WHL Summaries

Parise Gives Horvath New Scoring Lift

ROCHESTER. N.Y. — There’s no way a fellow named Jean-Paul Parise ever will be able to pass for a Ukrainian, but thanks to Parise it seems like the old Uke Line days again for Bronco Horvath of the Rochester Americans. Horvath was the center of Boston’s famous Uke Line in the late ’50s when he had hard-working Johnny Bucyk and Vic Stasiuk as his wingers. Those who saw Horvath tie for the National League goal scoring championship with 39 and miss the point title by one with 81 in 1959-60 recognized some of the old brilliance on the night of Sunday, Nov. 12, when the Amerks played the Cleveland Barons here. Amerk general manager-coach Joe Crozier hadn’t been too impressed by Horvath’s performances in the first 11 games of the season. He recalled how…

Hobs Give J.C. Whirl At Center

MONTREAL, Que.- J.C. Tremblay, who started his hockey career as a forward and failed, has been seeing duty at centre ice for the Montreal Canadiens. Toe Blake has been experimenting with the lantern-jawed rearguard as a pivot on powerplays, and giving him the odd whirl at centre on a couple of makeshift lines. “He hasn’t looked out of place, either, ” Blake said. “At least he looked as good up front as some of our other guys.” The kindly old coach was speaking with a degree of sarcasm, of course, because Habs were In the midst of a scoring drought when he made that statement. Tremblay, 28, Is In his seventh full season with Canadiens. He came up through the ranks of the Junior Habs, and originally played as a forward. He was considered too…

Collapse Of Netminders Keeping Phoenix Down

PHOENIX, Ariz.— There’s been talk about distorted war photographs ever since the days of World War I when the Germans were supposed to be cutting off the hands of the Belgians. But if you looked at Alf Pike, coach of the Phoenix Roadrunners, after a hockey game in Portland, you would have sworn that it was distortion in reverse. The way Pike was leaning dejectedly against the wall of his dressing room, you would have bet large amounts that there must have been at least a Viet Cong firing squad 20 paces away. Instead, it was his own hockey club in general and his own goalies in particular. On this specific evening, the Phoenix team had been bombed, 8-2, by the Portland Buckaroos. This indicates a rather lopsided margin of effort by one team over another. Right?…