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October 1, 1947

The Hockey News October 1, 1947

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IN THIS ISSUE

Training Camp Tune-Ups

Only four players have ever won both the Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanlike play and the Dr. David A. Hart Trophy as most valuable player to his team in the National Hockey League. They were Frank Nigh-bor of Ottawa Senators and Billy Burch of Hamilton in the early days of the awards, and Toe Blake of Montreal Canadiens and Max Bentley of Chicago in recent years. No player ever won both Cups in the same year. &#9632;

Double Winners

SHERBROOKE, Que&mdash;Sherbrooke&rsquo;s negro comets of the ice lanes, Manny McIntyre and linemate Ossie Carnegie have signed with the Paris Hockey Club of Paris, France, this season, according to the Canadian representative of the Paris Club, Jack Mousette.The celebrated Negro stars, who paced the Sherbrooke St. Francis club to the Provincial Hockey League title for the 1946-47 season and made such an impressive showing against the Allan Cup champion Montreal Royals in the Quebec final signed player contracts recently in Sherbrooke. They left in late August for Paris as the International League, of which Paris is a member, commences its schedule in mid-October.Before invading the Eastern Townships, the pair of Negro stars played with the BuffaloAnkerite Bisons in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Before that McIntyre, who hails from Fredericton, N. B., played with clubs in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia amateur circuits. &#9632;

Carnegie, McIntyre Shift Hockey Fortunes To France

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-011708/8058229-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">HAPPY YOUNGSTERS ALL are these members of last season&rsquo;s Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s, junior hockey champions of Canada. Under the direct ion of Rev. H. V. Mallon, second from left in centre row, St. Mike&rsquo;s swept aside all opposition in their rush to the Memorial Cup. They won 14 games in a row in playoffs in the Ontario Hockey Association, the All-Ontario and inter-provincial eliminations. Joe Primeau, coach of Irish colleg ians, is standing extreme right.</figcaption></div>&mdash;MONTREALThe Junior Amateur Hockey Association appears to be headed for one of the biggest seasons in its history. The Quebec circuit is taking on all the aspects of a &ldquo;big time&rdquo; outfit, akin to the status of the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Ontario Hockey Association group, and a good deal of the credit for its forward march can be traced to Frank Selke, the major domo of Montreal Canadiens.Selke realizes the value of a strong junior league, one where it is possible to groom and&rsquo; keep an eye on budding youngsters. While he was right-hand man to Conny Smythe in Toronto, Selke took a keen interest in the juniors. Many of the youngsters he &lsquo;spotted&rsquo; turned up later in Maple Leaf uniforms.When Selke took over as managing director of The Forum a year ago, he was forced to plunge Immediately into the task of operating Canadiens. In addition there were numerous other activities connected with the rink that required his full attention. As a result he wasn&rsquo;t able to devote as much time and effort to junior hockey as he would have liked.<h2>Arouss Interest</h2>But this season it has been different. Selke got his hand into the junior set-up from the start and things have been really humming. One interesting development is that the junior games, parts of them at least, are to be broadcast. In this way, it is intended to encourage public interest in the junior league.Selke disclosed at a league meeting September 11th that the last period of the first and second games that the juniors will play on Tuesday nights at the Forum will be put on the air. This undoubtedly marks a great advance in attempts to publicize junior hockey in this locality.Several league meeting were held following this and at one time it appeared as if ten teams would be on hand for the opening, but after all controversies had been settled. Sherbrooke was omitted from the junior plans and the legaue accepted Valleyfield, Three Rivers and Granby.&ldquo;The reason for dropping the Sherbrooke Club,&rdquo; President Alphonse Therrien disclosed, &ldquo;was because they refused to pay the visiting clubs $75 for travelling expenses.&rdquo;With all this out of the way, with nine teams in the loop, the J.A.H.A. will start the year They are, Canadiens, Royals. Verdun Cyclones, Verdun Maple Leafs Nationale, Lachine, Valleyfield, Three Rivers and Granby.<h2>The Iceman Cometh</h2>Elwyn (Moe) Morris of Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; Stanley Cup squad. doesn&rsquo;t get far away from the Ice at any time of the year. In the sumertime he keeps himself in condition lugging blocks of ice on his Toronto delivery route.<h2>Memorial Cup Champions &#9632;</h2>

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Quebec League Gets Air Time As ‘Pep’ Plan

MONTREAL&mdash;Hockey, once a wintertime sport associated with below-zero weather and high-piled banks of snow, may invade Cuba next, according to Ernesto Azua, sport director of the new Sports Palace in Havana.Here a few weeks ago for the National Boxing Association meetings, Azua said he was trying to arrange an exhibition series for next spring between Montreal Canadiens and a United States team, preferably New York Rangers. The series, if arranged, would be played after completion of the N.H.L. schedule and Stanley Cup playoffs.The idea is to test the reaction of the Cubans to the game, and if they go for it players would be imported from Canada and the U.S. to form a Cuban league, Azua said. There is an ice-making plant in the new arena, built about four years ago, but so far no ice has ever been laid down. Azua, who doubles in brass as a sports writer for El Mundo of Havana, also plans to bring ice revues to Cuba.If the hockey plan goes through it won&rsquo;t be too surprising at that. Already the game has taken a strong hold in California, Texas, and the southern States, where the teams often sweat it out with the temperature 80 or 90 in the shade in the spring months. &#9632;

Proposal Advanced For N.H.L. Teams To Play Spring Exhibitions In Havana

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>Though the official opening of the National Hockey League is still two weeks away, the teams have been going at it hammer and tongs in their training camps, readying for the 1947-48 season that promises to be a bumper one.It&rsquo;s a tough training grind the players have to go through now to prepare for the rugged 60-ga-me schedule that had its first test last season. Training started in mid-September for Detroit Red Wings, and the other clubs weren&rsquo;t far behind. Pre-season exhibition games against minor league teams complete training process, with Detroit having seven scheduled while Chicago Black Hawks are touring the Canadian west in a six-game series with their United States Hockey League farm team, the championship Kansas City Pla-Mors.<h2>CAMPS ABE PACKED</h2>All records tor jam-packed training camps probably were shattered this fall, as veterans, hopeful aspirants from the minors and a flock of youngsters eager to win their spurs jammed the training grounds. Red Wings led the parade easily, as 141 puckchasers turned out in the initial training camps at Saskatoon, Sask., and Waterloo. Ont. That number was pared down to about 100 when Wings and their farm teams returned to the Motor City to finish training.New York Rangers have 67 going through their paces at Lake Placid, N.Y., where the Broadway Blues are training under an entirely new steup, an entirely selfcontained camp in the Adiron-dacks where they live in lodges and have all their cooking done by their own staff.Though he has less than half the turnout that Wings produced, Coach Frankie Boucher of Rangers was observed watching his crop of veterans and youngsters with a bewildered and amazed expression on his face.&ldquo;I can remember the day when there were only that many professional hockey players in the whole world,&rdquo; observed Frank.<h2>LEAFS STAND PAT</h2>The world champion Toronto Maple Leafs will just about start the 1947-48 N. H. L. campaign intact. The Stanley Cup holders have been working out daily at St. Catherines, Ont., these past few weeks under the watchful eye of Conny Smythe. Happy Day, Bob Davidson and Squib Walker, chief Leaf scout, with four new players at the most, worthy of consideration for a regular post with the Leafs.The four under consideration are defencemen Phil Samis of Oshawa, Andy Barbe, a forward with Los Angeles last season, Howie Harvey of St. Mike&rsquo;s and Cy Huyck of Vibank, Sask., both goalkeepers.Tod Sloan, Fleming Mackell, Les Costello, Harry Taylor and Ike Hildebrand, highly-rated rookies are slated for the Pittsburgh Hornets. Other player cast-offs will go to the amateur Toronto Marl boros.The most impressive showing to date at the Montreal Canadiens pre-season training camp in the Montreal Forum has been the work of the amateur members of the Allan Cup champion Montreal Royals, who are seeking regular berths on the rebuilding plan of coach Dick Irvin.<h2>ROYAL RECRUITS IMPRESS</h2>Jacques Locas, Tod Campeau, Gerry Plamondon, Rip Riopelle, Busher Curry, and Doug Harvey have dazzled the railbirds with their early season play. Harvey looks like a sure starter on the Habitant rearguard along with Kenny Reardon, Butch Bouchard H. Laycoe obtained from Rangers, and Glen Harmon. Riopelle along with Joe Bell arid Bobby Carse have been contesting Toe Blake&rsquo;s left wing position on the Punch Line, Elmer Lach is back and looking better every day.The best looking unit in camp has been Jimmy Peters. Johnny Quilty and Carse. They have been scoring goals galore in the intercamp games to date.At Lake Placid the American League New Haven Ramblers and the amateur New York Rovers are also drilling with the Rangers. The New Yorkers will play their first exhibition game with the Ramblers on Saturday, October 4 before meeting Ottawa Senators, Shawinigan Falls & Quebec Aces prior to their onenlng N.H.L. game with Montreal Canadiens on October 16.<h2>O&rsquo;CONNOR GOING WELL</h2>Buddy O&rsquo;Connor and Frankie Eddolls, picked up from the Canadiens during the off-season, have impressed Boucher, who thinks they will benefit the Rangers considerably. Eddie Slowinski of Ottawa has been the leading amateur prospect to date along with Flash Gordon of the Rovers.If Coach Johnny Gottselig of the Chicago Black Hawks can find a couple of prospective professional defencemen among the many amateurs working out at Re gina, Sask., he will have solved the biggest problem that presently faces the Windy City puckmen. Defensively, the Hawks are weak. President Bill Tobin of Chicago is rumored prepared to offer one of his big-name forwards in a last-minute attempt to bolster his rearguard.Cy Thomas of Edmonton was the first amateur to sign a professional contract with the Hawks following his brilliant showing at camp.The Hawks will divide their players also among the Kansas City Pla-Mors and the Winnipeg Black Hawks, their two farm clubs.The largest squad in the history of the Detroit Red Wings four-team hockey organization, 100 players, are training with the hope of catching a place either with the Wings, Indiano-polis Caps, Omaha Knights or the Windsor Spitfires for the 1947-48 season.Tommy Ivan, new coach of the Red Wings, headed the western camp with the veteran Mud Bru-neteau assisting him. At Waterloo, recently named Indianapolis coach, Johnny Mowers, Manager Jack Adams and Chief Scout Car-son Cooper are hadling the 75 odd players in training.The best looking prospects to come out of the original number in training appear to be Max McNab a tall centre from Watson, Sask., and defenceman Leonard (Red) Kelly, last season with Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s.Boston Bruins, the last big league club to start training, open their pre-schedule tune-up at Hershey, Pa. October 1, along with the Bears of the American League.<h2>Park Teeth Here</h2>A paper cup for each player is standard equipment in professional hockey dressing rooms. They aren&rsquo;t necessarily for drinking either, since players use them as containers for their dentures while on the ice. Hockey stars have a habit of losing teeth.Rival Coaches Scrambling Lines In Hunt For Winning Combination &#9632;

Pro Teams In Swing Of Pre-Season Drills

<div class="byline">By JEFF BLADES</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-011607/8056984-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLARENCE CAMPBELL, president of the National Hockey League, ponders over the league schedule as he tries to fit playing dates in with available rink bookings. It&rsquo;s a tough job trying to satisfy everybody. ((Hockey News—Edmonds and Higgins))</figcaption></div>MONTREALA National Hockey League schedule isn&rsquo;t the kind of thing that somebody dreams up overnight.A great deal of time and work go into the preparation of a schedule. In fact, one season is barely over before the club magnates, rink officials and N. H. L. staff members put on their thinking caps, whip out calendars and get busy on the task of the schedule for the next season.Take the new schedule as an example. Last season&rsquo;s Stanley Cup final between Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens wound up on April 19 and almost immediately afterwards work was started on the schedule for the 1947-48 season. Four drafts were required before Clarence Campbell,. the N.H.L. president, found a schedule that was given an okay by all six clubs.The clubs start the ball rolling on a new schedule by submitting to the N. H. L. offices a list of &ldquo;possible&rdquo; dates for their home games. These lists, according to the N. H. L. by-laws, must be in the hands of the president by May 1. This means that there was only a lapse of 11 days last spring between the completion of the Stanley Cup championships and the time that Campbell went to work on the new schedule.Each club sets down 40 dates on its list from which Campbell must select the dates for the 30 home games played by each team. All the clubs have likes and dislikes which must be considered. Saturday, for instance, is a preferred home date for the Maple Leafs and Canadiens. The preferred date where the four American teams are concerned is Sunday.At one time Tuesday was a popular night with the clubs for games during the week but in recent years they have veered away from Tuesdays in favor of Wednesdays. Canadiens used to have a good number of Sunday night home dates, but last season they had only one, and this coming season they do not play a single game on Sunday. Circuses, ice shows, wrestling, basketball and boxing all enter into the picture when it comes to drawing up a hockey schedule since their&rsquo; dates must be considered.<h2>Circus Top Attraction</h2>Madison Square Garden regards the circus as its number one attraction. The circus is a big money maker, running at the Garden for close to a month with afternoon and evening performances. Every show is a sell-out, so it&rsquo;s simply a matter of good business that the Garden gives the circus right of way over all other events. Basketball and boxing also are top flight drawing cards in the New York sports palace, so they too eat up plenty of dates.Because it is often difficult to find open dates, New York Rangers had to face an extremely difficult period in the 1946-47 schedule. Over a stretch of nine days&mdash;from December 28 to January 5&mdash;the Rangers played seven games. It might have seemed like poor schedule arranging to a casual observer, but actually it was a case of no other solution being available. The games have to be played and the Rangers had to take the available dates.Campbell marks his draft schedules &ldquo;A&rdquo; &ldquo;B&rdquo;. &ldquo;C&rdquo; and so on. As already mentioned, the fourth draft&mdash;or Schedule &ldquo;D&rdquo;&mdash;was the one that was approved this season. That&rsquo;s about par for the course, since it generally takes three or four draftings before a schedule is found that gets general approval. But a monkey wrench can be tossed into the schedule machinery at the very last moment.The 1946-47 schedule is a case in point. The schedule had been approved and 10,000 copies already had come off the printing presses when Chicago sent an urgent message to the N. H. L. office. The schedule had called for Detroit to play at Toronto on Wednesday, December 18 and then at Chicago the following night. But the Black Hawks requested that they act as hosts to the Red Wings on the Wednesday date, with the Wings going on to Toronto for a game against the Maple Leafs the next night.Campbell checked the clubs involved, received assent to the changes and made the switch. The 10,000 copies were chucked out and a new run started.This season everybody in the N.H.L. office thought that schedule &ldquo;C&rdquo;&mdash;the third draft&mdash;would fill the bill. Campbell left Montreal on holidays on July 5 and it that time it seemed that the &ldquo;C&rdquo; schedule had everybody haply. But the N. H. L. prexy was motoring through Chicago en route to his home in Edmonton when he received a wire. It was rom the Detroit club.<h2>Switch Necessary</h2>The Red Wings notified Camp-bell in the telegram that the Olympia would not be available or hockey from February 12 to 29 inclusive with the exception of a single night, February 22. It seemed that the Sonja Henie ice show, which had been originally scheduled for December dates, had been switched to February and this meant that the Olympia hockey dates would need shifting.<h2>Schedule Troubleshooter</h2>Campbell went to work on a new draft at his Edmonton home. The entire schedule had to be re-vamped. The N. H. L. president worked out a complete new schedule, sent it in to the N. H. L. offices and copies were made and sent out to the six clubs. The clubs in turn then giving it their approval.Toronto Maple Leafs like to play as many away games as possible in the early part of the schedule. The Leafian bosses have never explained the reason for such a preference but it&rsquo;s likely that they are operating on the theory that it&rsquo;s best to show a &ldquo;finished product&rdquo; to home fans. They probably like to have the team &ldquo;wrinkles&rdquo; ironed out on the road, so that everything will be clicking right by the time the Leafs go on display before Toronto customers.Canadiens, as mentioned earlier, once favored a good number of Sunday games at home. However, amateur hockey has proved a good drawing card in the Forum on Sunday afternoons and it is probably because of this that the decision was made to play the pro games on nights other than Sundays. It stands to reason that one or the other likely would suffer at the gate if the amateurs played Sunday afternoon and the pros in the evening of the same day.Another, and probably even greater reason for the decline of Sunday dates at the Forum is that the N. H. L. schedule-makers try to oblige the American c.ubs in the league with has many Sundays as possible. The two clubs from north of the border, Montreal and Toronto being given the preference on Saturday night dates.New York Rangers are the only team in the league making it a point to seek playing dates at Christmas and New Year&rsquo;s. Ranger moguls know that the holiday crowds will be large so the club generally is allotted playing dates on the two holidays. It is very obvious the players aren&rsquo;t so keen about taking part In games on those dates, since they&rsquo;d undoubtedly rather be with their families or out celebrating, but the box office draw is a primary consideration.<h2>Twin Bill Blues</h2>Toronto Maple Leafs have the toughest weekend &lsquo;doubleheader&rsquo; chore in the N.H.L. this season They meet a &ldquo;fresh&rdquo; team&mdash;one that didn&rsquo;t play Saturday&mdash;in nine of their 10 Saturday-Sunday combinations. Detroit has to meet a &ldquo;fresh&rdquo; team only three times, Boston and Chicago five times each, and New York Rangers on four occasions.<h2>Every Four Years</h2>Strange as it may seem, there&rsquo;s one playing date in the 1947-48 N.H.L. schedule that hasn&rsquo;t been used since four years ago. It&rsquo;s February 29, which comes as an added day for the schedule makers, since 1948 is Leap Year.Four teams will see action that night, with Montreal Canadiens playing the Rangers in New York, and Chicago Black Hawks playing host to Boston Bruins.The last February 29 game was in 1944, when Toronto played at Boston in the only Leap Year Day contest of that season.<h2>No &ldquo;Lost Weekends&rdquo;</h2>Travel-weary hockey players get a break in this winter&rsquo;s N.H.L. schedule. Although the teams play the same number of games&mdash;30 at home and 30 on the road&mdash;as last year, the schedule is better balanced.All travelling will be done by regular train service, and there won&rsquo;t be any of those long hops that play hob with the teams.Last winter, on one occasion, Chicago played Canadiens in Montreal Saturday night and then the teams had to double back to Chicago for a game Sunday. They chartered a special train to get them there. &#9632;

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1947-48 N.H.L. Schedule Gets Approval After Fourth Draft Made By President

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N.H.L. 1947 48 SCHEDULE

<div class="byline">BY ALEXANDER STODDART</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-021520/8057067-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The 1946-47 AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS, are shown in the above picture with their modern hockey arena as a background. Standing, from left to right, Don Penniston, coach, Scotty Alexander, trainer, Armand Gaudreault, Andy Branigan, Paul Ronty, Johnny Pierson, Babe Pratt, Harvey Bennett, Pete Slobodian, Hy Buller, Herbie Cain, Don Grosso. Standing, extreme right, John B. Sollenberger, manager. Seated from left to right, Augie Herchenratter, Gino Rozzini, Frank Mario, Gordie Bruce, &ldquo;Bed&rdquo; Henry, Pete Babando, Lloyd Grondahl, Norm McAteo.</figcaption></div>Ever hear of Hershey, Pennsylvania? Yes, it is on some maps in very fine print. It is situated in Central Pennsylvania. It is not a village, a town or a city. It is an unincorporated community of about 4,000 people in Derry Township of Dauphin County in the foothills of the Blue Ridge.Yet its attractions are so great that it draws 2.000,000 visitors a year to see American League hockey, a park that is &ldquo;the Summer Playground of Pennsylvania&rdquo;, the nationally known ice revues, Ice Follies and Ice-Capades, a rose garden that has 33000 rose plants of more than 750 varieties, a museum of Pennsylvania &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; objects and the finest collection of Stiegel glass in the United States, a ballroom in which appear only orchestras of national reputation (Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians played here on September 6 last), a stadium seating 15,658 for high school, college and professional football, four golf courses, a game farm and other attractions that are of interest to up-and-about Americans.Hershey has been a member of the American Hockey League since the season of 1938-39, when it was known as the International-American Hockey League.Although the Hershey Bears were in every playoff since purchase of a franchise, it was not until April 15 last that they won their first championship.In the 64 scheduled AHL games Hershey finished first in the Eastern Division with 84 points, with the Springfiled Indians second with 59, the New Haven Ramblers third with 56 and trailing were the Providence Reds with 52 and the Philadelphia Rockets with 17.In the Western Division the Cleveland Barons tied the Hershey Bears with 84 points, the Buffalo Bisons had 83, and the Pittsburgh Hornets 80. The Indianapolis Caps had 79 points and the St. Louis Flyers 46.That eliminated Providence, Philadelphia, Indianapolis and St. Louis, and in Series &ldquo;A&rdquo;, Hershey defeated Cleveland 4 to 0 and advanced to the final. Hershey shut out Cleveland twice.Buffalo won Series &ldquo;B&rdquo;, 2 to 0, against Springfield, Pittsburgh captured Series &ldquo;C&rdquo;, 2 to 1 against New Haven, and in the semi-finals Pittsburgh defeated Buffalo in two straight games.Then came the final for the Calder Cup and the league championship, in which Hershey won four and lost three. They shut out Pittsburgh three times by scores of 4-0, 3-0 and the final game 5-0.The Hershey Bears had three coaches: Herb Mitchell, who brought his Niagara Falls Cataracts to Hershey in the season of 1934-35 and renamed them the Hershey Bears (Hershey then being a member of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League), continuing as coach when Hershey became a member of the American Hockey League through the season of 1940-41; followed by Ralph &ldquo;Cooney&rdquo; Weiland, 1941-45, and Don Penniston, from the season of 1945-46 to date.Hockey, like everything else in Hershey, began in a small way and grew. When M. S. Hershey came to the site of what is now Hershey in the spring of 1903, it was a cornfield. He was born about a mile away from this community, which Pennsylvania now calls its &ldquo;model town,&rdquo; and he selected the site because it was a good dairy section, and it might be a good idea to move from the city of Lancaster. his small chocolate and cocoa business and get nearer to a milk area, milk being of the chief ingredients of chocolate.<h2>Tram Lines Built</h2>He built trolley lines to bring workers from other communities to the site, and in 1905 the buildings were erected and chocolate and cocoa production began to rise. In time he created the largest cocoa and chocolate plant in America with the greatest production.But the making of chocolate and cocoa was merely one of the irons in the fire. He decided to build a community that would make people happier in their daily lives and aimed that every worker should own a home, To that end he aided his workers until now in Hershey practically 75 per cent of the families own their homes.He made the place so attractive, beginning with an amusement park, that people flocked to the pleasure-making facilities offered at Hershey. Conventions asked to come to Hershey, and he erected a Convention Hall for such use. He hated waste, and the Convention Hall not being occupied fully, he erected an ice plant in the building to care for the products of the farm, for by this time the orchards began to bear fruit and the vegetable crop was rising because he purchased available farms that were for sale in the vicinity, until he had almost 10,000 acres surrounding the little community.He had a two-fold reason for buying and operating farms, but one of the principal ones was to give boys&mdash;orphan boys&mdash;an opportunity for home life on a farm.With the million dollars that he received. for selling his caramel business in Lancaster to rivals, he built the chocolate plant in Hershey, and in 1909, six years after the opening of a quarry for stone for building, he decided to help orphan boys obtain an education. Thus he became a maker of chocolate and men.He took boys between the ages of four and 14, gave them a home life with foster parents on farm homes, gave them an education and when they graduated from high school at the age of 18, they went out on their own with a job, a knowledge of a trade, clothes enough to last for a year and $100 in their jeans. At this writing, 1,068 boys have been graduated. and although M. S. Hershey has been dead for almost two years, provision has been made for the care of orphan boys of the future, with a foundation of $84,000,000 to carry on the work.With the Convention Hall used only part time, John B. Sollen-berger, then, as now, manager of amusements, suggested to Mr. Hershey the idea of putting on hockey games. Mr. Hershey liked the idea, and on February 17th, 1931, a club from Swarthmore, Penn., with Porter Waite, a playing-coach and manager, put on hockey games with independent teams.<h2>Hershey Joins Loop</h2>The idea took so well that Hershey &ldquo;iced&rdquo; its own team the following season and became a member of the Tri-State League. Then jame the organization of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League, ind Mr. Sollenberger engaged Herb Mitchell, whose Niagara Falls Cataracts had played an exhibition game here and were most impressive, to organize a team to represent Hershey.Mitchell broke into hockey as a member of the Hamilton Tigers, and when the Boston Bruins en-tered the National Hockey League he was invited to join them and accepted. He played two seasons with the Bruins, and then turned to a playing-manager&rsquo;s birth with he New Haven Eagles in the Canadian-American League, one of the parents of the present day American Hockey League.While directing the Hershey Bears in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League, Mitchell led Hershey teams to three successive championships in the league and to the United States amateur title.When hockey began in the Convention Hall, it was immediately named the Ice Palace, and the building, in which about 2,000 people could crowd in, was inadequate, and in February of 1936, Mr. Hershey decided to build a new arena. Mr. Sollenberger, Charles F. Ziegler, president of the Hershey Club, and D. Paul Witmer, building superintendent, visited various ice arenas in tha United States and Canada for modern ideas for a new arena.It was the unanimous decision of the four men to build an arena witohut a pillar or post to mar the view of the rink, which could be used for ice hockey, ice revues and travelling shows such as rodeos, circuses, tennis by men and women of international reputation, roller skating revues, ice carnivals, as well as for basketball. conventions and public dinners.The type of building was a concrete monolithic structure, and at the time it was built it had the largest span of that type of building.Construction was begun in April of 1936, and on December 19 of that year, the Hershey Sports Arena, seating capacity 7,200 people, opened for the season when the Hershey Bears met the New York Rovers, the latter team coached by Frank Nighbor. Evelyn Chandler, the &ldquo;Queen of the Ice&rdquo;, and Bruce Mapes, her husband, one of America&rsquo;s most skillful male figure skaters, gave an exhibition of ice acrobatics between the periods.Despite the bad weather (rain and snow), the building was crowded, people coming from miles around not only to see the new structure but also two of the leading teams of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League.<h2>Novel Roof Feature</h2>The amazing, outstanding feature of the Hershey Sports Arena is its arched roof that rests on a series of hinges, where the total weight is brought down to one point. This hinge is not supported on concrete, as most people assume, but rests on a lead plate. This hinge and lead plate prevent cracking of the reinforced concrete structure. The roof is built to allow for contraction and expansion, and was put up in five individual sections. Between every two sections of the roof was placed an expansion joint, which allows the concrete to expand and contract.<h2>Wedding Bells Ring</h2>HERSHEY, PA.&mdash;There must be a strong scent of orange blossoms around this home community of the American Hockey League Bears. More Canadian hockey players have married American girls. while playing with Hershey than in any other United States city.<h2>Hershey&rsquo;s First Champions</h2><h2>The Lair of the Bears</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-011898/8057060-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="1829" height="1239"><figcaption class="caption-body">HERSHEY&rsquo;S MODERN SPORTS ARENA, which seats 7,200 people, is the home of the American Hockey League Champion Bears. A glistening monolithic concrete structure, the arena has no inside posts or columns to obstruct the view of the spectators. Although Hershey has a population of only 4,000, the rink is filled to capacity every game as the fans come from 50 miles around to watch the Bears.</figcaption></div>Three sections of the roof are identical in size, and to make one of these arches, 80 feet long by 232 feet wide, required a scaffold structure built of 300,000 board feet of yellow pine timber. The ceiling that is visible from the inside is of cork and above the cork it is concrete 3&frac12; inches thick, The entire ceiling and end walls of this big auditorium are lined with acoustical cork to absorb sound and prevent reverberation.While the acoustical cork layer on the roof is intended to absorb noise and sound, the bluish-white surface will produce an even distribution of indirect light.To give sufficient light on the playing surface of the ice, there was installed, supended from the ceiling, three large lightoliers, which are 23 feet in diameter, each containing 47 search-lights. These lightoliers also house the public address system necessary in a building of this character.The rink is of standard size, 200 by 85 feet. Behind the 7,200 seats steam pipes have been placed. The building is insulated, making it cooler in summer and warmer in winter.Ventilation is accomplished by means of ten exhaust fans in the main auditorium, which changes the air in 15 minutes. There are two main entrances and 46 exits. The building can be cleared of people by these exits in one minute.Under Mitchell&rsquo;s tutelage in his first year as coach of the Bears in the International-American Hockey League (1938-39), the team landed in first place in the Western Division, but was knocked out of the playoffs.In the following year the Hershey Bears were third in the Western Division, but were defeated in the semi-finals by the Pittsburgh Hornets.In the season of 1940-41, Hershey was second in the Western Division and went to the finals with the Cleveland Barons, with Cleveland emerging the ultimate champions.Cooney Weiland, always associated in hockey with the &ldquo;Dynamite Trio&rdquo; of Dit Clapper and Dutch Gainor, who piloted the Boston Bruins to two world championships and three national titles, succeeded Mitchell in the season of 1941-42. He brought the Bears to second place in the Western Division and to the finals, won by the Indianapolis Caps.In his second season there were no divisions in the league because of World War II, with the New Haven Eagles dropping out. Hershey landed in first place but was defeated in the first place prelim-inaries by the Buffalo Bisons.In the season of 1943-44, Hershey was in first place in the Eastern Division, but was knocked out of the playoffs by Cleveland.In 1944-45, Hershey landed in second place in the Eastern Division, and Hershey and Cleveland went to the final, the Barons winning four of the six games. Another occasion when the Bears fell shy of the mark.<h2>Penniston Clicks</h2>It was to come, however. In the season of 1945-46, Weiland was succeeded by Don Penniston, who met with success as coach of the famous Quebec Aces. He served two years in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and for a time during the season of 1942-43 directed the RCAF team, who were in the final of the Quebec Senior Hockey League.Penniston began his coaching in the mentor of the Montreal Athletic Association, Quebec Junior Provincial champions. His team won the championship also in the following five years, Then he went to the Montreal Royals, and in the season of 1936-37, he coached the Brighton Tigers in England. He has been a developer of hockey talent for almost a score of years.In his first season, the Hershey Bears landed in second place in the Eastern Division and were beaten in the playoffs by Pittsburgh.Then came Hershey&rsquo;s big year of 1946-47, when after eight tries. Hershey, the bridesmaid of oft seasons, became the bride in its ninth season and did it impressively, overcoming its great rival of Cleveland and triumphing over the Pittsburgh Hornets, another rival, in the playoffs.The team that brought the championship to Hershey was composed of Pete Babando, Harvey Bennett, Andy Branigan, Gordie Bruce, Hy Buller, Herb Cain, Armand Gaudreault, Lloyd Grons, dahl, Don Grosso, Gordie Henry, Augie Herchenratter, Frank Mario, Norm McAtee, Johnny Pierson, Babe Pratt, Paul Ronty, Gino Rozzini and Pete Slobodian.Every one of these men is the proud possessor of a Hamilton wrist watch engraved with his name and recording, &ldquo;Hershey Hockey Club, American Hockey League champions, 1946-47&rdquo;. It was a gift of the Hershey Hockey Club that they were proud to present to the men who brought them the championship after nine years of struggle. &#9632;

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Rink Seats 7,200 Though Population Of ‘Model Community’ Is Only 4,000

MONTREAL.Canada&rsquo;s logical representatives, the Allan Cup champion Montreal Royals, will be on the outside looking in at the winter Olympic hockey competition at St. Moritz, Switzerland, in February 1948. That much is definite as a result of the recent International Ice Hockey Federation meeting in Zurich, Switzerland.The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association sought to obtain approval at the meeting for its def-inition of an amateur&mdash;and if such approval had been forthcoming it would have opened the door for the Royals to compete in the tourney, if they so wished, as Canada&rsquo;s standardbearers. But the I.I.H.F. voted 13-1 against acceptance of the C.A.H.A. proposal.This doesn&rsquo;t mean, of course, that Canada couldn&rsquo;t be represented in hockey at the winter games. But it does mean that clubs such as Royal or the Calgary Stampeders, defeated by Royals in the Allan Cup final, would not be eligible. They fail to comply with the strict Olympic definition of an amateur and they would not get the sanction of the Canadian Olympic Committee headed by A. Sidney Dawes of Montreal.There has been talk of Canada being represented by a college outfit or a top-ranking junior club, but difficulties arise even where such squads are concerned, standouts receive various consid-It&rsquo;s no secret that many junior erations for their hockey talents and this might even apply to individual collegiate stars who play with outside teams as well as for their university.Royals definitely have washed their hands of the whole Olympic set-up and will concentrate on the defence of their Q.S.H.L. championship and the Allan Cup. Ernie Hamilton, president of the Royals, remarked that in view of the I.I.H.F. ruling he didn&rsquo;t consider it possible for the Royals to go to the Olympic Games. &#9632;

I.I.H.F. Vote Pushes Royals From Olympics

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-011844/8057122-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ARE YOU SURE THAT GOALIES STICK IS REGULATION SIZE, REF?</figcaption></div>MONTREAL&mdash;Cartoonist Lee Kavetski, whose work is displayed in this issue of HOCKEY NEWS and who will be a regular contributor to the paper, is only 16 years of age. His interest in the ice game&mdash;his favorite sport&mdash;extends back to the time when, at the tender age of eight, he snipped out a colored picture of a hockey player from a magazine.That picture was saved, along with many others, as Lee&rsquo;s enthusiasm for the sport grew by leaps and bounds. Lee, who lives in Kingston, Pennsylvania, saw his first pro game last season when he was a guest of the New York Rangers at a game in Madison Square Garden. This was on the night of March 16, 1947, and the Ranger fops on that occasion were the Montreal Canadiens.That was a memorable game, filled with blood and thunder and one of the most terrific hockey donnybrooks seen in years. Lee has been an ardent fan ever since.How did it come about that Lea was a Ranger guest at that contest? Well, the Kingston youngster had been doing cartoons of the Ranger players through the winter, sending them in to the club. Ranger publicity director Stan Saplin hit on the idea of inviting Lee to New York to see the game and, needless to say, Lee didn&rsquo;t hesitate for a moment in accepting.The Rangers are Lee&rsquo;s favorite hockey club and Goalie Charlie &ldquo;Chuck&rdquo; Rayner of the Broadway Blueshirts is his favorite player. His main ambition? Well, apart from a desire to reach the top as a sports cartoonist, he&rsquo;d like to be able to attend all of New York Rangers home games.Lee says that he started to draw &ldquo;as soon as I could hold a pencil in my hand.&rdquo; He regards Willard Mullin, whose efforts appear in THE SPORTING NEWS, as the &ldquo;world&rsquo;s best cartoonist.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Regards Hockey As ‘Best’ Sport And Says Rayner His ‘Favorite’

<div class="byline">By SYD. THOMAS</div>As the eager youngsters press forward to be served and the old-timers take their final curtain calls, hockey&rsquo;s two great forward combinations of recent years are taking the count.With the departure of chunky Bobby Bauer from the National Hockey League scene, Boston Bruins Kraut Line&rdquo; of the three scrappy youngsters from the Kitchener, Ontario, area is a thing of the past. Bauer has left Bruins to help his father-in-law manage a akate manufacturing business in Kitchener, Ontario&mdash;something he threatened to do two years ago before he decided to take another fling and wound up last season with his most successful effort in a brilliant career. Bobby also will coach the junior squad in Guelph, Ontario.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-011852/8057181-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="265" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Bauer</figcaption></div><h2>Blake Is Aging</h2>In Montreal the Canadlens potent and much-feared &ldquo;Punch Line&rdquo; is a dubious quantity. Its continuation as a line depends on the tiring legs of veteran Hector &ldquo;Toe&rdquo; Blake&mdash;making his last stand this year.Still with Boston are Bauer&rsquo;s linemates, Milt Schmidt and Woodrow &ldquo;Porky&rdquo; Dumart, who both enjoyed one of their most successful seasons last winter, along with Bauer, although the trio was broken up in the latter part of the season, Maurice &ldquo;The Rocket&rdquo; Richard, of course, can be counted on for another sizzling display as the bright star of the Montreal troupe.Bauer leaves the N.H.L. on the high note of a seven-year career. The 32-year-oId veteran bowed out with his best scoring effort and captured the Lady Byng Trophy for clean and sportsmanlike play. Bauer thus became the first player in the league to take the coveted prize as many as three times since Frankie Boucher of New York Rangers held a virtual monopoly on sportsmanlike play more than a decade ago. Boucher wrapped up the prize seven times and was awarded permanent possession of the original cup.Bobby sank 30 pucks and assisted on 24 more goals last winter in his second season after a four-year stretch in the Royal Canadian Air Force.Schmidt and Dumart enlisted in the R.C.A.F. at the same time as Bauer and all gained their dis-charges in 1945, returning to action in the 1945-46 season.That four-year lapse for the Kraut line makes comparison with Montreal&rsquo;s Punch line difficult, since it was during the Kitchener stars&rsquo; sojourn in the services that the Canadiens trio rose to sparkling heights.Much controversy has raged on the subject, with many claiming that the Punch line got all the best of it by playing against &ldquo;wartime&rdquo; opposition, with top players like the Krauts out of action.But be that as it may, the Canadiens threesome seemed to have the best of it last season, and probably would have surpassed Boston&rsquo;s Kitchener trio in scoring points if Elmer Lach had&rsquo;nt been put out of action when Toronto&rsquo;s Don Metz crashed into him in a game at Montreal last January.Lach was well up in the scoring lists at the time, and was almost a cinch to finish among the top five. As it was, with the fiery Richard finishing second in total point honors, just one behind Chicago&rsquo;s Max Bentley, and with the veteran Blake turning in a sparkling performance in his 13th year in the N. H. L., the Punch line accounted for 80 goals and 71 assists for 151 scoring points. That was just 17 points behind the Kraut total of 81 goals, 87 assists for 168.<h2>Krauts Hold Edge</h2>On the over-all record, the Kraut line holds a slight edge on Canadiens&rsquo; big three, with a record for regular season and playoff games of 405 goals and 461 assists for 866 points against 3944 34-828 for Richard and company.But the Punch line completed its total in only four seasons&mdash;actually three and a half if you take Lach&rsquo;s injury into account&mdash;while the Kitchener boys took six full seasons to rack up their marks. On a comparative basis, that is an average of 207 points a year for the four seasons the Punch line clicked as an entity, against a little more than 144 for each of the six full seasons the Krauts were together.Much of the credit for the rapid scoring pace of the Canadiens line is due to the deadly sharpshooting of Richard, one of the most brilliant players to come down the pike in many a year. Richard banged home 135 goals in those four years&mdash;after scoring five in 16 games in his freshman year, 1942-43, before a broken leg put him on the shelf. In 194445 he scored 50 goals to set the present N.H.L. record of 12 goals in the 1943-44 Stanley Cup competition, led with seven goals in 1945-46 and tied for the lead last season with teamate Billy Reay, each sinking six.Formation of both these big li nes were lucky breaks for their respective teams, or more properly were the result of keen perception by those clever hockey leaders, Dick Irvin of Canadiens and Art Ross of Bruins.<h2>Ross Spotted Krauts</h2>The three Kitchener Kids were spotted by Boston Manager Art Ross while they were still juniors, and after two years of minor league seasoning they moved into the big time.Dumart started as a defenceman, but after he tried out with Boston at their training camp in St. John, Brunswick, in 1935 Ross decided he would go better as a forward. youngster was given a year&rsquo;s seasoning with&rdquo;Porky&rdquo; Dumart Boston Cubs of the then Canadian-American League in 1935-36, where he played with Bauer. The next year the pair moved to Providence Reds, where they teamed up with Schmidt, an 18-year-old youngster whom Dumart, and Bauer had recommended to Ross.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-021308/8057174-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="280" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption></div>It was at Providence that they were tagged the &ldquo;Sauerkraut Line&rdquo; by Reds Coach Al Leduc, since all were of German-Canadian descent. That was later shortened to the Kraut line, a tag that has struck ever since, although during the war years they were sometimes called the &ldquo;Kitchener Line&rdquo; and one Boston fan won a name poll by suggesting they be called the &ldquo;Buddy Line.&rdquo; That never stuck, though.The Krauts got into action with Bruins at the tail-end of the 1936-37 season, and in the final game performed as a line for the first time, scoring two golas. Two years later Schmidt&mdash;whom Art Ross claims is the greatest of modern centre players, although he played everywhere except goal during the latter part of the 1946-47 season&mdash;led the league in scoring and made the All-Star team. That season the Krauts were the first line to finish one-two-three in the scoring lists.Montreal&rsquo;s &ldquo;Punch Line&rdquo; represents a canny gamble by the astute Dick Irvin that paid off gold-plated dividends. When Maurice Richard came to Canadiens from Montreal&rsquo;s junior ranks and a year with the senior amateur Montreal Canadiens, he was a husky youngster of 21 with burning speed and a blistering shot. But he was a lefthanded shot and a leftwinger by trade and those were a dime a dozen on the squad.What Irvin wanted was a good rightwinger of Richard&rsquo;s calibre, but he didn&rsquo;t do anything about it the first year the young Rocket was with his crew. That was in 1942-43 when Richard played left wing on a line with Elmer Lach at centre and Tony Demers&mdash;now with Sherbrooke in the Provincial Hockey League of the Quebec amateur group&mdash;at right wing.Richard played only 16 games that year before he crashed into the boards at the Forum in Montreal and broke his right ankle, putting himself out of action for the rest of the season.The next season he was switched to right wing with the brainy Lach at centre and the aging but still feared Toe Blake on the left aisle. That combination represented an inter-provincial blending, with Blake coming from Victoria Mines, Ontario, and Lach from Nokomis, Saskatchewan. It was also a merger of all the great hockey qualities. Richard provided the youth, fire and speed, Lach the playmaking, backchecking and constant drive to set up scores, and Blake added the wiles and hocker lore of a decade of stouthearted play.<h2>Won Many Titles</h2>Between them they captured most of the laurels going at one time or another. Lach led the league scorers in 1944-45 with Richard setting his goals records of 50, and the next year Lach led the league&rsquo;s playmakers with 34 assists. Last year Richard led in goals and was second in total points. Elmer also won the Hart Trophy as the player most valuable to his team in 1944-45, and last winter it was Richard who took that trophy by his brilliant play. In 1945-46 Blake won the Lady Byng Trophy, and served only two minutes in the penalty box&mdash;a far cry from the rough and rowdy Toe of his early days when he was as pugnacious as they come.That&rsquo;s the line that brought Canadiens to their greatest glory of the modern decade, and which this year will bow out. Blake could have had the job as coach of Buffalo Bisons of the A.H.L., but instead elected to stay around one more year for a chance to break Bill Cowley&rsquo;s modern scoring record of 594 points. Toe needs only 30 points now to wind up as the most prolific point scorer of all time, since Cowley now is retired.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03840/8057167-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="285" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;Porky&rdquo; Dumart</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-07121/8057160-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="275" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0866/8057153-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="260" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Elmer Lach</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bobby Bauer Retires From N.H.L. Play Toe Blake May Team With New Mates

MONTREAL&mdash;Maurice Richard was tabbed as a &ldquo;brittle&rdquo; player when he first entered professional ranks. He broke his right ankle in his first season, and suffered a variety of injuries the next couple of seasons. While in the amateur ranks he already had suffered a fractured left wrist and left ankle. Only one other player, Sprague Cleghorn of the old Montreal Wanderers and later with Canadiens, ever reached the top in big-time hockey after breaking Both legs. &#9632;

Not Brittle Now!

BOSTON&mdash;Strangely enough, Bobby Bauer, who turned out to be one of the outstanding players in the National Hockey League was the one member of the &ldquo;Kraut Line&rdquo; about whom Boston Bruins&rsquo; Manager Art Ross was dtfbious at the start.Although the oldest of the Kitchener threesome, Bauer was the last one to be called to the Boston firing line. His linemates, Milt Schmidt and Porky Dumart, were called to Bruins midway of the 1936-37 season, but Bauer didn&rsquo;t get the nod until the final game.&ldquo;What must I do to stay with Bruins?&rdquo; the youngester asked Ross after that game.&ldquo;Nothing &lsquo;but what you&rsquo;ve been doing,&rdquo; the old maestro told him. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll play up here with the other kids next season.&rdquo; &#9632;

Bauer Last Kraut To Meet Approval

MONTREAL&mdash;Like an old fire horse. Toe Blake doesn&rsquo;t want to take the harness Although he could have laid his cherished Montreal Cannadiens sweater aside and taken over as coach of Buffalo Bisons in the American Hockey League, &ldquo;Toe&rdquo; Blake the veteran decided on one more year of N.H.L. service in an attempt to break Boston Bill Cowley&rsquo;s all-time point scoring mark.So Toe, the &ldquo;Old Lamplighter&rdquo; as they call him around the Habitants&rsquo; darkest hours, will be giving his utmost this winter. He needs 30 points to wind up as the greatest paintmaker of all time, since Cowley retired at the end of the 1946-47 season.&ldquo;Bristol Bill&rdquo; who hailed from Bristol, Que., set the existing mark of 207 goals and 387 assists for 594 points at the end of last season. Those totals are for both regular season and playoff games and surpass the former record held by Syd Howe of Ottawa Senators and Detroit Red Wings. Howe scored 254 goals and 318 assists or 572 points, in 13 seasons<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04518/8057284-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="281" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;Toe&rdquo; Blake</figcaption></div><h2>Has 30 to go</h2>Blake, veteran of 13 years in the National Hockey League&mdash;one with Montreal Maroons and the rest with Canadiens&mdash;thus far has 251 goals and 314 assists for 565 points. He scored 50 points last winter, so the 30 he needs for the record shouldn&rsquo;t be too much of a chore.To gain the point scoring record for regular season play alone Blake&rsquo;s task is more difficult. He needs 46 points to beat Cowley&rsquo;s record of 195 goals, 253 assists, 548 points compiled in scheduled play. Howe has 237-291-528 for this department, while Blake is third with 226-277-503.Likewise out of his reach are Cowley&rsquo;s all-time assist record of 353 in regular play, and the great Nels Stewart&rsquo;s unapproachable record of 323 goals.However, with luck, Blake could wind up fourth among the game&rsquo;s greatest goal-getters, behind Stewart&rsquo;s 323 and the immortal Howie Morenz and Aurel Joliat of Canadiens, who have 270 goals each. The only other goal scorers ahead of Blake now are &ldquo;Busher&rdquo; Jackson with 242, Howe 237 and Aubrey &ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper with 232, and they are retired. &#9632;

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Canuck Veteran Aims At Record In Final Stand

Here are the comparative records of those two great lines of the past decade in the National Hockey League&mdash;the Krauts of Boston Bruins and the Punch Line of Montreal Canadiens.The Krauts Bobby Bauer, Milt Schmidt and Porky Dumart, played six full seasons and a fraction of a seventh as a line, while the Punch line of Maurice Richard, Elmer Lach and Toe Blake was together only four seasons.The following records include regular season and playoffsPUNCH LINE (*4 seasons)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05318/8057322-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="553" height="223"></div>KRAUT LINE (7 seasons)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-06192/8057315-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="561" height="218"></div>*Blake&rsquo;s lifetime record, for 13 seasons, is 251 goals, 314 assists, 565 points. Lach in seven seasons has 116 goals, 238 assists, 354 points. Richard in his freshman year, before joining the Punch Line, scored five goals and six assists to make his lifetime mark read 190-114-304.<h2>Crime Does Pay</h2>Big Nels Stewart, who holds the all-time goal-scoring record in the National Hockey League, was as rough as they came. While scoring the amazing total of 323 goals in regular season play with Montreal Maroons, Boston Bruins and New York Americans, Nels served 942 minutes in the penalty box. Only such confirmed bad men as &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Horner, Eddie Shore, Hooley Smith and Babe Siebert served more time. &#9632;

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Canadiens Trio Close To Kraut Mark But Racked ‘em Up In Two Less Years

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div>Following in the footsteps of their baseball brothers, the National Hockey League will this season introduce and put into effect for the benefit of players in that loop a new pension plan molded along the same lines as that which major league baseball introduced at the start of the 1947 season.The N.H.L. Flayers&rsquo; Committee presented their Pension and Savings Plan at the League&rsquo;s semi-annual meeting held at the Commodore Hotel in New York on September 4. The plan received the hearty approval of President Clarence Campbell and the League Governors, and the President was authorized to co-operate with the players committee to work out the details and formulate a final plan.Speaking on behalf of the players was Syl Apps, captain and one of the outstanding stars of the Stanley Cup champion Toronto Maple Leafs. Also on the players committee were Syd Abel of Detroit Red Wings and Glen Harmon of Montreal Canadiens.Apps reported that out of the 98 players in the National League, a total of 87 were in favor of the plan while he was unable to contact the remainder for their views and opinions.<h2>HOW PLAN WORKS</h2>Under the plan submitted each player will contribute $900 to the fund out of each season&rsquo;s contract and the National Hockey League will contribute an additional $500. This means that each player will have a total of $1,400 credited to his name for each year of service in the N.H.L.The plan called for an estimated revenue of $60,000 to be derived from an All-Star game and a surcharge on Stanley Cup playoff games.The Stanley Cup champion Toronto Maple Leafs will meet the National Hockey League All-Stars in the first of these annual All-Star classics at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, on October 13, Thanksgiving Day. The site of the All-Star game for 1948 will be the vast Chicago Stadium. Each city will in turn play host to this four-star hockey attraction.Out of the net gate receipts taken in at this annual All-Star game, one-third will be donated to charitable organizations to be designated by the host club in the particular city in which the game is played. Two-thirds of the receipts will go into the players pension fund. The League also took further steps to swell the coffers for this worthy project by donating a surcharge of twenty-five cents less tax on all tickets sold during Stanley Cup games.The players committee expressed the view that there would be 100 per cent participation in this savings and pension plan by all players in the N.H.L.<h2>PENSIONS AT 45</h2>The pension plan has been designed for payments to commence at the age of 45 with right of deferments in units of five years. In the plan submitted by the players committee, each player will receive eight dollars a month for each year of service in the N.H.L.A player who performed for five years in the National Hockey League would receive $45 a month at the age of 45. However, if he deferred his payments until he reached the age of 50 the pension rises to $61.50 per month. For every five years that the payments are deferred after the age of 45 the amount of money that the player would receive each month increases very substantially. If a player with five years service waited until he was 60 before accepting payments, he would receive a cheque for $96 a month, and if he waited until 65, he would be the recipient of a very tidy $122 a month.A player with 10 years service would receive double that amount-exactly $244 a month, which is a very healthy stipend to collect monthly at the age of 60.The age of 45 is an unusually early age for retirement and it would be safe in surmising that only a very small percentage of the players would commence taking payments at that age.This pension plan is another progressslve step that the National Hockey League has taken towards the advancement of the fastest growing sport in the world. &#9632;

Round the Rinks

<div class="byline">By Bax O&#x2019;Meara</div>Sports Editor, The Montreal Star and Governor, Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of FameThis article will in a way help in the launching of THE HOCKEY NEWS which we trust will fill that long felt want in hockey literature.Baseball, football, basketball and boxing have their mediums other than those that cover the sport front in daily papers, but hockey, has lacked one ever since Bus Johnson gave up the Sport Fan owing to the newsprint shortage.We know what Ken McKenzie has in mind for the publication and feel it will follow along the lines of the Sporting News&mdash;the bible of baseball. If Ken can achieve something equally as biblical, then THE HOCKEY NEWS will be required reading for everybody who is interested in hockey.In a sort of a sketchy way we think we know what he is going to produce, and wish him well in the venture which admittedly is one of more than average proportions. He is fortunate in having access to all the hockey records, he can call on many who are engaged in writing hockey for the newspapers, he has the blessing of the National Hockey League governors, the cooperation of a good. staff&mdash;so he starts with many of the advantages that were not available to others who thought of launching a similar enterprise in past years.Possibly nobody else has thought of introducing the sponsors so we will do it as briefly as possible. Ken McKenzie is this side of 25, we should judge from a cursory glance. He is somewhere around six feet tall, and is inclined to be lean, but is no leaner, or a &ldquo;Leaning Lulu&rdquo; to borrow a phrase from Brother O&rsquo;Brien of the nearby Standard.He hails from Winnipeg where he broke into the newspaper business on the sport writing end some years ago. Like all smart westerners he had a yearning to come east. So in due course he found himself associated with good friend Dink Carroll on the Montreal Gazette where he stayed for a while handling golf and tennis.When it was decided to enlarge the scope of operations of National Hockey League publicity he became a part time operator, then was made director of publicity. He has been at it over a year and during that time has made plans to get out the hockey paper, bring the statistical department up to date, and generally create a department which will make available all types of hockey data for fans.It might be said in passing that these ideas were set in motion first by President Clarence Campbell, M.B.E., president of the N.H.L. who realizes the necessity of a publicity bureau which will keep fans posted, and will in turn be able to supply newspapers, the radio and other mediums with all essential information in regard to hockey.The other half of the partnership in hockey&rsquo;s own publication is Will Cote, a wiry, bustling little go-getter in his early thirties. The indefatiguable Cote is in charge of the circulation and business end of the paper. He is the man behind the scenes who sees that everything is running according to Hoyle.A hockey enthusiast ever since he can remember, Will has lost count of the number of summers he has spent working on hockey statistics. He edited the Sweet Caporal Major League Hockey Guidf in 1939-40 and 1940-41, before the guide was curtailed due to the war and his energetic manner will play a major factor in the tremendous success which THE HOCKEY NEWS is bound to enjoy.Such a hockey weekly as this one is a necessity. True, in the past, there has been some exceptional publicity work done independently as well as under the auspices of various clubs, but this is the. first real effort to get out a publication which has the benefits of the intimate association with professional hockey and its records.This paper will be devoted to all hockey. Since the game has expanded to take in two professional leagues in the United States outside of the scope of the National League, it is evident that there will be a wider interest in all hockey matters from here on.The game is growing by leaps and bounds in a professional way There may be more leagues organized within a few years. There are also the amateur groups overseas which have in their ranks players who started out on junior teams in Canada, who in time are bound to be found with professional teams when they return to Canada.In the past it has been hard for hockey fans to keep in touch with all professional activities. Baseball fans had the Sporting News to fall on. Ring addicts had The Ring. Both are accepted as authoritative magazines. There is every reason to believe that in time THE HOCKEY NEWS will achieve the same distinction.Some years ago Ted Reeve, well-known Toronto columnist, re-gretted that hockey had not yet come to the status of fistiania, football or baseball in the matter of literature. There are many fine fictional stories about boxing. Jim Tully, Ring Lardner. Conan Doyle, Donn Byrne and other famous writers have written knowingly and undersandingly of the manly art of modified murder as Bill McGeehan used to call it.There have been some fine horse racing stories while baseball was immortalized in prose by the fancious &ldquo;Busher&rdquo; series also penned by the immortal Lardner. Hockey has come in for some attention but those who have written about it have for the most part labored the rough play theme to the limit.We expect that THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; will not only be a handy guide to what is going on in the game, but will also enable those not too well informed to keep abreast of the game.So we salute the first issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS and wish all connected with it every success. May it be found at every breakfast table, and not wrapped around&rdquo; the butter either. &#9632;

Guest Editorial

<div class="byline">By FRED A. HUBER, jr.</div>DETROIT&mdash;One of the smallest executives in the National Hockey League picture during the coming season will be diminutive Thomas Nathaniel Ivan, who is falling heir to the rather large task of taking over the coaching of the Detroit Red Wings.Ivan, prevented by his size and a severe injury from qualifying for the professional ranks as a player, thus becomes the third man in modern hockey history to take a coaching assignment without previous playing experience in the salaried side of the game.The others, Bill Stewart and Emil Iverson, of the Chicago Black Hawks, were both successful, and if &ldquo;Little Tee&rdquo; lives up to expectations he may far surpass them.Tommy has served his apprenticeship with the Detroit organization in all coaching and scouting phases, which will certainly more than compensate for the fact that a crushed cheek put an end to his career as a player.A native of Toronto, he established his most enviable record as a senior, playing forward for Brantford, when disaster in the form of an injury turned him to refereeing and coaching twelve years ago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-011865/8057425-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="617" height="913"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOMMY IVAN</figcaption></div>As a coach he distinguished himself handling younger players, and gained a top rating among the handlers of juniors. It was in this field that he first came to the attention of the Detroit organization. Chief Scout Carson Cooper was so impressed with Ivan that he brought him to the attention of Jack Adams, and thus was born the relationship which has culminated with Tommy&rsquo;s accession to the position of coach of the team which Jack will manage.<h2>Discovered Wing Defence Trio</h2>Many Red Wing prospects were handled by Ivan at Brantford, and the present Red Wing defence includes three regulars, Bill Quackenbush, Leo Reise and Doug McCaig, who are all Ivan alumni.Moved from Brantford to Guelph by the Wings, Tommy was handling the young Biltmores when brand was re-introduced there the war broke out. Tommy deserted his dual position as coach and assistant scout and entered the Army. When he was finally discharged in the fall of 1945 he returned to the Detroit organization, and was immediately sent to Omaha, Nebraska, where the Wings maintain a United States League team.Hockey had been Inoperative for four seasons when the Ivan brand was re-introduced there two years ago. Starting with a team mainly comprising first-year professionals he piloted the club into second place and a spot in the playoffs.Last season advancement to Indianapolis came as a logical step, and again he proved his mettle as a strategist. Again his club was inexperienced, and while they finished in fourth place, barely out of the playoffs, they earned more points than the second place club in the other league division.Quiet and modest, Tommy Is a thorough student of the game. He inspires his players to surpass themselves without invective or the heavy hand.Off the ice his demanor is much the same. He is an ardent golfer, and In recent years has managed softball clubs during the summer. He Is married and maintains his home In Brantford, for which city he-has become a staunch supporter.This fall he is moving to his most Important post. Jack Adams will be behind him and beside him all the way, but the man who will be making decisions on the split second on the bench will be &ldquo;Little Tee&rdquo;. &#9632;

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New Wing Coach Keen Strategist Developed Many Detroit Rookies

&mdash;DETROITThe familiar, portly figure of &ldquo;Jolly Jack&rdquo; Adams will be missing from Detroit Red Wings bench this winter for the first time in 20 years, as the veteran releases the coaching half of his manager-coach duties to Tommy Ivan. But John James Adams still, will be casting an eagle-eye at his Red Wing charges from his post as general manager.The game has too strong a grip on him for anything else, you can be sure of that. Jack, one of the best centre players of modern times while still active on the blades, has been &ldquo;Mr. Hockey&rdquo; around Detroit for the past two decades during which time he made Red Wings one of the most consistently powerful teams in the game.Under his sometimes genial, often fiery direction, Detroit won four National Hockey League championships, captured the Stanley Cup thrice and entered the Cup eliminations in 15 of the 20 years he was at the helm. For the last nine years in a row Red Wings have been in there fighting when playoff time rolls around.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-021237/8057456-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="290" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Adams</figcaption></div>A battling Irishman from Fort William, Ontario, Adams launched his hockey career in his home town and from there moved through the ranks to Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa before taking over as coach at Detroit in 1927. As a professional he had few superiors, and topped the Pacific Coast Hockey League in scoring with 26 goals and four assists in the 1921-22 season.The old Toronto St. Pats provided his next stop and he wound up his active playing career with Ottawa Senators in 1926-27, helping the old barberpole-uniformed crew cop Lord Stanley&rsquo;s trophy.Always pugnacious and hard-fighting, Adams was the bane of referees around the circuit while handling the Wings, and involved himself in some rare verbal brawls with the officials and opposing coaches. But off the ice he&rsquo;s as affable and friendly a man as you&rsquo;d want to meet.Aside from his sparkling record as a player and coach, Jack Adams also has another claim to fame which isn&rsquo;t so well known. That was the time in 1921 when Vancouver Millionaires defeated the neighboring Victorias 11-8 in the final game of the Pacific Coast League season. Jack, playing for Vancouver, dumped a goal into his own cage to gain everlasting fame. The unusual angle of it was that Adams was given a goal in the summary&mdash;the first and only time a player was credited with a goal scored against his own team. &#9632;

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Jack Adams In Two Decades Gave Detroit Many Winners

DETROIT&mdash;Coach Tommy Ivan and General Manager Jack Adams of Detroit Red Wings believe in plenty of pre-season games for their charges. In addition to various intersquad contest, the Wings (and that includes their farm hands) are down for a husky schedule of exhibition clashes.The Detroit front office disclosed recently that the Wings would take part in seven contests, as follows: September 28 at Detroit against Indianapolis; October 1 at Detroit aginst Omaha October 5 at Detroit against Windsor; October 9 at Detroit against Cleveland; October 10 at Windsor against Indianapolis; October 11 at Akron against Cleveland; October 12 at Cleveland against Cleveland.A number of the contests will form part of doubleheaders Involving the Detroit farm clubs&mdash;Indianapolis, Omaha and Windsor. At the time that the Red Wings released the schedule, plans also were underway for the Wings to book a number of other games including two contests against Chicago Black Hawks. &#9632;

Seven “Ex” Contests On Detroit Schedule

George Robertson, one of the players involved in the five-man Rangers-Canadiens trade, played a leading role in the game which attracted the biggest crowd ever to witness an amateur hockey contest in Canada. The setting was Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, and it was the seventh game of the 1945-46 Memorial Cup final between Winnipeg Monarchs and Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s College.A total of 15,819 fans had jammed their way into the Gardens to see these two great junior clubs battle it out in the deciding game. With the score tied at 2-2 in the final period, Robertson sent Monarchs out in front for what proved the winning goal. A few seconds from the end he put the game beyond recall with another tally. &#9632;

Robertson A Star In Junior Final

<div class="byline">By SYD THOMAS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03760/8057535-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHICAGO STADIUM, home of the Black Hawks, where hockey&rsquo;s largest crowds jam in to watch National Hockey League teams in action. The record of 20,004 attendance was set here February 23, 1947, when the visiting Boston Bruins won 9-4.</figcaption></div>Is the hockey boom over? Are the golden days drawing to a close where players are concerned?So far as this reporter is concerned, the answer is in the negative to both the above questions. To use a phrase that isn&rsquo;t exactly original, we&rsquo;d say that hockey seems to be expanding by leaps and bounds. And the same goes for spectator interest in the puck sportThe answer to the first question actually is the answer to the second one, too. The bigger hockey gets and the larger gates the game draws, the more money clubs can afford to spend on their players. Some of our foremost hockey leaders have commented that the puck game can be turned into a profitable career for young Canadians They maintain that youngsters can think of hockey in the same way young men consider careers at law, medicine, engineering and so on.National Hockey League attendance figures for the 1946-47 season offer ample proof concerning the remarkable widening of spectator interest. Slightly more than 2,400,000 persons paid their way into the six N.H.L. rinks to witness the 180 scheduled games This works out to an average at tendance per game of more than 13,000.One thing to remember in considering the total attendance last season is that the 1946-47 schedule was the longest in the league history. Each club played a total of 30 home games, where 25 had been played in the previous season. Attendance in 1945-46 went slightly over the 2,000,000 mark with the per game average working out to something close to the 13,000 figure established in the 1946-47 season.The 1946-47 season was noteworthy in one respect in that it produced the greatest crowd over to watch a hockey game. On Sunday evening, February 23, a total of 20,004 fans pushed their way into the huge Chicago Stadium to watch the Black Hawks take on Boston Bruins. This game incidentally, was won by the Bruins, 9-4 The previous high mark of 18,475 also had been set at Chicago on January 20, 1946.The Hawks since their rink is the largest in the circuit, had the top attendance over the full season. Even though the Hawks finished in last place, a position that they occupied for most of the sea, son, they drew more than a half million customers.Next came the New York Rangers and here again it was a case of fans flocking out to watch a team that wasn&rsquo;t going anywhere The Rangers finished out of the playoffs, winding up in second to last position, but they still managed to lure more than 420,000 customers into Madison Square Garden.Toronto Maple Leafs, the Stan, ley Cup winners, weren&rsquo;t far behind the Rangers in the matter of total attendance while Boston Bruins were only a few thousand away from the Leafs. Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Canadiens with the two smallest rinks in the circuit, also packed in the fans. The Wings and Canadiens had attendance totals running slightly over 330,000.It is interesting to note that the six clubs played to 98.6 per cent of capacity attendance during the 180 games schedule. That doesn&rsquo;t leave very many vacant seats at any time during the season.Because of varying schedule lengths and the fact that there were seven teams in the league for some seasons prior to 1941-42 when the Brooklyn Americans disbanded, it is difficult to offer comparisons. In 1938-39, however, when the schedule Involved a total of 168 games and seven clubs, the total attendance was slightly over the 1.500,000 mark. Even with the Americans out the total for the next season was almost as high and it has gone up steadily ever since &#9632;

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Hockey In Golden Boom Attendance Marks Soar

CHICAGO STADIUM&mdash;First pro game&mdash;Dec. 25, 19-9, seating capacity&mdash;16,546; ice surface&mdash;188 feet by 85 feet.MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York&mdash;First pro game Dec. 15, 1925; seating capacity&mdash;15,284; ice surface&mdash;186 feet by 86 feetBOSTON GARDEN&mdash;First pro game&mdash;Nov. 10, 1928; seating capacity&mdash;13,500; ice surface&mdash;195 feet by 83 feet.MAPLE LEAF GARDENS, Toronto&mdash;First pro game&mdash;Nov. 12, 1931; seating capacity&mdash;12.586; ice surface&mdash;200 feet by 85DETROIT OLYMPIA&mdash;First pro game&mdash;Nov. 22, 1927; seating capacity&mdash;12,000; ice surface&mdash;210 feet by 85 feetMONTREAL FORUM&mdash;First pro game&mdash;Nov 29, 11924, seating capacity 9.600; ice surface&mdash;200 feet by 85 feet. &#9632;

…And they’re packed every game, too!

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.&mdash;James C. Hendy, newly elected president of the United States Hockey League, was born in&mdash;of all places&mdash;Barbados, British West Indies, on May 6, 1906. The only ice they had there was what you found in the bottom of a tall rum drink so his family moved to Vancouver, B. C., in 1910 where he grew up.The Patricks organized the Pacific Coast Hockey League in the fall of 1911 and it was during the 1914-15 season that Hendy first became aware that there was such a game as hockey. The immortal Fred &ldquo;Cyclone&rdquo; Taylor, one of the greatest figures hockey has ever known, lived in the same neighborhood, and Hendy attached himself to Taylor and was permitted to carry his skates into the rink for the games In those days players carried their own equipment and proud was the kid who gained free admittance by being permitted to &ldquo;tote&rdquo; his hero&rsquo;s skates and sticks.Hendy became a rabid fan and &ldquo;rink rat&rdquo; and moved to New York in 1925 when the New York Americans entered the National Hockey League. He started covering the games from the opening, first as a telegrapher and after a couple of years as a sportwriter. For fifteen years he was a fixture in Madison Square Garden press box writing for the International News Service, Montreal Gazette, the old New York Press when Joe Cattaranich owned it, and others.During the past 20 years he has written neary 200 magazine articles for periodicals such as the Saturday Evening Post, Collier&rsquo;s. MacLean&rsquo;s, This Week, and many others. He founded the National Hockey Guide and has edited it for the past 16 years.In 1933, Hendy had the N.H.L. managers and coaches name their all-star teams at the end of the season and for 14 years the consensus was published in Mac-Lean&rsquo;s&mdash;Canada&rsquo;s National Magazine&mdash;under the title &ldquo;We Nominate.&rdquo; The National Hockey League All-Stars are now selected by the six coaches in the league and the entire poll is conducted from N.H.L. headquarters in Montreal.Hendy served for three years as President of the New York Hockey Writer&rsquo;s Association and for five years as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Association. He served for five years as Publicity Director of the New York Rangers and resigned in the spring of 1946 to devote all of his time to the advertising and public relations business.But the call of hockey was too strong and when the American Hockey League moved its head-quarters to New York in the summer of 1946 Hendy didn&rsquo;t have to be sold on the idea that he could handle the duties of league Publicity Director without interfering too much with his advertising business.When H. W. Peterson resigned as President of the United States Hockey League to became General Manager of the St. Paul Saints, Hendy was requested to enter his name as a candidate for the post. He at first declined but as the season approached and he began to imagine he heard the click of steel blades on the frozen surface he was again asked to be a candidate and this time consented. He was elected September 4 at the semi-annual meeting of the League in the Hotel Commodore, New York City.Hendy will make his home and headquarters in Mineapolis.He is married and the father of one son, James Peter, 21 years old, who was recently discharged from the U.S. Army Air Corps and is now attending Seton Hall College, East Orange, New Jersey, as a journalism student.He now is an American citizen, having taken out his papers some years ago. &#9632;

New U.S.H.L. President Heeds Lure Of Hockey

Alex Connell, the &ldquo;Ottawa Fireman&rdquo; boldest the record among goaltenders for the longest shutout sequence. Guarding the twines for Ottawa Senators in 1928-29, Connell shut out the opposition six games in a row.<h2>Accepts New Post</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-011946/8057614-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="625" height="936"><figcaption class="caption-body">JAMES C. HENDY</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Stonewall Connell

REGINA, SASK.&mdash;Coach Johnny Gottselig expects Chicago Black Hawks to do a lot better this season in the N.H.L. than they did in 1946-47. This hardly rates as a surprise statement since the Hawks wound up in the cellar position last season and Gottselig could hardly be expected to predict their occupancy ot that spot again.Nevertheless, Gottselig has certain facts to back up any argument about the likelihood that the Hawks poor fortunes will show a rise. Once it became apparent last season that the Hawks were going nowhere, a number of rookies were injected into the lineup. Gottselig and General Manager Bill Tobin expect that experience to pay off in the form of better players.Among Chicago sophomores are Frank Ashworth, Hank Blade, Bill Gadsby, Jack Jackson (a brother of Hal Jackson of Detroit Red Wings), Ralph Nattrass and Emile &ldquo;The Cat&rsquo; Francis.One of the amateurs on the Chicago roster is Metro Prystai, who was a star last season with the junior Moose Jaw Canucks. Cliff Henderson, president of the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association, speaks highly of young Prystai. Henderson feels that Prystai is a better pro prospect at this stage than were the Bentleys, Doug and Max. Naturally, the Black Hawk bosses hope that Henderson proves correct in his estimate. &#9632;

Rookie Termed Finer Prospect Than Bentleys

MONTREAL.&mdash;Canadian coaches are being sought for hockey teams in Poland and Sweden, it has been disclosed here. Both requests were received by Clarence Campbell, president of the N. H. L. In the case of the Poles, and possibly in that of the Swedes also, the request is for a man to coach the country&rsquo;s Olympic hockey team.Zakopane Krynka, representing the Polish interests, dropped around to the N. H. L. offices in Montreal to discuss the matter with Campbell. He said that the Polish team required a man who could speak either Polish or French. The Poles have in mind a man in the early thirties who could act as playing coach of the club in other than Olympic contests.The coach chosen by the Polish team would be required to be on hand at the team&rsquo;s training site on December 1.Simultaneously with the Polish request came a letter from a Swedish sports editor. Birger Fant, the editor, wrote that the Swedish team wanted to obtain the services of a first class ice hockey coach. Although Fant did not mention it, there is the likehood that the post would involve coaching of the Swedish Olympic team.Fant&rsquo;s letter, dated from Sodertalje, Sweden, said that the coach would be needed from November 1 to February 1. The coach would receive expenses while living in Sweden during that period as well as expenses for the trip to Sweden. &#9632;

Teams From Poland, Sweden Make Bids To Catch Services Of Canuck Coaches

Jovial Jack Adams, Detroit G. M., is a firm believer in shifting his players about, particularly the veterans who aren&rsquo;t clicking. &ldquo;I like to give new kids a chance to show what they can do&rdquo; says Adams. Sometimes it wins Stanley Cups.They say that the transportation between Detroit, Indianapolis and Omaha is so heavy that is beginning to resemble Personal Adams Enterprises. Players in the Detroit organization on the way up and on the way down go past each other so swiftly and continuously, that they don&rsquo;t bother to wave to each other any more. &#9632;

Needs Own Railway

LAKE PLACID, N.Y.Trainer Tom McKenna of New York Rangers is an old hand at his profession even though he is Only 28 years of age. McKenna, youngest trainer in the N.H.L., made his debut with the liniment bottle at the age of 14 when he served as an &ldquo;assistant&rdquo; to the regular trainer of the Minneapolis Millers.McKenna, who was born in Minneapolis, used to travel with the club on its trips around the circuit. He&rsquo;d lug along his school books, study his lessons on trains, in hotel rooms and even in the dressing rooms, and then he&rsquo;d be given tests by his teacher on his return to Minneapolis.Big Ching Johnson, who played for Rangers some time back and who once was playing-coach of the Minneapolis team, is one of McKenna&rsquo;s favorite hockey characters. McKenna likes to tell of the time that Johnson, a big smiling giant noted for his toughness, broke his nose during a game. Ching simply snapped the nose back into position and continued the game without taking a single moment out. &#9632;

Young NHL Trainer Is Veteran at 28

MOOSE JAW. SASK.&mdash;Travelling emissary of goodwill for the men in white sweaters, &ldquo;King&rdquo; Clancy opened his refereeing tour of the west here Tuesday night, September 30, by blastting the whistle in an exhibition game between Chicago Black Hawks and their U.S.H.L. farm team, Kansas City Pla-Mors.Clancy, referee-in-chief of the National Hockey League, will patrol the ice for six such pre-season games between the two clubs in Western Canada. In an entirely new plan evolved this year by Pre-sident Clarence Campbell of the N.H.L., Clancy also will hold a &ldquo;school&rdquo; for western referees while on the tour.Because of the need for more refereeing talent in the expanding professional circuits, this system is likely to become an annual procedure. The amateur referees will be given instruction and timely tips to help gain the know-how to graduate into the big leagues.Clancy&rsquo;s schedule this spring calls for him to referee games of Regina October 3, at Saskatoon October 4, Calgary October 6, Edmonton October 8 and Winnipeg October 10.The most rapid three-goals-in-a row in American Hockey League history were scored February 16, 1941, when Bill Jennings of Indianapolis Capitals banged home three markers in 57 seconds. &#9632;

King Clancy Off On Western Tour

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-021457/8057765-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg"></div>W. J. Tobin, President,V. J. Tobin, General ManagerTrainer, Eddie Froelich.Coach, Johnny Gottselig, &#9632;

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Chicago Black Hawks Roster

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div>LOS. ANGELES, CALIF.&mdash;In a $2,250,000 transaction, stockholders of the Pan-Pacific Corporation have sold the PanPacific Auditorium, Theatre and Bowling Alley and the Los Angeles ice hockey team franchise to E. L. Cord, former automobile manufacturer.Charles E. Cord, son of E. L. Cord, is the new president of the Pan-Pacific Auditorium Corporation. Lyman Johnson will remain as executive vice-president as well as president of the Los Angeles Monarchs hockey team.Others on the board are: J. F. Dunn, former controller of Ryan Aircraft Company, treasurer; Attorney Edward D. Neuhoff, secretary; and Johnson, holdover from the old corporation headed by Clifford S. Henderson.The sale was reported by Clifford Henderson, president of the corporation and managing director of the auditorium.The centre was built in the depression years of 1934 and 1935, with the stockholders including many of the friends Henderson made in the aviation industry during his activity as head of the National Air Race. In addition, numerous figures in the entertainment world were among the shareholders.Listed among the holders of stock were: Gen. James Doolittle, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Leonard Firestone, Paul Mantz, Charles Nash and Frank Phillips.Henderson said that he will retain the presidency and control of the Pasadena Winter Garden Corp. He will continue as chairman of the Pacific Coast Hockey League, a most he was selected for at the league&rsquo;s mid-summer meeting. &#9632;

PAN-PACIFIC BRINGS $2,250,000 IN WEST COAST TRANSACTION

MONTREAL&mdash;The Sportsmen&rsquo;s Association of Montreal, long burning with the desire to take an active part in local athletics, has decided to sponsor a pre-season Junior hockey tournament that will Include some of the finest junior puck teams in the Dominion. The Montreal Forum will be the site of the proposed series with such clubs as Oshawa Generals, four-time Memorial Cup champions, Winnipeg Canadiens, Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s, Toronto Marlboros or Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s, current holders of the Canadian junior hockey championship and three Montreal entries, Canadiens, Royals and Nationale, taking part.General Manager Frank Selke of the Forum announced that the series would commence Sunday, October 5, prior to the opening of the local junior loop. Selke said the Sportsmen&rsquo;s Association intend donating a handsome trophy to the winning team, in addition to awarding prizes to the team&rsquo;s individual players. The M.S.A. hope to maqe the event an annual affair.Present plans call for an opening doubleheader with Oshawa meeting either National or Canadiens in the first game, and Royals opposing either St. Mike&rsquo;s or Marlboros in the night-cap. &#9632;

Sportsmen’s Group Sponsors Canadian Junior Competition

TORONTO.So far as Maj. Conny Smythe is concerned, the 1947-48 chances of Toronto Maple Leafs depend on wheter Syl Apps and Nick Metz are able to stand the pace. Apps, Metz and Goalie Turk Broda are the three oldest members of the club which took the Stanley Cup last season.Smythe says that if Apps and Metz &ldquo;conk out&rdquo; then the Leafs will have to come up with some new talent at centre ice. It&rsquo;s at centre that the managing director of the Leafs figures that budding youngsters have the best chance of breaking in with the club. The next most probable spot is right wing, according to Smythe.Smythe considers that the rest of the positions are pretty well accounted for. There doesn&rsquo;t seem to be anybody around to knock Broda out of the goaling spot; the defence is set with Bob Gold-ham, Garth Boesch, Gus Mortson, Jimmy Thomson, Bill Barilko and Wally Stanowski; and there is plenty of left wing strength with Gaye Stewart, Harry Watson, Vic Lynn and Joe Klukay on hand.Over on right wing, Coach Happy Day made use last season of Bill Ezinlcki, Howie Meeker and Don Metz. And at centre he had Apps, Nick Metz (also used on wing and listed as such in the club roster), Ted Kennedy, Gus Bodnar and Bud Poile.Fifteen amateurs, including two goaltenders, are marked down on the Toronto roster at present. Taking Smythe&rsquo;s statement as a clue, one amateur who might make the grade with the club could be Fleming Mackell, the former St. Michael&rsquo;s whizz. Mackell, who established all sorts of junior scoring records with the collegians, is a centre man.Nick Metz is the grand-daddy of the club. Nick was born on February 16, 1914 at Wilcox, Sask. He is almost exactly three months older than Walter &ldquo;Turk&rdquo; Broda, the Club netminder. Syl Apps is next in line as &ldquo;oldest&rdquo; member of the team, having been born at Paris, Ont., on January 18, 1915.<h2>Con, Not Pro</h2>BILL EZINICKI, wildman of Toronto Maple Leafs, created quite a stir out west recently when he was quoted as saying he would leave hockey after this season to try his hand as a golf pro. Conn Smythe, major domo of Leafs, was highly perturbed at all this, and when Wild Bill reached Leafs&rsquo; training camp at St. Catharines, Ont., he denied it all.&ldquo;I wuz misquoted,&rdquo; quoth William, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll stick with hockey as long as hockey wants me.&rdquo;So Bill sticks with Con, and files the pro deal away for the time being. &#9632;

Apps, N. Metz Termed ‘Keys’ To Leaf Hopes

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-011801/8057868-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"></div>E. W. Bickell, President.Conn Symthe, Managing DirectorConn Symthe. Manager.C. H. Day, Coach. &#9632;

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Toronto Maple Leafs Roster

WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;The booming American Hockey League, steadily expanding as hockey interest waxes in United States cities, has been increased to 11 teams this season as Washington Lions resumed their franchise, dormant for the past four seasons. Lions moved up from the Eastern United States Hockey League, along with Coach Jack Riley, who led them last winter in the amateur loop.The A.H.L. now has regained its pre-war strength&mdash;Springfield Indians and Philadelphia Rockets resumed play at the start of the 1946-47 semester. Washington&rsquo;s place in the four-team E.U.S.H.L. is being taken by Atlantic City Seagulls, formerly the top amateur six in the United States but out of action since before the war. The other entries in the Eastern set up are Boston Olympics and New York Rovers, slated to play also in the Quebec Senior circuit, with Baltimore Clippers rounding out the picture. &#9632;

Washington Lions Again Play in AHL Move Up From Eastern U.S. Circuit

WINNIPEG&mdash;Alfie Pike has decided to do his travelling with a wholesale sporting goods firm here instead of with New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, Pike, veteran leftwinger who spent six years with Rangers, wrote Coach Frankie Boucher of the Broadway Blues to say he was hanging up his skates and wouldn&rsquo;t report this year.Pike, scored 42 goals and assisted in 77 more during his term in the big top. In four Stanley Cup playoffs he notched eight goals and had four assists. &#9632;

Hangs Up Skates

&mdash;MONTREALThe Quebec Senior Hockey League made the welcome of the Boston Olympics and the New York Rovers official at its annual fall meeting here in Montreal by granting franchises to both teams to complete a seven-team Q.S.H.L. that will have an international tinge this season.The long arm of the Senior Group dipped into the United States Eastern Amateur Hockey League to secure the latest additions to George Slater&rsquo;s &ldquo;best amateur hockey league in the world.&rdquo; Olympics, farm club of the National Hockey League Boston Bruins, have been one of the leading U.S. amateur hockey clubs for the past 10 years or more. Entry in a Canadian contested league is not new to Boston as they were members of the old Provincial loop back in 1937.The Rovers, often referred to as the junior Broadway Blueshirts, are U. S. E. A. H. L. champions for 1946-47 and have oc-Royals do in the Q. S. H. L. as being the top drawing card in their league.League President George Slater extended a warm welcome to Tom Lockhart, general manager of the Rovers, who represented both Boston and New York at the meeting.The seven teams that constiute the Q. S. H. L. are the Montreal Royals, defending titlists, Ottawa Senators, Valleyfield Braves Sha-winigan Falls Cataracts, Quebec Aces, Boston and New York.Each entry will play 48 games, 24 at home and 24 away, with the official league opening set for Saturday, October 18.Lockhart informed the league that the Rovers would have only 12 dates at Madison Square Garden owing to the overcroweded list of attractions that occupies the Garden all winter. However each club, with the exception of the Royals, will permit the New York club to play on their home ice.Last season&rsquo;s Wills Trophy international hockey tourney was so successful that Boston and New York both decided to make the jump to the Canadian circuit. &#9632;

O’S.H.L. Assumes International Rank With Admittance Of Olympics, Rovers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-021395/8058002-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">AFTER THE BATTLE, Frank Carlin and Ills Montreal Royals, Allan Cup champs of 1946-47 voice a merry cheer after winning the Canadian amateur title from Calgary Stampeders. In front row, kneeling, are Gerry Plamondon, Tod Campeau, Floyd Curry, Benys Casavant Pete Morin captain, Gerry McNeil and Jimmy Haggerty. Back row, Coach Carlin, Rip Riopelle, Eric Fleet Bobby Pepin, Jacques Locas, Cliff Malone, Jimmy Galbraith and Erni Laforce. In the background to the left are Doug Harvey and Gus Ogilvie, manager.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL&mdash;A ironic twist about admitance of the Boston Olympics and the New York Rovers to the Quebec Senior Hockey League is that they will not be eligible for Allan Cup competition.Sir Montague Allan&rsquo;s prized piece of silverware, presently resting in the trophy room of the Montreal Forum, is open to Canadian clubs only. The coveted cup, emblematic of Canadian senior amateur hockey supremacy, is closed to the American clubs in accordance with the C.A.H.A. ruling that only Canadian teams may compete for the trohpy.<h2>Royal Welcome For Allan Cup &#9632;</h2>

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American Clubs Ineligible For Allan Cup Competition

<div class="byline">By ARNIE JONES</div>&mdash;MONTREALAfter a lapse of 17 seasons, Montreal was finally able to produce its second Allan Cup winning team in the long history of senior amateur hockey competition in the Canadian metropolis.It was a great and historic night at the Montreal Forum that evening of May 13 and a night that will live long in the memories of those 12,000 perspiring hockey fans who cluttered every available, nook and corner of the arena. They rock ed the large ice emporium to the rafters as Frank Carlin&rsquo;S tired out victorious Montreal Royals skater off the soggy ice sheet.The Carlinites were the new owners of the Allan Cup&mdash;emblematic of Canadian senior hockey supremacy in Canada. It had been a long time since the Allan Cup found a resting place in Montreal and the majority of Royal supporters who either witnessed the contest or pressed an ear to their radios just couldn&rsquo;t believe their own eyes or ears.Seventeen years has been a long time, but there were many who still remembered the great M.A. A.A. Wing Wheelers who copped the Cup out west in the 1929-30 season. Frank Carlin had been at the helm of many great Montreal senior teams in the past but it was just acase of often the bride&rsquo;s-maid but never the bride.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-011917/8057947-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="299" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Carlin</figcaption></div>But it was a Royal year last season. Carlin had assembled one of the greatest teams in Montreal history and once they started to roll near the end of the regular Quebec Senior Hockey League schedule nobody was able to halt their &ldquo;march of triumph&rdquo; towards the Allan Cup. They bowled over many strong clubs on their road to the championship, including the powerful Ottawa Senators, Quebec Aces, Hamilton Tigers and last but not least the defending Allan Cup holders, the bucking Stampeders from Calgary. The final round of their 1946-47 fight was a six-game struggle waged at the Forum and the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto&mdash;the Stamps&rsquo; adopted home for the series.Its was a long and bitter battle that Carlin and his game Montrealers had waged and their glory trail to the Cup was fittingly crowned with the decision over a fighting but outclassed western team.The road that led to the Allan Cup last winter was a rough and rocky one, to say the least. Carlin, with his 1946-47 edition of the Quebec Senior Hockey League team, was back for revenge. He was out to redeem the humiliating setback he and his so-called &ldquo;unbeatables&rdquo; had suffered in the Eastern Canada finals in the spring of 1946. That was the year that a tattered group of veteran ice-generals from Hamilton nudged the powerful Royals off the Allan Cup highway in sweeping fashion. That was the year the Montrealers were tagged as the best senior hockey club assembled in Canada. Before the fatal series with the Shabby Cats, Montreal&rsquo;s dapper dans of the icelanes were even considered a push-in for the cup.But Skipper Frank Carlin&rsquo;s &ldquo;dream boat&rdquo; with the compass set for the Allan Cup port suddenly lost its bearings when he steered his club into the Hamilton Tigers, champions of Ontario that year. The Old Men, as the Tigers were so rightfully named, came up with the unexpected and after three disastrous outings with the battered Bengals. Carlin&rsquo;s craft was in dry-dock for another year. It was a staggering setback, and in the true MacArthur style, Carlin bawled out after the series, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be back&rdquo;. And he wasn&rsquo;t fooling.He and his Royal club did just that, and the outcome of last season&rsquo;s play can now be blue-pene-ciled into hockey&rsquo;s history ledgers as a big feather in Montreal&rsquo;s puck hat.<h2>New Broom Used</h2>After the Hamilton series of &lsquo;46, the Royal Hockey Club did a little house-cleaning and Carlin was able to come up with a younger, faster and more powerful club for the long road back. After coming so close the year before, the likable Montreal coach had his mind set on that Cup and if he couldn&rsquo;t give the home town a winner after so many years he was ready to die in the attempt.Several of the Royal players were either cut loose from the club&rsquo;s roster list or had been bought up by the parent Canadians of the National Hockey League or some other pro organization. There were even rumors floating around the Montreal hockey world in the summer of &lsquo;46 that Carlin himself had reached the end of his string. But of all the changes of personnel in the Royal make-up for the 1946-47 season, Carlin&rsquo;s retirement was the most far-fetched.A total of seven regular players were missing from the lineup when the Q.S.H.L. champions resumed play last autumn. Big bouncing Butch Stahan. the lantern-jawed defenceman packed his bag for Tommy Gorman&rsquo;s happy-hunting grounds in Ottawa. The club&rsquo;s first-string forward line of Gerry Hefferman, Alex Smart and Smiley Meronek left the club as a unit. Hefferman retired in favor, of business, Meronek also decided to call it a day, while Smart, a veteran in Montreal&rsquo;s senior circuit, took Stahan&rsquo;s example and hopped a rattler for the Capital.Of the three others, Jean Paul Lamirande was called up by the New York Rangers and the speedy Leo &ldquo;Gazelle&rdquo; Gravelle gained a regular berth with the Canadiens. The veteran Paul Marcel Raymond decided the best step to take was retirement, although he eventually turned out with the Lachine Rapides.Thus Carlin was forced to start from scratch. He had lost a good part of his team in the above manner, but the scale was more than balanced by a crop of promising rookies emerging from the local junior ranks. There were many gaping holes in his pre-season player sheet but it was only a matter of time before suitable replacements were found to plug those holes.A total of eight new players were added to Carlin&rsquo;s club. A veteran of many year&rsquo;s service in the Quebec loop, bulky Jimmy Galbraith, was added as the third regular rearguard and the Royals secured the services of two French-Canadian stars, Gerry Plamondon and Tod Campeau. The two boys had set a burning scoring pace in the league the year before while playing with the Valleyfield BravesThe veteran Jimmy Haggerty, coupled with four high-stepping youngsters, rounded out the Royal society for the start of the new campaign. Cliff Malone, nephew of the famous Joe Malonee of N. H.L. scoring fame. Jacques Locas, a lanky hot-tempered junior from the Concordia Club of the Junior Amateur Hockey Association, Bobby Pepin and Denys Casavant were Carlin&rsquo;s new finds.Hold-overs included Goaler Gerry McNeil, Doug Harvey. Ernie Laforce. Floyd &ldquo;Busher&rdquo; Curry, Howard Rippelle and Pete Morin. Without a doubt they formed a great club, and with the blending of both English and French names on the lineup, the team had a loyal following of both English and French-speaking fans.The Royals got off to a fast start in the early stages of the regular Q.S.H.L. schedule, but as the season progressed, the Montrealers were forced to play a second fiddle to Buck Boucher&rsquo;s powerful Ottawa Senators. As a result of the Senators surging power down the home stretch the Royals were shoved into second place, where they remained for the remainder of the schedule. When the final standings were posted, the Senators finished on the top rung with a four-point lead over the Royals.<h2>Campeau on Top</h2>As was expected, Tod Campeau finished as the team&rsquo;s high-scorer with a total of 53 points, ranking him fourth in the Q.S.H.L. scoring race, and to Gerry McNeil went the honors, of being the least scored-against goaler in the league.When playoff time rolled around, the Royals were being rated as seconds to the big boys from Ottawa. Carlin&rsquo;s crew started off along the playoff trail on March 12th against the Aces in Quebec. They took the initial encounter of the best-of-five series 6-3 and then went on to clean up the Lex Cook-coached Quebecers three games to one. The Senators had enjoyed an easy time with the Shawinigan Cataracts in their series, so the Royals were pitted against their old rivals from Ottawa once again in the finals.Many maintained that this would be the series that would either make or break the Royals. As it turned out these predictions were all so very true. Although the Montrealers came out on top, the Senators were the toughest opposition the Royals were forc-td to encounter during the long Allan Cup grind.The first two games were scheduled to alternate between the two rinks on successive days and all the Royals were able to muster from the twin tussles was a tie&mdash;a 3-3 struggle in Ottawa. The following afternoon at the Forum the Senators looked well on their way to the title with a 2-1 win.The series then shifted back to Gorman&rsquo;s Auditorium, where the Royals turned the tables by crushing the Nats 8-1, and back home four days later the Royals again made monkeys of the Senators by knocking off the latter 6-1.After Ottawa momentarily evened the series on home ice with a 2-1 victory, Jimmy Haggerty&rsquo;s story-book goal with 27 seconds remaining in the fray in the sixth game at the Forum, put the Royals out in front to stay.The deciding game, also waged on Forum ice, where the Royals finished oft the staggering Senators in overtime to win the game 2-1, the Q.S.H.L. league championship and along with it the Thomas O&rsquo;Connell Memorial Trophy for the second straight season.With the Senators out of the way, the Royals still had to face three more rounds before they could stamp on pay-dirt. The three were the Sherbrooke St. Francis club, Provincial League winners, Hamilton Tigers, titans of the Ontario circuit, and the Western title holders, Calgary Stampeders.Except for one game, the Royals found the St. Francis club an easy bill to swallow. They took the best-of-five series 3 to 1, in which McNeil recorded shutouts the last two games.With Sherbrooke by the wayside, the portals were flung wide open for the big grudge series with the Tigermen from Hamilton. This was the round that meant everything to Coach Carlin and the holdovers from the 1946 team.The Tigers, like the Royals, had made a few changes over the summer, but this time Carlin held all the aces in his hand and instead of the Tigers doing the clawing as they did the year before, Montreal mauled the Jungle Kings in straight swings. In the first game at the Forum the Royals held the Tigers scoreless by a 3-0 count, and three nights later they finished on top again, 3-1. The Royals had to travel all the way to Toronto to put Hamilton on the canvas for the 10-count. The score in the third game was 5-1 and there was nothing holding Carlin and his boys now. It was a moral victory and the entire Royal club from the president to the stickboy were swimming in the Wine of triumph.But Carlin had been in this position many times during the past. That of holding a ticket Into the Allan Cup finals. But this year Carlin was playing it safe. Over-confidence had been a fatal tonic to many a good team so the Royals refused to pull punches. They respected the Stampeders as a top-ranking club&mdash;the best in the west&mdash;and a club that was determined to hold on to the Cup they won by beating the Hamilton Tigers in the finals in &lsquo;46.As the series opened in Toronto, the betting fraternity were putting their bobs on the Royals. It paid off in the first game anyway as the Easterners moved one-up, winning 7-3. However, much to the surprise of the 10,841 fans who flocked to the Forum for the second game a few days later, the Stampeders tied the series on Dune Grant&rsquo;s late third-frame tally. The score was 2-1. The Royals were back in full stride for the third game and their 7-0 score more or less established them as heavy favorites for the Cup. Their 4-3 win back in Toronto a few nights later moved them only one game away from the elusive Cup.<h2>Stamps Fought Back</h2>Holding a three to one lead in games, the Royals were so near, but yet they were still a long way from ultimate victory, for the Calgary club was a fighting bunch who could never be counted out until the final bell. With four of his regular players on the ailing list, Coach Carlin was a worried man before the start of the fifth game in the Gardens. His club found the going plenty rough that nighf and four injuries, coupled with the sparkling performance of the brilliant Red Hunter, who notched three goals, the Stampeders went on to draw within one game of the Montreal club by scoring a 5-2 victory.It was a warm May night that evening of the 13th, and the jammed Forum turned the ice into a soggy sheet after the sceond period. But that failed to halt a spirited drive by the Royals. The mighty Montrealers walloped their western rivals 8-2 to put the finishing touches to one of the greatest amateur hockey seasons in Montreal.What Carlin will be able to produce towards the defence of the Allan Cup this year still remains a big question mark! There is little doubt that the Canadiens will be out this year for new and younger blood to inject into Dick Irvin&rsquo;s pro lineup.Big Doug Harvey is an almost sure bet for a spot on the Habitant defence, while Rip Riopelle, Tod Campeau and Floyd Curry will undoubtedly be strong candidates for a post with the &ldquo;big boys&rdquo;. That will leave Carlin in the same spot as he has found himself at this time every season.Royals Face Loss Of Several Stars &#9632;

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Hoist Into N. H. L. Strata Due For Number Of Royals

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-011700/8058040-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="570" height="829"></div><h2>Terry Reardon</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-021219/8058033-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="567" height="940"></div>Ex-Boston Bruin, Terrible Terry moves into the rank of coaches this season as he tries his hand at masterminding the Reds of the American Hockey League. &#9632;

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Doug Harvey

CHICAGO&mdash;No more ardent fan club is likely to be found anywhere than the Standbys, who do their rootin&rsquo; and tootin&rsquo; in favor of Chicago&rsquo;s Black Hawks.Organized in 1944 and boasting membership of 55, the Standbys have their own charter, membership cards, and a slate of officers elected every November at the start of the N.H.L. season. They even have their own publicity director, with the chores of office handled by Shirley Jacobson.Miss Jacobson sends out a breezy, Informative monthly paper to all members called &ldquo;Standing by with the Standbys.&rdquo;To become a member of the Standbys, it is necessary to refuse to sit anywhere but in the second balcony at the Chicago Stadium. This is the section known variously in other rinks as the &ldquo;rush end&rdquo; or &ldquo;Millionaire&rsquo;s Row.&rdquo; Since the seats are not reserved, the Standbys have to be on hand early to make certain they are able to obtain their &ldquo;usual&rdquo; spots.The Standbys hold monthly meetings, stage special parties at such times as Christmas and season&rsquo;s end. At the windup gathering after the schedule is over the Standbys make a presentation to the Black Hawks high point scorer. Max Bentley has been the recipient of this gift for the last couple of seasons.It&rsquo;s only natural that the Black Hawks players regard the fan club as a great thing. What athlete doesn&rsquo;t like to have the home fans backing him to the limit? Hawk players can generally be found attending the get-togethers sponsored by the Standbys, and hockey, naturally enough, is the prime topic of conversation.The Standbys have fashioned their own nicknames for some of the Chicago pucksters&mdash;they refer to Red Hamill as &ldquo;Father&rdquo;; to Bill Mosienko as &ldquo;Mouse&rdquo;; and to Johnny Mariucci as &ldquo;Choo&rdquo;. &#9632;

‘Standbys’ Stack Up As Ardent Fan Club

PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;When Providence Reds step on the ice this fall to start theirAmerican Hockey League schedule they should display lots of the old zing and fight, if their coach has anything to say about it.Terry Reardon, scrappy, big-hearted Irishman who wound up his major league career with Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League last year is piloting Providence Reds this season having taken over from Art. Le-seur. The latter was a temporary appointment, finishing out the season when Tony Savage was boosted upstairs as business manager of the Providence entry.Terry, bom Terence George Reardon in Winnipeg 28 years ago started along the professional trail with Hershey Bears of the A.H.L. in the 1938-39 season, moved up to Boston in 1940-41, after a brief tryout the year before, and then spent two years with Canadiens before joining the Canadian army.Terry served with distinction overseas, being seriously wounded during the D-day landings in Normandy. But he refused to admit he was licked&mdash;something many opposing N.H.L. players have found out the hard way&mdash;and after he got his discharge he came back to the N.H.L. warfare, rejoining Bruins.Last year, his second full season since making the post-service comeback six goals and assisted in another 14. In the Stanley Cup semi-final against Canadiens he racked up three assists, although he didn&rsquo;t get into the goal column. That ran his total for five seasons in the big top to 53 goals and 60 assists, a not-to-be sneezed-at performance. &#9632;

Scrappy Irishman Leads Providence

<div class="byline">By LLOYD SAUNDERS</div>REGINA, SASK.&mdash;Another Western Canada Senior Hockey League season is just about due to get underway and it seems to be generally agreed that Calgary Stampeders will once again be the team to beat. That&rsquo;s not surprising in the light of Calgary&rsquo;s record&mdash;winners of the Allan Cup in 1945-46 and finalists in the 1946-47 season.But that doesn&rsquo;t mean that the other four clubs in the circuit&mdash;Edmonton Flyers, Regina Caps, Saskatoon Quakers and Lethbridge Maple Leafs&mdash;are conceding the title to the Stamps. Definitely not! But it&rsquo;s customary to string along with a champion and on that basis it&rsquo;s impossible to disregard the Stamps when it comes to making prognostications.All five clubs have sought to bolster their lineups, which means that there&rsquo;ll be plenty of new faces for the fans. Some of the old faces will be missing, too. From an executive standpoint, the league will be without the services of one of its most valued members, the late Piffles Taflor of Regina. Mr. Taylor passed away during the summer at his home in Regina.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-011869/8058119-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="293" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Schriner</figcaption></div><h2>How League Grew</h2>Mr. Taylor undoubtedly was more widely known in the sphere of football than hockey. He was a high ranking officer of the Canadian Rugby Union and one of the guiding lights of the Regina Roughriders. But he also took a keen interest in hockey and was a vice-president of the W.C.S.H.L. His place on the executive has been taken by C. B. Whitney, who owned the Regina Caps last season.The Western Canada Senior Hockey League definitely has been a tremendous success since its inception in 1945. Calgary and Edmonton along with Leth-Tidge used to play in the old Alberta League, while Saskatoon and Regina carried on in the Saskatchewan Senior League. It was just a question of time until they would have to join forces with the other province. When Flin Flon Bombers, the colorful squad from the north dropped out of hockey competition there was ust one road to follow and that is just what Saskatoon and Regina did. Calgary and Edmonton were both pleased with the new deal, and when Lethbridge entered the hockey picture, the league was composed of five squads, which it still carries.<h2>Teams In Red</h2>Just how long the western senior league will be able to remain in active competition remains to be seen. The high cost of players will have to take its toll of the clubs sooner or later. All but two clubs in the league last year saw red ink splashed across their ledgers. Edmonton Flyers were the big financial winners in the loop last term, despite the fact that their club was one of the weakest in the league. The Flyers started out strong, but finished badly, but despite this, managed to ring up five thousand ticket sales per game for the balenee of the season.Their first change came at the end of last winter when they released Riley Mullin as coach. Mullin, so it&rsquo;s reported, coudn&rsquo;t see eye to eye with some of the officials. The new coach of the Alberta capital&rsquo;s entry will be Frank Currie who comes highly rated to the Flyers from Montreal Canadiens.At a recent banquet in Edmonton, Currie announced that he had signed six players from last year&rsquo;s squad. They are Elmer Kreller, Freddy Smitten, Gordon Watt, Billy Maher, who came to the team last year in mid-season from Minneapolis, and Alex Pringle who, prior to joining the club last year was a standout on the coast with Paul Thompson&rsquo;s Vancouver Canucks.Currie also told the gathering that he had signed a star goal tender on a recent trip, but failed to reveal his name. The Flyers net-minder from last year, Ken McCauley, who once played with the New York Rangers, has retired from the game to enter the business world.Last years&rsquo; Allan Cup finalists, the Calgary Stampeders, will again be rated the team to beat for western honors. The Stamps have had a big margin over the rest of the teams for the past two years, and have won the league title in comparitively easy fashion. Coached by Jack Arbour, the Stampeders took the Allan Cup in 1945-46, and last year advanced to the Dominion final, losing out in a hard fought series with the Montreal Royals for the Allan Cup. However, towards the end of the years&rsquo; play, it was evident to many western critics that the Cowboys needed new blood injected in their lineup.<h2>Defence A Question</h2>When they lost defencemen Pete Slobodian and Julian Saw-chuk to the pros, the Stamps lost two thirds of their blue line power. The only other regular player left, being Art Michaluk. Burly Art will not be with the club this term, however, as he has signed with Bill Tobin&rsquo;s Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League. To make up for this, the Stamps have already signed three promising stars with one, an almost certainty to be well up in the scoring race. He is Byron &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; McDonald, a one-time performer with Detroit &#9632;

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Calgary Stampeders Loom As Team To Beat On Prairies

<div class="byline">By ERIC BISHOP</div>TRAIL, B. C.&mdash;The Kootenay district of British Columbia, where the Western International Hockey League operates, has again been hit by a &lsquo;fever&rsquo; epidemic.However, the doctors in this area aren&rsquo;t the least bit alarmed as this strange phenomenon has struck each year at this time for many years and has yet to prove fatal. In fact the &lsquo;sawbones&rsquo; don&rsquo;t have to attend any of the &ldquo;fever-struck&rdquo; people as this yearly outbreak isn&rsquo;t a malady at all, it&rsquo;s just hockey fever.Along &lsquo;Coffee Row&rsquo; in each of the four cities that have clubs in the circuit;&mdash;Trail, Kimberley, Nelson and Spokane&mdash;hockey hogs the spotlight.When one separates the rumors from clear facts he realizes that there is very little news coming from the camps of the different clubs. In fact the 1947-48 Western International picture is far from being in focus at this time.It&rsquo;s definite that the loop will be a four team affair this winter with Kimberley Dynamiters Nelson Maple Leafs. Trail Smoke Eaters and Spokane Spartans battling for honors. The Los Angeles Ramblers, members of last years circuit, will not operate.The Lethbridge Native Son junior aggregation applied for the Los Angeles franchise but was turned down by the loop moguls. The Alberta backers claimed they have a Memorial Cup contender which is too strong for the other Alberta junior teams and wanted to compete in this senior circuit and gain valuable experience before returning to the junior fold at playoff time. However, the bosses of the W. I. H. L. figured that should the juniors drop game after game it would hinder gate receipts while if the junior squad should win its share fans would not have high regard for the senior clubs.As yet the opening game has not yet been announced as the clubs are still battling for certain nights for home games. However, the loop will pry the lid off around the 1st of November. A tentative schedule that has been drawn up bills the opener for November 2 with Trail playing host to Kimberley.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-021472/8058150-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="251" height="399"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Benoit</figcaption></div>The Spartans of Spokane, Washington, have been granted 36 home games this winter while Kim-berley will have 20 and Trail and Nelson 18. The reason is that the Spokane team is a &lsquo;sha-mateur&rsquo; club with quite a payroll while Kimberley and Trail are strictly amateurs (believe it or not) and Nelson offers a little cash plus a job. As a result Spokane must have more games so as not to finish in the red.President Walter Duckworth of Nelson predicts that this year&rsquo;s struggle will be much closer than last season when the Kimberley clan breezed home winners with Los Angeles, Trail and Nelson strung out behind and Spokane mired deep in the cellar. He also figures the teams and calibre of hockey will be much better.Kimberley will have pretty much the same makeup as last year when they gave the Calgary and Chicago of the National League, and top notch minor leaguer with Indianapolis and Kansas City. Butch moved to the foothills city early in the spring to open up a pool hall. He will likely draw a defence assignment with Arbour&rsquo;s team. The other players signed, other than last years&rsquo; men, are Stan Deviq, a high scoring forward with Edmonton Flyers last season, and George Barefoot, who played standout hockey with the Nelson Maple Leafs in the Western International circuit. From last years&rsquo; squad, Arthur will have Russ Dertell for goal. Bud Emery and Archie Wilder on defence, and up front will toss over the boards Dune Grant. Red Hunter, Bob Brownridge, Bunny Dame, Tony Desmarais, Doug Cairns, and Doug French. Incidentally, we might be sticking our neck out on this one, but we think that the Hunter, Brownridge, Grant line is about one of the smartest forward combinations in the amateur game today. As an attacking trio, they leave little to be desired, and their talented finish around the goalmouth would make the average coach smile with satisfaction. Russ Dertell is easily one of the calmest and smartest netminders in the western league and should again have a banner year. Thus you can readily understand why we say: &ldquo;watch Calgary again this year;&rdquo; it will be a real job for the other four teams to dislodge them as champions.Stampeders a terrific scare in Allan Cup play. Crafty Ralph Redding, who starred on the 1936-37 Kimberley world champion six, will again handle the coaching reins. He&rsquo;ll have such puck chasers as &ldquo;Sully&rdquo; Sullivan, who tallied 86 points last year, Butch Swaney and Jack Forsey on hand.Nelson officials are keeping mum. The only news that has leaked out of their fold has been bad news as far as they are concerned. The Mai)e Leafs have lost their two ace defenceman as George Barefoot has left for Calgary Stampeders and Steve Krizan is slated for Spokane. However, their new coach Gordie McKenzie has many connections and promises capable replacements. McKenzie last winter piloted Bra-tislavia in the Czecho-Slovakia league and has also handled junior and senior teams in Winnipeg.<h2>Spokane Stronger</h2>The Spokane crew won&rsquo;t wind up in the cellar this year according to co-owner Rene Morin. Morin, who ran the club by his lonesome last year, has the former Montreal Canadien, Joe Benoit, as a partner and coach and he has signed an imposing array of puck talent. Heading the list is Vern Kneeshaw who wowed the fans with his goal tending last year when he shone with Los Angeles. Followers of the Trail Smoke Eaters figure this year&rsquo;s edition will be the strongest they have had since the 1938-39 Allan Cup winners. President Ed Benson has signed such ice capables as Terry Cavanagh, former Los Angeles left winger who has also seen action in Valleyfield, Dallas and Galt, along with Jim Hansen, Frank Turik and Archie Scott.Turik, a Trail puckster, has played hockey in Ottawa the past few years and was in Europe with the Canadian team a few months back. He has decided to stay in Trail this winter.<h2>Tonguetwister Dept.</h2>Steve Wochy, who played five games with Detroit Red Wings in the N.H.L. last winter after pastiming most of the season with Indianapolis Caps of the A.H.L., is a wolf in sheep&rsquo;s clothing. His real name happens to be Steve Woicie-chowski, but to help harassed sports writers and telegraphers he chopped it down to its present size. &#9632;

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Hockey Fever Stirs Kootenay District As Western International Loop Readies

VANCOUVER, B. C.&mdash;Just what cooks with the Vancouver entry in the Pacific Coast Hockey League is still more than a little obscure. Vancouver Canucks have lost their coach, Paul Thompson, who led them to the league championship in 1945-46, and face a rebuilding job besides.Coley Hall, who operates the team, took a trip to Toronto last month in a quest for new players, especially a goalie, and reports have it that many of last season&rsquo;s Canucks are anxious for new postings. &#9632;

Vancouver Canucks Look For Players

<div class="byline">Each Team In League Must Play 68 Games In Coming Season </div><div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div>NEW YORK&mdash;It&rsquo;s going to be a long, tough row to hoe for the 11 teams in the American Hockey League this winter as they swing into the longest schedule in history&mdash;68 contests spanning the stretch between October 14 and March 21.The longer schedule&mdash;four games more than last year, was made necessary when Washington Lions re-entered the league for the first time since the 1942-43 campaign. Lions have Jack Riley as coach, and expect to ice a stronger entry than that which finished last in the Eastern United States League last winter.There have been several changes in pilots since the end of the last campaign, Don Penniston is again at the helm in Hershey. Big Earl Seibert, one of the greatest defencemen of all time, will be back at Springfield and Lynn Patrick will again coach New Haven Ramblers. At Providence Terry Reardon, tough forward with Boston Bruins last season, has been named to succeed rt Lesieur as coach of the Reds and in Philadelphia, Wallie Kilrea was secured from Fort Worth Rangers of the United States Hockey League to coach the Rockets. Kilrea succeeds Phil Hergesheimer, who in addition to leading the scoring parade in the AHL last season also coached the club.In the Western Division Bun Cook, coach of the Cleveland Barons is the only holdover. Leroy Goldsworthy will succed Frank Beisler as coach of Buffalo Bisons. The veteran defence ace and captain of the Detroit Red Wings for many years, Ebbie Goodfellow, will pilot St. Louis Flyers.Goaltender Johnny Mowers, who was tine of the top performers in the NHL until he went into war service, has been named to succeed Tommy Ivan as coach of the Indianapolis Caps.<h2>Player Protection</h2>When Boston Bruin defenceman Eddie Shore dumped Ace Bailey of Toronto during the 1933-34 season and fractured the latter&rsquo;s skull so badly that he never played nockey again, the need for a headgear to protect players from a recurrence of the Bailey incident was a must. Jack Adams of Detroit designed a helmet the following season and it has been in use ever since. Defenceman Jack Crawford of Boston never steps on the ice without his protective head piece. &#9632;

Heavy Schedule Ahead For A.H.L.

TORONTO.Here&rsquo;s a word of warning to those junior hockey clubs with Memorial Cup aspirations.&mdash;Don&rsquo;t be fooled by all that talk about de-emphasis of hockey at St. Michael&rsquo;s College.The Irish collegians, it can be said with au thority, intend to do everything possible to remain at the top of the junior hockey pile. They like it there&mdash;it&rsquo;s an exhilirating feeling to be champions! If the the Irish fail to repeat in the 1947-48 season, it certainly won&rsquo;t be for want of trying.That de-emphasis talk was brought to the attention of Rev. H. V. Mallon, who directs hockey matters at the college, and this is what he had to say:&ldquo;You ask me to make a statement regarding the persistent rumor that we are de-emphasizing hockey at St. Michael&rsquo;s. If de-emphasis moans that we will not-have as good a team as the Memorial Cup champions of 1947, we are de-emphasizing. We will not have as great a team as that; but neither, I venture to say, will any club in Canada.&ldquo;Their record of winning 45, while losing only four, and of sweeping the Ontario Hockey Association finals, the all-Ontario, and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association playdowns in 14 straight wins will stand, I think, for some time. From that team we are losing Ed. Sandford, Ed. Harrison, Bob Paul, Len Kelly, Fleming Mackell, Howie Harvey, Ray Hannigan and Warren Winslow. It is impossible in one year to replace that number of the best junior hockey players in Canada.<h2>PLAYER LOSSES HURT</h2>That was Father Mallon&rsquo;s answer and it might be noted that there&rsquo;s not the slightest indication that St. Michael&rsquo;s College intends to &ldquo;play down&rdquo; hockey. Father Mallon points out that it&rsquo;s difficult to replace as many stars as St. Mike&rsquo;s are losing. So it is. But St. Mike&rsquo;s have lost stars in other years and still come up with top-notch teams. What&rsquo;s to prevent them from doing the same this season?Let&rsquo;s see what Father Mallon has to say about the question of replacements.&ldquo;We have been fortunate in the past five years&rdquo; he remarks, &ldquo;in having about eight or nine returning and eligible each year. The team of &lsquo;34 which reached the O.H.A. semi-finals returned almost intact and went to the O.H. A. final, losing out (in &lsquo;44) largely because of injuries to John McCormack.&ldquo;From the &lsquo;44 team Jim Thorns son, Gus Mortsan, John McCormack, Ted McLean, Pat Boehmer and Joe Sadler were back in &lsquo;45 to form the backbone of the Memorial Cup champions of that year. In &lsquo;46 McLean and Boehmer were back and we had Ed. Sandford, Ed. Harrison, Len Kelly, Ray Hannigan and Warren Winslow advancing from our Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; team to replace McCormack, Thomson, Mortson, Turik and Gravelle. Again last year, seven of the best returned&mdash;Sandford, Harrison, Mackell, Paul, Kelly, Hannigan and Winslow&mdash;to form the nucleus for another championship team.&ldquo;It is not a new experience for St. Michael&rsquo;s to rebuild. The teams of &lsquo;45, &lsquo;46, &lsquo;47 were built up from the teams of &lsquo;42, &lsquo;43, &lsquo;44 which did not win their group, and from championship teams in the midget and Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; series. Last year our bantam and midget teams won their championships in the Toronto Hockey League. This year, as last year, we will have 12 teams playing in St. Michael&rsquo;s colors&mdash;the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo;, two junior &ldquo;B&rdquo;, six teams in the Toronto Hockey League, and three in the interfaculty series.&rdquo;<h2>Rebuilding Not New</h2>That last paragraph speaks volumes. It indicates how St. Michael&rsquo;s runs its own little hockey empire, one in which the bantam and midget teams and the Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; clubs help to provide the stars that eventually take their place on the &ldquo;A&rdquo; team. One of the big factors is that the youngsters get proper coaching from an early age and are thus able to step right in and play top notch hockey when they reach the &ldquo;A&rdquo; classification.Of the team that swept to the Memorial Cup title last year, only Costello, White, Migay, Psutka and McClelland will be back. In past seasons, the collegians have been partial to westerners when it came to gathering talent but this season they apparently intend to pass up the western lads.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re rebuilding the team from the goal out,&rdquo; says Father Mallon, &ldquo;and there isn&rsquo;t a westerner included in our plans unless you put Joe Beda of Port Arthur in that category.&rdquo;Father Mallon says that he hasn&rsquo;t heard a thing about a report emanating from Brandon, Man., that four St. Michael&rsquo;s players might head for the Manitoba hockey rinks. He adds: &ldquo;The only clue I have is that I forwarded a letter from Brandon to one of our boys&mdash;and he will be playing professional hockey this season. I know my lads and if any of them was contemplating leaving us, they&rsquo;d come to me first.&rdquo;Father Mallon expects much of St. Mike&rsquo;s help this season to come from Northern Ontario, which is gradually developing into a fertile producer of young hockey stars. One youngster from the north who is expected to catch a spot on the team is Gordon Hannigan, a younger brother of Ray of last years&rsquo; team. Father Mallon says that there are several other youngsters whom he brands as &ldquo;unknown quantities.&rdquo;At any rate, it wouldn&rsquo;t be wise to start shedding tears tod early over St. Michael&rsquo;s &ldquo;hockey plight&rdquo;&mdash;it&rsquo;s just possible that the collegians, coached by that astute gentleman, Joe Primeau, will come up with another cracker-jack team.<h2>THEY ALL Call for PHILIP MORRIS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-021194/8058267-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="627" height="3079"><figcaption class="caption-body">Yes, it&rsquo;s a call that&rsquo;s echoed everywhere, the call to more smoking pleasure offered by Philip Morris English Blend. You too, will like the distinctive flavour of this very distinctive cigarette. It&rsquo;s so smooth&mdash;so mild&mdash;so completely satisfying.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03874/8058260-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="468" height="790"></div> &#9632;

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No De-Emphasis For St. Mikes; Will Be As Strong As Possible

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United States Hockey League Schedule 1947-48

TORONTO&mdash;Many a St. Michael&rsquo;s College hockeyist has gone on to further glory in the ice game. Among those who achieved prominence are: Joe Primeau, Dr. Stan Brown, Dr. Jerry Laflamme, Larry Aurie, Nick Metz, Don Metz, Johnny Crawford, Pep Kelly, Dave Trottier, Art Jackson, Reg Hamilton Billy Taylor, Bill Regan, Harold Jackson, Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty, Ed Convey, Clarence Drouillard, Freddie Hunt, John Acheson, George McNamara, Paul McNamara, Ted Lindsay, Tommy O&rsquo;Neil, Frank Dunlap, Jim Thomson, Gus Mortson, Joe Sadler, John McCormack, Tod Sloan, Pat Boehmer, Frank Melong, Leo Gravelle, Bobby Schnurr, Pat McReavy, Chas. Corrigan. &#9632;

These Moved Ahead

ST. LOUIS&mdash;The St. Louis Flyers of the American Hockey League have a wealth of experience in their coaching department this season with the veteran Ebbie Goodfellow slated to handle the Flyers reins for the 1947-48 season.In Goodfellow, St. Louis will have a man who gained fame as an ice &ldquo;general&rdquo; of the great power plays of the Detroit Red Wings for 13 seasons under the big top. Ebbie performed professionally for 14 years for Detroit clubs after coming out of senior amateur ranks way back in the fall of 1927-28 from the Ottawa Montagnards.Goodfellow started his career as a centre ice man before being shifted back to the defence where he skyrocketed to even greater fame for his effectiveness back of the blueline.<h2>Was High Scorer</h2>A sensation from the very start when he led the Canadian Professional Hockey League in scoring while with the Detroit Olympics, Goodfellow continued to star down the years. His greatest scoring season was in &lsquo;30-31 when he racked up 25 goals and 23 assists for the Detroit Falcons finishing in the runner-up spot in the N.H.L. scoring list, two points in arrears of the immortal Howie Morenz, who was then at his peak.Ebbie was the original pivot man for the great Detroit wingers, Larry Aurie and Herbie Lewis. When he was shifted back to the rearguard Marty Barry took over at centre.The Red Wings won two successive Stanley Cups in 1935-36 and 36-37 due in great part to Goodfellow&rsquo;s brilliant achievements in feeding the high-flying redshirted forwards the rubber as well as providing ample defensive protection for John Ross Roach, Norm Smith, Wlif Cude and other memorable Detroit netminders.<h2>All-Star Choice</h2>Goodfellow won all-star recognition for his spectacular work during the 1935-36, 36-37 and 37-38 seasons.Born Ebenezer Goodfellow at Ottawa, Ont., on April 9, 1907, Ebbie is considered a sound hockey man. He knows the game thoroughly and has always been popular with other players. His executive ability is also highly rated as he served as assistant to Manager Jack Adams for four years.Ebbie is determined to give St. Louis a winner this season and no one who knows him will be surprised if he does just that for a club that has been floundering in the A.L. cellar season after season. &#9632;

Flyers Piloted By New Mentor

Hockey fans throughout the land are starting to watch their favorite sport pages for news of their respective home teams&hellip;Detroit Red Wings have gathered together as fine a looking bunch of hockey prospects as we&rsquo;ll see for some time and advance reports from &ldquo;out west&rdquo; indicate that the Wings didn&rsquo;t lose any time lining up the &ldquo;comers&rdquo;&hellip;The Montreal Canadiens promise plenty in the action department this season&hellip;The Habs aren&rsquo;t going to let injuries cripple their plans this season-they&rsquo;re going to ice a club that&rsquo;ll be able to take care of itself, come fair weather or foul!Toronto &ldquo;is never as happy as when it can talk hockey&mdash;and right now Toronto is very happy indeed! The joint&rsquo;s rockin&rsquo; with hockey news, and it&rsquo;s still far too early to tell what the Leafs are going to look like this year, on paper they shape up well&hellip;&ldquo;Commissioner&rdquo; Apps will be carrying the hockey load for the Leafian entry this year but there&rsquo;s no doubt that Leafs&rsquo; well groomed machine will turn out the usual top team&hellip;That was a nice chunk of hockey player that the Hawks picked up when they slapped the contract on Cy Thomas. He has a good hockey background and should do well for Chicago&hellip;If and when &ldquo;Wild Bill&rdquo; Ezi-nicki decides to take up golf for a living; hockey will lose one of its most discussed players. There&rsquo;s no half way about &ldquo;Wild Bill&rdquo; you&rsquo;re either all for him&mdash;or all agin him!In the Montreal camp, Canadiens take to the ice with a vengeance. Lach is looking like the buzz saw of old, &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard oozes confidence that he&rsquo;ll top the 200 goal mark this season and Big Bill Durnan&rsquo;s knee is coming along very nicely. That knee will be watched plenty by crafty Dick Irvin&hellip;In closing for this episode&hellip;orchids to Ken McKenzie on his HOCKEY NEWS&hellip;We&rsquo;ve needed this hockey publication for a long time now. Ken shows keen foresight! He&rsquo;s got a fine bunch of boys backing him, fellows who aren&rsquo;t afraid to work and together we&rsquo;ve a feeling they&rsquo;ll make a real success of THE HOCKEY NEWS. &#9632;

Rambling with Ron Morrier

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A SPECIAL PREPARATION FOR SHAVING

MONTREAL&mdash;Hockey&rsquo;s loss is a gain for tennis in the case of Jaroslav Drobny, the netter who was the backbone of the Czechoslovakian Davis cup team. Not that the solidly-built Drobny intends to forsake the ice game&mdash;it&rsquo;s just that he definitely puts it secondary to tennis.This is understandable when one realizes that Drobny, at 25. is one of the foremost figures in world tennis. It&rsquo;s reported that he is better than average at hockey, good enough to have received a bid to turn out with the Boston Olympics, but he undoubtedly feels that he can go farther in tennis than in hockeyA HOCKEY NEWS reporter talked to Drobny while the Czech star was in Montreal some weeks ago to compete against Australia in the round immediately preceding the Davis Cup final. Drobny said then that his main ambition where hockey was concerned was to compete in the 1948 Olympic games as a member of the Czechoslovak team.Drobny, who tips the scale at 158 pounds, is a centre player who was a star on the Czech team which won the international tournament in Europe last winter. Walter Brown, the general manager of the Boston Garden, saw him in action and thought highly enough of his ability to ask him to play with the Olympics.Drobny is affable and easy to talk to. He speaks English fairly well but our interview with him was conducted through a Czech friend of Drobny&rsquo;s who has lived in the United States for some years and whose English is quite fluent. Drobny related through his friend that the Boston overtures had been made by letter and that he had not talked to Brown personally about donning a Boston Olympics uniform.Mention also was made of the fact that Frank Boucher was reported to have said he would have liked to see Drobny try out with the New York Rangers. Drobny said he hadn&rsquo;t been approached on the matter but he added through his interpreter that he certainly would like to see some of the major professional teams in action.In the next breath, however, he admitted that he probably wouldn&rsquo;t have that chance since he intended to make a tennis lour of South America in the fall and early winter. And then he would be returning to Czechoslovakia to get in some practice licks at hockey in preparation for the Olympic games.Drobny, who is five foot, seven is an all-round athlete&mdash;in fact he is considered the best in Czechoslovakia. He rates his favorite sports as tennis and then hockey. In addition, he plays field hockey, soccer and basketball. During the war years he played mostly soccer since a scarcity of tennis balls made it impossible to play the net game. &#9632;

Czech Ace Nixes U.S. Offer For Olympic Games Chance

SYDNEY. N.S&mdash;What&rsquo;s in the wind with hockey organizers of the Cape Breton Colliery Hockey League is still some-what of a &ldquo;top secret&rdquo; but there are assurances that the brand of hockey will be stepped up considerably this season to put it on the same level with the Maritime senior Hockey League, at present the top circuit.It is generally conceded that if present plans materialize the Colliery League will be bigger and better than at any time since Sydney Millionaires went as far as the Allan Cup finals before bowing out to the Regina Rangers, sparked by Grant Warwick&rsquo;s great play, in 1940-41.Martie McDonald, manager of the champion Glace Bay Miners, has been working on plans for this season ever since the curtain came down on the 1946-47 season. McDonald Is not saying much, but he&rsquo;s not worried either which is a good indication that his club will be as good as last year.Sydney also expects to ice a powerful aggregation this season. The Steel City club is reported interested In getting big Walter Kyle, mainstay of the Saint John Beavers rearguard, to bolster their own defence. However, Kyle&rsquo;s services are in demand and he may wind up with an American League club. The Millionaires have lined up starry Don Whalen, a Beaver, forward, to play in Sydney this season.All three teams, Sydney, Glace Bay and North Sydney, according to reports possess lengthy lists of prospects and it&rsquo;s safe bet to say the league will be better than last year.Indications are that the suspended Cape Breton Junior Loop will commence anew this season. Inactive during the 1946-47 campaign, the league was missed for its wide-open and hard hitting brand of hockey. &#9632;

Colliery Loop Adds Strength

SYDNEY, N.S.&mdash;Harry Poulton, first string forward with Sydney Million-naires and a high scoring member of the Navy team here in the Services Hockey Leagl during the Second World War was named recently as a member of the five-man canoeing team to represent Canada in the 1948 Olympics.Poulton placed second in Canadian Olympic canoeing trials in the one-seat Kayak single blade events. Canoeing events in the Olympic Games to be held at London, Eng., next summer will be run off at Henley-on-Thames, Aug. 11 and 12. &#9632;

Puckster Paddles

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX&mdash;In the Thrilling Thirties the Maritime Senior Hockey League (Big Four) operated for three pulsating seasons. The score was three Allan Cup triumphs two by the Mono-Hawks and the third by the &lsquo;Halifax Wolverines.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-011687/8058535-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="280" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Cowley</figcaption></div>The revived and revised version of the Maritime Big Four stands on the threshold of its second season and, while the opportunity of following the old league in Allan Cup triumphs went with the wind in last season&rsquo;s failure, the 1948 goal is the same as that achieved by the hardy original. The first, and greater, Big Four had entries in Moncton, Halifax, Saint John and Charlottetown. In those glory days there flitted over Maritime ice surfaces such well known stars of the lanes as Bill Cowley (Halifax Wolverines), Ray Getliffe and Joffre (Dizz) Desilets (Charlottetown Abeg-weits) and many others who failed to make the Big Time but who left their imprint in hockey.<h2>Hawks A Great Team</h2>The Hawks, coacned by the peerless Perce Nicklin, now a nower in hockey circles in Great Britain, had many outstanding players but it was in the team strength rather than in individual prowess that the Hawks prospered. Bill Miller eventually wended his way through brief sessions with Montreal Maroons and Canadiens but he, like many others, left it until too late in life to make the plunge into professional hockey.One of the outstanding players of the old Big Four was Dud James, now manager of Moncton Stadium, home of the present Big Four and Maritime champion Hawks. James could have been a big leaguer if he could have been nried away from his native heath. When the urge came the spring had gone out of his legs and, after a brief spell with Syracuse Stars, he returned, played a bit and then drifted to the sidelines.Jimmy Foster, the sterling custodian of the Moncton cage, was another player who hit the headlines if not the jackpot. It was Jimmy who played in the nets for Britain&rsquo;s entry in 1936, when Canada lost its Olympic hockey mantle.Leo Sargent, goaltending stalwart for Halifax Wolverines, bobbed up three years ago when he contested for the job of guarding the cords for Toronto Maple Leafs, a position eventually secured by Frankie McCool, the exnewsman with the celebrated ulcers.They still talk of the original Hawks, and of the skating of Knucker Irvine. In the Maritime Provinces skaters are a dime a dozen, but Knucker was outstanding. Not the greatest hockey player mind you, but a superb skater.<h2>Cowley Star Alumnus</h2>The greatest of all the men who played in the original Big Four was, of course. Bill Cowley Bill did not play the season the Wolverines won the Allan Cup&mdash;he was with the St. Louis team that had taken over the Ottawa N.H.L. franchise. But in the previous season he had led all others in everything but penalties in his last year in amateur ranks,&mdash;a prelude of what was to follow Around Halifax, hockey fans are prouder of the fact that Cowley has scored more N.H.L. points than any other player than they are of the great feat of the Maritimes in holding the Allan Cup for three consecutive years.The coach of the cup-winning Wolverines was Bill (Red) Stuart, of Amherst, N.S. In his younger days Bill had played with Toronto St. Pats and Boston Bruins, the first Maritimer to become a regular at a defence position. The sorrel-topped whirlwind was one of the early rushing defencemen and he saw plenty of service before he hung up his skates After leaving Halifax the redhead went to Sudbury, and coached another Allan Cup winner.<h2>Future Looks Bright</h2>Those are glances into the past. As we said, the chances of equalling the proud record of the original Big Four have gone with last season&rsquo;s failure to get past the Eastern Canada semi-finals. But a new and bigger season is on the way, and that&rsquo;s what the fans are eagerly awaiting. It&rsquo;s one thing to look into the past, but the greater thrill is peering into the future.It promises to be a bright future, barring floods, storms, professional raids and possibly a depression. For It costs big money to operate a big league, a league such as the Maritime Big Four promises to be in the years to come.Truro Bearcats, a power in Maritime hockey down through the years, have replaced the Charlottetown Abegweite, otherwise the original setup is the same. True, there are different men at the helm but the rinks are the same and the teams wear the same colored livery. In passing it might be mentioned that the Bearcats carried the first Maritime challenge into Allan Cup playoffs and between 1920 and 1932 outscored all others in winning Maritime senior hockey titles.Halifax sportsmen had a brainstorm in the early summer but, unhappily, it just didn&rsquo;t work out. The idea was to have Cowley as playing coach of the Halifax entry; Cowley playing out the string with the team with which he had gained the impetus to a professional career. But Bill is still the property of the Boston Bruins and the latest rumor is that he is going to San Francisco. Bill would have been &ldquo;delighted&rdquo; to resume his hotkey career in Halifax had he been without strings.At the moment its much too early to reveal the prospective lineups for the coming season. But it is a known fact that when the 1946-47 season ended the &lsquo;scouts&rsquo; took to the highways and byways in search of hockey talent. When the whistle blows for the opening scramble many well known puck-chasers will be in the Maritime field, with the objective the same as it was a decade or more ago&mdash;the Allan Cup. &#9632;

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Maritime Ice Fans Recall Glory Days Of ‘Big Four’

MONCTON, N.B.&mdash;George Schurman, manager of the Moncton Hawks, hasn&rsquo;t been wasting any time in gathering talent for the club that won the Maritime senior hockey title last season. He expects a large number of the 1946-47 club to return to the fold and, in addition, he has been angling for a number of players who have performed in Ontario and Quebec ranks.Among Hawks expected back at last word, were Chick Charlton, Hugh MacDonald, Buck Whitlock, Mousie Dowling and Buck Trainor. Five other 194647 players have been around the city and it is likely that they&rsquo;ll be turning out with the club when practices get underway. They are Gene Poirier, Carl Bastarache, Willie Agnew George Bell and Mike Dem-chuk.Manager Schurman also is reported to have been dickering with Bud McEachern, who played with the Truro Bearcats last season, and there is a definite possibility that McEachern may be wearing a naw uniform during 1947-48 play. It might be added that all four clubs in the Maritime Senior Hockey League&mdash;the Hawks Bearcats, Halifax Crescents and Saint John Beavers&mdash;have been reported making every offort to strengthen their teams for the coming season.Sammy McManus, the perennial star of Moncton teams, announced last season that he would be hanging up his skates for good. But Sammy had made similar declarations before and found the lure of the game too great. It&rsquo;s possible that he might turn out once again with Hawks. His great experience always has made him a handy man to have around. &#9632;

Hawk Boss Scans Ontario And Quebec In Talent Search; Old Stars Return

FREDERICTON&mdash;Former National Hockey Leaguer Pete Kelly has been appointed director of physical education at the University of New Brunswick to succeed Professor H. B. Ryan, who has resigned. The Maritime school confirmed the appointment of Kelly, who has had vast experience in a number of sports.A native of Winnipeg, Kelly came to the Maritimes in 1933, after a short stay in Montreal, for a place with the Charlottetown Abegweits. Later he moved up to the old St. Louis Eagles and while in the N.H.L. played with Detroit Red Wings and New York Americans Kelly was with Pittsburgh Hornets and Springfield Indians of the American League towards the end of his professional career.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-021201/8058590-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="593" height="1443"></div> &#9632;

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Pete Kelly Accepts Post At Fredericton University

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div>Be sure you get the Special All-Star Souvenir Issue Next Week.See Page 12 for Subscription Blank to the HOCKEY NEWSLOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;The announcement that the Hollywood Wolves would drop from the Pacific Coast Hockey League in the 1947-48 season came as a surprise to hockey fans of Los Angeles and the surrounding area.THE HOCKEY NEWS interviewed the management of the Wolves, and came up with this explanation of the move:The directors of the Hollywood club, together with the management of the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, felt that 69 games in one season was too much hockey for the Los Angeles area. Last winter Hollywood and Los Angeles each played 30 home league games, and there were nine playoff tilts. The campaign opened October 30 and the last game was played March 30&mdash;an average of three games a week, which is more than the tariff can stand.It was therefore decided to drop one of the clubs. Hollywood was chosen because Los Angeles Manarchs have been the better drawing card at the box office since they were formed in the 1942-43 season. Monarchs joined the P.C.H.L. in 1944-45.If Los Angeles ever becomes a member of the National Hockey League, as some sportsmen here have been advocating for some time, the team will retain its present name, it was learned.But in the meantime, and with the dropping of the Hollywood franchise, plans for the new stadium with seating capacity of 12,500 have been shelved indefinitely. Instead the corporation will build, whenever materials are available, a small indoor auditorium which will be used for various expositions and displays.Hockey wlil be played at the same stand as before, the PanPacific Auditorium, which seats 5,862. Larger crowds have packed their way in, but new fire regulations prohibit use of standing room now.Los Angeles Monarchs will be an independent club, having no ties with any other organization. Last winter Wolves were affiliated with Toronto Maple Leafs, the Stanley Cup champions, and with Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League. All Wolves players belonging to either of those two clubs have been returned and the remainder of the team were given their unconditional releases. &#9632;

Hollywood Six Drops Out Of Coast Circuit

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-01258/8058645-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="629" height="298"></div><h2>October 1 to October 7.</h2>1&mdash;Leo Lamoureux, Buffalo, defence, 1916.2&mdash;Bill Moe, Rangers, defence, 1916; Jimmy Peters, Canadiens, right wing, 1922; Lorrain Thibeault, Buffalo, left wing, 1918.4&mdash;Les Cunningham, Cleveland, centre, 1913.5&mdash;Roy Conacher, Detroit, left wing, 1916.7&mdash;Garth Boesch, Toronto, defence, 1920. &#9632;

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