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August 1, 1965

The Hockey News August 1, 1965

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IN THIS ISSUE

SPORTS PHOTOS!

MONTREAL, Que.The National Hockey League&rsquo;s six teams have handed out a total of $1,420,000 for 72 players in the NHL draft since it began in 1954.NHL publicity chief Ron Andrews drafted up the figures after the recent summer meetings. The most players grabbed in a single year was 10 in 1958. Seven were drafted this past June.One of the oddities of the summer draft is that the Montreal Canadiens usually chose this time of year to sit on their hands. Records show that the Habs grabbed two players in 1958&mdash;Danny Lewicki and Dave Creighton&mdash;and haven&rsquo;t touched a player since. &#9632;

NHL Teams Spent Million And Half In Player Draft

MONTREAL, Que.Camille Henry doesn&rsquo;t measure up to the National Hockey League&rsquo;s more muscular super stars like Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe, but the wily 152-power veteran can put the puck in the net better than any other major leaguer when the power play is on.Henry, the 32-year-old left winger whose NHL career is in jeopardy as the result of a chronic back ailment, emerged as the leading power play goal scorer in the league last seoson while serving the Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers.Henry scored 13 times for the Rangers and later added three more when he was traded to the Hawks for a league-leading total of 16, four more than Howe, the solid citizen of the Detroit Red Wings.While Henry was the top individual penalty goal scorer, Montreal Canadiens produced the best team effort in figures compiled by NHL publicist Ron Andrews. The Stanley Cup champs scored 57 times while the opposition was shorthanded. New York and Detroit each tailed 55 goals, Toronto 51, Chicago 48 and the lowly Boston Bruins a mere 25.Other leading power play scorers in addition to Henry and Howe were Claude Provost of Montreal, 11 goals, and Bobby Hull of Chicago, Rangers&rsquo; Rod Gilbert and Detroit&rsquo;s Ron Murphy, 10 each.<h2>POWER PLAY GOALS</h2><h3>Total Goals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02491/2296496-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="550" height="219"></div><h2>POWER PLAY LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03366/2296489-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="546" height="227"></div><h2>MONTREAL (57)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04251/2296482-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="553" height="417"></div><h2>NEW YORK (55)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05204/2296475-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="549" height="488"></div><h2>DETROIT (55)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-06159/2296468-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="552" height="368"></div><h2>TORONTO (51)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0789/2296461-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="553" height="450"></div><h2>CHICAGO (48)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0843/2296454-1-eng-US/f0006-082.jpg" title="f0006-08" width="551" height="491"></div><h2>BOSTON (25)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0926/2296447-1-eng-US/f0006-092.jpg" title="f0006-09" width="546" height="336"></div> &#9632;

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Camille Henry Produced Most Power Play Goals

MONTREAL, Que.Los Angeles and St. Louis have received the &lsquo;blessing&rsquo; of the National Hockey League in the league&rsquo;s proposed six-team expansion program.Clarence S. Campbell, president of the NHL, revealed that the league&rsquo;s board of governors have given the two American cities the green light because of their &lsquo;big league&rsquo; rinks, considered of prime importance for National League hockey.St. Louis, which currently has a team in the CPHL and Los Angeles, one of the box office &lsquo;giants&rsquo; of the Western League, were approved by the NHL as acceptable cities with existing arenas that meet established standards of at least 12,500 seating capacity and a rink playing surface of 200 feet long by 85 feet wide.For the remaining places in the new division, it was indicated that the choice would be among Baltimore. Houston Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphina, Pittsburgh, San Francisco-Oakland, Vancouver and Washington, D.C. All of these cities have previously made informal application for franchises.Each new franchise will be required to pay $2,000,000 for franchise fee and 20 professional players to be drafted from the six existing NHL organizations. This payment is exclusive of the various other basic costs of the franchise, including minor professional league operations, junior player development, any applicable minor professional league territorial rights and working capital.It is anticipated that the new division will commence play no earlier than the 1967-1968 hockey season and no later than the 1968-1969 season. Each team in the expanded league will play a minimum of 74 regular season games, including two home and two away games with each team in the other division. Teams in each division will be included in the playoffs, which will be inter-divisional.Each new franchise holder must either own its arena or have a long-term lease thereof which is satisfactory to the NHL. Among other things, any such lease must have a fixed term of at least ten years, with an option in the lessee to renew for five additional years.During the June preceding the first season of play by the new division, the six new franchises will draft a total of 120 professional players from the six existing NHL organizations. The new franchises will also participate in the annual draft of junior players as soon as their franchises become final.Campbell stated that the league was dedicated in its expansion program to three principal objectives. First, it is intended that the NHL will become the only major professional league operating coast-to-coast in the United States and Canada. Second, the new division will commence play as soon as, but not before, its teams can be established on a competitive basis with existing NHL teams.Finally, the quality of NHL hockey will not be affected in any material way during the establishment of the new division. In the opinion of the Board of Governors, this is a most realistic objective. There are numerous players today in minor professional leagues who could play effectively in the NHL. With the draft by the new franchises of certain top caliber players from the existing teams, these other players will help provide the additional talent for competitive teams. Further, with twice the number of NHL jobs available, many more of the fine Canadian junior players will continue their hockey careers than is now the case. An additional factor will be the potential introduction to NHL ranks of a substantial number of young United States players. &#9632;

‘Big League’ Rinks Win St. Louis, Los Angeles Expansion Nod

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01404/2297312-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Star right winger RON ELLIS of the Leafs may not be able to make it to training camp next month at Peterborough with the Toronto club. The flashy 1964-65 rookie had a knee cartilage removed and his recovery is something the Leafs are concerned about as they look to the coming season in their bid to regain the Stanley Cup.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.A problem that has plagued the Montreal Canadiens for years is likely to make its presence felt again, next season. Left wing, the perennial soft spot on the Hab forward lines, is still very much of a question mark.Despite the lasting glow that goes with the winning of the Stanley Cup, Canucks are liable to find themselves with portside headaches almost as soon as training camp opens, next month. There will be, first and foremost, the question of Gilles Tremblay&rsquo;s leg and how it has responded to months of treatment. Tremblay, the best left-winger on the club, was sidelined with a broken leg after just 26 games last year. He sustained his injury in a game against Toronto last Dec. 18th, the day after his 26th birthday, when he crashed into the boards following a collision with Leaf rookie Ron Ellis. Since then, he has been undergoing extensive treatment, and this has continued right into the summer months. He has been skating, and also exercising the leg by means of lifting weights with it, in an effort to strengthen the muscles.Just how successful all this has been is the big question. The off-season is the time when rumors fly thickest, and there have been rumors to the effect that Tremblay&rsquo;s leg has not responded too well. However, Bill Head, the Forum physiotherapist, doesn&rsquo;t share this view. He feels that Gilles is progressing quite nicely.Tremblay isn&rsquo;t the only player causing concern to the Canadiens. Big Jacques Laperri&egrave;re, the NHL&rsquo;s rookie of the year two seasons ago, suffered a broken leg in last spring&rsquo;s Stanley Cup playoffs and while he has shown good recovery, it can&rsquo;t be known what effect the injury will have on the strapping Montreal rearguard until he skates on the Forum ice next month for the start of training camp.If Laperriere and Tremblay fail to return to their peak form as the result of their leg injuries Habs won&rsquo;t be the only NHL team to suffer from injuries. The Toronto Maple Leafs are keeping their fingers crossed for young Ron Ellis and the Boston Bruins know that a good measure of their success this season will depend on whether or not Dean Prentice can come back from a serious back injury. And what about a guy named Bobby Hull, who limped through the final weeks of last season with banged-up knees?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02288/2297305-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="480" height="1060"><figcaption class="caption-body">GILLES TREMBLAY&hellip;What Of The Future?</figcaption></div>Ellis recently underwent a knee operation in Toronto General Hospital and it is not certain whether he will be sufficiently recovered to join the Maple Leafs at training camp. He had a knee cartilage removed.Ellis, who shot 23 goals last season in his rookie year, has become a big find for the Leafs and if he fails to skate in his freshman year form, then the Leafs conceivably could be in trouble. The Hawks have ex-pressed no doubt about Hull, who is expected to tap the Chicago club for a record high NHL salary this year, bad knees and all.The hope is, of course, that Tremblay&rsquo;s leg will be a hundred percent by the time the new season dawns. If it isn&rsquo;t, Gilles&rsquo; effectiveness will be drastically curtailed; because skating, to him. is even more vital than it is to the average hockey player. It was only last season that he commented about the important part skating played in his performances. In an interview with this writer, Tremblay said: &ldquo;To me, skating is one of the most important parts of my job. In fact, I&rsquo;d say that I base my whole playing form on it. If I&rsquo;m skating well during a game. I feel very confident of getting a goal as well as keeping the opposition in check. If I&rsquo;m not skating well, for any reason, my whole game suffers.&rdquo;Obviously, then. Canadiens will be hoping fervently for Tremblay&rsquo;s complete recovery. Not only is he the best left-winger on the club, but one of the best in the league. A healthy Gilles Tremblay is a vital necessity, if Canadiens are to overcome left wing problems next season. &#9632;

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NHL TEAMS WARY OF INJURIES

BOSTON, Mass.Leighton (Happy) Emms has his own formula for getting results from his hockey players and intends to put it to work on the tail-end Boston Bruins this season.Emms, a stern disciplinarian who inherited the Bruins&rsquo; post of general manager for next season from Lynn Patrick, said he expects hard work and sweat from the Bruins and he knows how to get it.The 60-year-old Emms said he wants to sign many of his players to two-way contracts.He said the contract would work this way: A player might sign to play for the Bruins for $12,000, for example, but would agree to take a cut to $6,500 if he were sent to the minors.Emms said such a contract would give him the means to prod a player who wasn&rsquo;t pulling his weight.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01530/2295783-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="280" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hap Emms</figcaption></div>&ldquo;If a player is not working, I&rsquo;ll trade him,&rdquo; Emms said. &ldquo;Sweat, and fundamentals are the formula for winning.&rdquo;Emms, formerly coach and general manager of the Bruin affiliate at Niagara Falls, in the Ontario Hockey Asociation&rsquo;s Junior A series, was named general manager of Boston in April, succeeding Patrick. He has personally groomed some of the Bruins&rsquo; younger players when they played for him at Niagara Falls.&ldquo;Hockey players love discipline because they want to get into the playoffs because they love money,&rdquo; said Emms. &ldquo;And so do I.&rdquo;Emms said also he preferred a team on which every player gives 100 per cent to a star-studded lackadaisical hockey cast.He will be jealous in the matter of trades, conducting all ex-changes himself rather than sharing the duty with coach Milt Schmidt.&ldquo;Believe it or not, an awful lot of coaches don&rsquo;t know the value of a hockey player,&rdquo; he said. &#9632;

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Hard Work, Sweat New Formula Awaiting Bruins

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03453/2295814-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ageing JOHNNY BOWER of the Leafs appears to get better with the years. Now past 40, the veteran net-minder was again chosen the most valuable player on the Toronto team for last season. He won the coveted Bickell award for the third time.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.Johnny Bower, 40-year-old goalie, is the 1964-65 winner of the J. P. Bickell Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player on the Toronto Maple Leafs National Hockey League team. It is the third time he has won the award.Bower won the cup, valued at $10,000, in 1960 and again last season. Winners receive a replica of the trophy, valued at $500.Bickell was president of the Maple Leaf Gardens from its opening in 1931 to 1937, Chairman of the Board for the 11 succeeding years and a director until his death in 1951.Bower, the oldest player in the National Hockey League, was born in Prince Albert, Sask. The veteran netminder played nine years for Cleveland and two for Providence in the American Hockey League, one for Vancouver in the Western Hockey League and had three tries with New York Rangers before he joined the Leafs in 1958-59.He won the Vezina Trophy, awarded to the goalie with the lowest goals-against average, in 1960-61 and combined with Terry Sawchuk last year to win it again. &#9632;

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Leafs Select Goalie Johnny Bower For Bickell Award As Team’s MVP

MONTREAL, Que.Probably hockey&rsquo;s most famous mother, Mrs. Onesime Richard, died in a Montreal hospital last month after a long illness. She was 65.Mother of Canadiens&rsquo; spectacular hockey stars, Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; and Henri Richard, she was one of the most fervent fans of her two famous sons and was a regular spectator at Forum games for many years.Mrs. Richard was survived by her husband, sons Maurice, Henri, Rene, Claude and Jacques, and three daughters. Both Claude and Jacques played pro hockey as well. &#9632;

Mother of Hobs’ Stars, Mrs. Richard Dies at 65

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04331/2295924-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="966" height="527"></div>Discover how you may now hear clearly whenever you want to, with this amazing new electronic capsule. Look at the diagram above. See how naturally the Beltone capsule fits in the ear. It slips in and out of the ear as easily as snapping your fingers! NO cords, NO wires, NO plastic tubes. Tiny as a thimble, weighs &#8531; of an ounce. Yet amplifies sound 22 times. The Beltone Utopian provides higher fidelty hearng at natural ear-level.It may end your fears that you&rsquo;ll miss out on what folks say. Discover how it may help you stay actively happy in family, social, church and community life. Write today for descriptive FREE book, sent in plain wrapper. Address: Dept. 4-887, Beltone Electronics Corporation, PO. Box 647, Montreal, Quebec. &#9632;

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Does HEARING LOSS rob you of Togetherness with Family and Friends?

National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the 1964-65 season N.H.L. Final Statistics free of charge. These handy-sized record cards contain the final standing of the Clubs, the individual Scoring Records for every player during the regular schedule and the Stanley Cup Playoffs, as well as the Goalkeepers Averages and the Penalty Records of each club.Mail requests to:NHL PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT922 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Que. &#9632;

NHL STATISTICS AVAILABLE FOR FANS

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02509/2295893-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="275" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Ivan</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, III.Chicago Black Hawks are following a trend that has become prevalent in the National Hockey League&mdash;they will train at home next season.General Manager Tommy Ivan of the Hawks announced that the team will conduct pre-season training on their Chicago Stadium ice for the first time in the club&rsquo;s history. The Hawks have been drilling in St. Catharines, Ont., for the past six years.The Hawks will play 10 exhibitions, including two at the Stadium&mdash;Sunday, Oct. 10, against Toronto Maple Leafs and Friday, Oct. 15, against Montreal Canadiens.Ivan said the Hawks will open their training camp in the Stadium about Sept. 20. The exhibitions on the training program are to be played in St. Louis, Memphis, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, and other cities.&ldquo;We are allowed three exhibition games in the Stadium,&rdquo; Ivan said. &ldquo;But we felt that our fans would like to get a preseason look at the two teams that cause us the most trouble, Toronto and Montreal, so we are arranging home-and-home series with both.&rdquo;The entire exhibition schedule is not completed. The opening game of the NHL season will be Oct. 23 (Saturday), nine days lather than previous seasons. The All-Star game will be played in Montreal (home of the Stanley Cup Champions) on Wednesday, Oct. 20.Ivan explained that the Stadium should work out well for pre-season drills for several reasons. &ldquo;Some of our veterans have children going to school. This will give them an opportunity to get their families moved to Chicago and settled down long before the hectic season begins. It also will afford some of the younger men a chance to work in the Stadium before the pressure builds up.&rdquo;&ldquo;The players I have told about training here have all been pleased with the idea,&rdquo; Ivan said. &#9632;

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Hawks Plan Puck Camp On Home Ice

<div class="byline">BY BOB HARRIS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01529/2295986-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="526" height="767"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE&hellip;He&rsquo;s The &lsquo;Big Daddy&rsquo;</figcaption></div>MONTREAL. Que.Attaining the 200-goal plateau was once considered the mark, of distinction for National Hockey League goal-getters.Today to be included among the NHL&rsquo;s select scorers, the requirement is a minimum 250 goals.The NHL established the &lsquo;250 Goal Club&rsquo; last season and im-mediately announced that there were 12 charter members, both past and present men of the ice wars who displayed extraordinary scoring prowess during their big league careers.The 12 NHL club &lsquo;originals&rsquo; were Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard, Bernard Geoffrion. Ted Lindsay. Jean Beliveau, the late Nels Stewart, Andy Bathgate, the late Howie Morenz. Aurel Joliat, Bill Mosienko, Alex Delvecchio and Dickie Moore.These were the hockey greats who stood out above all the rest since the NHL first started operations in 1917. They had compiled the most goals in a lifetime and for some it would continue for at the outset of the 1964-65 season, six of the 12 were still active in the league.At the conclusion of the past season, the 250-goal pinnacle had been reached by three more top NHL stars, the most notable of which was the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; &lsquo;Golden Boy&rsquo;, Bobby Hull. Red Kelly and Camille Henry, two big leaguers skating on their last legs, also were assured of membership in the &lsquo;250 Goal Club&rsquo; raising the all-time select list to 15.Starting from the top, here&rsquo;s how hockey&rsquo;s greatest goal scorers rank: Gordie Howe, the indestructible right winger of the Detroit Red Wings, stands unchallenged as the most prolific goal scorer of all time with 595 goals. Next season, the 37-year-old Howe will reach another milestone when he shoots his 600th goal, a figure at one time thought unattainable.Retired Maurice Richard stepped out of the NHL after scoring 544 goals in 18 years with Montreal Canadiens. He ranks as the No. 2 man and is likely to be replaced in time by only one man. Bobby Hull, who is being hailed as the NHL&rsquo;s next 500-goal scorer.Ted Lindsay, who surprised the hockey world by coming out of a five-year retirement to play again with Detroit Red Wings, notched another 14 goals last season to raise his career total to 379, third place in the all-time goal race behind Howe and Richard.Bernard Geoffrion. who quit the NHL after the 1963-64 season to take up coaching, dropped down to fourth spot with 371 goals as the result of Lindsay&rsquo;s return. Lindsay has announced that he will not return to the Wings this year and will retire again.Jean Beliveau of Canadiens is fifth high man with 358 goals. The late Nels Stewart, most productive of the &lsquo;oldtimers&rsquo;, was next on the list with 324 goals. Andy Bathgate followed with 291, Alex Delvecchio 280, Aurel Joliat and Howie Morenz 270. Bobby-Hull 264, Red Kelly 259, Bill Mosienko 258, Dickie Moore 256 and Camille Henry 253.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04168/2295979-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1045" height="1608"><figcaption class="caption-body">NORM ULLMAN&hellip;Knocking On The Door</figcaption></div>Barring unforseen circumstances, the doors of the &lsquo;250-Goal Club&rsquo; will in all likelihood swing open next season for at least three more NHL scorers with Detroit&rsquo;s Normie Ullman likely to be the first to make the grade.Ullman, who produced a tremendous 42-goal effort during the last campaign, jumped all the way to 237 goals, 18th place in all-time goal scoring.Others who will be knocking on the club door but will have to become highly productive, include Dean Prentice with 229 goals, George Armstrong, Don McKenney and Frank Mahovlich, all with 227, and Henri Richard 221.Establishment of the NHL&rsquo;s &lsquo;250 Goal Club&rsquo; is something the NHL considered necessary in order to single out the men who have strived to serve as the trail blazers of the NHL. The players who have combined stamina with courage and craft to show the way for the rest of the National Hockey League goal men. &#9632;

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NHL’s ‘250 Goal Club’ Growing In Numbers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02423/2296017-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div>Here are hockey&rsquo;s select &lsquo;250 Goal Club&rsquo; members and their records: &#9632;

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NHL’s ‘250 Goal Club’

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Hockey’s Top Active Scorers

MONTREAL. Que.Judging by 1964-65 performances, Claude Provost of Montreal Canadiens and Boston&rsquo;s Johnny Bucyk rate the best chance of becoming the National League&rsquo;s next 200-goal scorers.Provost has 187 lifetime goals and Bucyk 182 meaning that the two NHL veterans could reach the 200-goal plateau in the first part of the 70-game season. Provost popped in 27 goals last season and Bucyk 26 in a highly productive year for both players.Others within reach of the 200-goal mark but who have not been as active goal scorers as Provost and Bucyk, are Dick Duff, 190 goals, Andy Hebenton 187 and Ron Stewart 186. &#9632;

Provost, Bucyk Seen Next 200-Goal Scorers In NHL

The Waterloo Black Hawks, champions of the U.S. Hockey League, are interested in two defensemen and two centers or wingmen of high calibre ability for the 1965-1966 season.The United States Olympic team was composed of 17 players, 11 of which came from this league in 1963.City&mdash;Waterloo, IowaAuditorium seats 7,500Average attendance 3,500Teams in league: Rochester, Minnesota Green Bay, Wisconsin St. Paul, Minnesota Marquette, MichiganIf you are interested in playing hockey on a 30-35 game schedule, we will assist you to find regular employment in your own field to continue your business career. Several good offers for school teachers and engineers are available now.Write full particulars of your past hockey experience along with your age, weight, and position played to:Waterloo Black Hawks ATTENTION: R. M. FLYNN Box 2222 Waterloo, Iowa &#9632;

WANTED CANADIAN-AMERICAN HOCKEY PLAYERS

Founded October 1st, 1947Published weekly except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 St. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Kenneth William McKenzie, President and PublisherWill V. Cote, Vice-Pres, and Gen Mgr.Yearly Subscription Rates: $4.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth $5.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.Postage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y.Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Printed in Canada.Vol. 18 MONTREAL, AUGUST, 1965 No. 34 &#9632;

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01592/2296165-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="404" height="436"></div>&bull; ALL NHL CLUBS with the exception of the New York Rangers will train on home ice this autumn&hellip;They will also play preseason exhibition games against each other. This was seldom done a few years ago&hellip;Warren Back, 28-year-old native of Medicine Hat, Alta., has signed a new one-year contract as player-coach of the Dayton Gems of the International League&hellip;The IHL held their annual draft meeting at St. Clair, Mich&hellip;Frank Gallagher&rsquo;s Port Huron team won the IHL championship last season during their second year in the circuit. They also went seven games in the semi-finals before bowing to Des Moines who in turn lost to Fort Wayne in the finals&hellip;Gary Bergman, versatile defenseman-forward of the Detroit Red Wings, was married last month in suburban Detroit with three members of the NHL champions in attendance. They were Marcel Pronovost, who acted as best man at the ceremony, Floyd Smith and Ted Lindsay&hellip;Three Indian boys from Northern Quebec will attend the Toronto Hockey School this month. Permission was granted for the boys to attend the school by the Indian Affairs Branch&hellip;Five lads from Sweden will also be in attendance&hellip;Bobby Hull is a cinch to be hockey&rsquo;s highest paid player when he inks his Chicago contract later this summer. He may not reach the $100,000 figure but he shouldn&rsquo;t be too far off half that amount&hellip;Hockey fans in England are highly incensed since Brighton Tigers, a long-time favorite, were booted out of their building by a giant television company in Britain. They will use the former arena as a studio&hellip;Andy Mulligan was re-hired for a fourth term as International League commissioner recently&hellip;Kansas City and Columbus are both potential new cities for the IHL&hellip;Dave Draper, former Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s star, has been named assistant hockey coach and head tennis coach at Michigan Tech&hellip;Mrs. Conn Smythe, wife of the former president of the Toronto Maple Leafs, passed away recently&hellip;Butch Martin will not be back as coach of the Kitchener Juniors.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03476/2296158-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="268" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>&bull; CANADIENS&rsquo; HOCKEY followers won&rsquo;t smile until they see the club&rsquo;s two injured all-stars, Gilles Tremblay and Jacques Laperriere, back on skates. Both have caused some concern, notably Tremblay, to club brass since suffering broken legs last season&hellip;The Chicago Black Hawks have succeeded in luring sensational young Dave Dryden back to the ice wars. Dryden, a former Marlboros&rsquo; netminder who turned to school teaching the last few years, clicked for Buffalo, a Chicago farm club, when he stood out last winter in a pinch-hit role. He permitted only six goals in four games during his emergency performance. The Hawks have signed him to a pro contract&hellip;Versatile Billy Cooper of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers is the same robust young man who performed so well with Victoria last season in the WHL. Cooper, who may be the only Canadian playing top pro hockey and football, plans to return to the ice sport this year after the grid season closes&hellip;Frank Mahovlich of the Leafs back after a summer trip to Europe where he took in the British Open&hellip;Andy Bathgate of Detroit carried off low gross honors at the recent Adam Brown Golf Tournament in Hamilton. John Brenneman of Rangers won THE HOCKEY NEWS trophy for best low net score&hellip;James Rogers, president of the St. Paul Collegiate Hockey Tournament Association writes to announce his group will be holding a holiday invitation tournament in St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 28 and 29. It will be a four-team, two-day event with Minnesota, Colgate, North Dakota and Colgate College the participants.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04415/2296151-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="284" height="488"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Brenneman</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05375/2296196-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div><h2>Quebec, Vancouver Must In Expansion</h2>Hockey News Editor:In reference to NHL expansion it would seem logical that the National Hockey League initially choose Canadian cities prior to considering U.S. markets where the game will be only a novelty.I deem it imperative that Quebec City and Vancouver come into the NHL. A rivalry between Canadiens and a Quebec City entry is a natural as would be contests between Vancouver and the Maple Leafs.Los Angeles and San Francisco are required American cities for expansion. However, why no talk of Cleveland, a great hockey town whereas St. Louis and their 15,000 seat arena is considered despite the Missouri city&rsquo;s failure to ever set any CHL or AHL attendance record&rsquo;s.Minneapolis-St. Paul should be a natural but why have they failed to support clubs in the Central League? Pittsburgh has always been an excellent hockey town and the Civic Arena is one of the finest buildings of its kind in the U.S.A. Baltimore despite a mediocre AHL club appears to be a growing hockey hotbed.Unlike baseball the NHL should assess areas where the game will develop as a Class &ldquo;A&rdquo; sport not where after the initial novelty period subsides, a team will be compelled to wander as in baseball.Sandy Zwickler, Brooklyn, N.Y.<h2>Work Of Linesman Wins Fan&rsquo;s Praise</h2>Hockey News Editor:In the 1964-65 Hockey Season there were a lot of good rookie players. These players such as Ron Ellis and Roger Crozier received due recognition.I would like to put in a word of praise for rookie Linesman John D&rsquo;Amico. In every game I saw him in he did a fine job. He is the hardest working official I have ever seen in any sport. He is always hustling out there. I think he has a great future as an official in The National Hockey League.Anthony Zappulla Jr. Garwood, N.J.<h2>Swedish Fan Sees Europe Catching NHL</h2>Hockey News Editor:I am a Swedish subscriber of your paper, and I might as well say it, I have never seen such an excellent ice-hockey-paper anywhere in all Europe. To say it in three simple words: it is perfect!I am funny in one way. I have never in my life been able to watch a NHL-game (but it is my greatest wish to do so one day) but I bet that I am Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; biggest fan in Sweden.As a small boy I fell in love with the name: Montreal Canadiens, it sounded so very exotic to me then, and since then I have followed up and read all I could get about The Habs, NHL and Canadian ice-hockey. I have seen games in the movies and on the T.V. and I have seen such wonderful players as Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard and Bobby Hull (they are my great idols). You can&rsquo;t get such players in all Europe, that&rsquo;s for sure!I use to watch the Canadian Allan Cup-winners (as you know they use to play in Europe every year), but I must say that they are getting worse and worse now. I wonder if we ever will see such a team as Whitby Dunlops in 1958, the games they played in Sweden are still very well remembered here and personally I will never forget names like Sid Smith, Charlie Bums, Jackie McKenzie and Jean-Paul Lamirande. They played Sweden in two games and beat them both, 13-0 and 10-2! But they wouldn&rsquo;t do it today!European hockey holds a very high standard, especially the Russians play a wonderful game. I am quite sure that only two NHL teams would have a chance to beat them, if they ever played. And if such a game was played in Europe with European rules, I bet the Russians would win it, I am absolutely sure about it. But with Canadian (NHL) rules, well, that sure could be a fight. I know that you will think that: it&rsquo;s easy for me to say I have never seen an NHL game and all that. That&rsquo;s true of course, but I think that I know just how good the teams in NHL are, and I really believe that Russia could beat Rangers, Boston, Detroit and maybe Toronto. Sweden would possibly beat Rangers and the Bruins and maybe Red Wings and the Czechs would do the same. But I guess we&rsquo;ll never know about that.But I do give the NHL teams a warning: look out, you are not the only good teams in the world. In a few years, maybe five or six, we will be just as good as you, and then&hellip;I would only be too pleased to correspond with hockey fans around the world. I am 21-years-old.Bo Wallin, Liegatan 9, Vasteras, Sweden<h2>Why Did Bobby Hull Win Hart Trophy?</h2>Hockey News Editor:Why did Bobby Hull, win the Hart Trophy? In the autumn and early winter, he scored and the team lost game after game. When he was injured, the other Hawks began to work and won games. This makes him the most valuable player?For Toronto, Johnny Bower was in goal in January when the team was in contention for first place. He won the Vezina for them. Single-handedly, he almost got them to the Stanley Cup finals. Without Frank Mahovlich in top form, the team can do nothing. These are valuable players to the team, not to themselves and their investments.Cheryl Parker, Port Dover, Ont.<h2>Nesterenko Deserves Better Hockey Fate</h2>Hockey News Editor:I truly can&rsquo;t understand why a fine hockey player like Eric Nesterenko is never given any praise. Nester has consistently done well wehrever he has been used this year. The poor fellow simply has the misfortune of playing in the shadows of Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita and Glenn Hall. The only man who apparently appreciates Eric is the Hawk mentor Billy Reay.I highly agree with the person who wrote in saying the fight originator should get the penalty. The National Hockey League referees don&rsquo;t seem to think that players should defend themselves when they are being high sticked, slashed, roughed, or charged. Enjoying your publication very much. Keep up the good work!Chet Coppock, Northfield, Ill.<h2>Richard Didn&rsquo;t Rate With All-Star Ullman</h2>Hockey News Editor:I would like to disagree with a fan who stated in the April 17th edition of HOCKEY NEWS that Henri Richard deserves an all-star berth. The letter said Norm Ullman had a Gordie Howe and a great power play. It also said Stan Mikita had a Bobby Hull, a Pierre Pilote and a great power play. This fan said Montreal only had Claude Provost and didn&rsquo;t even mention anything about Montreal&rsquo;s power play. I read in that same issue that Montreal led the league in power play goals. I think that if Montreal had such a good power play Richard should score as many points as Ullman or Mikita but as I look at the scoring parade both Ullman and Mikita averaged ove a point a game where Richard was just about one point per game. If Richard would have played in every game he would have had about 70 points but Ullman and Mikita would still be ahead of him. Seeing Detroit finished first and Ullman was a major factor in the great season Detroit had I think it only fitting that Ullman was the first string centre.Mark Schroeder, Hancock, Michigan. &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

For the benefit of those people who do not know the address of the MURRAY BALFOUR FAN CLUB and who wish to contribute articles or pictures about the late hockey star for inclusion in a special &lsquo;book&rsquo; for his family, it is printed here:Miss Pat Knaus, 2133 West Rice Street, Chicago, Ill. &#9632;

Balfour Fan Club Address Printed

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03408/2296282-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="256" height="384"><figcaption class="caption-body">Carl Brewer</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.The Canadian Broad-casting Corporation&rsquo;s trend towards specialists in its football and hockey telecasts of the future could bring such name NHL stars as Andy Bathgate and Carl Brewer right into your living room.The CBC has decided it wants men who actually performed in the field to lend their knowledge and color to telecasts of Canadian pro hockey and football games. So far, two hockey players and three ex-football stars&mdash;hace submitted to tests by the CBC. The two hockey men, Bathgate and Brewer, are still engaged in the game actively and their television debut may have to be either putt off a few years, if they are acceptable, or used in spot assignments when they are not playing league games.Alex Ponton, Fred Black and Lynn Bottoms, all former members of the Toronto Argonauts, are the football players who have been singled out by the CBC.Bathgate, who went to Detroit during the off-season in the multiplayer trade with the Leafs, has expressed an interest in the radio-television field. He has been taking summer speech classes. &ldquo;I have been going to the classes for my own satisfaction,&rdquo; said Bathgate. &ldquo;I may enter the business full time when I&rsquo;m finished playing in the NHL,&rdquo; he said.Bathgate, who did part of the CBC commentary for the recent $100,000 Canadian Open golf tournament, said he had no plans to quit hockey. &ldquo;The game has been too good to me to throw it over,&rdquo; he was quoted as saying. Bathgate is probably the best playing golfer among the NHL players. &#9632;

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Bathgate, Brewer Eyed By CBC For TV Hockey

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02509/2296313-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="283" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore</figcaption></div>A look at the All-Star teams over the past ten seasons, indicates the Stanley Cup champion Canadiens are at their weakest on the left side of the forward line.In the seasons from 1955-56 to 1964-65 inclusive, a Canadien left-winger made the first AllStar team only twice. That was Dickie Moore, in 1957-58 and 1958-59.At every other position, Canadiens fared better. During the ten seasons under review, they had a No. 1 defenseman eight times; the top centre six times; and the best right winger and goalie three times each.In second-team All-Star selections, over the same period, it was pretty much the same story. They took the left-wing spot twice, via Moore in 1960-61 and Bert Olmstead in 1955-56. They had the second-best centre and goalie five times each, in that span; a No. 2 defenseman on three occasions; and a second-team right winger twice.The seasons of 1955-56 and 1958-59 were the best for Canuck All-Stars. They held down six positions on both occasions. They also finished first and won the Stanley Cup in those years.Through it all, of course, they have been coached by Toe Blake, who was once an All-Star left winger. &#9632;

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All-Stars Show Habs’ Weak Spots

WARSAW, PolandThe Polish Ice Hockey Association has announced that Adalph Frank (Aggie) Kukulowicz, former top amateur player in Canada, will coach Poland&rsquo;s hockey champion club, GKS Katowice (Sileskia) in 1965-66.Kukulowicz was an assistant to Coach Father David Bauer with the Canadian National team that represented Canada in the World and Olympic hockey championships last winter in Finland.Kukulowicz of polish origin, still speaks the language. He was a forward in the National Hockey League with New York Rangers. &#9632;

Aggie Kukulowicz Set To Coach Polish Team

<div class="byline">By COLIN MAITLAND</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01550/2296251-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; veteran captain GEORGE ARM-STRONG, left, talks hockey with men of Canada&rsquo;s Armed Forces at an outpost along the International frontier between Israel and Egypt. Armstrong toured the Middle East with a CBC concert group. Soldiers talking with the NHL star are left to right, FRANK Smith, Sackville, N.B., JOHN CARTER, London, Ont., RONALD KNIBBS, also of London, and JOSEPH LACHANCE, Toronto.</figcaption></div>(As a special feature to our readers. THE HOCKEY NEWS is pleased to publish the first of a series of articles by Colin Maitland. well-known British hockey writer, on the European hockey picture).LONDON, EnglandWhen Russia skated out of the 1965 Tampere dust-up clutching the world title for the third successive year, their victory surprised few of the assembled hockey buffs. Yet their feat does seem pretty incredible in view of the fact that just twenty years ago the ice game was unknown in Russia.The Soviet Union of course presents a near-ideal environment for the game, with a climate which readily supports natural ice, a large population, and fewer material &lsquo;distractions&rsquo; (TV, cars, etc.) to players and fans alike. In a country where State control is absolute, hockey has never been allowed to develop haphazardly. Right from its inception, the Soviet Government has nurtured the development of the game, obviously with an eye for the propaganda to be reaped from a strong showing in a &lsquo;Western&rsquo; sport. There&rsquo;s little doubt though, that in Russia today the game is genuinely popular and is growing at a tremendous clip.As in most European countries, the Soviet league set-up is similar to soccer, i.e. one large league split into several divisions. There are no &lsquo;private&rsquo; clubs, all teams are representatives of a trade union, a factory or a military branch. First division squads play a 36-game schedule split into four sections with a month&rsquo;s rest between sections. The chief reason for these schedule breaks is so the International squad which draws heavily on first division squads for its talent is able to play without altering the balance of league play.Current emphasis is heavily on attacking play, since the theory is that fans want to see goals and more goals. And fans there are aplenty. Crowds of 14,000 and over are not unusual in Moscow, and in 1957 no less than 37,000 watched the league final at Moscow Dynamo football stadium. Every team sponsors several youth squads ranging from 12-year-olds on up, and this season three new challenge cups for youth teams have been brought into being, labelled &lsquo;Youth Cup&rsquo;, &lsquo;Relay of Generaltion&rsquo;, and &lsquo;Golden Puck&rsquo;.Intellectual discussions on on hockey tactics are a common feature of the Soviet scene, but this season a new rash of criticism and counter-criticism has broken out between players, coaches and fans. It seems that many younger players are dissatisfied with the current &lsquo;precision&rsquo; type hockey, and want to include more checking in the game. The argument has been carried into the pages of every Russian sports magazine this season, and while the Russian world crown victory may temporarily quell the row. the first signs of a &lsquo;slump&rsquo; may renew the argument. One thing is certain, whichever their tactics develop, Russia looms as an ever more important power on the hockey scene.<h2>Japan, Australia Taking To Hockey</h2>Hockey expansion over the years has become pretty much world-wide and the game today is being played and watched in some pretty strange places. Yet few more bizarre settings for the ice game can be imagined than among the mysteries of ancient Japan or the sand and sun of Australia. The fact is though that both these countries have a considerable hockey history and in both hockey has a promising future.Hockey first entered the Japanese sports scene as far back as 1921, and after a tentative beginning, started to achieve startling popularity among the students of local Universities. In 1924 a four&mdash;cornered tourney at Tokyo&rsquo;s Suva Ring between rival colleges helped establish the game further, and when the first all&mdash;Japan students tournament was held a year later, so much popularity was engendered that the ice sport was granted official status as part of collegiate curriculum. In 1936 Japan made her first major international exploit by sending a squad to the Winter Olympics in Germany, and though this exploit was comparatively unsuccessful, the game received greatly increased prestige and a consequent increase in popularity because of it.Then World War Two intervened and the game went into a lengthy eclipse, from which it didn&rsquo;t begin to emerge until the mid 50&rsquo;s. The exchange of teams with Canada and Japan&rsquo;s re-entry into the International scene have re-kindled student enthusiasm, and today with new rinks contemplated, more TV coverage, and Japan&rsquo;s economic boom all contributing, the outlook for organized hockey here is anything but gloomy.The Australian hockey scene however presents a somewhat less rosy picture, for ever since its inception here way back in 1909, the ice game has faced a formidable number of problems. In a near winterless climate the only ice around is usually in cube form, and for many years only two cities, Sydney and Melbourne, sported fullsized ice surfaces. The small population and immense distances from other major hockey centres have also posed considerable problems.The game has survived though, and after a few lean years is now staging somewhat of a revival, relying almost completely on European immigration for player personnel. &#9632;

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Russia’s Reign As Top European Ice Power Tribute To Country’s Planning For Sport

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The Detroit Red Wings will be able to boast of the second largest building in the National Hockey League after its $1,500,000 expansion program is completed in time for the 1965-66 season opener.Bruce Norris, president of the Detroit Hockey Club, said the first major expansion in the 38-year-history of the Detroit Olympia, will increase the building&rsquo;s seating capacity by 2,312 persons for a total of 16,375, surpassed only by Chicago&rsquo;s cavernous stadium, which seats 16,666 but can hold over 20,000 with standees.Olympia&rsquo;s enlargement will be concentrated in the rear of the building, an area now bordered by a parking lot. A 58-foot-long extension will be added to the Stadium across the full 228-foot rear width and 10-feet above the present roof line.A major portion of the existing rear wall&mdash;all except for small areas housing stairwells and flues&mdash;will be removed to removed to make way for the extension. The portion to be dismantled is about 70-feet high and 180-feet wide.The new outer walls will be constructed of modern vertical concrete slabs, cast and erected on the job site.Highlighting the expansion program, Norris said, will be the installation of an escalator running from main floor to balcony. The reverse escalator, engineered to move upwards before an event and down after an event, will take just 35 seconds to travel between top and bottom.&ldquo;The idea behind Olympia&rsquo;s expansion, of course, is to make room for as many Red Wing fans as possible,&rdquo; Norris said. &ldquo;I think the fact we set an attendance record last season (462,370) shows we need to grow.&ldquo;At the same time, we&rsquo;re continually trying to modernize the Stadium for all our patrons and the expansion program gives us an excellent opportunity to increase customer conveniences. An escalator, for example, would be impossible without an addition to the building.&ldquo;All in all, I&rsquo;m confident hockey will continue to grow in the Detroit area and we want to keep pace with the increasing fan interest in the game.&rdquo;&ldquo;Basically, the expansion plans are designed to complete the oval shape of the building in the rear,&rdquo; Norris said. &ldquo;The existing rear wall prevents the continuation of several rows of seats in the balcony and arena and the new addition will remedy this situation.&rdquo; &#9632;

Expansion Program Boosts Size Of Detroit Olympia To Second Largest In NHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01619/2296392-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ELMER FERGUSON, centre, of the Montreal Star and dean of Canada&rsquo;s hockey writers, is flanked by former Montreal amateur hockey figure DAVE CAMPBELL, left, and motion picture executive PHIL MAURICE, during affair honoring Ferguson as one of the country&rsquo;s most knowledgeable newspapermen for the past 60 years, most of which has been spent covering the National Hockey League. Montreal Sportsmen&rsquo;s Association president Maurice made presentations to Ferguson.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.No one has to show Andy Bathgate his way around a golf course. Among the hockey playing set, he&rsquo;s top man on the links.In two summer tournaments, in which hockey players were prominently entered, Bathgate walked off with low gross honors both times.The ex-Maple Leaf right winger, now a member of the Detroit Red Wings as the Result of an off-season trade, shot a 69 to win the annual Pro Hockey Players&rsquo; golf tournament at Toronto&rsquo;s New Uplands course. He followed up by capturing the Adam Brown golf tournament at Hamilton Glendale Golf Club.Bathgate, who once pondered quitting the ice game to pursue a pro golfing career, is the most consistent player among the NHL performers, who spend much of their summer vacations on the Ontario district golf courses. He has been good enough to play in the Canadian Open in past years and has shot as low as 65 and 66 in various tournaments.In the Toronto players&rsquo; tournament, which Bathgate won for the third straight year, Jim Mikol, who helped St. Paul win the CPHL title last year, was runner-up to Bathgate with a 73.Proceeds from the Toronto players&rsquo; outing went to the worthy Canadian Cancer Society. An entry of 111 was the highest turn out in five years.Ex-Maple Leaf and Rochester American player, Ken Girard and Leafs&rsquo; rearguard Kent Douglas both shot 75&rsquo;s behind Bathgate and Mikol. Irv Spencer of Detroit shot a 105. &#9632;

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Bathgate Hockey’s Best - In Golf

BALTIMORE, Md.McLaren (Mickey) Pardew, well-known Baltimore athlete, has disclosed that construction of his Orchard Ice Rink at Joppa Road near Loch Raven Boulevard is on schedule and should be completed no later than November 1.Pardew, best known here for his exploits as a top amateur champion in swimming and tennis, has been working closely with Terry Reardon, general manager of the Baltimore Clippers of the American Hockey League, in the design and construction of the new indoor skating rink.Reardon revealed that the Clippers have come to an agreement with Pardew for the use of the Orchard rink for practice sessions. As Reardon said, &ldquo;This is one of the greatest boosts to ice hockey in this city in many a moon. Now, our club will be able to practice right at home so to speak and we will not have to travel to Washington, Hershey, or Philadelphia.&rdquo;The Orchard rink is being designed on the same pattern as the Civic Center ice where the Clippers play their AHL home games in Baltimore&rsquo;s 14-million dollar downtown building. The dimensions of the Orchard rink will be 185 feet long and 85 feet wide.According to Pardew the job at this writing is in the stage of &ldquo;pouring cement for the equipment room and shortly the steel framework will begin to rise.&rdquo;The location of Pardew&rsquo;s ice rink is considered ideal from many standpoints. On Joppa Road it is easily accessible from the County Beltway as well as all G the main arteries in and out of the city to the county. There will be ample parking facilities and in addition to the new ice rink. Pardew also has had going for him a highly successful outdoor swimming club and recently finished a double-decked golf driving range. &#9632;

New Baltimore Ice Arena Practice Rink For Clippers

PITTSBURGH, Pa.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01571/2296534-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="247" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vic Stasiuk</figcaption></div>Eddie Bush has been named the coach of the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League. The 47-year-old Bush, a former Hornet player, succeeds Vic Stasiuk.Bush brings almost 30 years of hockey experience to Pittsburgh, both in the playing and coaching ranks. As a defenseman Bush played amateur and pro hockey for 20 seasons, performing in Pittsburgh during the 1938-39 campaign. During his American Hockey League career which also included stops in Indianapolis, Providence, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Cincinnati, the rugged Bush earned quite a reputation as a &ldquo;tough guy&rdquo; and still ranks 13th among the alltime penalty leaders in the AHL.Last year Bush coached at Memphis in the Central Professional League. After a slow start in which they played their first 19 games on the road because their new building wasn&rsquo;t completed, the Memphis team just missed out on a playoff berth after a dramatic stretch drive. Bush&rsquo;s club compiled the best winning percentage in the Central loop during the last two-thirds of the season.Bush&rsquo;s stint at Memphis was his first crack at professional coaching. He posted a brilliant record in the amateur ranks. His 1961-62 Hamilton Red Wing team won the Memorial Cup, emblematic of the Canadian National amateur championship. Four seasons at Hamilton and six with the Guelph Biltmores enabled Bush to exhibit his uncanny ability of working with young players. Many present National League standouts received their initial tutoring under Bush.A dynamic, colorful individual, Bush possesses a get-tough attitude beneath his pleasant demeanor. In the past he has been very popular with the fans and press. His outspoken nature, combined with a tremendous wit and sense of humor, have particularly endeared him to the members of the press in his stops along the hockey trail.Stasiuk guided the Wasps for two seasons as a player-coach. In his initial year at the helm he led the Hornets to the Western Division championship. Detroit general manager-coach Sid Abel said that Stasiuk would be named to another post in the Detroit organization in the near future.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02529/2296527-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1069" height="1431"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRUCE NORRIS, left, owner of the parent Detroit Red Wings, is shown with new Pittsburgh coach EDDIE BUSH during the recent summer hockey meetings. Red Wings selected Bush to guide their Pittsburgh club next season.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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One-time Hornet Eddie Bush Named New Coach Of Pittsburgh In AHL

NEW YORK, N.Y.The 1965-66 American Hockey League season will open Friday night, Oct. 15, and close Sunday, April 10, it was announced by Jack Riley, president of the nine-club circuit.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03434/2296589-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="277" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Riley</figcaption></div>Opening games will put Cleveland at Springfield and Rochester at Providence, Riley said following a meeting of the AHL&rsquo;s owners and general managers.Other clubs in the league are Quebec, Buffalo, Baltimore Pittsburgh and Hershey.The American League will play a partial interlocking schedule with the six-team Western League.Riley disclosed that R. C. &ldquo;Jake&rdquo; Embry, president of Baltimore Clippers, and George Flaherty, part-owner of San Francisco&rsquo;s WHL club, will meet shortly with U.S. network television executives in New York. They are seeking national television exposure.Paul Bright, president and general manager of Cleveland Barons, said his team will be the first in the AHL to make a western trip this season. They will play in Los Angeles the last week in October after meeting the LA club in Cleveland on Oct. 23. &#9632;

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AHL Sets Opening Date, Seeks Television Pact

CLEVELAND, O.The &lsquo;bad man&rsquo; of hockey, Larry Zeidel, is coming to Cleveland. Zeidel&rsquo;s contract was purchased from the Montreal Canadiens through Cleveland Barons&rsquo; president and general manager Paul Bright.A defenseman, Zeidel is widely known for his rugged play. He hit the headlines twice last year by being suspended and fined, once for spitting at a referee, as a member of the Seattle Totems of the Western League.A long-time enemy of Baron players and fans, Zeidel was the centre of many Arena brawls, some of which have been noted as the firrcest hockey battles of all time.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04329/2296620-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="292" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Zeidel</figcaption></div>Larry turned pro in 1951-52 with Indianapolis, which was then a member of the American Hockey League. At Indianapolis, he was a teammate of Barons&rsquo; playing coach Fred Glover. He went on to see action with Detroit and Chicago of the NHL before arriving in Hershey in 1955-56.For the next eight years he became Glover&rsquo;s most bitter enemy on the ice. Hockey experts were expecting an explosion when Zeidel was sent from Seattle to play under Glover near the end of the 196364 season. The hard-nosed defenseman, howover, settled down and played excellent hockey. In 11 games, he was assessed with only 14 minutes in penalties (which is darn good for him) in playing a vital role during the Barons drive to a Calder Cup championship.Zeidel was later quoted as saying, &ldquo;Glover is by far the best coach I ever played for. Playing for him was the most exciting experience of my life.&rdquo; Strangely enough, Zeidel is second in AHL penalties to none other than Glover. He registered 1,346 minutes of cooler time as compared to 2,089 piled up by the fiery Cleveland mentor. A check into their entire pro records show Glover holding a slim lead, 2,168 minutes to 2,091.&ldquo;Larry is going to be a tremendous asset to our defense despite the fact that he&rsquo;s 37-years-old,&rdquo; said Glover, who is 37 himself and hasn&rsquo;t showed any signs of slowing up. &ldquo;He wouldn&rsquo;t be coming here if we felt he couldn&rsquo;t help our club,&rdquo; Glover added.Zeidel was Bright&rsquo;s target ever since he assumed the duties of general manager nearly two months ago. &ldquo;Ever since I made an effort to obtain his contract, Larry began calling me periodically to see how the proceedings were coming along,&rdquo; Bright said. &ldquo;He wants to play here, and we want him to play here because we feel he can do the job at hand.Aside from garnering penalties, Zeidel is an all-around, solid defenseman. During his stay with Hershey, he was instrumental in helping the Bears to two Calder Cup titles. &#9632;

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Hockey ‘Bad Man’ Zeidel Secured By AHL Barons; Glover Lauds Rearguard

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05232/2296651-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg"></div>Keeps you informed on what&rsquo;s happening in the world of hockey during those long, hot summer days. Plan to subscribe now and make sure you&rsquo;re abreast of the hockey news. Remember, THE HOCKEY NEWS may still be purchased on the newsstands during the summer months. So, don&rsquo;t be a news loser, subscribe now. Just fill in the form above. &#9632;

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THE HOCKEY NEWS

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04351/2296734-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="288" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Kromm</figcaption></div>This has been a busy off-season for Western Hockey League teams. Not only the rosters, but also the front offices have been shaken up. Alfie Pike was fired after two seasons as Los Angeles coach, Lynn Patrick, kicked upstairs in Boston, preferred to move out and into L.A. as the fourth coach in the five year history of the Blades. He&rsquo;ll be general manager, too, with Jack Geyer changing titles to &ldquo;executive director.&rdquo;Max McNab and Keith Allen will concentrate on being general managers at Vancouver and Seattle, respectively. Long-time NHL winger Bert Olmstead will coach the Vancouver club, while the Seattle coach will be 37-year-old Bob Kromm, who coached the Trail Smoke-Eaters and Nelson Maple Leafs of British Columbia to the Canadian amateur hockey finals three times, and won the 1961 World title with Trail. The Seattle team also has a new president, Gene Walby, local sporting goods dealer, replacing Marvin Burke, who resigned.Rudy Pilous resigned as Victoria coach and has moved back east to succeed Danny Lewicki as coach of Detroit&rsquo;s Hamilton team in the Junior A Ontario Hockey Assn. General Manager Buck Houle is looking for a new coach. Bud Poile did not want to continue as both general manager and coach in San Francisco, but it looks like he will. The expected NHL opportunity did not materialize, so Hal Laycoe will continue in a similar dual capacity in Portland, with Harry Glickman, THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; executive of the year last season, continuing as managing director.One change in Portland is that the Bucks have severed all relations with Boston. Glickman broke with the Bruins after charging they promised to return Andy Hebenton to him, then used Andy in a deal along with Pat Stapleton. He expected to lose Stapleton. The Bucks now own most of the players remaining on their roster and may go as an independent. One they do not own, goalie Dave Kelly, may wind up in Rochester.Boston traded Hebenton, Stapleton and Orland Kurtenbach to Toronto for Ron Stewart. Chicago then drafted Stapleton from Toronto.The NHL did not show much interest in WHL talent at the draft meetings. Most of the players that were drafted will be reassigned by their NHL owners to new minor league homes.Stapleton, who should stick with Chicago, is an exception. Hebenton could bounce back to the NHL with Toronto, or could wind up in Victoria.In San Francisco, Poile had given up on veteran goalie Bob Perreault, who was drafted by Toronto, and acquired L.A. goalie Jack McCartan from Chicago to replace him. He also obtained former WHL winger Forbes Kennedy, 29, from Boston and drafted two defensemen, Harry Sinden, 27, and John Gravel, 22, from Minneapolis, Sinden, in particular, is a real good one, but may be permitted to continue to coach in the CPHL.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05279/2296727-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="1057" height="1461"><figcaption class="caption-body">New Los Angeles&rsquo; manager-coach LYNN PATRICK, left, talks with Toronto&rsquo;s manager-coach GEORGE (PUNCH) IMLACH during summer hockey sesssions at Montreal. Patrick has stepped down from the NHL to take over the Blades this season.</figcaption></div>Young defender Paul Jackson has been passed on to Chicago, while veteran pivot Ed Panagabko has retired to private business in San Francisco. Poile indicates he may make other trades, and is offering his stars around. He bid for L.A.&rsquo;s tempermental defender Howie Young, but was turned down, and in turn rejected a $30,000 offer for winger George Swarbrick. last season&rsquo;s WHL &ldquo;rookie of the year.&rdquo;Boston drafted Gerry Cheevers from Toronto&rsquo;s Rochester club to alternate with Ed Johnston in the nets and is returning Jack Norris to the L.A. nets. Patrick is looking for a second goalie and has been promised the use of Roy Edwards by Chicago in an emergency. Ke continued a four-player arrangement with Chicago, choosing to keep forwards Norm Johnson and Brian Smith and defenseman Jake Hendrickson, who passed a late-season trial, and added defenseman Bob Wilson, 31. from Buffalo. He returned forward Merv Kuryluk and veteran defensemen Jack Evans and Lloyd Haddon to Chicago.The Blades also drafted 33-year-old Jerry Toppazzini, who played with Pittsburgh in the AHL last season after 12 seasons in the NHL, and obtained left-wing amateurs Bill Orbin from Ft. Wayne of the International League and Dave Armstrong from Clinton of the Eastern League. In goal-scoring last season, Armstrong had 31, Orbin 25, Toppazzini 15. New-coach Patrick is also trying to lure 35-year-old Fleming Mackell out of retirement and wants to buy 31-year-old Chuck Holmes from Detroit. &#9632;

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WHL Teams Given Face Lifting With Many Front-Office Changes

PORTLAND, Ore.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06229/2296765-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="272" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hal Laycoe</figcaption></div>Hal Laycoe, coach of the Western Hockey League champion Portland Buckaroos, has signed a new three-year contract.Managing director Harry Glickman said Laycoe had been given an increase in pay. He was the man responsible for building the Buckaroos into a power club in the WHL through his astute player manipulations.Laycoe is the second WHL coach to be handed a new contract.Bud Poile had a new three-year contract to coach and manage San Francisco Seals.The new pact for the veteran hockey mentor was announced by Seals&rsquo; president Mel Swig.He also announced that the arena floor of the Cow Palace would be lowered and the seating capacity increased from 13,786 to 14,186.Training for the Seals will open Sept. 22 or Sept. 23 in Edmonton. &#9632;

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Poile, Laycoe Stay In WHL With New 3-Year Contracts

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div><h2>Expansion Delay May Hurt</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01605/2296696-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="293" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bud Poile</figcaption></div>THE LONG-AWAITED, BUT inevitable expansion seems close to reality now. The NHL has approved a six-team sister division, but has announced it will not begin play until the fall of 1967 or 1968. Fans in Los Angeles and St. Louis, the only two new cities approved so far, would have preferred being added to the present NHL. They&rsquo;ll settle for what they got, but regret the delay, which may make lame-duck franchises of their existing minor-league operations.It appears that NHL officials narrowed their list of expansion prospects on the basis of population, potential and geographical location, not on the cities&rsquo; history of success in pro hockey. Of the 10 cities on the final list, Houston and Washington have no hockey teams, Philadelphia has had only an amateur team in recent years, while Baltimore and Minneapolis only recently graduated to pro status.Vancouver has had trouble sticking in the Western League. Its arena is small and old, and voters rejected a plan to build a new arena at the last election. Presumably, the NHL wants a Canadian city in the new division at all costs.L.A. and San Francisco qualify on most counts, but so does Seattle, which was ignored. Portland was also ignored, presumably because its arena holds only 10,500, but the Bucks have led the Western clubs and possibly all minor league clubs in attendance in recent years. Seattle and Portland interests are understandably bitter and deserve a recount.There is some uncertainty as to which groups in L.A. and S.F. have the inside track on new franchises. Lumber magnate Jim Piggott of Saskatoon and NFL Ram owner Dan Reeves, co-owners of the existing L.A. Blades, are opposed by a combine headed by exToronto baseball owner Jack Cooke, the Canadian who now lives in Beverly Hills, owns a luxury hotel and operates American Cablevision Co., a coxial TV concern, there, and is a director of the NFL Washington team.<h2>Crosby Opposes Seals&rsquo; Group</h2>FAIRMONT HOTEL HEIR MEL Swig and George Flaherty, president of Shasta Corp., owners of the Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies, which recently purchased 50 per cent of the incumbent S. F. Seals, face a rival bid from a group headed by star Bing Crosby, Barry Von Gerbig of New York. Detroit Tiger stockholder George Coleman of California, and Chris-Craft Industries chairman Virgil Sherrill of Oakland.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02533/2296689-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="282" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Flaherty</figcaption></div>Swig and his Shasta partners would continue play in the 12,600-seat Cow Palace, possibly expanding to 14,000 seats, while waiting a long-planned new civic arena. The rival group would set up shop in a new 13,000-seat arena, which is part of the now-rising $25 million Oakland Coliseum Complex. A new 50,000-seat outdoor stadium to be used by the AFL Raiders and maybe a big league baseball team is also part of the complex.When it gets rolling, the &ldquo;new&rdquo; NHL will play a 74-game sche-dule with each team meeting each team in the other division four times. The playoff winners of each division will meet in a &ldquo;super&rdquo; Stanley Cup final. Meanwhile, the Western and American Leagues have set up an interlocking schedule for the coming season with 72-game slates, but no inter-league playoff final for the time being. The way it is set up, each league will play 36 games against the other league. Each Western city will see six of the nine AHL teams, while each American city will see four of the six NHL teams. It would have been far better if each team could have visited each city at least once, but it was not worked out that way.The WHL and AHL are seeking a U.S. national-TV contract but that will probably have to wait on the &ldquo;new&rdquo; NHL.In any event, the teams which do not go &ldquo;big league&rdquo; from the present 15 in the two leagues will be a strong nucleus for one two-division league or two sister leagues in the impending minor-league realignment. One city which feels its chance for a top-minor franchise was boosted by the expansion plan in San Diego, which has had its scheduled entrance into the WHL delayed until 1966 &ldquo;Franchise-holder&rdquo; Bob Breitbard insists a new arena will be built in the city, but no action has been taken as yet.<h2>No NHL Teams To Travel West</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03445/2296682-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="296" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack McCartan</figcaption></div>NHL TEAMS ARE TRAINING in the East this fall, so no exhibition games on the West Coast are expected. Far West fans will see big league hockey only in their dreams for the time being&hellip;Bud Poile, who blames the Seals fall from championship status on last season&rsquo;s soft home-town training routine, has moved back to Edmonton for pre-season camp, which opens Sept. 21.In San Francisco, GM-Coach Poile said he had been promised his load would be lightened as others would handle the business chores, but laughed, &ldquo;It hasn&rsquo;t happened yet.&rdquo; Bud drafted player-coach Harry Sinden from the Central League, but may not keep him. &ldquo;He wants to continue coaching, so we may let him. You can&rsquo;t be cruel all the time, even in this business,&rdquo; Bud said. Although he will also have young Henry Goy and Doug Favell in camp, he expects Jack McCartan from the Blades to be his full-time goalie. &ldquo;I was very impressed with him last year, although his record isn&rsquo;t good,&rdquo; Bud explained. &ldquo;He kept working hard even when he was losing by a big score, and he won some games in Portland, which is hard.&rdquo;He regretted losing Paul Jackson to the Chicago farm system, but admitted, &ldquo;The fans in San Francisco were so down on Paul that there was little chance he would realize his fine potential.&rdquo;&hellip;Bud said he is going to continue to try to get Howie Young from L.A. But, new Blade coach Lynn Patrick said he wants to keep Howie. &ldquo;Every coach wants to try their luck with him and I&rsquo;m no different,&rdquo; Lynn explained. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s one of the ten best defensemen in the world when he&rsquo;s playing well, and when he&rsquo;s not playing well, I just won&rsquo;t play him, I&rsquo;ve heard Babe Ruth was tough to handle, too.&rdquo; When it was pointed out Ruth at least showed up for the games, Lynn just laughed. Meanwhile, Young has been working out at a Lake Tahoe casino as a croupier while sitting out a six-week Nevada divorce stay. &#9632;

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Western Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY MATT DENNIS</div>DETROIT, Mich.When the Central Professional Hockey League commences its third season of operation this fall, two new cities will be represented in the six-club circuit.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01589/2296796-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="256" height="394"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Levins</figcaption></div>The Minneapolis franchise has been moved by the parent Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League to Oklahoma City where a brand new arena will house the CPHL club.In late June, Sammy Pollock, general manager of the NHL Montreal Canadiens, announced that they would move the C.P. H.L. club from Omaha, Neb. Negotiations were immediately begun for location in the State of Texas. Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston were the three cities cited as &ldquo;possibilities&rdquo; with Houston getting the nod.For the past two seasons, the Minneapolis club had trouble drawing fans and on March 31, Walter L. Bush Jr., president of the Minneapolis Club of which the Boston Bruins own 51%, announced that a CPHL team would not be operated in Minneapolis in the 1965-66 season.&ldquo;It is with extreme regret that this announcement is made. We wish to thank the fans and boosters who have so loyally supported us. The obvious facts are that there is not enough interest in Minneapolis to support a team of the Bruins&rsquo; caliber and we had to concur with Boston&rsquo;s decision to relocate,&rdquo; said Bush.In looking at the attendance figures, it was revealed that in 33 home games only 38,142 tans made their way through the turnstiles. This averaged out to 1,164 per game. Two contests were transferred to Jackson, Miss., where 3,997 attendance was reported.Overall, the Bruins drew 42,409 fans in 35 appearances with receipts at less than $75,000. It had been estimated a break-even point would have been an average attendance of 2,800 and receipts around the $200,000 mark.So actually, it was no surprise when Oklahoma City was announced as the new home for the club.Jim Roederer, an enterprising sports and business executive, is president of the Oklahoma City club and has announced that plans call for the brand new 10,000 seatingcapacity arena to be completed by Aug. 16. Bill Levins, general manager of the Minneapolis team, has moved to Oklahoma City in the same role.A civicminded executive, Roederer was instrumental in bringing Triple A baseball to Oklahoma City and is president of the &rsquo;89ers, a farm club of the Houston Astros of the National League.Also an executive in the Houston major league operation, Roederer is an enthusiastic booster for professional sport and is a director of the Pacific Coast Baseball League.&ldquo;No matter what game it is, we have to give the fans something worthwhile. I have found that Oklahoma City sport enthusiasts are fair in their appraisal and feel confident that they will find hockey of the Central Pro League caliber their kind of winter entertainment. Boston Bruins will help us build a strong club, remember the team moving in here made the playoff last spring, and we believe our building, constructed with the fans&rsquo; convenience in mind, including plenty of parking space, will make us a strong-drawing club in the circuit,&rdquo; commented Roederer.The Omaha Knights, league and playoff champions in the 1963-64 season, attracted 101,870 customers to their Ak-Sar-Ben arena home last season.As Don and Rod Morrison, former pro players, left the executive ranks of the club, Jerry DeLise assumed the mantle of general manager. DeLise also holds the general manager reins of the Muskegon Zephyrs of the International League. &#9632;

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Omaha Knights’ Franchise Headed For Houston

MEMPHIS, Tenn.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02561/2296827-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="260" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Mitchell</figcaption></div>The Central Professional Hockey League will have only one coaching change this season.The Memphis Red Wings will name a successo&rsquo;r to Eddie Bush, who recently moved up to take over the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League.New Memphis general manager Johnny Mitchell is expected to make the announcement after conferring with Bruce Norris, owner of the Detroit Red Wings and manager coach Sid Abel.Mitchell, 58, former National Hockey League referee and one-time American League coach, was named Memphis GM by the Detroit club, who operate the CPHL Wings&rsquo; franchise. Mitchell has served as assist-ant to Abel at Detroit since 1962.Mitchell refereed in the NHL from 1932 to 1937 and later coached AHL teams at Springfield, Buffalo and Providence. He also coached Johnstown in the Eastern Hockey League.Bush, in his first term last season in the pro ranks, guided the Wings to a fifth-place finish. Unable to play before their home fans until December, they fell into a slump, never fully recovered and missed the playoffs.It is expected Rudy Migay will return to the Tulsa Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; farm club and Gus Kyle will be behind the bench again for the St. Louis Braves, guiding the Chicago Black Hawk farmhands.Harry Sinden, coach of Minneapolis was drafted by San Francisco of the Western League at the annual meeting at Montreal but it is likely he will handle the playing-coach role of his former team at their new Oklahoma City site.Bill McCreary will be coaching the Montreal Canadiens farm club wherever it is located in Texas according to word from Montreal. The Canadiens have decided to move their Omaha operators to a Texas city this season.Fred Shero has been rehired by the New York Rangers to again guide their CPHL entry&mdash;which this season will be known as the Minnesota Rangers. The team was called the St. Paul Rangers when it won the Adams Cup championship under Shero.Shero has coached St. Paul teams the last six seasons. Before that, he was coach at Shawinigan Falls in the Quebec League. A native of Winnipeg, Shero played in the National, American and Western leagues.Meanwhile in discussing the latest moves in his Central League president Jack Adams commented:&ldquo;With Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; decision to move the Omaha club into Texas, we are moving further south and in that way providing more opportunity for fans to witness our game. We are the only pro hockey club in that large state and Houston. Dallas and Fort Worth interests are wanting hockey and it is only a case of coming up with the most desirable location.&ldquo;Now we will have both Tulsa and Oklahoma City representing the State of Oklahoma in the League. The game, of the pro caliber, is expanding into new areas due to the U.S. sport fans wanting to see more of it.&ldquo;In Oklahoma City, we have a strong hockey enthusiast in E. L. (Jim) Roederer, president of the team. His experience in professional sport will be an advantage for hockey and we look forward to a successful season in the new building.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Johnny Mitchell Named New GM Of Memphis

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.Eddie Panagabko, captain of the San Francisco Seals of the Western Hockey League for the past three seasons, has announced his retirement from professional hockey.Panagabko, who led the Seals to two WHL championships in the past three years, and he has accepted a permanent position with a brewing company. He has been employed as a part-time representative of the firm for the past two years.Turning pro in 1955 when he joined the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, Panagabko played in Boston, Hershey and Los Angeles before joining the Seals in 1962.Always finishing high in the scoring column, his best year in pro hockey was in 1962 when he scored 31 goals and 47 assists to lead San Francisco to its first WHL title. &#9632;

Ed Panagabko Quits Pro Hockey

VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;Max McNab, general manager of the Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League, is counting his blessings.McNab had a reservation on an illfated Canadian Pacific Airlines plane which exploded and crashed July 8 killing all 52 persons aboard. A planted bomb has been suspected.The Vancouver GM had been asked by the Prince George, B.C., junior hockey club to participate in a hockey school at that city, which started July 8.McNab&rsquo;s reservation for the flight was made three weeks in adavnce, but he said the Coliseum issue in Vancouver and City&rsquo;s bid for a National Hockey League franchise resulted in his cancelling the reservation.It was one decision McNab will never regret making. &#9632;

McNab Cancels Air Reservation Plane Crashes

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03500/2296913-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="487" height="827"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK SHATTO</figcaption></div>FOLLOW THE STARS EVERY WEEKBe a regular reader of Canada&rsquo;s breezy, fact-filled football weekly. This outstanding football newspaper will be starting its 15th year of publication. Every pro team in Canada is covered thoroughly each week by the nation&rsquo;s foremost football writers.GAME BY GAME STATISTICS &bull; CARTOONS &bull; REPORTS ON U.S. PRO LEAGUES BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOGRAPHS &bull; BEST FOOTBALL COLUMNS IN COUNTRY<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04429/2296906-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="1637" height="652"></div> &#9632;

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CANADIAN FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div>COMMACK. N. Y.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01604/2296944-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="266" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Len Gaudette</figcaption></div>Joy reigns here among the fans of the Long Island Ducks for the threat of the loss of their Eastern Hockey League team has all but vanished through some last ditch man euvering.Although all the details were not ironed out, the Ducks definitely will remain here where they were supported so handsomely the last few years by the rabid fans. Threats of moving the club to St. Petersburg, Fla., Syracuse and Philadelphia are now dead since owner Al Baron has been able to work out a deal satisfactory to the club and to the new owners of the Commack Arena.Here&rsquo;s what happened. The arena has been sold tentatively to a new group by Whitey Carlson, the man whose rental terms made Baron want to move the Ducks. The new group has worked out a deal with the Ducks to stay at the Arena, and everyone is happy on all sides. The final wrinkles of the sale of the club and terms of the lease have to be finalized, but there is so much harmony in the talks that there is little doubt everything will be completed. This attitude is in marked contrast to the earlier negotiations between Baron and Carlson in which both sides were adamant about their respective stands.The Ducks are expected to wind up with a long term lease on the building for ice hockey and also to share in several other phases of the revenue. In any event, they will stay and thus the EHL will consist of equal five team divisions&mdash;Jersey, Johnstown, Clinton, New Haven and the Ducks in the North and Greensboro, Knoxville, Jacksonville, Nashville and Charlotte in the south.The league was an 11-team circuit a year ago, but the New York Rovers officially pulled out of the 1965-66 season at the recent Pittsburgh meeting. The Rovers asked for a year&rsquo;s leave of absence from the loop mainly because of their difficulty&rsquo; in securing a place to play the games they couldn&rsquo;t play in Madison Square Garden. The Rovers have expressed hopes that they will be back in action in the 1966-67 campaign and that&rsquo;s why the league overlooked the by-laws and gave them the special leave of absence.Five of the Rovers players were purchased by Knoxville who in turn dropped five of their men on waivers. The most popular of the Knights quintet was Eddie Burr, defenseman from Galt, Ont., who was claimed by several clubs but eventually was awarded to Greensboro which was sorely in need of backliners.In other action at the league meeting, Jacksonville announced that it will play six of its home games at St. Petersburg to more or less indoctrinate the city in EHL play. St. Petersburg interests are eager to enter the loop and the half dozen trial games should give the potential owners an idea of the popularity of the sport in the city.The schedule has been changed next season to move back to an Oct. 20 start instead of the original proposed Oct. 27 date. Play will continue through Mar. 13 over a 72-game card. The playoffs in each division will pit the first place team against the fourth club and the second versus the third. The winners will clash for the division title and then the two division champions will meet for the EHL crown. The length of the various series will be determined at later league meetings.The schedule has been worked out so that eight of the ten clubs will meet their division rivals 29 times at home and 29 on the the road. Four opposite division rivals will be met once at home and once on the road. The fifth opposite division foe will be faced six times, three home and three away. For example, Clinton will oppose Greensboro six times. The only deviations are the logs for Long Island and Jacksonville. They will clash eight times, while meeting other own division rivals 56 times (28 home and 28 away) and opposite division foes eight times (four home and four on the road).Training camp will open on Oct. 10 and each team can register 20 men up to the opening game when they must cut down to 13.Other news finds Len Gaudette taking over as general manager of the Jersey Devils. His appointment follows a change in Devils ownership in which Bill Conway&rsquo;s group took over for a 100 percent South Jersey ownership. Bud Dudley, ex-Philly Ramblers president and GM and the man who more or less ran the Devils last year, is now out of the picture. Gaudette, who started last season at New Haven and later became manager of the Cherry Hill Arena, is now negotiating with last season&rsquo;s pilot, Pat Kelly.Ray Miron is also gone from the Knoxville scene too. The ex-Knights GM served as director of player personnel for the club this past season even though he was simultaneously serving as GM at Tulsa. &#9632;

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Ducks Complete Deal To Stay In Long Island; New York Rovers Withdraw From Loop For Year

HAMILTON, N. Y.Ronald M. Ryan, a former All-America hockey player at Colby College, has been appointed varsity hockey coach at Colgate University, according to Athletic Director Everett D. Barnes.Ryan also will coach soccer and freshman golf and will serve as an instructor in physical education, Barnes said.He succeeds Olav B. Kollevoll, hockey coach since 1959, who has become director of athletics at Lafayette College.Ryan has served for the past year as coach of hockey and golf at Merrimack College, North Andover, Mass., and was to have inaugurated a soccer program there next fall.He coached the hockey club at the University of Pennsylvania from 1962-64 while earning his master of science degree in education (counselling) from that institution.A native of Welland, Ontario, he received a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Colby College, Waterville, Maine in 1962.While an undergraduate, he won All New England and All East honors in hockey and was named to the All America team in 1962. The same year, he led the East in scoring and was the most valuable player in New England. His coach, John Kelley, was voted Coach of the Year for that season and shortly afterward became coach at Boston University.He inherits a hockey program that has produced some of the most successful teams in Colgate&rsquo;s sports history. Over the last four years, the Red Raiders compiled a 65-34 record including a high-water mark of 19-8 in the 1963-64 season. &#9632;

Ex-All America Ronald Ryan Named Colgate Hockey Coach

HOUGHTON, Mich.The Western Collegiate Hockey Association will undergo a &lsquo;face lifting&rsquo; before the 1965-66 season rolls around.Athletic directors, coaches and faculty advisers met in Chicago and when the conference adjourned, the WCHA had been revamped with an entirely new format for the next two years.A team was added, a new playoff system devised, a new way of awarding the MacNaughton Cup, new officials&rsquo; standards and assignments, and much more.Here&rsquo;s what took place:1. University of Minnesota-Duluth Branch was admitted to the WCHA to bring league membership to eight teams (Colorado College, Denver, Michigan State, Michigan Tech, U. of Michigan, Minnesota, UMD and North Dakota). UMD, a member of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, will continue to play all other sports in the MIAC. UMD will play a full schedule of WCHA games and become a regular league member starting with the 1965-66 season. Ralph Romano is the head hockey coach at Minnesota-Duluth.2. The MacNaughton Cup, symbolic of the WCHA champion decided on a playoff basis among the top four teams in the final league standings each year, will now be awarded to the regular season winner&hellip;the team with the highest wonloss record on a percentage basis. Not all teams in the league play the same number of games. The highest number scheduled for the coming season is 22 and the lowest 18.3. Each team, at a league game, must dress a spare goal-tender.4. The WCHA will go with two referees and no linesmen from now on. Each referee will have the same powers to call penalties and any other rule infractions. This two-man referee system is presently used at the NCAA Tournament and has proved to be satisfactory.5. And now the big one. The WCHA has been divided into East and West divisions for playoff determination. Each team will automatically be in the playoffs regardless of where it finishes in the final regular season standings. The East will be MTU, UMD, Michigan State and Michigan. For the next two seasons, Michigan Tech will meet Minnesota-Duluth and Michigan State will play Michigan in a one-game match. The winners will then meet in another one-game match. The final winner will be sent to the NCAA Tournament. The same situation holds true for the Western division. Minnesota will play North Dakota and Colorado College will meet Denver with the winners colliding in another one-game match.This coming year, UMD will play at Tech with the winner going to either MSU or Michigan for the final. The following year sites will be reversed with the initial opponents remaining the same. This means all teams will be in the single elimination playoffs with oppon ents already picked. The same holds true for the Western division. &#9632;

New Playoff Format As WCHA Revamped

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The fifth annual ECAC holiday hockey festival will be held at Madison Square Garden, next December 19, 21, and 22, it was announced by Asa Bushnell, commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference.Yale and Colgate will each be making their first appearance in the festival, joining defending champion Northeastern, Boston College, St. Lawrence and Cornell in the battle for the John Reed Kilpatrick Memorial Trophy.&ldquo;The ECAC Festival has become increasingly popular each season.&rdquo; Commissioner Bushnell said, &ldquo;and, with the caliber of this year&rsquo;s teams, we&rsquo;re confident the upcoming tournament will be the most successful to date.&rdquo;The Festival opens with a doubleheader on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 19th. The semi-final round Tuesday evening, Dec. 21, matches the two seeded teams with Sunday afternoon&rsquo;s winners. The championship game, along with a contest for third place, will be held Wednesday night. Dec. 22. &#9632;

ECAC Sets NY Garden Ice Dates

HOUGHTON, Mich.&mdash;Michigan Tech has been invited to play in the Boston Christmas Hockey Tournament next December 27-28-29 at Boston.MTU Athletic Director Alan J. Bovard said signed contracts have been received for the Huskies to play in the tournament.Michigan Tech and the University of Michigan will represent the West while host schools Boston University and Northeastern University will represent the East.The tournament will be held at the Boston Arena and is an annual affair which is regarded as the premium collegiate hockey show of the East each year. &#9632;

Michigan Tech In Tournament

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01601/2297071-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN NEXT MONTH&rsquo;S ISSUE</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1. Pictured NHL goaltender who recently retired.6. Initials of a Montreal forward.8. Month in which Canadiens won the Stanley Cup (abbr.)9. &ldquo;Ted&rdquo; Green&rsquo;s initials.10. Exclamation!11. Position Hay Emms now has with the Bruins.14. A predecessor of Emms.15. Given name of Habs&rsquo; Picard.16. Denotes number worn by Fred Stanfield.17. Red Kelly bought one recently.18. Vegetable often eaten by hockeyists on game days (sing.)19. Players often have bruises on one.20. 3rd and 14th letters of the alphabet.21. Most teams now&mdash;two goalkeepers.22. Month in which Dave Balon was born (abbr.)23. League in which Bill Chadwick once refereed (abbr.)24. This player scored 21 goals for Buffalo last season.26. Pictured star&rsquo;s height is six&mdash;(abbr.)27. 11th and 12th letters of the alphabet.28. Given name of Hap Emms31. Initials of a Black Hawk checker.32. Mrs. Bobby Hull was once noted as one.<h3>DOWN</h3>1. New manager-coach of Los Angeles.2. Initials of 1 down.3. This NHL captain recently returned from a tour of Israel.4. Number of playoff goals Bobby Hull scored last spring.5. This AHL coach formerly starred in the NHL.6. Goalkeeper recently drafted by Boston.7. Where Red Kelly spends much of his time.12. Initials of a Toronto rearguard.13. Depart.18. Given name of Ronty, ex-NHL player.20. AHL&rsquo;s top rookie of 1964-65 season.22. Jacques Laperriere fractured one last spring.24. Marcel Pronovost owns two of these.25. Native province of Earl Ingarfield (abbr.)26. Clarence Campbell often im poses one upon a player.29. 8th and 11th letters of the alphabet.30. Initials of Tessier, former Bruin. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div>FORT WAYNE, Ind.There may still be a wholesale shifting of players in the International Hockey League before the season opens, but it didn&rsquo;t transpire at the annual draft session of the league.It was one of the lightest draft sessions in years. It having previously been decided that each club could protect 13 of the players on its roster, few players were un for grabs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02554/2297109-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="281" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cliff Bristow</figcaption></div>Dayton drafted right wing Gerry Moore from Port Huron and dropped center Cliff Bristow. Toledo drafted center Jim Sanko, who was the property of Des Moines but who played for Windsor last season. The Blades placed left wing Don Curry in the pool.After three rounds of passes, Bristow and Curry were not claimed, so they remained with the same clubs.The champion Fort Wayne Komets did not lose any players in the draft, since defenseman Lionel Repka and goalie Chuck Adamson had already announced they were quitting the game to take up full time employment and the remainder of the roster was automatically protected.An extensive player upheaval was still expected in Muskegon, where owner and general manager Jerry DeLise announced he was planning to keep only six of last season&rsquo;s Zephyrs.The IHL, in other action, rehired Commissioner Andy Mulligan at an increase in salary. Owen Fleming of Des Moines was named first vicepresident and Lefty McFadden of Dayton second vice-president. Joe Burns of Dayton was appointed secretary-publicist, succeeding Howie Newstate of Cincinnati.The league adopted a disaster plan, whereby a team could rebuild through a draft system from other teams should it lost a number of players through an accident.Also, the league voted to extend the goal crease line from eight to 12 feet, with no icing called should the goalie fail to play the puck in this area. League officials estimated that the new line will eliminate from four to five whistles a game.The IHL will have the same circuit as last year&mdash;Fort Wayne, Port Huron, Toledo, Des Moines, Dayton and Muskegon.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03478/2297102-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="1084" height="1232"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHUCK ADAMSON&hellip;Fort Wayne Goalie Retires</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Light Draft Experienced By League; DeLise To Clean Out Muskegon

TOLEDO, O.One of the major changes for the 1965-66 season was made when the IHL officials decided on a rules change in an effort to speed up the game.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had too many icing calls,&rdquo; Commissioner Andy Mulligan explained. &ldquo;Every time the puck was sent the length of the ice, icing was called and play was stopped for a face-off. We voted to speed up the game by attempting to limit the number of icings. A line will be made on the ice three feet on either side of the goalposts. A goalie will have to clear the puck away from his net if it is in this area, or if the puck passes through this area, no icing will be called and the puck will be in play.&rdquo;In another bid to keep the game moving, Mulligan said, &ldquo;Should the attacking team be offside during a face-off in the defenders zone, then the next face-off would be moved outside the blue line.&rdquo; &#9632;

IHL Makes Two Rule Changes To Speed Up Play Next Year

MELVILLE. Sask.&mdash;Jackie McLeod. who once played in the National Hockey League for New York Rangers, has been hired as managercoach of Canada&rsquo;s national hockey team.The ex-NHL performer, a native of Swift Current. Sask., will assume his dual position with the Canadian team in September at Winnipeg, where McLeod will whip his squad into condition for entry in the 1966 world hockey championships in Yugoslavia next March.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0134/2297164-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="280" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jackie McLeod</figcaption></div>McLeod joined New York Rangers of the National Hockey League in 1949 after playing for Moose Jaw Canucks of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.He also played for Cincinnati of the American Hockey League and for Saskatoon. Vancouver and Calgary of the former Western Hockey League.He was granted amateur status by the CAHA in 1960. Since then he has played senior hockey in Saskatchewan and participated in three world tournaments and an exhibition tour of Europe with the Saskatoon Quakers in 1962-63.Last season, he coached the Canucks in the SJHL.Gordon Juckes, secretarymanager of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, who announced McLeod&rsquo;s signing, said that McLeod was chosen from among several top hockey coaching prospects.Jim Gregory, who coached Toronto Marlboros the last few years with outstanding success, was reportedly first in line for the job but declined the offer in order to remain in the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; organization. &#9632;

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Nationals Get McLeod As Coach

TORONTO, Ont.Canada&rsquo;s organized hockey population surpassed 200,000 last year for the first time in history.A registration report showed total CAHA registrations and affiliations of 221,846, an increase of more than 30,000 from 1963-64.The 1963-64 hockey population was 187,030. he said, and in 1960-61 it was 129,000. &#9632;

CAHA Registration PASSES 200,000 MARK

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.At least three new coaches will be included in the Ontario Hockey Association junior A league when the season opens in October.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0236/2297226-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="260" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Armstrong</figcaption></div>Newest coaching addition to the OHA is Armand (Bep) Guidolin, 38-year-old one-time National Hockey Leaguer with Detroit and Chicago, who will take over the Oshawa Generals.Guidolin, a 10-year man in the NHL, replaces Jim Cherry, who has been at the helm of the Oshawa team for the past two years.While the Generals were busily engaging Guidolin, the Peter-borough Petes appear to be in line for a new coach and it won&rsquo;t be Bob Armstrong according to the ex-Boston Bruins defenseman.Armstrong denied he will coach the Petes, who have announced that Frank Mario will not be rehired next season. Mario has been guiding the Petes for the last three seasons.Armstrong, attending Western University on a summer course, said he knew nothing of the Peterborough offer.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m quite happy where I am. I am committed to teach this year. I haven&rsquo;t talked to anybody and nobody has talked to me at all about coaching. I couldn&rsquo;t coach anyway.&rdquo;Armstrong is a teacher at Grove Preparatory School at Lakefield, near Peterborough.With the Peterborough job open, the OHA coaching picture will be changed considerably for the 1965-66 season. Rudy Pilous will be at Hamilton as manager-coach, Wally Kullman will replace Butch Martin at Kitchener and Guidolin will be new at Oshawa.Pilous replaces Danny Lewicki, who, in his one season with the Hamilton club, finished in last place in the eight-team group.Sid Bibby, president of the Detroit-sponsored Hamilton club, said that he was &lsquo;&lsquo;overjoyed&rdquo; at the prospect of having Pilous in Hamilton.&ldquo;We are fortunate in having a man of his ability back in junior A hockey,&rdquo; said Bibby. &ldquo;And of course I&rsquo;m particularly happy that we got him in Hamilton.&rdquo;Pilous started his coaching career in St. Catharines, organizing and coaching the first junior A club in the Garden City in the 1943-44 season.After a three-year stint in minor pro hockey in the United States he returned to St. Catharines in 1950-51 as coach and manager&hellip;and later as team owner.Six of his st. Catharines teams finished in first place in the OHA junior A circuit and his clubs won the Memorial Cup in 1954 and 1960&hellip;both times over Edmonton Oil Kings.Pilous coached the NHL Hawks for more than five years and. with the exception of the first season, when he handled them only from Jan. 1, they never missed the playoffs.He still makes his home in St. Catharines and works for the Jockey Club in the summer in public relations.The chief reason for him returning to junior hockey was being closer to his home.&ldquo;I enjoyed my two seasons with the Leaf farm teams in Denver and Victoria,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But seven months every year is a long time to be away from my wife and family.&rdquo;The Hamilton Forum, site of the Red Wing home games, is only a 45-minute trip from his St. Catharines home.Guidolin, a native of Timmins, was one of the youngest players to compete in the National Hockey League.Guidolin also played with Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks in his 10-year NHL career. He has been the playing coach of several Ontario and Quebec senior teams including the Allan Cup-winning Belleville McFarlands of 1958.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0329/2297219-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="529" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body">BEP GUIDOLIN&hellip;takes over Generals</figcaption></div>He has been a Bruin scout in Northern Ontario and last season coached Windsor Spitfires of the OHA junior B series.Kitchener Rangers, who have never made the playoffs since joining the junior A league three years ago, released Martin and brought in Kullman, one-time minor professional player.Martin, an outstanding defenceman with Kitchener senior teams, handled the team just one season after replacing Steve Brklacich, the 1963-64 coach.The Rangers, generally predicted to finish last, were in the running for a playoff position until their final game last season. However, a loss on home ice to St. Catharines Black Hawks cost them sixth position and they finished seventh.London Nationals, who have been seeking a junior A franchise ever since their new arena was built two years ago, finally gained entry at a special meeting of the junior A council.The council, formed of the owners of the eight teams, required a unanimous vote for any application for membership.Windsor, which last had a junior A team in 1953, also sought entry but was rejected, apparently because they had no NHL spon-sorship.However, with the backing of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who will supply the junior A talent, London was accepted.In two years of junior B hockey, London crowds have been larger than most clubs drew in junior A.The average last season was more than 4,000 and it is expected that at least 2,000 season tickets will be sold before the 1965-66 junior A schedule opens.Because of the new entry, which brings the number of teams up to nine, the schedule will be 48 games this year rather than 56 games as in the past two seasons. &#9632;

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Ex-NHL Star Guidolin Inked By Oshawa As Third Junior OHA Coaching Change

WINNIPEG, Man.The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, smitten over its failure to bring the world hockey championships to Canada for 1967, has decided to continue with a national hockey team next year.The CAHA said the team will be based here with ex-New York Ranger Jackie McLeod already signed as full-time manager-coach.The team will be built around a nucleus of young players from the 1965 national team, and all will live and train in Winnipeg from September until the spring championship tournament in Yugoslavia.The Canadian Nationals will also compete in the Denver international tournament against top world teams and in two European warm-up games on their way to Yugoslavia.Rev. David Bauer, coach of the 1964 National team and adviser to the 1965 squad, warned that Canada must start building a strong team and somehow keep it together to get experience.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think we can ever go over there again with anything less than the ability of an American Hockey League team,&rdquo; he said. The professional AHL is rated one notch below the National Hockey League.Canada&rsquo;s national team finished fourth in 1964 and 1965&mdash;behind Russia, Czechoslovakia and Sweden.Meanwhile, Lionel Fleury of Quebec, president of the CAHA, said he was personally miffed at the manner in which Canada was denied the 1967 world tournament.Outlining his reasons for Canada&rsquo;s failure in his report to the annual CAHA meeting in Victoria, Fleury said Canada lost its bid because Russia and Sweden reneged on a gentleman&rsquo;s agreement to vote in favor of Canada, which would have provided sufficient votes to win the nod. Instead Austria was awarded the games.Fleury said Czechoslovakia, which had indicated it would vote for Canada, complied when the vote was called. &ldquo;But some people had a change of heart,&rdquo; added Fleury in obvious reference to Russia and Sweden.Fleury announced Russia and Czechoslovakia have accepted invitations to send their national teams to Canada next year, and there is a possibility that the Swedish and Finnish national teams may also make tours.Canada will send one and possibly two teams to Europe, said Gordon Juckes, CAHA secretary-manager.Allan Cup champions Sherbrooke, Que., Beavers and runners-up Red Deer, Alta., Rustlers submitted applications to go on the tours. Mr. Juckes said there may be more applications before a team is selected.Another CAHA decision made it possible for ex-players from the NHL to be reinstated as amateurs without NHL approval. &#9632;

Father Bauer Says Canada Must Build; Nationals To Be Based In Winnipeg

KINGSTON, Ont.The first International Hockey Hall of Fame was opened here July 29th, 22 years after it was first granted the charter to build it.Plans to officially open the hall will be carried out next month when the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League come to this city to start their training camp. It will be Rangers&rsquo; first time in Kingston for training purposes.Leo LaFleur, chairman of the Memorial Centre Board, said the earlier opening had been planned to coincide with the summer tourist season.&ldquo;We are the only organization in the world which can use the title International Hockey Hall of Fame,&rdquo; he said.In September, 1943, a joint meeting of the NHL and Canadian Amateur Hockey Association granted the international charter to Kingston. A gentlemen&rsquo;s agreement has since existed that no one else would try to set up a similar hall.Two years ago, LaFleur said, officials in Toronto offered King-ston $5,000 for the charter which would have enabled Toronto to use the word international on its Hockey Hall of Fame.The price also included an offer for a book, containing the history of many members in the Hall of Fame. The book was printed by hand by a former Kingston sign painter.As for the hall itself, Mr. LaFleur said &ldquo;Our biggest holdup was securing the building.&rdquo;It took 18 years from the time James T. Sutherland, former president of the Ontario Hockey Association and Canadian Amateur Hockey Association received the charter for the hall in 1943 to the time a building was available in 1961.Inside the $141,000 building, the walls are covered with pictures of former hockey players named to the Hall of Fame and team pictures of every Stanley Cup winner since 1895.Other exhibits include the sweater Aubrey (Dit) Clapper wore in his final appearance with the Boston Bruins, the skates of Bill and Bun Cook of Kingston and those of Mike Rodden, former coach, referee and player.The original international hockey cup is also on display. Canada won the trophy in 1950. Shortly after, it was lost and found several years later in the back of a Toronto grocery store.Also in the hall is a trophy presented to a Canadian hockey club after a 1935 exhibition series in Japan. The cup is made of hammered brass and carries colored enamel flowers baked on the surface. &#9632;

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