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January 30, 1965

The Hockey News January 30, 1965

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IN THIS ISSUE

GUNZO’S

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01602/2285449-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Montreal&rsquo;s Helmeted TV Minors View Action From Bench</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey belongs to the kids for the next seven days across Canada.</p><p>The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association estimates that some 500,000 youngsters are registered in the Dominion and has set aside Jan. 23-30 as &lsquo;Minor Hockey Week&rsquo; in Canada for the sprouts.</p><p>It&rsquo;s a week where the parents are urged to bring their boys to the rink and watch them play.</p><p>Minor hockey in Canada is constantly on the upswing and one such group that is making giant strides in the kids&rsquo; game is the Montreal Minor Hockey series that is sponsored and televised weekly by CFCF-TV Channel 12 in the Canadian metropolis.</p><p>Every Wednesday night when the home games of the Montreal Canadiens are telecast across the country, CFCF-TV Producer-Director Ralph Mellanby views the game from a CFCF Mobile Studio outside the Montreal Forum and delivers a picture of the action to homes from Halifax to Vancouver.</p><p>Then on Sunday afternoon, he follows the mobile to another rink, the Town of Mount Royal Arena in Northwest Montreal. There he goes about the business of directing cameras on hockey talent in the 12-14 age bracket participating in a CFCF-TV tournament that is seen every week on Canada&rsquo;s first major-market independent television station.</p><p>Three games in the Montreal Minor Hockey series are taped every third week and shown to Montreal viewers in their entirety every Sunday afternoon. Teams representing six of the major areas in the city compete in a regular schedule supplemented by playoff games in the spring.</p><p>The man behind the idea of a television station organizing and operating a hockey tournament was CFCF-TV sports supervisor Dick Irvin who describes the play-by-play action of each game. Irvin proposed the series in May of 1962 feeling that it would fill a great demand for both viewers and minor hockey itself. Irvin based his judgement on experience, having been associated with the game for many years as a coach. In fact, he was the man who led a Town of Mount Royal team to the Quebec Bantam championship in 1961.</p><p>When Mellanby was assigned to direct the program, they put their heads together to come up with what still remains a unique adventure in Canadian television.</p><p>What makes it so unique is the fact that the tournament begins and ends with CFCF-TV. All details in organizing and procedure are handled by station staff&mdash;from selecting the teams to compete to awarding trophies at season&rsquo;s end.</p><p>And the tournament is run strictly on a professional-like on-camera before each game and the three stars of the contest skate out to centre-ice to take their bows. The tournament&rsquo;s staff includes the regular N.H.L. complement of a referee and two linesmen; a public address announcer; two goal judges and a statistician who maintains individual and team records.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Montreal Kid Teams Hit With TV League

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Perhaps it&rsquo;s just coincidence, but whenever John Ferguson turns up on a line tilings begin to happen.</p><p>For instance, last season he played left wing on a line centered by Jean Beliveau, and Big Jean had his best season in years. This year, Fergie joined up with Ralph Backstrom, and the same thing happened. Backstrom has been scoring consistently and the other member of the unit, Claude Larose, has become a scoring threat, too.</p><p>The curious thing is that Ferguson, himself, has been having trouble finding the net this season. He&rsquo;d managed only nine goals in 40 games, which is a far cry from what he expected. But, what was even more curious was the pattern of scoring that John has been following. It has been a case of long famines, interspersed by goals mainly against one team&mdash;Toronto Maple Leafs. The point can best be made by examples:</p><p>On October 24th, Ferguson scored against Detroit and then went nine straight games without a goal. He ended the famine against Toronto on Nov. 18th. On Nov. 22nd, he scored against Chicago and then came another nine-game famine. It, too, ended against Leaf&rsquo;s on Dec. 17th. This was followed by a five-game stretch during which John failed to net a puck. Sure enough, he snapped that streak against Toronto, too, with a goal in Maple Leaf Gardens on Dec. 30th.</p><p>Since then, the goals have been coming a bit more consistently for the burly winger, and, of course, he has been getting his share of assists.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ferguson Brings Linemates Luck

<p><i>(This is the first in an exclusive weekly series of features dealing with statistics on NHL netminders compiled for THE HOCKEY NEWS).</i></p><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Fans who yearn for a change in the method of determining the Vezina Trophy most often point to &lsquo;fielding&rsquo; averages rather than goals against as the ideal method of selecting the National Hockey League&rsquo;s best goaler.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01527/2284667-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="282" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Johnston</b></figcaption></div><p>The arguments, as they stand at present, are that the present system caters to the club with the strongest defense and makes the trophy a team award, which contradicts itself by being handed to an individual. However, that&rsquo;s the way it is written in the rules for the award&mdash;going to the man playing the most games with the team allowing the fewest goals.</p><p>Those crying for change, pointing out that men like Eddie Johnston of Boston and Jacques Plante of New York have no chance at the award yet may be superior craftsmen, say the percentages given by shots vs saves is the ideal norm. Those against this one claim it really means little because, in order to really mean something, shots would also have to be rated by degree of difficulty&mdash;which is almost impossible.</p><p>It&rsquo;s a continuing argument and one that seems to offer no immediate solution.</p><p>For those who enjoy mathematical possibilities, though, the breakdown to this point in the season offers interesting meat for debate. Including games of Sunday, Jan. 24, Montreal&mdash;with Charlie Hodge the man standing to make it because he will have played more games than Gump Worsley even if he&rsquo;s out the remainder of the season&mdash;leads with 104 goals against.</p><p>Johnny Bower and Terry Sawchuk at Toronto are next with 107, followed by Roger Crozier and Detroit at 109. Then comes Chicago 110, New York 136 and Boston 150.</p><p>However, working it out on the shots-saves system, Toronto moves into the lead. In 1,380 shots, Bower and Sawchuk have given up 107 goals for a fielding mark of .922. Chicago, with 1,313 shots and 110 goals against, stands second at .916 and Montreal falls to third at .909 on 1,143 shots and 104 goals.</p><p>It is interesting to note that the teams considered benefitting from such a system, make little gain. New York would stand fourth, .908, and Boston fifth, .900. Detroit would skid from third to sixth at .899. However, while Roger Crozier shows a saving average of .909., his team average falls sharply when paired with Carl Wetzel&rsquo;s .899 in the two part games he has worked.</p><p>The goalers have been having a hectic season with 7,987 shots fired at them in the first 130 games but they seem to be standing up well in face of the deluge. They are holding the forwards&mdash;in spite of the production of such men as Bobby Hull&mdash;to less than 10% success.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03450/2284660-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="496" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY BOWER</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Fielding Averages</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02506/2284653-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1110" height="898"></div><p>(Legend:&mdash;Saves represents number of saves made, GA-goals against, Shots&mdash;total shots and Pct.&mdash;&lsquo;fielding&rsquo; average shots-saves. In brackets are won-loss-tie records of each goaler. For partial games, Marcel Paille records the loss for the Dec. 16 game when he was in for four goals; Carl Wetzel is given loss for Dec. 26 game against Montreal when he allowed four goals. Totals include empty net goals.)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fielding Averages Give Goalies’ ‘True Look’

<div class="byline">BY LEO MONAHAN</div><p>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The National Hockey League could help the last-place Bruins &ldquo;in 10 minutes if it wanted to&rdquo; according to Boston President Weston W. Adams, who added, &ldquo;but we&rsquo;re not passing around a tin cup and lead pencils&rdquo; begging for help.</p><p>Adams realizes fully that rival NHL clubs are in no mood to strengthen either Boston or New York. Said he:</p><p>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t ask them to sell us a major player.&rdquo;</p><p>Asked if there was anything the NHL could do. Adams replied:</p><p>&ldquo;If they wanted to help, they could reduce the number of protected players on the top four teams from 18 to 16, increase the 5th-place team&rsquo;s protected list to 19 and the last-place team&rsquo;s to 20. That would be the simplest and quickest way, but I don&rsquo;t think you&rsquo;ll see that come about.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams also took issue with NHL President Clarence S. Campbell&rsquo;s notion of increasing the draft and waiver price from $20,000 to $30,000 and reducing the number of Junior A sponsorships to four per NHL team.</p><p>&ldquo;The draft price,&rdquo; pointed out Adams, &ldquo;went from $7,500 to $10,000 to $15,000 to $20,000 and there were no more players available at $20,000 than there were at $7,500. I don&rsquo;t see how this would help. It would give even more of an advantage to Montreal and Toronto.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams also admitted &ldquo;dissatisfaction&rdquo; with the method the National League All-Star team is selected and will propose an idea to let the players themselves make the picks at the annual Winter meeting Feb. 2-3 in New York.</p><p>&ldquo;This is a very important thing for the players. Some $26,000 in bonus money is involved and it means a lot when bargaining for the next contract,&rdquo; said Adams. &ldquo;The players should be allowed to vote.&rdquo;</p><p>Presently press-radio-TV selectors in six cities are polled for the first two All-Star teams and league trophies such as the Hart, Lady Bying and Norris.</p><p>&ldquo;All forwards should vote on defensemen and vice versa,&rdquo; suggests Adams. Goaltenders should be allowed to vote for both forwards and defensemen. I will make a formal submission of this system at the league meeting. I hope I have better success than I have on other proposals.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams called the balloting on defenseman Ted Green of the B&rsquo;s as only the 6th best in the league &ldquo;utterly ridiculous.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01401/2287501-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="528" height="742"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WESTON ADAMS&hellip;Levels Blast At NHL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Adams Says Rival NHL Teams Don’t Want To Help Out Bruins

<div class="byline">BY BOB HARRIS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02286/2287532-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="462" height="1310"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK&hellip;Touched Off Proposal</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO. Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey observers are convinced the day is approaching when National Hockey League teams will dress and play two goalkeepers in regular league games.</p><p>The hockey men expect the NHL to take the first step in this direction Feb. 2 when the league&rsquo;s Board of Governors meet with one of the major items on their agenda being the adoption of a rule requiring NHL teams to have a spare netminder dressed and on the bench for the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>The feeling is that once this rule is passed, the NHL will extend the edict to all league games.</p><p>Jim Norris, co-owner of the Chicago Black Hawks, revealed the move to have two goalers available for this year&rsquo;s playoff round.</p><p>&ldquo;The rule will cover only the playoffs this time,&rdquo; said Norris, &ldquo;but we hope it can become a regular-season practice in deference to fans who now must wait 20 minutes or so if an emergency goalie has to dress and warm up.&rdquo;</p><p>Every team in the league, except Boston Bruins, carries two goalies, but the non-starter watches the game in street clothes from the stands.</p><p>Norris feels the Bruins should be compelled to carry another netminder whether or not the rule is applied to regular-season games.</p><p>&ldquo;It would be a catastrophe if Eddie Johnston (Boston goalie) were hurt in Chicago some night and we had to provide the Bruins with a goalie, as the rule now requires,&rdquo; said Norris. &ldquo;That would set the game back 10 years.</p><p>Norris said the board proposed the new rule for playoffs to eliminate such situations as prevailed in the Stanley Cup semi-final playoff last year between Chicago and Detroit.</p><p>Terry Sawchuk, then regular Red Wing goalie, twice had to be excused in the middle of games because of a back injury. His replacement took about 25 minutes to don pads and warm up each time.</p><p>The NHL record book is full of incidences where &lsquo;amateur&rdquo; goalies and even trainers, have been forced to rush into a big league game as replacements for injured netminders with the usual result&mdash;a sub-par performance that often incurs the wrath of the paying public.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NHL Will Order Teams To Dress Spare Goaler For Cup Playoffs

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05231/2284705-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="377" height="379"></div><p><b>Says</b></p><p><b>TOE BLAKE,</b></p><p><b><i>coach of the</i></b></p><p><b><i>Montreal Canadiens</i></b></p><p>Get the inside facts on how to stick handle, shoot and score! Learn the secret methods of the great hockey stars! It&rsquo;s all here in this fully illustrated booklet by Toe Blake, coach of the famous Montreal Canadiens. You&rsquo;ll find a wealth of hockey lore in Hockey Hints, and you can get your free copy simply by sending one box top from any box of Corn CHEX, Wheat CHEX or Rice CHEX breakfast cereal along with the coupon below. But act fast&mdash;send for Hockey Hints today!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06146/2284698-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="566" height="516"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">BY RED FOLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Rangers, like the Confederate Army, may be fighting a losing battle, but at least Red Sullivan&rsquo;s Blueshirts, unlike Robert E. Lee&rsquo;s grayclad troopers, are able to win on the road. The ability to triumph away from home is one reason why Ranger playoff hopes still flicker and why hominy grits is not America&rsquo;s national dish.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04330/2284736-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="294" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marcel Paille</b></figcaption></div><p>After 42 games, half of which they played on foreign frosts, the Blues had 36 points, 21 of which they compiled in road tasts. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m darned if I can figure out why we can&rsquo;t play as well at home as we do on the road,&rdquo; coach Red Sullivan said after he and 14,991 Madison Square Garden onlookers watched Toronto blank the Blues, 6-0.</p><p>On the previous nghtt, in Montreal, the Rangers had scored a 6-5 victody that left the Canadiens gasping. It was the fourth time this season they&rsquo;d flopped for the home folks after registering a big road victory in the preceding games.</p><p>Until such time as the Blueshirts can correct their losing ways at home they&rsquo;ll have to be satisfied with the results attained in the recent mid-season balloting for All Star and Trophy spots. Harry Howell, Rod Gilbert and Camille Henry gained second team berths and in Byng balloting Henry and Phil Goyette were a distant second and third to Bobby Hull.</p><p>The club&rsquo;s decision to keep Marcel Paille as a reserve goalie paid dividends when the portly Frenchman spelled Jacques Plante after the &lsquo;Masked Man&rsquo; re-injured his troublesome right knee, Jan. 16, in Chicago. Jacques was forced to quit in the third period of that game, but Marcel, who hadn&rsquo;t seen NHL action in a month, preserved the 6-3 win over the Hawks.</p><p>The following night, in Detroit, Paille did a fine job of turning back the Wings, 4-2. Marcel, of course, had help in that one. Henry knocked in three goals to raise his season total to 18. Don (Boom Boom) Marshall, one of the Blues&rsquo; most valuable but unsung players, added the other goal. It was Donnie&rsquo;s second in as many games.</p><p>Marshall&rsquo;s marker was his 10th. One of the NHL&rsquo;s top penalty killers, Marshall, whom no one seems to sehiously regard as a Byng candidate, has yet to be penalized this season.</p><p>Bob Nevin appears to have hit the stride he was enjoying prior to his shoulder Injury. He tallied both Ranger goals in the 5-2 defeat at Boston, Jan. 14, and accounted for the winning marker in the following game at Chicago.</p><p>Sullivan credits Henry&rsquo;s sudden resurgence to the reduced ice time he&rsquo;d given him. Cammy had been used only on the power play for a few games and when Sullivan thought the little guy was sufficiently refreshed he turned him loose in the Blues&rsquo; big weekend wins at Chicago and Detroit. Henry&rsquo;s return to fulltime duty apparently rejuvenated Gilbert and Goyette, his mates on the French Line. Between them the trio had 14 points in the victories over the Hawks and Wings.</p><p>The Rangers recalled rookie defenseman Bob Plager from Vancouver and shipped the veteran Larry Cahan out to their Western League affiliate.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rangers Ability To Win Road Games Keeps Club’s Playoff Hopes Alive

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Pay all your bills now!

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01526/2284798-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Here&rsquo;s PARKER MacDONALD, right, with Detroit teammate EDDIE JOYAL during lull in hockey action. When Joyal first came up to NHL he was thrown on a line with Gordie Howe and MacDonald.</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Parker MacDonald didn&rsquo;t bring his family to Detroit last fall for the Red Wings training camp for two reasons&mdash;partly because he didn&rsquo;t want to disrupt the children&rsquo;s schooling and mostly because he wasn&rsquo;t sure he&rsquo;d even be with the Wings.</p><p>With the 31-year-old Nova Scotian it has been one constant battle to prove that he belongs in the National Hockey League, this despite the fact that he scored 54 goals the past two seasons and there aren&rsquo;t many around who can boast that.</p><p>Camp talk centered mainly around Detroit&rsquo;s left wing deficiencies and the finger most often was pointed at McDonald, something of a playoff disappointment with three goals and three assists.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe I didn&rsquo;t have too good a playoff but I wasn&rsquo;t the worst guy on the ice,&rdquo; MacDonald said.</p><p>And, the Wings didn&rsquo;t protect him in the player draft last June and a number of fans have been down on him.</p><p>&ldquo;We took a gamble not protecting Parker,&rdquo; manager-coach Sid Abel said, &ldquo;but we figured he&rsquo;d been with two other clubs in the NHL (Toronto and New York) and that we could get him by.</p><p>&ldquo;It was no reflection on Parker&rsquo;s ability,&rdquo; said Abel, one of MacDonald&rsquo;s biggest boosters.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s not a hardnose guy but he produces when it counts and I&rsquo;ll go through his peaks and valleys with him.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>And now, there&rsquo;s a new MacDonald emerging&mdash;play-maker, penalty-killer, power play point man.</p><p>Searching for a new power play formation at mid-season, Abel inserted MacDonald on the point and expressed immediate satisfaction as MacDonald set up three goals that night on the gang play, then scored once himself and set up another in the next three games.</p><p>The Wing power play problem is that they have only one defenseman with a booming blue line shot&mdash;Doug Barkley&mdash;and he&rsquo;s a right hand shot. The Wings are overpopulated with right hand shooters but have few left handers and even fewer who can hum the puck from the point.</p><p>&ldquo;With Parker out there, our power play has looked better than it has all season,&rdquo; Abel said.</p><p>In the past, it was MacDonald next to the net on the power play that produced the big goals. He led the club in the important goal department last season with five game winners and three tying goals.</p><p>Another part of the transformation from strictly scorer to all-around man was instituted when Abel started pairing MacDonald with Norm Ullman on some of the penalty-killing chores. Now this made a few people stop short and figure that Abel had been hit on the head by an errant shot.</p><p>But MacDonald is not a bad defensive player.</p><p>&ldquo;I got the reputation when I first came up with Toronto,&rdquo; MacDonald said. &ldquo;They brought me up too soon and had to say something when they sent me back so they said I was a poor back-checker, the newspapers picked it up and now everyone figures I can&rsquo;t play defense.&rdquo;</p><p>Abel first worked MacDonald into penalty killing during road games and then unveiled him at home and you could see some fans rub their eyes in disbelief.</p><p>&ldquo;I started using him on the road and not at home because of the fans,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve told him not to let the fans bother him but even so, after a period of time, that has to get on a man&rsquo;s nerves.&rdquo;</p><p>It isn&rsquo;t a large segment, but there are small knots around the building who get on MacDonald.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the same bunch that used to get on Alex (Delvecchio) all the time,&rdquo; MacDonald said. &ldquo;Now they&rsquo;re on me.</p><p>&ldquo;The other night I gave Normie a pass and he went in and scored. I fed him for another goal and later I threw a long pass to Smitty (Floyd Smith) and he missed it but some guy yells &lsquo;That MacDonald can&rsquo;t even pass.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;It used to be that I&rsquo;d be afraid to make a pass but I figure that as long as I&rsquo;m playing well, I&rsquo;m not going to let them bother me.</p><p>&ldquo;If I was just 21 and they were booing me, it would drive me out of my head,&rdquo; MacDonald Said.</p><p>&ldquo;Parker is a good puck carrier,&rdquo; Abel said, &ldquo;but he played with Gordie (Howe) the last couple of seasons and when you&rsquo;re with Gordie, you don&rsquo;t have much chance to carry the puck because Gordie has it.&rdquo;</p><p>And MacDonald usually was near the net to put in passes from Howe. Now, with the shift to the Ullman line, MacDonald&rsquo;s scoring is down but he has more assists at this stage of the season than he ever did and Ullman&rsquo;s goal production in the first half&mdash;19&mdash;was his career high for the initial 35 games.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t seem to be able to buy a goal. In that 8-1 game we had against Boston it seemed like just about everyone scored and what did I do? Hit the crossbar!&rdquo;</p><p>But Abel likes MacDonald&rsquo;s quick wrist shot and his demonstrated ability to put the puck in the net.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Wings Happy With the New Parker MacDonald

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Parker MacDonald picked up his 100th NHL goal earlier in the season and although it seems like he&rsquo;s been around a long, long time, this is only his sixth full big league term and, counting other brief callups, he will finish this season with 491 games behind him, one more game than seven full seasons. His goal average for the span figures to be 15 to 17 which isn&rsquo;t bad work for a man who has been a regular for only about half that time.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Parker Only Regular Six Years Passes 100-Goal Mark In NHL

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Understandably chafed about the continual remarks that he can&rsquo;t play defensive hockey, Parker MacDonald one day said he wished that boss Sid Abel would use him as a penalty killer so that he could prove himself.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t too long after that Abel did give MacDonald the chance and he did well enough to be included in regular penalty-killing assignments along with the rest of the forwards.</p><p>Parker is one of the Red Wings wits and he had the best crack during a recent scrimmage session when Detroit weathercaster Sonny Eliot, who calls himself the club&rsquo;s &ldquo;No. 1 Ghoulie&rdquo; shakily donned goalie equipment and went into the nets.</p><p>Eliot was getting in shape to act as goalie and provide the comic relief in the upcoming Red Wings-Old Timers game and he tends goal like a sieve.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s not bad except for shots on the net,&rdquo; cracked MacDonald.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Parker Proved He Could Play Defensive Game

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.</p><p>Billy Hay may have been forced out of a regular job as Black Hawk center job by two pair of younger legs but the 29-year-old veteran refuses to be shoved into the shadows at the end of the bench.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01589/2284877-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="252" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Hay</b></figcaption></div><p>The big redhead, who spent the first five years of his career as Bobby Hull&rsquo;s middleman, is fashioning a new career for himself as a handyman.</p><p>Bill was at his post with Hull when this season opened but when the Hawks failed to break smartly from the gate, Coach Billy Reay and Manager Tommy Ivan decided to move the younger and somewhat quicker Phil Esposito into the spot.</p><p>Hay was dropped back to the center spot on the third line. However, when rookie Freddie Stanfield&rsquo;s play as a part-time center and penalty killer became so impressive that Reay was compelled to give him permanent work, Hay was forced to make way again.</p><p>The second severe injury of the year suffered by Doug Mohns gave Hay his chance to get back to work regularly and establish himself as a willing performer in any role.</p><p>Mohn&rsquo;s knee injury put Reay in a jackpot for a left wing on the Stan Mikita-Ken Wharram line. None of the regular left wings had been able to fill the void left by Ab McDonald&rsquo;s departure and Reay and Ivan were forced to move Mohns up from defense to take over the job. He had done it admirably.</p><p>Reay checked with Hay to learn if he&rsquo;d ever played left wing and learned that he had, as an amateur. That was all the Hawk boss needed to know.</p><p>Bill was in the starting lineup the next game and came up with a goal. He scored the next night, too, and seldom since his debut has failed to turn in a solid all around performance in the strange position.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m more than satisfied with his play,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;In fact, I&rsquo;d have to say Red has been one of the most important guys on the team during our move from fifth place into contention.</p><p>Does his success as a left wing and sometime penaltykiller mean that Hay now may consider himself a former center?</p><p>&ldquo;It certainly does not,&rdquo; snapped Reay. &ldquo;Red&rsquo;s a good center and will get plenty of work there.</p><p>&ldquo;For instance, once we get Mohns back full-time, I can start to use Hay as center for a fourth line with Doug Robinson and Bobby Hull on the right side.&rdquo;</p><p>This would mean double duty for Hull, who would also handle his left wing duties with Chico Maki and Esposito but Reay thinks the extreme measure may be needed to break up the checking patterns the opposition has been employing against the apparently record-bound Hull.</p><p>&ldquo;If we can make the guys assigned to check Bobby work double time, too, he&rsquo;ll soon wear them down. Nobody in this league can skate with him all night.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Shoved Out Of Regular Ice Spot, Hay Proving ‘Handyman’ To Hawks

<p>CHICAGO, Ill&mdash;</p><p>Strongarmed Bobby Hull doesn&rsquo;t expect he&rsquo;ll have to go around protecting his younger brother Dennis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02552/2284908-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="280" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dennis Hull</b></figcaption></div><p>Says the &lsquo;Golden Hawk&rsquo;, &ldquo;Dennis is capable of looking after himself.&rdquo;</p><p>The older Hull was reply ing to a blast levelled at the Chicago brothers by Toronto defenseman Kent Douglas, who said Bobby was acting the role of &lsquo;policeman&rdquo; for Dennis in a recent game between the Leafs and Hawks when Douglas had a brush with both Hulls.</p><p>&ldquo;Dennis is big enough to look after himself and Douglas knows that,&rdquo; said Bobby.</p><p>Douglas gave his account of a couple of first-period brushes with Dennis and a followup pushing episode with Bobby.</p><p>&ldquo;If Dennis Hull wants trouble he&rsquo;ll get it,&rdquo; said Douglas after the game. &ldquo;And his brother won&rsquo;t always be around.&rdquo;</p><p>Referring to his tangle with Bobby against the boards after Tim Horton had earned a penalty for holding the elder Hull, Douglas said:</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what Bobby was doing. He just hit me with his glove. I guess he was looking after Dennis.&rdquo;</p><p>In the Chicago dressing room, Dennis responded to the Douglas view of the Hullbrothers act with a broad, toothless grin.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t need anyone looking after me,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Maybe next time we meet Douglas will need some straightening out as proof.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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‘Dennis Can Take Care Of Himself’-Bobby

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04412/2284946-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="988" height="388"></div><p><b><i>FLY B&middot;O&middot;A&middot;C</i></b></p><p><b>BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05373/2284939-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="1008" height="718"></div><p>This year HOCKEY NEWS and HOCKEY PICTORIAL are sponsoring a travel contest to London and will present two BOAC tickets to the lucky winner.</p><p>All readers of THE HOCKEY NEWS and HOCKEY PICTORIAL are eligible to enter the contest. The drawing of the winning entry will be made in March, 1965, and the winner will be announced in the Playoff issue.</p><h2><b>HERE ARE THE CONTEST RULES</b></h2><p>1. <b>Answer correctly the question asked in the entry coupon. Fill in your name and address (Please Print), and mail the coupon to Contest Editor, HOCKEY NEWS, Box 248, Montreal, Quebec. Canada.</b><br>2. <b>You may have as many chances to win os you wish. The Travel Contest Coupon will be published in each issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS and HOCKEY PICTORIAL from October 1964 through March, 1965. Each correct answer is a chance to win. The regulation contest form from either THE HOCKEY NEWS or HOCKEY PICTORIAL must be used to qualify.</b><br>3. <b>At the end of the Contest, the winner will be selected by a qualified panel of judges.</b><br>4. <b>The Contest is open to all readers of THE HOCKEY NEWS and HOCKEY PICTORIAL except employees and their immediate relatives of these publications, British Overseas Airways Corporation and its Advertising Agency.</b><br>5. <b>The winner will be notified by mail or in person on or before March 31st, 1965.</b><br>6. <b>The Contest is void in any area where prohibited or restricted by law.</b></p><p><b>WHAT HOCKEY FAN WOULDN&rsquo;T WANT TO WIN A TRIP TO LONDON FOR TWO!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey News Readers WIN A RETURN TRIP FOR TWO TO LONDON

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03473/2284977-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg"></div><p><b>MOST VALUABLE PLAYER TROPHY</b></p><p>awarded by</p><p>ATTENTION: MINOR HOCKEY LEAGUES, BOYS AGES 7 TO 14. THESE TROPHIES ARE AWARDED ACROSS CANADA. IS YOUR LEAGUE REGISTERED? FOR DETAILS AND REGISTRATION FORMS, WRITE TO: ROBIN HOOD SPORTS PROGRAM, BOX 8505, MONTREAL 3, QUE.</p><p>See &ldquo;HOW TO SCORE MORE GOALS&rdquo; starring GORDIE HOWE of the Detroit Red Wings. Actual game shots, instruction in hockey fundamentals, good training and practice tips *all in one 24-minute, 16 mm sound movie. Make your reservation now. No charge. Write to: Robin Hood Sports Program, Box 8505, Mont-real 3, Que.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Robin Hood Oats

<p>(1) The great Rocket Richard became a fixture on All-Star teams while he was brightening the NHL scene. How many was he on altogether? Was it: 10-14-16-8<br>(2) While we&rsquo;re still with Rocket, how many consecutive seasons was he nominated to the first All-Star squad?<br>(3) The following players have gone through their careers with substitutes for their given names. Tell us the real first names of Bill Quackenbush. Buddy O&rsquo;Connor and Tim Horton.<br>(4) Lome Carr and Sweeney Schriner both ended their careers in Maple Leaf uniforms. Prior to that, they were partners on another NHL club. Which one was it?<br>(5) A few years back the Montreal Canadiens had a unit known as the! &ldquo;Razzle Dazzle&rdquo; line. Later, Chicago boasted a threesome who were dubbed the &ldquo;Boiler-makers.&rdquo; Name the players who comprised the two lines.<br>(6) Frank Boucher won the Lady Byng Trophy so often, seven times, they finally gave it to him. Now another player has possessed it on four occasions, more tha anyone since the great ex-Ranger. Who is the player?<br>(7) In 1949-50, Ted Lindsay; won the NHL scoring though he collected; only 23 goals that year. His other points comprised of a whopping number of assists. How many did he have? Was it: 39-55-50-48.<br>(8) Glenn Hall started his NHL career as net-minder with the Red Wings, but was traded; to Chicago in July, 1957. With him in that; deal went a noted Detroit star? Who was he?<br>(9) Three players have performed in the NHL bearing the nickname of Dutch. One was! around not so long ago.! The other two might be termed old timers by today&rsquo;s fan. Take a guess as to their last names.<br>(10) The wives of Bert Olmstead, Bob Goldham and Marty Pavelich all have something in common besides their connection with hockey. Do you know what it is?</p><p>(Answers Next Week)</p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><p>(1) In Montreal Forum against Cesare Maniago, of Toronto.<br>(2) June. 1960.<br>(3) Mononecleosis.<br>(4) Bill Mosienko.<br>(5) Murray Henderson.<br>(6) Ab McDonald.<br>(7) 1948.<br>(8) Toe Blakt,<br>(9) Hooley Smith, Sudden Death Hill, Fats Delvecchio, Murphy Chamberlain.<br>(10) Football.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

HOCKEY…Quiz

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.</p><p>Tim Horton&rsquo;s successful switch to right wing was one of the key moves in Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; recent upsurge.</p><p>During the nine games after Horton was shifted off the defense, where he&rsquo;d been a National Hockey League all-star last season, Leafs, were beaten only once.</p><p>Horton got seven goals through that successful period and, in general, qualified as one of the league&rsquo;s better right-wingers.</p><p>There&rsquo;s no loss involved for Horton, since midseason voting pretty well eliminated him from the all-star picture for this season.</p><p>And it&rsquo;s been a big gain for Leafs, who&rsquo;d lost three right wingers through injury, George Armstrong, Andy Bathgate and Ron Ellis. Moreover, just at the time Ellis was declared fit for action, Dickie Moore was reinjured, necessitating the move of Jim Pappin from the right side over to the left.</p><p>Pete Stemkowski, up from Rochester&rsquo;s American League team&mdash;for keeps, it seems&mdash;produced nicely in the emergency but he&rsquo;s a center. Leafs would have been in serious trouble if Horton hadn&rsquo;t been able to do the job on right wing.</p><p>Naturally, it wouldn&rsquo;t have worked if Kent Douglas hadn&rsquo;t been able to step in as Carl Brewer&rsquo;s defense partner and perform efficiently. Thus, Leafs were able to maintain their defensive strength, while reinforcing their attack.</p><p>Horton played right wing several years ago during one <b>of</b> Leafs&rsquo; lean seasons but only for a short while. However, he has all the necessary equipment, having been at all times one of the NHL&rsquo;s better rushing defensemen. He skates well and is famous, of course, for his blistering shot. He regularly outscores many Leafs forwards.</p><p>Horton made the second all-star team during the 1962-63 season and moved up to the firststring lineup last winter, placing second to Pierre Pilote in the defense ballotting.</p><p>Naturally, his status at right wing is only temporary, despite his successes. When Bathgate and Armstrong rejoin Leafs, Horton will return to defense.</p><p>The fact is that, to be at their strongest, Leafs must have Carl Brewer, Bobby Baun. Allan Stanley and Tim Horton on defence, with Douglas as a relief man.</p><p>The present arrangement is only makeshift and the fact that Leafs were able to spin off a seven-game unbeaten streak with four regulars out of the lineup only underlines their depth and balance.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01547/2285032-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="472" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TIM HORTON&hellip;Rash Of Goals</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Horton’s Shift To Wing Sparks Leafs’ Upsurge

<p>TORONTO, Ont.</p><p>Impressive work in recent matches, plus a stroke of luck, saved Jim Pappin from exile to National Hockey League purgatory in Boston.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02506/2285063-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="282" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Pappin</b></figcaption></div><p>When the Maple Leafs visited Boston Jan. 17. they were to give the Bruins their verdict on a trade, Pappin for Boston&rsquo;s Ab McDonald.</p><p>Two factors made their answer negative. Papin had been playing extremely well and Leafs had been profoundly unimpressed with McDonald. And their standards are low, too, for they&rsquo;re weak at left wing. Only Red Kelly has been reliable at that position.</p><p>So they nixed the deal.</p><p>Actually, Dean Prentice was the Boston left-winger they wanted and they were prepared to dig deep for him. A back injury sidelined Deano for the balance of the season, scuttling those particular negotiations.</p><p>But it was no secret Bruins weren&rsquo;t overjoyed with McDonald, whom they&rsquo;d obtained in an off-season trade with Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>They&rsquo;d been delighted with Reg Fleming, who came to Boston in the same deal, and didn&rsquo;t feel Doug Mohns&rsquo; work with Chicago indicated they&rsquo;d been fleeced. But they had hoped for more production from McDonard than the three goals he got in the first half-season.</p><p>Hawks made a mild bid, at the insistence of Stan Mikita who felt he and Ken Wharram missed their old linemate.</p><p>Sam Pollock, Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; general manager, put in an offer, mainly to keep Hawks from strengthening. As usual, though, he was interested in giving up a rowboat for a battleship or something like it. He was talking in terms of Red Berenson, a Montreal farmhand.</p><p>But Leafs decided they didn&rsquo;t want to give up on Pappin, who&rsquo;s 25. They&rsquo;re loaded with young talent throughout their farm system but dealing youth for experience can be a destructive policy, if carried too far.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Pappin Wins Leaf Reprieve After Nearly Becoming Bruin

<p>Personally endorsed by&hellip;George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach coach of Toronto Maple Leafs</p><p><b>7th YEAR 1965 &ldquo;LEARN TO PLAY HOCKEY AT THE SCHOOL THAT TEACHES&rdquo;.</b></p><p><b>8 WEEKLY SESSIONS AT</b></p><p><b>EAST YORK MEMORIAL ARENA JULY & AUGUST</b></p><p>WE GUARANTEE TO GIVE OUR STUDENTS MORE ICE-TIME THAN ANY OTHER SCHOOL.</p><p><b>BROCHURE NOW READY</b></p><p><b>Write or Phone TORONTO HOCKEY SCHOOL</b></p><p><b>1029 Spadina Road TORONTO 12-Phone 489-9730</b></p><p><b>New accommodation building now ready at the arena.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<p>Founded October 1st, 1947</p><p>Published weekly except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</p><p>1434 St. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.</p><p><b>Kenneth William McKenzie</b>,<br>President and Publisher</p><p><b>Will V. Cote</b>,<br>Vice-Pres. and Gen Mgr.</p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $4.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth $5.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Postage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y.</p><p>Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. and for payment of postage in cash</p><p>Printed in Canada.</p><p><b>VOL. 18 MONTREAL, JANUARY 30, 1965 NO. 17</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01616/2285208-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="413" height="442"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02488/2285201-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="653" height="100"></div><p><b>&bull; A SYNDICATE</b> of Cleveland businessmen are reported ready to buy the Cleveland Arena and Cleveland Barons hockey club. They would also like to enter a National Basketball Association team. Arthur Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns, is said to be a member of the group&hellip;Boston and New York, the &ldquo;have not&rdquo; clubs of the NHL, hope to bring about a change in the draft at the NHL winter meeting in New York next week&hellip;Milt Dunnell of the Toronto Star gives excellent advice to a disillusioned father who writes asking what to do about crackpot coaches who keep 12 and 13-year-old kids sitting on the bench for the duration of a hockey game because it is more important for them to win the game than it is to give the kids an equal chance to play. Milt&rsquo;s answer: &ldquo;The coach obviously is a frustrated glory-seeker who thinks he&rsquo;s headed for the big league. He isn&rsquo;t the type who should be coaching kids that age. Either have him thrown out or transfer your boys to another team. Advise other fathers to do the same thing.&rsquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03364/2285194-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="278" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; ACCORDING TO</b> a recent issue of Variety, ABC-Paramount have purchased 50 percent of the stock of Madison Square Garden. This new agreement gives ABC Productions Inc. half ownership of the New York Rangers, New York Rovers and New York Knickerbockers. An official press release on MSG-ABC Productions stated that no broadcast coverage of events was contemplated (via ABC-TV-AM) but the ABC broadcast tandem re the Garden&rsquo;s attractions obviously allows leverage in all directions. Both the Garden and AB-PT get competitive advantages through the 50-50 partnership, and a sports wedge is not the least of these&hellip;This is ABC&rsquo;s answer to the CBS buying the New York Yankees&hellip;Bert Olmstead, Rangers&rsquo; newly-appointed head of player personnel, will witness the world amateur hockey championships in Finland in March. He will also see some of the teams play in Sweden.&hellip;&ldquo;I plan to direct our junior coaching,&rdquo; says Olmstead, &ldquo;and in that way fit junior players into an over-all Ranger pattern.&rdquo;&hellip;Rugged Reggie Fleming will wed Miss Patricia Farrell of Cincinnati at the completion of the hockey season. The former Black Hawk who is one of Boston&rsquo;s better forwards this year, met Miss Farrell in Chicago. She&rsquo;s an airline stewardess flying out of that city&hellip;Maple Leaf Gardens will experiment with Sunday evening pro hockey next season. Rochester Americans, their American League affiliates, will play 10 games in Toronto when a bowling tournament takes over their rink&hellip;Leafs are in a quandry whether to play Tim Horton on defense or right wing&hellip;Toe Blake discusses the &ldquo;Greatest Team I Ever Coached&rdquo; in the February issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL&hellip;Mrs. Bobby Hull has an excellent story in this same issue titled: &ldquo;Confessions of a Hockey Wife&rdquo;&hellip;Detroit&rsquo;s Roger Crozier is seen making a sensational save in a 4-color action shot on the cover of the February HOCKEY PICTORIAL.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04249/2285187-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="280" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Reg Fleming</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; GEORGE HAYES</b>, the suspended NHL linesman, has one trophy which he cherishes. When he worked his 1,500th game in Detroit, a group of Sarnia fans had a presentation for him at Olympia. The gift remained in the carton during the ceremony. George opened it later. It was an engraved beer stein&hellip;Pat Donnelly, 22-year-old winger with Dayton Gems of the International League, thinks Dayton&rsquo;s a pretty good place to play. After his first game with the club (he scored three goals and led the team to a 6-3 win) he was given $75 cash by the fans plus a set of tires for his car by the Dayton Tire and Rubber Co.&hellip;&ldquo;I hope I can play here for a long time&rdquo;, Donnelly told friends later that night&hellip;. Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s partner in a new apartment complex at Brampton, Ont. is Dalton McArthur, former NHL referee&hellip;Dr. Vincent Nardiello died in New York the other day at the age of 76. Originally he was the doctor for the old New York Americans, later becoming official physician for Madison Square Garden and the Rangers&hellip;Trade talks still going on between Detroit and New York&hellip;Ulf Sterner, the Swedish lad playing with Baltimore of the AHL, is scoring lots of goals but he hasn&rsquo;t learned to handle the tough guys yet. He keeps getting bumped around. Not that he&rsquo;s afraid. He just can&rsquo;t get accustomed to Canadian-style hockey. Rangers have called him up for a fast shot at NHL play.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05202/2285180-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="304" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pat Donnelly</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<h2><b>Mikita Fan Clubbers Sought By Reader</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>I have been reading the Hockey News for the past four or five years and it has been greatly improved. Great job boys!</p><p>I would like to know if there are any fan clubs for the Chicago Black Hawks or a fan club for Stan Mikita. If there are not any, could you give me information on how to start a fan club and where to write.</p><p>Would you please publish this request. Thank you.</p><p><b>JOHNNY HORYTKA</b>,<br> 12904,69 Street,<br>Edmonton, Alta.</p><p>(Eds. note&mdash;Come on fan clubbers. Here&rsquo;s a new member anxious to join your legion.)</p><h2><b>Picks NHL Team To Beat Russians</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>So much has been said on both sides about the Russians playing the NHL that we would like to see them play an all-star team rather than one specific team. They are giving us their best so why don&rsquo;t we give them our best?</p><p>Here are our recommendations for this all-star team: Goal&mdash;Glenn Hall, Gump Worsley.</p><p>Defence&mdash;Leo Boivin, Harry Howell, Tim Horton, Pierre Pilote, Ted Green.</p><p>Centres&mdash;Stan Mikita, Jean Beliveau, Dave Keon, Henri Richard.</p><p>Left wing&mdash;Gilles Tremblay, Ted Lindsay, Bob Hull, Frank Mahovlich.</p><p>Right wings&mdash;Gord Howe, Andy Bathgate, Rod Gilbert.</p><p>Coach&mdash;Punch Imlach.</p><p>We think this team could beat any other team in the world today, bar none. Superstars help a team but it is the journeymen who carry a team, for the great ones can&rsquo;t do it alone.</p><p>We are both subscribers to THE HOCKEY NEWS and think it is the best of them all.</p><p><b>JOE BECKSTEAD</b>,<br><b>RICK HILBERG</b>,<br>Cleveland, O.</p><h2><b>Says Canada Has Lost Its Hockey Prestige</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>Being stationed in Germany for the past three years it is hard to get first hand hockey news so I want to congratulate your publication for a job well done.</p><p>On Canada&rsquo;s national hockey team, Canada has lost a lot of prestige in Europe. For a nation that used to take all the honors in hockey we have reached a new low.</p><p>It&rsquo;s too bad our National teams can&rsquo;t hold up their end of the bargain to regain some of our prestige&hellip;after all, hockey is our national sport.</p><p><b>B. DOUGLAS</b>,<br><b>3 (F) Wing RCAF</b>,<br>Germany.</p><h2><b>Want A Pen Pal In Hockey Setting?</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>The World Wide Hockey PenPal Association is well underway, and if any fans who would like to have a pen-pal or two; they are encouraged to join the Club.</p><p>If any of you readers would like to become a member; please contact me at this address:</p><p><b>BYRON CHRISTOPHER</b>,<br>90 Duncan Street,<br>Campbellton, N.B.<br>Canada.</p><h2><b>U.S. Fan Inquires Did Habs End Last?</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>&hellip;Did Montreal finish in the basement at any time in the past 15 seasons? If not, what was their lowest finish in that period? Also, how long ago did Jean Beliveau injure his knee and what team was he playing against at the time?</p><p><b>ANDREW TETRAULT</b>,<br>Ludlow, Mass.</p><p>(Eds. note&mdash;Montreal&rsquo;s worst finish in past 15 seasons was third place in 1950-51. They were fifth in 1947-48 and sixth in 1941-42. Beliveau injured his knee Dec. 23 in a game against New York and was out until Jan. 20).</p><h2><b>Suggests NHL Change Vezina Trophy Rules</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>The method of determining the annual winner of the Vezina Trophy undoubtedly is adequate, accurate and supposedly consistent but somehow it seems a goalie with a weak defense unit in front of him has no chance of recognition despite the fact that his efforts and play may be most remarkable.</p><p>In recent games and likely throughout the season goalies Ed Johnston of Boston and Jacques Plante of New York have been bombarded with a fusilade of close in rubber and have averaged nearly twice as many stops as opposing netmen, yet receive hardly any credit&hellip;May I suggest, then, that a trophy in honor of Chuck Gardner&rsquo;s memory be awarded to a goalie who records the best shot-saves percentage mark. Perhaps these statistics may serve as a stabilizer for the poor defenseless goaltender who surely deserves a break on this basis. It would also be a long-awaited and wonderful tribute to an outstanding performer of bygone days.</p><p><b>SAM EVERETT</b><br>Lancaster, N.B.</p><h2><b>Fan Seeks Lowdown On Memorable Series</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>I would like to know if both the Canadiens and Seattle won the Stanley Cup in 1919 and was it because of an influenza epidemic. How many games did it go?</p><p>I would also like to know how often the Canadiens have had the top rookie since 1917 and also the other teams&rsquo; standings on rookies.</p><p><b>ROGER PIPA</b><br>Fort Erie, Ont.</p><p>(Ed&rsquo;s. note&mdash;Montreal and Seattle played five games of the Stanley Cup finals before the round was cancelled because of the epidemic. Each team had two wins and one game was tied. The official result is no decision. Montreal has had top rookie five times, Laperriere, Rousseau, Backstrom, Geoffrion, Quilty. Toronto has had eight, New York six, Chicago, Boston and Detroit three each.)</p><h2><b>Boston Fans Riled As Green Overlooked</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>After looking at the all star teams for the first half I can&rsquo;t believe that Teddy Green was denied a position on at least the second team. Imagine picking Gadsby and Howell ahead of Teddy! There&rsquo;s no means of comparing those two antiques with Teddy. At the present time, Green is the greatest defenseman in the N.H.L&hellip;.</p><p><b>RAY SNELL</b>,<br>Milton, Mass.</p><p>What an utter disgrace and shock to learn that the Boston Bruins&rsquo; brilliant defenseman Teddy Green was left off the all star tam&hellip;This has to be the biggest slight ever to befall anyone. Let&rsquo;s hope the selectors open their eyes before they vote at the end of the season.</p><p><b>JEAN CARDILLO</b>,<br>Somerville, Mass.</p><p>Is everybody crazy? How could anyone who has played as great as Green be slighted like that&hellip;</p><p><b>ROBERT CARDILLO</b>,<br>Somerville, Mass.</p><p>Teddy Green has to be the most underrated player in the National Hockey League!</p><p>To be left off the first half all star team is not only unfair and unjust to Green himself but it makes the selectors look stupid to have overlooked such a great defenseman.</p><p><b>ROBERT CRUISE</b>,<br>Somerville, Mass.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<p>Following are the latest player movements in hockey</p><h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><p>TORONTO&mdash;Don McKenney, forward, sent to Roches[ter of AHL subject to recall.</p><p><b>NEW YORK</b>&mdash;Larry Caban, defenseman, optioned to Vancouver of WHL. Jim Mikol, forward, returned to St. Paul of CPHL. Ulf Sterner, forward, recalled from Baltimore.</p><h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>QUEBEC</b>&mdash;Rene Drolet, forward, called up from Montreal Junior Canadiens on pro; tryout basis. Germain Gagnon, forward, recalled from Omaha of CPHL. Ernie Wakely, goalkeeper, assigned by Montreal of NHL. Dan Grant, forward, called up from Peterborough of Junior OHA.</p><p><b>HERSHEY</b>&mdash;Norm Dennis, forward, returned to Omaha of CPHL.</p><p><b>BALTIMORE</b>&mdash;Dave Richardson, forward, recalled from St. Paul of CPHL after being returned by Vancouver of WHL to St. Paul.</p><p><b>ROCHESTER</b>&mdash;Freeman Asmundson, forward, recalled from Tulsa of CPHL.</p><h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>VICTORIA</b>&mdash;Fred Hucul, defenseman, returned to club from suspended list.</p><h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2><p><b>ST. PAUL</b>&mdash;Buzz Deschamps, forward, assigned by Baltimore of AHL.</p><p><b>TULSA</b>&mdash;Terry Clancy, forward, returned by Rochester of AHL. Bill Flett, forward, secured from Victoria of WHL.</p><p><b>OMAHA</b>&mdash;Don Leisemer, forward, assigned from Mont-real Junior Canadiens on pro tryout basis.</p><h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><p><b>FORT WAYNE</b>&mdash;Cy White-side, defenseman, signed as free agent from Des Moines&rsquo; list. Bob Gray, goaler, secured from Seattle of WHL. Bob Brown, defenseman, released.</p><p><b>MUSKEGON</b>&mdash;Don Mc-Leod, defenseman, signed as free agent.</p><h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>CHARLOTTE</b>&mdash;Jerry Korp, forward, signed as free agent.</p><p><b>JERSEY</b>&mdash;Borden Smith, forward, recalled by Springfield of AHL and returned by Springfield of AHL.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Though not one of them got a single vote in All-Star balloting, three Habs have been playing some fine hockey together this season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01568/2285325-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="276" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ralph Backstrom</b></figcaption></div><p>Ralph Backstrom, Claude Larose and John Ferguson have emerged as one of the best units in the NHL and on the Canadiens.</p><p>Backstrom has been the flashiest of the trio. The Kirkland Lake speedball has been flying since the season began, and has been the best goal-getter on the club after Claude Provost. Ralph had 15 goals in 40 games this season, and if he avoids injuries, could be in for one of the most productive years of his career. Up till now, his top performance was in 1961-62, when he racked up 65 points (27-38) in just 66 games. A former Calder Cup winner, now in his seventh season with Canucks, Backstrom is still rated one of the fastest skaters in the league. And, potentially, one of the better scorers.</p><p>Not as flashy as Ralph, but a man who&rsquo;s showing signs of coming into his own this season, is Larose. The 22-year-old right winger, who wasn&rsquo;t overly-impressive in previous trials with Habs, is now starting to prove his worth. He had ten goals in the first half,&mdash;not exactly a staggering total&mdash;but a lot of them were of the &ldquo;important goal&rdquo; variety. He then picked up four more goals in a five-game stretch, and they were pretty important, too. One was a winner against Boston, two of them tied games against New York and Chicago, respectively, and the other was a key &ldquo;first goal&rdquo; against Toronto Maple Leafs. In addition to being handy with the puck, Larose is a smooth, strong skater who can&mdash;and does&mdash;go both ways.</p><p>Rounding out the trio is Ferguson, who at first glance appears to have little in common with either Backstrom or Larose. Where Backstrom is fast, Ferguson is slow. Where Larose is smooth, John is the &ldquo;diamond in the rough&rdquo; type. Yet, despite the obvious differences, Ferguson has fitted in well on the line and has been an effective performer. Though he&rsquo;s somewhat low on goals, he&rsquo;s handling the puck better than he did last year, and playing his wing with more consistency. He&rsquo;s also doing his share of hitting, of course, and not many can hand out a stiffer jolt than John when he gets an opponent lined up.</p><p>But, though they don&rsquo;t have much in common, based on styles of play, one thing has united the trio and brought them success. They&rsquo;re hard workers,&mdash;in fact, often the hardest working line that Canadiens have on the ice.</p><p>A case in point was a game against Rangers earlier this month,&mdash;the one where Billy Hicke avenged his trade with a hat trick. Habs blew the game 6-5. but only the Backstrom-Larose-Ferguson line prevented it from being a rout. They accounted for four of the five Canadiens goals, in as relentless an effort as has been seen this seson. First it was Ferguson getting Habs back into the game after they&rsquo;d been down 3-0 in the first period. Bobby Rousseau added a goal, and then Backstrom knotted the count at 3-3. Canadiens couldn&rsquo;t hold the tie, however, and before long were trailing 5-3. At that point, Backstrom contributed his second goal of the night, and Larose came through to make it 5-5. The big effort failed when Rangers got a sixth goal in the late stages, but at least the effort was made.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02526/2285318-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="472" height="842"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN FERGUSON&hellip;Nothing In Common</b></figcaption></div><p>Habs have had plenty of mileage out of this hustling trio, so far. And, the best may still be ahead.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The second Junior OHA game of the season will be played Tuesday night, Feb. 2, at Boston Garden when the Bruins-sponsored Niagara Falls Flyers take on Montreal&rsquo;s junior Canadiens in a regular league contest.</p><p>Earlier, the Flyers played the Oshawa Generals at the Garden before a good-sized crowd of 4,000 which defied a storm. Under ideal weather conditions, the Habs-Flyers game could attract some 7,000-8,000 fans and could be the forerunner of regular junior action in the Hub.</p><p>Strangely, Craig Patrick, son of the Boston General Manager Lynn Patrick, will be on the opposite side of the dasher in this one. Young Patrick is a regular forward on the junior Canadiens.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Boston Plans Second OHA Junior Game

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<div class="byline">BY LEO MONAHAN</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Murray Oliver, clever Bruin center, has been a jewel of consistency in five previous National Hockey League seasons, but, for some reason, he couldn&rsquo;t get untracked this campaign until Coach Milt Schmidt gave him a &lsquo;vote of confidence&rsquo; by installing him on the power play.</p><p>Oliver responded with a scoring and point-getting splurge that yet may bring him to the 20-goal plateau.</p><p>What happened was this:</p><p>With veteran Dean Prentice sidelined the remainder of the season with a broken back, Schmidt had to find a point man for his power play. Although Oliver had scored just six goals in 30-odd games, he appeared the best replacement, so Milt gave him the assignment and, in the process, an un-solicited vote of confidence.</p><p>&ldquo;I really was surprised when Milt put me on the power play,&rdquo; said Oliver. &ldquo;I was pleased, naturally, and I figured if he&rsquo;d used me in a spot like that, he must have confidence in me. I guess I got my confidence back.&rdquo;</p><p>In the process, Oliver picked up the second hat trick of his NHL career&mdash;against New York&mdash;and started to flash the form that led him to seasons of 20-17-17-22-24 goals.</p><p>Oliver, a 5-foot-10, 27-year-old native of Hamilton, Ont., has been overshadowed by centers such as Montreal&rsquo;s Henri Richard, Chicago&rsquo;s Stan Mikita and Detroit&rsquo;s Norm Ullman, but knowing hockey men rate him among the best in the NHL.</p><p>He has had to play with a variety of linemates on the lastplace Bruins, but no matter who he was teamed with, Oliver did a good, steady workmanlike job.</p><p>Coming off two straight 20-goal campaigns, the B&rsquo;s naturally figured on Murray as a steady offensive threat, but he sustained a leg injury, missed five games, and was just another skater after his return.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew it was only a question of time before Muzz started scoring,&rdquo; says Schmidt. &ldquo;After all, he&rsquo;s a darned good hockey player. Maybe he&rsquo;s going to have a big last half. I certainly hope so.&rdquo;</p><p>So does Oliver.</p><p><b>AROUND THE HUB</b>&mdash;Hockey is till king in Boston, even though the Bruins are buried in last place and the world championship basketball Celtics are streaking towards their annual first place finish. On the Sunday the Celtics ran off their 14th straight victory, they drew 7,163 to a Garden matinee. That evening the Bruins had a turnaway sellout audience of 13,090&mdash;their sixth SRC crowd of the eason&hellip;The B&rsquo;s are having one of their worst traveling seasons in years. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t remember when we&rsquo;ve run into so many snags,&rdquo; says Schmidt. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had planes grounded, unable to land in certain cities and our trains have been late. Just one of those things.&rdquo;&hellip;The Bruins went eight straight road games without arriving home on schedule.</p><p>The B&rsquo;s management has started a series of periodic luncheons at the Garden club to spur publicity. The first was well-attended by press-radio-TV people&hellip;Delayed telecasts of certain Saturday night road games by announcer Fred Cusick have captured the fancy of Boston fans. The taped games are shown either late Saturday or Sunday afternoons.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02558/2285535-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="542" height="532"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MURRAY OLIVER&hellip;Clicks On Power Play</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Oliver Finally Gets Untracked For Bruins After ‘Vote Of Confidence’ From Schmidt

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01586/2285566-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="552" height="543"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FORBES KENNEDY&hellip;In Double Skirmish</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Bruins recently acquired some isometric exercise kits for their dressing room and apparently it has caused some players to start flexing their muscles&mdash;against each other.</p><p>In practice flareups, Forbes Kennedy was in scrimmage scraps with Ed Westfall and rookie center Billy Knibbs and Tom Williams squared off against defenseman Don Awrey, who grappled each other.</p><p>Coach Milt Schmidt, who has seen flareups plenty of times, wasn&rsquo;t disturbed it would affect team morale.</p><p>&ldquo;A little fight means we had a good practice,&rdquo; said Milt. &ldquo;These things just happen. I&rsquo;d like to see them take the same attitude into every game.&rdquo;</p><p>Fights between teammates in practice, while not new, have been relatively rare in Boston recently.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bruins Jolt Each Other In Practice

<div class="byline">&#x2014;Monahan.</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Bruins&rsquo; Coach Milt Schmidt took ex-Chicagoans Reggie Flemnig and Ab McDonald to the woodhouse&mdash;verbally&mdash;castigating Fleming for taking &lsquo;silly penalties&rsquo; and revealing his &ldquo;patience is getting thin,&rdquo; with McDonald.</p><p>Fleming took four minor penalties&mdash;including a doubleminor (slashing-holding)&mdash;in a recent game against Toronto. The back-to-back penalties were against defenseman Kent Douglas and later Fleming had two run-ins with long-time feuding partner Eddie Shack.</p><p>&ldquo;Fleming has to learn he can&rsquo;t wage his own little war, especially when we&rsquo;re losing the game,&rdquo; said Schmidt. Reggie&rsquo;s sentences forced the B&rsquo;s coach to juggle personnel and interrupted his attacking units.</p><p>McDonald, with just four goals in 40 games, has been a major disappointment and Schmidt made no bones about the fact that he&rsquo;s getting tired of waiting for Ab to come around. In addition, Hub fans are &lsquo;on&rsquo; McDonald.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m beginning to lose my patience with him,&rdquo; said Milt, who has been using Orland Kurtenbach as Ab&rsquo;s replacement on a line with Tom Williams and rookie Wayne Maxner.</p><p>Fleming bushwacked Shack in the third period of the game, ramming Shack&rsquo;s head into the glass near Boston&rsquo;s bench.</p><p><b>Said Reggie:</b></p><p>&ldquo;I owed him a good shot from Chicago. Last year he knocked me cold out there and to this day I haven&rsquo;t seen him coming. They told me later he hit me with his stick. I told myself right then and there I&rsquo;d pay him back.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The National Hockey League race is taking on that familiar look&mdash;Montreal, Chicago and Toronto jousting for the top, Detroit and New York playing for fourth and the Boston Bruins distributing monkey wrenches here and there.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03444/2285783-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="273" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Abel</b></figcaption></div><p>After the Red Wings&rsquo; bright second half play last season and playoff effort there was hope kindled in the Motor City that this, finally, would be their year to rise a notch.</p><p>Weight was given to the hope in the first half when the Wings parlayed a tight defense into a five-week hold on first place.</p><p>But now, it seems, it&rsquo;s back to dueling with the Rangers for that last playoff spot.</p><p>Leader Sid Abel says he hopes that isn&rsquo;t so, that the Wings still will do some flying but the record isn&rsquo;t reflecting the optimism.</p><p>Not that the Wings have folded&mdash;they still come up with some superb games but they&rsquo;re more widely separated.</p><p>Going into the last week of January they had won two game in a row only once in a span of 30 games.</p><p>The two straight came Jan. 3-6 with an 8-1 decision over Boston and 5-4 victory in Montreal. But the next night they were trounced, 5-2, in Boston and the score doesn&rsquo;t really reflect how badly the Bruins beat them.</p><p>It has been a familiar pattern for better than a month now&mdash;win impressively one night and get bounced the next.</p><p>&ldquo;It seems that we just can&rsquo;t stand prosperity,&rdquo; Abel said after that Boston game.</p><p>&ldquo;It looks like we have a lot of fellas that can&rsquo;t skate two nights in a row,&rdquo; he said after a 4-2 home ice loss to New York that followed a 4-2 victory in Toronto, the Wings&rsquo; first in Maple Leaf Gardens this season.</p><p>The Ranger game was the worst the Wings played at home all season with seemingly half of the crowd of 12,961 already departed by the final buzzer.</p><p>Slippery Camille Henry, who has made a career of being at the right place at the right time on the power play, snapped three point-blank shots past Roger Crozier on penalty-produced goals, two of them with a Detroiter in the box, the other with the man just barely on the ice.</p><p>Those three made it 10 goals in six games as the result of Detroit penalties and led Abel to make his first defense shakeup of the season.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe that will do something,&rdquo; Abel said as he put veterans Bill Gadsby and Marcel Pronovost together and combined Doug Barkley, Al Langlois and Gary Bergman in various twosomes.</p><p>No one or two players could be fingered for the on-again, off-again play but Abel was talking trade with Ranger general manager Emile Francis in hopes of getting a man to stir things up a bit.</p><p>Abel also had a 30-minute session with his &ldquo;cabinet&rdquo;&mdash;assistant coaches Gordie Howe and Gadsby and captain Alex Delvecchio.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Wings May Have To Settle For 4th Place

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04342/2285821-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="340" height="333"></div><h2><u>Roger Crozier&hellip;&hellip;Detroit Red Wings</u></h2><p><b>Roger Crozier may have set a precedent for NHL netminders when he hustled off to a week long Florida vacation in between hockey engagements.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05255/2285814-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="285" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Roger Crozier</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Soaking up the sun has proved the right elixir for the rookie goalkeeper of the Detroit Red Wings. Since his return from a week in Florida, Crozier has played in four NHL games and has won three of them. In addition he has allowed only seven goals in four games and this past week hung up his fourth NHL shutout to take the league lead in this department.</b></p><p><b>Crozier, the National League&rsquo;s halfway leader in the Calder Cup rookie race, is ready to settle down for the run to the wire and if the Red Wings manage to pull up into third place instead of finishing fourth, the experiment of sending Crozier to Florida will have been a smart move on the part of Detroit&rsquo;s Sid Abel.</b></p><p><b>Mark Ten is pleased to salute Roger Crozier as the man who made his mark in the NHL this past week.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE MAN

<div class="byline">Berry.</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Clubs in the National Hockey League are ripping down those &ldquo;Home Sweet Home&rdquo; plaques for signs reading &ldquo;Travel Is Broadening&hellip;And Satisfying.&rdquo;</p><p>NHL clubs won only 55 road games last season and are certain to smash that this season with 48 already on the books.</p><p>The Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers already have matched or surpassed last year&rsquo;s road victories. The Hawks matched their 10, the Wings have won eight, one more than in 1963-64, and the Rangers&rsquo; nine is an increase of one over last season.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s unpredictable,&rdquo; said Red Wing manager-coach Sid Abel. &ldquo;Montreal got to first place and then had a four game home stand and they figured they&rsquo;d pad their lead. Instead, they lost three in a row.</p><p>&ldquo;Then Chicago got to the top, opened a home stand and lost two straight.&rdquo;</p><p>Abel was looking over his shoulder since the Wings were opening a four game Olympia run.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Home Ice No Escape, NHL Leaders Toppled

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Mark Ten THE GIFTED CIGARETTE

<p><i>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</i></p><p><i>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</i></p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><p>(Standings on Wed., Jan. 27)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01601/2285728-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="555" height="189"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Wed., Jan. 20</b></p><p>Montreal 2. Toronto 1</p><p>Chicago 7, Boston 1</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 21</b></p><p>Detroit 3. Boston 0</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 23</b></p><p>Montreal 5, Boston 1</p><p>New York 1, Toronto 1</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 24</b></p><p>Boston 3. Montreal 0</p><p>Detroit 4, Toronto 1</p><p>Chicago 7, New York 2</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Wed., Jan. 27</b></p><p>Chicago at Montreal</p><p>Boston at New York</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 28</b></p><p>Chicago at Boston</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 30</b></p><p>New York at Montreal</p><p>Boston at Toronto</p><p>Chicago at Detroit</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 31</b></p><p>Montreal at Chicago</p><p>Toronto at Boston</p><p>Detroit at New York</p><h2><b>Point Race</b></h2><p>(Including Gaines of Sun., Jan. 24)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02524/2285721-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="577" height="2426"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01598/2285714-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="565" height="825"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02551/2285707-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="571" height="185"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><p>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Dick Gamble isn&rsquo;t one to keep hockey souvenirs around the house, but he has a puck now of which he is very proud&hellip;and with good reason.</p><p>When the Rochester Americans&rsquo; veteran left wing scored by jamming the puck in from the corner of the net at 19:05 of the second period here against Baltimore, Sunday, Jan. 17, it was the 300th time Gamble had beaten an American Hockey League goaltender during regular season play.</p><p>&ldquo;No, I didn&rsquo;t bother to save the pucks when I got my 100th and 200th goals or for any other goals, for that matter. A lot of guys get 200 goals in this league, but there&rsquo;s not too many who have scored 300, you know,&rdquo; Dick said with a bit of personal satisfaction justifiably showing through his modest personality.</p><p>And Gamble was so right about not too many reaching 300. He became only the seventh player in the AHL&rsquo;s long history to achieve that plateau.</p><p>What Dick may or may not realize, how ever, is that only Willie Marshall, now with Providence, attained the 300-goal figure in as few games.</p><p>Gamble&rsquo;s 300th tally came in his 579th AHL outing. It doesn&rsquo;t take a computer to see that Dick has whipped home goals at a rate of better than one in every two games.</p><p>Marshall collected his 300th American League goal on Nov. 19, 1961, in his 560th game. He was a member of the Hershey Bears at the time.</p><p>With 30 games still remaining this season, Gamble can climb to fifth place in the all-time list of goal-getters.</p><p>Ahead of him are Freddy Glover with 465, Marshall with 397, Harry Pidhirny with 373, Jimmy Anderson with 321, Fred Thurier with 319 and Zellio Toppazzini with 310. Both Thurier and Toppazzini are no longer in the leagueu.</p><p>Thurier arrived at goal No. 300 about his 600th game, Anderson in about his 620th and Glover in about his 630th. Toppazzini required more than 725 games and Pidhirny more than 750 to achieve the lofty milestone.</p><p>Although Gamble is 36 years old, his play this season with the Amerks doesn&rsquo;t give any indication that he&rsquo;s nearing the end of his career.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03475/2285907-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="534" height="646"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK GAMBLE&hellip;Still Going Strong</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Americans’ Gamble Reaches Milestone Nets 300th Goal In 579th AHL Game

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AHL’s Top Men

<h2><b>Wed. Jan. 20 BOSTON 1, CHICAGO 7</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>OSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defence: Green, Johnson, McCord, Boivin, Awrey; forwards: Bucyk, Oliver, Rivers, Kurtenbach, Williams, Maxner, Kennedy, Fleming, McDonald, Knibbs.</p><p><b>CHICAGO</b>&mdash;Goal: DeJordy; defence: Pilote. Vasko. Ravlich, MacNeil, Jarrett; forwards: R. Hull, Esposito, Maki, Stanfield. D. Hull, Robinson, Nesterenko, Wharram, Mikita. Mohns, Hay.</p><p>Referee: Ashley: Linesmen: Pavelich, D&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05326/2286025-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="564" height="628"></div><h2><b>MONTREAL 2, TORONTO 1</b></h2><p><b>MONTREAL</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defence: Laperriere, Tremblay, T. Harris, Talbot, Harper; forwards: Rousseau, Larose, Cournoyer, Richard, Provost, Backstrom, Balon, Ferguson, Roberts, Rochefort, Duff.</p><p><b>TORONTO</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence: Brewer, Douglas, Baun, Stanley, Horton; forwards: Pulford, Mahovlich, Stewart, Keon, Ellis, Stemkowski, Kelly, Pappin, B. Harris, Shack, Moore.</p><p>Referee: Buffey. Linesmen: Armstrong, Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06291/2286018-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="562" height="478"></div><h2><b>Thurs., Jan. 21 BOSTON 0, DETROIT 3</b></h2><p><b>BOSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defence: Green, Johnson, McCord, Boivin, Awrey; forwards: Bucyk, Oliver, Rivers, Kurtenbach, Williams, Maxner, Kennedy, Fleming, McDonald, Knibbs.</p><p><b>DETROIT</b>&mdash;Goal: Crozier; defence: Gadsby, Barkley, Pronovost, Bergman, Langlois; forwards: Ullman, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Murphy, MacDonald, Martin, Henderson, Joyal, Jeffrey, Smith.</p><p>Referee: Skov. Linesmen: Pavelich, Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07264/2286011-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="562" height="527"></div><h2><b>Sat. Jan. 23 NEW YORK 1, TORONTO 1</b></h2><p><b>NEW YORK</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; Defense: Plager, Howell, Brown, Johns, Seiling; Forwards: Gilbert, Nevin, Ingarfield, Hadfield, Hicke, Fonteyne, Angotti, Ratelie, Goyette. Henry, Marshall.</p><p><b>TORONTO</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower; Defense: Brewer, Baun, Douglas, Stanley; Forwards: Kelly, Horton, Ellis, Stewart, Keon, Harris. Moore, Pappin, Pulford, Shack, Stemkowski, Mahovlich.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09240/2286004-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="558" height="422"></div><h2><b>BOSTON 1, MONTREAL 5</b></h2><p><b>BOSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Johnston; Defense: Green, Johnson, McCord. Boivin, Awrey; Forwards: Bucyk, Oliver, Rivers, Kurtenbach, Williams, Maxner, Kennedy, Fleming, McDonald, Knibbs. Westfall.</p><p><b>MONTREAL</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; Defense: Laperriere, Tremblay, Harris, Talbot, Harper; Forwards: Rousseau, Larose, Cournoyer, Richard, Provost, Backstrom, Beliveau, Ferguson, Roberts, Rochefort, Duff.</p><p>Referee: Udvari. Linesmen: Armstrong, D&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10217/2285997-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="558" height="580"></div><h2><b>Sun. Jan. 24 TORONTO 1, DETROIT 4</b></h2><p><b>TORONTO</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence; Baun, Stanley, Brewer, Douglas; forwards: Kelly, Pulford, Bathgate, Horton, Ellis, Stewart, Keon, Moore, Harris., Shack, Stemkowski, Mahovlich.</p><p><b>DETROIT</b>&mdash;Goal: Crozier; defence: Pronovost, Gadsby, Barkley, Langlois, forwards: Murphy, Ullman, Smith, MacDonald. Delvecchio. Howe, Jeffrey, Martin, Henderson, Lindsay. Joyal, MacGregor.</p><p>Referee: Buffey. Linesmen: Morrison, D&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11192/2285990-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="558" height="600"></div><h2><b>NEW YORK 2, CHICAGO 7</b></h2><p><b>NEW YORK</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Johns, Howell, Plager, Brown, Seiling: forwards: Marshall, Ingarfield, Nevin, Gilbert, Hadfield, Hicke, Fonteyne, Angotti, Ratelie, Goyette, Henry.</p><p><b>CHICAGO</b>&mdash;Goal: DeJordy; defence: Pilote, Vasko, Ravlich, MacNeil, Jarrett; forwards: R. Hull, Esposito, Maki, Mohns, Stanfield, D. Hull, Hay, Robinson, Wharram, Mikita.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12177/2285983-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="557" height="632"></div><h2><b>MONTREAL 0, BOSTON 3</b></h2><p><b>MONTREAL</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defence: Talbot, Harper, Laperriere, Tremblay, Harris; forwards: Backstrom, Larose, Ferguson, Richard. Provost, Duff, Beliveau, Rousseau, Rochefort, Cournoyer, Roberts.</p><p><b>BOSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defence: Green, Johnson, Awrey. Boivin, McCord; forwards: Knibbs. Westfall, Fleming, Oliver, Rivers. Bucyk, Williams, McDonald, Maxner, Kennedy, Kurtenbach.</p><p>Referee: Udvari. Linesmen: Frampton, Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-13150/2285976-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="558" height="601"></div><h2><b>Week&rsquo;s &lsquo;Top Eight&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08252/2285969-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="559" height="312"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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National Hockey League Summaries

<p><b><i>WALLY</i> NORTHERN PRO HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p><b><i>WALLY</i> POOL TABLES TABLE TENNIS CROQUET SETS</b></p><h2><b>AHL Point Race</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 24)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02482/2286077-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="558" height="308"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03366/2286070-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="556" height="285"></div><h3>PENALTY LEADERS</h3><p>Most Penalized Player&mdash;Fred Glover, Cleveland, 135 its.</p><p>Most Penalized Team&mdash;Providence, 637 mts.</p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><p>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 25)</p><h3>Eastern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04262/2286063-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="557" height="161"></div><h3>Western Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05181/2286056-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="566" height="133"></div><p>NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto. 2 Montreal 3. Chicago. 4. Detroit. 5. New York. 6. Boston. x-Independent).</p><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues., Jan. 19</b></p><p>Cleveland 5, Baltimore 2</p><p>Quebec 6. Providence 2</p><p><b>Wed., Jan. 20</b></p><p>Rochester 1, Buffalo 0</p><p>Cleveland 2, Hershey 2</p><p>Pittsburgh 3, Springfield 2</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 22</b></p><p>Baltimore 5, Buffalo 2</p><p>Cleveland 7, Hershey 3</p><p>Providence 5. Quebec 3</p><p>Rochester 7, Springfield 3</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 23</b></p><p>Hershey 5. Quebec 3</p><p>Baltimore 5. Pittsburgh 0</p><p>Springfield 5. Rochester 2</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 24</b></p><p>Baltimore 5, Buffalo 3</p><p>Hershey 5. Pittsburgh 3</p><p>Springfield 4. Providence 1</p><p>Rochester 10, Quebec 1</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Wed., Jan. 27</b></p><p>Providence at Buffalo</p><p>Pittsburgh at Hershey</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 29</b></p><p>Cleveland at Rochester</p><p>Pittsburgh at Springfield</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 30</b></p><p>Rochester at Cleveland</p><p>Buffalo at Hershey</p><p>Providence at Pittsburgh</p><p>Baltimore at Springfield</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 31</b></p><p>Springfield at Buffalo</p><p>Cleveland at Providence</p><p>Baltimore at Quebec</p><p>Pittsburgh at Rochester<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By GEORGE TAYLOR</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01572/2286108-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="486" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DAVE RICHARDSON&hellip;Seeing The World</b></figcaption></div><p>BALTIMORE, Md.&mdash;</p><p>Fiery Dave Richardson must sometimes ponder whether he&rsquo;s coming or going.</p><p>Richardson, who goes up and down the hockey ladder like a yo-yo, is back with Baltimore, his third time in two seasons.</p><p>Last year he went from St. Paul of the Central League to Baltimore of the American League to New York of the National League. This season, Dave ran the same gamut, but in reverse&mdash;New York-to Baltimire-to St. Paul.</p><p>Now he&rsquo;s on the rebound again, but, before plans were completed for Richardson to return to a Clipper uniform, Baltimore GM Terry Reardon checked out Dave&rsquo;s attitude. His moods, more than his ability to play left wing, are believed responsible for Richardson&rsquo;s many moves.</p><p>Clipper Coach Johnny Crawford admitted that it was Dave&rsquo;s attitude which forced him to leave Balitmore last month. But Crawford holds no grudges. He said:</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad to have him back.&rdquo;</p><p>The coach proved it by inserting Richardson into action immediately upon his return.</p><p>In return for Richardson, the Clippers sent left winger Buzz Deschamps to St. Paul. Baltimore purchased Deschamps, the leading goal scorer in the Eastern League last year, but used him sparingly. He had asked for a transfer to get more ice time before the season was over.</p><p><b>CLIPPER CLIPS</b>&mdash;Schinkel, Meissner and Labossiere are staging a close battle for leading point honors on the Clipper squad. Sterner has slipped under the point-a-game average for the first time since coming to Baltimore&hellip;A special celebration is planned for Harry Pidhirny during the Baltimore-Pittsburgh game on Feb. 2. It will mark his l,000th game in the AHL, the first player ever to reach such a mark&hellip;Ironically, Cleveland&rsquo;s Fred Glover will turn the trick the following night.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Richardson Real ‘Travelling Man’, Joins Clippers For Third Time

<p>BALTIMORE, Md.&mdash;</p><p>If you think hockey players don&rsquo;t get around in the course of a season, take a look at the travel log compiled by Dave Richardson of Baltimore Clippers:</p><p>Richardson started season with Rangers.</p><p>Rangers sent Richardson to Baltimore.</p><p>Rangers recalled Richardson.</p><p>Rangers sent Richardson back to Baltimore.</p><p>Baltimore sent Richardson to St. Paul.</p><p>Rangers transferred Richardson from St. Paul to Vancouver.</p><p>Vancouver sent Richardson back to St. Paul.</p><p>Baltimore recalled Richardson from St. Paul.</p><p>Where&rsquo;s Richardson today?</p><p>With Baltimore and obviously weary from travelling.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Dave’s Travel Log

<h2><b>Sat. Jan. 16 BALTIMORE 4, CLEVELAND 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06139/2286261-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="554" height="533"></div><h2><b>BUFFALO 4, PITTSBURGH 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07116/2286254-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="565" height="733"></div><h2><b>ROCHESTER 1, HERSHEY 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0898/2286247-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="563" height="574"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC 6, SPRINGFIELD 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0980/2286240-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="558" height="689"></div><h2><b>Sun., Jan. 17 BALTIMORE 1, ROCHESTER 9</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1070/2286233-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="554" height="678"></div><h2><b>PITTSBURGH 4, BUFFALO 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1163/2286226-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="562" height="803"></div><h2><b>CLEVELAND 1, SPRINGFIELD 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1246/2286219-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="554" height="563"></div><h2><b>PROVIDENCE 0, QUEBEC 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1337/2286212-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="556" height="486"></div><h2><b>Tues, Jan. 19 PROVIDENCE 2, QUEBEC 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1431/2286205-1-eng-US/f0012-142.jpg" title="f0012-14" width="558" height="745"></div><h2><b>CLEVELAND 5, BALTIMORE 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1526/2286198-1-eng-US/f0012-152.jpg" title="f0012-15" width="558" height="608"></div><h2><b>Wed Jan. 20 SPRINGFIELD 2, PITTSBURGH 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1622/2286191-1-eng-US/f0012-162.jpg" title="f0012-16" width="558" height="434"></div><h2><b>CLEVELAND 2, HERSHEY 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1715/2286184-1-eng-US/f0012-172.jpg" title="f0012-17" width="558" height="496"></div><h2><b>ROCHESTER 1, BUFFALO 0</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1812/2286177-1-eng-US/f0012-182.jpg" title="f0012-18" width="572" height="496"></div><h2><b>Fri., Jan. 22 SPRINGFIELD 3, ROCHESTER 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1911/2286170-1-eng-US/f0012-192.jpg" title="f0012-19" width="574" height="736"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC 3, PROVIDENCE 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-209/2286163-1-eng-US/f0012-202.jpg" title="f0012-20" width="582" height="614"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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American Hockey League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.</p><p>Add the name of defenseman Bob Woytowich to the American Hockey League&rsquo;s hopper for &ldquo;Rookie of the Year&rdquo; honors.</p><p>Ever since the award&mdash;known as the &ldquo;Dudley (Red) Garrett Memorial Trophy&rdquo;&mdash;came into existence in 1947, it has gone either to a goaltender or a forward.</p><p>And added to this, it&rsquo;s the only prize never captured by a Hershey Bears&rsquo; skater.</p><p>Last year the Bears came close with Keith McCreary, a fine young winger, who lost out to Pittsburgh goalie Roger Crozier. This year they could hit the jackpot with Woytowich.</p><p>Woytowich&rsquo;s biggest challenge would have come from Rochester forward Pete Stemkowski, who has been called up for the rest of the season by Toronto Maple Leafs. The two young men are by far the class of the nine team circuit&rsquo;s fledgling brigade.</p><p>Woytowich, owned by the Boston Bruins, has everything to make it big in the majors.</p><p>He&rsquo;s young&mdash;23. He has size&mdash;6-0, 185. He can skate and has a quick, hard wrist shot which is good enough to earn him a spot on the Bears&rsquo; power play.</p><p>Woytowich, who skated for St. Paul of the Central loop last campaign, has knocked in five goals and aided in 17 others for 22 points in 41 games. He&rsquo;s the league&rsquo;s top scoring rookie backliner. Two of his tallies were game winners.</p><p>&ldquo;Woytowich has done a fine job for us,&rdquo; said Bears coach Frank Mathers.</p><p>Usually, a rookie defenseman will get himself into one jackpot after another in an attempt to make an impression he&rsquo;s rugged. Woytowich, who can handle himself in any situation, doesn&rsquo;t fit this mould. He&rsquo;s an intelligent skater and has pulled only 24 minor infractions.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s always hustling,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;He can lug the puck pretty good and he passes very well, seldom losing it in the defensive zone. He has a fine future in the game.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bears Rate Woytowich Top Rookie

<div class="byline">BY JOE GORDON</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.</p><p>It took Murray Hall more than three months to convince the Pittsburgh hockey fans that he could do the job. Slowly but surely he is winning them over.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03486/2286316-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="302" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Murray Hall</b></figcaption></div><p>By tallying four goals in his last four games, the smooth-skating centerman moved into the team lead in goals scored. That performance gave him a total of 16 for the season.</p><p>Hall came Pittburgh&rsquo;s way via the Detroit Red Wings. The parent Red Wings had drafted him for $20,000 from Chicago last summer during the NHL meetings.</p><p>A right hand shot, Hall can play either center or left wing. With the Hornets he has been used almost exclusively as a centerman. For part of one game he was used on the wing.</p><p>Only in his fourth season in the professional ranks, the 24-year-old Hall has been a star wherever he has played. He turned pro with Buffalo of the American League in 1961 and became a 20-goal scorer in his first try at stiffer competition. Stops at Chicago and St. Louis enhanced his reputation for putting the puck in the net.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Murray Hall Finally Arrives As Fans Cheer Hornet Star

<div class="byline">BY LOUIS FUSK</div><p>QUEBEC CITY, Que.</p><p>As a professional hockey team, Quebec Aces are unique in many ways. A few weeks ago, following head injuries to Jim Morrison and John Hanna, all players were ordered to wear helmets. When Doug Harvey and Cleland (Keke) Mortson ventured on the ice in the late stages of a game minus their plastic head protectors, both were fined. Eventually after the players protested, the wearing of the helmets was made optional. About six players still wearing them.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01566/2286347-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="534" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG HARVEY&hellip;Pays Out Fine</b></figcaption></div><p>As most of the players are English-speaking, they kept running into embarrassing moments in this predominently French-Canadian city. The team management is getting around that, too. Courses in French were instituted, with a lady professor from Laval University as tutor. On the first day of the course, Mortson showed up with an apple for the teacher. After the incident he was so shy that he never showed up again. However, eight are still following the lessons.</p><p>The second phase of the course is about to start, and club officials report that while there are no prospective Rhodes Scholars in the group, the progress shown has been quite satisfactory.</p><p>According to Hon. Gerald Martineau, Chairman of the board of directors, Aces are the most independent club in the American Hockey League. &ldquo;They are not owned by anybody, directly or indirectly, they are the property of local citizens,&rdquo; he explained.</p><p>Only four members of Quebec Aces are owned by Montreal Canadiens. They are Bryan Watson, goalie, Gump Worsley, Gordon (Red) Berenson and Leon Rochefort. Worsley and Rochefort have been called up by the Canadiens, leaving Aces with only two players not their own property, if an exception is made in the case of Doug Harvey, who becomes a free agent on completion of each season.</p><p>Aces own a number of players who should eventually make the grade. Andre Lacroix, with Peterobo UCH Petes, is the leading scorer in the Junior OHA. They also have Guy Dufour and Rene Drolet with Montreal Canadiens. Jean Claude Lepage and Raymond Larose, are also good prospects. According to Martineau, Drolet, Dufour and Lacroix have excellent chances of making the Aces next season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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First With Helmets, French Language Course, Runaway Aces Unique Among Teams In AHL

<div class="byline">BY GENE McCORMICK</div><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Goal scoring and Jimmy Anderson are proving to be synonomous in Springfield hockey history. The Tribe left winger&mdash;often taken for granted because of his endless skill at putting the puck into the nets&mdash;hit another milestone recently when his two goals against the Cleveland Barons put him over the magic 20 plateau for the ninth season while in a Springfield uniform.</p><p>In achieving that distinction Jimmy joins the select company of only one other player in Springfield history&mdash;ageless Harry Pidhirny who is now doing his playing for the Baltimore Clippers. Many outstanding forwards down through the years have worn Springfield livery. But the fact remains that only Anderson and Pidhirny have popped in 20 or more goals nine different seasons.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02523/2286378-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="467" height="563"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIMMY ANDERSON</b></figcaption></div><p>But Anderson&rsquo;s shooting and scoring success actually goes much beyond the so-called 20-goal plateau. For Jimmy to go under 30 goals a season is more like another player getting 20.</p><p>It all started back in 1954-55 when Anderson scored 39 goals and went on to win the Dudley (Red) Garrett Memorial Trophy as the outstanding rookie. Since then he has tallied 30 or more markers five other seasons, including the last four.</p><p>In 1960-61 Anderson&rsquo;s 43 goals tied him with Ken Schinkel for all time team leadership. And last season Jimmy tied Yves Locas for most goals in the league with 40 each. Locas, now an Indian, was with the Pittsburgh Hornets then.</p><p>Other pertinent statistics show that Jimmy has scored 320 lifetime goals for Springfield, while Pidhirny had 235 in his long stay as a Tribesman. Pidhirny, by the way, had four seasons in which he hit for 30 or more goals. In his AHL career, Pidhirny, though, still leads Anderson in goals scored, 348-324.</p><p>But the accurate-shooting Anderson gives evidence that he can continue his scoring feats for some time to come.</p><p>When asked about any thoughts to retirement in the near future, the 33-year-old left winger replies: &ldquo;Heck, no, I still love this game. I don&rsquo;t feel any older than I did at 25 or 26. They are going to have to cut my skates off me.&rdquo;</p><p>He then added, &ldquo;seriously though, Mr. Shore has told me I can stay as long as I want with Springfield. And until my legs give out on me I want to keep on playing.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Springfield Vet Jimmy Anderson Still Popping Pucks With 320th

<div class="byline">BY SHEL FULLERTON</div><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Cleveland&rsquo;s situation in the American Hockey League may be classed in the same category as locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04446/2286409-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="290" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Les Binkley</b></figcaption></div><p>At long last, The Barons were able, for a brief period at least, to put a full team on the ice. Unfortunately, by the time Coach Fred Glover could count noses and come up with the magic 16 number, the Barons were so far behind the Pittsburgh Hornets that the playoffs seemed almost beyond reach.</p><p>Les Binkley finally came off the bench to take the ice against Pittsburgh, while Bill Needham returned to action the same night. It may not have been just coincidence that the Barons won the game.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Barons’ Hopes For Playoffs Growing Slim

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>At 34, this was the season Larry Wilson, the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; elder statesman, picked to move into retirement in easy stages.</p><p>Instead, his playing days came to an abrupt end&mdash;at least for this winter&mdash;when he learned he will need surgery to remove a damaged cartilage from his left knee.</p><p>Now in his 10th season with the Bisons, and his 17th as a professional Wilson was hurt when he was cleanly body-checked by Bill Needham and Ted Lanyon of the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>Wilson joined the Herd&rsquo;s public relations staff last summer, and the intention was to have him play only home games, if needed, and spend the rest of his time in the front office.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Wilson Must Face Knife, Out For Year

<p><b><i>Before you say</i> SCOTCH <i>say</i> &ldquo;DEWAR&rsquo;S&rdquo; <i>it never varies</i></b></p><p><b><i>Before you say</i> SCOTCH <i>say</i> &ldquo;DEWAR&rsquo;S&rdquo; <i>it never varies</i></b></p><h2><b>WHL Point Race</b></h2><p>(Including cames of Sun., Jan. 17)</p><h3><b>PORTLAND</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01561/2286551-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="556" height="496"></div><h3><b>SEATTLE</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02461/2286544-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="586" height="464"></div><h3><b>LOS ANGELES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03345/2286537-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="566" height="462"></div><h3><b>SAN FRANCISCO</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04261/2286530-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="582" height="446"></div><h3><b>VICTORIA</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05197/2286523-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="566" height="462"></div><h3><b>VANCOUVER</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06161/2286516-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="578" height="438"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07120/2286509-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="568" height="326"></div><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><p>(Standings on Tues., Jan. 26)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1074/2286502-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="562" height="230"></div><p>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto. 5. New York. 6. Boston).</p><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues., Jan. 19</b></p><p>Portland 5, Vancouver 1</p><p>Victoria 5, Seattle 1</p><p><b>Wed., Jan. 20</b></p><p>San Francisco 5, Los Angeles 4</p><p><b>Fri., Jan, 22</b></p><p>Vancouver 7, San Francisco 4</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 23</b></p><p>Portland 5. Seattle 4</p><p>San Franscisco 3, Victoria 4</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 24</b></p><p>Vancouver 5, Los Angeles 4</p><p>Seattle 8, San Francisco 1</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Tues., Jan. 26</b></p><p>San Francisco at Victoria</p><p><b>Wed., Jan. 27</b></p><p>Vancouver at San Francisco</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 28</b></p><p>Vancouver at Los Angeles</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 29</b></p><p>Los Angeles at San Francisco</p><p>Portland at Seattle</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 30</b></p><p>Vancouver at Los Angeles</p><p>Portland at Victoria</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 31</b></p><p>Vancouver at San Francisco</p><p>Victoria at Portland</p><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1164/2286495-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="564" height="492"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><p>PORTLAND, Ore.&mdash;</p><p>As usual, the Portland Buckaroos are hot in the running for Western Hockey League honors, both on and off the ice. Having trailed Seattle in the pennant race most of the season, by as many as 10 points at one time. Portland had closed to within a single point as this is written, after each club had played 41 of their games, and the two were running tight in the box-office battle, averaging more than 7,000 fans each game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0899/2286589-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="282" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Glickman</b></figcaption></div><p>Portland, whose official family is headed up by Board Chairman Al Forman, has established possibly the smoothest operation in minor league hockey under Managing Director Harry Glickman and General Manager-coach Hal Laycoe.</p><p>Portland ranks only 32nd among U.S. cities and fourth among WHL cities with a population of just 372,000 persons (although its sprawling metropolitan area numbers just under 900,000). When big league expansion is discussed, the Oregonians are often underrated by comparison with LA&rsquo;s million, San Francisco&rsquo;s 740,000 and Seattle&rsquo;s 560,000. Even Vancouver is a few thousand larger.</p><p>And Portland&rsquo;s 10,500-seat &ldquo;Glass Palace&rdquo;, while relatively new and beautiful, is considered a bit too small by big league standards by comparison with LA&rsquo;s 14,300-seat Sports Arena, Seattle&rsquo;s brand new 12,300-seat &ldquo;World&rsquo;s Fair&rdquo; Coliseum and San Francisco&rsquo;s 12,000-seat Cow Palace and long-projected but unrealized 14,000-seat new arena.</p><p>But, the fact is Portland has been getting the job done better than anyone else. It has led the league in attendance in each of the four previous seasons it has been in the league and has outdrawn LA and San Francisco since they joined up three years back. During the 1961-62 season, Portland set the WHL season attendance records with 320,211 fans, including 282,666 during the regularseason alone.</p><p>Undoubtedly, the Bucks are helped by the fact that they are as big as any team in town, not a minor-league team in a majorleague town, as the Blades and Seals are in LA and SF, but facts are facts.</p><p>And Laycoe&rsquo;s crew has done almost as well on the ice. In 1961, they finished second in a one-division league and won the playoffs. In 1962 and 1963 they won divisional titles in a two-division league, but fell out in the playoffs. Last season, they finished back in a one-division league, but again fell out in the playoffs.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0986/2286582-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="1068" height="1776"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAT STAPLETON&hellip;Top Scoring Buckaroo</b></figcaption></div><p>They&rsquo;re looking for a sweep this time, but it&rsquo;ll be to ugh. Seattle fell back to them during a protracted road run, but now Seattle is on a home stand, with five out of six at home, while Portland is travelling, six straight road games in 18 days, not returning home until Jan. 31, around the time this hits print. Obviously, this is a critical period.</p><p>Having built up a bulge in the first half, Seattle and Portland may have the pennant fight to themselves, but the other four clubs, gearing for a tight four-way battle for the last two playoff spots in the closest-balanced league in history, will be tough to deal with along the way and in post-season play.</p><p>Although Seattle missed the playoffs last season, Portland coach Laycoe considered that upset. &ldquo;I have said from the start I considered Seattle the best of the other five clubs and I&rsquo;m not surprised we&rsquo;ve had to chase them,&rdquo; he points out. &ldquo;They added players with championship experience to a sound nucleus. They&rsquo;re strong.</p><p>&ldquo;We have survived a bad run of injuries and a shakedown period when we were breaking new men into our club. Our bench is the strongest right now it has been all season. We have played steady hockey all season, except for one point where we did lose four straight, and I think we&rsquo;re ready for a good stretch run.</p><p>&ldquo;The road doesn&rsquo;t worry me. Actually, we&rsquo;ve played some of our best games on the road and some of our worst games at home. It seems to me we have half-a-dozen guys who try <b>too</b> hard at home, and I prefer to think it&rsquo;s because Portland is such a doggone good place <b>to</b> play. We get tremendous support. Even the booster dub is so good to us, it seems to make us press to live up to this faith in us.&rdquo;</p><p>Laycoe is regulary criticized around the circuit for what is considered ultra-conservative hockey, but his teams get goals, win games and draw fans. Right now, the Bucks are second in league scoring, as well as second-best in defense. Pat Stapleton and Art Jones rank 6-7 in the league scoring ract, while Gerry Goyer, Tommy McVie and Andy Hebenton also rate in the top 25.</p><p>Balance has keynoted the scoring. At last count, Hebenton had 18 goals. McVie and Stapleton 17 each, Arnie Schmautz 15, Jones 14, Goyer 13 and Cliff Schmautz 11. Jones had 31 assists, Stapleton 30 and Goyer 26. Laycoe says. &ldquo;Everyone is doing his share,&rdquo; though Stapleton has been the sparkplug and is currently considered the best all-around player in the leagut.</p><p>Early-season injuries really hit hard. A lot of muscle was lost when two big guys, forward Larry Leach and defenseman Jack Bionda, and rugged Mike Donaldson, last year&rsquo;s penalty champ, were hurt.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Portland Regular Big League’ City, Leads WHL In Attendance, Titles

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-12" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1257/2286627-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg"></div><h2>TEAM RECORDS AGAINST EACH OTHER THIS SEASON</h2><p>(Including games of Sunday, January 17)</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1348/2286620-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="1132" height="328"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0014-12

How WHL Teams Rate

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div><p>LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;</p><p><b>THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS</b> in the first half of the Western Hockey League season were Seattle goalie Jimmy McLeod and Portland centre Pat Stapleton, in our opinion. A real &ldquo;winner,&rdquo; McLeod has been one of pro hockey&rsquo;s most under-rated players in a strange three-season pro career that has seen him shunted around like a stray cat, but he has been the backbone of three straight title drives. If Seattle is beaten out, Portland is the likely club, and Stapleton, moved up front from defense when coach Hal Laycoe came up shorthanded, has been the key.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01538/2286665-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="300" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack McCartan</b></figcaption></div><p>McLeod is 27, but got a late start on his pro career and goalies often mature late, anyway. Born in Port Arthur, Ontario, Jim had an older brother, Don, who had a brief career on defense. Jim admired him, tried to copy him, and by the time he realized he was a goalie, not a defenseman, he&rsquo;d blown his junior years and fallen behind his contemporaries. Signed to a pro pact by Seattle in 1960, he was sent to Muskegon of the IHL for two years of amateur seasoning.</p><p>Seattle had fine, experienced goalies available and went with Al Millar two seasons ago and Claude Dufour last season, while loaning Jimmy to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles for his first two pro years, before finally sticking with Seattle this time around. &ldquo;I was happy to find a place for him to play,&rdquo; says Keith Allen, &ldquo;though he wound up beating us out. I think I made a mistake, particularly last year, though Dufour had a fine year and I don&rsquo;t blame him for our missing the playoffs But I&rsquo;m glad I kept Jim this time.&rdquo;</p><p>Jimmy compiled a 301 goals-against average with four shutouts for San Francisco, then went 3.29 with a record three-shutouts in the playoffs as he led the Seals to the final title. He shared the LA job with Jack Norris last season and has the better record, 3.26 (with four more shutouts) to 3.71, then had the better record during the playoffs, 3.23 to 4.04, but was shoved aside for Norris in the last few games and LA wound up losing in the seventh and last game.</p><p><b>THE ONLY EXPLANATION FOR</b> this strange behavior on the part of the LA brass is that the Boston Bruins, who own pro rights to Norris, want him to get work. During the offseason, LA failed to exercise an option to buy McLeod, and kept Norris, but recently had to purchase Jack McCartan, to give Norris some help. Meanwhile, McLeod has been rolling along at 2.58 for Seattle with three more shutouts.</p><p>Veteran Seattle defenseman Larry Zeidel says, &ldquo;McLeod has such fire and confidence, he inspires us. He expects to win, so we expect to win.&rdquo; A cocky lad nicknamed Ace, Jimmy says, &ldquo;Getting bounced around, I did feel a little groaned off, but I guess I had to prove something&hellip;I guess I did&hellip;Titles and playoff spots follow me around.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02479/2286658-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="292" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Norris</b></figcaption></div><p>A little guy, only 5-8 and 160 pounds, and an unorthodox scrambler, who hits the ice a lot, McLeod says, &ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t grown any and I still scramble, but its results that count. I do think I&rsquo;m scrambling less and standing up more these days. I know this league pretty well now, I&rsquo;ve gained experience and confidence. I&rsquo;ve learned to protect the corners and play the angles better. I&rsquo;ve learned to handle breakaways and screen-shots better. I know the percentages now, and I play them.&rdquo;</p><p>A dark-haired bachelor, McLeod admits the only reason he hasn&rsquo;t gone to a mask is that he hasn&rsquo;t been hurt bad yet. &ldquo;The Majors? A National League club has to draft me first,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;d welcome the chance.&rdquo;</p><p>Younger, but more experienced in certain ways&mdash;Portland&rsquo;s Stapleton is only 24, but has a wife, Jacqueline, and three young children&mdash;two girls and a boy. An Ontario boy, born in Sarnia and an off-season resident of Point Edward, the boyish-looking, littlelooking Patrick, who has a striking reddish-gold crewcut, had a year and a half with Boston&rsquo;s Bruins in the big time when he was only a baby, but after another 1&frac12; years in the Eastern League and now 1&frac12; years in the Western League, he has suddenly come into his own, is matured and ready.</p><p>Pat himself, says, &ldquo;I think if I do go back it will have to be as a centre. Of course I want to go back. Who wouldn&rsquo;t? I&rsquo;d go back any way I could but I like centre and I&rsquo;d like to stay in that spot. I had a fair shot at it with Boston, but it was a losing club and when you&rsquo;re losing, every mistake you make shows up. I&rsquo;ve learned a lot and I have more confidence now. I&rsquo;m not too small, though they thought I was, which may be more important,&rdquo; he grins. Only 5-8, he is actually a husky 180 pounds, but he&rsquo;s bigger than that in ability.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-01

Western Ad Lib

<p>PORTLAND, Ore.&mdash;</p><p>There isn&rsquo;t a more energetic and enthusiastic Booster club anywhere in hockey than the one that operates behind the Portland Buckaros of the Western Hockey League.</p><p>The Buckaroo Booster Club is not only active at Portland hockey games, it also has a well planned recreation program for club members that includes everything from golf to bowling.</p><p>There isn&rsquo;t anything club members don&rsquo;t do. They journey to Buckaroo games at every opportunity, stage fashion shows for the distaff members, go swimming, hold bowling tournaments and have parties for the kids.</p><p>Popular Arnie Erickson is the president of the Buckaroo Booster Club. Clarke Larsen is vice-president. Dorothy Erickson is corresponding secretary, Genny Kleppe is recording secretary, Helen Vuch is treasurer and Bill Bell is the Buckaroo Club publicist.</p><p>Directors include Dick Howe, Frank Ivy, Mac Mc-Alvin, Judy Marshall, LeRoy Mathes, and Ha Watson.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Buckaroo Booster Club Tops

<div class="byline">LIBBY</div><p>PORTLAND, Ore.&mdash;</p><p>Portland&rsquo;s Hal Laycoe has compiled a brilliant record in the nine years since he stepped out of the NHL playing ranks and entered the Western League as a coach. At 40, he is considered by many by far the best big league coaching prospect in hockey. The only knock on him is that he has been damned around the circuit for playing &ldquo;conservative, deliberate, dull hockey.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03400/2286720-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="283" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hal Laycoe</b></figcaption></div><p>A recent critic was Alfie Pike, coach of LA&rsquo;s slumping Blades, who protested that too many clubs were copying this style. &ldquo;They think only of winning. It&rsquo;s been left to us to entertain the fans,&rdquo; Pike griped before games with Seattle and Portland. Seattle, playing careful, closechecking hockey, has been leading the league, with Portland only a step behind.</p><p>In LA, Laycoe reacted, smilingly, but with traces of bitterness. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a little bit tired of hearing this sort of thing,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Some coaches like to criticize the team that beats them. I don&rsquo;t. We play sound hockey, but we&rsquo;re not conservative. I&rsquo;ve kept records and every team we play ices tht puck more than we do. We&rsquo;ve had individual scoring leaders and teams that were among the leaders in goals. We win. And we&rsquo;ve led the league in attendance all five years we&rsquo;ve been in it.&rdquo;</p><p>The fact is, fans buy winners, no matter what the style of play. And Portland is not only second-best in defense in the WHL right now, but second-best in scoring. Many foes feel Laycoe&rsquo;s teams play too conservatively. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t even like to play against them,&rdquo; LA&rsquo;s Norm Johnson says. But Laycoe insists his own players enjoy his style and do not deem it dull, and those we spoke to back him up. One said, &ldquo;If I inherited a big league club this morning, I&rsquo;d sign Laycoe to coach it this afternoon. He&rsquo;d win in any league, and the fans would love him.&rdquo;</p><p>Layvoe says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;b not thinking about the big leagues right now. I&rsquo;m just interested in doing the best job I can right here.&rdquo;</p><p>But the big leagues are thinking about him.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Portland Pilot Considered Top Coaching Prospect Outside NHL

<p>LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;</p><p>The pennant fight between Seattle and Portland, Victoria&rsquo;s 10-3-1 surge, LA&rsquo;s 2-8 skid and such items were all overshadowed in the WHL lately by the latest of many incidents in the stormy career of LA defenseman Howie Young, who has already had more last chances than the oldest saloon in the West. Young was very goot at times, but very bad at other times during the first half of the season. He has had only a few bad fights on the ice, and made no bad headlines off it.</p><p>However, he recently was benched by coach Alfie Pike &ldquo;for disappointing, inconsistent play and for killing us with stupid penalties.&rdquo; Pike added, &ldquo;If he can&rsquo;t play any better than he has, he might as well hang &lsquo;em up.&rdquo; The demotion angered the fans, who have been turning out in nearly 10,000 numbers, and depressed Young to the point where he missed a plane out of Portland for a game in Victoria and was reported AWOL.</p><p>Some feel he is being made the whipping boy, but there is a report he and high-scoring teammate Brian Smith had a rhubarb on the road. One opposing player said, &ldquo;He shouldn&rsquo;t be on any team. You can&rsquo;t have one set of rules for him and another for the rest of the players.&rdquo; But San Francisco&rsquo;s Bud Poile says he&rsquo;s ready to take him off Pike&rsquo;s hands any time he gets the chance.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Young ‘Whipping Boy’ At LA Would Be Welcome In ‘Frisco’

<h2><b>Tues., Jan. 12 LOS ANGELES 4, VICTORIA 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04301/2286824-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="556" height="657"></div><h2><b>Wed, Jan. 13 VANCOUVER 2, PORTLAND 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05223/2286817-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="554" height="556"></div><h2><b>Thurs., Jan. 14 SAN FRANCISCO 8, LOS ANGELES 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06186/2286810-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="558" height="846"></div><h2><b>Fri., Jan. 15 PORTLAND 5, SAN FRANCISCO 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07167/2286803-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="558" height="557"></div><h2><b>VICTORIA 2, VANCOUVER 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08151/2286796-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="554" height="610"></div><h2><b>Sat Jan. 16 VANCOUVER 2, VICTORIA 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09140/2286789-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="557" height="678"></div><h2><b>Sun, Jan. 17 VICTORIA 3, SEATTLE 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-10122/2286782-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="560" height="571"></div><h2><b>PORTLAND 3, LOS ANGELES 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-11104/2286775-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="571" height="687"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Western League Summaries

<p><b>Don&rsquo;t be vague&hellip;say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKY</b></p><p><b>Don&rsquo;t be vague&hellip;say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKY</b></p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><p>(Standings on Wed., Jan. 27)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01382/2286855-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="566" height="251"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues., Jan. 19</b></p><p>Omaha 5. Memphis 3</p><p><b>Wed., Jan. 20</b></p><p>Tulsa 4, St. Paul 1</p><p>Memphis 4, St. Louis 2</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 22</b></p><p>Minneapolis 2. Tulsa 0</p><p>Amaha 7, St. Paul 4</p><p>St Louis 2. Memphis 1</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 23</b></p><p>St. Louis 5. Memphis 1</p><p>Minneapolis 4. Omaha 3</p><p>Tulsa 5. St. Paul 2</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 24</b></p><p>Minneapolis 6. Omaha 1</p><p>St. Paul 2. Memphis 2</p><p>St. Louis 2. Tulsa 2</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Wed., Jan. 27</b></p><p>St. Paul at St. Louis</p><p>Minneapolis at Memphis</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 28</b></p><p>Minneapolis at Tulsa</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 29</b></p><p>St. Paul at St. Louis</p><p>Omaha at Memphis</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 30</b></p><p>Minneapolis at St. Louis</p><p>St. Paul at Omaha</p><p>Memphis at Tulsa</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 31</b></p><p>St. Paul at Minneapolis</p><p>Tulsa at Omaha</p><p>St. Louis at Memphis<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY MATT DENNIS</div><p>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn&mdash;</p><p>As the Minneapoils Bruins worked their way to the top spot of the Central Professional League, playing-coach Harry Sinden had special praise for the improved performances of Jean Paul Parise and Terry Crisp, two of his young forwards.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02312/2286886-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="282" height="399"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andre Pronovost</b></figcaption></div><p>Crisp, known as one of the most deft stickhandlers a couple of seasons back with Niagara Falls in the OHA Junior A ranks, is starting to find himself after his first season in which injuries sidelined him for 28 games.</p><p>A deceptive skater, he is a playmaker and needs scoring wingers to work with him. Sinden had him in the centre slot with Ron Boehm and Ted Irvine on the wings but at one stage he couldn&rsquo;t &ldquo;buy a goal.&rdquo; In one game, he was in on for for five chances at St. Paul but couldn&rsquo;t slip the disc past Wayne Rutledge who, as Crisp remarked, Gave me that &lsquo;thank you&rsquo; look.&rdquo;</p><p>While his defensive work stood out, Crisp also was joined in his scoring slump by his linemates but regained his form and had 14 goals and 22 assists after 37 games.</p><p>Parise, who has been tagged &ldquo;J.P.&rdquo;, found Larry Lund and Red Ouellette, late-starters with the Bruins, as perfect running mates and fully enjoys setting them up for goals.</p><p>Parise was the playmaker for goals last season with the Bruins and should surpass this mark as he drew 29 in his first outings this term. Lund and Ouellette shared 25 tallies and readily give credit to their playmaker.</p><p><b>OMAHA</b>&mdash;Playing-coach Bill McCreary&rsquo;s Knights are still trying to play over injuries and Gary Peters has a torn knee car-sidelined with a bruised foot betilage and German Gagnon was fore going up to help Quebec Aces. Don Leisemer, a Montreal junior was sent to the Knights to replace Gagnon.</p><p><b>TULSA</b>&mdash;Injuries hit the Oiiers hit the Oilers prior to their reparture for Winnipeg where they met the Canadian National club and suffered an 8-4 setback. Temperature was 21 below zero at game time and goalie Don Simmons (rib injury and defenseman Larry Johnston (split finger) didn&rsquo;t make the trip. Gary Smith, on loan from Victoria of the Western League, filled in for Simmons.</p><p><b>ST. PAUL</b>&mdash;Just as Jim Mikol had swung into stride breathing new life into the Rangers, the parenlt club in New York had to recall him due to injuries. He had picked up 12 points in four games before his recall. He was returned to the CPHL club this week bringing a smile to coach Med Shero&rsquo;s face.</p><p>Goalie Wayne Rutledge said, &ldquo;I get the message&rdquo; when net-minder Marcel Pelletier was assigned to St. Paul and the veteran has been helping him straighten out a few of his difficulties especially his roaming too far from his cage.</p><p><b>MEMPHIS</b>&mdash;The Memphis Wings&rsquo; are still talking about the affection their home fans have for them. When Andre Pronovost drew a misconduct penalty that cost him $25 in fines after a fight with Minneapolis&rsquo; Larry Lund, the fans took up a collection and had more than enough for Pronovost&rsquo;s assessment before the game was over.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Sinden Lauds Play Of Young Bruins’ Crisp, Parise

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03235/2286917-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Here is a panoramic view of new $4,700,000 Mid-South Coliseum That Houses the CPHL&rsquo;s Memphis Red Wings.</b></figcaption></div><p>MEMPHIS, Tenn.</p><p>Professional ice hockey&rsquo;s reception below the Mason and Dixon Line has been in the best tradition of southern hospitality. The Canadian-manned teams have been warmly welcolmed by large and enthusiastic crowds as exemplified at Memphis, newest member of the Central Professional Hockey League.</p><p>The Memphis Wings, property of Detroit in the National Hockey League, hit a peak attendance of 6,798 paid for their 1-1 deadlock with leagueleading Minneapolis Jan. 8. The crowd, partisan with all the passion typical of Southerners, exceeded the previous high of 6,117 for a 4-4 tie with St. Louis New Year&rsquo;s night.</p><p>Before that, the Wings drew 5,994 into the new, $4,700,000 Mid-South Coliseum for a 6-5 triumph over St. Louis Christmas Day night when the club gave every boy and girl under 12 at the game a Christmas present&mdash;a junior-sized hockey stick. But the Wings knew as far back as Dec. 18 that despite their horrendous start into this second year of CHL competition they had found a home in Memphis.</p><p>That night, playing Tulsa which was then atop the CHL standings, 4,681 paid to watch the Wings triumph, 4-2. In 11 home games, the Wings have had five crowds of more than 4,000 customers, and despite a low of 2,346 for a Tuesday night which ended the Christmas vacations are averaging 4,007 per game.</p><p>And that in an area which hasn&rsquo;t see a piece of raw ice&mdash;except in a tall bourbon and branch&mdash;in a generation. It is one of the pleasures of playing in the CPHL this season to leave Minneapolis or St. Paul or Omaha with the temperature near zero&mdash;on one side of it or the other&mdash;and arrive in Memphis where the temperature and the welcome have been summerlike.</p><p>The Wings and their wives and families have found MHmphis a cltan, pleasant city and all have said they like the city and its citizens. Memphians, in return, have shown they like ice hockey and the Wings.</p><p>How come?</p><p>Several reasons must be added up to answer that question. Probably a complete listing of all the reasons would be inmpossible. The booming economy, the increasing influx of northerners familiar with the game, the novelty of it to most inhabitants, the beautiful Coliseum facilities, massive promotion in the newspapers and on televison and radio, the speed, violence and color of the game itself, the fire, determination and personalty of the Wings&mdash;all enter into it and nobody can tell in what proportion.</p><p>Memphis was not entirely unfamiliar with ice hockey. In the mid-fifties a venture was tried in a barn-like structure close by the present Coliseum. An exhibition between two American League Hockey clubs drew 6,500. The rink was kept open for public skating and a semi pro-amateur type team used it for several games with similar teams from cities such as Birmingham, St. Louis, Little Rock and the like.</p><p>However, the inadequacy of the uninsulated building, the failure of the ice-making equipment and the lack of &ldquo;a season&rdquo; brought that venture to an end. Meantime, Memphis lost its entry in the Southern Baseball Association after its ball park was destroyed by fire. There was nothing to fill the professional sports vacuum&mdash;until the Wings came along&mdash;except the Memphis Open golf tournament which occupied only four days in May.</p><p>The biggest boost to the birth of the Wings here was the decision by the Memphis city government to build a $7,000,000 sports complex which would include a 50,000 seat stadium for football, a baseball park and the Coliseum. The baseball park was completed first, then the Coliseum, and the stadium will be ready in the fall.</p><p>The Wings have demonstrated that they can handle every team in the league except Minneapolis. The Wings have played the Bruins eight times, but have managed only two ties and no victories.</p><p>However, the future is full of promise. The Wings can win in this league, the fans have adopted them wholeheartedly and the home rink ranks among the most beautiful in the country.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Memphis Fans Show Southern Hospitality With 4,000 Game Average

<h2><b>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 25)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01303/2287053-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="554" height="157"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues., Jan. 19</b></p><p>Galt 4. Welland 3</p><p><b>Wed., Jan. 20</b></p><p>Oakville 4, Guelph 2</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 22</b></p><p>Guelph 7. Welland 4</p><p>Woodstock 4, Oakville 3</p><p>Sat., Jan. 23</p><p>Guelph 5, Galt 2</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 24</b></p><p>Galt 8, Oakville 4</p><h2><b>MARITIME SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 25)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02256/2287046-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="559" height="99"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Mon., Jan. 18</b></p><p>Windsor-Dartmouth 9, Moncton 0</p><p><b>Tues., Jan. 19</b></p><p>Moncton 7, Halifax 2</p><p><b>Wed., Jan. 20</b></p><p>New Glasgow 3, Windsor-Dartmouth 1</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 21</b></p><p>New Glasgow 3, Moncton 2</p><p>Windsor-Dartmouth 6, Halifax 4</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 22</b></p><p>New Glasgow 3, Windsor-Dartmouth 2</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 23</b></p><p>Windsor-Darthmouth 6, Halifax 4</p><p>New Glasgow 5, Moncton 1</p><p><b>Sun., aJn. 24</b></p><p>Mcncton 4, Halifax 3</p><h2><b>QUEBEC SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 25)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03198/2287039-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="551" height="150"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues, Jan. 19</b></p><p>St. Hyacinthe 3, Sherbrooke 0</p><p>Verdun 4, Granby 1</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 21</b></p><p>Drummondville 2, Granby 2</p><p>Sherbrooke 8, St. Hyacinthe 0</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 22</b></p><p>Sherbrooke 6, Verdun 1</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 24</b></p><p>Verdun 3, Granby 3</p><p>Drummondville 4, St. Hyacinthe 1</p><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04144/2287032-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="555" height="176"></div><h2><b>OTTAWA-ST. LAW. SENIOR</b></h2><p>(Standings on Wed., Jan. 20)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05108/2287025-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="548" height="174"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0686/2287018-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="552" height="229"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h2><p>(Standings on Sat., Jan. 16)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0780/2287011-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="566" height="227"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0854/2287004-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="559" height="274"></div><h2><b>NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</b></h2><h3>NORTHERN DIVISION</h3><p>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 18)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0944/2286997-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="554" height="101"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1036/2286990-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="560" height="228"></div><h2><b>NEW YORK METRO</b></h2><p>(Standings on Sat., Jan. 23)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1130/2286983-1-eng-US/f0017-112.jpg" title="f0017-11" width="552" height="127"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1224/2286976-1-eng-US/f0017-122.jpg" title="f0017-12" width="563" height="279"></div><h2><b>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</b></h2><p>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 18)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1320/2286969-1-eng-US/f0017-132.jpg" title="f0017-13" width="553" height="155"></div><h2>How They Stand</h2><h3><b>EASTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE</b></h3><p>(Standings on Tues., Jan. 26)</p><h3>NORTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1514/2286962-1-eng-US/f0017-152.jpg" title="f0017-15" width="559" height="172"></div><h3>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1613/2286955-1-eng-US/f0017-162.jpg" title="f0017-16" width="553" height="199"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Wed., Jan. 20</b></p><p>Johnstown 5, New York 3</p><p>Clinton 9, Long Island 3</p><p><b>Thurs., Jan. 21</b></p><p>Greensboro 8, New Haven 2</p><p>New York 4, Johnstown 3</p><p>Nashville 5, Knoxville 2</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 22</b></p><p>New Jersey 3, Clinton 1</p><p>Charlotte 5, New Haven 1</p><p>Knoxville 5, Jacksonville 1</p><p>Greensboro 7, Nashville 6</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 23</b></p><p>Johnstown 7, New Jersey 5</p><p>Clinton 6, New York 1</p><p>Knoxville 6, Greensboro 3</p><p>Charlotte 6, Jacksonville 3</p><p>Nashville 11, New Haven 3</p><p><b>Sun., Jan. 24</b></p><p>New Jersey 4, New York 2</p><p>Long Island 1, Clinton 0</p><p>Knoxville 7, New Haven 2</p><p>Nashville 8, Greensboro 7</p><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><p>(Including games of Sun., Jan. 17)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1710/2286948-1-eng-US/f0017-172.jpg" title="f0017-17" width="556" height="283"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hockey Races

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><p>CLINTON, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Norm DeFelice, Clinton&rsquo;s amazing goalie, hasn&rsquo;t allowed a broken nose to interfere with his spectacular goaltending in pacing the Comets to a substantial lead in the Eastern Hockey League&rsquo;s Northern Division and an amazing undefeated record on their two home ices.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1416/2287084-1-eng-US/f0017-142.jpg" title="f0017-14" width="255" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Norm DeFelice</b></figcaption></div><p>The ace goalie suffered a broken nose and a six-stitch cut on his beak at Charlotte in one of the circuit&rsquo;s highest scoring frays of the year. But after first aid for the injury suffered from a flying puck, he returned to the ice and was tough in the clutch in a 9-8 overtime decision. Then the Comets the very next night moved to Greensboro where DeFelice was virtually invincible in a 40-save performance and a 5-1 decision.</p><p>The Comets then sped home and the indomitable DeFelice came up with his unparalleled 12th shutout of the season, a 7-0 whitewashing of Johnstown. A 5-1 decision over Greensboro the next night at home gave the Comets and DeFelice a perfect record for the week and four days to recuperate.</p><p>DeFelice&rsquo;s shutout over the Jets was his fourth against them this season. Nine of his blankings have come at home and three on the road. Seven of the EHL clubs have been victimized by DeFelice and the only ones who have successfully avoided whitewashes thus far are Jersey, Greensboro and Charlotte. The Devils may still succumb for they meet the Comets five more times.</p><p><b>NASHVILLE</b>: Ted McCaskill posted a hat trick in less than four minutes against Rockets. He tallied 14 of his first 36 goals against them. Marv Edwards&rsquo; average went down to 2.87. Club won nine straight at home. Lead over Greensboro at one stage lenthened to 14 counters. Florent Pilote suffered badly-gashed eye in collision.</p><p><b>NEW YORK</b>: Jerry Rempel&rsquo;s hat trick took Clinton. Club was 0-5 in South. Trevor Fahey played for Rangers against Toronto as emergency replacement. He had fights in south with Don Labelle at Knoxville and Norm Ryder at Nashville. Team in midst of 11-game road trip that also included exhibition at Syracuse. Defenseman Bob Pallante used on lines to form three trios. Red Williams was mate at one time of Nashville&rsquo;s coach John McLellan.</p><p><b>KNOXVILLE</b>: Ray Crew proving a big hit with fans with his rock &lsquo;em sock &lsquo;em style of defense. Seven goal period and Jack Martin&rsquo;s hat trick helped club trim Jacksonville and enable goalie Harrison Gray to gain first shutout. Les Calder nursing bad hand and Chuck Stuart bothered by sore shoulder. Club won five straight before running into Nashville and two losses.</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN</b>: No less than 28 players have been with team this year. Don Bamburak&rsquo;s 52 points nipped New Haven. Borden Smith pace club and Tony Goegan far ahead in penalties. Blades are 1-22 on the road. Captain Eno Kraft bothered by ear infection. Jackie LeClair and Don Hogan back on active list.</p><p><b>JERSEY</b>: Club hopeful of going as high as second after four straight home wins. Reggie Meserve&rsquo;s goal won in overtime over Johnstown. Ed Babuik showing much more skill in nets with Devils than he did at Jacksonville. Art Chiupka&rsquo;s overtime tally nipped New Haven. Borden Smith joined team after tour at Springfield.</p><p><b>LONG ISLAND</b>: Ducks defense slumped for short stretch as goalie Andre Daoust&rsquo;s average went over 3 goal mark. Gordie Stratton and Stankiewicz are top two right wing scorers in loop and are shooting for 50 goals apiece. Wayne Kitchen had flare-up with Norm DeFelice. Ron Hergott boasts one of the loop&rsquo;s hardest shots.</p><p><b>GREENSBORO</b>: Generals&rsquo; slump continued with three losses in north for 11 defeats in last 14 frays. Jackie Nairn and Mike Draper switched line positions. Club has not capitalized on its power play. Dom DiBerardino&rsquo;s steady scoring one of few bright spots. Entire club fined after shutout by Nashville.</p><p><b>JACKSONVILLE</b>: Team continued to lose with no wins in 15 outings despite change in coaching ranks. Paul Josephson tangled with Nashville&rsquo;s Tommy Marcotte with the former receiving head and neck bruises.</p><p><b>JOHNSTOWN</b>: Dick Roberge&rsquo;s hat trick helped trip Long Island after Billy Ives&rsquo; similar feat toppled Blades. &ldquo;We have more trouble with Johnstown than any other club in the league,&rdquo; says New York pilot Steve Brklacich. John Gofton gave New York&rsquo;s Jerry Rempel quite a pummeling in their setto.</p><p><b>CHARLOTTE</b>: Checkers&rsquo; seven wins in 10 starts menaced Greensboro&rsquo;s hold on second place and gave big hopes for rest of year. Claude Ouimet had four goals against Clinton and made his record 19 goals in 19 games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Broken Nose Doesn’t Stop DeFelice, Clinton Goalie Gets 12th Shutout; Nashville Rolling In Southern Race

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MacLEAN</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.</p><p>When the New York Rangers reactivated the New York Rovers for Eastern Hockey League play this season, they also effected the rebirth of the old Metropolitan Amateur Hockey League.</p><p>Under the aegises of former NHL referee Bill Chadwick, and his dynamic assistant Sal Maslow, a fast four team league was organized. Players were drawn from the two main amateur leagues in the Greater Metropolitan area, the Long Island Hockey League and the Garden State (N.J.) Hockey League. Some former college stars were also available.</p><p>The four teams are the Jersey Skeeters coached by Frank Traverse, the Long Island Jets under Joe Schaefer, the Brooklyn Kings tutored by Ed Anderson and the only original member of the loop, the Manhattan Arrows, whose coach is Frank Megaffin.</p><p>These clubs play a noon time preliminary to the Rovers Saturday and Sunday afternoon contests. As the Ice Show forced a short recess in the schedule, the Jersey Skeeters held a slim two point margin over the Long Island Jets.</p><p>Schaefer, you may remember as the rotund Brooklynite who twice substituted for the injured Lome Worsley in the Ranger nets. He has on his roster, perhaps the best amateur players ever developed in the New York area, in Dick Sieminski, a high flying centre. Dick is leading the loop in scoring with 18 points in only four games. He has a three goal hat trick, plus a whopping four goal effort to his credit. In the goal for Long Island is Arnie Nocks, a former Blueshirt sub goalie&mdash;and a Broadway TV producer.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Reorganized Metro Loop Flourishes In New York

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THE HOCKEY NEWS

<div class="byline">BY FRED COLLINS</div><p>WINNIPEG, Man.</p><p>Notes chilled in a prairie refrigerator:</p><p>Quite a scramble is developing in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League standings&hellip;As the league nears the two-thirds pole in its 1964-65 derby, Braves head the all-Winnipeg operation with 40 points&hellip;Warriors hang onto second with 28 points, just one ahead of the ambitious Rangers and three ahead of Monarchs&hellip;At this writing, the MJHL has a bye into this spring&rsquo;s western Canada Abbott Cup final&hellip;But there&rsquo;s whispers the league may not exercise the optional bye and skate directly into inter-provincial playoffs against the evertough Lakehead champs.</p><p>It had to occur dept&hellip;. Less than a week after the league had announced its mid-season all-stars, Warriors&rsquo; Gary Thornton, the leading rookie in the balloting was hit for 10 goals by Rangers&hellip;In the same doubleheader, Monarchs&rsquo; Billy Scott, the &lsquo;Lady Bing&rsquo; leader, was assessed a minor penalty&hellip;</p><h2><b>Rangers Hot</b></h2><p>Sparked by rugged Terry Jones, Rangers have developed into the league&rsquo;s hottest club&hellip;In eight games since Dec. 22, the junior Broadways have a 4-1-3 record&hellip;Jones, a $2,000 selection in the National League&rsquo;s 16-year-old draft in &rsquo;63, has scored 26 goals in 29 games&hellip;Coach Gord Pennell says the sophomore has &ldquo;matured as a junior&rdquo;&hellip;Last year, Jonesy scored seven goals in 30 games&hellip;</p><p>Jones isn&rsquo;t the only reason Rangers have been flying&hellip;In early games, the club had trouble keeping its nose out of trouble&hellip;In fact, defenseman Jim Lane shot into the penalty lead (126 minutes in 28 games)&hellip;So, Pennell &lsquo;forced&rsquo; Lane to stay on the ice by dressing only three blue liners and placing more responsibility on the shoulders of the rambunctious Ranger&hellip;Lane has responded to the challenge and now rates as the top defenseman in the league&hellip;In addition, the club is receiving better goaling from sophomore Don McDowell and superior checking from the forwards&hellip;</p><p>Warrior captain Ken Sucharski continues to lead the point parade&hellip;In 30 games, he&rsquo;s 23-25 for 48 points&hellip;Four points back is linemate Doug Overton (17-27)&hellip;Warriors, racked with injuries, appear to have come away from a crippling slump&hellip;At one point early in January, they had a 0-6-1 record&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

MJHL May Take On Lakehead

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><p>FORT WAYNE, Ind.</p><p>Cy Whiteside, who was thought to be retired from International Hockey League play, a pleasant thought for most of the opposition, is back again.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01309/2287194-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="290" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Bailey</b></figcaption></div><p>The 32-year-old, five-year veteran defenseman, popped up unexpectedly at Fort Wayne&rsquo;s Memorial Coliseum just as the Komets were taking the ice for a game with Dayton. Komet coach and general manager Ken Ullyot secured Whiteside&rsquo;s services after making a deal with Des Moines, where he played last year but to whom he did not report this season.</p><p>Whiteside played four years with Minneapolis, where he was captain of the team in the 1960-61 season. As a member of the Des Moines rough and ready crew last season Whiteside drew 151 minutes in penalties.</p><p>With the acquisition of Whiteside, the Komets asked waivers on Bob Brown, recently secured from Dayton in a trade for Ron Meier and moved Ted Wright back to a wing position.</p><p>On the same day that Whiteside reported, the Komets employed a new goalie, Bob Gray, standby netminder for Seattle of the Western League, who was sent here on loan. Ullyot said he would be used temporarily in relief for Chuck Adamson. Gray, a graduate of the University of Michigan, made a winning start against Dayton, 4-3.</p><p><b>TOLEDO</b>&mdash;G. M. Ken Wilson said a deal for Dayton&rsquo;s Ted LeBioda had been called off. &ldquo;We are going with the players we have. We had a good meeting and everything is straightaned out. I think the players realize it&rsquo;s time to settle down and play the kind of hockey of which they are capable&rdquo;. Both clubs declined to name the Toledo player who was to be involved in the deal.</p><p><b>MUSKEGON</b>&mdash;The injury riddled Zephyrs, down to 11 and 12 men at times, got back to full strength and split a pair with the Komets&hellip;They dropped 10 out of 13 games, four by one goal&hellip;Don McLeod came in to help the club on defense&hellip;Coach Lome Davis was leading IHL defensemen in goals with 11&hellip;</p><p><b>DAYTON</b>&mdash;Bob Bailey was sidelined for at least a week with a shoulder separation&hellip;Luke Hayden, defenseman from Nova Scotia, joined the Gems and Ian Macintosh moved to forward&hellip;Pat Donnelly had his second hat trick&hellip;The Gems were over .500 for their first ten games in 1965, tops being an upset of Port Huron.</p><p><b>PORT HURON</b>&mdash;Gary Ross, re-injured against Des Moines, may be out for the season&hellip;The Flags had a six-game win streak and goalie Norm Jacques a personal string of 13 broken by Des Moines&hellip;Ken Saunders had seven goals and 13 assists over a span of ten games&hellip;</p><p><b>DES MOINES</b>&mdash;The Oak Leafs were out of first place on Jan. 10 for the first time since Nov. 13. They got back on Jan. 16&hellip;Defenseman Jos Kiss scored his first goal of the season&hellip;Record midweek crowd of 3,715&hellip;An SRO crowd of 4,483 saw the Leafs against Fort Wayne on Friday and another of 4,601 for Toledo on Saturday&hellip;John Bailey drew a match misconduct and a minimum fine of $25 for yelling at Referee Bill Doyle with three seconds remaining.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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