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Flags Oust Muskegon In Playoff Upset; Des Moines, Dayton Advance With Wins

PORT HURON— No sixth place team has ever won the International Hockey League’s Turner Cup. Only one fourth place team, as a matter of fact, has ever captured the Cup. Indianapolis accomplished that in 1958, when the Chiefs beat Louisville, four games out of seven. But the current Port Huron Flags are in the process of rewriting the record book after they knocked off season champion Muskegon Mohawks in six games. It was an achievement reminiscent of the 1965 playoffs, when the Flags, finishing third, 15 points behind the champion Mohawks, eliminated them in four straight games. In some respects, this was even more of an upset then the series of six years ago. The Flags finished sixth, 30 points behind the Mohawks and had beaten them only four times in 12 tries,…

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Vet Morison Sparks Dallas Into Final Against Omaha

DALLAS — Two days after Cleland Lindsay Mortson celebrated his 37th birthday he gave himself and his Dallas Black Hawk teammates a belated present by leading them past Fort Worth and into the finals of the Central Hockey League championship playoffs. Mortson, more widely known by his nickname of Keke, was the most dominant force behind Dallas’ relatively easy four-game sweep of the Wings in the first round of the playoffs. The 37-vear-old veteran scored four goals, set up four others and in general seemed to mesmerize Fort Worth’s young skaters with his clever stick handling and perfect passing. Sent to the Hawks very late in the season as a replacement for traded Terry Caffery, Mortson immediately took over as team leader and coach Bobby Kromm credits Keke with making a very fine team…