned pro with Three Rivers in the Quebec league, still carrying a tag marked for delivery to the Stadium.</p><p>After the year in Quebec came two seasons at Sault Ste. Marie, the Hawk team in the now-defunct Eastern Pro league. Hawk manager Tommy Ivan, who feels that defensemen need much more minor league seasoning than forwards normally need, claims he was ready to move Matt up to the &ldquo;big club&rdquo; in the summer of 1961 after his second year at Sault Ste. Marie. Tom neglected to include Matt&rsquo;s name on the Hawks&rsquo; 18-man protected list for the draft meetings that year, however, and the Bruins nabbed him during a drafting session in which the Hawks were victimized fives times.</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; reasons for wanting Matt still aren&rsquo;t too clear because they kept him with their Providence team for all but two games during the three years they had him on the string. He finally made it back under the Hawks&rsquo; protective wing last summer when he was included in the deal that sent Murray Balfour, Reg Fleming and Ab McDonald to Boston for Mohns, Jerry Toppazzini and Matt.</p><p>&ldquo;I thought Matt was ready three years ago,&rdquo; said Ivan. &ldquo;We hated to lose him to the Bruins and I tried two or three times to get him back before we finally made the deal.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know why the Bruins kept him in Providence and it&rsquo;s none of my business. I&rsquo;m just glad he&rsquo;s back with us.&rdquo;</p><p>Matt was sent to Buffalo in one of the Hawk&rsquo;s last acts before breaking camp in St. Catharines last month. When Mohns pulled up lame and the call was put in for Matt, he had scored six points for the Bisons and was playing some of the soundest defensive hockey in the American league.</p><p>Although Matt was playing only his third NHL game when he was sent out against the Rangers early in the action, Ravlich displayed none of the jitters that might be expected.</p><p>Coach Billy Reay demonstrated confidence in Matt by using him both as a part-time penalty killer and as one of the points on the power play.</p><p>In response, Matt skated and handled the puck steadily at all times and on occasion downright spectacularly. As the crowd became more aware of the contribution the 5-10, 190 pounder was making, cheers began to follow his every departure from the ice at the end of a shift.</p><p>He won the Chicago hockey fandom for all time late in the last period when he sent Ranger rookie Lou Angotti careening into the boards with as solid a legal bodycheck as Chicago fans have seen since the days of Honest Jack Evans.</p><p>There&rsquo;s been no decline in any of Matt&rsquo;s subsequent performances, either. In his second game in Montreal he again played a heady defensive game and set up Phil Esposito for what proved to be the winning goal with an alert, well-executed pass in the final period. The next night in a losing effort against the Bruins, Matt became the first Chicago rearguard to score a goal this year.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02430/1955551-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="1074" height="1744"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MATT RAVLICH&hellip;He&rsquo;s Up To Stay</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ravlich Long Time Coming - Makes It Big

<p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Matt Ravlich, the impressive rookie defenseman, picked on his old Boston mates to score his first NHL goal of the year. It came on a breakaway after he came out of the penalty box. He also made a perfect pass to set up Phil Esposito&rsquo;s goal in the same game.</p><p>Those two plays may well cinch a permanent job on the Hawks for the husky 192 pound, 5 ft. 10 inch St. Catharines&rsquo; grad.</p><p>Ravlich was obtained in a trade for Murray Balfour this summer and spent the early part of the season with Buffalo until the Hawks recalled him last week.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ravlich’s Goal Sinks Ex-Mates

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<div class="byline">BY MEL WOODY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.</p><p>It&rsquo;s becoming more and more obviouss the Rangers have been successful in one of the goals they set for themselves this season. Their defense has become worthy of the name, and you don&rsquo;t need any more proof than their 1-0 victory on the home ice of the Stanley Cup champion Maple Leafs behind the inspired goal-tending of Jacques Plante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01420/1955651-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="276" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rod Seiling</b></figcaption></div><p>Through their first dozen games a year ago, the Rangers allowed 36 goals, an allowance of three per game. This season the quota over the same distance was two per game for a total of 24. a whopping reduction of one-third. In only one game have the Blues allowed more than three goals, that oversight coming in a 5-2 setback by Chicago.</p><p>The reasons for the defensive improvement have been rather obvious. Arnie Brown and Rod Seiling have been solidly consistent on the backlines in the face of all the warnings that their inexperience would hurt before their potential would help. Lou Angotti and Bob Nevin have added forechecking that wasn&rsquo;t available last year. And the goaltending, whether by Plante or Marcel Paille, has been of uniform high quality.</p><p>Scoring, now that&rsquo;s another matter. Production was down from last season&rsquo;s 28 to 23, less than two per game. Even though the Blues&rsquo; 4-5-3 record for 11 points was three higher than a year ago, their scoring was obviously going to have to improve.</p><p>Interestingly, scoring was almost evenly divided among the Rangers&rsquo; three lines through the early going. In the dozen games, the Phil Goyette-Camille Henry-Rod Gilbert unit had eight goals. Earl Ingarfield - Nevin - Dick Duff had seven and so did the Angotti-Vic Hadfield-Jim Mikol trio.</p><p>The big hope for improvement there was the Goyette combination. Phil hurt his right wrist in training when checked by Baltimore defenseman Noel Price. Then he fell and jammed it three times later and probably will wear a leather support for it the rest of the season.</p><p>Still, that didn&rsquo;t bother him as much as a virus in the early going, and with the bug out of the way, he&rsquo;s ready to turn the red light on with something like his frequency of a year ago, when he netted 24 goals.</p><p>Key man of the combo is Henry. He&rsquo;s in constant misery from his back and says he&rsquo;ll probably have a spinal fusion at the end of the season, &ldquo;if I don&rsquo;t get hurt before then.&rdquo; He was told by one doctor in Winnipeg that he shouldn&rsquo;t play, that he was courting a paralyzing injury.</p><p>But Henry shrugs his slight shoulders, asks rhetorically &ldquo;What am I going to do?&rdquo; and goes on scoring the winning goals, as in the 1-0 thriller at Toronto. If he holds up, that line should swing into the team&rsquo;s scoring leadership as expected.</p><p>There&rsquo;s another area in which Ranger scoring is bound to improve. Not a single defenseman scored on those first 12 games, even though Coach Red Sullivan has two backliners playing the points of the power play most of the time. All five&mdash;Harry Howell, Jim Neilson, Brown, Seiling and Don Johns&mdash;have decent enough shots and the law of averages has to come to their rescue one day soon.</p><p>Emile (Cat) Francis and Sullivan are keeping a sharp eye on the farm system for scoring help, particularly on the left wing. Val Fonteyne was brought back up from Baltimore not only for penalty killing but to spell Henry occasionally. Ted Taylor at Baltimore and St. Paul portsiders Mel Pearson, Ulf Sterner and Paul Andrea also were getting close attention.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03313/1955644-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="988" height="1022"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CAMILLE HENRY&hellip;Still Popping In Payoff Goals</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ranger Defense Keeps Puck Out But Offense Lags In Production

<div class="byline">&#x2014;WOODY</div><p>NEW YORK, N. Y.</p><p>Jacques Plante and Marcel Paille gave Red Sullivan the kind of problem all hockey brass likes. Plante, sent to Baltimore to get his knee in shape before the season opened, was great in the Toronto shutout. He was called back up when somebody&rsquo;s stick caught in Paille&rsquo;s skate at Detroit, causing Paille to fall with his weight bending an ankle the wrong way. He figured to miss at least a week with the bad sprain.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02387/1955682-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="288" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Val Fonteyne</b></figcaption></div><p>It wouldn&rsquo;t be cricket to yank Plante after his spectacular, especially if he kept it up, and Francis agreed. Then he added, &ldquo;But we don&rsquo;t want to hijack the other guy out of there either because he played great hockey for us too.&rdquo;</p><p>Problems, problems! Anyway, shots in Plante&rsquo;s knee seem to be eliminating or isolating the offending bone chip there to his satisfaction. Question is, who&rsquo;s going to play where and how long?</p><p>Rangers sent Dave Richardson to Baltimore after bringing up Val Fonteyne, thereby bringing down the curtain on their only standup comic. Maybe it should be sitdown comic, because Dave didn&rsquo;t get off the bench much.</p><p>But he was always ready for a laugh. There was the time at Kingston (he was with Sudbury). &ldquo;I had a misunderstanding with (referee) John Ashley,&rdquo; Richardson reported, &ldquo;and he invited me out of the game after seven minutes. So, I went on radio after I got dressed and after the game I was invited to pick the three stars. I told the unseen audience, &lsquo;Well, I thought I was great for seven minutes.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p><p>Goyette after his virus attack was down to 158 pounds, the lowest of his career&hellip;Brown made his NHL debut in the shadow of tragedy, which struck its, final blow when his father died after a long illness and was buried on November 1. Arnie missed only the Rangers&rsquo; stellar 3-1 victory over Montreal that night and rejoined the team in Chicago November 3<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Plante-Paille Pleasant ‘Problem’ For Sully

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<h2><b>Southerner Wonts To See NHL On TV</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>Although living in the south presents a problem to see NHL games, the Eastern Hockey League presses to control that problem.</p><p>A big question in my mind is, is evident to the big television brass just how big hockey is? With the entry of Jacksonville and New York in the EHL this year and the probable entry of two more next year, it looks as if the NHL would have a large audience if some games were televised nationally.</p><p><b>Richard Perkins</b><br>Madison, Tenn.</p><h2>Murray Balfour Fan Club Asks For Recognition</h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>I would appreciate it very much if you would publicize our official club, the Murray Balfour Fan Club, in your publication.</p><p>Your paper is immensely enjoyed and this past week our club secretary has added THE HOCKEY NEWS to our list of papers to which we subscribe for hockey reading.</p><p>Thank you to THE HOCKEY NEWS for supplying thousands of fans with hours of enjoyable reading.</p><p>We are all loyal boosters of Murray Balfour, he&rsquo;s a great guy and a good player.</p><p><b>Rudy Knaus</b><br>Chicago, Ill.</p><h2><b>Reaume Fan Asks, Where Is Marc?</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>Enjoy your paper very much but to date have not been able to find any mention of Marc Reaume who is supposed to be with the Toronto Maple Leafs organization. Just wonder what has happened to this good defenseman.</p><p><b>Mrs. Larry Famey</b><br>Harrisburg, Pa.</p><p>(Note: Marc Reaume is currently playing with the Tulsa Oilers of the CPHL and doing quite well).</p><h2><b>Who Are Fastest Skaters In NHL?</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>I was so pleased to read about the formation of the Fan Forum. I am quite sure that, it will prove to be a very successful operation.</p><p>A few years ago, 1 saw on TV during intermission at one of the hockey games in Toronto, a survey of different speeds, shots, etc., of players. This survey was done at different rinks by electrical equipment.</p><p>As the results of this survey, I wonder if you could please settle a dispute by telling me who the fastest forward and defense men are in the NHL?</p><p>Thank you for your attention to this matter and the best of luck to Fan Forum.</p><p><b>Jerry Lehane</b><br>Niagara Falls, Ont.</p><p>(Note: The answers to the best of our knowledge are Henri Richard of Canadiens, forward, and Doug Mohns, Chicago, defenseman).</p><p>(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.)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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GUNZO’S

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01490/1955765-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="414" height="438"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02371/1955758-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="639" height="95"></div><p><b>&bull; BOSTON&mdash;BOBBY LEITER&rsquo;s</b> tying goal with 37 seconds left to play. Gordie Howe&rsquo;s 1200th NHL game. Ted Lindsay back on a line with Howe for the first time since 1956. These were the highlights of the 3-3 tie we witnessed here between the Bruins and Red Wings&hellip;Boston crowds have been excellent this season considering the poor start of the team&hellip;The &ldquo;Gallery Gods&rdquo; have a new trick whereby they all yell &ldquo;Shoot! Shoot!&rdquo; whenever the Bruins are putting on any kind of a sustained offensive&hellip;There are more Reg Fleming and Ted Green banners up than for any other players&hellip;Green is developing into the Bully Boy of the Bruins&hellip;The team has missed Murray Oliver and is happy to have him back in the lineup&hellip;Bill Harrington is doing the play by play of the Bruins&rsquo; games again over WHDH. Bill interviewed us between periods. His broadcasts are well received throughout the New England area&hellip;The Boston players think their club is much better than they&rsquo;ve shown to date and if they can only run up an unbeaten streak of four or five games they&rsquo;ll have their confidence restored and will move up in the standings&hellip;Gordie Howe has scored just under half-goal-a-game during his 1200 games over 18 seasons. He doesn&rsquo;t go in much for such statistics, though, and as he says: &ldquo;Scoring goals is my business. If I keep playing games, I&rsquo;m bound to keep scoring. Otherwise I&rsquo;ll be fired.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03269/1955751-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="270" height="406"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED GREEN</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>NEW YORK&mdash;EVERYONE HERE</b> is delighted with the appointment of Emile Francis as General Manager of the Rangers and they think &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; will do a tremendous job for the Rangers, Rovers etc&hellip;Francis received a telegram of congratulations containing hundreds of names from his North Battleford, Sask, friends&hellip;Irv Felt, chairman of the board of the Rangers and also of Madison Square Garden, was telling us that the building of the new Madison Square Garden Center was right on schedule at the present time&hellip;Biggest dilemma facing the Rangers right now is what to do with Marcel Faille when he returns as the Rangers have been getting great performances from Jacques Plante, filling in for the injured Paille&hellip;The way he played this season, Paille has to get his job back once he is fit to play&hellip;Rod Seiling and Arnie Brown, rookie Ranger defensemen, getting better with each game and both becoming popular with the fans&hellip;Attendance here has been down slightly from the same period a year ago&hellip;Dick Duff and Bob Nevin haven&rsquo;t done much since joining the Rangers&hellip;Emile Francis hopes to succeed as Rangers General Manager through honesty, sincerity and hard work&hellip;Our old North Battleford buddy is strong on all three&hellip;&ldquo;Respect isn&rsquo;t something you can demand.&rdquo; Francis said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s something you must earn. I expect to earn it,&rdquo; he said.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04185/1955744-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="260" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ARNIE BROWN</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>BALTIMORE&mdash;LOCAL FANS</b> went wild as the Clippers defeated Springfield for their second win of the season. Happiest man after the game was Coach Johnny Crawford who has been under the gun <i>a</i> lot of late. Fans figure club has excellent personnel and should be showing better than they have to date. Crawford, one of hockey&rsquo;s more popular men, hopes the tide has now changed and that the Clippers will be off on a sustained winning streak&hellip;The Civic Center here is one of the finest new arenas in the eountry&hellip;Players from both teams are introduced at the start of each game a la football. Each player skates onto the ice to the accompaniment of a peal from the organist&hellip;The four Clipperettes holding various flags, the Stars and Stripes, State of Maryland etc. skate out to center ice at the start of each game while the organist plays &ldquo;Maryland My Maryland&rdquo; as well as the National Anthem&hellip;The Baltimore Clippers Booster Club has over 1,000 members&hellip;Omer Kelly, foriner well known professional goalkeeper, is in charge of the minor officials here&hellip;Another former goalkeeper (and a darn good one from what we hear) is in charge of Baltimore ticket sales and promotions. He is Woody Ryan and Woody works tirelessly in his efforts to sell hockey in the Maryland area&hellip;Bob Elmer, publicity director of the Clippers, has also been coming up with some novel promotional ideas this year&hellip;The Clippers averaged over 5,000 a game with a losing-team this year. They&rsquo;ll average another 2,000 a game with a better record&hellip;We guested with Jim West and George Taylor over Station WBAL, 1090 on your dial, during our visit here&hellip;WBAL with West doing the play by play carry the complete game of all Clipper contests, both home and away&hellip;This is Baltimore&rsquo;s third season in the AHL and a Baltimore player has yet to score a &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo;&hellip;In one game three players scored two goals but no one was able to tally the elusive third one&hellip;Charles Newman and Al Fischer of the Baltimore Sun papers, two of the more enthusiastic hockey writers in the American League&hellip;A few of the Baltimore Colts&rsquo; players attend the hockey games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05157/1955737-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="260" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN CRAWFORD</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>HERSHEY&mdash;OUR RECORD</b> of never seeing our home club lose stood up as the Chocolate City six downed Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Springfield team, for the Indians&rsquo; second loss in as many nights&hellip;It was 16 years since we last visited Hershey and the enthusiasm and keeness of the fans remains the same&hellip;Close to 7,000 fans were on hand for the game and they enjoyed the win to the fullest&hellip;General Manager of the Hershey Bears and also the Hershey Estates, which takes in the Sports Arena, amusement park, golf courses, ballroom etc. is Lloyd Blinco, a former Canadian who went down to Hershey in the thirties as a hockey player. Lloyd has a wonderful job now and is extremely happy living in this pleasant community&hellip;Frank Mathers, our old Winnipeg schoolmate, is the manager and coach of the Bears, and he too is a great booster for Hershey living&hellip;Frank is one of the better hockey executives around and has a great future ahead of him&hellip;He was the best defenseman to play in the American Hockey League&hellip;The Bears don&rsquo;t have any super stars this year but they have a well balanced team with a great deal of spirit&hellip;Trainer of the Bears is Scotty Alexander, a 20-year veteran with the team&hellip;A native of Toronto, Scotty is one of the best known and well liked hockey personalities. He is also one of the top trainers in the business&hellip;We asked Scotty to pick his All-Star Hershey team during his years here&hellip;Here&rsquo;s what he came up with: Goal, Bob Perreault; Defense, Frank Mathers; Centre, Red Sullivan and Willie Marshall; Right Wing, Dunc Fisher; and Left Wing, Herbie Cain&hellip;Eddie Gundaker is broadcasting all of the Bears&rsquo; road games over a new Hershey FM station. We were on a radio show with Eddie and Bob Paine&hellip;Fans are allowed to skate immediately the game is finished here. Same thing happened in Baltimore the night before.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The Canadiens have hit the road in what amounts to their first extended trip of the season. and will tangle with every club but New York Rangers in an 11-day safari.</p><p>Habs clash with Bruins in Boston on Nov. 15th, move on to Toronto and Chicago, and then wind up in Detroit on the 26th. They could return to Montreal holding anything from first to fifth place in the standings, depending on the success or failure of the trip.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01441/1955882-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="288" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gilles Tremblay</b></figcaption></div><p>Much of Canadiens&rsquo; fortunes could be riding on their &ldquo;Road Gang,&rdquo; a select group of men who make a habit of scoring on enemy rinks. They are Beliveau, Rousseau. Gilles Tremblay and Balon: and, between the four of them, they potted 44 goals away from home last season. The team, as a unit, got 99.</p><p>Chief marksman of the group was Gilles Tremblay, who hit the opposition for 13 goals on their own rinks, last year. He was particularly effective against Toronto Maple Leafs, and also had a good record against Detroit. This year. Gilles has gotten off to a slow start with just three goals to show for his first 12 games. A sign of things to come, however, may be found in the fact that two of his three counters have been scored away from home. One was in New York, the other in Chicago, and both were power play efforts.</p><p>Tremblay, it&rsquo;s safe to say, has yet to reach his full potential in the NHL, though he&rsquo;s averaged just over 26 goals for each of the last three seasons.</p><p>&ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t get as many goals as he should for the amount of ability he&rsquo;s got,&rdquo; says Toe Blake, and blames the situation on a number of things, including some bad playing habits that Gilles has gotten into. But, the breaks have also played their capricious part with Tremblay, this year. Not only has he missed a couple of grand scoring chances, but once Fate conspired to have him stop what looked like a sure goal against the Hawks. That was in the Forum on Nov. 7th when Habs were pressing hard around the Chicago net and the puck came back to Laperriere. He got off a sizzler that was labelled for the far corner, but at the last instant Tremblay stabbed at the puck, hoping to net a deflection. Instead, he knocked the puck aside, and Hawks recovered and cleared.</p><p>Gilles, however, is too good a player to be kept off the score-sheets for any length of time, and when he gets the range he&rsquo;ll make life interesting for the goalies in this league. And, chances are he&rsquo;ll get the range on the road.</p><p>As for Beliveau, Rousseau and Balon, they also demonstrated a marked ability for scoring on the road last season. Big Jean and Balon fired 11 goals each, while Rousseau accounted for nine. Like Tremblay, all of them are off to relatively slow starts, this season, as far as goal-scoring is concerned. They&rsquo;d manged just two goals apiece in their first dozen games this year.</p><p>However, with the first extended trip of the season at hand, there&rsquo;ll be plenty of opportunity for them to score points in a road test. If they hold true to form, the outlook is bright.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02406/1955875-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="466" height="1018"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bobby Rousseau</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Canucks Counting On ‘Road Gang’ For Big Effort As Tour Begins

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SPORTS PHOTOS!

<p>MONTREAL, Que.</p><p>Montreal forward John Ferguson has pulled a switch as far as jinxes are concerned in the NHL.</p><p>As a player in his second season, John, of course, is subject to the sophomore jinx that can haunt all second-year men. But Ferguson, like the majority of players, is not overly-concerned about that one. What gives him more cause for concern is the spell that has been cast upon him by the Toronto Maple Leafs. He was still looking for his first goal against them going into the game of November 18th.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03325/1955937-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="278" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John Ferguson</b></figcaption></div><p>Ferguson likes to point out that bad breaks, and not lack of scoring opportunities have been responsible for his famine against Punch Imlach&rsquo;s crew. According to the Canuck winger, he&rsquo;s had plenty of chances to put the puck in the net, both this season and last, but something always went haywire.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had Johnny Bower beat more than once,&rdquo; says Ferguson, sadly, &ldquo;but, I&rsquo;ve always hit the post, or something.&rdquo;</p><p>John, it goes without saying, is out to break the Leafian spell as quickly as possible, and with Leafs alternating between Bower and Terry Sawchuk, perhaps his chances are improving.</p><p>Though both are equally fine goalies, Ferguson did manage to beat Sawchuk, occasionally, when he was with Detroit. What John may have to consider now, is whether Sawchuk, too. may become a jinx, now that he&rsquo;s sporting a Leaf sweater.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ferguson Works To Break Leafs’ ‘Jinx’ Over Him

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GREAT MOMENTS IN HOCKEY GREAT MOMENTS IN SMOKING

<div class="byline">BY DICK DILLMAN</div><p>(As Seen In The St. Paul Pioneer Press)</p><p>ST. PAUL, Minn.</p><p>North Americans seem to consider the ability to play hockey almost their private possession.</p><p>European victories in the Olympics and in the world cham-pionships are shrugged off.</p><p>It is felt that professionals playing in the National League could and would make mince-meat of the Europeans.</p><p>Ulf Sterner, late of Goteborg, Sweden, presently playing centre for the St. Paul Rangers, dealt that illusion a smart blow the other day.</p><p>&ldquo;I think,&rdquo; Sterner said in his measured Swedish accent, &ldquo;that Russia or Sweden would give either New York or Boston a very rough time.</p><p>&ldquo;If they played 10 games, I think those two teams from Europe would win pretty close to half of them.&rdquo;</p><p>Sterner&rsquo;s in a good position to evaluate the relative hockey strength of the two continents. He was the star of Sweden&rsquo;s Na-tional and Olympic teams and played many games against Russia before he turned professional with St. Paul of the Central Pro Hockey League. He also has played a number of exhibition games for New York&rsquo;s NHL team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01475/1955999-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="483" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ULF STERNER&hellip;Rookie Speaks His Mind</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;No, I don&rsquo;t think the European teams are ready to take on teams like Toronto and Montreal. Not yet. But that day may come.</p><p>&ldquo;Look at the program in Stockholm, a city of about one million. There are around 5,000 organized hockey teams there.</p><p>&ldquo;The Russians are getting better and better every year. They completely changed their style last year in the Olympics and almost ran away with the tournament. Nobody is in better condition than they are.&rdquo;</p><p>How would teams in the CPHL fare in international play?</p><p>&ldquo;Take Minneapolis, for example. I think the Russians, Sweden and probably the Czechs could handle them.&rdquo;</p><p>Despite Sterner&rsquo;s confidence in the ability of European teams, the St. Paul player got off to a slow start in the CPHL. Then, last week end, he hit his stride, exploded in a shower of four goals and three assists in two games. He added two more goals in St. Louis.</p><p>&ldquo;I was not satisfied with the way I was playing, not happy with myself and my performance.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew I was not playing good, but I think now that I&rsquo;ll play better.&rdquo;</p><p>He didn&rsquo;t seek excuses, but did point out that there was a difficult transition from international to professional play.</p><p>&ldquo;You know, the rules are different. In International hockey, you can body check only in half the rink. I don&rsquo;t mind the body checking, but it takes time to get used to the rule.</p><p>&ldquo;Then maybe you noticed I was skating slow, sort of looking around. New teammates, new opponents&mdash;that was the cause of that. But that&rsquo;s all over now.&rdquo;</p><p>Use of fists and sticks to settle a disagreement is more common here than in Europe. How does Sterner approach that facet of the sport?</p><p>&ldquo;Well, I don&rsquo;t go looking for fights, but if someone wants to fight, I won&rsquo;t back up.&rdquo;</p><p>You might, then, say that he&rsquo;s not an extremist&mdash;except when it comes to scoring goals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Russians, Swedes Almost Equal To New York, Boston Says Ulf

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs are getting their troubles in big doses these days.</p><p>The cup champions have dropped three of their last four starts, losing to the Rangers, Black Hawks and Bruins, and fell two full games off the pace.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02408/1956030-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="267" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Mahovlich</b></figcaption></div><p>Manager - coach Punch Imlach was having problems both on and off the ice. The Leafs were falling by the wayside like duckpins in a bowling alley.</p><p>The most serious casualty appeared to be the team&rsquo;s big scorer, Frank Mahovlich, who came down with a mysterious ailment that was thought to be mononucleosis, a blood disease that felled Terry Sawchuk for six months in 1957 and put his NHL career in jeopardy.</p><p>Mahovlich, complaining of not feeling well and being extremely tired, went to hospital for tests to determine his trouble. A team of Toronto doctors are studying the &lsquo;Big M&rsquo; and are attempting to find out what exactly has been ailing him.</p><p>To compound the Leafs&rsquo; ills, Dave Keon came down with a groin injury and had to miss several games.</p><p>Imlach was about to throw up his arms and wonder what could happen next when both his net-minders, Johnny Bower and Sawchuk, become immobile at the same time. The Leafs had an SOS call out for Rochester farmhand Jerry Cheevers in case the two Leaf goalies couldn&rsquo;t make it. But Bower, fighting off a bad case of the flu, answered the call instead and played in the club&rsquo;s two weekend defeats while Sawchuk nursed strained leg muscles.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Mahovlich Ailment Puzzling

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Sunbeam

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01460/1956092-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="249" height="419"></div><p>(1) Toe Blake has spent the major portion of his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens, serving as a star left winger and now a coach. Yet he broke into the NHL with another team. Which one was it?<br>(2) When the Maple Leafs obtained Don McKenney from the Rangers last February it was a straight exchange of players. Name the other man involved in the trade.<br>(3) You younger fans probably never even heard of Art Dun-can, but he had a crack at coaching a couple of NHL teams back in the 1920&rsquo;s. Since this is strictly for the old timers to solve better let them come up with the answer.<br>(4) The last time the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup was in 1940-41. The late Art Ross was then manager, but do you know who the coach was?<br>(5) Let&rsquo;s stick to the subject of coaching for a while. The Rangers have had an even longer Stanley Cup dearth than Boston since their last win was in 1939-40. Do you remember who their coach was that season?<br>(6) When Eric Nesterenko launched his pro career he was a highly touted star with Toronto, the year was 1952-53. Later, he was sold to Chicago. In what year was the deal made? 1954 1956 1959 1961<br>(7) Jacques Laperriere and Bob Nevin have something rather unique in common. Can you tell us what it is?<br>(8) In June, 1962, Detroit sent Len Lunde and John McKenzie to the Black Hawks in exchange for a young defenseman. Name the player.<br>(9) Back in 1943-44, Toronto&rsquo;s Gus Bodnar set a record for assists by a rookie in one season. How many assists did he amass? 40 27 36 44 31<br>(10) The largest crowd ever to see the Canadiens perform in the Forum congregated there on March 22, 1952, to see them tie Detroit 3-3. How many saw them? 16,316 14,500 17,000 16,800</p><p><b>(Answers Next Week)</b></p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><p>(1) 1956-57.<br>(2) Tom Johnson.<br>(3) Boston Bruins.<br>(4) Bucyk, Horvath & Stasiuk<br>(5) 37 points.<br>(6) AU scored 50 goals in one season.<br>(7) He was shooting for 50 goals, but got 48.<br>(8) Broda (Walter) Poile (Norman) Sloan (Aloysius)<br>(9) Bolton (Yug) Couture (Doc) MosdeU (Moe)<br>(10) Tim Horton.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY…Quiz

<div class="byline">BY LEO MONAHAN</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess,&rdquo; said Bruins&rsquo; goalie Eddie Johnston, &ldquo;it was the best game I&rsquo;ve played in the NHL.&rdquo;</p><p>Boston&rsquo;s Coach Milt Schmidt put it another way. Said Milt:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02434/1956130-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="268" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Johnston</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;In my 29 seasons in the league, I&rsquo;ve never seen a goalie perform better than Johnston did in the first period. He was amazing and he kept us in the game.&rdquo;</p><p>The game in question was Johnston&rsquo;s 41-save performance against Chicago that made the Black Hawks leave town shaking their heads after a 3-2 loss and one of the finest goaltending exhibitions seen in Boston in years. A crowd of 13,381 gave Johnston a tumultuous ovation at the finish.</p><p>What makes this one game and single performance so important? Only that it points out that Johnston in no way can be held culpable for Boston&rsquo;s sad start of just a tie in its first nine games.</p><p>Johnston, however, was on the verge of being fingered. When things go badly, somebody has to take the rap and, from all indications. Johnston was to be the one.</p><p>How else can you explain General Manager Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s three-game scouting trip to the West Coast? Patrick was ordered to look over Los Angeles&rsquo; goalie Jack Norris.</p><p>Patrick visited L.A. San Francisco and Portland, giving Norris a look-see. The only logical conclusion was that Johnston&rsquo;s job was in jeopardy.</p><p>Back-to-back victories over the Black Hawks, however, eased the tension on the B&rsquo;s&mdash;and especially Johnston, who has been one of the team&rsquo;s most consistent players thus far.</p><p>&ldquo;I hadn&rsquo;t been sleeping well, but I really had a long snooze after that 3-2 game,&rdquo; said Johnston. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t sleep well when the team is losing. I don&rsquo;t suppose any of us do. It gnaws away at you.&rdquo;</p><p>Ten of Johnston&rsquo;s 41 saves were made against Bobby Hull, one of the most feared shooters in the NHL. He made larcenous stops on Chico Maki (twice) and Eric Nesterenko.</p><p>Johnston, now in his 3rd NHL season, cut nearly a goal-a-game off his goals-against average last season and this campaign he has shown even more improvement, although the statistics may not show it.</p><p>Goaltending for a rebuilding team always is a chore. When things get tough, the heat usually goes first on the net-minder.</p><p>Well, this time you can&rsquo;t blame Eddie Johnston. He made sure of that.</p><p><b>AROUND THE HUB</b>&mdash;Defenseman Teddy Green was passing out cigars after the birth of his first child, a daughter, Karen Diane. His wife Pat gave birth to the 7-lb. 5 ounce baby in Winnipeg&hellip;Murray Oliver&rsquo;s cranky knee&mdash;damaged ligaments&mdash;has been slow responding. Originally he figured to miss 2 or 3 games, but now he&rsquo;s been out for two weeks&hellip;Boston has been getting good performances from two revamped lines. One has rookie Ron Schock, fresh from Junior ranks with Niagara Falls, replacing Oliver between Tom Williams and Johnny Bucyk. The other strings together Dean Prentice, Orland Kurtenbach and Reggie Fleming.</p><p>The B&rsquo;s continue to outdraw Boston&rsquo;s world championship basketball team, the Celtics who started the season by reeling off nine straight victories&hellip;Boston had Hershey defensemen Don Awrey and Bob Woytowich&mdash;drafted from New York&mdash;working out for several days, but returned both to the Bears. If the B&rsquo;s do recall a defenseman, it likely will be Woytowich&hellip;Right wing Gary Dornhoefer has been used only sparingly in recent games. Gary had a poor training camp and has been unimpressive thus far. When cut-down time comes, he&rsquo;s likely to be the one to go, unless he does a turn-around.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03382/1956123-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="484" height="690"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GARY DORNHOEFER&hellip;On Way To Minors?</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Johnston Saves Job By Stopping Hawks, Hull

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Wayne Rivers will stay with the Bruins until some of the club&rsquo;s wounded can skate back into action. &bull;</p><p>Centre Murray Oliver, sidelined by pulled knee ligaments in Montreal two weeks ago, may be available for spot duty. Oliver has been skating and was expected back in the lineup soon.</p><p>With Tommy Williams idled for 10 days at least by a pulled back muscle, Rivers will play right wing on the line with Ron Schock and Johnny Bucyk. This was the Bruins&rsquo; best line in New York with Rivers, of course, getting a goal.</p><p>&ldquo;Rivers played very well,&rdquo; lauded Coach Milt Schmidt. &ldquo;With any luck he could have had two or three goals.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rivers Impresses As Bruin Fill-In

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TRADITION!

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p><i>(As Seen In The Toronto Star)</i></p><p>It seems like only yesterday, doesn&rsquo;t it, that Eric Nesterenko was a teenaged rookie with the Maple Leafs, touted as Toronto&rsquo;s answer to Jean Beliveau and earning sideline cash as a disc jockey?</p><p>Want to feel elderly?</p><p>Get this, then. Nester has just celebrated his 31st birthday.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03338/1956261-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="287" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eric Nesterenko</b></figcaption></div><p>In a way, he&rsquo;s a rookie this year, even though it&rsquo;s his 13th winter of National Hockey League competition After earning a solid reputation as a defensive player, he has been given the right-wing job on the Black Hawks&rsquo; number one forward line, with Red Hay at centre and Bobby Hull on the left flank. Nester even works on the power play, when the opposition has a penalty.</p><p>It&rsquo;s an odd turnabout for Nesterenko, who has won a measure of reflected fame through the effective chore he&rsquo;s done in checking such dangerous foes as Leafs&rsquo; Frank Mahovlich and Gordie Howe of Detroit. All his nicknames&mdash;Elbows, The Shadow, The Blanket&mdash;developed out of his defensive skills.</p><p>Nesterenko always has derived considerable satisfaction from his accomplishments against Mahovlich. But it&rsquo;s bothered him at times, too, when he&rsquo;s realized what a negative type of fame this really is.</p><p>Nesterenko scored two impressive goals in his first game after joining Leafs in December, 1952. That misleading debut, plus the Leaf organization&rsquo;s determination to match Beliveau&rsquo;s freshman greatness at Montreal, were Nesterenko&rsquo;s undoing. His bosses never could accept him as an ordinary, efficient but unspectacular journeyman. And so, eventually, he was demoted all the way to Winnipeg in 1956.</p><p>Nester was appreciated in the Windy City and his knack for nullifying people like the Big M and Howe had a lot to do with Hawks&rsquo; rise to power in the NHL.</p><p>Checking, mind you, is a major part of Nester&rsquo;s new assignment, too, for artists like Hay and Hull need help with the defensive spadework. But Hull&rsquo;s rebounds will provide Nesterenko with more scoring opportunities than he&rsquo;s ever seen before. And he&rsquo;s sure to collect plenty of assists.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hawks Shift Nesterenko From Defense To Offense In New Test For Veteran

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04258/1956299-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="346" height="330"></div><h2><u>Claude Provost&hellip;Montreal Canadiens</u></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>H</span>ockey players come and go but Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; veteran Claude Provost continues to roll along doing his methodical job but deriving little credit from the ice experts.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05192/1956292-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="290" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Claude Provost</b></figcaption></div><p><b>The lantern-jawed right winger, starting his 10th year in the big time, enjoyed a six-point week to catapult into the top three in the National League&rsquo;s individual scoring race.</b></p><p><b>Provost scored once and helped set up six other goals to raise his season record to seven goals and seven assists for 14 points, three behind the leader Stan Mikita of Chicago and two in back of Golden Boy Bobby Hull, also of the Hawks.</b></p><p><b>Provost is off to one of his better starts in his NHL career and if he maintains his present pace, he is certain to equal or surpass his peak year of 1961-62 when he tallied 33 goals. Provost is also making menacing gestures towards the NHL&rsquo;s select 200-goal club and currently has 167 goals to his credit.</b></p><p><b>Mark Ten is pleased to salute Canadiens&rsquo; Claude Provost as the man who made his mark in NHL hockey this post week.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE MAN

<p><i>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</i></p><p><i>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</i></p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><p>(Standing on Tues. Nov. 17)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01474/1956230-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="564" height="189"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues., Nov. 10</b></p><p>Detroit 3, Boston 3</p><p><b>Wed., Nov, 11</b></p><p>Montreal 4, Chicago 1</p><p>Toronto 3, Detroit 1</p><p>New York 4, Boston 2</p><p><b>Sat., Nov, 14</b></p><p>Montreal 4, Detroit 2</p><p>Boston 3, Toronto 1</p><p><b>Sun., Nov, 15</b></p><p>Montreal 2, Boston 2</p><p>Detroit 6, New York 2</p><p>Chicago 4, Toronto 2</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Tues., Nov, 17</b></p><p>New York at Detroit</p><p><b>Wed., Nov, 18</b></p><p>Montreal at Toronto</p><p>Detroit at Chicago</p><p><b>Sat., Nov, 21</b></p><p>Chicago at Toronto</p><p>Detroit at Boston</p><p><b>Sun., Nov, 22</b></p><p>Montreal at Chicago</p><p>Toronto at Boston</p><p>Detroit at New York</p><h2><b>Point Race</b></h2><p>(Including game of Sun, Nov, 15)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02405/1956223-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="577" height="2428"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04291/1956216-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="577" height="695"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<h2><b>Tues., Nov. 10 DETROIT 3, BOSTON 3</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ETROIT</b>&mdash;Goal: Crozier; defense: Barkley, Gadsby, Pronovost, Langlois, Bergman; forwards: Ullman, Martin, Howe. Delvecchio, Jeffrey, Lindsay, MacGregor, Smith, Henderson, MacDonald, McMillan.</p><p><b>BOSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defense: McCord, Boivin; centre: Kurtenbach; wings: Prentice, Fleming; subs.: Schock, Balfour, Leiter, Williams, Bucyk, McDonald, Domhoefer, Kennedy, Westfall, Green, Johnson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01472/1956386-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="565" height="598"></div><h2><b>Wed., Nov. 11 MONTREAL 4, CHICAGO 1</b></h2><p><b>MONTREAL</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defence: Talbot, Harper, Laperriere, J. C. Tremblay, Harris; forwards: Balon, Backstrom, Provost, Beliveau, Hicke, Larose. Cournoyer, Rousseau, G. Tremblay, Ferguson, Roberts.</p><p><b>CHICAGO</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Vasko, Ravlich, Pilote, MacNeil, Hillman; forwards: R. Hull, Hay, Nesterenko, Stanfield, Esposito, D. Hull, Brenneman, Robinson, Maki, Wharram. McKenzie, Mikita.</p><p>Referee: Friday, Linesmen: Pavelich. D&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02428/1956379-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="574" height="628"></div><h2><b>BOSTON 2, NEW YORK 4</b></h2><p><b>BOSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defence: McCord. Green, Johnson, Westfall, Boivin; forwards: Kurtenbach, Dornhoefer. Bucyk. Rivers, Balfour, Kennedy. Prentice. Fleming, McDonald, Schock, Leiter.</p><p><b>NEW YORK</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Howell, Brown, Seiling, Johns, Neilson; forwards: Gilbert, Nevin, Duff, Ingarfield, Hadfield, Mi kol, Fonteyne, Angotti, Goyette, Henry, Marshall.</p><p>Referee: Skov. Linesmen: Hayes. Attanas.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03357/1956372-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="565" height="642"></div><h2><b>DETROIT 1, TORONTO 3</b></h2><p><b>DETROIT</b>&mdash;Goal: Crozier; defense: Langlois, Pronovost, Gadsby, Barkley, Bergman; forwards: Delvecchio, Lindsay, Howe, Ullman, Jeffrey, Smith, Martin, MacDonald, Peters, Henderson, MacMillan, MacGregor.</p><p><b>TORONTO</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Horton. Stanley, Brewer. Baun, Douglas; forwards: McKenney, Mahovlich. Ellis, Bathgate, Kelly, Pappin, Pulford. Stewart, Shack. Harris, Armstrong, Moore.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06222/1956365-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="557" height="553"></div><h2><b>Sat., Nov. 14 BOSTON 3. TORONTO 1</b></h2><p><b>BOSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defence: Green, Johnson; centre: Kurtenbach; wings: Fleming, Prentice; subs.: McCord. Dornhoefer, Bucyk, Balfour, Kennedy, Westfall, Boivin, McDonald (Schock, Leiter, Rivers.</p><p><b>TORONTO</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence: Stanley, Horton; centre: Bathgate.&rsquo; wings: Pappin, Kelly; subs.: Brewer, Baun, Douglas, Ellis, McKenney, Moore, Pulford, Stewart, Shack, Armstrong, Harris.</p><p>Referee: Buffey. Linesmen: Hayes, Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07202/1956358-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="556" height="647"></div><h2><b>DETROIT 2, MONTREAL 4</b></h2><p><b>DETROIT</b>&mdash;Goal: Crozier; defence: Langlois, Gadsby; centre: McDonald; wings: Howe, Lindsay; subs.: Pronovost. Barkley, Ullman, Martin, Jeffrey, MacGregor, Smith, Bergman.</p><p><b>MONTREAL</b>&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defence: Harper, Talbot; centre: Rousseau; wings: Larose, G. Tremblay; subs.: J. C. Tremblay, Beliveau, Backstrom. Hicke, Harris, Cournoyer, Provost, Balon, Ferguson, Roberts.</p><p>Referee: Friday. Linesmen: Pavelich, D&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08196/1956351-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="557" height="616"></div><h2><b>Sun., Nov. 15 MONTREAL 2. BOSTON 2</b></h2><p><b>MONTREAL</b>&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defense: J. C. Tremblay, Harris, Harper, Talbot; forwards: Backstrom, Provost, Balon. Beliveau, Hicke, Larose, Cournoyer, G. Tremblay, Ferguson, Roberts.</p><p><b>BOSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defense: Green, Johnson, McCord, Boivin, Westfall: forwards: Kurtenbach, Prentice. Dornhoefer, Oliver, Balfour, McDonald. Schock, Fleming, Rivers, Leiter, Kennedy.</p><p>Referee: Skov; linesmen: Hayes. Frampton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09186/1956344-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="556" height="578"></div><h2><b>TORONTO 2, CHICAGO 4</b></h2><p><b>CHICAGO</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko: centre: Mikita; wings: Brenneman, Wharram; subs.: Stanfield, Esposito, R. Hull, D. Hull. Hay, Robinson, Nesterenko. Maki. McKenzie, MacNeil, Hillman, Ravlich.</p><p><b>TORONTO</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Brewer, Baun; centre: Pulford, wings: Stewart. Shack; subs.: Kelly, Horton, Bathgate. Armstrong. Ellis. Harris. Moore, McKenney, Pappin, Douglas, Stanley.</p><p>Referee: Udvari; linesmen: Clements. Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10166/1956337-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="560" height="649"></div><h2><b>DETROIT 6, NEW YORK 2</b></h2><p>DETROIT&mdash;Goal: Crozier; defense: Langlois, Pronovost, Gadsby, Barkley, Bergman; forwards: Ullman, Martin, Howe. Murphy, Jeffrey, Lindsay, MacGregor, Smith, Henderson, P. MacDonald, L. MacDonald, Joyal.</p><p>NEW YORK - Goal: Plante: defense: Howel, Seiling, Johns, Neilson. Brown; forwards: Gilbert. Nevin. Duff, Ingarfield, Hadfield, Mikol, Fonteyne, Angotti, Goyette, Marshall. Henry.</p><p>Referee: Ashley; linesmen: Pavelich. D&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11144/1956330-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="557" height="791"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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National Hockey League Game Summaries

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Week’s ‘Top Six’

<h2><b><i>WALLY</i></b></h2><p><b>NORTHERN PRO HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><h2><b><i>WALLY</i></b></h2><p><b>POOL TABLES TABLE TENNIS CROQUET SETS</b></p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><p>(Standings on Tues., Nov. 17)</p><h3>Eastern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1416/1956553-1-eng-US/f0012-142.jpg" title="f0012-14" width="558" height="155"></div><h3>Western Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1513/1956546-1-eng-US/f0012-152.jpg" title="f0012-15" width="560" height="205"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues.. Nov. 10</b></p><p>Rochester 5. Baltimore 3</p><p>Quebec 7. Springfield 1</p><p><b>Wed., Nov. 11</b></p><p>Hershey 3, Cleveland 0</p><p>Pittsburgh 6, Baltimore 4</p><p>Rochester 4, Providence 2</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 13</b></p><p>Baltimore 5. Springfield 1</p><p><b>Sat., Nov. 14</b></p><p>Quebec 3, Buffalo I</p><p>Hershey 4, Springfield 1</p><p>Pittsburgh 2, Cleveland 1</p><p>Baltimore 5. Rochester 2</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 15</b></p><p>Buffalo 3, Baltimore 2</p><p>Providence 4, Quebec 2</p><p>Pittsburgh 3, Springfield 2</p><h2><b>Point Race</b></h2><p>(Including games of Sun., NOV. 15)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1610/1956539-1-eng-US/f0012-162.jpg" title="f0012-16" width="568" height="536"></div><h2>American League Summaries</h2><h3><b>Tues., Nov. 10 SPRINGFIELD 1, QUEBEC 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02377/1956532-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="588" height="629"></div><h3><b>Wed., Nov. 11 CLEVELAND 0, HERSHEY 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03288/1956525-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="574" height="399"></div><h3><b>ROCHESTER 4, PROVIDENCE 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04205/1956518-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="567" height="501"></div><h3><b>BALTIMORE 4, PITSBURGH 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05136/1956511-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="556" height="748"></div><h3><b>Thurs., Nov. 12 ROCHESTER 5, BALTIMORE 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06108/1956504-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="561" height="599"></div><h3><b>Fri., Nov. 13 SPRINGFIELD 1, BALTIMORE 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0789/1956497-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="559" height="573"></div><h3><b>QUEBEC 3, BUFFALO 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0873/1956490-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="565" height="545"></div><h3><b>BALTIMORE S. ROCHESTER 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0959/1956483-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="564" height="756"></div><h3><b>SPRINGFIELD 1, HERSHEY 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1050/1956476-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="558" height="644"></div><h3><b>CLEVELAND 1, PITTSBURGH 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1144/1956469-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="562" height="363"></div><h3><b>Sun., Nov. 15 QUEBEC 2, PROVIDENCE 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1230/1956462-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="565" height="581"></div><h3><b>BALTIMORE 2, BUFFALO 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1322/1956455-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="562" height="532"></div><h3><b>SPRINGFIELD 2, PITTSBURGH 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-177/1956448-1-eng-US/f0012-172.jpg" title="f0012-17" width="577" height="591"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY SHEL FULLERTON</div><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio</p><p>A sputtering attack and an inconsistent defense did little, in the first few games of the American Hockey League season, to put cheer in the hearts of Cleveland Barons fans.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01460/1956584-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="277" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Howie Glover</b></figcaption></div><p>But, before rivals of last season&rsquo;s Calder Cup champions write the Barons off as contenders, it would be well for them to keep two related facts in mind.</p><p>For the last 15 years or so, since the halcyon days of Al Sutphin, the Barons have gone to the wars with rosters liberally sprinkled with rookies. While other clubs put more dependence on tried veterans, Cleveland clubs have featured many virtual unknowns who take time to get into the swing of things.</p><p>Secondly, the Barons traditionally are slow starters. It is dangerous to consign them to the scrap-heap on the strength of their early season showings.</p><p>It takes no deep delving into the record book to verify this fact. Looking back only through the past six years, the current crop of Barons, sporting a 3-6-2 record after 11 games, had more points in the standings than Cleveland teams of 1958-59, 1959-60 and 1962-63 at a corresponding point in the schedule.</p><p>The current Barons had eight points after 11 games. In 1958-59, the Barons won two and tied one of their first 11 games for only five points; in 1959-60, they won three and tied one for seven points; in 1962-63, they won only two games for a mere four points. As a matter of fact, in 1962-63 they lost 15 of their first 18 games.</p><p>In all of those years, and in every other year since 1941-42 in which they started slowly, they made the playoffs.</p><p>Beset by early injuries to allstar goalie Les Binkley, veteran defenseman Dick Mattiussi and their outstanding new right winger, Bob Courcy, the Barons still have managed to give a good account of themselves in every game they have played.</p><p>In most of their six losses, they enjoyed a late-game lead that failed to stand up as the riddled defense tired. The return to action of Mattiussi and the imminent return of Binkley should put a stop to that.</p><p>Courcy, Joe Szura and Wayne Larkin have been consistent scorers. Ron Attwell has played well, Coach Fred Glover&rsquo;s point total is on the rise and Doug Senior has begun to get oriented.</p><p>There still has not been a steady goal total coming from Cecil Hoekstra, Bob Ellett, Wayne Freitag or Gordon Wilkie, but there is ample reason to believe they soon will find the range.</p><p>A cheering note concerns the possible availability of Howie Glover, younger brother of the Barons&rsquo; coach. Howie, sidelined by a pinched nerve in his back, reports that he apparently is on the mend after therapy to relieve the effects of the injury.</p><p>He has been doing some skating at home and soon will come to Cleveland to see if his apparent improvement will permit his returning to action. Should he be able to crack the lineup, his presence would lend substantial strength to the Baron attack.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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History Shows Barons Slow Start Not Unusual

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>ayne Hicks of the Quebec Aces continues to add to his individual league scoring lead despite the fact he has four of his teammates breathing down his neck.</b></p><p><b>Hicks picked up seven points last week to increase his league-leading margin to 27 points and sole possession of first place. Last week he shared the lead with Bill Sutherland and Ed Hoekstra, both members of the Aces. But Hicks spurted this week and has a three-point pull over Hoekstra.</b></p><p><b>Hicks becomes the AHL&rsquo;s player-of-the-week for the second time.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-186/1956615-1-eng-US/f0012-182.jpg" title="f0012-18" width="277" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wayne Hicks</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wayne Hicks Quebec Aces

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How many Banking Services do you use?

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><p>ROCHESTER, N. Y.</p><p>Putting the show on the road now is a much happier experience than it used to be for the Rochester Americans.</p><p>Why just two years ago, the Amerks might just as well have forfeited all their road games and saved some money. The season was 1962-63 and the Americans mustered only 4 victories and 2 ties while losing 30 times. Ten points for 36 games is hardly worth all the bother of transportation, overnight lodging and meals.</p><p>But how things have changed for Rochester! At this writing, they&rsquo;d played only seven games on the road and boasted 4 wins and a tie for 9 points. Chances are the Amerks will have surpassed their 1962-63 away-from-home point total before the middle of the month.</p><p>While the Amerks have been doing well on the road, home, sweet home has gone sour. The locals managed only three wins in their first six&rsquo; Rochester appearances.</p><h2>Cheevers Impresses</h2><p>Young goalie Jerry Cheevers, who will be 24 next month, has a highly impressive foreign ice record. For the seven visits, he&rsquo;s allowed goals at only a 2.00 average. Cheevers has two away shutouts to his credit already&mdash;one 2-0 win in Baltimore and the other an unusual 0-0 overtime tie in Buffalo.</p><p>But while Cheevers has given up only 14 goals (5 of them in one game) in the seven road outings, the Amerks have been touched for 20 goals in six home ice contests.</p><p>There&rsquo;s another problem in addition to getting more wins at home. Why aren&rsquo;t the Amerks scoring more goals?</p><p>Joe Crozier, the club&rsquo;s general manager and coach, has all of his top goal-getters of last season back again. Rochester&rsquo;s 1963-64 squad piled up 256 goals in 72 games&mdash;just two goals shy of Quebec, the AHL&rsquo;s highest-scoring team.</p><p>But for 13 games this season, the Americans collected a mere 34 goals and were tied for the second lowest production average in the nine-team circuit. The Amerks were scoring goals at a rate that would put them nearly 70 goals under last year&rsquo;s total.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Amerks Show New Ice Zest In Road Play

<div class="byline">BY BUSTER CLEGG</div><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>A baffling problem that has bothered Fern Flaman and the Reds has been their obvious misfortune in the close games. The Roosters have dropped six one-goal decisions in the past three weeks and played well enough to win any of those contests.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re just not getting any breaks,&rdquo; said Flaman. &ldquo;The recent loss to Cleveland was a prime example. George Ranieri hit the pipe when we were leading 3-2, and had it gone in we would have broken Cleveland&rsquo;s back. But it didn&rsquo;t and they went on to win!&rdquo;</p><p>Flaman went on to say that the club&rsquo;s biggest failing to date has been an inability to successfully clear their defensive zone. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re making some big mistakes in our own end. We&rsquo;re having trouble getting out and we&rsquo;ve been giving the puck away on a number of occasions.&rdquo;</p><p>Flaman&rsquo;s phone has been extremely busy, as the Reds&rsquo; bossman, who serves as coach and general manager, was busy looking for help in personnel. The Providence mentor contacted a number of clubs, including two National League teams.</p><p>Bob Beckett, Boston - owned winger who played six seasons for the Rhode Island Reds before being assigned to Portland of the Western Hockey League this year, has returned to the Providence sextet, but may not play for the Reds before December.</p><p>The 29-year-old forward suffered a broken ankle as a member of the Reds last season and found skating impossible when he reported to the Bruins&rsquo; affiliate in Portland in September.</p><p>Around the middle of October he underwent surgery to remove some bone chips from the ankle area and the operation was reported highly successful.</p><p>How, then, did the Reds land big Bob? It happened like this:</p><p>The Bruins, feeling Beckett would not satisfy their needs this season because of the injury&rsquo;s complications, asked the Reds to assume the financial responsibility for Bob&rsquo;s operation and his 1964-65 hockey contract because he had suffered the injury while playing for the Providence club.</p><p>Lou Pieri, the Reds&rsquo; owner, and Ferny Flaman agreed to Boston&rsquo;s request, feeling that Beckett can help the Roosters this season.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got the best trainer in hockey in George Army and I&rsquo;m confident he can restore Beckett to good playing shape,&rdquo;</p><p><b>COOP SCOOP:</b> Serge Boud-reault, off to his finest start, picked up 5 goals in the first 13 games, as did Len Ronson&hellip;Rookies Jeannot Gilbert and Wayne Hall teamed with Boud-reault on a very effective line&hellip;Hall, owned by the Rangers, was particularly impressive and added some real spark to the Reds offense.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03380/1956732-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="476" height="555"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SERGE BOUDREAULT</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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One-Goal Losses Irritate Flaman; Reds Hope Beckett To Play Again

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Paul Popiel and John Miszuk make the Buffalo Bisons the only professional hockey team with two European-born players.</p><p>Ulf Sterner, formerly with the Swedish Olympic team and now with the St. Paul Rangers of the Central League, is the only European-trained professional in the sport.</p><p>Popiel and Miszuk came to Canada as youngsters, Popiel from Denmark at 8, and Miszuk from Poland at 10.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02416/1956794-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="266" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John Misxuk</b></figcaption></div><p>Popiel was born in Sollested, near Copenhagen, and moved with his parents to Georgetown, Ont., some 40 miles from Toronto. Miszuk, born in Naliboki, Poland, came to Hamilton. Ont.</p><p>Neither played hockey for three or four years after arriving in Canada. Popiel was trained in the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; system, winding up with the St. Catharines Junior Black Hawks. Miszuk enrolled in the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; system after playing in the Hamilton Police League.</p><p>A year ago, Popiel turned pro with St. Louis of the Central League and shared rookie-of-the-year honors with Omaha&rsquo;s Gary Peters. A defenseman throughout his career, he has been used as a left-winger and defenseman by the Herd.</p><p>Miszuk, also a defenseman, is in his fourth pro term. He spent almost two full seasons with Edmonton of the Western League, and split a third between Pittsburgh and Detroit.</p><p>Muzz Patrick, who resigned recently as general manager of the New York Rangers, started scouting in Europe several years ago, and signed Sterner this fall.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bisons Boast Two Ice Stars From Europe

<div class="byline">BY GEORGE TAYLOR</div><p>BALTIMORE, Md.&mdash;</p><p>A temper outburst on the part of the Baltimore Clipper Booster Club resulted in a quick rebutal from the Clipper Hockey Club brass.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04345/1956763-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="279" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Rateile</b></figcaption></div><p>It was after the New York Rangers, who have a working agreement with Baltimore, called up winger Val Fonteyne and goalie Jacques Plante that Booster Club president Joe Hock pulled out his poison pen.</p><p>And, with the blessing of the 1,000 plus Booster Club membership, Hock wired a telegram to Emile Francis, New York manager, in protest of the Ranger raids in Baltimore. In part the wire read:</p><p>&ldquo;Take Fonteyne, take Plante, take Angotti. Clipper record 1-7-1. With friends like you. who needs enemies?&rdquo;</p><p>No mention was made of the fact that the Rangers had sent Jean Ratelle and Dave Richardson in return.</p><p>Feeling that the Booster Club&rsquo;s reaction towards the Rangers was unfair, Clipper president Jake Embry issued the following statement to the press:</p><p>&ldquo;The Clippers are very happy with their working agreement with the New York Rangers. They have been especially good partners with us. They have supplied us fine players to argument the players we own.</p><p>&ldquo;Anytime they have taken a player they have always replaced him with someone of equal ability, or even better. Injuries do occur in the Ranger organization and when this happens, it is necessary that they call up a player to protect their own interests. At this moment they are carrying one less player than they could.&rdquo;</p><p><b>CLIPPER CLIPS</b>&mdash;Baltimore and Providence officials were suspected of being in a mood to talk trades while their team were slumping&hellip;Seemed a logical setup since the clubs had different reasons for losing&hellip;Providence was scoring, but suffered defensively&hellip;Baltimore was strong defensively, but couldn&rsquo;t score goals&hellip;</p><p>Goalie Gilles Boisvert filled in admirably for Jacques Plante during his return to the Rangers&hellip;In his first Clipper start of the season, Boisvert held the Bears to a 3-3 tie in Hershey&hellip;Jean Ratelle, showed no signs of rust as a result of his layoff, due to contract problems. He scored a goal and an assist n his opening night with Baltimore&hellip;Baltimore fans welcomed the return of colorful Dave Richardson&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Recalls Irk Fan Clubbers But Clippers OK N.Y. Deal

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><p>PORTLAND, Ore.</p><p>Everyone around the Western Hockey League complains about coach Hal Laycoe&rsquo;s brand of conservative, close - checking defensive hockey, but it gets results which seem to please Portland&rsquo;s fans. They have led the WHL in attendance in each of the four seasons Portland has been a member. And it impresses Buckaroo rivals, who usually tab Portland the team to beat. However, Portland has not always lived up to this ranking.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04206/1956926-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="256" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Art Jones</b></figcaption></div><p>In 1961, the Bucks finished second in a one-division league and won the playoffs. In 1962 and 1963, they won divisional titles, but blew the playoffs. Last season, back in a one-division league, they finished second, again blew the playoffs. They went into this season as the favorites and are battling Seattle for first as this is written with eight wins in the first 11 games.</p><p>However, Laycoe&rsquo;s Bucks have been hard-hit by injuries. Burly defense veteran Jack Bionda is out for perhaps three months and big centre Larry Leach is sidelined for two months. Long-time WHL defender Con Madigan has been acquired from the AHL to replace Bionda and Laycoe secured Dick Van Impe from Cleveland to sub for Leach.</p><p>The Bucks are probably the strongest team in the league where it counts the most&mdash;goal. Injured last season, burly 31-year-old veteran Don Head has reclaimed the position. The former Boston Bruin, WHL rookie of the year in 1961 and first All-Star in 1961 and 1963, Head had a 2.54 goals-against mark in &rsquo;63. Backing him up are little Dave Kelly, 21, WHL rookie of the year last year, who had a 3.10 mark and a record 235 straight shutout minutes.</p><p>In recent seasons, the Bucks have lacked hitters on defense. Laycoe feels he has them this year in Mike Donaldson, Doug Messier, Jim (Red-Eye) Hay and Madigan, but, he&rsquo;ll miss big Bionda, who suffered torn ligaments in his left knee when checked by Vancouver&rsquo;s Bill Burega, and needed an operation. Pat Stapleton, the clever, chunky 24-year-old is having a promising fling at centre, but had to be returned to defense to replace Bionda until Madigan was acquired. Messier and Madigan weigh 185, but Bionda was a 200-pounder.</p><p>Two good, solid centres are Art Jones and Gerry Goyer. Little Jones, 29 and 160 pounds, has scored 35 or more goals four times, scored 100 points in 1961, was second All-Star in 1960 and last season. Goyer, 27 and 195 pounds, is a slow skater, but an efficient player.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Buckaroos Hot In League Race, Box Office

<p>VANCOUVER, B. C.</p><p>Player-of-the-week honors went to the hard shooting rightwinger of the Vancouver Canucks, Buddy Boone, who took over sole possession of the scoring lead while leading his team to two victories on the road last week. He scored 4 goals and added an assist in four games played.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1339/1956957-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="241" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Buddy Boone</b></figcaption></div><p>Boone, whose five points included a gamewinning goal and another game winning assist, moved from fourth place in the individual scoring race last week to the number one position. He now has 19 points in 14 games made up of a league-leading 10 goals and 9 assists. Three players are deadlocked in second place. Los Angeles Blades&rsquo; Norm Johnson and Leo LaBine both have 17 points along with Seattle centreman Guyle Fielder.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Canuck Ace Boone Sizzles

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div><p>LOS ANGELES, Calif.</p><p>Coaching pressures are as great in the Western Hockey League as anywhere else in sports. Coaches just aren&rsquo;t fired any quicker than after nine games of a new season, particularly after winning the playoff title the previous season, but that&rsquo;s when Nick Mickoski of the San Francisco Seals got the axe. The inside story is that some of the Seals felt Mickoski was riding them too hard and five veterans in particular demanded a change, so Bud Poile conferred with new owner Mel Swig and resumed the coaching reins. Mickoski has been returned to the playing ranks, where he&rsquo;ll undoubtedly feel very uncomfortable.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01431/1957002-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="293" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jock Norris</b></figcaption></div><p>Poile, who holds the WHL record of having coached four champions, guided Edmonton and San Francisco to consecutive playoff titles in 1962 and 1963, but was hoisted upstairs to general manager and Mickoski was made coach late last season when the team was floundering. Under Nick, the team drove into the playoffs and all the way to the title. Now things have been turned around again.</p><p>&ldquo;The players won that cup not so much for Nick as for themselves. He was caught up in the momentum of a money drive,&rdquo; Poile has said. &ldquo;This season, many of the players were not putting out for Nick because they couldn&rsquo;t get along with him. The team was quitting on us. I just couldn&rsquo;t see daylight in the situation.&rdquo;</p><p>Taking over, Poile praised goalie Bob Perreault, defenseman Dallas Smith and forwards Larry Lund and Charley Burns, but said, &ldquo;The others will have to get moving if we&rsquo;re to get out of trouble.&rdquo; Poile got a shock in his first game back on the bench as Vancouver&rsquo;s Billy McNeill set a WHL record for the fastest goal with one seven seconds after the opening faceoff, but Wayne Connelly&rsquo;s hat-trick sparked a 9-4 Seal win.</p><p>All of this did not scare Mickoski&rsquo;s former Ranger teammate, Larry Popein. &ldquo;Coaching is a very hazardous profession, but it can be a rewarding one,&rdquo; said Pope, who is one of the brightest coaching prospects in the game. Pope has been serving as assistant to Vancouver&rsquo;s general manager-coach Max McNabb this season, taking practices and such burdens, and playing only in spots. The little 34-year-old Pope, one of hockey&rsquo;s great skaters, can still fly, but admits not for long stretches and not after taking heavy checks. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s time I have to think about when I won&rsquo;t be playing, and I have always wanted to coach. This spot is a fine opportunity for me to get my feet wet,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s impossible to be a playing coach and do justice to either job, but I can handle what I&rsquo;m doing now. Max is still the coach. There are players you have to keep reminding about things. A playing coach keeps passing his players going on and off the ice and never seems to catch up to them. He sees things, but he needs a good memory to remember what he wants to tell each man at intermissions. Of course, most coaching is done in practices. However, anyone can blow a whistle and get a player in physical shape. The key is understanding your players, knowing their problems, and getting them in mental shape.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02379/1956995-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="256" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Larry Popein</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;The big problem moving from the playing ranks to the coaching ranks is in breaking away from your closer friends. You have to let them go their own way after games. You can&rsquo;t be &lsquo;spying&rsquo; on them, nor can you afford to be accused of playing favorites,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;One of the problems handling men in this league is with guys down from the majors. It takes some wind out of your sails, for sure. But the ones who shrug it off and get back to business, the ones who eat, drink and sleep hockey, are the ones who cut it. The others are leeches, just hanging on, drawing paychecks they don&rsquo;t earn, and they usually don&rsquo;t last, I guarantee you.&rdquo;</p><p>Pope, who is married, has one son and two daughters, and makes his home in Vancouver, always made the most of limited physical strength. Although a forward himself, he has no delusions of grandeur. &ldquo;When you build a team, you work from the goalie out,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;You get the best goalie, then the four best defensemen. You can always get nine bodies to play up front. Oh, you need the goals and the checking, too, from your forwards, but if you don&rsquo;t have the goalie to knock down the shots, or the guys hitting on defense, clearing the puck, carrying it up ice, making the good passes, you don&rsquo;t have anything. That&rsquo;s why Vancouver finished last last season.&rdquo;</p><p>LA&rsquo;s Howie Young set a WHL record by being called for eight minor penalties in a single game. All were whistled in regulation time, although it was an overtime game in Portland. The old record was seven by Larry Jeffrey of Edmonton in 1961 and this was phenomenal, because all were in one period. With 14 minutes in the penalty box, Jeffrey had to hustle to get his penalties on the way out of the sin bin. The NHL one-game record is seven, too, by the way&hellip;In the next game at Seattle, Young drew only three, and didn&rsquo;t get one when his stick inflicted a 10-stitch gash across Bill MacFarland&rsquo;s nose and right eye&hellip;Now that the WHL is using NHL referees, the games are getting tamer and many more infractions are being called more closely, but you don&rsquo;t have to watch Young very closely to see the things he does&hellip;How long can he last?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03329/1956988-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="256" height="399"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Con Madigan</b></figcaption></div><p>L. A. coach Alfie Pike surprised same observers by tabbing his soph goaler Jack Norris a sure-fire big-leaguer. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been outstanding in every game we&rsquo;ve played. Every day I expect a phone call from Boston wanting him,&rdquo; Pike said. So, what usually happens, happened. Boston&rsquo;s Lynn Patrick came in to scout Norris and Jack gave up 10 goals in two games. He was knocked cold by Con Madigan&rsquo;s sooring blast that settled the second game in overtime. He was then knocked cold by another shot in the opening minutes of the next game, in Seattle. But, he recovered.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Western Ad Lib

<p>SEATTLE, Wash.,&mdash;</p><p>The 1964-65 Western Hockey League season is only one month old but already the records are beginning to tumble.</p><p>It started with Los Angeles Blades&rsquo; defenseman Howie Young, the perennial &lsquo;bad man&rsquo; of all hockey leagues in recent seasons. Young allowed Seattle&rsquo;s Larry Zeidel to move far ahead in the penalty parade in the early games but, of late, has come on strong to overtake Seattle&rsquo;s most frequent visitor to the penalty box. In four games last week Howie was assessed no less than 15 minor penalties and one major for a total of 78 minutes in 13 games played.</p><p>In the thirteen games he has received 34 minor penalties&mdash;an average of almost 3 a game&mdash;plus 2 majors. In reaching this total Young set a new League record for most penalties in one game. He was whistled for 8 infractions in Portland as the Bucks edged out a 5-4 overtime win. The previous record of most penalties in one game was held by Larry Jeffrey, presently with the National League Detroit Red Wings. Strangely enough, that record was also set in Portland when Jeffrey was with the Edmonton Flyers. On the night of November 22, 1961, he was whistled for 7 minor penalties, all in one period (which is also a record in Western League play).</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04257/1957033-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="519" height="522"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HOWIE YOUNG</b></figcaption></div><p>At the present rate, Young would surpass the 400 minute mark in penalties for the season.</p><p>Vancouver&rsquo;s speedy Billy McNeill applied some of his skating magic to his goalscoring abilities and <i>a</i> new league record resulted.</p><p>In a game against San Francisco in the Cow Palace, McNeill scored the first goal of the game just 0:07 seconds after the game started. This beat the standing Western League record for the fastest first goal of the game which was held by three players. Eight seconds after the start of the game Andy Chacowski, playing with Vancouver back in the 1949-50 season, fired a goal to set the mark as it stood up until last Thursday. On December 1, 1954, Steve Witiuk, playing with the Calgary Stampeders, scored the first goal of the game against Saskatoon in Calgary when only 0:08 seconds were gone on the clock. Again in 1961 Roger DeJordy, playing with the Edmonton Flyers fired a goal against Vancouver in a game in Edmonton after 0:08 seconds of the first period.</p><p>Seattle&rsquo;s Jimmy McLeod may be on his way to set a new League mark for most shutouts in one season by a goalkeeper. McLeod, who recorded four shutouts in each of his first two seasons in the League and also set the record for Most Shutouts in Play-Offs, one season, with 3 when he was playing with San Francisco in the 1962-63 has racked up no less than three whitewashes in 13 starts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Blades’ Rowdy Howie Young Gets Record tight Penalties In Game

<p><b>Don&rsquo;t be vague&hellip;say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKY</b></p><p><b>Don&rsquo;t be vague&hellip;say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKY</b></p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><h3>(Standings on Wed., Nov. 18)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01327/1957106-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="561" height="255"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Thurs.. Nov. 12</b></p><p>St. Paul 5. St. Louis 3</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 13</b></p><p>Minneapolis 2. St. Paul 0</p><p>Omaha 3, Tulsa 3</p><p><b>Sat., Nov. 14</b></p><p>St. Paul 3, Minneapolis 2</p><p>St. Louis 3. Omaha 3</p><p>Tulsa at Memphis (postponed)</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 15</b></p><p>Minneapolis at Memphis (postponed)</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Wed.. Nov. 18</b></p><p>Minneapolis at Memphis</p><p><b>Thurs., Nov. 19</b></p><p>Minneapolis at Tulsa</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 29</b></p><p>St. Louis at Minneapolis</p><p>Omaha at Memphis</p><p><b>Sat., Nov. 21</b></p><p>Minneapolis at Omaha</p><p>St. Louis at St. Paul</p><p>Memphis at Tulsa</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 22</b></p><p>Tulsa at St. Paul</p><p>Memphis at Omaha</p><h2><b>Point Race</b></h2><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02266/1957099-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="564" height="332"></div><h3>LEAGUE LEADERS</h3><p>Mist Penalties in Minutes: Larry Johnson. Tulsa&mdash;50.</p><h2><i>Central League summaries</i></h2><h3><b>Wed., Nov. 4 ST. PAUL 3. ST. LOUTS 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04166/1957092-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="556" height="485"></div><h3><b>Fri., Nov. 6 OMAHA 2. MINNEAPOLIS 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05115/1957085-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="556" height="544"></div><h3><b>MEMPHIS 3. ST. LOUIS 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0687/1957078-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="557" height="848"></div><h3><b>ST. PAUL 7, TULSA 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0776/1957071-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="562" height="829"></div><h3><b>Sat., Nov. 7 MINNEAPOLIS 5, OMAHA 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0870/1957064-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="563" height="761"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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CENTERAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By Matt Dennis</div><p>ST. PAUL, Minn.</p><p>Fred Shero&rsquo;s St. Paul Rangers weren&rsquo;t just trying to make a good impression as they opened their Central Professional Hockey League season in a goal-happy frame of mind.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03201/1957137-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="269" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fred Shero</b></figcaption></div><p>As they rattled off eight victories in their first nine engagements, they pumped home five goals on two occasions, netted six in another encounter and went wild one night with nine.</p><p>Fred Shero, coach of this offensive-minded group, has got the point across that the more goals his team scores, the more confidence the goalkeeper finds, something akin to baseball.</p><p>In the diamond sport a pitcher can pitch shutout ball inning after inning but if his mates don&rsquo;t give him any runs, the chore becomes mighty arduous. There can be the same effect on a goalkeeper. If the players up front give him the edge with a goal or two, he will strive to match their agressiveness in his own manner&mdash;by working harder to keep pucks out of their net.</p><p>Experience plays a mighty important role in professional hockey and looking over the Saints&rsquo; early scoring statistics, Paul Andrea, Mel Pearson, Barrie Ross and Marc Dufour have made their presence felt.</p><p>Andrea, a portside marksman, chalked up five early as he bids to break his 27-mark of last season with the Rangers.</p><p>Pearson is starting his eighth term in the pro hockey whirl and counted three goals and came up with seven assists. In 68 games with Baltimore of the American Hockey League last season, he only scored eight tallies so he might be termed &ldquo;off and running.&rdquo;</p><p>Ross, a pivotman divided his time between St. Paul and Cincinnati last season and came up with 19 tallies. So far this campaign, he has three.</p><p>Dufour, a rightwinger wore the hockey togs of Baltimore of the AHL and Los Angeles of the Western Hockey League in minor action last year and only managed to flash the light nine times. After seven games this fall, he had seven.</p><p>And with the forwards giving him a goal-margin to work on, rookie goalie Wayne Rutledge kept up his end of the club giving up less than three goals per contest.</p><p>The Saints are on top because they have worked out a balanced combination on offence resulting in winning performances.</p><p><b>ST. PAUL</b>&mdash;Bill Collins, one of the most promising rookies with Denver of the Western Hockey League last season, is one of the Saints&rsquo; new additions. With defenseman Mike McMahon, he moved into St. Paul as Wally Chevrier, sturdy rear-guard with the Saints last season headed for Baltimore in a two-for-one trade in favor of the C.P.H.L. club&hellip;Ulf Sterner, the import from Sweden, is a freshman in the pro ranks but can only like the American hockey way of life as he scored five goals and assisted in five others in the Saints&rsquo; first seven games.</p><p><b>MINNEAPOLIS</b>&mdash;Playingcoach Harry Sinden is high in his praise of 22-year-old Billy Knibbs who counted seven goals and drew four assists in the Bruins&rsquo; first eight games. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s learning to bounce back after being hit and gets back into the play. By never giving up, he&rsquo;s maturing into an all-around hockey,&rdquo; says Sinden&hellip;The Bruins&rsquo; mentor was also happy to welcome back Gerry (Red) Ouellette who chalked up 79 points with Minneapolis last season. Ouellette opened the season with the San Francisco Seals of the Western League&hellip;Bruce Lea, who had a five-game tryout with the Bruins, rejected a professional contract preferring to return to the amateur ranks with Des Moines In The International League.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-03

St Paul Powers Way To Top Spot; Minneapolis Coach Praises Knibbs

f0016-09

HOCKEY PICTORIAL

<p>(Standings on Tues., Nov. 17)</p><h2>Northern Division</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01280/1957220-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="556" height="182"></div><h2>Southern Division</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02238/1957213-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="564" height="141"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><p><b>Wed., Nov. 11</b></p><p>New Haven 6. Long Island 2</p><p>Greensboro 3, Jacksonville 2</p><p><b>Thurs., Nov. 12</b></p><p>Greensboro 7, Nashville 4</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 13</b></p><p>New York 5, New Jersey 2</p><p>Clinton 2, Long Island 0</p><p>Nashville 5, Charlotte 1</p><p>Greensboro 2, Knoxville 1</p><p><b>Sat., Nov. 14</b></p><p>Johnstown 8, New Haven 4</p><p>Clinton 5, New Jersey 3</p><p>Knoxville 5, Greensboro 4</p><p>Jacksonville 3. Nashville 2</p><p>Long Island 6, New York 2</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 15</b></p><p>Clinton 6, New York 6</p><p>Long Island 6, New Jersey 4</p><p>New Haven 6, Johnstown 0</p><p>Greensboro 11, Jacksonville 4</p><h2>GAMES TO COME</h2><p><b>Tues., Nov. 17</b></p><p>Clinton at New Jersey</p><p>New Haven at New York</p><p>Greensboro at Charlotte</p><p><b>Wed., Nov. 18</b></p><p>Clinton at Johnstown</p><p>New Jersey at New Haven</p><p>Long Island at Jacksonville</p><p><b>Thurs., Nov. 19</b></p><p>Long Island at Nashville</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 20</b></p><p>New York at New Jersey</p><p>Johnstown at Clinton</p><p>Nashville at Jacksonville</p><p>Charlotte at Greensboro</p><p>Long Island at Knoxville</p><p><b>Sat., Nov. 21</b></p><p>New Jersey at Johnstown</p><p>New Haven at Clinton</p><p>Knoxville at Charlotte</p><p>Greensboro at Nashville</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 22</b></p><p>New Jersey at New York</p><p>Johnstown at Long Island</p><p>Clinton at New Haven</p><p>Greensboro at Knoxville</p><h2><b>Point Race</b></h2><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03180/1957206-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="564" height="284"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04129/1957199-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="576" height="316"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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How They Stand

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><p>KNOXVILLE, Tenn.&mdash;</p><p>If there ever was any doubt as to Chuck Stuart&rsquo;s value to the Knoxville Knights, it was emphatically demonstrated this year by a comparison of the team&rsquo;s play with and without him.</p><p>With the high-scoring centre on the premises in Eastern Hockey League play, the Knights took three out of their first four frays and Stuart played a major role in this success. With his un availibility due to a knee injury and minor surgery, the Knights won one out of their next four.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0594/1957265-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="263" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Chuck Stuart</b></figcaption></div><p>Then he came back and picked up four assists during limited duty against Greensboro. In the next three games with a hale and hearty Stuart, the Knights swept all three frays.</p><p>Coach Don Labelle had to juggle his lines during Stuart&rsquo;s absence but now that he&rsquo;s back, he has two lines intact. Chuck had vaulted away to what loomed as his best getaway with a hat trick and a bundle of points before he was hurt.</p><p>After a look at all of his Southern Division foes. Labelle sees no reason why his club can&rsquo;t dethrone Greensboro. That is, if Stuart stays healthy and Sam Gregory continues his steady play. A look at the off-season deal with Long Island, which saw Gene Achtymichuk and Georgory exchange uniforms, show both men about even in the scoring column.</p><p><b>CLINTON:</b> Veteran Orval Tessier looks to be the big scorer the club needed. Norm DeFelice tabbed his 6th shutout against New Haven. His blankings have come against five different teams, with Johnstown victimized twice. Jim Jargo added to replace injured Pete Babando. Dom DiBerardino scored hat trick. Lorne O&rsquo;Donnell and DiBerardino battling Tessier for club scoring lead.</p><p><b>CHARLOTTE:</b> Ted Baylis dropped. Goalie Gaetan Dessureault &ldquo;played his best game against us since he was at New Haven,&rdquo; according to Nashville pilot John McLellan. Rookie John Vopni got bruised face and eyes in bout with Flyers&rsquo; Norm Ryder. Bob O&rsquo;Leary, rookie from junior A play, added. Coach Fred Creighton disappointed in decision of exCheckers&rsquo; Duncan MacDonald and Ralph Winfield not to play here.</p><p><b>NASHVILLE:</b> Goalie Marv Edwards speared flying chair at Charlotte to prevent injury. Lloyd Hinchberger stricken with flu and George Standing flew to Canada to see ailing mother to cut squad to 11 men for several games. Norm Ryder fought flu bug too. Junior Wayne Clairmon&rsquo;t &lsquo;at trick&rsquo; wasn&rsquo;t matched by any junior last season. Ted McCaskill scoring steady.</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN:</b> Jackie Leclair has replaced Len Gaudette as coach of the Blades. Len will continue as G.M. Gaudette took trip to Canada seeking talent. Ron Willy&rsquo;s goal beat Clinton and gave the new Blade double satisfaction. Clinton goalie Norm DeFelice sliced Willy&rsquo;s forehead with the butt end of his stick just before the youngster scored the winning goal.</p><p><b>GREENSBORO:</b> Ron Muir got three goals in 6:55. Don Davidson posted four goal game and Bobby Boucher a &lsquo;hat trick.&rsquo; Mike Kardash bothered by pulled muscle. Davidson had lots of competition this year in his quest to retain league scoring title. Coach Ron Spong may not play this season unless club is stricken with injuries.</p><p><b>LONG ISLAND:</b> Gene Achtymichuk&rsquo;s 20-point start makes him a good bet to clear the century mark again. Don Perry ousted in New Haven game for stick fight with Hartley Estabrooks and coach John Muckier said, &ldquo;I never saw perry get so hot in a Duck suit. It was like the old Perry at New Haven. He turned white.&rdquo;</p><p><b>JERSEY:</b> Reggie Meserve named captain and out for six weeks with broken ankle. Club added veteran Rudy Filion and bought Dave Green from St. Louis coach Pat Kelly looking for winger and defenseman.</p><p><b>NEW YORK:</b> Rovers will play &ldquo;home&rdquo; game at Philly Dec. 1 against Jersey. Club bought Clare Wakshinski from Knoxville, secured Jerry Rempel from Providence and signed veteran Tommy Williams as a playing assistant-coach.</p><p><b>JACKSONVILLE:</b> Team won home opener before 3.100 fans. Goalie Gordie Dibley had 43 saves to become fan favorite. Daily paper here printed his story on hockey rules to indoctrinate fans.</p><p><b>JOHNSTOWN:</b> Jim McCloskey sent here by Toronto to play wing and defense. Jim O&rsquo;Brien dropped to make room for him. Jets won three straight with McCloskey in lineup to stop downslide. Tea lost five straight on road before nipping Devils.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0672/1957258-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="526" height="524"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GENE ACHTYMICHUK&hellip;Racking Up Points</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><h3><b>International League</b></h3><p>(Standings on Tues., Nov. 17)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01287/1957251-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="566" height="229"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Wed., Nov. 11</b></p><p>Des Moines 4. Day ton 3</p><p>Fort Wayne 10. Muskegon 3</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 13</b></p><p>Fort Wayne 3. Port Huron 3</p><p>Des Moines 6. Muskegon 3</p><p>Toledo 8. Dayton 3</p><p><b>Sat.. Nov. 14</b></p><p>Des Moines 4. Toledo 3</p><p>Muskegon 5. Port Huron 3</p><p>Fort Wayne 8, Dayton 4</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 15</b></p><p>Toledo 3, Port Huron 1</p><p>Des Moines 5, Dayton 3</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Tues., Nov. 17</b></p><p>Muskegon at Des Moines</p><p><b>Wed., Nov. 18</b></p><p>Port Huron at Fort Wayne</p><p><b>Thurs., Nov. 19</b></p><p>Muskegon at Des Moines</p><p>Port Huron at Dayton</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 29</b></p><p>Fort Wayne at Toledo</p><p><b>Sat., Nov. 21</b></p><p>Port Huron at Des Moines</p><p>Toledo at Muskegon</p><p>Dayton at Fort Wayne</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 22</b></p><p>Fort Wayne at Dayton</p><p>Muskegon at Toledo</p><p>Port Huron at Des Moines<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Knoxville Knights On Move Again As Stuart Returns To Spark Team; New Haven Names Leclair Coach

<div class="byline">BY FRED COLLINS</div><p>WINNIPEG, Man.</p><p>Warriors are paddling their canoes along Victory River.</p><p>So far, they haven&rsquo;t had to make a portage.</p><p>The surprising Tribe of coach Pete Kapusta navigated the choppy waters of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League with four straight wins to open the 1964-65 season.</p><p>There are as many explanations for Warriors&rsquo; success as there are surprised observers.</p><p>The most obvious, of course, is the addiction to scoring of the Doug Overton - Ken Sucharski - Ron MacKenzie forward line.</p><p>The line, the only one intact from last season when the then St. Boniface Canadiens finished last with a 1-28-1 record, has carved up 27 scoring points in the four games.</p><p>Captain Sucharski, the centre, leads the league with five goals. He also has an equal number of assists. Left-winger Overton has a league-leading 11 points, eight of them assists.</p><p>Sophomore MacKenzie, meanwhile, follows with a 3-3 record.</p><p>Needless to say, members of the line occupy rungs Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on the league totem pole.</p><p>But several other factors contribute to Warriors&rsquo; success.</p><p>One advantage for the club at this early stage of the season is its size or, to be more accurate, the lack of same. Consequently, Warriors have been flying since they left the starting gate Oct. 25 while other clubs struggle to hit their stride.</p><p>This skating also figures in two statistical columns.</p><p>Warriors lead the league in power-play goals.</p><p>They also top the MJHL in defending against the power play. For instance, the club received 19 minor penalties in the four games but allowed only two goals. Quickly figuring it out with logs and a sliderule, that&rsquo;s a defense excellence of .894 percent.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Warriors Roll In High Gear With Four Wins To Open Year

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<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><p>DES MOINES, Ia.&mdash;</p><p>Coach Minnie Menard enraged after his Oak Leafs had lost three straight International Hockey League contests, in which they were outscored, 18-6, soundeded off on his Des Moines players.</p><p>&ldquo;This was our worst game in two years. What&rsquo;s wrong? Everything. The guys are thinking about everything but hockey. Well, I&rsquo;ve got news for them. Some of the older players had better start working or they are going to be on their way home to Canada,&rdquo; said Menard.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02205/1957358-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="479" height="693"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GREG JABLONSKI</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll bring in younger players and we might be better off. They won&rsquo;t have the experience but they would give us more hustle than we&rsquo;ve had so far,&rdquo; he added.</p><p>Menard&rsquo;s tongue-lashing must have produced results for the Leafs came back with three straight victories, two over Dayton and one over Toledo on Blades&rsquo; ice before they were stopped at Port Huron, 4-2.</p><p>Joe Connors was the early scoring leader for the Leafs, who embarked on a six-game road trip that didn&rsquo;t bring them back home until Nov. 17.</p><p><b>FORT WAYNE</b>&mdash;The Komets almost matched their opening crowd of 8,100 when they drew 7,196 for second Saturday night game&hellip;Len Thomson, out two games with injuries, scored both goals in 7-2 loss to Fort Huron&hellip;Goalie Norm Jacques had 32 saves.</p><p><b>MUSKEGON</b>&mdash;Gary Schal scored the Zephyrs&rsquo; first hat trick in the 12-2 win over Dayton&hellip;Goalie Andre Martineau had only 15 shots fired at him, compared to 51 at Dayton goalie Ludger Daucet&hellip;Rookie right winger Rene L&rsquo;Ecuyer and Scott Watson were released&hellip;G. M. Jerry DeLise was trying to clear Yvan Chasle, obtained from New Haven of the Eastern League.</p><p><b>PORT HURON</b>&mdash;Bill Le-Caine&rsquo;s three-goal hat trick at Fort Wayne came in quick succession, just under 10 minutes of the final period&hellip;Rookie forward Gary Ross received a broken forearm in the game&hellip;Frank St. Marseille hit for two goals in a 4-2 win over Des Moines.</p><p><b>DAYTON</b>&mdash;The Gems cut their roster to 17, assigning Ed Swiss and Chris Finnerty to Halifax, Nova Scotia&hellip;Popular Nobby Clarke was out with a groin injury&hellip;Dwight McMillan. 20-year-old left winger, spent two weeks in the Detroit Red Wing camp.</p><p><b>TOLEDO</b>&mdash;Greg Jablonski got the winning goal in 16 seconds of Toledo&rsquo;s 7-6 overtime win against Muskegon&hellip;Muskegon goalie Andre Martineau had 39 saves&hellip;Coach Benoit released defenseman Bobby Brown to Dayton, cutting squad to 14.</p><p><b>DES MOINES</b>&mdash;Bruce Lea, last year&rsquo;s captain, joined the Leafs after a week&rsquo;s play with Minneapolis in the CPL&hellip;Centre Cliff Bristow missed the six-game road trip with a knee injury&rsquo;&hellip;</p><h2><b>Point Race</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03123/1957351-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="559" height="550"></div><p>Most Penalties in Minutes: Ivan Prediger, Des Moines, 27.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Menard’s Tongue-Lashing Lifts Des Moines

<div class="byline">BY WILK TAYLOR</div><p>WINDSOR, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Refusal of the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association to uphold a Maritime Amateur Hockey Association suspension of nine members of last season&rsquo;s Windsor Maple Leafs wasn&rsquo;t greeted by cheers as the newly-named Maritime Hockey League kicked off the 1964-65 season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0488/1957389-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="297" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Georges Roy</b></figcaption></div><p>The disputed players this fall joined teams in the Quebec Provincial Senior Hockey League and were playing regularly.</p><p>Clyde McCarthy, QAHA president, said his decision was based on a technicality. The MAHA failed to register the then Nova Scotia Hockey League with the CAHA before Aug. 1.</p><p>Gordon W. Juckes of Melville, Sask., secretary-manager of the CAHA, supported the McCarthy ruling.</p><p>Hanson T. Dowell, secretaryregistrar of the MAHA questioned the interpretation of the CAHA constitution. He said that his understanding of the technicality was that the players were free only within their branch.</p><p>However, Juckes said that if the Maritime association refused to give branch-to-branch transfers. the players could appeal to the CAHA.</p><p>The nine players formed the backbone of the Maple Leafs&rsquo; 1963-64 Maritime senior championship team. Included in the dispute were: playing - coach Georges Roy, goalie Serge Aubry, defensemen eJan Levesque and Yves Cossette, forwards Simon Nolet. George Guil-bault. Rod Gaudreault, Bob Brooks and Ben LeBlanc.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Player Dispute Greets Teams As Eastern Loop Opens Play

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01264/1957472-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S ISSUE</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1. Ranger player shown in centre.</p><p>6. Wears No. 21 for Toronto.</p><p>7. Given name of New York&rsquo;s Angotti.</p><p>9. Last two initials of New York&rsquo;s manager.</p><p>10. Eddie Shack owns one named Dixie.</p><p>11. Byng Trophy winner of 1961-62.</p><p>12. Ruthenium (Sym.)</p><p>13. The great &ldquo;Ching&rdquo; Johnson lives in this country (abbr.)</p><p>14. Complete initials of Detroit&rsquo;s Murphy.</p><p>16. Initials of NHL scoring champion of 1963-64.</p><p>18. To make mistakes.</p><p>20. Initials of Spencer of Pittsburgh.</p><p>22. Artificial language.</p><p>23. Player Boston gave to New York for Prentice.</p><p>25. Potassium Iodide (Sym.)</p><p>26. A Detroit forward answers to this.</p><p>28. A former NHL coach.</p><p>30. Behold!</p><p>31. Length of time 28 across coached in NHL (abbr.)</p><p>32. Players like to&mdash;points.</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1. Art Stratton and Paul Popeil were early season&mdash;for Buffalo.</p><p>2. Given name of a Hawk defenseman.</p><p>3. Initials of Balfour, ex-Pittsburgh player.</p><p>4. This Canadien player wears contact lenses.</p><p>5. Hershey&rsquo;s goalie.</p><p>8. Denotes scoreless tie.</p><p>15. Month in which Roger Crozier was born (abbr.)</p><p>17. Nickname of the late Fred Ion, former referee.</p><p>19. Nickname of Doug Harvey&rsquo;s last amateur club.</p><p>21. Ted Lindsay is an avid one.</p><p>24. Short for first name of Johnson of Los Angeles.</p><p>27. Terry Sawchuk once played for this NHL club (abbr.)</p><p>29. Each (abbr.)</p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1. Bower</p><p>4. H.C.</p><p>6. Opals</p><p>9. Lindsay</p><p>11. Ten</p><p>12. Steve.</p><p>14. Son</p><p>15. Nap</p><p>17. Sc.</p><p>18. Le</p><p>19. Use</p><p>20. B.G.</p><p>21. L.C.</p><p>23. Brenneman</p><p>27. U.T.</p><p>28. Farm</p><p>29. Danny</p><p>32. No.</p><p>33. Dec.</p><p>34. N.U.</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1. Bolton</p><p>2. Winnipeg</p><p>3. Ross</p><p>4. Hayes</p><p>5. C.L.</p><p>7. Pat.</p><p>8. Spencer</p><p>10. I.E.</p><p>13. Voss</p><p>16. Alberta</p><p>19. Ullman</p><p>22. Caron</p><p>23. Bud</p><p>24. Nine</p><p>25. E.F.</p><p>26. N.M.</p><p>30. N.D.</p><p>31. Y.C.</p><h2>How They Stand</h2><h3><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h3><p>(Standings on Tues., Nov. 17)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02216/1957465-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="554" height="301"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues., Nov. 10</b></p><p>St. Catharines 4, Oshawa 4</p><p>Toronto 6, Niagara Falls 4</p><p><b>Thurs., Nov. 12</b></p><p>Peterborough 7, Oshawa 1</p><p>Hamilton 6, Kitchener 4</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 13</b></p><p>Peterborough 2, Niagara Falls 2</p><p>Toronto 6, Hamilton 3</p><p>Kitchener 10, St. Catharines 2</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 15</b></p><p>Montreal 6, Hamilton 3</p><p>Niagara Falls 5, Toronto 5</p><p>Kitchener 5, Oshawa 3</p><p>Peterborough 4, St. Catharines 1</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Tues., Nov. 17</b></p><p>Niagara Falls at Oshawa</p><p><b>Thurs., Nov. 19</b></p><p>Montreal at Peterborough</p><p>St. Catharines at Hamilton</p><p><b>Fri., Nov. 20</b></p><p>Oshawa at Niagara Falls</p><p>Montreal at Kitchener</p><p>St. Catharines at Toronto</p><p><b>Sun., Nov. 22</b></p><p>Toronto at Kitchener</p><p>Montreal at St. Catharines</p><p>Peterborough at Hamilton</p><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><p><b>(Including games of Sun., Nov. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03170/1957458-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="555" height="249"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04147/1957451-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="551" height="407"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>OSHAWA, Ont.</p><p>A trip to Ganano que by Boston Bruins&rsquo; &lsquo;Minor League&rsquo; executive Wren Blair and his general manager, Lynn Patrick, in the spring of 1962 may have been the most important jaunt ever made by the two much-travelled hockey men.</p><p>In March of &rsquo;62 Blair was tipped off that there was a pretty fair hockey player named Rick Eaton playing with the Gananoque bantam team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05127/1957503-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="228" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wren Blair</b></figcaption></div><p>He contacted Patrick and the two met in Gananoque to watch the youngster play in an Ontario final against Parry Sound.</p><p>However, after less than a period of play they were switching their gaze from Eaton to the other end of the rink where a Parry Sound lad was making astonishingly brilliant moves.</p><p>&ldquo;Tell me something&rdquo;, said Patrick between the first and second periods. &ldquo;Who do you like best out there?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Eaton looks all right,&rdquo; said Blair. &ldquo;But the little blond kid on the Parry Sound defense looks even better.&rdquo;</p><p>That was probably the understatement of the hockey age.</p><p>&ldquo;The little blond kid&rdquo;, was Bobby Orr and a year later he was moved, at 14 years of age, from Parry Sound to play with Oshawa Generals in the nowdefunct Toronto Metro Junior A League.</p><p>Without question Orr is now the hottest property in amateur hockey, certainly the best prospect the perennial last place Boston Bruins have uncovered in many seasons.</p><p>Orr played well in his first season of &lsquo;A&rsquo; hockey, then was positively phenomenal last year.</p><p>Still just 15 years old he was the unanimous choice for first string all-star defenseman in the strong Ontario Junior A League. Playing 50 or more minutes a game he was the big reason that the Generals claimed sixth place in the Provincial league.</p><p>Sixth position may not sound like anything to crow over in an eight-team group but when you consider that the Generals were a new team in the league and that their talent had to be split with another Boston-sponsored A club, Niagara Falls Flyers, it was certainly better than expected.</p><p>This season Orr is continuing his brilliant play and the Generals have been flirting with first place during the opening month of the schedule.</p><p>Not only is he unquestionably the outstanding defenseman in the league but he is also one of the most dangerous scorers and his fine anticipation makes him a playmaker similar to Doug Harvey in his good years.</p><p>Typical of Orr&rsquo;s importance to Jim Cherry&rsquo;s Generals was his performance in three games over four days in three different rinks.</p><p>Playing in Hamilton, Orr scored two goals, assisted on the other four as the Generals de-feated the Red Wings 6-4.</p><p>Two nights later in Kingston the Oshawa club met Montreal Canadiens in a game transferred from Bowmanville. (The Generals won&rsquo;t be in their new Oshawa rink until late in December.)</p><p>Orr scored twice, drew an assist on a third to give the Generals a 3-2 to win.</p><p>Then the following afternoon in the Montreal Forum Oshawa and Montreal met again.</p><p>This time the Generals won 3-2 to take over undisputed possession of first place.</p><p>And who was the hero?</p><p>Bobby Orr of course.</p><p>He assisted on the tying goal, then scored the winner in the third period.</p><p>In 12 games, Orr has 10 goals, 14 assists, far and away the highest total of any defenseman in the league and tied for second among all the marksmen.</p><p>Little wonder that the Bruins are waiting with anticipation for Orr&rsquo;s 18th birthday so that they can elevate him to the big club.</p><p>He could be the answer to many of their problems both offensively and defensively.</p><h2>Marlies Click</h2><p>Toronto Marlboros continued to surprise the experts with their outstanding early season play.</p><p>With the loss of most of their key players from their 1963-64 Canadian championship team, the Dukes weren&rsquo;t expected to play better than .500 hockey, at least early in the season.</p><p>However, they came back from a 5-3 defeat to St. Catharines Black Hawks to score identical 4-3 wins over Peterborough and Montreal (both at Maple Leaf Gardens) earn a share of second place with Niagara Falls Flyers.</p><p>Barry Watson, son of former NHL star Harry Watson, has been the spark of the Toronto team, scoring once in St. Catharines and twice against both the Petes and Canadiens.</p><p>Niagara Falls, in first place until last week, only managed a split. They trimmed Kitchener Rangers 7-3 on home ice, then suffered their first shuout of the season when they were blanked 3-0 in Kitchener.</p><p>In the individual scoring race the Marlboros continue their domination.</p><p>Paul Laurent leads with 12 goals, 13 assists for 25 points followed by Orr and Brit Selby with 24 points each.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Oshawa Rearguard Bobby Orr Seen As Top Boston Big League Hope

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<p>WINNIPEG, Man.</p><p>The Canadian national hockey team now training for the 1968 Olympics will be able to compete with any hockey team below the National Hockey League level within two years, according to Father David Bauer.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy to say our hockey prospects have improved to that point,&rdquo; said the coach of Canada&rsquo;s last Olympic team.</p><p>Father Bauer is helping Gordon Simpson of Winnipeg with present training of the 1968 team.</p><p>Father Bauer suggested Canada got what it deserved when hockey prestige, over the years, deteriorated. Main deterioration was in Canada&rsquo;s amateur hockey philosophy, he said.</p><p>Father Bauer said three different philosophies of sport are represented by teams in Olympic hockey competition.</p><p>&ldquo;The athletes of the communist countries feel they are using their lives the best way they can to further the political ideology they believe in.</p><p>&ldquo;They do nothing else but play hockey&mdash;they are professionals and we know it, but their concept of a pro is completely different from ours.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Father Bauer Says Canada To Be Strong

<div class="byline">BY STANLEY BRINK</div><p>HOUGHTON, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Albert Holm, senior forward from Rossland, British Columbia, is the new playing captain for Michigan Technological University, succeeding George Hill, centre, of Flin Flon, Manitoba.</p><p>Hill is inelegible for the varsity under the rule which states that a player on a member team of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association or the Western Conference, also known as the Big Ten, loses one year of collegiate eligibility for each year of noncollegiate competition after reaching his twentieth birthday.</p><p>The records show Hill as playing in several games after turning 20 and before enrollment at Michigan, Tech.</p><p>Bill Lucier, from Windsor, Ontario, is the new varsity assistant coach leaving Dave Draper, from Toronto, a 1964 graduate, to direct the freshman squad. Lucier also serves as head football coach.</p><p>Before entering Michigan Tech Draper played under one of the greatest coaches in Canada, Fr. David Bauer of St. Michael&rsquo;s College. Head Coach Jack Mac-Innes, also a native of Toronto, starred at De LaSalle Collegiate before entering University of Michigan.</p><p>TROY, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Garry J. Kearns, native of Peterborough, Ontario, is the new head hockey coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute replacing Ruben Bjorkman, now at University of New Hampshire. Rensselaer opens the new season November 21 against Carleton University of Ottawa, Canada.</p><p>The fourteenth annual Invitational Tournament will be held in the Rensselaer Fieldhouse December 28-29-30 with McGill, University of Minnesota - Duluth Branch, and Colgate as the guest teams.</p><p>Rensselaer is an entry in the College Festival in Boston Arena December 18-19.</p><p>CALUMET, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Foremost in the minds of U.S. intercollegiate hockey followers is the MacNaughton Cup dating back to 1914. Named in honor of James MacNaughton, then president of Calumet & Hecla Mining Company of Calumet, the originator, the MacNaughton first had a history rich in amateur annals.</p><p>Following the decline of the amateurs the MacNaughton board of trustees presented the trophy in 1955 to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association as emblematic of its championship. The 31 inch silver masterpiece, insured for $3,500. stands as one of the world&rsquo;s finest intercollegiate trophies.</p><p>University of Denver, the 1964 winner, is the favorite to retain. Chief disputants include Michigan Tech, University of North Dakota, and University of Michigan. Remaining members of the circuit, rated the nation&rsquo;s fastest, are University of Minnesota, Michigan State University, and Colorado College.</p><p>MADISON, Wis.&mdash;</p><p>As forecast in Hockey News earlier in the year University of Wisconsin will play a longer and more difficult schedule in 1964-65. The list has 24 games, eight more than a year ago when Wisconsin formally re-entered the game after an absence since 1935.</p><p>The Badgers meet, among others, Minnesota. Michigan State, and Ohio State University of the Big Ten (Western Conference), Colorado College, Maealester, and St. Mary&rsquo;s of Winona, Minnesota.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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