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January 16, 1965
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Tempers Hot As SJHL Aces Get Heave Ho
REGINA, Sask. 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. First they took it on the chin from lowly Saskatoon Blades. Next Weyburn Red Wings belted them in their own rink 4-2 during “Young Canada Night.” 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’t necessarily mean “Happy New Year” just because you got off to a good start. And Pats weren’t taking their defeats in a manner befitting a first-place club. In front of nearly 6,000 youngsters in Regina, Fran Huck, everybody’s hero in these parts, got himself tossed out of the game along with Weyburn’s Dwight…
‘Iron Man’ Needham Latest Casualty As Injuries Continue To Ravish Barons
CLEVELAND, Ohio— 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. Perhaps not as world-shaking in its international implications, the Cleveland Barons’ own symbol of indestructability tottered and fell on January 2, adding evidence to the belief that the Barons, too, may have had it. Injuries which have crippled the embattled Barons since the outset of the current American Hockey League season reached their climax when Bill Needham, “iron man” of the AHL, was sidelined after playing in 525 consecutive games. Needham’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…
Reg Proves Wharram No Policeman
CHICAGO, m. Kenny Wharram has to rate as the league’s least likely candidate for the role of policeman. Yet, the Lady Byng trophy winner actually took a “crack” (the word is used advisedly) at the chore in a recent Black Hawk-Boston Bruins game in the Stadium. 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’s waist. Quick action by officials managed to avert what almost certainly would have become a stickfight. When questioned later about his close brush with what probably would have been a creased skull, the normally mild-mannered veteran said: “Aw, Reggie was asking for trouble. He really was trying to smash Mikita out there.” This remark prompted Mikita, whose physique is only slightly more rugged than…
Wings’ Attendance Skyrockets
DETROIT, Mich. Red Wing attendance, hypoed by the club’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. 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. 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. Detroit’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.…
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