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January 2, 1965

The Hockey News January 2, 1965

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Few dispute the fact that Bruins captain Leo Boivin is the stiffest body-checker in the National Hockey League. A former teammate, Doug Mohns, had cause to find out for himself recently when Boivin, adept at the seldom-seen hip check, sent Mohns flying in the second period of a game against the Chicago Blacks. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Boivin Flattens Old Mate Mohns

<div class="byline">BY LEO MONAHAN</div>BOSTON. Mass.You can&rsquo;t stand pat with a losing lineup, so Bruins Coach Milt Schmidt, more in desperation than anything else, made some radical front line alignments, and danged if they haven&rsquo;t panned out.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to try some new combinations,&rdquo; said Schmidt before a game against Montreal, &ldquo;but first I want to have a talk with the GM.&rdquo;After Schmidt&rsquo;s confab with General Manager Lynn Patrick, Schmidt unveiled the following units:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02361/2093117-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="268" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Reg. Fleming</figcaption></div>Tom Williams, shifting from right wing to centre, play-making for a line with rookie Wayne Maxner on left wing and Dean Prentice, of all people, on right wing.Ab McDonald, a left wing, shifting&mdash;like Prentice&mdash;to right with rookie Bill Knibbs at centre and Reginald Fleming on left wing.Rookie Wayne Rivers moving into Williams&rsquo; lane with centre Murray Oliver and Johnny Bucyk.The result: 16 goals in the ensuing four games. The Bruins, to be factual, won just one of those four, but all of a sudden they were scoring. This gave Schmidt, not to mention the long-suffering fans, something to cheer about.&ldquo;Williams.&rdquo; said Milt, &ldquo;really has blossomed. You know he always played centre until he came with us. We were stuck for right wingers, so we moved him. In the game we played at Detroit he was the best man on the ice.&rdquo;At the moment, the Prentice-Williams-Maxner unit is No. 1.&ldquo;Prentice is playing very well. He really took to right wing and Maxner seems to fit in with the other two.&rdquo; said Milt.Knibbs is no Dave Keon as a skater, but he forechecks tenaciously and works his head off. Fleming? The one-time bullyboy, subdued of late, and effectively so, potted his 8th goal of the season in a game against his former Chicago teammates. This hardly is cause for dancing in the streets, but it was a career season&rsquo;s high for Reggie, who twice had seven-goal seasons.Fleming is seeing more ice time than ever before in his NHL career and all of a sudden people are beginning to realize that he has other talents besides those of a brawler.Except for one bad stretch, Fleming has been one of Boston&rsquo;s better forwards. He had difficulty playing on right wing, but perked right up again when he shifted back to left.&ldquo;We had a lot of tough luck lately,&rdquo; says Schmidt, &ldquo;but we&rsquo;re skating and we&rsquo;re crecking and we&rsquo;re working. With a break here and there we could have won several more games. I know this: if we keep playing this well, we&rsquo;ll win our share.&rdquo;The way things have gone in Boston, one must be grateful for little favors, but it does, indeed, appear that things are looking up.That nine-game winless string at the outset of the season was a erippler for the Bruins, but it looks like things will be better in 1965. After all, they couldn&rsquo;t get much worse, now could they?AROUND THE HUB: The B&rsquo;s summoned defenseman Joe Watson. 21, from their Minneapolis affiliate in the Central League when Bob McCord joined Tom Johnson on the casualty list. Watson, a graduate of Boston&rsquo;s Estevan. Sask. Junior club, is ticketed for future delivery to the varsity. Johnson, bothered by a foot struck by Bobby Hull&rsquo;s slap shot, is about ready to return, but McCord&mdash;sidelinec with a chronic back condition&mdash;may be a while getting back inteaction. In the interim, Don Awrey, 21, has shown flashes of excellent play. He has most everything going for him but experience, and this is a purgatorial process for a rookie defenseman breaking into the NHL&hellip;Defenseman Ted Green continues to impress with his point-getting and it might influence All-Star selectors&hellip;Williams 24, a native of Duluth, Minn., finds playing centre more to his liking since he can free-wheel as a forechecker. He is a deft play maker.The Bruins and their families participated in the annual Bostoi Garden Christmas party with members of the world championship Boston Celtics. Wives and children of the players were on hand&hellip;Major Dan MacLeod of the Royal Military College attended a recen game against Chicago. Said he: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s hard to see why the Bruin: aren&rsquo;t higher in the standings the way they&rsquo;re playing.&rdquo; MacLeod coach of the RMC hockey team, had his team in Boston to participate in the second annuad Christmas Holiday Festival. Also on hand wa: Queen&rsquo;s college hockey team.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03234/2093110-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1053" height="1540"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOMMY WILLIAMS&hellip;Hits Top Ice Form</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Milt’s Line Shifts Pay Off In Bruin Scoring Splurge

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER. N. Y.A gamble may be a risk in Webster&rsquo;s big word book, but a Gamble is a sure thing in Crozier&rsquo;s book.Crozier of course is Joe Crozier, the Rochester Americans&rsquo; general manager and coach, while his subject is Dick Gamble, veteran American Hockey League left winger who once again is pumping goals past enemy goaltender with spectacular frequency.Despite a slow start (for him it was a slow start, for other hockey players it wouldn&rsquo;t be) of 7 goals in the first 20 games, Gamble has climbed back into the thick of the race for American Hockey League goal-getting honors.At this writing, Dick has flashed the red light eight times in his last eight outings and has 15 for the season&mdash;a pace that will carry him close to the 40 mark again.Scoring goals always has been Gamble&rsquo;s trademark. In fact, at the moment he is No. 7 on the AHL&rsquo;s list of alltime goal collectors. He started the season in ninth place with 276. but already has passed the 285 and 288 figures owned, respectively, by the retired Dune Fisher and Phil Hergesheimer.Dick, with 291 goals, needs 20 more to pass retired Zellio Toppazzini and take over sixth spot. The only American Leaguers with more goals than Gamble are Fred Glover with 460, Willie Marshall with 394, Harry Pidhirny with 370, the retired Fred Thurier with 319, Jimmy Anderson with 314 and Toppazzini with 310.But Crozier isn&rsquo;t just impressed &lsquo;with Dick&rsquo;s goal scoring of late.&ldquo;The two games we played in Quebec were the best all-around games I&rsquo;ve ever seen Dick play,&rdquo; the Amerk boss observed.Despite his scoring prowess, Gamble never has been a real favorite of the hometown fans&mdash;either here or in Buffalo where he starred before coming to Rochester. He concentrates on what he does best&mdash;scoring&mdash;yet he draws catcalls.But Dick is used to the unusual. After seasons of 32, 31 and 27 goals for Buffalo, he erupted for 40 goals and 36 assists in 1960-61 and made the AHL All-Star first team&hellip;then was traded to Rochester that summer.With the Amerks, Gamble has collected 39, 35 and 34 goals and appears headed for close to 40 again.He may be 36-years-old, but as long as his shooting eye doesn&rsquo;t dim, Dick Gamble will be bothering AHL goaltenders for a few more seasons.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01502/2094302-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="522" height="640"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK GAMBLE&hellip;Climbing Goal Ladder</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Gamble Nets 291st Goal-Eyes All-Time Scoring Spot

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04283/2093556-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="478" height="567"></div>The editors of SPORT Magazine announce their 18th Annual Top Performer Awards for all sports. Learn who earned the coveted hockey prize&mdash;and why!And in the same issue, discover why many experts call Toronto&rsquo;sBOB PULFORD&ldquo;THE BEST CENTER IN HOCKEY&rdquo;Read the February issue ofSPORT MagazineNow On Sale Everywhere &#9632;

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Hockey’s Top Performer

<div class="byline">BY BOB HARRIS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01337/2095386-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Flanked by her two famous hockey sons, Mrs. Hull is a smiling mother as she poses between BOBBY, left, and DENNIS, during a recent visit to the Chicago stadium. The two brothers are among hockey&rsquo;s top attractions these days. Bobby with his 28 goals in 28 games and Dennis with his first two NHL goals this past week.</figcaption></div>CHICAGO. Ill.&mdash;Bobby Hull, the Chicago Black Hawks sensational hockey star, is playing no favorites around the National Hockey League in his quest for a second 50-goal season&mdash;or as his phenomenal pace indicates&mdash;a record-breaking 60-goal campaign.The muscular left wing All-Star. with 28 goals in as many games, is averaging a goal a game against each of the five clubs. He has seven goals in seven games against Boston Bruins: five goals in five games against Detroit Red Wings; six goals in six games against Montreal Canadiens; five goals in five games against New York Rangers; and five goals in five games against Toronto Maple Leafs.In Chicago Stadium. Hull has scored 15 goals&mdash;four Detroit Boston against each and Toronto; two against New York; and one against Montreal. On the road, his best success has been at Montreal Forum, where, in four games, he has scored five goals. This is somewhat ironical because in Hull&rsquo;s first four and half seasons in the NHL, he failed to score a goal at the Forum in 30 games. Since then&mdash;his first goal at Montreal was Dec. 30, 1961&mdash;he has scored 16 goals in 22 regular season games.He has scored three goals each at Boston and New York this season and one each at Detroit and Toronto. Of Hull&rsquo;s 28 goals to date, four have been game winners, six off the power-play and two with Chicago shorthanded. He has scored two goals in each of the five games and three goals in each of two games&mdash;once at New York and once against Toronto at Chicago.The first player to score 50 goals in a season was Maurice Richard of Montreal Canadiens? during a 50-game schedule in 1944-45. Richard that season scored 30 goals at Montreal and 20 on the road. Sixteen of his goals were against Detroit, who finished second behind Canadiens in the standing. He had 10 against Boston, who finished fourth and eight each against Chicago (fifth), New York (sixth), and Toronto (third).In 1960-61. Bernie Geoffrion, another right wing star with Montreal, tied the record in a 70-game season, although he missed six games because of injury. Of Geoffrion&rsquo;s 50 goals, 34 were at Montreal and 16 on the road. He scored 16 against New York, which finished in fifth place, 10 against Boston (sixth). 10 against Toronto (second), nine against Detroit (fourth), and five against Chicago (third). He had 12 gamewinning goals; one game-tying goal; 16 power-play goals; eight two-goal games; and three three-goal games (all against Rangers at Montreal).Then, in 1961-62. Hull became the third player to score 50 goals in a season, playing all 70-games. Of his total. 26 were in Chicago and 24 away from home. Boston Bruins, who finished last, were his favorite targets. He scored 14 times against Boston. Hull had 10 each against Detroit (fifth place); Montreal (first); New York (fourth). He had six goals against Toronto (second). Seven of his goals were game-winners, two were game-tying goals, nine were off the power-play. &#9632;

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Hull Not Picking Spots On Goal Spree

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES, Calif.Many Western Hockey League observers feel that the $12 million contract signed by the American Broadcasting Company to televise Saturday afternoon major league baseball the next two summers will provide renewed incentive for the National Hockey League to consider expansion to Los Angeles and possibly one other city&mdash;San Francisco, Seattle, Portland or BaltimoreThe $30 million contract signed by the National Football League with the Columbia Broadcasting System and other fat contracts signed by the American Football League with the National Broadcasting Company and the National Basketball Association with ABC for TV rights preceded the latest gold strike.U.S. TV interests require coast-to-coast representation in the NHL as a basis for a U.S. national hockey telecast and it is illogical that NHL officials will much longer continue to turn their backs on the only new source of revenue available to them, and a rich source it could be, indeed.There are other factors in favor of expansion A six-team big-league is the smallest big-league of all, and one or two additional teams would provide variety, for one thing. However, TV money is the big factor NHL TV in Canada has proven enormously successful, but, because of the differences in population and sponsors U.S TV contracts are much richer.Major League hockey players are hard to come by and expansion will dilute the league&rsquo;s strength somewhat, but the strength as it stands, spread out over only six teams, is an unrealistic strength anyway. Many hockey veterans feel that expansion will provide new incentive for young players to stay in the game, thus increasing the supply of talent.The NHL has always been more generous than other Major Leagues in its distribution of talent and one assumes a plan to stock expansion teams would be a reasonably generous one The success of the L.A Angels in U.S. baseball Minnesota and Dallas in U.S football and Baltimore in U.S. basketball indicates that shrewdly-run new franchises can sometimes very quickly surpass stumbling old and established teams.L.A. and SanFrancisco have supported their Western League hockey teams acceptably, if not exceptionnally. Their competition is all big League, it must be noted. L.A. holds all of the single-game and full-season attendance records in major league pro baseball and football and the season record in basketball. With its huge and growing population and fine arena, it is the top expansion choice.San Francisco has supported baseball and football very well, but its failure to support pro basketball and its failure to build a new arena makes it a shaky No. 2. Portland, Seattle and Balti-more, with fine new arenas and fine attendance records are very close to San Francisco. Baltimore has proven it will support big league teams handsomely with its baseball and football entries. Portland and Seattle would have no major league opposition, and have the advantage of West Coast location.If Vancouver built a new arena, it would be an expansion possibility, but its voters turned down a proposal that would pave the way for such a project recently, and its WHL future is in doubt. With Victoria also on the ropes, and San Diego pencilled in, WHL re-alignment is due in the near future, anyway. Depending on the makeup of the new NHL, the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada have the cities that could make up the new WHL. The league would not be doomed by expansion.Most of the talk has been in back rooms and side streets. Presidents Clarence Campbell of the NHL and Al Leader of the WHL continue to issue denials. However, the usual procedures in these cases are to issue denials until the moment drastic change becomes a fact. Expansion talk demeans the WHL and hurts attendance in its key cities, which causes WHL officials to keep it hushed-up. Also, many of them would be pushed out in any expansion, so they are naturally resisting it.Al Leader says, &ldquo;The Western League is very close to becoming a second major league and will declare itself so as soon as it is reasonably possible.&rdquo; The NHL does not really want to be drawn into a fight with a new &ldquo;major league,&rdquo; no matter how dubious its right to that status may be. Such fights have proven very costly in the past.U.S. Senator Thomas Kuchel has said, &ldquo;There is no reason why any group eager to launch a new team or to obtain standing in the NHL could not seek to invoke anti-trust laws if it feels there is conspiratorial refusal to recognize the interest of West Coast hockey followers.&rdquo;Dan Reeves, who launched the westward trek of U.S. big-league franchises when he moved his NFL Rams from Cleveland to L.A., and who is a co-owner of the WHL L. A. Blades, says, &ldquo;There is no question but that the NHL realizes it can&rsquo;t control the world forever&hellip;We are ready, willing and able to move in.&rdquo;Because of his divided interests, Reeves feels co-owner James Piggott must spark L. A.&rsquo;s drive for a major league franchise. New San Francisco owner Mel Swig is ready to push strongly for his city&rsquo;s admission to the NHL Owners in Portland, Seattle, Baltimore and other cities are ready to push for the admission of their cities.The current convenience of air travel and modest expenses connected with it make it possible that L. A. alone will come in first, with another city to follow. In any event, the hush-hush talk in back rooms and side streets is that NHL officials are considering expansion, and a trip to the bank. &#9632;

Expansion of NHL To West Coast Would Result In New TV Gold

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:;<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>MONTREAL&mdash;Dick Duff, forward, and Dave McComb, forward, obtained from Rangers in trade for Billy Hicke, forward, and Jean-Guy Morrissette, goalkeeper. Keith Mc-Creary, forward, recalled from Hershey of AHL.BOSTON&mdash;Joe Watson, defenseman, recalled from Min-neapolis of CPHL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>BUFFALO&mdash;Bob Watson, defenseman, recalled from St. Louis of CPHL. Ross Eichler, defenseman, up on two-game pro trial from St. Catharines of Junior OHA.PROVIDENCE&mdash;Bill Reid, forward returned to New Haven of EHL.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>PORTLAND&mdash;Jimmy Wilcox, forward, released.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Jack McCartan, goalkeeper, assigned by Chicago of NHL. Gary Harmer, forward, claimed on waivers from Minneapolis of CPHL.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>TOLEDO&mdash;Hank Neufeld, defenseman, placed on waivers.MUSKEGON&mdash;Lyle Porter, forward, joined team as free agent.PORT HURON&mdash;Bill Dobbyn, defenseman, secured from Waterloo of USHL. Bill Sinnett, forward, rejoined team in emergency move.<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2>JOHNSTOWN&mdash;Terry Moore, forward, purchased from Long Island of EHL. Bill Oswalt, forward, secured from Portland of WHL. Jim McCloskey, forward, released.GREENSBORO&mdash;Mike Dra per, defenseman. secured from San Francisco of WHL. Vince Cretem defenseman, droppedNEW YORK&mdash;Jean-Louis Goyette, forward, dropped. &#9632;

Movements Of Players

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.A new development this season finds the Maple Leafs leading the National Hockey League in penalties.Last year, Leafs stood third in crime, nearly 200 minutes behind the Chicago Black Hawks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01451/2093024-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="252" height="380"><figcaption class="caption-body">Carl Brewer</figcaption></div>This time, though, Toronto sinners have been solidly in front right from the start.It&rsquo;s created a serious problem, too, because Leafs have had unusual difficulty in defending against opposition power plays and, as a result, penalties are hurting them badly.&ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t worry me,&rdquo; says coach Punch Imlach. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you why. This team has to hit to win. And if you&rsquo;re hitting, you get penalties. I&rsquo;m not talking about dirty hockey. I mean taking the man out. You can&rsquo;t avoid penalties if you&rsquo;re doing this effectively.&ldquo;And as far as our penaltykilling is concerned, you must remember that we lost Dave Keon for a while and then Bob Pulford for a few games. They&rsquo;re our best defensive forwards.&rdquo;The defence combination of Carl Brewer and Bobby Baun was providing almost half of Leafs&rsquo; penalty total. After 29 games, they&rsquo;d logged 165 minutes between them, including a league-leading 93 by Baun.And Toronto observers felt that Brewer and Baun make up this season&rsquo;s best defensive pair in the NHL. Perhaps there are better individual defencemen, but as a twosome Brewer and Baun are the steadiest. Both will rate with Pierre Pilote, Jacques Laperriere, Bill Gadsby, Ted Green and Harry Howell in all-star voting. It&rsquo;s too bad, for their sake, there isn&rsquo;t a separate vote for couples.They&rsquo;d be the world pairs champions.It figures that they&rsquo;d get a lot of penalties. Brewer always has and he led the NHL in 1959-60. During the 1963-64 season, which was Baun&rsquo;s finest, he served 113 minutes, a lifetime high.They&rsquo;ve been together since Brewer moved up to Leafs in 1958 and now that they&rsquo;re experienced (Baun, 28, is in his ninth professional season and Brewer, is in his seventh) they&rsquo;re absolutely first-rate.Brewer, you may recall, made the first all-star team for the 1962-63 season. However, in the last game of the 1963 playoffs, he broke his left arm. It was an extremely complicated fracture and he wasn&rsquo;t ready to begin the 1963-64 schedule. About the time he returned, and regained peak condition, Baun was hurt, sustaining a thumb fracture. Altogether, Brewer lost 13 games and Baun missed 18.It worked out to a disappointing season for the Brewer-Baun duo, although they were ready for a productive playoff series.During the regular schedule, Tim Horton filled the breach nicely and replaced Brewer on the first-string all-star team.Now Brewer is ready to retrieve that spot.Baun and Brewer both grew up in Toronto and are products of the Leaf-operated Marlboro system.They are the perfect defence pair. Both are effective puck-carriers but Brewer usually moves the puck out of the Leaf zone and sets up offensive patterns. He is a fast skater and a skillful passer. Baun is the heavy hitter who does the retrieving in Leaf territory. They&rsquo;ve been together long enough to know and anticipate each other&rsquo;s thinking and, while Imlach has tampered with his forward lines, he&rsquo;s never separated Brewer and Baun or, for that matter, Horton and Allan Stanley. &#9632;

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Champs Top Penalty Parade To Replace Rugged Hawks

<div class="byline">BY LEO MONAHAN</div>BOSTON, Mass.A rookie defenseman. Don Awrey is getting his second chance to make the National Hockey League with the Bruins&mdash;and this time he feels he&rsquo;s better prepared.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01450/2093079-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="270" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Awrey</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Last year Boston took me right out of junior and I still had a lot of things to learn. Look around and you won&rsquo;t find many players making the NHL from junior, especially on defense. I know Rod Seiling and a few others are exceptions, but it&rsquo;s tough,&rdquo; says Awrey, a 21-year-old from Waterloo, Ont.Awrey was used sparingly in 16 games at the start of the 1963-64 campaign, then was shipped to Minneapolis of the Central League for seasoning. This season he was assigned to Hershey of the AHL, but was recalled when veteran Tom Johnson sustained an injured toe when struck by a Bobby Hull slap shot.&ldquo;I think I&rsquo;m a little better prepared this time, but I still have a lot to learn,&rdquo; admits Awrey, a swift-skating. 175-pounder who was one of the key factors in the Memorial Cup bid of the Niagara Falls Flyers two years ago.&ldquo;The Central League was good experience. Each team has to play so many young players. Some of the guys I knew from having played against them in junior. The American League, of course, has a lot of veterans, guys who know all the tricks. I learned a lot playing against them.&ldquo;It really was an experience coming back to Boston. Hershey was going very well&mdash;we didn&rsquo;t lose a game in November&mdash;but the Bruins still are having trouble winning. People tell me the Boston fans would be happy if they just could have a fourth place club. Well, they wouldn&rsquo;t be any happier than 18 hockey players, I&rsquo;ll tell you,&rdquo; he said.Awrey&rsquo;s baptism in the NHL a season ago was a memorable one. He hadn&rsquo;t visited many of the cities and he soon discovered the ways of the National League.&ldquo;The guys are cuter,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll never forget the first game I played in Detroit.&rdquo;Little wonder. Don rushed the puck up the left boards, cut into the center of the ice and immediately was sandwiched by veteran Red Wing defenseman Bill Gadsby and two teammates. He had to be helped to the dressing room with a back injury that at first was feared serious since Awrey had undergone a spinal operation a few years previously.I ran into an open switch,&rdquo; he said later. &ldquo;Funny thing, I tried the same move once before in the game and got away with it. I guess they were waiting for me, eh?&rdquo;Awrey is breaking into probably the most difficult NHL position and Boston&rsquo;s General Manager Lynn Patrick was discussing this recently.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s tough for a kid defenseman in this league because he&rsquo;s up against all those big guys, Hull, Howe, Mahovlich, with the good moves,&rdquo; said Patrick.Awrey&rsquo;s youth and tremendous skating ability are his main assets. His speed enables him to make a mistake and then atone for it and there aren&rsquo;t that many bright young defensive prospects around these days.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always wanted to be a hockey player,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I have an older brother who went on to the University of Toronto, but I wasn&rsquo;t that dedicated with the books so I know either I have to make it as pro hockey player or buy myself a lunch bucket.&rdquo;Awrey played Junior B in Waterloo, then was promoted to Niagara Falls in the Junior OHA, Canada&rsquo;s fastest junior league and the hatchery for more NHL talent than any other loop.Several of his Flyer team mates are with the Bruins or on Boston-affiliated clubs. These include left wing Wayne Maxner, presently-ailing center Ron Schock and Bill Knibbs, now with the varsity, and right wing Gary Dornhoefer who played 32 games for the B&rsquo;s last season but recently was assigned to San Francisco of the WHL.The Bruins, at long last, appear to be getting a steady influx of home-bred talent cultivated on their junior farms and Awrey, from all appearances, is a fellow who will be around for some time once he gets his bearings. &#9632;

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Don Awrey Getting Second Chance To Stick In NHL, Says He’s Better Prepared For Bruins’ Defense Role

MONTREAL, Que.Bobby Hull&rsquo;s performance in the first third of the 1964-65 National Hockey League season proves that to score goals a player has to shoot. Hull led in shots (156) and goals (21) during the league&rsquo;s first 70 games, 23 of which involved Hull&rsquo;s Chicago Black Hawks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01514/2093232-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="268" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>Gordie Howe of Detroit Red Wings, however, can&rsquo;t go along with the theory that shooting alone means goals. Howe had the second highest number of shots (129) in Wings&rsquo; first 23 games, yet scored only four times. In the last 10 of those games, Howe failed to score on 50 shots. The big right winger, however, ended his goal famine Dec. 16 with two goals against New York but these are not included in the first third of the season.The secret to scoring success, of course, is to combine accuracy with shooting&mdash;the more accurate shots, the more goals. An example: Howe&rsquo;s teammate, Bruce MacGregor, the most accurate shooter during games up to and including Dec. 10.In statistics released by NHL statistician Ron Andrews, Mac-Gregor is shown with nine goals on 39 shots, giving him a scoring percentage of 23.1. Next best, among players with five or more goals, was Camille Henry of New York Rangers with 22.7 per cent on 10 goals from 44 shots. Then followed Ken Wharram of Chicago with 18.2 per cent (eight goals, 44 shots); Rod Gilbert, New York, 17.9 (10 goals, 56 shots); Ron Ellis, Toronto, 17.0 (nine goals, 53 shots); Ron Stewart, Toronto, 17.0 (eight goals, 47 shots): Phil Goyette, New York. 16.7 (six goals, 36 shots). Hull&rsquo;s scoring percentage was 13.5; Howe&rsquo;s 3.1.The statistical analysis, compiled from official NHL records, also breaks down the individual scoring into important goals and points. The determination of an &ldquo;important&rdquo; goal or point is based on the state of the games at the time the goal was scored, regardless of any subsequent scoring. The categories adjudged imporant are: first goal of a game; a scoretying goal; a leading goal; an insurance goal; and a proximate goal (which puts the losing team&rsquo;s score to within one goal of the opposition).The leaders in important goals, among players with five or more goals, were, with 106 per cent: Bob Pulford, Toronto, eight goals; Gilles Tremblay, Montreal, Bob Nevin, New York, and Floyd Smith, Detroit, each with seven goals; and George Armstrong, Toronto, Claude Larose, Montreal, Vic Hadfield, New York and Reg Fleming, Boston, each with five goals.In important points the leaders, among players with eight or more points, also had percentages of 100: Pierre Pilote, Chicago, 15 points; Henri Richard, Montreal, and Murray Oliver, Boston, each with eight points.Defensive ratings of each player in the league are also included in the statistical review. Each player&rsquo;s record shows the number of goals scored by his own team while he was on the ice and also the goals scored against his team while he was on the ice. An over-all net rating of plus or minus is obtained by subtracting the number of goals for with both teams even from the number of goals against with both teams even, or vice-versa. A player on the ice for more goals by his own team than against his team will have a plus rating.<h2>NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE TEAM RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02479/2093225-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="1114" height="232"></div><h3>Code of Abbreviations</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03403/2093218-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="557" height="519"></div><h3>POWER-PLAY STATISTICS</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04344/2093211-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="1094" height="233"></div><h3>PENALTY-KILLING STATISTICS</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05312/2093204-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="1112" height="234"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06266/2093197-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="1107" height="482"></div><h3>Code of Abbreviations</h3>GP&mdash;Games PlayedSA&mdash;Shots AgainstGA&mdash;Goals AgainstASPG&mdash;Average Shots Against Per GanjeAGPG&mdash;Average Goals Against Per CameSO&mdash;ShutoutsR&mdash;Ratio of Shots Against to Goals Against<h2>INDIVIDUAL PLAYERS&rsquo; RECORDS&mdash;OFFENSIVE & DEFENSIVE</h2>(First 70 Games&mdash;1964-65)<h3>TORONTO &ldquo;MAPLE LEAFS&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07212/2093190-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="1706" height="615"></div><h3>BOSTON &ldquo;BRUINS&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08162/2093183-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="1703" height="659"></div><h3>Code of Abbreviations</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1235/2093176-1-eng-US/f0004-122.jpg" title="f0004-12" width="798" height="530"></div><h3>DETROIT &ldquo;RED WINGS&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-09141/2093169-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="1703" height="821"></div><h3>MONTREAL &ldquo;CANADIENS&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-10103/2093162-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="1694" height="643"></div><h3>NEW YORK &ldquo;RANGERS&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1165/2093155-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="1697" height="681"></div><h3>CHICAGO &ldquo;BLACK HAWKS&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03353/2093148-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1676" height="633"></div> &#9632;

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Shooting Key To Bobby Hull’s Success As Scorer

(1) Ranger coach Red Sullivan has been around the NHL a good many years. In fact, he has seen service with three of the teams. Can you name them? (2) Two noted goaltenders are tied for the honour of most frequently winning the Vezina Trophy. Name the players and tell us how often they copped this award. (3) In what season was the 60-game schedule introduced to the NHL? Was it in: 1946-47 1950-51 1955-56 1942-43 (4) This is an easy one, something the younger fans can solve in a hurry. How many times has Glenn Hall been on the first All-Star team? (5) Chicago coach Billy Reay gained his playing fame with the Montreal Canadiens. Yet he played four games with another NHL team before Montreal acquired him. Which club was it? (6) Now this is a toughie, designed chiefly for the old timers. Hap Day was a top notch player in his day. playing first with the Leafs, then with N.Y. Americans. But was he ever selected on an All-Star team? (7) This is still for the oldsters. Red Horner was a teammate of Day&rsquo;s and a rugged defenseman to boot. How many times was he selected on an All-Star squad? (8) Pick out the given name of the players listed below. Bingo Kampman Clarence Cooney Weiland David Hap Day Rudolph Sweeney Schriner Ralph (9) It shouldn&rsquo;t take a long memory to solve this one In what season was the Norris Trophy introduced to the NHL? (10) You&rsquo;ll have to cogitate on this. Name the two All-Star goalies who par ticipated in the first All-Star game back in 1946-47.(Answers Next Week)<h2>Last Week&rsquo;s Answers</h2>(1) Frank McCool. (2) Bronco Horvath of Boston. (3) Detroit, Chicago, Toronto (4) 8 consecutive seasons. (5) Bobby Hull & Andy Bath gate. (6) Both are natives of Tim mins. Ontario. (7) Chicago Black Hawks. (8) Lady Byng Trophy. (9) Kraut Line. (10) Maple Leaf Gardens&mdash;1931. &#9632;

HOCKEY…Quiz

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL, Que.The Canadiens have closed out 1964 by making another surprise trade with the N.Y. Rangers.Habs acquired veteran left winger Dickie Duff, and gave up Billy Hicke in return. They also got youthful center Dave McComb from the Ranger farm system, in exchange for minor league goalie Jean-Guy Morrissette.It was the second major trade between Montreal and New York in a season and a half. The previous one was the seven player swap that rocked the hockey world in 1963, when Habs sent Plante. Marshall and Goyette to N.Y., for Worsley, Balon, Leon Rochefort and Len Ronson.In obtaining the services of Duff, Canadiens are getting a player who has been something of a puzzle over the past few seasons. A once-brilliant craftsman with the Toronto Maple Leafs, he had three big years in a row with that club and then tailed off badly. His top performances were in the seasons of 1956-57 to 1958-59 inclusive, when he fired goals at the rate of 26-26-29. After that, his production dipped to an average of 17 goals a season and Leafs put him on the block. He was traded to Rangers along with Bob Nevin, Arnie Brown, Rod Seiling and Bill Collins, in exchange for Andy Bathgate and Don Mc-Kenney. That was on Feb. 22, 1964, and 10 months later&mdash;to the day&mdash;Rangers dealt him to Montreal. His production with the Blueshirts, this season, had amounted to 12 points (3-9) in 29 games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02435/2093294-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="529" height="532"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILLY HICKE &hellip;Back In NHL</figcaption></div>The question now, is, just how much help will Duff be to Canadiens?Says Toe Blake: &ldquo;Well, naturally, we expect him to help the club, or we wouldn&rsquo;t have got him. However, I want to say that we expect him to play better hockey for us than he did for Rangers. I don&rsquo;t know why he didn&rsquo;t go better for Rangers than he did. Maybe he wasn&rsquo;t happy with them, but I don&rsquo;t really know. The thing is, that when Duff played for Toronto he showed that he could be a fine player. He could do everything&hellip;score goals, kill penalties. We&rsquo;re looking for him to show that kind of form, here.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01471/2093287-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="520" height="672"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK DUFF&hellip;On The Move Again</figcaption></div>Blake also said that Canadiens had thought of getting Duff earlier this year, but didn&rsquo;t really pursue the deal until Gilles Tremblay got hurt. The latter&rsquo;s injury, however, left Habs with only two legitimate portsiders. Balon and Ferguson. In contrast to this, is the fact that Canucks have no less than five right wingers on the club,&mdash;Rousseau, Provost, Larose. Cournoyer and Roberts. Thus, the need for an experienced man on the left side, to balance out the forces, is obvious.No one can say, with any certainty, just what line Duff will wind up on. However, he&rsquo;ll almost surely be given a whirl at Gilles Tremblay&rsquo;s old spot on the Beliveau-Rousseau combine. Both Big Jean and Bobby have had trouble finding the net, this season. and a new man on the line might help. &#9632;

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Habs Get Duff From Blues In Move To Bolster Left Side Of Offense

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Founded October 1st, 1947Published weekly except monthly May through September byKen-Will Publishing Co. Ltd., 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25. Que.Kenneth William McKenzie, President and PublisherWill V. Cote, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Mgr.Yearly Subscription Rates: $4.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth $5.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.Postage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y.Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash.Printed in Canada.Vol. 18 Montreal. January 2, 1965 No. 13 &#9632;

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01540/2093401-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="404" height="436"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02419/2093394-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="503" height="76"></div>&bull; DANNY GALLIVAN, English play-by-play announcer of the Montreal Canadiens, will share announcing duties with Jerry Trudell on the 10 road games Canadiens will televise this season on closed circuit TV&hellip;The entire game will be telecast&hellip;Four games will emanate from Chicago and two each from New York, Boston and Detroit&hellip;Paul Chandler, who covered the Red Wings for the Detroit News from 1946 to 1952, died of a heart attack in Detroit the other day. He was only 45&hellip;According to the current issue of Sports magazine, Ranger coach Red Sullivan calls Toronto&rsquo;s Bob Pulford &ldquo;the best centre in hockey&rdquo;&hellip;An awful lot of Jean Beliveau fans should be interested in seeing how Sully justifies his selection&hellip;Dick Duff tells intimates he was never happy in New York and was extremely pleased to be traded to Canadiens&hellip;In fact, he asked Montreal sportswriter, two days before the trade was announced: &ldquo;What can I do to be traded to Canadiens?&hellip;Billy Hicke was just as happy to go to New York&hellip;and we&rsquo;ll go on record right now as predicting the speedy winger has a terrific season with the Broadway Blueshirts&hellip;Hicke has not been happy with Canadiens this year. He bemoaned his lack of ice time etc&hellip;one of the proudest and most pleased men in the Montreal Forum the other night as Chicago blasted the Canucks, 6-3, was the father of Bobby and Dennis Hull. The happy Mr. Hull watched Dennis score his first NHL goal and play a whale of a game from start to finish while Bobby picked up two goals and three assists&hellip;Not a bad evening&rsquo;s output for one family.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03308/2093387-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="251" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Duff</figcaption></div>&bull; HOCKEY&rsquo;S MOST AMAZING COMEBACK is the title of the Ted Lindsay Story appearing in the current issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL and it is one of the finest profiles on a puck performer ever penned. It was written by Lewis H. Walter, who covered Lindsay and the Red Wings during the greatest days that club has ever known&hellip;Walter was the senior hockey writer in Detroit and one of the veterans in the entire NHL when his paper, the Detroit Times abruptly folded back in 1960&hellip;The same issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL also packs a wallop with a great yarn on Ron Ellis, who appears headed for the Calder Memorial Trophy. It&rsquo;s titled: &ldquo;A Rookie&rsquo;s Dream Comes True&rdquo;&hellip;Jim Fullerton, coach of Brown which is usually one of the better United States college hockey teams, feels that in about eight years U. S. boys will be playing in the NHL&hellip;Zellio Toppazzini, coach of Providence College and a long-time American League star, says the basic difference between American and Canadian hockey players is in stickhandling. Fullerton says it&rsquo;s timing. Both agree that these obstacles will be mastered soon&hellip;Hershey Bears have two fan clubs. The new one is known as the Hershey Bears For&rsquo;Em Fan Club and now has a membership of 50. President of the club is Donald Blanset and corresponding secretary is Mrs. Ruch Goodyear. Both might be contacted at Box 257, Hershey, Pa&hellip;. Chicago Black Hawks are the hottest team in the National Hockey League, thanks to Dickie Duff, late of the Rangers and now with Canadiens&hellip;The Hawks say it was Duff&rsquo;s derogatory remarks about their ability that really got their backs up.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04211/2093380-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="280" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Hicke</figcaption></div>&bull; BOB PLAGER, rugged defenseman with the Vancouver Canucks, is referred to as &ldquo;Pier Six&rdquo; Plager on the West Coast&hellip;Emile Francis, the former goalkeeper who is now manager of the New York Rangers, makes a lot of sense with his answer to the question of what he thinks of NHL clubs using two goalkeepers during a season: It&rsquo;s unusual tor one of them to play the full 70-game schedule now,&rdquo; he remarked. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s too much pressure on them and they need a rest from time to time. We&rsquo;re carrying two goalies and I think all the clubs should do the same thing. Suppose your No. 1 goalie gets hurt. This is the big league and it&rsquo;s a little bush if you have to use some standby goalkeeper who happens to be in the rink.&rdquo;&hellip;Well spoken, &ldquo;Cat&rdquo;&hellip;Most all hockey fans feel the same way&hellip;Bill Masterton, 23-year-old former Cleveland Baron star, is the outstanding player in the United States Hockey League. He plays for the St. Paul Steers&hellip;Green Bay Bobcats are always a power in the same league&hellip;Be sure to order your Official National Hockey Annual for 1964. Names and numbers of all six teams appear in the TV section. See order form in this paper or buy from your favorite newsstand&hellip;Ossie Ossmundson, who played with New York Rangers&rsquo; Stanley Cup champs of 1932-33 and who finished his career on the Pacific Coast, passed away recently&hellip;John Ross Roach, former Detroit goaling great, is recovering from a siege in the hospital&hellip;&ldquo;Gunzo&rdquo; Humeniuk, operator of &ldquo;Gunzo&rsquo;s&rdquo; famed sports store in Berwyn, Ill., wants his hockey pals to know that he recently became the father of a baby boy. He now has two boys.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05175/2093373-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="273" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Plager</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-06136/2093432-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg"></div><h2>NHL Should Drop Silly Icing Rule</h2>Hockey News Editor:The new rule that a goalie can&rsquo;t freeze the puck is senseless. When the goalie doesn&rsquo;t freeze the puck the enemy team could score. The rule that should be dropped in my estimation is the icing rule of icing the puck. This takes a small amount of time and hockey time counts.SCOTT MERCER, Merlin, Ont.<h2>Comparaison Standing Suggested By Reader</h2>Hockey News Editor:Having a keen interest in things statistical as regards the National Hockey League, and being an avid reader of &ldquo;THE HOCKEY NEWS&rdquo;, I would like to suggest that the team standings on the corresponding date last year be included as a regular feature in each issue of your fine paper.&ldquo;How They Stood A Year Ago&rdquo; is the heading I would re-commend for this new feature which, I think could very appropriately be placed right under your &ldquo;How They Stand.&rdquo;Making use of the additional information which the feature suggested above would provide, it would be possible for we hockey fans to compare the season-to-date performance of any or all of the NHL teams with that for a similar period last season.PAUL ROY, Campbellton, N.B.<h2>Who Holds Record For Most Games Goals?</h2>Hockey News Editor:I have been an avid fan of Montreal Canadiens for several years, and when I read a report on the game last year in which Bob Rousseau scored five goals, it made me wonder if anyone had ever duplicated the feat.Could you tell me who holds the record for the most goals in one game, both the regular schedule and playoff records?BYRON DOW, Toronto. Ont.(Editor&rsquo;s Note: Syd Howe holds modern record of six goals in game set Feb. 3, 1944; Joe Malone hold old mark for seven goals set Jan. 31, 1920; Maurice Richard holds playoff game record of five goals set Dec. 28, 1944.)<h2>Henri Richard New Leader For Canucks</h2>Hockey News Editor:The Montreal Canadiens have found a new leader this year; Henri Richard, who has set the pace of the Habs for years, but now he not only is setting the pace but also scoring and is truly the Habs&rsquo; leader this year. The Canadiens were doing okay in their first 15 games without Richard, but they they slumped, losing 3 games and tieing one. But, since Henri&rsquo;s return to full form the Habs have won 7 and lost 1, while Richard has picked up seven (7) goals and six (6) assists in leading the Canadiens into first place.It appears that whenever Richard gets on the ice and digs like he does, the other Canadiens seem to watch him and think to themselves that if little Henri (5&rsquo;7&rdquo;) can drive and score like that, why can&rsquo;t I? and the players therefore work that much harder to try and keep up to Henri, and the net result is the Montreal Canadiens, whom, I am sure will regain their position at the top of hockey world, by regaining the Stanley Cup this year, led all the way by that little wizard, Henri Richard.JOHN KARABANIK Sioux Lookout. Ont.(Hockey fans are urged to write to the Fan Forum with your opinions and thoughts about this great ice sport. Please be as brief as possible and direct your letters to FAN FORUM, The HOCKEY NEWS, Room 309, 1434 SL Catherine St., Montreal, Que.) &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

DETROIT, Mich.Fifteen Detroit-area communities and Detroit itself will share in a $8,700 gift being presented by the Detroit Red Wings Alumni Association. This was announced today by Jimmy Peters, Association President, and John Sherf, Secretary-Treasurer.The funds to be awarded are the proceeds from last January&rsquo;s first annual Red Wing Old Timers game. Held at Olympia, this game, in which the Alumni played the Wings, attracted the fifth largest hockey crowd in the city&rsquo;s history, 15,555.In a letter to the mayors of the 16 communities, Mr. Sherf stated that &ldquo;the money is to be used by your municipal Recreation Department for the promotion of organized amateur hockey among the youth of your city.&rdquo;A committee of six RWAA members held several meetings to decide the best way to distribute the income from the Old Timers game last year. It was eventually resolved to allocate the funds in proportion to each area&rsquo;s population.The Red Wing Alumni Association with headquarters at Olympia, is in its fifth year of operation. Only former Red Wings are eligible to be regular members of the RWAA, but there are also associate and honorary members&mdash;a total of 54. &#9632;

Old Red Wing Hockey Stars Aid Detroit Area Minors

<div class="byline">BY RED FOLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01492/2093501-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="515" height="648"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB NEVIN&hellip;Back In Harness</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02454/2093494-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="464" height="664"><figcaption class="caption-body">ARNIE BROWN&hellip;Shakes Injury</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The way things were going for them, the Rangers might have done better hiring Bert Olmstead as an active player instead of naming him &ldquo;coordinator of player personnel as they did on Dec. 20 prior to dropping a 3-2 verdict to Montreal before a sellout Garden crowd.Olmstead, 38, retired two years ago after playing 14 NHL seasons with Chicago, Montreal and Toronto. Emile (The Cat) Francis the Ranger general manager and Olmstead have been friends for 20 years. They played junior hockey together at Moose Jaw. In fact. Olmstead will be doing the same type of scouting work that Francis did for the Blueshirts before he was appointed to succeed Muzz Patrick in October.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03369/2093487-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="267" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Olmstead</figcaption></div>One of Olmstead&rsquo;s first assignments will be to dig up some wingers who can help the floundering Rangers. At the time of his appointment, the Blues were in the midst of a six game skein in which a 3-3 tie against Toronto was their only non-losing game.The sag, which coincided with a Chicago winning streak, pinned the Rangers in fifth place and started turning Red Sullivan&rsquo;s neck to a bright crimson.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not at all satisfied with the performance of some of my players,&rdquo; Sullivan said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not skating, we&rsquo;re not checking and when you don&rsquo;t skate you don&rsquo;t win.&rdquo;Injuries, of course, have played a big part in the Blueshirt folderoo, but even the return of defenseman Arnie Brown, Dec. 16 and right winger Bob Nevin, Dec. 19. the two who were out for extended periods, failed to brake the Blueshirts slide.Sullivan steadfastly refuses to name names, but he made it plain that with a little extra effort some of the guilty ones could have helped pull the Rangers out of the doldrums.The morning after the Rangers looked particularly bad losing to the Wings, 7-3, Dec. 16, Sullivan put the club through a stiff workout.Except for the French Line and Vic Hadfield, few of the others appear to be putting out with any consistency. Neither Sullivan nor Francis would admit they&rsquo;d hit the panic button but both agreed they were receptive to any player deal that might shake the Blueshirts out of their lethargy.One Ranger who was on thin ice was Dick Duff. The left winger who earlier won praise from Sullivan for his checking and alert play, hit a pre-Christmas period when nothing went right. Dick appeared doomed as a Ranger.He was lacklustre in the 7-3 loss to Detroit and wasn&rsquo;t much better three nights later in Toronto. The following evening, against Montreal here, Duff wound up spending the third period on the bench and a few days later was on his way to Montreal in the trade for Billy Hicke.BLUE CHIPS: Ray Thall of Somerville, N.J., accompanied the Blues to Toronto for their student won a Ranger-sponsored contest in which the prize was an all-expense paid trip. The lad got an additional thrill when he was interviewed on CBC television between the first and second period from Maple Leaf Gardens Marcel Paille had to replace Jacques Plante in the nets in the second period, Dec. 16. Plante reinjured the right knee that has been bothering him since training camp. It was feared the masked man might be out indefinitely, but a shot of cortisone did the trick and Jacques was on tap for the next game&hellip;Rangers and their families participated in annual Christmas party at Garden, Dec. 21. Celebration saved Blues the rigors of a Monday workout. Washday had been a day off previously, but club&rsquo;s slump forced Sullivan to dictate future sessions on that day until calibre of their game improves&hellip;Bob Plager, whose muscular style won him fast approval from Ranger fans, was shipped back to Vancouver when Arnie Brown returned. &ldquo;Bob&rsquo;s too valuable a piece of property to have him sitting around as a fifth defenseman,&rdquo; explained GM Francis. &#9632;

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Rangers Hire Olmstead To Help Solve Problems

<div class="byline">BY BOBBY HEWITSON</div>(Second Of A Series Of Articles On Hockey&rsquo;s Hall Of Fame)When the public indicated by their attendance and interest in Canada&rsquo;s Sports Hall of Fame at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto in the years 1955 and 1956. that this shrine to honor great Canadian athletes had filled a long awaited place in Canadian sport, those interested in the Canadian winter sport of hockey felt their favorite pastime should also be recognized in a similar manner.Hockey had been excluded from the Sports Hall of Fame because already Kingston, Ontario had been officially recog-nized by the hockey interests as the place where a Hockey Hall of Fame should be located. For this reason those in charge of the Sports Hall of Fame felt it would be unfair to include hockey in their list of sports events from which great athletes should be recognized. However, many of the thousands who visited the Sports Hall of Fame in 1955 and 1956 expressed re-gret that hockey had no place in the displays.In 1957 representatives of the National Hockey League met with officials of the Canadian National Exhibition and the Sports Hall of Fame. They indicated there had been a lack of action in Kingston, both in the yearly naming of new members to their hall and the desire to set up an actual hall in which the names, histories, etc., of the honored members might be on public display.It was then agreed that hockey should be included at the National Exhibition, it would be a separate unit, the only sport to be thus identified. So in 1957 one room was set aside in the Sports Hall of Fame devoted exclusively to hockey. Some players and builders were named to the hall as honored members.During the winter of 1957-58 an organizing committee to operate the Hockey Hall, and a selection committee to nominate and elect honored members was established and both met in late April, 1958. At this meeting plans were finalized, honored members named in 1957 were approved, and some 15 new ice figures were elected.In 1958 the entire ground floor of the former CNE Ad-ministration Building was taken over, one half occupied by the Hockey Hall of Fame, the other by the Sports Hall of Fame. More than $25,000 was spent in that one year alone to set up panel displays of the various players and builders, cases were purchased to display trophies, famous sticks, pucks, sweaters, etc. In that year more than a quarter of a million persons viewed the displays in both Halls.While the National Hockey League was the prime-mover in establishing the Hockey Hall of Fame at the CNE. it was stressed that both professional and amateur hockey would have full recognition. So it was that men connected with amateur hockey were named to both committees.In 1959 following the publie approval of the 1958 showing, 31 of the 34 living members of the Hockey Hall of Fame were brought to Toronto, along with the selection committee. The honored members attended a special luncheon at the CNE, at which they received their official crests as members of the hall. Up to and including 1960, there were 72 members of the hockey hall.In 1960 an agreement was reached between the National Hockey League, the City of Toronto, and the Canadian National Exhibition for the erection of a half million dollar Hockey Hall of Fame at the CNE. The monies to erect the building were pro-vided by the National Hockey League, the City of Toronto provided the land, and the Canadian National Exhibition agreed to maintain the building and to erect any future additions required. Official opening of the new building took place in August, 1961. While it is known as the Hockey Hall of Fame it does contain all the displays of the Sports Hall of Fame, as well. &#9632;

Public Clamor For Shrine To Hockey Brought About Game’s Own Building

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01526/2093587-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="467" height="679"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROGER CROZIER</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.Defense carried the Red Wings to the top in the National Hockey League and the lack of it dropped them off the upper rung.&ldquo;Our forwards figured their job was done when they got back to our blue line, the defense backed up on the goal and Roger (Crozier) wasn&rsquo;t as sharp,&rdquo; said manager-coach Sid Abel.Abel had reason to be nettled. While losing four of six games, the Wings&rsquo; goals against average soared.They yielded 27 goals in a half dozen games for a 4.5 average and that isn&rsquo;t going to win many hockey games. They had a sparkling 1.9 for the first 21 starts.It was cause for concern, even for the easy-going Abel. The Wings had proved themselves after the 10-2 setback in Toronto by rebounding to beat Montreal the next night.Now they had to do it again and they did it, winning a big one from Toronto on a pair of goals by Ted Lindsay and one by Gordie Howe, combined with tight checking and sensational work in goal by Crozier.&ldquo;Detroit is the best skating and checking club we&rsquo;ve played,&rdquo; said Boston Bruin coach Milt Schmidt. Of course, this was before the Bruins won their first game at Olympia four days shy of two years and the Bruins did it by outskating and checking the Wings.But generally, those have been the Wings&rsquo; strong points. It isn&rsquo;t an overpowering scoring club.Of course, there are nights. Like the 7-3 victory in New York when Gordie Howe finally snapped his 12-game goal-less slump with two goals and two assists.Howe&rsquo;s slump-stomper was one of the prettiest goals he has ever scored. He swiped the puck at the Detroit blue line while two Red Wings and one Ranger perched in the penalty box. kicked it ahead with his skate and sped down left wing. Howe drilled a 30-footer past Marcel Paille.He still hasn&rsquo;t seen his second goal. While driving toward the net, Howe was hit on the rump by an Alex Delvecchio slap shot and it bounced into the net. Shortly after he missed a hat trick when he lifted one just over the crossbar.&ldquo;No sense in getting piggish about it,&rdquo; Howe said afterward, settling for the two goals. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a funny game. The game before I had all kinds of good chances and couldn&rsquo;t score. Then I get one that I don&rsquo;t deserve.&rdquo;ICE CHIPS: Abel, dismayed over the Wings&rsquo; slump, juggled his lines just before facing the Rangers and all three of his new units scored and he got two goals from the power play, the first by the ganging unit in six games.Left wing Larry Jeffrey is convalescing rapidly. Jeffrey, who underwent surgery to repair a torn knee ligament, can bend his knee all the way back and is doing exercises daily with weights to build up the knee.The Wings finally beat old teammate Terry Sawchuk in their fourth try, 3-1. Sawchuk previously backstopped Toronto to 3-1 and 10-2 victories and a 1-1 tie. &#9632;

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Wings’ Defense Falls Flat Dropping Team Down

GREENSBORO, N.C.&mdash;Garry Sharp is a virtual cinch to break that hat trick record of five for the Greensboro club.He tied the club mark in his first 30 games, and thus had more than half the log to come up with another one. His feat tied the standard first set by Les Lilley in 1962, matched by Bobby Boucher and Sharp in 1963 and then by Don Davidson last year. Sharp&rsquo;s position atop the league scoring race is enhanced by his ability to stay out of the penalty box. He spent just two minutes there in the 30 games. &#9632;

Garry Sharp Ties Gens’ Standard For Hat Tricks

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02457/2093642-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED LINDSAY&hellip;Getting Second Wind</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.Ted Lindsay&rsquo;s once more around the park is turning into one of sport&rsquo;s more memorable final flings.The 39-year-old Detroit left wing, who has put a one season limit on his comeback after four years in retirement, has regained his third place rating on the all-time goal scoring list from Bernie Geoffrion.When Lindsay scored his sixth and seventh of the season in a 3-1 victory over Toronto&mdash;he got the winner with 2:38 to play&mdash;it boosted him to 372 goals, one more than Geoffrion.And who knows? This may touch off a comeback next year by the Boomer who is coaching the Quebec Aces now.After Lindsay&rsquo;s pair against the Leafs, he was asked if he was aiming for a 20-goal season.&ldquo;Nope,&rdquo; Lindsay cracked back, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going for No. 8.&rdquo;Lindsay&rsquo;s comeback is more remarkable every day, more remarkable every time you see him play.He&rsquo;s actually a moonlighter.Where the other players come to practices wearing sport shirts and jackets or sweaters, Lindsay checks in wearing shirt, tie, vest and suit. As soon as the workout is over, he&rsquo;s off to fulfill his business engagements. He&rsquo;s still working fulltime with partner and exteammate Marty Pavelich.When the club goes on the road, it&rsquo;s generally an early or mid-afternoon flight. Lindsay takes an evening flight after the business day ends.Instead of wearing him down, he seems to get better and there must be more than a couple of recently retired stars wondering, when they read the scoring summaries, if they couldn&rsquo;t do it too. &#9632;

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Lindsay Shooting For 8th Season Goal Amazing Hockey Experts With Comeback

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THE HOCKEY NEWS

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div>CHICAGO, Ill.Bobby Hull and Phil Esposito, two-thirds of the newest and hottest line in the National Hockey league, have been getting most of the credit for the Black Hawks&rsquo; resurgence.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01511/2093773-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="252" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Esposito</figcaption></div>They are entitled to a good portion, too, because they&rsquo;ve been firing pucks past rival net-minders at an almost incredible pace.But Billy Reay wishes that just a little more credit were being given to the third member of the trio, Chico Maki. Chico already has scored enough goals to insure his having his best season with the Hawks (last year&rsquo;s 8 was his previous high) but he&rsquo;s being over-shadowed by the sheer size of Esposito and Hull&rsquo;s production figures:&ldquo;Chico&rsquo;s value to that line just should be,&rdquo; Reay insists. &ldquo;He works like a buzzsaw every second he&rsquo;s on the ice, digging the puck out, carrying it, and checking his man. He never lets up.&rdquo;The Hull-Esposito-Maki line was formed in desperation by Reay and Manager Tommy Ivan. The Hawks had opened the season with Hull at left wing for center Red Hay and Right Wing Eric Nesterenko. For a few games, it looked as though the unit would be effective, too, but it bogged down at about the same time the team went into a general decline.In the meantime, Esposito and Maki, who had been freed from his bondage as a center and moved &lsquo;to his normal spot at right wing because of Esposito&rsquo;s development, were serving on a third line with a variety of left wings.And the performances of both Chico and Esposito had been uniformly good, regardless of the identity of their left sider. In fact, even while the rest of the crew was staggering, Esposito and Maki turned in consistently fine games.At first, Reay was reluctant to break up a solid third line and concentrated on fiding a pair of efficient co-workers for Hull out of the rest of the squad. At the same time, Billy was concerned by the situation at left wing on the Stan Mikita-Ken Wharram line caused by the trade that sent Ab McDonald to Boston.Hull was doing handsomely under all conditions but Reay figured that Bobby&rsquo;s effectiveness could be increased with more solid support.Finally, Reay was forced to give in and moved Esposito and Maki up with Hull, a switch which dropped Hay and McKenzie back to a third unit.At the same time, and again reluctantly, Billy brough former Bruin Doug Mohns up from defense to the left side for Mikita and Wharram.Both moves clicked from the start and the Hawks began to move, first out of the second division and then into contention for the league title.&ldquo;We never had much doubt that Esposito and Maki would do well with Bobby but we were trying to keep some scoring balance,&rdquo; said Reay.The Maki-Esposito combination almost is a natural. They both are from Sault Ste. Marie, so naturally, they&rsquo;ve developed a solid friendship.Maki&rsquo;s firey personality is beneficial to Esposito, too. If Phil has a failing, it&rsquo;s his tendency to ease up when the pressure is off, but this is impossible with Maki constantly ragging and needling him, on and off the ice.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s Chico&rsquo;s strength,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;He keeps our guys on their toes with his constant work and he really bugs the other teams&rsquo; forwards by never letting up.&rdquo;Things have been going so well for the Hawks, now that the line switches have been accomplished and some of the youngsters are settling down to life in the NHL, that Reay probably could make a Lindsay-type comeback some night and come up with a hat trick.&ldquo;Not that,&rdquo; Reay groaned when the subject was brought up, in jest, recently. &ldquo;In fact. I can&rsquo;t take any credit at all for what&rsquo;s happened. I haven&rsquo;t scored a goal or checked a player. The guys just got together and started to play great hockey.&rdquo;Billy did surprise several people, though, when he gambled during a winning streak by sending veteran Glenn Hall into the nets against the Bruins in Boston recently after Dennis DeJordy had been in the cage through six consecutive victories.Reay&rsquo;s defiance of the superstition against making changes during a hot streak was successful and the Hawks skated off with a 3-2 triumph in which Hall made several big. difficult stops.But several sets of eyebrows remained up, much to Billy&rsquo;s consternation.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what all the fuss was about,&rdquo; said Billy. &ldquo;Was I supposed to keep Dennis in the nets until he was beaten, then yank him? That would be putting the thing on a win-or-else basis and that never was our intention. We&rsquo;ll just go along assuming we have two good goalies and use them as we see fit.&rdquo;Toronto&rsquo;s Punch Imlach may yet regret that he prevented the Hawks from getting Dennis Hull to St. Louis by putting in a claim for the youngster when the Hawks asked waivers.The move had to be designed to disrupt the Hawk operation because Punch had to know that the Hawks never would let Bobby&rsquo;s kid brother go.Dennis wasn&rsquo;t even dressed for games for several days after he was hustled back from St. Louis before he had a chance to see a second of Central league action.But after Johnny Brenneman was moved to St. Louis, Dennis was put back in uniform. He was used sparingly for a couple of games, but Reay moved him in as third line left wing late in a game against the Bruins in the Stadium, in place of Doug Robinson.At the same time, Reay removed McKenzie in favor of Eric Nesterenko, keeping Bill Hay at Center. The game had been see-sawing through the first two periods, partially because Robinson and McKenzie were having trouble keeping track of their checks.Dennis and Nesterenko helped stabilize things, a bit, tho, and the Hawks eventually won, 7-5.In the next game, against the Canadiens in Montreal, Reay used Dennis and Nesterenko regularly, with Rookie Fred Stanfield in place of an ailing Hay.Early in the game, with the Canadiens winning 1-0, Nesterenko stole the puck deep in Montreal ice and fed the puck to Dennis, who was cruising near the Canadiens&rsquo; cage. Dennis grabbed the disk and let fire with a 10-footer on which Hodge never had a chance. It was young Hull&rsquo;s first big league tally. &#9632;

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Bobby Hull Esposito Leading Black Hawks Back Into Fight

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Here is a comparison of Hockey&rsquo;s three 50-goal scorers&mdash;Bobby Hull. Maurice Richard and Bernard Geoffrion&mdash;showing team game number in which each goal was scored.Richard played all 50 games in a 50-game schedule: Geoffrion played 64 games in a 70-game schedule, missing Montreal&rsquo;s 43rd through 48th games; Hull played all games in a 70-game schedule.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02484/2093804-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="987" height="1320"></div> &#9632;

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Comparison Chart Of 50-Goal Feats

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DETROIT RED WING SOUVENIRS

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Andy Bathgate is certain his broken thumb won&rsquo;t keep him out of the Maple Leaf lineup quite as long as the five weeks specified by the team&rsquo;s medical staff.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s my left hand, for one thing,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and since I shoot right handed, this means the injured hand is only needed to steady my stick. The good hand does all the work. So I don&rsquo;t see why I can&rsquo;t play with some kind of protection inside a fairly short time&mdash;even though they tell me it&rsquo;s a bad break.&ldquo;What&rsquo;s more,&rdquo; Bathgate added, &ldquo;I can skate every day, so there&rsquo;ll be no reason for my conditioning to slip.&rdquo;Bathgate got to spend Christmas at home for the first time since he became a professional hockey player 12 years ago. His colleagues left for Chicago Christmas eve and faced Black Hawks there Christmas night.Bathgate had missed only five scheduled matches in previous pro seasons and had gone 470 games without a night off before his thumb was snapped at the base last week against Detroit.It was the first broken bone he&rsquo;d ever sustained. When he sat out five games of the 1957-58 schedule, it was because his foot had been cut by Jerry Top-pazinni&rsquo;s skate.&ldquo;It was an accident and so was the injury&rdquo;, Bathgate ex-plained. &ldquo;You know, I think I was going to score the winning goal, too. It happened when it was a 1-1 game. I beat one man and was almost in the clear past Junior Langlois.&ldquo;He got a piece of me and I guess I reached for the boards to keep my balance. The thumb got wedged between panes of the glass and my body kept moving.&rdquo;&ldquo;There was such a crack I thought his stick was broken,&rdquo; Langlois testified.&ldquo;It was fairly painful,&rdquo; Bathgate admitted. &ldquo;I blacked out once.&rdquo;Pressure was applied to the thumb on the overnight trip from Detroit and a cast reaching almost to the elbow was applied before Bathgate returned to his new home at Bramalea.&ldquo;Injuries are part of being an athlete,&rdquo; Bathgate said, &ldquo;but this one annoys me because I thought that for the first time since I came to Leafs last winter, Iwas finally beginning to get the feel of what was going on.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a difficult adjustment for me, switching to the Leaf style of offence, and I just felt in recent games that I was starting to be of some use to the club.&rdquo;Bathgate is Leafs&rsquo; leading scorer right now with 10 goals and 16 assists and he&rsquo;s been the productive right flanker on the team&rsquo;s best attacking unit. George Armstrong is the centre and Frank Mahovlich the left wing.Bathgate&rsquo;s replacement will be either Jim Pappin or Eddie Shack, but there&rsquo;s a chance Pete Stemkowski will be recalled from Leafs&rsquo; American League affiliate at Rochester, with Armstrong returning to right wing.Bathgate came to Toronto last February as part of a major trade between Leafs and New York Rangers. Don McKenney also joined Leafs and Rangers acquired Dick Duff, Bob Nevin, Arnie Brown, Bill Collins and the rights to Rod Seiling.Bathgate hasn&rsquo;t been the solution to as many problems as Leafs may have expected but, ironically he&rsquo;d been outstanding in the two weeks since Mahovlich returned to duty and that new forward line was formed.&ldquo;A fellow should do well here,&rdquo; Bathgate said, &ldquo;because hockey is emphasized so much. The atmosphere is right. In New York, you&rsquo;re just a guy doing something that doesn&rsquo;t amount to much. Here, you&rsquo;re reminded so often that hockey is important.&rdquo; &#9632;

Bathgate Confident Of Early Return To Leafs

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04285/2093956-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="346" height="330"></div><h2>Ted Lindsay&hellip;Detroit Red Wings</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03377/2093949-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="285" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption></div>Ted Lindsay of the Detroit Red Wings has virtually stood the pro hockey world on its ear by his amazing comeback to the National Hockey League.The fiery 39-year-old left winger has showed the cynics that it can be done. Lindsay has already scored seven goals for the Wings this season and his comeback, which started out as a game-to-game affair, now appears to be a solid one that will last through the entire season.Certainly the Red Wings and Sid Abel hope so.Lindsay has been scoring his goals in pairs and last week-end, he came up with two big counters that helped beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1.Mark Ten is pleased to salute an old pro like Lindsay for his efforts. He stands out as the man who made his mark in the NHL this past week. &#9632;

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THE MAN

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Chicago Black Hawk forward Hull gives everybody trouble, but another Hawk&mdash;Phil Esposito&mdash;has been equally as troublesome to the Bruins this season. Hull has scored seven goals against the B&rsquo;s, and Esposito has six&mdash;including a pair of game-winners.Hull, used on two lines plus as a point man on the power play and a penalty-killer, played nearly 40 minutes in his last appearance at Boston Garden.<div class="sidebar">Team Jerseys&mdash;Lace Neck Matching stockings&mdash;15 to a set Immediate DeliveryAssorted sizes and coloursComplete line of hockey equipment at Club Prices.DOUG LAURIE SPORTING GOODSMaple Leaf Gardens Bldg. Toronto, Ont.EM. 3-9447 &#9632;</div>

Black Hawk Aces Feast On Bruins

&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01525/2093894-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="548" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDY BATHGATE&hellip;Misfortune Strikes</figcaption></div>The editors of HOCKEY NEWS wish to announce that, because of the New Year&rsquo;s holiday, publication date had to be advanced not allowing us to include weekend games of Dec. 25-26-27 in this issue. They will be carried complete in the next issue.<h2>How They Stand</h2><h3>(Standings on Fri., Dec. 25)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02454/2093887-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="554" height="179"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed.. Dec. 23Montreal 2, New York 0<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Sat., Dec. 19Chicago 6, Montreal 3Toronto 6, New York 3Sun., Dec. 20Montreal 3, New York 2Detroit 3, Toronto 1Chicago 3. Boston 2<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Fri., Dec. 25Montreal at DetroitNew York at BostonToronto at ChicagoSat., Dec. 26Detroit at MontrealChicago at TorontoBoston at New YorkSun., Dec. 27New York at DetroitBoston at ChicagoTues., Dec. 29Chicago at New YorkWed., Dec. 30Montreal at TorontoThurs., Dec. 31Chicago at DetroitFri., Jan. 1Toronto at BostonNew York at ChicagoSat., Jan. 2Boston at MontrealDetroit at TorontoSun., Jan. 3Montreal at ChicagoToronto at New YorkBoston at Detroit<h2>NHL Point Race</h2>(Including Games of Sun. Dec. 20)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01522/2093880-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="574" height="2994"></div><h3>GOALDKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02476/2093873-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="562" height="720"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03404/2093866-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="560" height="274"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

TORONTO. Ont.Russia&rsquo;s national hockey team wants to play a Na tional Hockey League club, and Sam Pollock of the Montreal Canadiens says it&rsquo;s a good idea&mdash;&ldquo;but not this year.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04331/2094011-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="288" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Punch Imlach</figcaption></div>Russian coach Anatoli Tarasov at a press conference in Winnipeg said that if an NHL team invited the Russians to play them today &ldquo;we&rsquo;d play the game tomorrow.&rdquo;Tarasov stressed that the Russians are interested only in playing an NHL club, not minor league pro teams such as the Quebec Aces or Rochester Americans.&ldquo;We had always been under the impression the Russians weren&rsquo;t interested in playing a National League team. We only learned otherwise some 10 days before Russia started this current tour,&rdquo; said GM Pollock.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s too late to do anything about a game this year, because of our schedule. But we&rsquo;d certainly be interested in future tours.&rdquo;Pollock said he&rsquo;d like to see the Russians play a series against Canadian pro opponents&mdash;the Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Quebec Aces and other teams.The Toronto Maple Leafs also are ready to play the Russians&mdash;but not this year.Manager Punch Imlach said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;d be very happy to play them but we&rsquo;ve got 10 games in 17 days in January and there&rsquo;s no possible way we could work them in.&rdquo;&ldquo;It would be better to let our Rochester (American League) club take them on. If they beat Rochester we&rsquo;d be happy to play them.&rdquo;&ldquo;We&rsquo;d only play them under our rules,&rdquo; Imlach said, &ldquo;but we&rsquo;d be happy to play them.&rdquo;NHL President Clarence Campbell said he was sure the league would not object to either Montreal or Toronto playing the Russian team.&ldquo;I have had no direct contact with the Russians,&rdquo; Campbell said. &ldquo;It is not a league matter but the teams would have to have league permission to play the Russians. They must have permission for any exhibition games.&ldquo;I would have no opposition to them playing. The only conditions would be that they would have to play their best team and use NHL rules.&rdquo;The Russians agreed at their Winnipeg press conference that they would be willing to play under NHL rules. &#9632;

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Not This Year Say Leafs, Canadiens’ Officials

<h2>Sat., Dec. 19 NEW YORK 3, TORONTO 6</h2>NEW YORK&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Howell, Brown, Cahan, Neilson, Seiling; forwards: Gilbert, Nevin, Duff, Ingarfield, Hadfield, Fonteyne, Angotti, Ratelle, Goyette, Henry, Marshall.TORONTO&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence: Horton, Stanley, Baun, Brewer, Douglas; forwards: Bathgate, Armstrong, Mahovlich, Keon, Ellis, Pulford, Stewart, Shack, Kelly, Pappin, Harris.Referee: Buffey. Linesmen: Hayes. D&rsquo;Amico.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05281/2094077-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="542" height="784"></div><h2>CHICAGO 6, MONTREAL 3</h2>CHICAGO&mdash;Goal: DeJordy; defence: Pilote, Vasko, Ravlich, MacNeil; forwards: Mohns, Mikita, Wharram. Stanfield. Esposito. B. Hull, D. Hull, Robinson, Maki, McKenzie, Nesterenko.MONTREAL&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defence: Laperriere, J. C. Tremblay, Harris, Talbot, Harper; forwards: Provost, Richard, Balon, Larose, Cournoyer, Rousseau, McCreary, Ferguson. Roberts, Beliveau, Backstrom.Referee: Udvari; linesmen: Pavelich, Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06252/2094070-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="547" height="780"></div><h2>Sun., Dec. 20 MONTREAL 3, NEW YORK 2</h2>MONTREAL&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defence: Laperriere. J. C. Tremblay. Harris, Talbot, Harper; forwards: Beliveau, Backstrom, Larose, Cournoyer, Provost, Rousseau, Richard, Balon. Ferguson, Roberts. McCreary.NEW YORK&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Seiling, Brown, Neilson, Cahan, Howell; forwards: Gilbert, Nevin, Duff. Ingarfield, Hadfield, Mikol, Angotti, Ratelle, Goyette, Henry, Marshall.Referee: Buffey; linesmen: Armstrong, d&rsquo;Amico.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07231/2094063-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="545" height="524"></div><h2>TORONTO 1, DETROIT 3</h2>TORONTO&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defence: Brewer, Baun, Horton, Stanley, Douglas; forwards: Kelly, Pulford, Stewart, Mahovlich, Bathgate, Armstrong, McKenney, Keon, Ellis, Harris, Shack.DETROIT&mdash;Goal: Crozier; defence: Langlois, Gadsby, Pronovost, Barkley, Bergman; forwards: Lindsay, Joyal, MacGregor, Delvecchio, MacDonald. Howe. Murphy, Ullman, Smith, Martin, Henderson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08223/2094056-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="545" height="503"></div><h2>CHICAGO 3. BOSTON 2</h2>CHICAGO&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Vasko, Pilote, MacNeil, Ravlich; forwards: Wharram, Mikita, Mohns, Esposito, B. Hull, McKenzie, Maki, Hay, Nesterenko, D. Hull, Stanfield.BOSTON&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defence: Boivin, Westfall. Green, Awrey, Watson: forwards: Williams, Prentice, Maxner. Oliver, Rivers, Bucyk, Knibbs, Fleming, Kurtenbach, Kennedy.Referee: Friday; linesmen: Pavelich, A tanas.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09213/2094049-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="545" height="579"></div><h2>Wed., Dec. 23 NEW YORK 0, MONTREAL 2</h2>NEW YORK&mdash;Goal: Plante; Deience: Howell, Brown, Cahan, Neilson, Selling. Forwards: Gilbert, Ingarfield, Hicke, Hadfield. Nevin, Fonteyne, Angotti, Ratelie, Goyette. Henry, Marshall.MONTREAL&mdash;Goal: Hodge. Defence; Laperriere, J. C. Tremblay, Harris, Harper, Talbot. Forwards: Beliveau, Backstrom, Larose, Cournoyer, Provost, Rousseau, Duff, Richard, Balon, Ferguson, Roberts.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10192/2094042-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="543" height="471"></div> &#9632;

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National League Summaries

TRAIL, B.C.&mdash;The Russian National Hockey team wound up its eight-game Canadian tour without losing a game and the performance of the Reds certainly establishes them again as the team to beat for the 1965 World hockey championship at Finland next March.The Reds drew some well deserved raves from a hockey man who has travelled the International circuit in past years. He is Bobby Kromm.&ldquo;They have a real good hockey club, let&rsquo;s not kid ourselves.&rdquo;That was the comment of Kromm after his Western International Hockey League All-Star club&mdash;drawn from Nelson, Trail, Kimberley and Rossland teams in British Columbia&mdash;went down 9-7 before the touring Russian national team in the windup game.But it was far from a one-sided affair. And the crowd of 3,600 who filled the arena had plenty to scream about as the All-Stars had the Russians tied up 4-4 at the end of the first and 6-6 at the end of the second.Victory meant a clean record for the powerful, well-conditioned Russians. It gave them a record of seven wins&mdash;including three over Canada&rsquo;s national team&mdash;and one tie on their eight-game Canadian tour.The Russians, showing little of the weariness they must have felt, turned on the power in the final period to outscore the AllStars 3-1 for the win.It was all a matter of conditioning Coach Kromm said after the game as he shook the hand of each of his players and said: &ldquo;You guys played a hell of a game against a hell of a hockey club.&rdquo;&ldquo;We had our chances in the final period but were just a little too tired to make the most of them. With a few more games under our belts and some conditioning I think we could beat this Russian club.&rdquo;Seth Martin turned back 36 shots on the All-Stars&rsquo; net said &ldquo;this is the greatest Russian team yet.&rdquo; He was the net-minder for Canada&rsquo;s national team when they were beaten by the Russians last year. He said this year&rsquo;s version of the Soviet aggregation is 100 per cent better than the club Canada faced in 1963. &#9632;

Kromm, Martin Label Russians Top Team As Reds End Canadian Tour Undefeated

BUFFALO, N.Y<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05152/2094247-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="300" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Popeil</figcaption></div>Continuing problems at maintaining a five-man crew of defensemen forced the Buffalo Bisons to look to the St. Catharines Junior Black Hawks as the injury-jinx hit the Herd again.Ross Eichler of the Junior Black Hawks joined the Herd on a two-game trip to Baltimore and Springfield after Ed Van Impe suffered a bruised knee and was forced to skip several drills.Earlier, Ian Cushenan was idled for most of six weeks with a back ailment. Before that, Matt Ravlich was recalled by the parent Chicago Black Hawks.The crowning blow came when rookie Paul Popeil suffered a separated shoulder in practice and the medical people said it would be a month or six weeks before he could get back.Bob Wilson Jr., a member of the Bisons for three full seasons and parts of three others, re-joined the club, moving up from the St. Louis Braves of the Central Pro League. He was scheduled to remain here indefinitely.Gus Mortson, the former NHL all-star, became hockey&rsquo;s oldest &ldquo;rookie&rdquo; when he played three games with the Herd on a five-game amateur tryout basis at 39. Mortson is now living in Oakville, Ont., where he is in the food brokerage business, and is playing with the Oakville Oaks in the Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s incredible how we have had to juggle our defensemen,&rdquo; said Phil Watson, the Bison&rsquo;s coach. &ldquo;Every time I look up. we&rsquo;ve got a defenseman hurt. However, we&rsquo;re still doing pretty well, so I suppose I better not complain too much.&ldquo;It makes it a little rough on the boys, though, playing with so many different partners. They have all been doing a big job, and pitching in to do some extra.&rdquo;ALONG THE BOARDS&mdash;Stan Barron, former local sportscaster and now the Bisons&rsquo; publicist, was handling some of the road play-by-play broadcasts. Ed Edwards, of the Radio Station WGR sports staff, was doing the others&hellip;Shortly Lalonde, veteran icemaker here, took a burn when a local columnist complained about the ice conditions. &ldquo;The ice wasn&rsquo;t bad, and what makes it worse, the guy hasn&rsquo;t seen a dozen games in his life,&rdquo; Shorty said. &#9632;

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Injuries Force Herd To Make Frantic Changes In Defense; Shoulder Separation Puts Popeil On Sidelines Six Weeks

<div class="byline">BY SHELL FULLERTON</div>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;Remember the name Gordon James Wilkie.You will be reading it often in the next few years.No less an authority than Fred Glover, playing-coach of the Cleveland Barons, says, &ldquo;Wilkie is going to be a fine hockey player.&rdquo;The 24-year-old Cleveland rookie, now getting his baptism as a professional, gets progressively better with each game he plays. He is well on his way to making the transition from college All-American to an experienced pro performer.The 6-1, 180-pound youngster from Regina, Sask., captured the attention of hockey scouts both prior to, and during, his attendance at the University of Michigan, where he achieved All-American honors.Wilkie concluded his career with the Wolverines as a member of the 1963-64 NCAA champions and as leading scorer of the Western Collegiate Hockey League.As proficient in the classroom as he was with a hockey stick, Wilkie achieved the signal honor of being awarded the Conference Medal by his university, granted annually by each Big Ten school to the under-graduate who shows the greatest proficiency in scholastic accomplishment and athletics.Obviously, Wilkie is no dummy. His work with the Barons shows it. He learns fast, works hard and improves himself consistently.A centre at Michigan, Wilkie found himself shifted to left wing as the current American Hockey League season opened. Although he was out of position and quite obviously not accustomed to the rigorous life of a professional, he had the advantage of being placed on a line with Glover and Ren Attwell, a pair of accomplished performers whose know-how helped the youngster immeasurably.When Cecil Hoekstra experienced back trouble, resulting in a disc operation that will keep him sidelined indefinitely, Wilkie moved to the centre spot on the Barons&rsquo; third line.He looked right at home at his new position, even though he had to work with a pair of comparative newcomers in Wayne Freitag and Doug Senior.&ldquo;What I like about Wilkie,&rdquo; comments Glover, &ldquo;is his intense desire and his willingness to work. He&rsquo;s going to be a good one before he&rsquo;s through.&ldquo;His talents are becoming more apparent, the more he plays. At the beginning of the season, he was really huffing and puffing, but now that he is rounding into shape he is getting better and better.&rdquo;A fast, aggressive skater, the ex-Michigan star is proving his worth as he pursues the puck relentlessly and shows no hesitation in using his weight against burly opponents.Still not an accomplished professional scorer, his point total is growing as he becomes more accustomed to the pro style of play. In his first 25 games for Cleveland, he tallied six goals and seven assists for 13 points. That record is bound to improve.In what must be regarded as the Barons&rsquo; best weekend, to date, Wilkie scored twice in a 5-3 victory over Pittsburgh and again the following night in a 4-3 triumph over Providence. In each game, Wilkie came up with the winning goal.Wilkie, of English extraction, is single. His junior hockey days were spent with the Regina Pats, with whom he performed in the 1957-58 season in the Memorial Cup finals. He is with the Barons on option from the Montreal Canadiens.In a season in which key injuries and other misfortunes have pursued the Barons relentlessly, Wilkie is a real bright spot. &#9632;

Collegiate Ace Wilkie An Asset For Barons

WALLY NORTHERN PRO HOCKEY STICKSWALLY NORTHERN PRO HOCKEY STICKS<h2>How They Stand</h2>(Standing on Fri., Dec. 25)<h3>Eastern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01506/2094216-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="549" height="154"></div><h3>Western Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02420/2094209-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="545" height="229"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri., Dec. 18Buffalo 5, Baltimore 4Pittsburgh 3, Hershey 0Sat.. Dec. 19Quebec 5. Hershey 3Cleveland 5, Pittsburgh 3Springfield 5. Buffalo 0Sun.. Dec. 20Providence 4. Quebec 2Buffalo 3, Baltimore 2Pittsburgh 7, Cleveland 3Hershey 2, Rochester 1<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Fri., Dec. 25Hershey at BaltimoreSpringfield at ProvidenceBuffalo at RochesterSat., Dec. 26Rochester at ClevelandBaltimore at HersheyBuffalo at PittsburghQuebec at SpringfieldSun.. Dec. 27Pittsburgh at BuffaloHershey at ClevelandBaltimore at ProvidenceQuebec at RochesterTues., Dec. 29Pittsburgh at BaltimoreProvidence at QuebecWed., Dec. 30Rochester at BuffaloCleveland at HersheySpringfield at PittsburghThurs., Dec. 31Springfield at RochesterFri., Jan. 1Springfield at BaltimoreCleveland at ProvidenceSat., Jan. 2Buffalo at ClevelandRochester at HersheyQuebec at PittsburghProvidence at SpringfieldSun., Jan. 3Quebec at BaltimoreCleveland at BuffaloPittsburgh at ProvidenceHershey at Rochester<h2>Point Race</h2>(Including Games of Sun. Dec. 13)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03317/2094202-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="560" height="858"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04225/2094195-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="548" height="549"></div><h2>American League Summaries</h2><h3>Fri., Dec. 18 BUFFALO 5. BALTIMORE 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06120/2094188-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="548" height="729"></div><h3>HERSHEY 0, PITTSBURGH 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0799/2094181-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="540" height="400"></div><h3>Sat., Dec. 19 PITTSBURGH 3, CLEVELAND 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0883/2094174-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="547" height="676"></div><h3>QUEBEC 5, HERSHEY 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0968/2094167-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="545" height="600"></div><h3>BUFFALO 0, SPRINGFIELD 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1059/2094160-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="555" height="522"></div><h3>Sun., Dec. 20 CLEVELAND 3. PITTSBURGH 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1152/2094153-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="546" height="850"></div><h3>HERSHEY 2. ROCHESTER 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1238/2094146-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="549" height="521"></div><h3>BALTIMORE 3, BUFFALO 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1067/2094139-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="548" height="529"></div><h3>QUEBEC 2, PROVIDENCE 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1157/2094132-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="544" height="684"></div><div class="sidebar">The editors of HOCKEY NEWS wish to announce that, because of the New Year&rsquo;s holiday, publication date had to be advanced not allowing us to include weekend games of Dec. 25-26-27 in this issue. They will be carried complete in the next issue. &#9632;</div>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY JOE GORDON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03423/2094333-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="457" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body">YVES LOCAS&hellip;In Prolonged Slump</figcaption></div>PITTSBURGH, Pa.With only one loss in their last six games, the Pittsburgh Hornets at long last look like the championship club of last year. Four victories and a tie have moved them back into contention in the Western Division race.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02459/2094340-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="239" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Claude LaForge</figcaption></div>Whereas earlier in the campaign the Hornets were having trouble scoring goals and preventing their opponents from getting them, now the situation has been reversed. During this six game span, the Wasps have outscored the opposition by a 2-1 margin, or 28 goals to 14.Coach Vic Stasiuk credits the improvement to two things. &ldquo;We finally got everybody on the ice at one time. Those injuries really hurt early in the year. Now we have been able to work together and that has made the big difference. Then, too, Bob Champoux, who has been filling in for the injured Hank Bassen in goal, has done a great job. Our defense has really played well in front of him,&rdquo; explained Stasiuk.Champoux took over for Bassen after the veteran netminder suffered a groin injury. The Hornets hadn&rsquo;t won a game in six outings. He promptly led them to back-to-back victories over Providence, and then added two more wins in his next three starts.The 22-year-old Champoux has allowed just 11 goals in the five games he has played. He also turned in Pittsburgh&rsquo;s first shutout of the season when he blanked Hershey, 3-0. It was the first Hornet victory over the Bears in 10 games, going all the way back to November, 1963. Before that blanking, the Bears had whipped the Hornets three times already this season.Center Teddy Hampson continues his torrid pace in the scoring parade. He is skating between wings Claude LaForge and Jerry Toppazzini, who also have been wielding hot sticks.Since Toppazzini returned to full-time duty after recovering from a groin injury, this trio has chalked up a total of thirty points in their last five games. Between them the distribution is pretty even with LaForge getting 11 points, followed by Hampson with 10 and Toppazzini with nine. In this stretch, Hampson has tallied five goals and has scored at least one point in six straight games.&ldquo;Right now this line is as good as any in the league. They&rsquo;ve really been hustling out there and it&rsquo;s paid off for all of them,&rdquo; commented Stasiuk.Stasiuk is still puzzled over Yves Locas&rsquo; failure to snap out of the scoring doldrums. Always a slow starter, Locas, who tied for the league lead in goals scored last season with 40. hasn&rsquo;t been able to find the range this season. He has not tallied in the Hornets last nine games and Stasiuk has been using him sparingly in the Hornet surge. &#9632;

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Champoux’s Goa ling, Full Lineup Help Put Sting Back In Hornets

<div class="byline">BY BUSTER CLEGG</div>PROVIDENCE, R. I.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04385/2094371-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="278" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gil Gilbert</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Just call me Gil!That was the simple, unpretentious request of young Jeannot Gilbert, a 23-year-old rookie, when he reported to the Rhode Island Reds travelling training camp late in September.Gilbert, a highly touted centre whom the Bruins feel could make a great National Leaguer, was fresh from a fantastic season in the Central Pro League where he was voted Most Valuable Player last year.And yet, upon his arrival, the quiet, unspoiled star who had 50 goals for Minneapolis last year requested just one favor: &ldquo;Just call me Gil!&rdquo;This simple phrase, directed at several curious newsmen accompanying the Reds on an exhibition sojourn through eastern Canada, has been one of the very few utterings made by Gilbert since joining the Providence club.To be sure, Jeannot (or Gil as he prefers to be called) has gone about his work in a very silent, but extremely efficient manner in his new, fast world of the American Hockey League.The silent centre, who&rsquo;d rather smile an acknowledgement than speak it, is fast proving his capabilities as an American League pivotman.Comparatively inexperienced as AHL standards go, Gilbert became one of the club&rsquo;s leading scorers through a 7-game exhibition series. As the regular season progressed, Gil has gained momentum until now, at this writing, he leads the Reds in scoring.Naturally, the faster calibre of the American League has limited his individual accomplishments as compared to last year with Minneapolis, but nevertheless he has proven to be a very valuable asset to coach Ferny Flaman and the Reds. &#9632;

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Potential National Leaguer, Gilbert Tops Reds’ Scorers

<div class="byline">BY GENE McCORMICK</div>SPRINGFIELD Mass.New-comer Brian Smith is proving to be one of the bright-lights among newcomers this season for the Springfield Indians in the American Hockey League.&ldquo;We know he&rsquo;ll score for us,&rdquo; was the pre-season appraisal of Smith by owner Eddie Shore and coach Pat Egan. And the 24-year-old Ottawa-born sharpshooter has neither disappointed his coach or fans in that respect as he has rattled in 13 goals in the first 31 games of the campaign.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05325/2094402-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="273" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Sweeney</figcaption></div>Smith played an important role in the team&rsquo;s all-out effort to break out of a slump on home ice last Saturday night. He scored a goal, and helped set up another. Just as important, too, was the big play he made when he hustled back down the ice to come out of nowhere to break up a three-in-one potential scoring thrust by the Buffalo Bisons.Smith admitted Monday that he got a big kick out of that particular play.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve picked up a lot of hockey knowledge playing here in Springfield,&rdquo; Smith said. When I was with Hull-Ottawa in the Montreal chain that team used to stress backchecking. But certainly no more or even as much as Springfield. I realize it&rsquo;s an important step toward becoming a well-rounded hockey player.&rdquo;Smith says he is enjoying playing in Springfield&mdash;a fact worth mentioning when you consider the fact he sat out of pro hockey last year rather than report to the Indians.&ldquo;I think the fans have been more than fair to me and to-the entire team for that matter. I know we went sour for awhile at home We had a few bad i games and I personally have played some bad periods. But I like the way they stick by us and I only hope we can justify their loyalty to the team.Smith feels he&rsquo;s fortunate to be in the company of the Tribe&rsquo;s three centermen &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been switched around so that I have played a great deal with Bill Sweeney and some with Brian Kilrea and Denny Olson. The last couple of games I&rsquo;ve been with Kilrea&mdash;but with anyone of them you know you&rsquo;re going to get plenty of scoring opportunities,&rdquo; he pointed out.Along the same line Egan said that he thought Smith has adapted himself very well to each line he has skated on at left wing.&ldquo;He works well with his centreman&mdash;and that&rsquo;s important. He has an exceptionally hard shot and has a knack for being in the right position in front of the nets. Some players never obtain that facet for being in the right place at the right time.&rdquo;Smith comes from a family with a hockey background His father is Des Smith, a defense-man who played four years with the Boston Bruins, and one year each with Chicago and Montreal. Des&rsquo; NHL career centered around the late thirties and early forties before he went into the service where, incidentally, he played some hockey with the Tribe&rsquo;s Egan.The Springfield newcomer turns out to be a believer in that he feels the Indians will definitely make the playoffs.&ldquo;I know we&rsquo;ve got the stuff to beat out Baltimore and Providence Look at our defense. Bill White, I think is the best in the league. And our other guys are good, too. (Barclay) Plager is going to be a real big help to us. The fans haven&rsquo;t seen anything yet. What was it he got last season in the Central League&hellip;50 assists wasn&rsquo;t it? He can really carry the puck. I played with him at Hull-Ottawa and he can really bodycheck. He&rsquo;s going to hit a lot of guys before this season is over.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Newcomer Brian Smith Playing Big Role In Upsurge

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Four Chicago Black Hawks players, blush had their jerseys stolen after a game at the Montreal Forum and had to wear new sweaters when they played against the Bruins the following night.Stan Mikita, Chico Maki, Al MacNeil and rookie Dennis Hull were victimized by the thief. Mikita donned No. 8 instead of his usual 21, prompting one of the balcony fans to crack:&ldquo;What&rsquo;s Mikita trying to do, disguise himself? Don&rsquo;t worry, we&rsquo;d spot him anywhere.&rdquo; &#9632;

Hawks Red Faced Jerseys Stolen

Before you say SCOTCH &ldquo;say&rdquo; DEWAR&rsquo;S it never variesBefore you say SCOTCH &ldquo;say&rdquo; DEWAR&rsquo;S it never varies<h2>How They Stand</h2>(Standings on Fri., Dec. 25)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1252/2094520-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="553" height="186"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1-Toronto; 5-New York; 6-Boston)<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues., Dec. 22Victoria 4, San Francisco 3<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri., Dec. 18Los Angeles 6, Victoria 4Seattle 2. Vancouver 1Sat.. Dec. 19San Francisco 6, Victoria SSeattle 4, Portland 1Sun.. Dec. 20Los Angeles 3, Victoria 1Seattle 5, Vancouver 1San Francisco 3, Portland 3<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Fri., Dec. 25Seattle at PortlandSat., Dec. 26Seattle at VancouverPortland at VictoriaSun., Dec. 27San Francisco at Los AngelesVancouver at PortlandVictoria at SeattleTues., Dec. 29Portland at VancouverSeattle at VictoriaFri., Jan. 1Los Angeles at San FranciscoVictoria at PortlandSeattle at VancouverSat., Jan. 2San Francisco at Los AngelesVancouver at VictoriaSun.. Jan. 3Seattle at San FranciscoLos Angeles at Portland<h2>WHL Point Race</h2>(Inclndins ames of Sun. Dec. 13)<h3>PORTLAND</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01498/2094513-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="553" height="533"></div><h3>SEATTLE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02400/2094506-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="550" height="448"></div><h3>LOS ANGELES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03299/2094499-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="548" height="475"></div><h3>SAN FRANCISCO</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04225/2094492-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="551" height="453"></div><h3>VANCOUVER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05172/2094485-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="550" height="475"></div><h3>VICTORIA</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06144/2094478-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="550" height="501"></div><h2>WHL Summaries</h2><h3>Wed., Dec. 16 VICTORIA 6, SAN FRANCISCO 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07108/2094471-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="548" height="765"></div><h3>Fri.. Dec. 18 SEATTLE 2, VANCOUVER 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0890/2094464-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="545" height="503"></div><h3>VICTORIA 4, LOS ANGELES 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0977/2094457-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="551" height="754"></div><div class="sidebar">The editors of HOCKEY NEWS wish to announce that, because of the New Year&rsquo;s holiday, publication date had to be advanced not allowing us to include weekend games of Dec. 25-26-27 in this issue. They will be carried complete in the next issue. &#9632;</div>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

LOS ANGELES, Calif&mdash;Los Angeles Blades centreman Norm Johnson, who led the individual race last week by 3 points has his lead narrowed to two points this week despite the fact that he scored a goal and added three assists in two games played. The crafty playmaker now has 15 goals and 33 assists for 48 points in 29 games played.Hard on his heels is another centreman. Seattle&rsquo;s Guyle Fielder who came up with a goal and five assists in three games played, and now has 46 points in 31 games played. San Francisco&rsquo;s Charlie Burns moved from fourth place last week to third this week by scoring four goals and two assists in three games, boosting his total to 17 goals and 25 assists for 42 points.Leftwinger Brian Smith of the Los Angeles Blades continues to set the pace among the League goalscorers. Smith fired two more goals in two games played last week to up his total to 21 in 29 games. Despite his output he is being hard-pressed for the lead by another California winger, San Francisco&rsquo;s Wayne Connelly. Connelly has rifled 19 goals in 29 games.Seattle&rsquo;s Fielder, who held a four point bulge in the assist department last week, increased his lead to six over his nearest rival, Johnson. Fielder now has 39 assists in 31 games as compared to Johnson&rsquo;s 33 assists in 29 contests.Red hot Seattle goalkeeper Jim McLeod, allowing only one goal in each of his last four games, is now operating at a record-setting pace in Western League play. The three goals against in 3 games played last week lowered his average to a sparkling 2.39&mdash;which is one percentage point better than the best season record ever recorded by a goalkeeper in WHL play. (&ldquo;Gump&rdquo; Worsley, playing with Vancouver in the 1953-54 season. set the record for best season average with 2.40)McLeod now has allowed 74 goals in 31 games while stopping 749 shots. Portland&rsquo;s Don Head allowed 7 goals in two games played but managed to keep his average below the 3.00 mark. He now has allowed 71 goals in 24 games for a 2.96 average.Los Angeles defenseman Howie Young modestly picked up one minor penalty in each of two games played last week to up his total to 124 minutes for the season, 13 minutes more than his nearest rival, Seattle&rsquo;s Larry ZeideU who has 111 minutes.Player of the week honors went to Victoria centreman Long John Sieaver. The big checking, playmaker scored 2 goals and assisted on five other for seven points in 4 games for the week&rsquo;s best output.AROUND THE LEAGUE&hellip; The 2-1 victory by the Seattle Totems over Vancouver in Vancouver last Friday makes the leading Totems the only team in the league that has tasted victory in every Arena in the League&hellip;The hat trick turned in by San Francisco&rsquo;s George Swarbrick against Victoria last Saturday was the eleventh of the season and the first by a rookie&hellip;Victoria&rsquo;s Ed Mazur set a rather dubious penalty record last Friday in Los Angeles when he was whistled for a penalty at 0:01 of the first period, It&rsquo;s a cinch that this record will not be topped in the WHL play. &#9632;

Fielder Closing Gap On Blades’ Norm Johnson

Personally endorsed by&hellip;George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach coach of Toronto Maple Leafs7th YEAR 1965 &ldquo;LEARN TO PLAY HOCKEY AT THE SCHOOL THAT TEACHES&rdquo;.8 WEEKLY SESSIONS AT EAST YORK MEMORIAL ARENA JULY & AUGUSTWE GUARANTEE TO GIVE OUR STUDENTS MORE ICE-TIME THAN ANY OTHER SCHOOL.BROCHURE NOW READYWrite or PhoneTORONTO HOCKEY SCHOOL1029 Spodina Road TORONTO 12-Phone 489-9730New accommodation building now ready at the arena. &#9632;

WORLD’S GREATEST TORONTO HOCKEY SCHOOL

<div class="byline">BY STANLEY BRINK</div>EAST LANSING, MICH.Bob Busse, University of Wisconsin defenseman, was consistent here during a two-game series with Michigan State. Busse put in 16 minutes in the penalty box the first night, 16 the second. In each game he drew a misconduct and one involved fighting.In their first venture against a WCHA member, the Wisconsin players discovered that competitive spirit was not enough as State won the pair, 9-2 and 9-0. Previously Wisconsin had won twice from Macalester of St. Paul and twice from St. Mary&rsquo;s of Winona, Minnesota.WCHA members have won the national title 15 times with Michigan taking seven, Denver three, North Dakota two, Colorado College two, and Michigan Tech one. Only outsiders to break in were Boston College and Renselaer Polytechnic.&mdash;<h2>Sioux Outclassed</h2>HOUGHTON, MICH.Dee Stadium, Michigan Tech&rsquo;s home rink, is a poor place for University of North Dakota. In their last twelve games here the best the Sioux could get was one tie.Twelve sophomores decorate the current Michigan Tech array headed by two goalers, Rick Best and Tony Esposito, wings Colin Patterson and Wayne Weller. Senior Wing Al Holm and Junior defense Pete Leiman were other important sticks in Tech winning its first six games.Outstanding were the two roustings of North Dakota the first in overtime, 3-2. The second was another blazer with Tech triumphing, 5-2.On early returns, Tech will dispute with Denver. Michigan, and North Dakota over the full distance for the WCHA flag.<h2>Cornell Brother Act</h2>ITHACA, New YorkLike the fellow who put on his hat as the first act of robing in the morning, Cornell University is different. Instead of the customary two brother routine which is not uncommon in hockey Cornell offers three Fergusons, sophomores, who do not operate on the same line.Dave trios with Jim Wallace and Bob Leaf. Doug and Bob are with Mike Doran. Of the nine regular forwards all are Canadians except Leaf and Wallace who are &ldquo;foreigners&rdquo; from Minnesota.<h2>Brown Squad Tops</h2>PROVIDENCE Rhode Is.In the few weeks since practice began Brown University candidates came up with so much depth and talent that Coach James H. Ferguson steps out of his conservative role to say the squad is his best since he came to Brown.Bob Gaudreau. a scourge on defense and an effective scorer in his consistency rates with the nation&rsquo;s best. Leon Bryant, Fred Soule, Henry Manley form one of three valuable lines after playing two seasons together.While no claims are being made, Brown stands as a contender with Cornell, Yale, and Dartmouth for the Ivy League championship. Only Harvard and Princeton appear to be out of it this winter.<h2>Colorado Puzzled</h2>COLORADO SPRINGS, Col.That all too often unanswered hockey question, &ldquo;what must we do to win&rdquo;, is being asked by Coach Bob Johnson of Colorado College. In every one of the first five games CC outshot the opposition only to lose. One went into overtime.The goalers of each team performed remarkably in the two game set with University of Minnesota&mdash;Duluth. In the first tilt Mike Carter for Colorado College and Bill Halbrehder of UM-D had 42 and 50 stops respectively with CC losing, in the added session, 5-4.In the second game, won by Duluth 5-3 Carter had 30 and Halbrehder, 42. &#9632;

Michigan Flexes Hockey Muscles

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div>LOS ANGELES, Calif.San Francisco, playoff champion of the Western Hockey League the last two seasons may be ready to make its move up from near the cellar this season. After being unable to win as many as two games in a row in the first third of the season, the Seals recently won three straight. Coach Bud Poile&rsquo;s team put on an impressive display of strength when it scored seven goals in the third period to topple visiting Vancouver 8-5. Dispossessed coach Nick Mickoski, who is playing enormously well under uncomfortable circumstances, scored two of those goals. Another veteran who has been going well is Len Haley, who has scored a goal or an assist in each of his last 12 games, a total of seven goals and 18 assists for 25 points in that span.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01475/2094637-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="257" height="397"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Dornhoefer</figcaption></div>The Seals further bolstered themselves recently with the acquisition of Gary Dornhoefer, 21-year-old winger from Boston Bruins. Runnerup for NHL rookie-of-the-year honors when he scored 12 goals and had 10 assists last season, Dornhoefer got off to a slow start this season, but he has potential. &ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t been able to hit his stride yet. But he will&mdash;you can bet on it&mdash;and he&rsquo;s bound to help us,&rdquo; Poile said. Gary comes down on 24-hour recall option. For fear of losing key players at key times, the Seals have resisted such options in the past, but they went for it this time in order to get a lift, if only temporarily&hellip;Vancouver got a lift when defensive rookie Bob Plager was returned to them by the New York Rangers. Plager may not be ready for the big time, but he has a future there.Victoria&rsquo;s defending pennant-winners snapped the Seal win-string at three with a win behind their new goalie Gary Smith, a huge, 6-4 and 215 pounds, young, 20-years-old, rookie, originally ticketed for Tulsa of the Central League, but detoured into Victoria. After slumping Al Millar, last season&rsquo;s leading WHL goalie, had permitted three goals past him in the first period of a game at Seattle, Rudy Pilous yanked him, inserted Smith, and the agile giant performed tremendously and is now getting a full shot at keeping the job. He is very highly touted. Larry Keenan scored the three-goal hat-trick in the big win. Pilous has also brought in Claude Labrosse and Bobby Taylor to strengthen the Victoria defense, and Danny Belisle to strengthen the offense. Taylor, who was born in England and did not skate until he was 16, is a first-year pro. If Pilous can keep his iron fist hammering down rebellions in the ranks, Victoria may be ready to make its move, too, thus tightening up the race all six ways.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02417/2094630-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="284" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Betisle</figcaption></div>L.A. has been clinging to the fourth and last playoff spot for some time now, but it is in danger of assaults from the rear and coach Alfie Pike knows it very well. &ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re ready to be a real top contender. If we&rsquo;re not ready, we&rsquo;re in trouble,&rdquo; Pike says. &ldquo;If certain players don&rsquo;t shape up right now, we&rsquo;re going to make some changes and drop one or two.&rdquo; The moving finger is pointing at forwards Warren Hynes, Gordon Vejprava and Gordon Haworth, defensemen Camille Bedard, Lloyd Haddon and Harley Hodgson and goalie Jack Norris&hellip;L.A.&rsquo;s Pike says, Championships have been won and lost on faceoffs. Few fans realize how important they are. There are about 30 faceoffs per game.&rdquo; Each centre usually participated in a third of these. Pike names Norm Johnson as his own best faceoff man and Phil Maloney of Vancouver as another good one. &ldquo;There are some players who won&rsquo;t get one a year,&rdquo; he smiled, naming no names&hellip;Arnie Schmautz of Portland may be the best man in the league at scoring goals when his team is short-handed. The quick-change artist recently scored such goals in two straight road games&hellip;Some 465 more minutes in penalties have been called and in fewer games, than at about this same time last season. There is an average of one more minor penalty per game. The real difference is in almost twice as many misconducts having been called. Clearly, the refs are poor conversationalists. Television has done this. People just don&rsquo;t know how to talk to each other any more.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03354/2094623-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="259" height="398"><figcaption class="caption-body">Arnie Schmautz</figcaption></div>Andy Anderson is president and publicist of Seattle&rsquo;s Sertoma Amateur Hockey League, and a goalie in his spare time. The recent promotion of Emile (Cat) Francis to general manager of New York&rsquo;s Rangers reminded him of a 1958 night when Spokane goalie Francis&rsquo; trick shoulder popped out and Anderson went into the nets for him in Seattle. Losing 2-0 when he went in, Andy was losing 12-4 when he went out. He was paid $10, which comes to a-buck-a-goal. The bombardment did not bother him, however. In the amateurs, he was beaten 13-1 one night, then left on a two-game road-trip in which he was beaten 13-2 and 28-0. By the way, he led the Sertoma League goalies with a 2,000 average last season, though he received no fat pro offers, for some reason. You must assume the defense in front of the goalie has something to do with the goals allowed. &#9632;

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Western Ad Lib

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04275/2094675-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="995" height="363"></div>WIN A RETURN TRIP FOR TWO TO LONDON FLY B&middot;O&middot;A&middot;CBRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05207/2094668-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="1004" height="705"></div>This year HOCKEY NEWS and HOCKEY PICTORIAL are sponsoring a travel contest to London and will present two BOAC tickets to the lucky winner.All readers of THE HOCKEY NEWS and HOCKEY PICTORIAL are eligible to enter the contest. The drawing of the winning entry will be made in March, 1965, and the winner will be announced in the Playoff issue.<h2>HERE ARE THE CONTEST RULES</h2>1. Answer correctly the question asked in the entry coupon. Fill in your name and address (Please Print), and mail the coupon to Contest Editor, HOCKEY NEWS, Box 248, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 2. You may have as many chances to win as you wish. The Travel Contest Coupon will be published in each issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS and HOCKEY PICTORIAL from October 1964 through March, 1965. Each correct answer is a chance to win. The regulation contest form from either THE HOCKEY NEWS or HOCKEY PICTORIAL must be used to qualify. 3. At the end of the Contest, the winner will be selected by a qualified panel of judges. 4. The Contest is open to all readers of THE HOCKEY NEWS and HOCKEY PICTORIAL except employees and their immediate relatives of these publications, British Overseas Airways Corporation and its Advertising Agency. 5. The winner will be notified by mail or in person on or before March 31st, 1965. 6. The Contest is void in any area where prohibited or restricted by law.WHAT HOCKEY FAN WOULDN&rsquo;T WANT TO WIN A TRIP TO LONDON FOR TWO! &#9632;

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Hockey News Readers

<div class="byline">BY MATT DENNIS</div>MEMPHIS, Tenn.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01350/2094772-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="284" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Bush</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We may have been slow starting but now we are moving in high gear&rdquo; said coach Eddie Bush of the Memphis Wings as he surveyed the standings noting that his club, although still cellar-dwellers in the Central Professional League, were out three points back of fifth-place St. Louis Braves.The Wings only scored one victory in their first 12 outings on the road while awaiting the completion of thier new Mid-South Coliseum home. But since reaching their home ice, they have started to move and as Bush says, &ldquo;The Memphis fans have been wonderful to us.&rdquo;In St. Paul, Fred Shero, guiding the destinies of the Rangers from the coaching spot also had good words to toss in favor of the Wings.&ldquo;Man for man personnel-wise, Memphis has to be a match for any one of the rest of the teams in the loop. But when you put a team on the road for two months then you&rsquo;ve got problems. They rarely were beaten badly and they&rsquo;ll come into their own once they are able to settle down and get those fans behind them.&rdquo;Every coach needs intensive practice sessions and make changes and with his background as a clever hockey man, Bush wanted time at home to iron out his problems.&ldquo;We know how to pass, these boys have shown they are are accustomed to pattern plays and our defence problems are being straightened out. Billy Carter, a recent acquisition from Seattle is a player who can skate and only shows his best when working hard and he will fit in with us. Andre Pronovost has the reputation from the National Hockey League as a dogged skater and checker. So we&rsquo;ll be all right, now that we are able to set up regular practice schedules,&rdquo; said Bush.Like the other teams in the circuit who have found that injuries in the National and American leagues can hinder them, Wings lost goalie Bob Champoux to Pittsburgh when Hank Bassen came up with an ailing back.Howie Menard, classy Memphis player suffered an eye injury and will be out of action for another two weeks. Don Chiz and Greg Pilling are recovering from physical ailments and will be back in the lineup soon.ST. LOUIS&mdash;St. Louis Braves&rsquo; coach Gus Kyle is only hoping that a few good breaks will come his way. He lost Frank Golembrosky, Ken Gustafson. Jack Hendrickson and Chuck Kelly early with injuries. The parent Chicago Black Hawks kept Al &ldquo;Boom Boom&rdquo; Caron until after the regular season opened and Dennis Hull was in only for a short visit before being forced to returned to the Hawks due to NHL waiver regulations. But John Brenneman, who scored 28 goals and had 47 assists last season, is back and the defence should tighten with former NHL veteran Wayne Hillman joining the team from Chicago. Goalie Roy Edwards was given a rest and Jack McCartan. the American born netminder who played 67 games for the Braves last season, was signed in an effort to inject some new life into the club. Caron, Merv Kuryluk, Bob Cunningham and Larry Mickey were Braves&rsquo; most consistent performers up front over the first 17 games.OMAHA&mdash;Knights are starting to show the form they displayed last year on their championship dash and since goalie Ernie Wakley took over his former spot in the nets and Nick Polano moved in on defence, they have been a going concern. When the season commenced. McCreary never thought the St. Paul Saints with their long winning streak were the &ldquo;greatest&rdquo; and told his players so. They have kept rolling with a balanced attack with Norm Dennis, Andre Boudrias, Bob Charlebois, Bob Brinkworth and Keith Wright counting the goals and Noel Picard and John Gauthier acting as players rushing up from their defence posts. McCreary gave good example with five goals and 12 assists over the first 21 games.ST. PAUL&mdash;Jake Milford, general manager of the Rangers, has been trying to get players help as his club has not responded since the loss of Ulf Sterner to Baltimore. Milford made a quick trip to Brandon, Man. to look over Yu Hu Wilding, who came to Canada from Sweden although born in Finland and Rick Hextali, 19-year-old son of Bryan Hextall former New York Ranger star of some years back.After notching 13 victories in their first 18 engagements, Rangers could come up with only two in their next six and Minneapolis and Tulsa crowded them in for the first rung. Forward Gary Sabourin is back in the Rangers&rsquo; line up after only spot appearances in early season.MINNEAPOLIS&mdash;Playing-coach Harry Sinden is pleased with the way his club reacted after losing high-scoring forwards Wayne Maxner and Bill Knibbs to the Boston Bruins. &ldquo;We showed more than the Rangers when they were forced to send Ulf Sterner to Baltimore and our defence has displayed much improvement with Ken Stephenson leading the way.&rdquo; The Bruins put 21-year-old Gary Harmer on the waiver list and he was snapped up by the St. Louis Braves who looked to him for forechecking help. When the parent Bruins lost rearguard Bob McCord due to a back injury, Joe Watson was called up and impressed in brief appearances in his first game against Detroit Red Wings.TULSA&mdash;Rudy Migay, Oilers&rsquo; playing-coach is not overly disturbed so far on the penalties minutes drawn by his club over the first 20 games. They amassed 483 in the first 20 games. Larry Johnston was the leader with 109 minutes and Pat Quinn, another defenceman, was next with 80 minutes. Migay, a major league veteran, states: &ldquo;If you&rsquo;re aggressive in this game, you have to get penalties. This is a bodily-contact sport and maybe at times the checks we hand out draw penalties as our younger players are so eager and inexperienced. But we are in every game.&rdquo; Migay is beaming over the play of Tom McCarthy who grabbed off the top spot in the scoring race. He is as anxious to score but unselfish in passing the puck adding to his assist total. Veteran Marc Reaume is also shinning as an offensive threat setting up 15 goals over the first 20 games as his club started to knock on first place.<div class="sidebar">The editors of HOCKEY NEWS wish to announce that, because of the New Year&rsquo;s holiday, publication date had to be advanced not allowing us to include weekend games of Dec. 25-26-27 in this issue. They will be carried complete in the next issue. &#9632;</div>

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Bush Confident Wings To Climb With Home Ice; Sterner’s Loss Felt By Slumping St. Paul Saints

Don&rsquo;t be vague&hellip;say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKYDon&rsquo;t be vague&hellip;say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKY<h2>How They Stand</h2>(Standings on Fri., Dec. 25)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0694/2094741-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="552" height="255"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed., Dec. 23Minneapolis 5, St. Louis 3<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri., Dec. 18Omaha 4, Minneapolis 2St. Paul 11, St. Louis 0Memphis 4, Tulsa 2Sat., Dec. 19Omaha 7, St. Louis 1Tulsa 4. Memphis 3Sun., Dec. 20Minneapolis 4, St. Louis 1Omaha 4. St. Paul 1Memphis 3. Tulsa 2<h3>GAMES TO COMF.</h3>Fri., Dec. 25St. Louis at MemphisTulsa at St. PaulSat., Dec. 26Minneapolis at St. LouisTulsa at St. PaulOmaha at MemphisSun., Dec. 27Memphis at St. Louis St.Paul at OmahaTulsa at MinneapolisThurs., Dec. 31Tulsa at OmahaFri., Jan. 1St. Louis at MemphisOmaha at TulsaSat., Jan. 2Memphis at St. PaulMinneapolis at Omaha St.Louis at TulsaSun., Jan. 3Memphis at MinneapolisTulsa at St. Louis<h3>LEAKING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0783/2094734-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="551" height="344"></div><h2>Summaries For CPHL</h2><h3>Sat., Dec. 12 MEMPHIS 3, OMAHA 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02288/2094727-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="552" height="804"></div><h3>Sun., Dec. 13 MEMPHIS 3. ST. PAUL 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03218/2094720-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="547" height="453"></div><h3>MINNEAPOLIS 1. TULSA 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04179/2094713-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="545" height="575"></div><h3>Wed., Dec. 16 St. Louis 4, St. Paul 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05123/2094706-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="544" height="617"></div> &#9632;

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

<h2>EASTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed., Dec. 23)<h3>Northern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01288/2094810-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="544" height="186"></div><h3>Southern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02246/2094803-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="548" height="160"></div>(NHL Afiliation: 4-Detroit; 5-New York; 6-Boston)<h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Fri., Dec. 18New Jersey 9. Johnstown 4New York 3, Long Island 3Greensboro 11, Jacksonville 6Clinton 4. Knoxville 0Sat., Dec. 19Charlotte 4, Johnstown 2Jacksonville 5, Knoxville 4Nashville 6, Greensboro 4New York 2, Long Island 1Sun., Dec. 20Clinton 4, New Jersey 3New York 4, Charlotte 1Johnstown 10, New Haven 1Knoxville 6, Jacksonville 5<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Fri., Dec. 25Jacksonville at KnoxvilleCharlotte at NashvilleSat., Dec. 26New Haven at New YorkJohnstown at Long IslandNew Jersey at ClintonNashville at GreensboroKnoxville at CharlotteSun., Dec. 27Long Island at JohnstownNew Jersey at New YorkClinton at New HavenCharlotte at JacksonvilleKnoxville at GreensboroTues., Dec. 29Clinton at New YorkNew Jersey at GreensboroJacksonville at KnoxvilleWed., Dec. 30New York at New HavenNew Jersey at CharlotteJacksonville at NashvilleJohnstown at ClintonThurs., Dec. 31New Haven at JohnstownCharlotte at GreensboroNew Jersey at NashvilleFri., Jan. 1New Haven at Long IslandNashville at JacksonvilleGreensboro at CharlotteNew Jersey at KnoxvilleJohnstown at New York &#9632;

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How They Stand

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div>JOHNSTOWN, Pa.The Johnstown Jets have not given up hope of a successful defense of their Northern Division title in the Eastern Hockey League as evidenced by coach Dave Luca&rsquo;s attempts to strengthen ms club for the final two months of action.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0848/2094900-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="292" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Roberge</figcaption></div>The Jets have been hovering around third place all season long, trailing Clinton and Long Island by big margins but winning sufficiently to stay ahead of challenging Jersey. Lucas doesn&rsquo;t believe his foes are that much superior to his Jets, and figures a change or two could move his club higher.So two new men already have been secured. One is Terry Moore, a left wing who played with Long Island most of the year and the other is Bill Oswalt, another left winger secured from Portland of the Western Hockey League. Moore was pressed into action immediately, and Jim McCloskey was dropped to make room for him. Jim played 21 games with the club and compiled only 11 points.Oswalt came east with a knee injury and he stayed on the sidelines for a stretch before being activated by Lucas. The return of defenseman Ralph MacSweyn from the injured list also helped the club&rsquo;s cause. He has been sidelined for almost a month with an eye injury.Lucas has been concerned by his club&rsquo;s defense for the Jets opposition has outscored them by some ten goals in the latest statistics. The absence of MacSweyn caused some of this disparity, but Lucas has stressed to his club the necessity of restricting the enemy output if it is to move in on the Comets and Ducks.Dick Roberge and Bob Brown are the aces of the scoring, and they have helped the club considerably by staying on the ice. Through the first 32 games each had been assessed a mere six minutes in penalties.Charlotte: Goalie Gaetan Dessureault suffered a deep four-stitch gash over his right eye after being hit with a stick. Coach Fred Creighton hurt his back sliding into goal pipe. It&rsquo;s 17 straight losses at Greens bor for Checkers Dussureault also hit in chin with puck Winger Ron Hutchinson finished at goal in one game Moe Savard leads club in scoring.Greensboro: Mike Draper posted two goals in debut after acquisition from San Francisco. Defenseman Vince Crete dropped to make room. Dom DiBerardino scoring steadily since moving here from Jacksonville including his first hat trick. Ron Muir&rsquo;s improved production atoning for Bobby Boucher&rsquo;s absence as Generals boasted six-game win streak.New Haven: Blades lost nine straight before tieing Rovers. Coach Jackie Leclair made Canadian trip in effort to pick up talent. Centre Bill Reid went up to Providence for few games. Don Myers given tryout at wing. Leclair working club twice a day in effort to &ldquo;would team into a workmanlike outfit&rdquo;. Leclair said club must start winning to keep alive playoff hopes.Nashville: Dusty Blair rested for final period by coach John McLellan after club got 6-1 lead on Johnstown. &ldquo;We had a big lead and he&rsquo;s too valuable to this team to take undue chances with his sore back.&rdquo; Goalie Marv Edwards is trying to get his goals allowed average down to the 3.0 mark. He&rsquo;s also looking for his first shutout. Norm.Knoxville: Four-game winning streak got club back into second place fight. Gil Champagne&rsquo;s checking is delight to coach Don Labelle, who is seeking more scoring to go along with good defense and goaltending. Les Calder&rsquo;s 40-foot shot with one second left beat Jacksonville. Goal was second in 43 seconds to pull Knights from likely shutout loss.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0938/2094893-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="530" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDRE DAOUST&hellip;Shutout For Ducks</figcaption></div>Clinton: Ref Hugh Mulryan assessed 19 penalties in game with Rovers including eight high stickings. Dave Armstrong posted hat trick at Syracuse exhibition. Howie Dietrich hurt in game and out for three weeks. Club went south with 12 men. Orval Tessier continues as scoring leader with 27-27&mdash;54 total.Johnstown: Goalie Joe Daley hurt his ankle at Nashville and trainer Bill Garrett finished the last two periods. Daley was on crutches for a spell. Club lost two straight in south after taking first two. Jets have protested 4-3 loss to Clinton Dec. 6 based on Clinton&rsquo;s use of only three juniors.Long Island: Newcomer Ron Hergott from Portland scored a hat trick in his debut versus New Haven. Team battling to stay at Commack Arena which was ordered closed because of alleged safety violations. Andre Daoust posted second shutout. Gene Achtymichuk pacing scoring.Jersey: Butch MacLean reinjured his left foot. Game with Long Island delayed for an hour by Duck&rsquo;s late arrival. Art and Don Chiupka steady scorers. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re winning enough on the road to be right there fighting for the lead but somethings seems to always happen to us at home&rdquo; complains coach Pat Kelly. Pat himself accidentally scored the winning goal for Ducks in one game. Fan pilfered McLean&rsquo;s stick at Long Island as he skated near sideline. &#9632;

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Johnstown Bolstered For Title Fight; Leclair’s Efforts Fail To Lift Blades

<div class="byline">BY GREG DOUGLAS</div>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.Randy Prior shattered a Northern Ontario Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; Hockey Association scoring record when he fired eight goals to lead the North Bay Trappers to a resounding 11-5 win over Espanola Eagles.Prior, setting a torrid pace this year in the individual point race, stretched his output to 29 goals in 19 games.Prior&rsquo;s eight goals were three more in a single game than any other player has managed in the two-and-a-half year history of the league. Garson Native Sons&rsquo; Jim Ferguson and Chi Chi Farenzena each scored five in the 1962-63 season while Sudbury Wolves&rsquo; Tom Mikkola and Espanola Eagles&rsquo; Bob Fallat turned the same trick in 1963-64.But eight in one game seemed nothing but wishful thinking. That is until Randy Prior came along.And Prior wasn&rsquo;t alone in the record-breaking spotlight this weekend. Linemate Marty Reynolds, who scored one goal as well, picked up eight assists to better Terry Black&rsquo;s mark of six in a single game set for Garson in 1962-63.In other league activity, Sault Greyhounds erupted for 11 goals and whipped Garson 11-3 before 1,500 fans in the Sault.Bill Boychuk paced the Hounds with three goals and stole the club&rsquo;s scoring leadership honors with 17, one more than teammate Don James.Espanola, despite that frustrating 11-5 loss, still leads the circuit. &#9632;

North Bay Ace Sets Record Scoring Eight Times In Game

CLINTON, N.Y.&mdash;Norm DeFelice is the new shutout king of the Eastern Hockey League with nine white-washings to his credit and half the season ahead of him.DeFelice broke the mark he shared with two others with a 5-0 win over Jacksonville on the Rockets&rsquo; ice. The old mark was held by Frankie Brimsek, of the then Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets in 1935-36; Omer Kelly, of the Baltimore Orioles in 1939-40 and DeFelice himself last year and the year before.Norm&rsquo;s blankings included seven at home and two on the road. Three were over Johns-town and two over Jacksonville.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0773/2094955-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="252" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm DeFelice</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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DeFelice Sets EHL Shutout Record

<h2>QUEBEC SENIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Sat., Dec. 26)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03188/2094862-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="544" height="151"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Thurs., Dec. 17Granby 12, Verdun 1Fri., Dec. 18Granby 6, Verdun 3Sun., Dec. 20Sherbrooke 5, Granby 2St. Hyacinthe 4, Drummondville 0<h2>OTTAWA-ST. LAW. SENIOR</h2>(Standings on Mon., Dec. 21)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04136/2094855-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="544" height="175"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2>(Including Games of Tues., Dec. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05101/2094848-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="546" height="325"></div><h2>OTTAWA-DISTRICT JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Mon., Dec. 21)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0679/2094841-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="543" height="276"></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Races

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div>FORT WAYNE. Ind.&mdash;When the Fort Wayne Komets were trailing first place Des Moines by five to seven points, coach and general manager Ken Ullyot remarked, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care who is in first place now; I want to be there in January.&rdquo;As the New Year approached the Komet boss seemed to be in a good position to achieve his ambitions, having cut down the once formidable looking lead of the slumping Des Moines Oak Leafs.But the Komets at the same time had to look not too far over their shoulders to see the Port Huron Flags and Toledo Blades in hot pursuit.The Komets had some figures going for them. They were leading the league in average goals per game, 5.17, and were second in goals against, just behind Port Huron. They had four men among the league&rsquo;s 12 leading scorers.Bob Rivard took over the league scoring lead with 42 points&hellip;. John Goodwin got the hat trick with three consecutive goals against Toledo in the space of 89 seconds.TOLEDO&mdash;The Toledo elub was reported to be in financial trouble, but Ken Wilson, owner and general manager, said that with the help of some half dozen businessmen, he felt the Blades could continue&hellip;Rookie de-fenseman Hank Neufeld was put on waivers to bring the Blades&rsquo; roster to 14&hellip;Playing Coach Moe Benoit got back into the game after missing his first one in 305 straight.DAYTON&mdash;Rookie Bob Regis, scoring in 14 of the Gems first 22 games, led the team in scoring&hellip;Guy Trottier had the most goals&hellip;Rene L&rsquo;Ecuyer and Nobby Clarke returned to action.MUSKEGON&mdash;Stan Konrad was in a close race with the Komets&rsquo; Bobby Rivard for league scoring honors&hellip;Defense man Lome Weighill was out indefinitely with torn knee ligaments&hellip;Lyle Porter, on furlough from the Army was a replacement.PORT HURON&mdash;Norm Jacques was restored to the goalie job and helped beat Des Moines, 4-2&hellip;Injuries reduced the Flags to 12 men and they picked up defenseman Bill Bobbyn from Waterloo of the United States League&hellip;Bill Sinnett was also called in to help&hellip;Bill Le-Caine had his consecutive game point scoring mark broken at 18.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01295/2094986-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="529" height="595"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY RIVARD&hellip;Took Over Scoring Lead</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Fort Wayne Komets Make Big Move To Overtake Leading Oak Leafs; Toledo Reported On Shaky Ground

<div class="byline">BY CHARLES NEWMAN</div>(As Seen In The Baltimore Clippers&rsquo; Program)BALTIMORE. Md.&mdash;Hockey coaches, like most other sports personalities, vary in temperament from hostile to affable. And, for a reporter to get a story he must doctor his own approach to fit the individual.Gathering post-game information from coaches can be easy or difficult, depending upon the outcome. The American Hockey League&rsquo;s contingent of coaches presents a real challenge.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02213/2095017-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="266" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shore</figcaption></div>To enter the violent world of Springfield owner Eddie Shore after his Indians lose is a real gamble. The expectation is either for stony silence or a door slamming in your face. Sometimes you get both the door slam and then the refusal to even acknowledge your presence.Since Shore professes no affinity for Baltimore, a win does little to change his personality although you can expect some civil answers. It appears the Indians&rsquo; owner, from the time he pays his own way into the arena until the moment he hustles his entourage onto the bus. regards the Civic Center as hostile territory inhabited by uncivilized enemies.Shore, like anyone else, has his better moments. Ou one trip he approached a reporter to pass the time of day and in the course of conversation offered some advice on the writer&rsquo;s back ailment. That sort of made up for the time he threatened that all Baltimore newspapermen would have to pay their way into his rink when they visited Springfield.Clippers&rsquo; coach Johnny Crawford is Shore&rsquo;s opposite. Win or lose he is available for questions. whether he regards them stupid or otherwise.Crawford&rsquo;s pleasant personality does not vary with the team&rsquo;s record. At a recent practice session&mdash;with the team at a low ebb&mdash;he skated toward the side of the rink to crack a few jokes with the writers.Hershey coach Frank Mathers is regarded as one of the league&rsquo;s finest gentlemen. While his team&rsquo;s tactice don&rsquo;t mirror his personality, the articulate and meticulously dressed Mathers presents an easy mark for reporters.Cleveland&rsquo;s Freddie Glover&mdash;a villain to most Baltimore fans&mdash;ranks as the loop&rsquo;s most suave personality.The fiery Barons&rsquo; boss knows most every newspaperman in each town by name and never fails to acknowledge a writer who comes into his view on a first-name basis.Rochester coach-general manager Joe Crozier ranks as the loop&rsquo;s most elusive coach. To secure the Amerks&rsquo; starting lineup from him one must usually look behind the curtains on the Civic Center stage, one of the arena&rsquo;s darkest spots. He is recognizable by his standard position of head held in hands, deep in thought over the coming fray.Writers must be fast to the dressing room to corner Crozier after a game. He ranks with some of the fastest personalities ever to escape the C.C. confines.Providence coach Ferny Flaman, a fiery performer in his playing days, continues that style as the Red&rsquo;s boss. His oratory, especially after a poor period of play or a loss, can be clearly heard through the thick dressing room doors.While reporters don&rsquo;t like to gather information this way, some of his words through the door make stories in themselves.Pittsburgh mentor Vic Stasiuk speaks frankly. His comments are short and concise. The information may not be colorful but you never get anything but a straight tnswer.Quebec&rsquo;s new coach Bernie Geoffrion, who has been in the spotlight of radio and press for many years, handles himself objectively and never dodges a question. The same can be said of Buffalo&rsquo;s Phil Watson. &#9632;

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Coaches Display Variety Of Temperaments To Press

<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed., Dec. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03129/2095048-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="543" height="249"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 2 Montreal: 3 Chicago; 6 Boston)<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri.. Dec. 18Toledo 7, Muskegon 5Sat.. Dec. 19Muskegon 8. Toledo 3Des Moines 8, Dayton 5Port Huron 4, Fort Wayne 3Sun., Dec. 20Des Moines 4. Dayton 2Port Huron 5. Toledo 3<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Fri., Dec. 25Fort Wayne at MuskegonDes Moines at ToledoPort Huron at DaytonSat.. Dec. 26Port Huron at MuskegonDes Moines at Fort WayneDayton at ToledoSun., Dec. 27Fort Wayne at PortHuron Muskegon at DaytonTues.. Dec. 29Des Moines at DaytonThurs. Dec. 31Des Moines at MuskegonToledo at Fort WayneDayton at Port HuronFri., Jan.Port Huron at ToledoFort Wayne at DaytonSat., Jan. 2Toledo at MuskegonDayton at Fort WayneDes Moines at Port HuronSun., Jan. 3Fort Wayne at Port HuronDes Moines at DaytonMuskegon at Toledo &#9632;

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0572/2095100-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="262" height="369"></div>Get These Publications-NOW!<h2>OFFICIAL N.H.L. RECORD BOOK 1917-64</h2>This is the most complete Record Book on Hockey ever published. It contains statistics and records unobtainable in any other publication. Hockey fans call this book a &ldquo;Hockey Masterpiece&rdquo;.Complete team standings and individual scoring records by seasons of every player to perform in the N.H.L. from 1917-18 until 1963-64 appear in the OFFICIAL N.H.L. RECORD BOOK.Supply is Limited&mdash;Price $1.25<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0493/2095107-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="226" height="325"></div><h2>THE NEW 1964-65 EDITION OF THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE GUIDE</h2>This compact 236-page hockey book answers every question imaginable about the National Hockey League. There are also complete records on every player in all the pro leagues&mdash;NHL. AHL, WHL and CPHL. It also includes highlights of the 1963-64 NHL season and a more extensive coverage on records than ever before.ALL THIS FOR ONLY $1.25 (Postage Paid)<h2>OFFICIAL NHL RULE BOOK 1964-65 EDITION</h2>Here&rsquo;s your chance to become an expert. Settle all the arguments around the club and in the office. With this handy pocket-size rule book you&rsquo;ll be able to check a decision or rule on the spot.Fill in the coupon below and enclose 50 cents per copy for handling and mailing.SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY&hellip;.50 PER COPY (Postage Paid)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0664/2095093-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="231" height="414"></div><h2>THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY ANNUAL FOR 1965</h2>This 96-page book is jam-packed with full-length features about your favourite hockey stars&hellip;biographical sketches and pictures of over 120 National Hockey League players&hellip;birthdates and places of birth too&hellip;All at a glance!Extra! Special TV Section, complete NHL Teams with Names & Numbers.SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY! ONLY 50 CENTS (Postage Paid)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0758/2095086-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="373" height="467"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0848/2095079-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="1022" height="1293"></div> &#9632;

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A MUST FOR ALL HOCKEY FANS

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.Toronto Marlboros, apparently, cruising towards their second straight Ontario Hockey Association junior A pennant 10 days ago, have suddenly found themselves involved in a tight race.In past years Toronto junior A clubs, the Marlboros and the now non-operating Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors, have found Maple Leaf Gardens much to their liking.Visiting teams, unaccustomed to the large ice surface and huge crowds, usually have little success in the Toronto arena.However, in the past 10 days all this has changed.In four home games the Marlboros only picked up one win, a 7-2 decision over Oshawa Generals.St. Catharines Black Hawks edged them 3-2, Kitchener Rangers won 5-4 and Peterborough Petes scored a similar one-goal decision at 6-5.The Ranger win was especially impressive as it was their first away-from home victory after nine consecutive road defeats.The Kitchener and Peterborough victories were in the space of just three days and were the first back-to-back losses suffered by the defending Memorial Cup champions in two years.Despite their unimpressive record the Dukes clung to a two-point lead over second place Niagara Falls Flyers thanks to a 4-2 win over the co-holders of last place, the Hamilton Red Wings in the Hamilton Forum.Junior A hockey returned to Oshawa after an absence of 11 years.Not since the old Oshawa Generals who boasted such great players as Billy Taylor, Bill Ezinicki and Alex Delvecchio were left without a home arena following a fire in the early fall of 1954 had a junior A game been played there.However thanks to the diligence of a group of Oshawa businessmen a spanking new auditorium was started a year ago and was completed just in time for the Dec. 15 game between St. Catharines and the Generals.The past two years Oshawa games have been played in the small Bowmanville arena with a seating capacity of approximately 1800.The splendid new Oshawa building, erected at a cost of $1,250,000 was packed with 4,100 fans for the opening game (seating capacity is 3500) and the Generals responded by coming from behind a two-goal deficit to defeat the St. Catharines Hawks 4-2.They followed that up with a resounding 9-1 win over Hamilton Red Wings as Ron Buchanan, Bill Little and Bill White scored two goals each.The two wins, combined with a 5-2 defeat in Hamilton, left the Generals in fourth place, three points behind Peterborough and 10 ahead of St. Catharines.The Hawks, after stringing together four straight wins, hit the skids again with losses to Peterborough on home ice, in Oshawa, then managed to salvage a 3-3 tie with Niagara Falls thanks to a two-goal effort by three-year man Ken Laidlaw.Scotty Bowman&rsquo;s Montreal Canadiens, although still deep in the second division, showed signs of reviving by picking up three of a possible six points.They played to a 2-2 tie in Peterborough, lost 7-5 in Niagara Falls, then swamped the Kitchener club 10-2 in the Forum.Andre Lacroix continued his torrid pace in the points race.Obtained from Montreal in an off-season deal, the Peterborough centre added two goals and two assists to his total in two games and assumed a 12-point margin over second place Paul Laurent of Toronto Marlboros.Lacroix now has 22 goals, 43 assists for 65 points, Laurent 24 goals and 29 assists.Ken Hodge, despite his team&rsquo;s slump, scored twice and drew three assists for the Hawks to retain third place with 52 points Hodge still leads in total goals with 29 in just 24 games.Bernie Parent retained his margin among the goaltenders. The Niagara Falls guardian, now in his second season of junior A hockey, has allowed 42 goals in 16&#8532; games for a 2.52 average.Chuck Goddard of Peterborough is second among the regular goalies with 3.17. Both have registered one shutout. &#9632;

Toronto Marlies Find Rivals Getting Stronger

<h2>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Fri., Dec. 25)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01270/2095162-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="541" height="306"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri., Dec. 18Niagara Falls 7. Montreal 5Kitchener 5, Toronto 4Sat., Dec. 19Oshawa 9, Hamilton 1Sun., Dec. 20Montreal 10. Kitchener 2Peterborough 6, Toronto 5Hamilton 5, Oshawa 2St. Catharines 3. Niagara Falls 3<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Sat., Dec. 26St. Catharines at MontrealHamilton at PeterboroughSun., Dec. 27Oshawa at MontrealPeterborough at KitchenerNiagara Falls at HamiltonSt. Catharines at TorontoTues., Dec. 29Kitchener at PeterboroughToronto at OshawaMontreal at Niagara FallsWed., Dec. 30Montreal at St. CatharinesToronto at KitchenerFri., Jan. 1Montreal at St. CatharinesHamilton at TorontoKitchener at OshawaPeterborough at Niagara FallsSat., Jan. 2Oshawa at PeterboroughKitchener at HamiltonSun., Jan. 3Toronto at MontrealHamilton at KitchenerNiagara Falls at St. Catharines &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02222/2095193-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S ISSUE</h2><h3>Across</h3>1. Pictured Boston player.7. Many hockeyists like to play in rinks where the air is&mdash;.8. Name given pictured player.9. One of the Bruins answers to this.11. Mile (abbr.)12. Given name of Rochefort of Quebec.13. Hockey owners like a big one on game nights.14. North East (abbr.)15. Complete initials of Erickson of Pittsburgh.17. 6 down is wearing a cast on one.19. Month in which Punch Imlach was born (abbr.)20. Bob Puiford injured one last December.21. Alain Caron was born in this month (abbr.)23. Bob Nevin owns one in Toronto.27. Musical note.29. This Baltimore player is called Ulf.30. Number of goals McCord scored last season.32 Bobby Hull fractured this in the spring of 1963.33. Springfield defenseman.<h3>Down</h3>1. Given name of an NHL coach.2. Nickname of a now defunct Chicago line.3. Preposition.4. A bout of this sidelined Harry Howell recently.5. Initials of a Red Wing forward.6. An injured Bruin.10. Ells English (abbr.)11. Position Conn Smythe once held with the Maple Leafs.16. Given name of No. 6 of Canadiens.18. Calder Trophy winner of 1946-47.22. Bob Pulford grows these in the summer.24. University Bill Harris attends (abbr.)25. South East (abbr.)26. Given ame of a Hawk forward.27. Don McKenney pays this to Charlie Burns during the winter.28. Blackburn of Quebec answers to this.31 Pictured player&rsquo;s&mdash;is 18 (abbr.)<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</h2><h3>Across</h3>1. Mikita4. Howard7. On8. L.A.9. Vezina11. Hall13. At14 Ivan16. Marc17. Te.18. PN19. Harper20. Sam21. N.S.22. Os.23. Polano26. Can.27. Win28. Garth<h3>Down</h3>1. Mahovlich2. Italian3. Aid5. One6. Ran.10. Anderson11. Hampson12. Atanas15. April17. Tennis23. Par24. Ont.25. A.W. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

IT&rsquo;S THE WORLD&rsquo;S OFFICIAL HOCKEY MAGAZINETED LINDSAY: Hockey&rsquo;s Most Amazing Comeback<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05130/2095231-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="446" height="557"><figcaption class="caption-body">SUBSCRIBE TODAY!</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06110/2095224-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="1090" height="742"></div> &#9632;

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HOCKEY PICTORIAL

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Point Race

CLINTON, N.Y.&mdash;In the past six years the village of Clinton, New York, (population about 5,000), a suburb of Utica, has won two Eastern Hockey League playoff titles, finished in top playoff titles, finished in top spot in the league race three times, taken second place twice, and during that time never ended lower than fourth, in a league that now has eleven clubs.What is the secret to this club&rsquo;s year after year success?Club President Edward W. Stanley explains it this way. &ldquo;As with every winning club in any league the success is largely due a top hockey executive. In our organization it is the astute hockey knowledge and tremendous team leadership of our General Manager Wren Blair&rdquo;.Blair, who is in his seventh season with the Clinton club, was hired by Stanley in the summer of 1958 after the Comets had finished a dismal last in the 1957-58 Eastern League campaign.&ldquo;I had come to know Blair a few seasons earlier when our club played a partial schedule with the Eastern Ontario Senior League. Although many times I was battling differences with him in league matters, I came to greatly respect his quick mind and his uncanny knowledge of the hockey business&rdquo;, Stanley reminisces, &ldquo;That summer he agreed to join us and we&rsquo;ve had nothing but success since&rdquo;.The first year Blair took over the club the Comets zoomed from last to first place winning the Eastern League crown in the playoffs.Blair has hired three playing-coaches to work under him during his tenure in Clinton, Billy Watson from Ottawa, Irwin Gross from Windsor and Benny Woit (currently playing-coach) from Port Arthur.The truly amazing thing is that Blair is a top executive employee of the Boston Bruins, and as such is also General Manager of the Bruins&rsquo; new Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; club in the OHA at Oshawa, Ontario, and additionally handles a great deal of the personnel problems with the Bruins&rsquo; Central Pro League team in Minneapolis. He now includes Clinton in his Boston duties and sends Bruin prospects to the Comets for further development.He is also responsible for a goodly portion of the Bruins scouting program in Eastern Canada.Blair has an illustrious championship career behind him winning eight major titles with teams he has assembled in the past eleven years. They include two Allan Cups with the Whitby, Ontario, Dunlops, and in 1958 this same team won the World Championship at the International games at Oslo, Norway. His Kingston Frontenacs won the EPHL title in 1962-63, and of course the Clinton Comets won crowns in 1958-59 and again in 1963-64.Stanley says Blair has always been able to put together teams of great talent for the Comets by having knowledge of players available from every part of Canada and knowing what they can do.&ldquo;But that is only part of it,&rdquo; says Stanley. &ldquo;When the going gets tough and our team is going bad, Blair comes down from time to time for a little heart to heart chat with the players. He can get more out of a club on a given night than any hockey executive I have seen&rdquo;.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0226/2095300-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="457" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">WREN BLAIR&hellip;Builder Of Champions</figcaption></div>&ldquo;He is something like Knute Rockne, and our clubs have seldom failed to respond to his stirring talks when in tight spots. Yet he is always fair to his players, they seem to thoroughly respect him, and return to play for him year after year.&rdquo;The Comets play home games in both the Clinton Arena (on Saturday nights) and in the beautiful new Utica Auditorium on week nights. The club draws great crowds from all over the area, from as far west as Syracuse and as far east as Albany.&ldquo;Every player who has been with our club for the past seven seasons has been located, signed and brought here by Blair,&rdquo; says Stanley, &ldquo;and indeed a great many other players are in the Eastern League today as a result of him. He has not only been great for the Comets, but also for the Eastern Hockey League.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Small Town Clinton Thrives Like Big Leaguers Under Astute Hockey Managership Of Wren Blair

<div class="byline">BY MAX NICHOLS&nbsp;(From The Minneapolis Star)</div>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.General Manager Bill Levins is no longer going to wait for hockey fans to come to the Minneapolis Bruins. He&rsquo;s going to the fans.In a move he figures is unprecedented in professional sports, Levins has set up a professional sales force to knock on the doors of Minneapolis businessmen daily throughout the hockey season, selling bargain books of tickets to Bruin games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0125/2095331-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="254" height="395"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Levins</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re applying all of the principles and theories of selling that I learned in the trading stamp business,&rdquo; said Levins. &ldquo;Instead of just opening up ticket offices and waiting for the fans, we are going to sell hockey the way any product is sold through salesmen.&ldquo;We have divided Minneapolis into five sales districts, or territories. We will have five full time salesmen making 15 calls a day at every business they can get to in their districts.&rdquo;The Bruin salesmen will have something new to sell in their ticket books, which are called Bruin Booster Bargain Books. Each book of 30 tickets will be worth $30 in tickets and will sell for $25. Each book of 11 tickets will be worth $11 and will sell for $10.&ldquo;Each ticket is just like a dollar bill,&rdquo; said Levins. &ldquo;Except it can only be exchanged in buying tickets. Three tickets will buy a $3 ticket. Five will buy two $2.50 tickets. Two plus 50 cents can be used in buying a $2.50 ticket.&ldquo;This will be the only way we will discount tickets this year besides the season tickets. They are very popular because the buyers are not pinned down to any one hockey game. They can be used anytime.&rdquo;Levins said each salesmen has been selling $200 worth of tickets a day.The Eastern League is well into its 1964-65 season with two divisions, six teams in the northern section and five in the south.And where are the Comets as Blair directs his seventh successful campaign in the little Central New York village of Clinton?You guessed it! Right out in front in the loop&rsquo;s northern division. &#9632;

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