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January 16, 1965

The Hockey News January 16, 1965

<div class="byline">BY DOUG DULMAGE</div><p>REGINA, Sask.</p><p>Regina Pats breezed their way to 22 victories and five ties while losing only one in their 28 games of the season, but the holiday season got them down.</p><p>First they took it on the chin from lowly Saskatoon Blades. Next Weyburn Red Wings belted them in their own rink 4-2 during &ldquo;Young Canada Night.&rdquo; Then second-place Brandon Wheat Kings cut their first-place lead further by dumping them 8-6 in Brandon just to remind Pats that it doesn&rsquo;t necessarily mean &ldquo;Happy New Year&rdquo; just because you got off to a good start.</p><p>And Pats weren&rsquo;t taking their defeats in a manner befitting a first-place club. In front of nearly 6,000 youngsters in Regina, Fran Huck, everybody&rsquo;s hero in these parts, got himself tossed out of the game along with Weyburn&rsquo;s Dwight Carruthers early in the second period of a game that Weyburn was leading 3-0 at the time. The referee assessed the penalties for joining a fight already in progress.</p><p>Then lanky right winger Stan Gilbertson of the Pats drew a misconduct for arguing a minor penalty with the referee. It Was hardly a hockey game to put before a bunch of admiring kids.</p><p><b>AROUND THE CIRCUIT.</b> Moose Jaw Canucks, currently mired in seventh place with only nine victories gained a stay of execution in the league when a group of local businessmen interested in keeping junior hockey in the city endeavored to sell tickets on the remaining home games for a $12 package. There are 13 games left in Moose Jaw. Suffering from lack of fan support, the Canucks were expected to drop out of the league early in the New Year. Ernie Ramstead of Flin Flon suspended indefinitely last week for his part in a fight, still was third with 78 points while Regina&rsquo;s Andre Lagueux moved up to 70 points.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

Tempers Hot As SJHL Aces Get Heave Ho

<div class="byline">BY GENE McCORMICK</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01539/2205416-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="467" height="563"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRIAN KILREA&hellip;Change Of Heart</b></figcaption></div><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.</p><p>The difference of opinion between center Brian Kilrea and owner Eddie Shore of the Springfield Indians was bridged without any further incident.</p><p>Kilrea left the ice during practice after being criticized by Shore several times while doing skating exercises.</p><p>&ldquo;I certainly feel better about everything,&rdquo; claimed Kilrea. &ldquo;I got a call from Pat (Egan) asking me to come to early practice with several members of the squad. I did, and I also participated in the regular squad workout. The atmosphere was entirely different, believe me.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess I got a little hot and maybe Eddie did. That will happen at times. Anyway, as far as I&rsquo;m concerned the incident is forgotten and I&rsquo;m rarin&rsquo; to go.&rdquo;</p><p>Kilrea is currently in his sixth full season with the Indians and, in fact, has spent his entire professional career with Springfield. Last season he finished in a tie for third place in the AHL scoring race with 83. He surpassed that total in two previous seasons&mdash;in 1960-61 with 87 and 1961-62 with 93.</p><p>This season&mdash;and even Kilrea admits this&mdash;he got off to a slow start. But, nevertheless, he is currently leading the team point-wise with eight goals and 21 assists for 29 points. Center Dennis Olson, another of the three established AHL centers with the Indians, is next with 28 points on 12 goals and 16 assists.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Kilrea, Shore Bury Hatchet After Dispute

<p><b>Before you say SCOTCH say &ldquo;</b>DEWAR&rsquo;S&rdquo; <b><i>it never varies</i></b></p><h2><b>AHL Point Race</b></h2><p><b>(Scortar records as of January 4)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03324/2205602-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="556" height="485"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04243/2205595-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="558" height="317"></div><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues., Jan. 12)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06155/2205588-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="560" height="302"></div><p><b>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto. S. New York. 6. Boston).</b></p><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Jan. 5</b></p><p>Vancouver 4, Los Angeles 3</p><p>Victoria 4. Portland 1.</p><p><b>Wed. Jan. 6</b></p><p>Seattle 3. Los Angeles 1 Fri. Jan. 8</p><p>Seattle 2, Los Angeles 1</p><p>Portland 2. San Francisco 1</p><p>Vancouver 5, Victoria 3</p><p><b>Sat. Jan. 9</b></p><p>Portland 6. Los Angeles 2</p><p>Victoria 5, Vancouver 2</p><p><b>Sun. Jan. 10</b></p><p>San Francisco 5, Seattle 3</p><p>Victoria 3, Portland 1</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Tues., Jan. 12</b></p><p>Los Angeles at Victoria</p><p><b>Wed., Jan. 13</b></p><p>Vancouver at Portland</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 14</b></p><p>San Francisco at Los Angeles</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 15</b></p><p>Portland at San Francisco</p><p>Victoria at Vancouver</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 16</b></p><p>Vancouver at Victoria</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 17</b></p><p>Portland at Los Angeles</p><p>Victoria at Seattle<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02260/2206585-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="532" height="1544"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Chicago&rsquo;s star left winger BOBBY HULL stands to be the big money winner in the first half awards voting. Hull is assured of $1,250 but could go as high as $1,500.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL Team Race Four-Way Battle

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>If National League selectors vote like they should, Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; scoring ace Bobby Hull should emerge $1,500 richer for his sensational first-half performance in the 1964-65 schedule.</p><p>The prolific left winger of the Hawks could conceivably become the big money winner after the all-star and individual award selections are announced by the NHL this coming week.</p><p>As it stands now, Hull already has $500 in the till for leading the NHL scoring race with his blazing 33-goal performance in the first 35 games of the season. His teammate Stan Mikita pocketed $250 as runner-up in the Ross Trophy race. Hull finished with 54 points and Mikita a distant second with 40.</p><p>Hull was unquestionably the outstanding player of the first half of the season and he should be a unanimous choice for the first all-star team at left wing. For this he would be rewarded with another $500. The Golden Hawk looks to be an easy winner as well of the Hart Trophy as the first-half MVP, which also carries a cash return of $250. There is an outside possibility that Hull will slip in and grab off the Lady Byng Trophy for the cleanest and most valuable player. The Chicago ace has only 20 minutes in penalties, which is fantastic when you consider that he is on ice for 45 of the 60 minutes in every game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01371/2206616-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="529" height="820"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CHARLIE HODGE&hellip;Leads Vezina Race</b></figcaption></div><p>The NHL selectors may shy away from the great Hawk winger in an attempt to spread the bonus money around and give the nod to either Claude Provost, Phil Goyette, Camille Henry or Alex Delvecchio. The figuring is that if Hull doesn&rsquo;t win it, then Goyette, with only six penalty minutes, will be the winner and pick up the $250.</p><p>Even if Hull isn&rsquo;t voted the Byng, he still stands to come out of the first half with a minimum of $1,250.</p><p>Closest, in the money stakes to the blond Charlie Hodge of Montreal, who is already $250 richer for leading the Vezina Trophy race at the midway mark, Stan Mikita and Jacques Laperriere. Mikita, like Hodge has $250 to his credit and can add $500 if he gets the first team all-star selection. He&rsquo;ll get a battle from Detroit&rsquo;s Norm Ullman in this category. Laperriere should make the first team defense and take home the Norris Trophy as top defenseman.</p><p>Roger Crozier of Detroit will likely beat out Toronto&rsquo;s brilliant right winger, Ron Ellis for the Calder Trophy as leading rookie for the first half. Crozier also will get the second team all-star berth, which is also good for $250.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s how the bonue money will likely be divided among the league&rsquo;s top names in the first half: Hull $1,500 or $1,250 Hodge, Mikita and Laperriere $750 each; and Crozier $500.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Chicago Ace Bobby Hull Could Pocket $1.500 For Performance In First Half

<p>TORONTO. Ont.</p><p>The Chicago Black Hawks and Toronto Maple Leafs have thrown the National Hockey League team race into a fourway struggle as the result of their tremendous closing drive in the first half of the NHL&rsquo;s 70-game schedule.</p><p>The Hawks and Leafs have been hot as pistols in the past two weeks while both the Mont Teal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wings have been losing some of their early season edge.</p><p>The four teams are closely bunched with only six points separating the clubs. Chicago grabbed off the top spot for the first time in several weeks with 46 points. Montreal slipped slightly to second with 45. Toronto on the strength of three straight wins last week jumped into third with 41 and Detroit fell to fourth with 40 as they lost three in a line.</p><p>The Hawks and Leafs had identical records of four wins, two losses and a tie in their last seven starts. Montreal was 3-2 for their last five games and Detroit was showing signs of wear and tear as they could do no better than 2-4-1.</p><p>The Black Hawks have been coming on strong and at the moment they are the team to be feared. In their last 12 games, they have won eight and lost only twice.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hawks, Leafs Put New Life In Title Run

<p>Following are the latest Player movements in hockey:</p><h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Ron Ingram, defenseman, recalled from Baltimore of AHL. Mel Pearson, forward, returned to St. Paul of CPHL. Ted Taylor, recalled from Baltimore and returned.</p><p>BOSTON&mdash;Bill Goldsworthy, forward, recalled from Niagara Falls of Junior OHA on emergency basis and returned, Wayne Cashman forward, called up from Oshawa of Junior OHA for one game and returned.</p><h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2><p>BUFFALO&mdash;Ken Hodge, forward, called up from St. Catharines of Junior OHA for one-game pro tryout and returned.</p><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Adam Keller, defenseman, recalled from Memphis of CPHL.</p><h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;Dave Richardson, forward, assigned by New York Rangers from St. Paul of CPHL.</p><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Paul Laurent, forward, called up from Toronto of Junior OHA on five-game pro tryout.</p><p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;Jack Mc-Cartan, goalkeeper, assigned by Chicago Black Hawks from St. Louis of CPHL. Harry Ottenbreit, forward, optioned to St. Louis.</p><h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Kay Larose,</p><p>defenseman, loaned by Quebec Aces of AHL.</p><p>ST. PAUL&mdash;Marcel Pelletier, defenseman, optioned by Baltimore of AHL.</p><p>TULSA&mdash;Terry Clancy, forward, optioned by Rochester of AHL.</p><h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><p>PORT HURON&mdash;Bill Dunnell, defenseman, signed as free agent.</p><p>DAYTON&mdash;Bobby Brown, defenseman, traded to Fort Wayne of IHL in exchange for Ron Meier, defenseman.</p><p>FORT WAYNE&mdash;Roger Maisonneuve, forward, called off retired list as emergency replacement.</p><h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2><p>NEW HAVEN&mdash;Tony Bukovich, forward, secured from &iexcl;Johnstown of EHL in trade for Billy Reid, forward, Tom Vybolt defenseman, released.</p><p>JACKSONVILLE&mdash;Terry Simpson, defenseman added as free agent.</p><p>JERSEY&mdash;Ben Greco, forward, picked up from St. Louis of CPHL on waivers.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Movement Of Players

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01494/2203791-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="302" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Brit Selby</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Toronto Maple Leafs, defending champions of professional hockey, were in serious trouble, as they reached the half-way point in the National League&rsquo;s 1964-65 schedule.</p><p>Having won only two games in 10, they&rsquo;d fallen seven points off Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; pace and had a .500 record&mdash;13 wins, 13 losses, five ties&mdash;for their first 35 matches.</p><p>But the future looked bleak.</p><p>A rash of injuries thwarted the reconstruction plans coach Punch Imlach had formulated, hoping to get his club ready for the critical final weeks of the campaign.</p><p>Instead of weeding out inadequate personnel, he was calling up minor-league replacements to overcome a serious shortage of bodies. Brit Selby from Toronto&rsquo;s Marlboro juniors and Pete Stemkowski from Leafs&rsquo; American League farm team at Rochester were summoned when Ron Ellis and George Armstrong joined Andy Bathgate on the hospital list.</p><p>Then Dave Keon&rsquo;s leg was badly gashed, creating the possibility that he might be side-lined for a while.</p><p>Earlier, Frank Mahovlich, Dave Keon and Bob Pulford had been absent for varying periods, dislocating Imlach&rsquo;s alignments.</p><p>&ldquo;On top of that, we just haven&rsquo;t been playing well,&rdquo; Imlach said.</p><p>The work of Stemkowski and Selby as emergency replacements was encouraging. Selby gave Leafs a 3-2 lead in New York with his first big-league goal and it wasn&rsquo;t his fault that Jean Ratelle got Rangers a 3-3 tie. He got another a few nights later against Chicago.</p><p>Stemkowski, a standout for Rochester Americans in his rookie season, centred for Jim Pappin and Red Kelly.</p><p>Just as heartening was the knowledge defenseman Duane Rupp has been solid at Rochester and big Andre Champagne has been a Central League star at Tulsa.</p><p>Bathgate&rsquo;s injury remains the most serious. He suffered a sev ere fracture of the left thumt and is expected to be out another two weeks.</p><p>Ellis was ordered to rest after he was knocked unconscious in successive games.</p><p>Armstrong&rsquo;s knee was twisted when Detroit&rsquo;s Bruce MacGregor bodychecked him.</p><p>Keon was cut in an accidental pileup with Rangers&rsquo; Camille Henry. The cut required 10 stitches.</p><p>However, the injuries haven&rsquo;t obscured the basic problem for Imlach. They just mean a delay in the shuffle he&rsquo;d decided upon before Christmas. Only an unexpectedly excellent performance was going to save some of his men from demotion to Rochester or lower. With all the absentees, though, he&rsquo;s in a position now where he has to cling to the experienced men he&rsquo;s got. Later on, that won&rsquo;t be the case.</p><p>Under the gun are:</p><p>Don McKenney, who&rsquo;s scored infrequently, who has failed to check in the Leaf tradition and who has not provided the dynamic left-wing accompaniment Keon needs&mdash;and got from Dick Duff.</p><p>Eddie Shack, whose popularity with Toronto fans makes him almost an untouchable but whose defensive errors have him in Imlach&rsquo;s doghouse.</p><p>Frank Mahovlich, who has tailed off badly after an impressive return from his mystery illness.</p><p>Billy Harris&mdash;an unfair rap since he&rsquo;s used so seldom, even when Leafs have been understaffed at centre.</p><p>Tim Horton, who only recently&mdash;since he was paired with Carl Brewer&mdash;has displayed the form that won him an allstar nomination last season.</p><p>Kent Douglas, who started the campaign impressively and has kept himself in trouble with regular errors.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02473/2203784-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="532" height="844"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE SHACK&hellip;May Be On Block</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rookies Selby, Stemkowski Make Punch Glow But Leafs’ Standbys Under Gun As Team Falters

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Col. Canadian youngsters are receiving inadequate instruction in hockey fundamentals.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the verdict of coach Murray Armstrong, a former National Leaguer who stocks his Denver University team with graduates of junior competition across Canada.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03422/2203822-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="276" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Berenson</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;They need a tremendous amount of work after they come down here,&rdquo; Armstrong said, &ldquo;I find they are very poorly prepared in what I consider to be basic skills.</p><p>&ldquo;For example, I find they can turn only one way, stop one way and pass the puck to only one side. When I&rsquo;m finished, they can do all those things in either direction equally well and I feel any hockey player should be able to do the same.</p><p>&ldquo;Their skating and conditioning require work, too,&rdquo; Armstrong said. &ldquo;Why? It must be the coaching they receive.&rdquo;</p><p>Armstrong&rsquo;s lineup includes several of the more than 200 Canadian boys now attending U.S. colleges on hockey scholarships. His standout performer is goaltender Buddy Blom from Hamilton, Ont.</p><p>All these are boys developed through National Hockey League sponsorships and represent a tremendous NHL investment. To date, the only college graduates who&rsquo;ve returned to their big-league benefactors have been Red Hay, Red Berenson and Johnny MacMillan.</p><p>Recently, there&rsquo;ve been attempts by U.S. college authorities to limit the imports. The reasoning is that a lad who&rsquo;s played several seasons at the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; level has an unfair advantage, being virtually a professional, and that the influx of Canadians hampers the development of U.S. players.</p><p>In the western conference, of which Denver is a member, a player is ineligible if he&rsquo;s been in Canadian junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey after the age of 19.</p><p>But the imports may become useful in another capacity.</p><p>The U.S. Amateur Hockey Association, faced with a critical shortage of men to compose a national team for world competition, is considering a program to persuade more of these Canadian imports to establish themselves in the U.S. and take out citizenship.</p><p>There&rsquo;ve been cases like this before but only by coincidence. What the USAHA proposes is an active recruiting program.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Denver U. Coach Claims Canadian Kids Not Being Taught Game Fundamentals

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01493/2203853-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Here&rsquo;s Chicago &lsquo;Wonder Boy&rsquo; Bobby Hull (9) Unlimbering his Famed Shot With Detroit&rsquo;s Marcel Pronovost (3) as Decoy.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Golden Hawk Bobby Hull ‘The Greatest’

<div class="byline">BY BOB HARRIS</div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>Who is hockey&rsquo;s greatest player?</p><p>Well if you were to ask Billy Reay of the Black Hawks you would get&rsquo; the answer straight and true.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02395/2203898-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="281" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Reay</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Bobby Hull is the greatest player I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; said the coach <i>of</i> the Windy City crew, who had the distinction of having performed against both the players considered by most as the top men of all time in hockey&mdash;Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard and Gordie Howe, the &lsquo;Great One&rsquo; of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Hull, who is one of the NHL&rsquo;s most fabulous goal-scoring sprees in history&mdash;35 goals in 38 games&mdash;gets the nod from his Chicago coach as the greatest and he includes both Howe and Richard when he goes into raptures over his brilliant left winger&mdash;who is being dubbed as the &lsquo;Golden Hawk. &lsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;In my time, I played against Richard and Howe and I say Bobby is better than either of them,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;If he avoids injuries, he will break every record set by those two.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s got everything&mdash;strength, speed, color and stamina. He can outskate four guys. He&rsquo;s got size (195 pounds) and a shot that has been clocked at 118 miles per hour. He loves the game, and this season he has become a leader.&rdquo;</p><p>Hull now has a career of 260 goals, surpassing a Hawk record held by Bill Mosienko, who scored 258 in his time.</p><p>&ldquo;This is amazing,&rdquo; continued Reay. &ldquo;Bobby is only 26 and just starting to reach his peak. Richard was an explosive scorer. He was fantastic once he crossed that blue line and came in on the goalie.</p><p>&ldquo;But Richard wasn&rsquo;t as strong as Bobby. In his prime Howe could do more things right than anyone else&mdash;skating, scoring, shooting and thinking.</p><p>&ldquo;I think Bobby is a combination of Richard and Howe. He has the explosive potential of Richard and the strength and durability of Howe.</p><p>&ldquo;He can skate faster and better than either one and he shoots harder.</p><p>&ldquo;Howe has more finesse than Richard had or Hull has now. But Bobby will acquire that as he gets older. He&rsquo;s maturing fast. I believe he feels it&rsquo;s his responsibility to lead the club.&rdquo;</p><p>Hull, a handsome, 25-year-old blond left wing with a powerful build, is in his eighth NHL campaign. He scored 50 goals in 1961-62, tying the secord set by Richard in 1944-45 and equalled by Boom Boom Geoffrion of Canadiens in 1960-61.</p><p>&ldquo;Bobby has become an outstanding two-way player,&rdquo; says Ranger Coach Red Sullivan. &ldquo;He now really back checks well. I remember one game in which</p><p>we had a four-on-one breakaway and he was caught deep in his own end. He put his head down and raced back to break up the play.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03258/2203891-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="456" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></figcaption></div><p>Hull, who often plays from 30 to 40 minutes a game, had a career total of 260 goals after 38 games of the current campaign. Howe, 36 and in his 19th NHL season, has an all-time high of 575. Richard, who retired in 1960, is the runner-up with 544.</p><p>&ldquo;Hull is more colorful than Howe and a better player than Richard,&rdquo; maintains King Clancy, assistant Toronto managercoach. &ldquo;Bobby is more advanced than either Howe or Richard at a comparable age. He doesn&rsquo;t worry about his good looks either. He just plays all out every-minute he&rsquo;s on the ice.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0598/2203884-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="540" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAURICE RICHARD</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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‘Better Than Howe, Richard,’ Says Coach Reay

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div><p>CHICAGO. Ill.</p><p>Because it&rsquo;s beginning to look as though only Bobby Hull is going to finish in front of him in the National Hockey League scoring race, Black Hawk Centre Stan Mikita probably doesn&rsquo;t need much help in order to repeat as All-Star centre.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04153/2203929-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="298" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stan Mikita</b></figcaption></div><p>But against the possibility of anybody overlooking Mikita&rsquo;s recent performances in the Hawks&rsquo; rapid rise from the NHL depths to a position of contention, Coach Billy Reay has been boosting his No. 1 middleman at every opportunity.</p><p>Billy issued an unqualified endorsement of Stan as All-Star centre recently after the Hawks had extended their unbeaten streak to 10 with a 6-2 victory over the Bruins in which Stan came up with a pair of goals.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s not a doubt in the world that he&rsquo;s the best centre in hockey,&rdquo; said Billy. &ldquo;During this streak I&rsquo;ve sent him against the best centre each team owns and he&rsquo;s out-played all of them. Against Montreal, Stan went against Henri Richard and kept him off the score sheet. He outplayed Bob Pulford in Toronto and in two games against Detroit, Stan held Norm Ullman to one assist.</p><p>&ldquo;And all the time he was picking up goals and assists for himself. If that isn&rsquo;t all-star play I don&rsquo;t know what is.&rdquo;</p><p>Stan started the season slowly and for a while it appeared that he and right wing Kenny Wharram were having trouble because of the variety of left wings Reay and Manager Tommy Ivan were using on the unit in an attempt to replace Ab McDonald, who was traded to Boston last summer.</p><p>One story had it that Stan, who had criticized the deal that sent his buddy away, was brooding.</p><p>Stan promptly denied it and Reay backed him up.</p><p>&ldquo;Mikita was having a problem,&rdquo; Reay conceded. &ldquo;But it was just a slump. Everybody has them. Stan is too much of a competitor ever to let down for a second.&rdquo;</p><p>Both Mikita and Wharram began to emerge from the fog when Doug Mohns was moved up from defense to the left side of their line. But while Doug helped them, it&rsquo;s obvious his presence isn&rsquo;t essential to their success.</p><p>When torn ligaments in his knee sidelined Mohns, Reay switched Red Hay to the left side for Wharram and Mikita, and, although he never had played the position since turning pro, Hay handled the assignment well, scored goals in each of his first two games in the strange position, and served generally to keep the line working at peak efficiency.</p><p>&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t worried at all about Red being able to do the job,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s strong and a good checker and that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s needed on that line.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Reay Boosts Mikita As All-Star Centre Again

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT. Mich.&mdash;</p><p>If there were any doubter&rsquo;s about Ted Lindsay really being back in hockey, they should be convinced now.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01556/2203967-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="269" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Clarence Campbell</b></figcaption></div><p>It was official on Jan. 6 when Lindsay paid a visit, a command performance, to the National Hockey League office in Montreal to see president Clarence S. Campbell.</p><p>Lindsay, who seemed to be playing on an apology-to-apology basis, just made two Red Wing games on 11th hour apologies to Campbell.</p><p>The furor stemmed from a Wing game in Toronto where, after goalie Roger Crozier became the third Detroiter to get cut by a Maple Leaf stick without penalty, Lindsay and referee Vern Buffey had a verbal set-to.</p><p>Buffey gave Lindsay a misconduct and then game misconduct, the latter automatically, calling for a review by Campbell.</p><p>Meanwhile, Lindsay&rsquo;s comments that he wouldn&rsquo;t pay the fines or appear before Campbell&rsquo;s kangaroo court,&rdquo; were printed first in Toronto and then far and wide and Mr. Campbell understandably wasn&rsquo;t overjoyed.</p><p>He called for an apology, literally, just as the Wings were going out for their pre-game warmup against Boston the next night.</p><p>Then he called for a written apology&mdash;Lindsay played the Bruin game and scored a goal and assisted on two&mdash;before the Wings&rsquo; next game at Montreal.</p><p>Lindsay conferred with his lawyer and wrote a lengthy apology and gave it to Campbell in Montreal. It wasn&rsquo;t acceptable and neither was a hurried draft prepared two hours later by Lindsay and his lawyer, whom he located in Chicago.</p><p>Manager-coach Sid Abel delivered the second draft three hours before game time and that still wasn&rsquo;t what Campbell wanted so Campbell dictated the form himself, had his secretary type it and Abel got Lindsay&rsquo;s signature, again a half hour before game time.</p><p>&ldquo;I signed under protest so that it wouldn&rsquo;t hurt the club,&rdquo; said Lindsay who still hasn&rsquo;t drawn a paycheck from the Wings.</p><p>Lindsay in appealing the sentence to the Board of Governors. He was the last player to make an appeal, back in January, 1955, after being suspended for four games when he punched a fan in Toronto. He lost the appeal.</p><p>NHL publicist Ron Andrews picked up Lindsay&rsquo;s fourth apology, plus a personal check for S75 to cover the misconduct and game misconduct automatic fines and delivered them to Campbell to close, at least for the time being, the case.</p><p>But by the time they&rsquo;re done, they&rsquo;ll probably have to build another wing in the NHL archives to house the Lindsay-Campbell papers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02520/2203960-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="541" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED LINDSAY&hellip;Signed Under Protest</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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LindsayPlans Anneal To NHL Governors

<div class="byline">&#x2014;BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Gary Bergman is starting to figure in Red Wing plans again.</p><p>The 26-year-old, quick-to-smile, balding Bergman is the Wings&rsquo; forgotten rookie.</p><p>The No. 1 rookie of course is 22-year-old goalie Roger Crozier.</p><p>Bergman sits next to Crozier in the Red Wing dressing room and that&rsquo;s as close as he&rsquo;s been to a regular most of the season.</p><p>Bergman was drafted for $20,900 last June from Montreal which had assigned him to Springfield. He never did play an NHL game in five pro seasons until coming to Detroit.</p><p>Bergman moved aside overweight Al Langlois in training camp and was a starter in the Wings&rsquo; opener but after that, he became the fifth man. It took an injury to Bill Gadsby to get him on regularly.</p><p>From what he showed, it will be hard to keep him on the bench.</p><p>Gadsby was injured in the first period of the New Year&rsquo;s Eve game against Chicago&mdash;&ldquo;I checked Stan Mikita or Fred Stanfield, I don&rsquo;t know which one, and he went sprawling but I was the one that got hurt,&rdquo; Gadsby said wryly. It was a deep Charley-horse in his thigh.</p><p>Bergman went in for him and played a strong game.</p><p>&ldquo;By the end I was nearly tripping over my tongue,&rdquo; Bergman said, &ldquo;but it felt good to get so much ice time.</p><p>&ldquo;You can practice, practice, practice and it&rsquo;s still not the same as a regular game.&rdquo;</p><p>It was some game to get regular duty after only the occasional work that a fifth man gets. The score was only 1-1 and there were only three penalties but it was one of the swiftest, most exciting games played at Olympia this season.</p><p>Prior to Gadsby&rsquo;s injury. Wing manager-coach Sid Abel had started working Bergman into the lineup more often and he improved steadily.</p><p>&ldquo;Gary had to get used to our system,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;Under the (Eddie) Shore style at Springfield, the defensemen go into the corners.&rdquo;</p><p>Another thing was that Bergman, the American League&rsquo;s top goal-scoring defenseman last season, had a tendency to go in too deep for the NHL.</p><p>Because of his scarce ice time, Bergman picked up only one goal and an assist but his goal was a game winner. Then, in the Wings&rsquo; 8-1 rout of Boston at the start of the new year, he as-sited on two of the goals, combining on a pretty play with Paul Henderson and Pit Martin with Martin scoring what was the eventual game winning goal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03443/2203998-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="492" height="649"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GARY BERGMAN</b></figcaption></div><p>Things are looking up for Berg man.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bergman Fills Gap As Gadsby Injured

<p>DETROIT, Mich.</p><p>Red Wing attendance, hypoed by the club&rsquo;s strong Stanley Cup play last spring, good start this season and the return of Ted Lindsay, is headed for an all-time club record.</p><p>The Wings drew 205,909 fans for their first 16 home games, an average of 12,869 in a building with a listed seating capacity of 13,000.</p><p>The excitement was indicated by a post-Christmas game against fifth-place New York which drew 14,125 fans, the largest crowd ever to see the Rangers in Detroit.</p><p>Detroit&rsquo;s attendance, which increased in each of the last three seasons, averaging 12,189 last year, hit its peak in 1956-57 with 451,147 fans, a 12,889 average.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Charlie Hodge, who wrote one of the most glittering success stories in hockey, last year, is currently working on a sequel to the fascinating tale.</p><p>It&rsquo;s called &ldquo;How Charlie Made It Twice In A Row.&rdquo; The story won&rsquo;t be completed before the hockey season is over, of course, but Hodge has made a pretty good start on it. At least he reached the halfway mark with a clutch on the Vezina Trophy, and a determination to show the world that he&rsquo;s no flash in the pan.</p><p>It&rsquo;s important to Charlie to prove that he belongs in the best of hockey circles on a very permanent basis. Last year, he was called the &ldquo;Cinderella Man of Hockey,&rdquo; and with good reason. His rise from the drudgery of minor leagues to the glamour of the NHL was a very inspiring thing. But Hodge, it&rsquo;s safe to say, would prefer not to think about what happened to Cinderella at midnight. He has no time for anymore interruptions in his Storybook career.</p><p>Judging by his performance in the first half of the schedule. Charlie doesn&rsquo;t have too much to worry about. He was a steady and at times, spectacular performer for Habs, and a few of his games were classics. Particularly against Toronto Maple Leafs was Hodge a tower of strength in the first half. To him must go much of the credit for Canadiens fine showing against Punch Imlach&rsquo;s crew. Habs lost only one of their first seven games against Leafs, this season, but they&rsquo;d&rsquo;ve lost more than that if it hadn&rsquo;t been for Charlie. An instance comes to mind of a December contest, when Hodge robbed Leaf marksmen on six separate occasions to provide his team with a close 3-2 victory. He contributed further to the festivities, that night, by taking a healthy whack at Eddie Shack with his goaler&rsquo;s stick, when the Leaf forward charged into him.</p><p>As against outstanding efforts like that, were a couple of undistinguished nights that Charlie suffered in the early going.</p><p>As a rule, however, Hodge is not the type of goalie who veers from good to bad performances on various nights. Generally he&rsquo;s good&mdash;and steady. But, periodically, Charlie will blow hot and cold in the space of a single game; and it has provided his supporters with some hairraising moments. There was a game against Detroit, early this season, when Hodge appeared weak as he fanned on a shot by Normie Ullman in the first period. But, before the game was over, he&rsquo;d stopped pointblank drives by Howe, Lindsay, MacGregor and Ullman again. On another occasion, this time against Chicago, Hodge was beaten for three goals in the first ten minutes of the game. Then he steadied, and began to contain the onrushing Hawks. His mates rallied, and eventually earned a tie out of what started off to be a rout. But, nights like that are the exception rather than the rule. Usually, Charlie can be counted on for sixty minutes of first-rate goaling. and never more so than in an important game where the chips are really on the line.</p><p>It will be a long time before people forget Charlie&rsquo;s clutch performance against Rangers, last March, on the final night of the schedule. No one could&rsquo;ve been under more pressure than Hodge, on that memorable occasion. Hanging in the balance was a first-place finish for the team, and the Vezina Trophy for Charlie. At the other end of the rink was the foreboding figure of Jacques Plante, a man who&rsquo;d always had a most unsettling effect on Hodge. It was a tight spot, and if Charlie had blown that game it might&rsquo;ve had a disastrous effect on his confidence, not to mention his future. Charlie came through, however, as did his teammates, and the rest is history.</p><p>It may be quite awhile before the final chapter of the Hodge story is written. When it is, however, it will probably include a happy ending for the doughty little Scot.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hodge Out To Prove last Year’s Vezina Coup Was No Fluke

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<div class="byline">&#x2014;SMITH</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.</p><p>A 31-year-old veteran, known principally for his checking ability, emerged as Canadiens&rsquo; scoring leader in the first half of this season.</p><p>Claude Provost, one of the few remaining players on the club who participated in Montreal&rsquo;s five straight Stanley Cup victories, had 34 points to show for 35 games. His production was divided into 13 goals and 21 assists. He ranked as fourth-highest scorer in the league at the halfway point of the schedule, behind Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita, and Detroit&rsquo;s Normie Ullman.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01514/2204184-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="282" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Claude Provost</b></figcaption></div><p>Provost&rsquo;s feat was somewhat astonishing, in view of his meagre production last year. He managed only 32 points (15-17) in 68 games last season. At the halfway mark last year, he had but five goals and ten assists.</p><p>The likeable veteran has been operating on a line with Henri Richard and Dave Balon, and they&rsquo;ve constituted the most productive unit on the Canadiens squad. Provost has also seen considerable action on the power play, this season, and has come through with flying colors. Five of his goals were scored while his team held a man advantage; and that made him the top power play producer for Habs in the first half.</p><p>If Provost keeps it up. he could be in for a mighty rewarding season. He&rsquo;s reported to have a contract which calls for a bonus of $100.00 for every goal he gets beyond a total of fifteen. Off his first-half pace, he could be in for a 26-goal season, and an extra $1.100.00.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Provost Checking Man, Finds Time To Set Pace For Canucks’ Scorers

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The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">BY Ken mc Kenzte</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01583/2204329-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="405" height="438"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02455/2204322-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="644" height="90"></div><p>&bull; <b>CLARENCE CAMPBELL</b> was criticized by a number of NHL hockey writers for the way he handled the Ted Lindsay affair. They thought he was too lenient&hellip;It appears as if Eddie Shack is all through at Toronto. Look for the colorful character to be traded to another NHL team shortly&hellip;We liked the remark made by a National League coach after his club ended a contest deadlocked with their opposition&hellip;&ldquo;A tie is like kissing your sister&rdquo;&hellip;Marcel Pelletier of the St. Paul Saints had this to say: &ldquo;Every pro hockey team has two goalies today except Boston. And look where they are. One goalie either goes nuts or gets shell-shocked&rdquo;&hellip;Marcel must have meant NHL clubs as many of the minor pro teams carry just one netminder&hellip;As the long-time NHL veteran remarked: &ldquo;There are only two kinds of athletes. Those who play for cash and those who play for the love of the game&rdquo;&hellip;Lou Kaplan of St. Paul told Don Riley: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen defense men like bully boy Noel Picard of Omaha before. Hit him a couple of blasts early and he&rsquo;ll look for the escape hatch.&rdquo;&hellip;Bert Olmstead, in charge of player personnel of the New York Rangers, thinks that the junior schedules should be curtailed and more time spent on the teaching of fundamentals. One thing about Bert, he won&rsquo;t be hesitant in popping off if he thinks something isn&rsquo;t just right&hellip;Just right in his eyes, that is.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03337/2204315-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="276" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marcel Pelletier</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>BOB NEVIN</b>, unlike Dick Duff, enjoys playing in New York&hellip;&ldquo;Toronto fans are kind of spoiled because the team is always in the first bracket,&rdquo; observes Nevin. &ldquo;New York fans would be the happiest in the world if we were playing for the first spot. I like it here.&rdquo;&hellip;Tumba Johannsson, Sweden&rsquo;s best-known hockey player other than Ulf Sterner and for years the star of Sweden&rsquo;s puck teams in Olympic and world competition, has legally changed his name to Sven Tumba&hellip;Tumba got his nickiname at the age of 12 when he moved to Stockholm from Tumba. a nearby town&hellip;It was King Clancy who talked Punch Imlach into playing Tim Horton at right wing&hellip;If Vern Buffey is swearing at the players as Ted Lindsay contends then something should be done about it&hellip;There is no excuse for any NHL officials swearing at players&hellip;Sid Abel says Toronto newspapermen will never be allowed to enter a Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; dressing room after a game. &ldquo;I do it reluctantly,&rdquo; said the Wings&rsquo; manager-coach, &ldquo;but they&rsquo;ve caused us nothing but trouble and right now I&rsquo;d have to say they never again will get in our dressing room.&rdquo; We&rsquo;d imagine the scribes from the Queen City will survive&hellip;Chicago Black Hawks have an outstanding defense prospect in Doug Jarrett&hellip;Conn Smythe, an avowed Red Ensign man asked Rocket Richard what he thought of Canada&rsquo;s new flag. Rocket&rsquo;s reply: &ldquo;Why is there so much Maple Leaf in it?&rdquo;&hellip;Smythe&rsquo;s own summary of the flag: &ldquo;They took Detroit&rsquo;s colors and our crest.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04230/2204308-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="279" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Nevin</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>NORMAN</b> MacLEAN has a fine story on Rod Seiling, Rangers&rsquo; rookie defenseman. in the current issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL&hellip;There&rsquo;s an excellent story on another NHL defenseman in the same issue of HOCKEY PIC&hellip;and that&rsquo;s Dan Moulton&rsquo;s profile on Moose Vasko of Chicago, the biggest man in the NHL&hellip;Gordie Howe and Carl Brewer almost came to blows in the corridor leading to the teams&rsquo; dressing rooms at Maple Leaf Gardens the other night. Howe was incensed over an alleged high stick attack by Brewer on Norm Ullman during the game&hellip;Detroit players miss Terry Sawchuk, ex-goalie now with Toronto. Reason being that Terry was the club&rsquo;s crossword puzzle champion&hellip;Weston Adams, owner-president of the Boston Bruins, has spent over a quarter million dollars this season in an attempt to develop some players fit for NHL competition&hellip;Canadiens are looking forward to a big second half from Jean Beliveau when he returns to action from his knee injury. He had a poor first half and the Habs think he will be well rested and raring to go in the home stretch&hellip;Lloyd Blinco is doing a wonderful job in running the Hershey Bears, Hershey Arena and all other amusements and recreation at the Chocolate City&hellip;When passing out accolades to hockey executives doing an outstanding job this year don&rsquo;t overlook John Muckier of the Long Island Ducks. Muckier is easily one of the brightest and best of hockey&rsquo;s younger executives and has done wonders since joining the Long Island club.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05188/2204301-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="278" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rod Seiling</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<p>CHICAGO, m.</p><p>Kenny Wharram has to rate as the league&rsquo;s least likely candidate for the role of policeman. Yet, the Lady Byng trophy winner actually took a &ldquo;crack&rdquo; (the word is used advisedly) at the chore in a recent Black Hawk-Boston Bruins game in the Stadium.</p><p>Early in the first period, Kenny became embroiled in a scramble with former teammate Reggie Flemming, a veteran badman whose biceps are bigger around than Wharram&rsquo;s waist.</p><p>Quick action by officials managed to avert what almost certainly would have become a stickfight.</p><p>When questioned later about his close brush with what probably would have been a creased skull, the normally mild-mannered veteran said:</p><p>&ldquo;Aw, Reggie was asking for trouble. He really was trying to smash Mikita out there.&rdquo;</p><p>This remark prompted Mikita, whose physique is only slightly more rugged than his half-pint wing&rsquo;s, to move over from his adjacent cubicle in the Hawk dressing room, and grin as he said:</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the way to look after me, Kenny. Gotta take care of the old pivot. Get in a couple of good licks?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Yes, but he got me a little better, I&rsquo;m afraid,&rdquo; was Wharram&rsquo;s grudging reply.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Reg Proves Wharram No Policeman

<p>CHICAGO. 111.&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ennis Hull gained one distinction that thus far has eluded his more famous brother Bobby recently when a slap shot from the blue line by the powerful rookie flashed past Canadiens&rsquo; goalie Charlie Hedge&rsquo;s head and broke the tuflex shield that protects patrons behind the net.</p><p>The puck didn&rsquo;t penetrate the material and, fortunately for several patrons, the material powders when broken instead of shattering.</p><p>It was the first time since the tuflex replaced the chicken wire several seasons ago, that play has ever been held up while a new panel was inserted.</p><p>However, shots by Bobby Hull and Howie Young have broken panes during practice sessions.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Dennis Unique Shatters Glass

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-06144/2204408-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg"></div><h2><b>NHL Super Stars Should Not Quit</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>In your Dec. 5 paper a Mrs. R. Downing wrote a letter saying that all players over 35 years old should be retired except super stars. I think she would like to see hockey go out, because she said that Bower (who had the best average last year) Stanley (who is an All Star in every game) and Kelly another great star should be retired. I think she is afraid because Toronto will win the Stanley Cup again this year and not her favorite team.</p><p>If players over 35 were to retire, Plante. Sawchuk, Worsley and Bathgate should also retire which wouldn&rsquo;t be fair to the public or the N.H.L.</p><p><b>MARTIN PENNEY</b>,<br>Freshwater P.B.. Nfld.</p><h2><b>Wants NHL Change All-Star System</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>I would like to see the all-star system in the N.H.L, changed to the three best forwards rather than the present system of a left wing, a right wing, and a centre.</p><p>For instance Bernie Geoffrion, who played right wing, may have been the third best forward many of his years but could not win a place on the all-star team because two super stars, Maurice Richard and Gordie Howe, also played right wing.</p><p>I am presently in my second year as a HOCKEY NEWS subscriber and I enjoy your paper immensely.</p><p><b>JEFFREY LONN</b>,<br>Montreal, P.Q.</p><h2><b>Best Officiating In EHL Not NHL</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>I have seen many hockey games this season, both on television and in person. I have been to Ranger, Rover and Clipper games (American League). I regret that the only good job of refereeing has been in the games I have seen which involved the Rovers of the Eastern League. I believe that in the N.H.L. the officials are ignoring the board check.</p><p>In the Clipper game on November 27th, both the Baltimore Clippers and Pittsburg Hornets were getting away with <i>a</i> terrific amount of slashing. On October 25th the Chicago Black Hawks were manhandling the Rangers with high sticks and cross checks. On one occasion little Camille Henry (smallest player in the N.H.L.) was pinned against the boards in back of the Chicago goal, while another player had his stick around Henry&rsquo;s throat, and the referee was looking right at the play, and didn&rsquo;t call a penalty.</p><p>On another occasion (December&rsquo; 5th) in Boston, with a Bruin in the penalty box. Larry Cahan of the Rangers slapped the puck right into the goal, but the puck evidently hit a supporting post, or close to it, and the puck bounced out. Not only was this goal obvious to the television audience, but also Win Elliot, the sportscaster, called this a goal. However, the goal judge neglected to turn on the red light, and so no goal was allowed. Immediately thereafter four fouls were committed within seconds, but the referee failed to call penalties. Of these fouls two were trips and two were boarding.</p><p>If there is no change of officiating, the game of hockey is bound to lose its popularity.</p><p><b>ALAN YOUNGWOOD</b>,<br>Brooklyn, N.Y.</p><h2><b>Autograph Collectors Seeking Recognition</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>I collect autographs of sport celebrities as a hobby either present day or former stars, included in my collection is <i>a</i> large selection of hockey. We also have an autography collectors club in which we buy, sell trade, etc. autographs between ourselves. We have over 100 members but only a couple from Canada. I wonder if you could put in your column something about our Club and ask anyone that might be interested in joining to contact me&mdash;we are especially interested in hockey autographs and also former players addresses so we might be able to write them.</p><p>Any help sure would be appreciated by myself and the club.</p><p>Are there any clubs associations that might have addresses of former players?</p><p><b>John J. Smith,</b><br><b>Pontiac, Mich.</b><br><b>6382 Greer Road.</b></p><h2><b>Wants To Join Big M Fan Club</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>Ever since Frank Mahovlich joined the Maple Leafs in the 57-58 season he has been my hockey idol and, to me, the greatest. I collect all the news about him that I can possibly get a hold of, but I haven&rsquo;t been able to find a &ldquo;Big M&rdquo; Fan Club. Can anyone help me?</p><p><b>Wayne Dugan</b>,<br>P.O. Box 98.<br>Langruth, Man.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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FAN FORUM

<p>(1) New York once had a nifty centre who was so tall and thin he was dubbed &ldquo;Mr. Bones.&rdquo; Who was he?</p><p>(2) In June, 1957, the Rangers traded Ron Murphy to Chicago in a straight player exchange. Who was the other man involved in the deal?</p><p>(3) This former NHL forward not only won the Calder Trophy in his initial year, but later copped the Hart Trophy, plus the scoring title. All his talent wasn&rsquo;t confined to the ice. He even appeared on TV as a singer. Who is he?</p><p>(4) When Detroit defeated New York for the Stanley Cup in the seventh game of the 1950 finals one man emerged as the hero, because he scored the game winning goal. Name him.</p><p>(5) For years, former Ranger goalie Rayner has answered to the name of Chuck, yet his name isn&rsquo;t Charlie. Maybe older readers will recall his Christian names.</p><p>(6) How many times did Syl Apps win the NHL scoring title and the Hart Trophy?</p><p>(7) What does Lynn and Muzz Patrick and Canadiens&rsquo; John Ferguson have in common besides the fact that all have earned a living from hockey?</p><p>(8) Besides shining as a hockeyist, one of the players listed below is also a geologist. Is he: Bob Pulford, Bill Hay, Murray Oliver, Pit Martin.</p><p>(9) When coaches instruct their players in the art of scoring they usually know how to do it. This is particularly true in the case of two of the current NHL mentors, because they are both former scoring champions. Do you know their names?</p><p>(10) A certain NHL star has the unique record of participating in 71 scheduled games last season while his rivals and mates played in 70 or less. Who is the player?</p><p><b>(Answers Next Week)</b></p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><p>(1) Montreal Forum.</p><p>(2) Eddie Shore.</p><p>(3) Montreal and Detroit.</p><p>(4) Charlie Burns.</p><p>(5) Lacrosse.</p><p>(6) Mush March, Hooley Smith, Flash Hollett.</p><p>(7) Dickie Moore.</p><p>(8) Chicago (Godfrey Mathe son, Emil Iverson and Tommy Gorman)</p><p>(9) Joe Primeau in 1950-51</p><p>(10)All wear Number 4 or their sweaters.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

HOCKEY…Quiz

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.</p><p>All Black Hawk coach Billy Reay wants in the second half of the National Hockey League race are four more points than his crew picked up in the first 35-games&hellip;and a bit of luck.</p><p>Billy figures that if he can get the equivalent of two more triumphs (the Hawks won 19 of their first 35) and help in the form of a few victories over the Canadiens by the four other members of the NHL, he and the Hawks can bring Chicago its first regular season title.</p><p>At the midway point of last season, it seemed as though the Hawks were certain to finish in front. However, the team declined, slowly but steadily, until it missed the crown by a point and flopped out of the playoffs by bowing to Detroit in seven first-round games.</p><p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re in better shape for the stretch run this year,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;With the young talent we have in place of some of the veterans who let down last season. I figure we can improve on our first half record and win it all.</p><p>&ldquo;We need some help. We have to be a little lucky with injuries and some other team besides us has to start beating Montreal the odd game.</p><p>&ldquo;In the first half, we were 3-3-1. No other team even came close to matching that record. The same thing happened last year when we beat Montreal and nobody else was able to.&rdquo;</p><p>Much of Reay&rsquo;s hopefulness is based on the assumption that most of his rookies will continue to improve at the pace they showed in the first half. So pronounced was the progress of the six first year men on the roster that once they settled down to big league play, the team moved from fifth place to a position three points back of first in little more than three weeks.</p><p>Last season, the vital centre positions were manned by Stan Mikita, Chico Maki, and Red Hay. Only Mikita remains on a regular basis. Rookie Fred Stanfield has taken over for Maki as third line middleman, with Chico moving to his normal position at right wing.</p><p>And Phil Esposito, who would qualify as a rookie if he had played one fewer game last year, has replaced Hay as Bobby Hull&rsquo;s centre.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re tougher at centre,&rdquo; says Reay. &ldquo;And the main reason is the way Stanfield developed. When you realize he&rsquo;s only in his first year out of junior hockey, it&rsquo;s amazing.&rdquo;</p><p>Helping young Stanfield on the third line is another rookie, Dennis Hull, and an 11-year veteran, Eric Nesterenko.</p><p>Eric, who played at about halfspeed on a line with the departed Ron Murphy and Maki last year, has come up with new vigor under the influence of the youngsters and they in turn, have gained from his experience.</p><p>Dennis Hull particularly has gained under Nester&rsquo;s steadying influence. He also was a junior last year at St. Catharines.</p><p>Probably the most incredible aspect of the Hawks rookie situation is that for the last several games Reay has been using a defense crew&rsquo; made up of freshman Matt Ravlich and still another junior grad, Doug Jarrett.</p><p>&ldquo;Ravlich has helped improve our mobility on defense,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;He went well when we called him up, then tailed off a bit. But he&rsquo;s come on again and figures&rsquo; to be a sound player all the way.</p><p>&ldquo;Jarrett still is a little unsure of himself but he has all a big league defenseman needs. He&rsquo;s big, which means he doesn&rsquo;t have to charge any one when he goes into the corners after a puck, and he can brush checkers aside.&rdquo;</p><p>Probably the best illustration of the part they have played and will continue to play in the Hawks fortunes is that at least once a game, when Denis DeJordy is playing goal, five of the six men on the ice are in their first big league season.</p><p>This happens w&rsquo;hen Nesterenko, Stanfield and Hull make up the forward unit in front of Jarrett. Ravlich and DeJordy.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01535/2204487-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="495" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG JARRETT&hellip;Big League Timber</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll admit that isn&rsquo;t a situation I like to see develop,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;But sometimes it can&rsquo;t be avoided. So far, we haven&rsquo;t been hurt by having all those kids out there at once but I don&rsquo;t want it to happen too often.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Reay’s Formula For Second Half, Few More Points, Little Luck As Hawks’ Coach Eyes NHL Title

<div class="byline">&#x2014;Moulton.</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.</p><p>Billy Reay becomes more impressed with the play of his sizeable rookie crop with each passing game. Currently, he has two freshmen just out of junior hockey, centre Fred Stanfield and left wing Dennis Hull playing on his third line with veteran Eric Nesterenko, and has been using a defense crew made up of newcomers Matt Ravlich and 20-year-old Doug Jarrett extensively in recent games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02494/2204518-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="287" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dennis Hull</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;The kids have been coming on very well lately,&rdquo; said Billy. &ldquo;Some were having a little trouble adjusting to big league play early in the year but they&rsquo;ve jelled now and really are helping out.&rdquo;</p><p>Dennis Hull&rsquo;s improvement has been the most marked, according to Reay. Hull actually is with the team only because the Hawks were unable to get waivers on him three weeks ago w&rsquo;hen they wanted, quite justifiably in the light of his play at the time, to ship him to St. Louis.</p><p>But when circumstances almost forced Reay to put Dennis to work on the third line, the youngster began to respond and had scored five times.</p><p>&ldquo;I think Dennis&rsquo; skating even has improved since he started to play regularly,&rdquo; said Billy. &ldquo;But the most important thing is that he&rsquo;s been playing a lot smarter hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess he just doesn&rsquo;t do well in practice. Even during training camp, he&rsquo;d stumble around and get himself in all sorts of trouble during scrimmages and we&rsquo;d be about ready to ship him to the minor league camp.</p><p>&ldquo;Then, we&rsquo;d play an exhibition game and he&rsquo;d play pretty well and we&rsquo;d decide to keep him around for another look or two. It&rsquo;s starting to look as if we had more than we realized.&rdquo;</p><p>Jarrett, Stanfield, and Hull have had to make a greater adjustment than the average rookie, Reay feels.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hull, Stanfield, Jarrett Impressive

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RESIDENT SUMMER HOCKEY CAMP

<p>DETROIT, Mich.</p><p>If the first half of the 1964-65 season is any indicator, the Red Wings are raring for the second half.</p><p>The Wings finished their first 35 games in third place and had three players in the running for trophies and All-Star honors&mdash;centre Norm Ullman, defenseman Bill Gadsby and goalie Roger Crozier.</p><p>Ullman wound up a torrid first half with his 19th goal of the season just 18 seconds before the end of the game for a 5-4 victory over Montreal in the Forum.</p><p>It was Ullman&rsquo;s sixth game winning goal this season, marked the sixth straight game in which he scored at least one goal. The game winner was one more than he had all last season when he tied Parker MacDonald for the club lead.</p><p>The 19 goals seemed to assure him of his finest year in the NHL in this, his 10th season.</p><p>The 29-year-old centre took a string of seven straight 20 goalplus seasons into the current campaign.</p><p>Ullman&rsquo;s latest spree was well-timed, coming right when voters in the six NHL cities were picking the first half All-Star team, a team Ullman never has made.</p><p>Gadsby was in strong contention for both the All-Star which he last made In 1958-59 while with New York and the Norris Trophy as the best defenseman.</p><p>Gadsby couldn&rsquo;t match Montrealer Jacques Laperriere&rsquo;s offensive display but it would be difficult to pick anyone who has played better defensive hockey than the 19-season veteran.</p><p>Crozier was bidding for the Calder Trophy for rookies and All-Star goal.</p><p>It was a most satisfying first half&mdash;nine goals from Ted Lindsay, 13 from Bruce MacGregor, nine from Ron Murphy who missed a month with a shoulder injury. Most satisfying.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ullman, Crozier, Gadsby Red Winos’ Big Guns In First Half

<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><h3>MONTREAL CANADIENS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01569/2204786-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="460" height="496"></div><h3>TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02498/2204779-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="448" height="516"></div><h3>CHICAGO BLACK HAWKS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03412/2204772-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="452" height="494"></div><h3>BOSTON BRUINS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04322/2204765-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="458" height="518"></div><h3>NEW YORK RANGERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05256/2204758-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="448" height="486"></div><h3>DETROIT RED WINGS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06210/2204751-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="454" height="496"></div><h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2><h3>PORTLAND BUCKAROOS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07173/2204744-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="454" height="502"></div><h3>VICTORIA MAPLE LEAFS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08147/2204737-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="450" height="502"></div><h3>LOS ANGELES BLADES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-09124/2204730-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="454" height="466"></div><h3>SAN FRANCISCO SEALS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-10107/2204723-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="458" height="506"></div><h3>VANCOUVER CANUCKS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1193/2204716-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="454" height="476"></div><h3>SEATTLE TOTEMS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1275/2204709-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="448" height="484"></div><h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2><h3>OMAHA KNIGHTS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1365/2204702-1-eng-US/f0008-132.jpg" title="f0008-13" width="454" height="502"></div><h3>TULSA OILERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1448/2204695-1-eng-US/f0008-142.jpg" title="f0008-14" width="454" height="502"></div><h3>ST. LOUIS BRAVES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1530/2204688-1-eng-US/f0008-152.jpg" title="f0008-15" width="450" height="464"></div><h3>MINNEAPOLIS BRUINS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1618/2204681-1-eng-US/f0008-162.jpg" title="f0008-16" width="456" height="488"></div><h3>ST. PAUL RANGERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1715/2204674-1-eng-US/f0008-172.jpg" title="f0008-17" width="448" height="468"></div><h3>MEMPHIS RED WINGS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1813/2204667-1-eng-US/f0008-182.jpg" title="f0008-18" width="468" height="480"></div><h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2><h3>QUEBEC ACES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1912/2204660-1-eng-US/f0008-192.jpg" title="f0008-19" width="462" height="490"></div><h3>ROCHESTER AMERICANS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-2011/2204653-1-eng-US/f0008-202.jpg" title="f0008-20" width="464" height="522"></div><h3>BUFFALO BISONS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-2111/2204646-1-eng-US/f0008-212.jpg" title="f0008-21" width="448" height="444"></div><h3>HERSHEY BEARS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-2210/2204639-1-eng-US/f0008-222.jpg" title="f0008-22" width="452" height="490"></div><h3>BALTIMORE CLIPPERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-238/2204632-1-eng-US/f0008-232.jpg" title="f0008-23" width="456" height="492"></div><h3>PITTSBURGH HORNETS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-248/2204625-1-eng-US/f0008-242.jpg" title="f0008-24" width="452" height="516"></div><h3>CLEVELAND BARONS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-257/2204618-1-eng-US/f0008-252.jpg" title="f0008-25" width="462" height="570"></div><h3>SPRINGFIELD INDIANS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-265/2204611-1-eng-US/f0008-262.jpg" title="f0008-26" width="450" height="514"></div><h3>PROVIDENCE REDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-274/2204604-1-eng-US/f0008-272.jpg" title="f0008-27" width="454" height="526"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Professional Hockey’s Revised Team Rosters

<p>BOSTON, Mass.</p><p>The Bruins management has declared war on Boston Garden fans who litter the ice during the course of games. The most common offense is throwing pennies or shooting paper clips onto the playing surface.</p><p>Signs have been posted around the Garden offering a $100 reward for informants who present evidence that leads to the arrest and conviction of the litterbugs.</p><p>Full attention has been given to the fact that Montreal&rsquo;s Gilles Tremblay broke his leg when his skate hit a foreign substance on the ice after he was reeling from a jolting check thrown by Toronto rookie Ron Ellis.</p><p>Boston fans also have been told about Frank Milne, 32, who survived 15 professional seasons without a serious injury but sustained a compound leg fracture when he skated over a penny while playing for the Oakville, Ont. Oaks in an OHA Senior game.</p><p>Frank Fallon, Boston Garden PA announcer, makes periodic requests for the fans to refrain from throwing objects on the ice.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bruins Declare War On Litters

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01554/2204841-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="538" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DEAN PRENTICE&hellip;Serious Back Injury</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Bruins have lost 75 mangames through injuries thus far and Gen. Mgr. Lynn Patrick calls the lengthy injury list &ldquo;the worst I&rsquo;ve ever seen.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>Ohly five players have gone the derby distance since the season opened: goalie Ed Johnston, captain-defenseman Leo Boivin, Teddy Green, Eddie Westfall and penalty-killer Forbes Kennedy.</p><p>Latest casualty and most serious blow to the Boston Bruins was the loss of veteran high * scoring winger Dean Prentice, who is out for the rest of the season with a serious back injury.</p><p>The 32-year-old Prentice, who had been leading the Bruins in goals with 14 and points with 23, was in hospital undergoing treatment for a fractured vertebrae.</p><p>Prentice apparently suffered the injury nearly two weeks ago when he was checked by Stan Mikita of the Chicago Black Hawks. Prentice took and made a penalty shot after the check.</p><p>&lsquo;The injury had not shown up in earlier X-rays until he felt severe pain at his Nahant home and was taken to the hospital.</p><p>Also out is Reggie Fleming, the second-highest scorer on the club., damaged knee ligaments over the New Year&rsquo;s weekend. Centre Bob Leiter is through for the season with a broken arm and rookie Ron Schock&mdash;sidelined since the 15th game with calcium deposits in his thigh&mdash;isn&rsquo;t expected back-for at least three weeks.</p><p>Ab McDonald pulled a groin muscle and coach Milt Schmidl, installed defenseman Ed West fall on right wing in McDonald&rsquo;s place and Eddie came up with his first goal of the season and two assists in his very first game with linemates Fleming and rookie Bill Knibbs&hellip;Fleming incidentally, now has six goals against Toronto.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Boston Hit As Prentice Out For Year

<div class="byline">BY LEO MONAHAN</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.</p><p>Weston W. Adams, President of the Bruins, held the first of a series of periodic luncheons with Boston&rsquo;s press and, among other things, gave General Manager Lynn Patrick and Coach Milt Schmidt a vote of confidence.</p><p>&ldquo;Milt,&rdquo; said Adams &ldquo;is a great Bruin. He&rsquo;s a force in Boston and always should be with the Bruins organization. He wants to win more than anything else.</p><p>&ldquo;I like Milt as a coach. When we lose, he takes things badly, but he doesn&rsquo;t shrug it off. He makes an attempt to correct what caused the defeat before the next game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02526/2204872-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="277" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ron Schock</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Lynn Patrick,&rdquo; Adams continued, &ldquo;is our General Manager and why have a General Manager if you don&rsquo;t let him make the decisions? Lynn has the final decision in our important hockey matters.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course, Milt, Lynn and I sit down when we have something serious to consider and we don&rsquo;t always agree, but three heads are better than one. It would be nice if we could agree 100 percent, but it doesn&rsquo;t work out that way. However, Lynn has the final word.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams fingered Boston&rsquo;s unproductive farm system for the dearth of talent channeled to the varsity from 1951 through 1961.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s where our troubles started,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but we have worked very hard building up our farm system. We have spent a considerable amount of money and right now we have as many goodlooking young prospects as any other team. Take a boy like Bobby Orr of our junior team in Oshawa. Everybody says he can&rsquo;t miss and Orr. isn&rsquo;t the only fine young player we have. We have several others who will be playing for the Bruins some day.</p><p>&ldquo;On our present Bruins team we have six young players who were developed in our own system the past four years. Take Ron Schock. Every team in hockey wanted him. I told our scouts to get him at all costs and we did. We paid more for him than had ever before been paid for a youngster,&rdquo; said Adams.</p><p>Reports have Schock, 21, a rookie centre presently sidelined with a thigh ailment, received a $10,000 bonus from the Bruins.</p><p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t buy super-stars. The owners in the league wouldn&rsquo;t sell one for any price. No, you have to develop them yourselves and that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re trying to do,&rdquo; said Adams.</p><p>When will the Bruins, sixth the past four years and presently buried in the NHL cellar return to prominence?</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say for sure,&rdquo; said Adams. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to say next year or the year after that, but there are too many factors, including luck, involved. The day is coming, however, I&rsquo;m sure of it.&rdquo;</p><p>The purgatorial process of rebuilding a team that was withering on the vine is a long and painful one, but Adams made it plain it&rsquo;s a job that is well underway.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-02

Adams Confident Schmidt, Patrick Building Bruins UP TO NHL Power

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>There are only a halfdozen&hellip;goaltending berths in the National Hockey League and every red-blooded Canadian kid who happens to play goal naturally aspires to one. Eddie Johnston of the Bruins was no exception in his younger days in Montreal&rsquo;s West End, but had he known what he knows now, chances are he would have changed his mind for a less nerve-jangling occupation&mdash;like maybe riding barrels over Niagara Falls.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03470/2204903-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="274" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Johnston</b></figcaption></div><p>Johnston, without question, has the most unenviable job in professional sport. Consider, for in stance, the way he started 1965. He was peppered with 131 shots in three games and the real crusher was Detroit&rsquo;s 56-shot barrage in an 8-1 route. He was the first NHL goaler to exceed the 1,000 mark in shots on goal totalling 1,135 in 37 games. Roger Crozier of Detroit had 956.</p><p>&ldquo;Happy New Year!&rdquo; grimaced Johnston. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s a lot of rubber.&rdquo;</p><p>Johnston, the only NHL netminder to play every game thus far, is the most pressured goalie and physically has problems.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s all banged up,&rdquo; said Trainer Dan Canney. &ldquo;Eddie has five sore spots I know about. He&rsquo;s having trouble with one arm, but otherwise he&rsquo;s in fine shape.&rdquo;</p><p>Canney flashed a wry grin when he said it.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-03

Tending Goal For Bruins No Sunday School Picnic

<div class="byline">BY RED FOLEY</div><p><u>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</u></p><p>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;The Rangers&rsquo; standing prevented him from sticking out his chest, so Red Sullivan stuck out his chin instead when he included two and possibly a third Blueshirt skater on the All Star team he ticked off as the current NHL season moved into its second phase.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01568/2204934-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="277" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jacques Plante</b></figcaption></div><p>Goalie Jacques Plante, defenseman Harry Howell and right-winger Bob Nevin were the Rangers Sullivan named although he did qualify the latter&rsquo;s selection.</p><p>&ldquo;Until he got hurt, Nevin was playing the best right wing in the league,&rsquo;&rsquo; Sullivan said. &ldquo;But Bobby missed a couple of weeks with his shoulder injury and then his timing was off when he returned. Right now I&rsquo;d have to go along with Gordie Howe for that position.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>The Ranger coach filled his Star squad by nominating Jacques Laperriere for the other defensive spot and named Norm Ullman as the centre.</p><p>&ldquo;As for left wing,&rdquo; Sullivan gagged, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll go along with that fellow in Chicago what&rsquo;s his name again?&rdquo;</p><p>Sullivan was strong in his defense of Plante. &ldquo;Jacques right now is playing the best goal I&rsquo;ve been him play. I&rsquo;m only sorry we can&rsquo;t score more for him. We&rsquo;re playing better, we&rsquo;re shooting more but we&rsquo;re not winning,&rdquo; he said of a Ranger club that had only one victory and a tie in the final 11 games prior to the New Year.</p><p>&ldquo;We just don&rsquo;t seem to have enough finish around the opposing net,&rdquo; Sullivan said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re getting the puck up there but we&rsquo;re not putting it in.&rdquo;</p><p>The lack of muscle on the forward lines could explain the dearth of Blueshirts tallies. The likes of Camille Henry, Rod Gilbert and Jean Rate 11 eare frequently in position but they don&rsquo;t have the physical strength to match that of opposing defensemen who spill them all over the ice.</p><p>Despite his slight build, however, Gilbert had taken over as the club&rsquo;s top goalmaker. Sullivan explains Gilbert&rsquo;s success thusly: &ldquo;Rod is shooting and he&rsquo;s playing right wing instead of skating all over. Another thing is he is relying more and more on his forehand and not trying to switch over to his other side.</p><p>&ldquo;What the heck, his backhand isn&rsquo;t worth a hoot anyway and now he&rsquo;s taking advantage of a very good forehand shot.&rdquo;</p><p>Sullivan, who may be more of an optimist than a realist, feels his fifth place Blues are capable of a protracted winning streak and as such refuses to count them out of playoff contention.</p><p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re returning to our early season form,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t forget, in our first 20 games we had a pretty good hockey team going. I think (Arnie) Browne and Nevin are their old selves again and I&rsquo;m looking for us to bounce back.&rdquo;</p><p>Brown, slow to recover from the fractured ribs that sidelined him in mid-November was prominent in a 3-3 tie vs Toronto, January 3. In fact the freshman rearguard wound up being voted one of the stars of that game.</p><p>The Redhead has put his stamp of approval on Billy Hicke. The youngster has shown tremendous skating ability and a willingness to hustle that has won him cheers from the Garden galleryites. Sullivan said he is pleased with Hicke&rsquo;s performance and Plante, who was familiar with Billy&rsquo;s ability when both were in Montreal, seconded the coach&rsquo;s remarks.</p><p><b>BLUE CHIPS:</b> Red Sullivan says he wants to rest Cammy Henry, who is tired and underweight. &ldquo;But honestly I can&rsquo;t. I need him too much,&rdquo;&hellip;Sully is satisfied with Rod Seiling&rsquo;s play but says he has no thought of moving the freshman to a forward post. &ldquo;Frankly, I don&rsquo;t think Rod is fast enough to play the wing,&rdquo; Sullivan said&hellip;Sully is pondering line changes but won&rsquo;t consider breaking up the French Line&hellip;Emile Francis skipped the club&rsquo;s January 1st game in Chicago to take another peek at the farmhands. Ulf Sterner, going great guns in Baltimore, is a possibility.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-01

Sullivan Optimistic For Blues, Names Plante, Howell, Nevin As Ranqers’ All-Star Hopefuls

f0010-02

Week’s ‘Top Eight’

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06191/2205003-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="344" height="326"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>t took Billy Hicke one night to accomplish something he hadn&rsquo;t been able to do in six years with the Montreal Canadiens&mdash;score his first NHL hat trick.</p><p>Hicke, the dashing right winger whom the Canadiens traded off to the New York Rangers a few weeks ago in exchange for Dick Duff, came back to haunt the Montrealers the night of Jan. 9 and right in the Forum.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07147/2204996-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="286" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Hicke</b></figcaption></div><p>It was a night the Canadiens would like to forget in a hurry but one that the 25-year-old Hicke will long remember. The fast-skating native of Western Canada scored three times as the Rangers upset the Habs 6-5. To add frosting to the cake, Hicke also scored the game-winning goal in his hat trick performance.</p><p>Many who saw the game said Hicke could have easily hit five goals with a little bit of luck.</p><p>The new Ranger had a highly productive week with three goals and two assists to rank high among the week&rsquo;s top eight scorers.</p><p>Mark Ten is pleased to salute Billy Hicke as the player who made his mark in the NHL last week.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-06

Billy Hicke…New York Rangers

<p><b>(Including games of Sun.. Jan. 10)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03416/2205055-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="559" height="2420"></div><h2><b>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04321/2205048-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="563" height="708"></div><h2><b>Penalties in Minutes by Clubs</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05239/2205041-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="558" height="164"></div><h2><b>NHL Point Race</b></h2><p>(Standings on Wed., Jan. 18)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01565/2205034-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="565" height="181"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Wed., Jan. 6</b></p><p>Detroit 5, Montreal 4</p><p>Toronto 3, Chicago 1</p><p>New York 5, Boston 2</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 7</b></p><p>Boston 5, Detroit 2</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 9</b></p><p>New York 6, Montreal 5</p><p>Toronto 2, Boston 1</p><p>Chicago 7, Detroit 4</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 10</b></p><p>Toronto 6, New York 0</p><p>Chicago 3, Detroit 2</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Wed., Jan. 13</b></p><p>Chicago at Toronto</p><p><b>Thurs.. Jan. 14</b></p><p>Toronto at Montreal</p><p>New York at Boston</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 16</b></p><p>Boston at Montreal</p><p>Detroit at Toronto</p><p>New York at Chicago</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 17</b></p><p>Montreal at Chicago</p><p>Toronto at Boston</p><p>New York at Detroit<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-03

National League Scoring Race At A Glance

<div class="byline">BY BUSTER CLEGG</div><p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>ROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;Ferny F1aman&rsquo;s unshakeable confidence in his 1964-65 Rhode Island Reds squad has begun to pay off, as witnessed by the 5-game unbeaten-streak in late December and early January.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02518/2205086-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="292" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fern Flaman</b></figcaption></div><p>Despite early woes that saw the club sink nine points behind the third-place Baltimore Clippers in the Eastern Diviion of the American Hockey League, the Reds&rsquo; general manager and coach persistantly maintained he had a better club than its record, and that the club would eventually jell.</p><p>Within a space of three weeks, the Reds gained what Flaman regarded as &ldquo;seven big points&rdquo; on the Clippers, and at this writing the team is only six points behind Baltimore and making a strong bid for the final Eastern Division playoff spot.</p><p>&ldquo;We actually picked up what I consider seven points on Baltimore,&rdquo; Flaman explained optimistically. &ldquo;On December 16th the Clippers led us by nine points and had two games in hand. That&rsquo;s a posibly 13-point lead.</p><p>&ldquo;By January 3rd we climbed to within six points of Baltimore, and the two games in hand had been dissolved. I call this real progress!&rdquo;</p><p>Flaman&rsquo;s optimism, maintained through thick and thin this year has spread to his players, too. The club feels confident it can produce through the second half of the season and eventually gain a playoff spot.</p><p>Three really bright spots recently have been in the persons of Willie Marshall, Eddie Kachur and Pierre Brillant, who have helped accelerate the Red offense.</p><p>The 34-year-old Marshall, after a slow start, has been working well with Kachur, a newcomer from the Chicago Black Hawks, who popped six goals in his first six games with the Providence team.</p><p>Brillant, of course, has begun to find the goal-scoring range and fired five in as many games to give him 10 for the season. He&rsquo;s missed nine games.</p><p>As this issue of HOCKEY NEWS is being read by its faithfuls, the Reds are on a four-game road trip consisting of rough ones in Buffalo, Rochester and pair in Quebec.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-02

Flaman’s Confidence In AHL Reds Paying Off

<h2><b>Wed., Jan. 6 DETROIT 5. MONTREAL 4</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT&mdash;Goal: Crozier; dedefense: Langlois, Barkley, Bergman. Gadsby, Pronovost; forwards: Ullman, Martin, Howe, Delvecchio, Murphy, Lindsay, MacGregor. Smith, Henderson, MacDonald, Joyal.</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Goal; Hodge: Defence: Laperriere, J. C. Tremblay, Talbot, Harris, Harper; forwards: Richard, Provost, Backstrom, Larose, Cournoyer, Rousseau, Ferguson, Roberts, Duff, McCreary, Balon.</p><p>Referee: Ashley. Linesmen: Morrison, Atanas.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03445/2205173-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="566" height="832"></div><h2><b>TORONTO 3. CHICAGO 1</b></h2><p>TORONTO&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence: Brewer, Douglas, Baun, Stanley; forwards: Selby, Harris, Horton, Kelly, Stewart, Keon, McKenney, Pappin, Pulford, Shack, Mahovlich, Stemkowski.</p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;Goal: DeJordy; defence: Pilote, Vasko, MacNeil, Jarrett, Ravlich; forwards: Hay, Mikita. Wharram, Stanfield, Esposito, R. Hull, D. Hull, Robinson, Nesterenko, Maki, McKenzie.</p><p>Referee: Buffey. Linesmen: Hayes, D&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04369/2205166-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="554" height="554"></div><h2><b>BOSTON 2, NEW YORK 5</b></h2><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Neilson, Seiling; centre:</p><p>Goyette; wings: Gilbert, Henry; subs.: Howell, Brown, Cahan, Nevin, Ingarfield, Hadfield, Hicke, Angotti, Pearson, Ratelie, Marshall.</p><p>BOSTON&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defense: McCord, Green; centre: Oliver; wings: Bucyk, Rivers; subs.: Kurtenbach, Johnson, Williams, Maxner, Kennedy, Westfall, Fleming, Boivin, Knibbs, Awrey.</p><p>Referee: Buffey. Linesmen: Hayes, D&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05310/2205159-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="568" height="658"></div><h2><b>Thurs., Jan. 7 DETROIT 2, BOSTON 5</b></h2><p>DETROIT&mdash;Goal: Crozier; defence: Pronovost, Bergman, Barkley, Gadsby, Langlois; forwards: Delvecchio, Howe, Murphy, Ullman, Smith, MacDonald, Joyal, MacGregor, Lindsay, Martin, Henderson.</p><p>BOSTON&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defence: Green, Johnson, Awrey, Boivin, McCord; forwards: Knibbs, Westfall, Fleming, Oliver, Rivers. Bucyk, Williams, Maxner, Goldsworthy, Kennedy.</p><p>Referee: Buffey. Linesmen: D&rsquo;Amico. Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06279/2205152-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="562" height="732"></div><h2><b>Sat., Jan. 9 BOSTON 1, TORONTO 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07255/2205145-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="566" height="544"></div><h2><b>CHICAGO 7, DETROIT 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08244/2205138-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="570" height="838"></div><h2><b>NEW YORK 6. MONTREAL 5</b></h2><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Howell, Brown; centre: Ingarfield; wings: Nevin, Marshall; subs.: Cahan, Gilbert, Hadfield, Hicke, Fonteyne, Neilson, Angotti, Ratelle, Goyette, Henry, Ingram.</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defense: Talbot, Harper; centre: Backstrom; wings: Larose, Ferguson; subs.: Laperriere, J.C. Tremblay, Duff, Harris, Cournoyer, Provost, Rousseau, Richard, Balon, McCreary, Roberts.</p><p>Referee: Udvari. Linesmen: Hayes, D&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09234/2205131-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="568" height="874"></div><h2><b>Sun. Jan. 10 TORONTO 6. NEW YORK 0</b></h2><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Gool: Plante; defense: Howell, Brown; centre: Goyette; wings: Gilbert, Henry. Subs: Cahan, Nevin, Ingarfield, Hadfield, Hicke, Fonteyne, Selling, Angotti, Ratelle, Fahey, Ingram.</p><p>TORONTO&mdash;Goal: Bower; defense: Brewer, Horton; centre: Kelly; wings: Pappin, Mahovlich. Subs: Stewart, Keon, Harris, McKenney, Douglas, Pulford, Shack. Stemkowski, Stanley.</p><p>Referee: Friday. Linesmen: Armstrong, Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10213/2205124-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="563" height="669"></div><h2><b>Detroit 2, Chicago 3</b></h2><p>DETROIT&mdash;Goal: Crozier; defense: Langlois, Pronovost, Gadsby, Barkley. Bergman; forwards: Ullman, Howe. Delvecchio, Murphy, Jeffrey, Lindsay. MacGregor, Smith, Henderson. Joyal.</p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Ravlich, MacNeil, Jorrett; forwards: Stanfield, Esposito, Bobby Hull, Dennis Hull, Hay, Nesterenko, Maki, Wharram, Mikita.</p><p>Referee&mdash;Ashley. Linesmen&mdash;Pavelich, Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11188/2205117-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="565" height="598"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0011-03

National Hockey League Game Summaries

<p><b><i>WALLY</i></b> NORTHERN PRO HOCKEY STICKS</p><p><b><i>WALLY</i></b> POOL TABLES TABLE TENNIS CROQUET SETS</p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Jan. 12)</b></p><h3><b>Eastern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1714/2205225-1-eng-US/f0012-172.jpg" title="f0012-17" width="571" height="153"></div><h3><b>Western Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1811/2205218-1-eng-US/f0012-182.jpg" title="f0012-18" width="558" height="206"></div><p><b>(NHL AJffiliatin: 1. Toronto.: Montreal. 3. Chicago. 4. Detroit. I New York 6. Boston. x-Independent</b></p><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues Jan. 5</b></p><p>Pittsburgh 4. Quebec 2</p><p><b>Wed. Jan. 6</b></p><p>Providence 4. Cleveland 3</p><p>Hershey 4. Buffalo 3</p><p><b>Thurs. Jan. 7</b></p><p>Quebec 8, Pittsburgh 2</p><p><b>Fri. Jan. 8</b></p><p>Hershey 4. Baltimore 2</p><p>Buffalo 6. Providence 2</p><p>Rochester 7. Cleveland 4</p><p><b>Sat. Jan. 9</b></p><p>Quebec 4. Cleveland 2</p><p>Hershey 3. Baltimore 2</p><p>Rochester 3. Pittsburgh 2</p><p>Springfield 5. Buffalo 4</p><p><b>Sun. Jan. 10</b></p><p>Baltimore 3. Rochester 1</p><p>Buff al 6. Quebec 0</p><p>Springfield 6. Cleveland 0</p><p>Providence 6. Hershey 4</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Tues.. Jan. 12</b></p><p>Baltimore at Quebec</p><p><b>Wed., Jan. 13</b></p><p>Providence at Buffalo</p><p>Springfield at Hershey &bull;</p><p>Cleveland at Pittsburgh</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 14</b></p><p>Baltimore at Quebec</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 15</b></p><p>Providence at Rochester</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 16</b></p><p>Baltimore at Cleveland</p><p>Rochester at Hershey</p><p>Buffalo at Pittsburgh</p><p>Quebec at Springfield</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 17</b></p><p>Pittsburgh at Buffalo</p><p>Providence at Quebec</p><p>Baltimore at Rochester</p><p>Cleveland at Springfield,</p><h2><b>Point Race</b></h2><p><b>(Including game Sun. Jan. 10)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1910/2205211-1-eng-US/f0012-192.jpg" title="f0012-19" width="561" height="400"></div><h3><b>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-208/2205204-1-eng-US/f0012-202.jpg" title="f0012-20" width="565" height="276"></div><h3><b>Penalty Leaders</b></h3><p>Most Penalized Player Fred Glover, Cleveland. 118 minutes.</p><p>Most Penalized Team&mdash;Providence. 558 minutes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-17

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY JOE GORDON</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>While the Pittsburgh Hornets have had their troubles getting goals all season the scoring drought has now reached the team&rsquo;s &ldquo;Production Line&rdquo; in recent games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01542/2205256-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="266" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jerry Toppazzini</b></figcaption></div><p>The first line, centered by Ted Hampson, one of the AHL&rsquo;s top point-makers, has only beer able to net two tallies in the Hornets last five games.</p><p>Claude LaForge and Jerry Toppazzini flank Hampson and the three have been a nemesis to enemy netminders all season. That is, when the line is intact. Toppazzini had been bothered by a groin injury earlier in the season, but now appears to be completely recovered.</p><p>LaForge provided both of the line&rsquo;s goals. One was the clincher in a 3-1 victory over Springfield and came with just 20 seconds remaining. The other was the final tally in a 3-0 blanking of Providence. LaForge is the leading Hornet goal-getter.</p><p>This trio has scored 34 goals between them this season. An indication of how much they mean to the Hornet fortunes can be seen in the fact that only eight of these scores have come in losing games.</p><p>As this line goes, so go the Hornets to paraphrase an old cliche. When the line is hot, you can usually expect a couple of goals a game. But such has not been the case since the line exploded for 12 points in <i>a</i> game against Cleveland a few weeks ago.</p><p>When the Hornets are trailing in a game, Hampson, LaForge and Toppazzini can always be counted on to put in plenty of time on the ice. In addition, Coach Vic Stasiuk uses all three to kill penalties.</p><p>Stasiuk is hopeful that the acquisition of Fred Hilts in a trade with Springfield will add some punch to the dormant Hornet attack. Hilts came to the Hornets in exchange for high-scoring wing, Yves Locas and Dennis Rathwell of Memphis. AU three men involved in the trade are left wings.</p><p>Springfield acquired Hilts two years ago after he had played for Cleveland in the 1962-63 season and scored 29 goals in regular season play. He then added eight more markers in seven playoff games. He refused to report to Springfield and had been playing &ldquo;outlaw hockey&rdquo; in Canada until he was dealt off to the Hornets.</p><p>Stasiuk is using Hilts on a line centered by rookie Butch Paul, the Hornets&rsquo; outstanding first year man. Lowell MacDonald is skating the right wing. Hilts picked up assist in his first game with the Hornets, but shows the effects of not playing steadily the past year and a half.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hornets Worried As Goal Drought Hits Top Line

<h2><b>Sat., Jan. 2 BUFFALO 6, CLEVELAND 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02454/2205385-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="554" height="551"></div><h2><b>ROCHESTER 4. HERSHEY 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03344/2205378-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="564" height="676"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC 2, PITTSBURGH 0</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04248/2205371-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="560" height="349"></div><h2><b>PROVIDENCE 3. SPRINGFIELD 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05169/2205364-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="551" height="629"></div><h2><b>Sun., Jan. 3 QUEBEC 1. BALTIMORE 9</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06133/2205357-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="557" height="745"></div><h2><b>PITTSBURGH 3, PROVIDENCE 0</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07110/2205350-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="556" height="482"></div><h2><b>HERSHEY 3. ROCHESTER 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0892/2205343-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="559" height="671"></div><h2><b>CLEVELAND 4, BUFFALO 9</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0975/2205336-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="559" height="795"></div><h2><b>Tues., Jan. 5 PITTSBURGH 4, QUEBEC 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1066/2205329-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="563" height="553"></div><h2><b>Wed., Jan. 6 BUFFALO 3 HERSHEY 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1159/2205322-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="561" height="625"></div><h2><b>PROVIDENCE 4. CLEVELAND 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1245/2205315-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="556" height="623"></div><h2><b>Thurs., Jan. 7 PITTSBURGH 2. QUEBEC 8</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1336/2205308-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="559" height="693"></div><h2><b>Fri., Jan. 8 CLEVELAND 4. ROCHESTER 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1430/2205301-1-eng-US/f0012-142.jpg" title="f0012-14" width="562" height="704"></div><h2><b>BUFFALO 6, PROVIDENCE 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1525/2205294-1-eng-US/f0012-152.jpg" title="f0012-15" width="559" height="624"></div><h2><b>HERSHEY 4, BALTIMORE 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1621/2205287-1-eng-US/f0012-162.jpg" title="f0012-16" width="561" height="665"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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American Hockey League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY GEORGE TAYLOR</div><p>BALTIMORE, Md.</p><p>Terry Reardon. Genera) Manager of the Baltimore Clippers, is convinced the time has come when the record book alone is not enough for evaluating <b>Player.</b></p><p>Therefore, Reardon is going ahead with plans to have movies taken of his team in action. The films will be shown in private the following day, a la professional football style.</p><p>Reardon and Clipper Coach Johnny Crawford, like most other American League officials, already keep special charts of plays involving scores for and against their club. But, he said:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02496/2205447-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="294" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Meissner</b></figcaption></div><p>Nothing gets the point across like seeing yourself on film. You can tell a player he was</p><p>in the wrong spot by showing him a dot on a chart. But, you&rsquo;ll never convince him it wasn&rsquo;t the chartkeeper&rsquo;s pencil that slipped.&rdquo;</p><p>Reardon admitted that he fooled with film taking when he was GM in Providence a number of years ago. However, he pointed out that it was unsatisfactory because the camera could not take in the entire skating surface. Terry added:</p><p>&ldquo;But they&rsquo;ve made great strides in photography since then. And I&rsquo;ve arranged for the Clippers to go under film by Arthur Eich, the same guy who handles the Baltimore Colts movies. Also, Eich is the official photographer at race tracks in Maryland and NewEngland. He assures me he&rsquo;ll have no trouble capturing all the action with a new wide range lens.&rdquo;</p><p><b>CLIPPER CLIPS</b>&mdash;When Teddy Taylor was called up to the New York Rangers it gave Buzzy Deschamps a chance to crack the Clipper lineup&hellip;Deschamps, who was purchased by Baltimore after winning goal scoring honors in the Eastern League last year, rode the bench through the first half of the Clipper season&hellip;The left winger has asked to be loaned to another club unless given a chance with Baltimore&hellip;</p><p>Dick Meissner, practically rewrote the Clipper scoring book when he scored four goals against the Quebec Aces&hellip;The feat marked the first time a Clipper ever had scored more than three goals&hellip;It was the first time a Clipper ever had two hat tricks in one season&hellip;In stopping the Aces, 9-1, it was the worst defeat of the season for Quebec&hellip;Also, the first win in five starts for Baltimore against Quebec this winter&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Clippers Go ‘Hollywood’ With Game Movies

<div class="byline">BY SHEL FULLERTON</div><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>When the Rock of Gibraltar slips into the sea, the Pyramids crumble to dust and the Sphinx arises from its crouch to go sip a drink from the river Nile, mankind will have had it.</p><p>Perhaps not as world-shaking in its international implications, the Cleveland Barons&rsquo; own symbol of indestructability tottered and fell on January 2, adding evidence to the belief that the Barons, too, may have had it.</p><p>Injuries which have crippled the embattled Barons since the outset of the current American Hockey League season reached their climax when Bill Needham, &ldquo;iron man&rdquo; of the AHL, was sidelined after playing in 525 consecutive games.</p><p>Needham&rsquo;s benching, as a result of a severe charley-horse and a knee injury, both hitting at the same time, marks the eleventh Baron injury of the season sufficiently serious to send a player to the sidelines.</p><p>Goalie Les Binkley has been injured twice and has played in only six games this season.</p><p>Needham is the fifth Cleveland defenseman to go on the shelf, injuries previously having benched Frank Martin, Ted Lanyon, Bill Speer and Dick Mattiussi.</p><p>Centre Cecil Hoesktra was lost, possibly for the season, while Bob Courcy and Wayne Larkin have taken turns on the hospital list.</p><p>An additional Baron, winger Howie Glover, never has seen action.</p><p>In he face of this rash of injuries, there is little reason to wonder at the Barons&rsquo; failure to go anywhere in the AHL race.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

‘Iron Man’ Needham Latest Casualty As Injuries Continue To Ravish Barons

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><p>ROCHESTER, N.Y.</p><p>Well, 1965 started off just fine&hellip;on the ice, that is&hellip;for the Rochester Americans.</p><p>The Amerks had themselves another winning streak going at this writing, and were playing great hockey. But the parent Toronto Maple Leafs made a play that wasn&rsquo;t so great for the Amerks.</p><p>The Leafs, who previously had bent over backward in order not to tap the Amerks&rsquo; talent, finally were forced to dip into coaching Joe Crozier&rsquo;s American League powerhouse.</p><p>Plucked was young Pete Stemkowski, sensational 21-year-old rookie who not only was well on his way to winning the Dudley (Red) Garrett Memorial Trophy for being the AHL&rsquo;s outstanding rookie, but also had an excellent shot at the league&rsquo;s scoring championship.</p><p>The 6-0, 195-pound centre had erupted for 13 goals and the same number of assists in his last 16 games as an Amerk before being recalled Jan. 3. Included in those goals were three while he was killing penalties and four others were game-winners.</p><p>Stemkowski&rsquo;s surge had carried him to within one point of AHL scoring leader Wayne Hicks of Quebec at the time of his departure. Pete had 17 goals and 22 assists for 39 points in 35 games.</p><p>Just how long Stemkowski will stay in the NHL hasn&rsquo;t been determined, but if he displays the same ability he showed here, it could be something like 15 years!</p><p>ICICLES&mdash;Rochester, at this writing, has won four straight and boasts 12 victories and only 3 defeats in the last 15 outings&hellip;Red Armstrong, a terror on the ice last season because of his jarring checking, is a terror for a different reason at the moment. Red has scored 7 goals in the last six Amerk games and has upped his output to an amazing 16.</p><p>When the Amerks won 4-3 in Hershey on Jan. 2, it was the 12th foreign ice triumph for Rochester this season. The Americans piled up a sensational 12-4-2 away record for the first half of the schedule. Rochester needs seven wins in the final 18 road games to match the American League record for most road victories.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Americans Feeling Recall Of Stemkowski By NHL Leafs

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>The Hershey Bears are having their problems these days, namely (a) winning the close games (b) winning at home.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04420/2205526-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="296" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Norm Dennis</b></figcaption></div><p>Coach Frank Mathers charges, caught in their worst slump of the American League campaign, have dropped a dozen games by two goals or less&mdash;a 24 point potential.</p><p>Furthermore, on home ice at the halfway mark the club showed a 9-7-2 standard, far from impressive. In contrast, the team has held its own on the road with a 9-8 record.</p><p>Since Dec. 9, Hershey won only three of its last 12 games. And the Bears started off the new year by dropping back-to-back encounters with the powerful Rochester Americans, who just might have the outfit to grab the regular season championship away from the Quebec Aces.</p><p>At one stage or another, the Bears have had eight skaters injured, including goalie Claude Dufour; defenseman Barry Ashbee, and forwards, Chuck Hamilton, Bruce Draper, Pete Conacher, Bruce Cline, Gene Ubriaco and Danny Poliziani.</p><p>Dufour, who missed a halfdozen contests with a leg ailment, was the league&rsquo;s top netminder until hurt. He was riding a 2.43 goals against mark. He returned to action Dec. 30 and in his first three starts was hit. for 13 goals.</p><p>Hershey tapped two skaters, forward Norm Dennis and defenseman Mike Mahoney from Omaha of the Central League during the injury seige. Dennis in a six game stand played well. He scored one goal and set up another.</p><p>Mahoney, unable to make the club in three previous tries, might make the grade this time. In seven games, he averaged a point a start on two goals and five assists.</p><p>&ldquo;If Mahoney continues to play the way he has so far,&rdquo; said Mathers, &ldquo;he will stay with us. It&rsquo;s up to him. So far he&rsquo;s shown me he wants to stick with the club.&rdquo;</p><p>Mathers is counting on the long home stand of January and early February to gain ground on the Eastern Division leading Aces. Hershey plays 11 home games before heading out on an extended seven game road trip next month.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hershey Locked In Year’s Worst Slump As Bears Kick Away 24-Point Potential

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.</p><p>This has been a topsyturvy season for Larry Wilson. the Buffalo Bisons elder statesman who had hoped to move into retirement in easy stages, but instead found himself playing regularly until suffering a leg injury.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03460/2205557-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="292" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lorry Wilson</b></figcaption></div><p>Originally, Wilson was scheduled to play only home games&hellip;when needed. He was slated to spend most of his time in the front office, working on publicity and promotions, and available to Coach Phil Watson if any of the forwards were hurt.</p><p>The Bisons have operated with 15 men&mdash;one under the AHL limit&mdash;almost since the schedule opened, and Wilson never did get to do much office work. Instead, he was a full-time member of the playing force until his leg injury here against the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>Defensemen Dick Mattiusi and Ted Lanyon of the Barons sandwiched Wilson, and he had to be carried off the ice. His leg was severely wrenched just below the knee, and he was expected to be out of action for two weeks, at least.</p><p>Wilson was playing on a line with Billy Dea and Jerry Melnyk as <i>a</i> replacement for Hank Ciesla, out with a virus infection. When Wilson was hurt, Ken Hodge made his professional debut as his substitute.</p><p>Hodge had been brought up from the St. Catharines Junior Black Hawks on a five-game trial basks Watson didn&rsquo;t plan to use him regularly, since he had played a game the same afternoon with the Junior Black Hawks.</p><p>However, Wilson&rsquo;s injury left the Herd with only eight forwards, so Hodge played a regular shift, was impressive despite the fact it was his second game of the day, and picked up an assist.</p><p>Earlier in the season, injuries to defensemen kept the Bisons off balance, and Paul Popiel, a highly regarded rookie, was still out of action after suffering a shoulder separation in a workout.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0013-03

Leg Injury Puts Wilson On Sideline

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><p>VICTORIA, B.C.</p><p>The defending pennantwinners are making <i>a</i> belated move in the Western Hockey League race. Victoria&rsquo;s Maple Leafs stretched their undefeated string to six games in a row, five wins and a tie, as the circuit turned into the second half of the season, to hike themselves within four points of the fourth and last playoff spot.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01534/2205647-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="290" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rudy Pilous</b></figcaption></div><p>Victoria wasn&rsquo;t picking soft spots, either as it beat leagueleading Seattle twice, beat and tied runnerup Portland and beat third-place Vancouver. Lastplace San Francisco, the defending playoff champions, have been flexing their muscles a bit of late, too. and it is not impossible all six WHL clubs will be closely bunched by season&rsquo;s end.</p><p>Seattle, leading the league since the season began, is on the skids. It has not won in six straight games, losing four and tying two, and Portland, with three ties and a win in its last four, has cut Seattle&rsquo;s margin from 10 points and five. Vancouver, winless in nine straight games, is six points farther back in third, however, and more worried about staying ahead of the trailers than catching the leaders.</p><p>The WHL&rsquo;s overtimes are meant to be tie-breakers but it is a curious fact that the last six overtimes have stayed ties through each 10-minute overtime. Portland was involved in three straight, before snapping out of it with a win, but has managed to inch up on Seattle.</p><p>Victoria&rsquo;s surge was launched with a shakeup instituted by coach Rudy Pilous. Rudy benched two defensemen, veteran Fred Hucul and young Barry Trapp, who promptly quit the team. He purchased veteran wing Danny Belisle from Quebec of the American League and brought in two pro rookies, defenseman Bob Taylor and goalie Gary Smith, and one experience hand out of retirement, defenseman Gordon Labrosse.</p><p>Labrosse has played enormously well. Taylor, an English-born youngster who did not learn to skate until he was 16, and who is a top halfback with Calgary Stampeders during the Canadian football season, has shown pretty good promise. Smith, a 6-4, 215-pound amateur whiz and son of former NHL player Des Smith, has given the Leafs some good goal-tending in spots and has inspired veteran Al Millar to something approximating his form of last season, when he led WHL goalies.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02435/2205640-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="1063" height="1589"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOBBY TAYLOR&hellip;Rookie With Promise</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;There was no rebellion,&rdquo; Pilous growls. &ldquo;We had to make some changes. Hucul and Trapp were not playing well, so I sat them down. They preferred to leave, which is up to them. I do not think Trapp has a big professional future. Hucul has been an All-Star and can play top hockey, but I have not been able to arrange a deal for him as yet.</p><p>&ldquo;My big problem this season was I lost about 100 goals in players I did not get back from last season. We lost Steve Witiuk, Rudy Migay, Marty Howe and also Gary Jarrett, Bill Collins and Bruce Draper. You can&rsquo;t lose that kind of help and not feel it. There was no dissension, but we just couldn&rsquo;t get untracked. Now things are beginning to look brighter.&rdquo;</p><p>Pilous was sold on rookie wing Bill Flett, but the youngster got only one goal in the first 23 games. However, another rookie. Rollie Wilcox, has surprised with 10 goals in the first half.</p><p>Clever pivot Milan Marcetta led the Leafs with 18 goals at last count, followed by veteran Gordy Redahl with 17, high-scoring Lou Jankowski with 16, and Larry Keenan with 15.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05187/2205633-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="484" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRIAN SMITH&hellip;Shares Goal Lead</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Victoria Leafs Making Belated Move To Get Into Thick Of Playoff Race

<h2><b>Tues., Dec. 29 SEATTLE 4. VICTORIA 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07115/2205727-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="550" height="706"></div><h2><b>PORTLAND 4 VANCOUVER 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0895/2205720-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="558" height="815"></div><h2><b>Fri., Jan. 1 LOS ANGELES 1, SAN FRANCISCO 8</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0982/2205713-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="554" height="764"></div><h2><b>VICTORIA 1, PORTLAND 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1072/2205706-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="560" height="462"></div><h2><b>SEATTLE 3, VANCOUVER 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1162/2205699-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="552" height="586"></div><h2><b>Sat., Jan. 2 SAN FRANCISCO 2 LOS ANGELES 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1256/2205692-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="554" height="582"></div><h2><b>Sun., Jan. 3 LOS ANGELES 4, PORTLAND 8</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1347/2205685-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="556" height="942"></div><h2><b>SEATTLE 4, SAN FRANCISCO S</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1435/2205678-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg" title="f0014-14" width="572" height="654"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Western Hockey League Summaries

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01511/2205772-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="250" height="404"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pat Stapleton</b></figcaption></div><p>LOS ANGELES, Calif.</p><p>The Western Hockey League has completed the first half of the season with Seattle trying to hang on to its lead against the move of preseason favorite Portland, while Vancouver, and Los Angeles try to hold on to the bottom two playoff spots against the moves of Victoria and San Francisco. The WHL does not conduct midseasoon balloting on awards and all-star teams as does the National League, but if it did, we would vote for Seattle&rsquo;s goalie Jimmy McLeod for the Leader Cup most valuable player award, Seattle&rsquo;s Gordy Sinclair for the best defenseman award, San Francisco&rsquo;s George Swarbrick for the best rookie award and Seattle&rsquo;s Bill Dineen for the Hume most gentlemanly award.</p><p>Our All-Star team would consist of McLeod in goal. Sinclair and Portland&rsquo;s Pat Stapleton on defense, San Francisco&rsquo;s Charley Burns at centre, Los Angeles&rsquo; Brian Smith at left wing and San Francisco&rsquo;s Wayne Connolly on right wing.</p><p>McLeod&rsquo;s spirited goal-tending has been the heart of Seattle&rsquo;s surge into the lead and he rates a slim edge over teammates Guyle Fielder, Bill Dineen, Bill MacFarland, and Sinclair. Portland&rsquo;s Stapleton, LA&rsquo;s Norm Johnson, San Francisco&rsquo;s Burns, Vancouver&rsquo;s BiUy McNeill and Phil Maloney and Victoria&rsquo;s Milan Marcetta for the MVP honor. McLeod has been the best goalie in the league, with Portland&rsquo;s Don Head second-best.</p><p>Sinclair suffered an injured eye shortly before the first-half expired. but he is an old smoothie and a tremendous player who will be back in action by the time this hits print. Stapleton is selected out of position, since, although defense is his primary position, he has played more on the forward wall for shorthanded Portland this season, but he has been close to the best all-around player in the league so far this season and we didn&rsquo;t want to leave him out. Among other defensemen worthy of consideration have been L. A.&rsquo;s Howie Young, San Francisco&rsquo;s Dallas Smith and Gerry Odrowski, Seattle&rsquo;s Larry Hale and Victoria&rsquo;s Sandy Hucul.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02453/2205765-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="239" height="399"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Willie O&rsquo;Ree</b></figcaption></div><p>The league is loaded with outstanding centres. Burns, who does it all, gets a slight edge over LA&rsquo;s Johnson, Seattle&rsquo;s Fielder and McNeill, Portland&rsquo;s Art Jones and Vancouver&rsquo;s Phil Maloney. On the right wing, Connelly has a slim edge over LA&rsquo;s high-flying Willie O&rsquo;Ree, Seattle&rsquo;s Dineen and Victoria&rsquo;s Gordon Redahl. On the left-wing, Smith rates the nod over Portland&rsquo;s Andy Hebenton and Victoria&rsquo;s Lou Jankowski. We&rsquo;ve left out some good ones, I&rsquo;m sure, but it&rsquo;s one man&rsquo;s opinion at this point.</p><p>The leading rookies so far have been Swarbrick, Victoria&rsquo;s Rollie Wilcox and Vanvouver defenseman Bob Plager. and there has not been a whole lot to split them apart yet&hellip;We wouldn&rsquo;t want to have to go into a season with a team full of Lady Byng and Hume award winners, because nice guys finish last, especially in hockey, but Dineen and Jankowski are a couple of gentlemanly goal-getters, who don&rsquo;t get penalties, but do get results.</p><p>Speaking of penalties, Victoria&rsquo;s Ed Mazur set a record which will never be surpassed if they play pro hockey for the next million years. Mazur slashed Willie O&rsquo;Ree in L. A. and was whistled to the sin-bin after exactly one second of play&hellip;O&rsquo;Ree came out of a wrestling match with San Francisco&rsquo;s rugged, improving greenie Swarbrick with a badly sprained neck, but bounced back with a hattrick in Portland&hellip;Speaking of hat-tricks, Charley Burns set a record with a short-handed three-goal splurge in a game against LA. The only thing that reduces slightly the significance of this unusual feat is that L.A. makes a habit of this sort of thing. They were nailed similarly by San Francisco&rsquo;s Dallas Smith in the same game, making it four in that one. by SF&rsquo;s Connelly in the next game, and by Portland&rsquo;s Connie Madigan in the game after that.</p><p>If they could decline penalties the way they do in football, LA coach Alfie Pike would be passing them up. His power-plays haVe been short-circuited, but good.</p><p>LA did win two out of three games from arch-rival SF in a recent spin. It won 5-1 at home, lost 8-1 in SF as Burns went on his tear, then bounced back at home from 0-2 to win 3-2 on Warren Hynes&rsquo; goal in the last five seconds, thrilling the biggest crowd of the WHL season. 10,802 fans&hellip;The new system of assigning officials in the WHL is supposed to avoid overexposure of any one official any one place, yet Tom Smith was assigned to half-a-dozen San Francisco games in a row. After he had called 104 minutes in penalties and wound up with a riot in the first of those recent LA-SF duels, president Al Leader flew in, yanked him, substituted veteran Roy Gilmore and got out of the ludicrous situation intact&hellip;LA&rsquo;s forward Leo LaBine has been slow regaining top form after an elbow injury and there was a rumor he&rsquo;d be traded to SF for Eddie Panagabko, but SF coach Bud Poile snapped, &ldquo;What we need is a defenseman, not another forward&hellip;&rdquo; LA shipped Harry Ottenbriet to St. Louis after a brief look.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03380/2205758-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="273" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alf Pike</b></figcaption></div><p>After only 20 games in its new &ldquo;Worlds Fair&rdquo; Coliseum, Seattle, averaging more than 7,000 fans a game, had passed the 140,000 mark in home attendance to surpass the old full-season 35-game record of 136,000&hellip;Seattle defenseman Mo Mantha broke his cheekbone on Bill Burega&rsquo;s elbow, making Seattle&rsquo;s players less than enthusiastic about the big Vancouver defender&hellip;Although the league-leader, Seattle has been shut out more times than any other club in the league, four times, and it has been having trouble completing plays in its recent slump&hellip;A defenseman who rarely scores, Portland&rsquo;s Connie Madigan, tied a league record by scoring eight seconds into a game with Seattle recently. Connie scored so quick, he didn&rsquo;t even get a chance to get a penalty first.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Western Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY STANLEY BRINK</div><p>COLUMBUS, O.</p><p>Ohio State University, nationally famous for the quality and quantity of its home bred football teams, is officially in the hockey fold, with the home bred touch still prevailing, to complement the opening of an on-campus rink.</p><p>Gone are the days when &ldquo;anything for a team&rdquo; was the only eligibility rule. The Big Ten code prevails. Tom Bedecki, Canadian born, late of Colorado College, is the first full scale official coach. In common with football OSU hockey had a humble beginning and still operates on a modest scale.</p><p>Eleven of the 13 players on the squad hail from Ohio with two &ldquo;foreigners&rdquo; from New York and Massachusetts. As at Colorado College Bedecki is apt to change all that as well as hoist the playing level. And one day the name Ohio State can be as big a name in hockey as in football.</p><p>The beginning reverts eight years. Prof. Bruce Bennett of the department of physical education became interested while attending Wayne State University in Detroit. The Bennett process was elementary. He rounded up freshmen. in&eacute;ligibles, and postgraduate students who performed mostly on a rink in nearby Troy.</p><p>During the six year club operation Prof. Bennett served as faculty adviser with first students and later George Burke, a Columbus business man, doing tours as coaches. In the span the clubbers logged a 30-9-1 record and joined as a charter member the Ohio Intercollegiate Hockey Association.</p><p>Bedecki started low at Colorado College but produced a national title winner in 1957 and during his stay a mark of 64-28. Five of his pupils made All-America. The most illustrious, Bill Hay, was NHL &ldquo;Rookie of the Year&rdquo; in 1960,</p><h2><b>Canadians Tough</b></h2><p>Minneapolis, Minn.&mdash;Over the seasons University of Minnesota has at one time or another trounced ranking teams more than twice. But University of Manitoba is not one. When they met December 29 after a lapse in relations since 1948 powerful Manitoba picked up where it had laid down. The Bisons took the Gophers, 9-5.</p><p>It was their eighteenth pairing of which Manitoba has won 16. Most results, however, were close with the largest margin the 5-0 Manitoba victory of 1937.</p><h2><b>Northeastern Champs</b></h2><p>Boston, Mass.&mdash;When Northeastern University paddled Brown, 4-1, in the final of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) holiday tournament Northeastern gained its first championship of any grade since winning New England League honors in 1943.</p><p>Northeastern appears stronger than a year ago in spite of a recent 7-2 fall in the Michigan match. Coach James Bell would prefer a stronger defense but gets a consistent response from Goaler Gus Capizzo who had 691 saves in a 24 game round last winter.</p><h2><b>Ross Star For N.D.</b></h2><p>Grand Forks, N.D.&mdash;Defenseman Don Ross is contributing heavily to North Dakota&rsquo;s fortunes after his conversion from wing. This 211 pounder lugs the pucks extensively, has a mean shot, gives his goalers Joe Lech and Dale Stauss consistent assistance. Ross made himself useful on the US Olympic team last winter after making All-America in 1962-63.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Canadian Named First Hockey Coach As Ohio State Turns To Ice Sport

<p>ST. PAUL. Minn.</p><p>Green Bay&rsquo;s battle-scarred Bobcats, jolted by a double loss to Rochester that knocked them out of the United States Hockey League lead, now face a struggle to hold second place against St. Paul&rsquo;s resurgent Steers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04289/2205827-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="294" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Masterton</b></figcaption></div><p>The Bobcats, victimized 5-3 and 10-2 by the pacesetting Rochester Mustangs, will have to improve to hold the runnerup spot with St. Paul showing more spirit and drive in every outing.</p><p>Spearheaded by former American Hockey League star Bill Masterton. rated by Coach Murray Williamson &ldquo;the finest player in the league, bar none,&rdquo; the Steers are riding a two-game winning streak. They swept their last series with Waterloo, winning 6-5 and 9-4. Masterton, who toiled with Cleveland Barons, scored three times on the second game over.</p><p>Player-Coach John Mayasich had no excuses for the double loss at Rochester, which dropped the Bobcats 2*2 games off the pace, asserting, &ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t finish and we didn&rsquo;t skate. If you don&rsquo;t skate and don&rsquo;t hustle down there in that rink, you don&rsquo;t come up with anything. We had the opportunities, but we weren&rsquo;t skating the way we should.&rdquo;</p><p>He is not ready to concede the title to Rochester, however, insisting, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s still wide open. We only have one more loss than they have&mdash;that&rsquo;s how we have to look at it. And we have four more games with &lsquo;em at home and only one over there.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ex-AHL Star Masterton Scoring Whiz In USHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05215/2205858-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg"></div><p><b>TED LINDSAY: Hockey&rsquo;s Most Amazing Comeback</b></p><p><b>PICTORIAL</b></p><p><b>IT&rsquo;S THE WORLD&rsquo;S OFFICIAL HOCKEY MAGAZINE</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY

<div class="byline">BY MATT DENNIS</div><p>ST. PAUL, Minn.&mdash;</p><p>St. Paul Rangers begrudgingly gave up first place in the Central Professional Hockey League to the Tulsa Oilers and sat back and watched Omaha Knights and Minneapolis Bruins join the tussle to create a three-way deadlock for the top rung.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01372/2206011-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="290" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marc Reaume</b></figcaption></div><p>Jake Milford. Rangers&rsquo; general manager is a smart hockey man and could be he is thinking that those three clubs can knock themselves out in trying to stay in first place and when they are on the ropes, Rangers will step in to take it all?</p><p>Mel Pearson, the stylish playmaker who helped set up 22 goals and also fired 10, drew a call from the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. After a strong start, the N.H.L. team faltered and Pearson appeared to be one of their brightest minor league prospects.</p><p>To replace Pearson on the St. Paul roster, the Rangers sent Jim Mikol, a 26-year-old rightwinger. who boasts a consistent minor loop scoring record yet never clicked in the NHL. He triggered 88 goals with Cleveland of the American League in four campaigns.</p><p>Mikol is a hard checker and coach Fred Shero says. &ldquo;With weight of 178 pounds, he&rsquo;ll help us defensively and that scoring record of his means something. We did not like to lose a player of Pearson&rsquo;s calibre but he deserved the promotion and I would never want to stand in the way of an athlete who has the opportunity to become a major leaguer.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p><b>OMAHA</b>&mdash;When the parent Montreal Canadiens engineered a deal with New York giving up Bill Hicke and former Omaha netminder Jean Guy Morrisette for Dick Duff and Dave McComb, the reverberation was heard all the way to Nebraska. Cleveland was left without a netminder and Knights&rsquo; Ernie Wakely was ordered to the Ohio city.</p><p>Gary Bauman, from Calgary, Alta, and a graduate of Michigan Tech. (Houghton. Mich.) last June, journeyed to Omaha to take over. Knights were belted, 12-1 by Memphis in Bauman&rsquo;s first appearance but all was different in the second game when they rapped St. Paul. 3-1. The Hershey club of the A.H.L. was in difficulties and Norm Dennis and Mike Mahoney left the Knights for Pennsylvania. Coach Bill McCreary didn&rsquo;t panic and the Knights kept knocking on the door to take over first place.</p><p><b>TULSA</b>&mdash;Rudy Migay&rsquo;s Oilers have been intact and Tom McCarthy continues to pace them on offence. Over the first 26 games, McCarthy frred 18 goals and assisted on 16 others. Those ex-Toronto Marlboros Mike Walton, Andre Champagne and Nick Harbaruk have combined for 30 and goalie Don Simmons keeps his goals-against mark around the 2.88 figure. Marc Reaume is sparkling as a playmaking rearguard with three goals and 16 assists.</p><p>General manager Ray Miron travelled to Colorado Springs as the Toronto Maple Leafs representative at the international tournament featuring hockey teams from Canada, Russia and Czechoslovakia.</p><p><b>MINNEAPOLIS</b>&mdash;Playingcoach Harry Sinden has words of praise for the way two of his lines have been performing. Gerry Ouellette, Jean Paul Parise and Larry Lund are working well together helping Pete Panagabko, Skip Krake and Terry Crisp carry the scoring load.</p><p>John Gravel, at 5&rsquo;7&rsquo;&rsquo; and weighing 170 pounds, is the smallest Bruin defenseman, but he is making up for it with his pokechecking and playmaking. He counted six goals over the first 26 games including a &ldquo;hat trick&rsquo;&rsquo; against St. Louis.</p><p><b>MEMPHIS</b>&mdash;The Wings loaned ex-Edmonton stars Bert Marshall, Max Mestinsek and Glen Sather to a Canadian representative team at Edmonton for an exhibition game against the Russian Nationals. Marshall suffered a shoulder separation and will be out for an indefinite period. Ron Harris has moved from defense to the right wing and is expected to provide some defensive strength on that side.</p><p>Norm Beaudin, with 14 goals including a pair of hat tricks and Johnny MacMillen, with 10 goals including four in one game, pace the Wings&rsquo; scoring parade.</p><p>A crowd of 5.594 fans came out on Christmas night to see the Wings nip St. Louis, 6-5 and as a promotion stunt 2.000 juniorsize hockey sticks were given out as presents to the youngsters.</p><p><b>ST. LOUIS</b>&mdash;With only six victories in their first 28 outings, coach Gus Kyle has every right to be worried that his Braves may develop a losing complex. They have never found the scoring punch they had last season and the only players drawing public praise from Kyle are Roger Bellerive, Larry Mickey and Al &ldquo;Boom Boom&rdquo; Caron.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02306/2206004-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="494" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM MIKOL&hellip;Clicks In St. Paul Bow</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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St. Paul Waitinq Chance To Slip Into Title

<p><b>Don&rsquo;t be vague&hellip;say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKY</b></p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Jan. 13)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03230/2205973-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="572" height="270"></div><p><b>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto. 2. Montreal. Chicago. 4. Detroit. 5. New York. 6. Boston*.</b></p><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Jan. 5</b></p><p>Memphis 3. Minneapolis 3</p><p><b>Wed. Jan. 6</b></p><p>St Paul 6, Omaha 1</p><p>Minneapolis 4. Tulsa 3</p><p><b>Fri. Jan. X</b></p><p>Minneapolis 1, Memphis 1</p><p>Omaha 5, Tulsa 3</p><p><b>Sat. Jan. 9</b></p><p>Minneapolis 3. St. Louis 3</p><p>Tulsa 3. Memphis 2</p><p>Omaha 7. St. Paul 2</p><p><b>Sun. Jan. 10</b></p><p>Minneapolis 5. Tulsa 3</p><p>Memphis 4. St. Louis 0</p><p>St. Paul 5. Omaha 4</p><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Jan. 3)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04186/2205966-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="566" height="438"></div><h3><b>LEAGUE LEADERS</b></h3><p>Most Goals: Al Caron. St. Louis <i>28.</i></p><p>Most Assists: J. P. Parise, Minn. 23.</p><p>Most Penalties in Minutes: Larry Johnston. Tulsa 177.</p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><h3><b>EASTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Tues.. Jan. 12)</b></p><p><b>NORTHERN DIVISION</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01295/2205959-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="554" height="179"></div><h3><b>SOUTHERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02251/2205952-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="568" height="205"></div><p><b>(NHL Affilination: 1. Toronto, 4 Detroit, 5. New York, 6. Boston).</b></p><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues., Jan. 5</b></p><p>New Jersey 5, Clinton 3</p><p>Charlotte 6, Greensboro 3</p><p><b>Wed., Jan. 6</b></p><p>New Haven 5, Long Island 2</p><p>Charlotte 5. Jacksonville 5</p><p>Knoxville 3, Nashville 2</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 7</b></p><p>New York 5. Long Island 3</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 8</b></p><p>Johnstown 8, Long Island 3</p><p>New York 2, Clinton 2</p><p>New Jersey 6. New Haven 4</p><p>Charlotte 4, Nashville 0</p><p>Knoxville 9, Jacksonville 0</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 9</b></p><p>Johnstown 5, New York 1</p><p>Clinton 4, Long Island 1</p><p>Knoxville 5, Jacksonville 2</p><p>Nashville 3, Greensboro 0</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 10</b></p><p>New York 4, Clinton 3</p><p>Long Island 4. New Jersey 3</p><p>Johnstown 6. New Haven 2</p><p>Knoxville 5. Greensboro 2</p><p>Nashville 5, Charlotte 2</p><h2><b>Hockey Races</b></h2><h3><b>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Jan. 11)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03193/2205945-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="559" height="153"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues., Jan. 5</b></p><p>Oakville 5, Galt 3</p><p>Guelph 6, Woodstock 3</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 8</b></p><p>Voodstock 6, Welland 5</p><p>Galt 5, Guelph 4</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 9</b></p><p>Galt 7, Guelph 0</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 10</b></p><p>Welland 5, Oakville 4</p><p>Woodstock 6, Guelph 2</p><h3><b>MARITIME SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 11)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04141/2205938-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="557" height="128"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues., Jan. 5</b></p><p>New Glasgow 3, Windsor-Dartmouth 2</p><p>Halifax 5, Moncton 3</p><p><b>Wed., Jan. 6</b></p><p>New Glasgow 6, Windsor-Dartmouth 2</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 7</b></p><p>New Glasgow 5, Halifax 2</p><p>Moncton 7, Windsor-Dartmouth 3</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 9</b></p><p>Windsor-Dartmouth 10, Moncton 4</p><p>New Glasgow 9, Halifax 1</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 10</b></p><p>Moncton 4, Halifax 2</p><h3><b>QUEBEC SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Jan. 11)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05105/2205931-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="568" height="165"></div><h3><b>OTTAWA-ST. LAW. SENIOR</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Sat., Jan. 9)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0683/2205924-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="569" height="179"></div><h3><b>CENTRAL ONTARIO JUNIOR</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Sat., Jan. 9)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0777/2205917-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="568" height="304"></div><h3><b>NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Tues., Jan. 5)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0852/2205910-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="558" height="104"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0942/2205903-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="557" height="230"></div><h3><b>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 4)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1034/2205896-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="559" height="153"></div><h3><b>DETROIT METRO JUNIOR</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 4)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1128/2205889-1-eng-US/f0017-112.jpg" title="f0017-11" width="568" height="183"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

<h2><b>Fri., Dec. 25 TULSA 8, ST. PAUL 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05128/2206112-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="559" height="1026"></div><h2><b>Sat., Dec. 26 TULSA 3. ST. PAUL 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0699/2206105-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="562" height="749"></div><h2><b>MINNEAPOLIS 8, ST. LOUIS 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0788/2206098-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="562" height="764"></div><h2><b>Sun., Dec. 27 ST. PAUL 1, OMAHA 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0880/2206091-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="563" height="515"></div><h2><b>TULSA 4, MINNEAPOLIS 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0966/2206084-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="561" height="687"></div><h2><b>Sat., Jan. 2 MEMPHIS 1. ST. PAUL 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1055/2206077-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="562" height="453"></div><h2><b>ST. LOUIS 4. TULSA 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1146/2206070-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="554" height="711"></div><h2><b>MINNEAPOLIS 2. OMAHA 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0575/2206063-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="562" height="474"></div><h2><b>Sun., Jan. 3 TULSA 5, ST. LOUIS 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0666/2206056-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="562" height="674"></div><h2><b>MEMPHIS 1. MINNEAPOLIS 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0760/2206049-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="578" height="574"></div><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><h3><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Jan. 12)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0497/2206042-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="564" height="240"></div><p><b>(NHL Affiliation: 2. Montreal. 3. Chicago. 6. Boston).</b></p><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Wed. Jon. 6</b></p><p>Des Moines 6, Fort Wayne 4</p><p>Toledo 7, Day ton 1</p><p><b>Fri. Jan. 8</b></p><p>Muskegon 5. Dayton 2</p><p>Port Huron 7, Toledo 1</p><p><b>Sat. Jan. 19</b></p><p>Port Huron 5. Muskegon 4</p><p>Fort Wayne 8. Des Moines 1</p><p>Toledo 8. Dayton 4</p><p><b>Sun. Jan. 10</b></p><p>Port Huron 4. Toledo 3</p><p>Dayton 6, Muskegon 3<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Central League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HARLOTTE. N.C.&mdash;Things are looking up for the Charlotte Checkers in Eastern Hockey league action simply because they are getting off on the right foot in recent frays.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1222/2206164-1-eng-US/f0017-122.jpg" title="f0017-12" width="280" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Davidson</b></figcaption></div><p>These fast getaways helped the Checkers move past Knoxville into third place in the South and give the club hopes of possibly catching Greensboro which has been faltering of late.</p><p>&ldquo;The difference in our club now and early in the season is that we are scoring goals early,&rdquo; said coach Fred Creighton. &ldquo;We are getting the jump and that&rsquo;s the way to win.&rdquo;</p><p>In three straight games, the Checkers rolled up four goals before the enemy could score. Even in other games, when they didn&rsquo;t score first, they didn&rsquo;t permit the opposition to jump away to any substantial lead.</p><p>Jim McNulty, who now has three hat tricks, is operating on a line with Moe Savard and Gus Brassard and the trio is scoring heavily. In one game they combined for a dozen points as their fine passing and accurate shooting lifted the whole club. Winger Claude Ouimet also has been doing yeoman duty with the stick and goalie Gaetan Dessureault&rsquo;s work in the cage is the most consistent since his arrival last season.</p><p>January is a good month for the Checkers to make their move since 11 of their 17 games are on home ice.</p><p><b>CLINTON:</b> Club&rsquo;s 18th straight home victory was Norm Defelice&rsquo;s 11th shutout, a 4-0 win over New Haven, Ted Szydlowski in and out of lineup with arm injury. Club played with 11 men on occasions since Lorne O&rsquo;Donnell and Howie Dietrich are also sidelined. Orval Tessier closing in on Don Davidson for second place in EHL scoring race. Only five Comets stayed here for holidays. Club was 11-2 in December.</p><p>LONG ISLAND: Ducks finding it difficult to cut Clinton&rsquo;s lead. &ldquo;We may wind up with 90 points and still finish second,&rdquo; moans coach John Muckier. &ldquo;We keep winning and yet we lose ground. It&rsquo;s unbelievable.&rdquo; Ducks have 12 road wins, most in their history.</p><p><b>NASHVILLE:</b> Flyers fulfilled goal of first in south by Jan. 1, In club&rsquo;s first 18 home games, some 60,580 paid to see Flyers, an increase of 21,183 over last season. Marv Edwards posted two straight shutouts. Club routed Jacksonville, 11-0 in first meeting since No. 14 riot. Norm Ryder sat out game as did Emory Sampson of Rockets via prexy Tom Lockhart&rsquo;s orders. Both also out of next game at Jacksonville. Dusty Blair sidelined with foot hurt in practice. Tommy Marcotte and Ted McCaskill had hat tricks in same game for Flyers &ldquo;first.&rdquo;</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN:</b> Eno Kraft&rsquo;s goal brought club first road win after 16 losses. Gerry Maney late after getting permission to go home. Viggy Gendron had 6-</p><p>stitch forehead cut from errant stick. Leo Martel back from disabled list. Jackie Leclair disappointed, especially over 5-3 loss to Charlotte after club had 3-0 lead. Team fined day&rsquo;s pay for indifferent play in 10-1 loss to Johnstown.</p><p><b>GREENSBORO:</b> Dusty Blair&rsquo;s return to duty failed to help club in its skid to second place. Ron Muir had hat trick versus Charlotte and moved into fourth place in EHL scoring race. Failure to beat Nashville has hurt. Ron Spong wonders if team is wary since Flyers are the loop&rsquo;s roughest team. Club won 10th straight over Checkers on home ice. Don Davidson bothered by infected elbow.</p><p><b>JACKSONVILLE:</b> Club added Terry Simpson. 21-year-old junior defenseman, Oklahoma football team watched Rockets play. Weak power play and a tendency to play puck rather than player on defense has hurt team. Ed Babuik had 44-saver against Knoxville. Team had 8-game losing streak twice recently. Rockets are least penalized team in league.</p><p><b>JERSEY:</b> Devil won twice on 8-game road jaunt but stayed in contention for third. Gary Watts dropped but then recalled when Don Grosso was reinjured. Watts&rsquo; goal with 17 seconds left beat Knoxville. Pat Kelly delighted with win at Greensboro where he used to play. Four exGenerals, (Harvey Turnbull, Butch MacLean, Watts and Kelly) played key roles in win. Winger Ben Greco purchased from St. Louis. Kelly and Reggie Meserve banished by ref. Dave Smith in second period of Charlotte game in dispute.</p><p><b>CHARLOTTE:</b> Coach Fred Creighton continues to switch personnel on his various lines in an effort to get the right combinations. Jackie Leclair, New Haven mentor, came back here on Checkers bus during holidays when he couldn&rsquo;t get plane. Jim McNulty was delighted with 9-3 win over Jersey because &ldquo;it&rsquo;s great to beat Kelly. He has been laughing at us for years when he was with Greensboro.&rdquo;</p><p><b>JOHNSTOWN:</b> Jets won big game over Jersey when their precarious hold on third place was menaced. Goalie Joe Daley got assist on Billy Ives goal versus Ducks. Jets lost five straight on home ice to hurt record. Danny Patrick had stick fight with Long Island&rsquo;s John Brophy and both were ousted.</p><p><b>NEW YORK:</b> In club&rsquo;s climb to fifth place, Rovers lost only two of 10 games. Bob Leduc scoring steadily. Coach Steve Brklacich says, &ldquo;I feel we can make the playoffs and maybe go as high as third.&rdquo;</p><p>KNOXVILLE: Gil Champagne out with a thigh injury. Glen Cressman having best year with team. Season&rsquo;s largest crowd, 3,217, saw Xmas night game. Jack Martin having tough luck on shots.</p><h2><b>Point Race</b></h2><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><p><b>(Includine Games of Sun., Jan. 3)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1318/2206157-1-eng-US/f0017-132.jpg" title="f0017-13" width="556" height="276"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1415/2206150-1-eng-US/f0017-142.jpg" title="f0017-14" width="558" height="308"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1513/2206143-1-eng-US/f0017-152.jpg" title="f0017-15" width="534" height="730"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM MCNULTY&hellip;Three Hot Tricks</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Gettino Jump On Rivals Lifts Charlotte

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OFFICIAL N.H.L. RECORD BOOK 1917-64

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><p>FORT WAYNE, Ind.</p><p>If Fort Wayne&rsquo;s Komets were disap-pointing on the ice as the New Year opened, the management could find some consolation at the box office, where a new crowd record seemed in the offing.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01302/2206264-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="248" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lloyd Maxfield</b></figcaption></div><p>In their first 17 home games, the Komets drew a total of 87,646 paid admissions for an average of 5,155 per game. This included three sellouts just over the 8,000 mark.</p><p>Last season the club pulled a total of 163,614 for 35 regular season games, an average of 4,674.</p><p>The surprise of the league, however, from the attendance standpoint, was Dayton&rsquo;s cellar dwellers, who attracted 48,330 paying customers for an average of 2,843 in 17 home games, of which they won only five. This gave them third best attendance in the league.</p><p>Des Moines was next to Fort Wayne, with about 3,500 average. Toledo reported an average of 2,654 for 14 games. Muskegon and Port Huron were around the 2,000 mark.</p><p><b>DES MOINES</b>&mdash;Pat Ginnell&rsquo;s four goals against Muskegon gave him his second hat trick of the season&hellip;He is 15 goals ahead of last season. John Bailey was 11 ahead of last season&rsquo;s pace&hellip;The Leafs hit for five goals in the third period in beating Muskegon, 7-6.</p><p><b>FORT WAYNE</b>&mdash;The Komets. playing four games in four nights, had one win and a tie&hellip;Left winger Bill Orban was expected to be out eight weeks with a broken wrist&hellip;Roger Maisonneuve was called in as replacement and had a goal and assist in his first time on the ice&hellip;Norm Waslawski was on the sidelines&hellip;Bob Rivard led scoring with 21 goals and 35 assists for 56 points.</p><p><b>MUSKEGON</b>&mdash;Coach Lorne Davis juggled his lines, with Lyle Porter at centre between Stan Konrad and Ken Hayden, Red Campbell centreing for Butch Boucher and Yvan Chasle and the Joe Kastelic-Gary Schall-Bryan McLay line, which has scored 48 goals, intact&hellip;Search for a defenseman continued, with efforts to get Jerry Serviss last season with Chatham&hellip;Campbell played some at defense.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02217/2206257-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="528" height="626"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CHICK CHALMERS&hellip;IHL&rsquo;s Top Scorer</b></figcaption></div><p><b>PORT HURON</b>&mdash;Goalie Norm Jacques blanked Des Moines, 3-0, for the league&rsquo;s fourth shutout&hellip;The Flags had only three defeats in a string of 19 games&hellip;Lloyd Maxfield tied Bill LeCaine&rsquo;s club record by getting at least one point in 18 straight games&hellip;The Flags were scheduled for an exhibition game with the Red Wings on Jan. 27.</p><p><b>TOLEDO</b>&mdash;Wayne North, returned to <i>a</i> wing from defense, scored four goals in beating Muskegon, 7-6. He had the winning goal against Port Huron, 5-4&hellip;The Blades split even, playing four games in four nights&hellip;Chick Chalmers continued to lead in scoring with 37 points.</p><p><b>DAYTON</b>&mdash;Bob Bailey had a hat trick in, a 7-6 overtime win against Des Moines, getting the tieing and winning goal&hellip;In their first five victories, the Gems had won over every team in the league&hellip;Des Moines got a winning goal here with only one second left to play&hellip;The Gems expected to get Luke Hayden, 25-year-old defenseman from the Nova Scotia League.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03133/2206250-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="516" height="650"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NORM JACQUES&hellip;Fourth Loop Shutout</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lowly Dayton Gems Box Office Giants; Fort Wayne Eyeing New Crowd Record

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THE HOCKEY NEWS

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.</p><p>Montreal Canadiens and Niagara Falls Flyers continued their winning ways while St. Catharines Black Hawks dropped farther off the pace as the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A League reached the midway point.</p><p>The Canadiens, in last place for much of the first two months of the schedule and seventh until the last week of December, vaulted to fifth place and made threatening gestures towards the first division on the strength of a seven-game undefeated streak.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05136/2206385-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="297" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Mike Corrigan</b></figcaption></div><p>Backed up by superb goaltending from rookie Fernand Rivard plus the fine defensive work of six footers Serge Savard and Bob Lemieux, the Canadiens made a tremendously-successful invasion of the Niagara District.</p><p>They scored two third period goals to tie second-place Niagara Falls Flyers 2-2 in the Falls, then registered back-to-back victories over St. Catharines Black Hawks by scores of 3-1 and 4-3.</p><p>Back home in&rsquo; the Forum two nights later they trounced the league-leading Toronto Marl-boros 8-3, the worst loss suffered by the defending Memorial Cup champions this season.</p><p>Lucien Grenier and Jacques Lemaire scored two goals each against the Dukes while Norm Ferguson picked up three goals in the two games against the slumping Black Hawks.</p><p>The three victories and a draw, all accomplished in just six days, brought the Canadiens&rsquo; unbeaten record to seven straight up to Jan. 3. They haven&rsquo;t lost since Rivard was brought in by Coach Scotty Bowman to replace former guardians Norm (Rocky) Farr and Rogatien Vachon.</p><p>Goaltending was also a key factor as the second place Niagara Falls club extended its undefeated streak to nine games.</p><p>Blessed with two capable goalies, the Flyers had to replace starter Bernie Parent with Doug Favell after the former was hit on the knee with a hard shot by St. Catharines winger Garry MacMillan (from Kingston) during the second period.</p><p>Favell allowed only two goals in the remaining 25 minutes although the Hawks out-shot them 25-9 during that span. Favell is a native of St. Catharines and actually started his junior A career in the Garden City three years ago before being traded to Hap Emms&rsquo; Flyers.</p><p>Niagara Falls remained just behind the Marlboros on the strength of their 4-3 win in St. Catharines, a 3-1 decision at home over Peterborough and the 2-2 tie with Montreal.</p><p>In their past nine games, up to Jan. 3, the Falls have won seven, tied two, the best record of any club in the eight-team league. Their last defeat was Dec. 8, a 6-2 loss at home to St. Catharines.</p><p>Andre Lacroix, Peterborough centre, continued to lead in points, however, he has a new threat in the person of Mike Corrigan, rookie winger with Toronto Marlboros.</p><p>Corrigan, who played last season with London Nationals of the Western Ontario junior B. league, scored three goals and added a whopping seven assists during the week to move from fourth place to second, nine points behind Lacroix. Statistics include games of Jan. 3.</p><p>Lacroix, with Montreal Canadiens last season, has 23 goals, 50 assists for 73 points while Corrigan has 16 goals and a leagueleading total of 48 assists for 64 points.</p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><h3><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Tues.. Jan. 12)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01277/2206378-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="568" height="324"></div><p><b>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto. 2. Montreal. 3. Chicago. 4. Detroit, 5. New York, 6. Boston).</b></p><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 7</b></p><p>Peterborough 4, Toronto 2</p><p>Hamilton 7, St. Catharines 4</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 8</b></p><p>Niagara Falls 4, Montreal 2</p><p>Kitchener 6, Oshawa 3</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 9</b></p><p>Peterborough 6. Toronto 6</p><p>Montreal 7, Oshawa 5</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 10</b></p><p>Kitchener 5. Montreal 4</p><p>Niagara Falls 7, St. Catharines 4</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Tues., Jan. 12</b></p><p>Kitchener at Oshawa</p><p>Hamilton at Peterborough</p><p>Toronto at Niagara Falls</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan.</b></p><p>14 Kitchener at Hamilton</p><p>Montreal at Peterborough</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 15</b></p><p>St. Catharines at Niagara Falls</p><p>Montreal at Kitchener</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 16</b></p><p>Peterborough at Oshawa</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 17</b></p><p>Peterborough at Montreal</p><p>Hamilton at St. Catharines</p><p>Niagara Falls at Kitchener</p><p>Oshawa at Toronto</p><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02229/2206371-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="562" height="300"></div><h2>How They Stand</h2><h3><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Mon.. Jan. 4)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03181/2206364-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="568" height="238"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04158/2206357-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="568" height="518"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Montreal Habs, Niagara Flyers Prove Ontario Junior League’s ‘Hot’ Clubs

<p><b>To Be Held At</b></p><p><b>WORCESTER ARENA&mdash;WORCESTER, MASS.</b></p><p><b>TWO&mdash;TWO WEEK SESSIONS</b></p><p><b>August 2 to August 14&mdash;August 16 to August 28</b> (Limited Registration Each Session)</p><p><b>&ldquo;Learn from the Pros&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Outstanding Features&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>Charlie Hodge&mdash;Montreal Junior Langlois&mdash;Detroit Tech Jack Riley&mdash;West Point Phil Goyette&mdash;New York Ralph Backstrom&mdash;Montreal</b></p><p><b>Dormitory Housing at Worcester Dormitory Supervision Two Ice Sessions Daily Class Room Lectures Exhibition Games Dining at Worcester Tech Cafeteria</b></p><p>FOR INFORMATION WRITE&mdash;</p><p><b>RICHARD &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; CONNORS</b></p><p><b>P.O. BOX 213&mdash;MELROSE 76. MASS.</b></p><p><b>Founder and Director of EASTERN HOCKEY CLINIC</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

SIXTH ANNUAL EASTERN HOCKEY CLINIC

<p>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Two players in the Ontario Hockey Association junior A league received an early indoctrination into professional hockey last week.</p><p>Brit Selby, one of the most highly-rated members in the Toronto Maple Leaf farm system played his first NHL game in Maple Leaf Gardens as the Leafs defeated Detroit Red Wings 3-1. The following night he scored his initial professional goal in Madison Square Garden as Toronto and New York played to a 3-3 tie. Several nights later he scored again as the Leafs beat Chicago 3-1.</p><p>Ken Hodge, a 32-goal man with St. Catharines Black Hawks, played a regular shift in Buffalo as the Bisons trounced Cleveland Barons 9-4 in an American Hockey League game. The 19-year-old assisted on the ninth Buffalo goal by Ed Van Impe.</p><p>The game was the second of the day for Hodge who had scored two goals for the junior Hawks in their 4-3 loss to Niagara Falls Flyers in the afternoon before making the 30-mile trip to Buffalo for the evening affair.</p><p>A third OHA player Paul Laurent of the Marlboros, got his first taste of pro hockey action when he went out to Victoria of the Western League, getting two assists in his first three games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

OHA Stars Hit For First Goals In Pro Tryouts

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06114/2206464-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg"></div><p><b>SOLUTION IN NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S ISSUE</b></p><h2>ACROSS</h2><p>1. Pictured Detroit defenseman.</p><p>6. Numeral worn by Johnny Bower.</p><p>7. Ocean (abbr.)</p><p>8. Kenny Wharram has had this fractured three times.</p><p>10. This old time Hab played under the nickname of &ldquo;Polly.&rdquo;</p><p>13. The NHL&rsquo;s All-time &ldquo;bad man.&rdquo;</p><p>14. Len Lunde&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)</p><p>17. Initials of Topoll of San Francisco.</p><p>18. An NHL captain answers to this.</p><p>20. Initials of No. 21 of Toronto.</p><p>23. First NHL team of 1 down (abbr.)</p><p>24. Frequent time passer for players on road trips.</p><p>25. Exists.</p><p>26. An NHL roster is comprised of 17&mdash;.</p><p>27. A former Chicago coach.</p><p>30. Initials of 22 down.</p><p>32. Method by which NHL clubs select Player Representatives.</p><p>33. Given name of McKenney of Toronto.</p><p>34. Initials of Toronto&rsquo;s president.</p><h2>DOWN</h2><p>1. Former Red Wing star.</p><p>2. Indefinite article.</p><p>3. One of Chicago&rsquo;s goalies.</p><p>4. John Ferguson&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>5. Initials of a Habitant forward.</p><p>9. Female relative.</p><p>11. Artificial language.</p><p>12. New Rochelle (abbr.)</p><p>15. Initials of a Ranger defenseman.</p><p>16. Bruce MacGregor was born under this Zodiac sign.</p><p>19. A former Canadien centre.</p><p>20. This Montreal player hails from Toronto.</p><p>21. Punch Imlach&rsquo;s son.</p><p>22. Wears No. 4 for Boston.</p><p>26. One of the famous Colville brothers.</p><p>28. Many players like to drink this on game days.</p><p>29. Fred Stanfield will do this at the end of the hockey season.</p><p>31. Initials of Oliver of Boston.</p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1. Plager</p><p>5. R.I.</p><p>6. Lumley</p><p>8. Ottawa</p><p>11. Four</p><p>14. Read</p><p>15. Amadio</p><p>16. R.A.</p><p>17. S.A.</p><p>18. D.M.</p><p>19. Throngs</p><p>22. Ea.</p><p>23. Up</p><p>25. Nov.</p><p>26. Gov.</p><p>27. T.C.J.</p><p>29. Ivan</p><p>30. R.N.</p><p>31. Ry.</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1. Pulford</p><p>2. Armstrong</p><p>3. Gil.</p><p>4. Ray.</p><p>7. Edward</p><p>9. A.E.</p><p>10. Adams</p><p>11. Fastest</p><p>12. Omaha</p><p>13. UA.</p><p>20. Nevin</p><p>21. Sugar</p><p>24. Pony</p><p>25. N.J.</p><p>28. C.H.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">BY DOUG DULMAGE</div><p>REGINA. Sask.</p><p>Behind every player in the National Hockey League, there&rsquo;s a coach or manager in the minor leagues&mdash;from the peewees through the juniors&mdash;who helped him get there.</p><p>In recent years, Regina has turned out a number of NHLers. Most of them came up through the Regina Pats organization. They include Bill Hicke, Red Hay, Murray Balfour, Ed Litzenberger, Bob Turner, Terry Harper, and Gary Peters.</p><p>And here, in the capital of the Wheat Province, there is a bespectacled 57-year-old school principal who claims no responsibility for any of these players, but who nevertheless deserves some of it.</p><p>His name is Mike Kartusch, and at this point in his career, which spans more than 30 years in amateur hockey, he&rsquo;s the director of the bantam program in the Regina Pats chain.</p><p>It&rsquo;s somewhat of a step downward from past years, when Mike served as supervisor of the entire Regina Pats minor hockey setup. But then, he doesn&rsquo;t have the energy he used to have, and as long as he&rsquo;s tied up with boys&mdash;hockey players in partciular&mdash;he&rsquo;s happy.</p><p>An indication of Mike&rsquo;s interest in hockey was not hard to find. It came about 30 seconds after I had introduced myself to him over the telephone and asked when would be a good time to see him for an interview.</p><p>&ldquo;Are you free Saturday,&rdquo; he answered. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m down at the rink all day Saturday and you could drop by any time.&rdquo;</p><p>Kartusch has always had a finger in Regina&rsquo;s local sports circles. From 1930-39 he managed bantams, midgets and juvenile on the outdoor parks rinks here. He served with the auxiliary service during the war but started back in 1944 with his own minor hockey setup composed of two bantam teams, two midget teams, two juvenile teams, and one junior B team. That lasted until 1949 when he joined forces with the Pats.</p><p>From 1944-1950, he was interested in junior football, and managed the Regina Bombers in a four-team league. During the next four years, Moose Jaw entered a team, and later Saskatoon Hilltops were formed.</p><p>&ldquo;During the dirty thirties, I even had a softball team which won the city junior championship,&rdquo; Mike said. &ldquo;I worked in</p><p>softball from 1933-38, and also after the war. I was interested in a senior softball league after the war, but ditched that in 1950.&rdquo;</p><p>And throughout the years between 1934 and the present, Kartusch has been further involved with &ldquo;kids&rdquo;. He holds the rank of major in the Cadet Services of Canada, and has attended summer army camps in Clear Lake, Man., and Vernon, B.C.</p><p>Between times, he serves as principal of St. Joseph&rsquo;s separate school, where he has held the post since 1935.</p><p>&ldquo;My whole life has been involved with kids,&rdquo; said Mike. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you, I thought my life in hockey was over a long time ago. After spending one of many nights out on the outdoor rinks in Regina, my body was so cold, I thought &lsquo;this is the end.&rsquo; But when kids come up to you the next day and say Mike this&hellip;and Mike that&hellip;what can you do? You can&rsquo;t desert them.&rdquo;</p><p>Kartusch said the thing he&rsquo;s enjoyed the most from the time he&rsquo;s spent with youngsters in hockey is the fact that &ldquo;we&rsquo;ve helped make kids better citizens.</p><p>&ldquo;Many parents don&rsquo;t seem to realize that when kids are active in sports, they keep out of trouble. In all the years I&rsquo;ve been in minor hockey, I can&rsquo;t recall any kids you could class as juvenile delinquents&mdash;at least the way we think of juvenile delinquents today.&rdquo;</p><p>Some of the biggest thrills of his life have been when the Pats minor teams won provincial championships, he said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how many we&rsquo;ve won. You&rsquo;d have to check the record books, but I know we have quite a few on the mantle.</p><p>But what about producing those NHL stars, he was asked.</p><p>&ldquo;Oh, that&rsquo;s a great feeling, but after all, we&rsquo;re not in the sports business to make a bunch of NHLers. We&rsquo;re in it to give boys something to do and to train them for their future life.</p><p>&ldquo;A great many boys have definitely been saved by sports participation. There&rsquo;s no doubt about it.&rdquo;</p><p>Despite the problems that plague every minor organization from coast to coast, Kartusch says the only thing that bothers him in Regina is the lack of indoor ice. He says it&rsquo;s really tough to get boys ready for a hockey playoff series when there just isn&rsquo;t enough ice to go around.</p><p>Kartusch doesn&rsquo;t take much credit for developing hockey players, but he also acts as a helper for Del Wilson, general manager of the Pat chain, and chief western scout for Montreal Canadiens. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t do much in that line,&rdquo; he says, but it is known differently around town.</p><h2><b>Regina Products</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0230/2206530-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="256" height="399"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Hay</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0413/2206523-1-eng-US/c0004-042.jpg" title="C0004-04" width="239" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Murray Balfour</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-066/2206516-1-eng-US/c0004-062.jpg" title="C0004-06" width="246" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Litzenberger</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0323/2206509-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="284" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Hicke</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-057/2206502-1-eng-US/c0004-052.jpg" title="C0004-05" width="252" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Harper</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-074/2206495-1-eng-US/c0004-072.jpg" title="C0004-07" width="247" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Turner</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Mike Kartusch Helped Regina’s National Leaguers On Way

<p class="dropcap"><i><span>c</span>ontributes much time and energy to the futherment of kids&rsquo; hockey around Fort William. He serves ungrudgingly to see that the Elks pee wees function properly. He is the man behind their rules committee for their big tournament. Rod is a minor worker who makes many sacrifices to help out minor hockey teams and he is to be commended for his efforts on behalf of the kids of Fort William.</i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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