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October 8, 1947
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Weakened St. Mike’s Bow To Nationale Oshawa Downs Royals In Junior Play
MONTREAL— The once-powerful Toronto St. Michael’s Majors who swept through all oppsition to capture the Memorial Cup and Canadian junior hockey Championship the weekend spring, bit the dust here over Nationale walloped them 8-2 in the Sportsmen’s Association pre-season series. St-Mike’S, with only one player left from last season’s steamroller squad, were but a shadow of the great team that didn’t lose a playoff game last spring. Oshawa general trounced Montreal Royals Juniors 9-3 in the other half of a Sunday doubleheader. Generals next week Canucks in the St. Mary’s tangle with Edmonton Canucks in the semi-final round of knockout play.…
Teams Prepare For Monday’s All-Star Game
TORONTO— Hockey’s biggest show in years comes up for customer approval on Monday, October 13, when the world champion Toronto Maple Leafs and the National Hockey League All-Stars usher in the 1947-48 season at Maple Leaf Gardens. Judging by fan interest already manifested, the S.R.O. sign will be hung out quickly and some 15,000 citizens will be on deck, thus assuring the N.H.L. Players Pension Fund and the humanitarian Community Chest welfare project of substantial financial returns. Entire proceeds of the game go to these two funds. Premier George Drew of Ontario. Mayor Saunders of Toronto and the most glittering cast of hockey celebrities ever brought together will be in attendance, both at the game and at the pregame Victory-All-Star dinner to be provided by the Toronto management. HONOR ALL-STARS Details are still being mapped…
‘Fighting Irishman’ Welded Powerful Leaf Organization
Conn Smythe TORONTO— There is nothing more formidable than an Irishman who can talk as well as fight—and Conn Smythe, Managing Director of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens, is an Irishman of that mold. His father came from Ballymena in Northern Ireland, and at one stage in his career he was a hungry newspaperman and poet. That probably explains from whence son Conn inherited his battling qualities and his flair for coining those neat, crisp phrases that punctuate anything he has to say about the passing hockey parade. Energy Plus Hockey is Smythe’s life blood. For three decades or more he has been actively wrapped up in the sport he calls the greatest game in the world—first as a tackweight player, next as a driving coach, then as an irresistible crusader for…
Western Senior Teams Commence Heavy Drills
REGINA, SASK.— Last year’s Western Champions, the Calgary Stampeders are beginning to round into shape following a week of arduous drills. Coach Jack Arbour has formed at least three, potential lineups among the crop of players trying Out this year for berths on the 1946-47 Dominion finalists. The railbirds seemed impressed with the goings on at the Victoria Arena last week and they were of the belief that the Stamps would be the team to beat. Forming one unit on the team are Ken Hunter, Bob Brownridge and Dune Grant. Arbour has Archie Wilder Bunny Dame and Tony Desmarais working together while Don Cully and Stan Devicq. newcomers to the Stamps are combining their efforts with Doug French. Fronting Russ Dertell in the nets will be the veteran Ken Stewart and youthful Bud Emery,…
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