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February 25, 1948

The Hockey News February 25, 1948

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Either the N.H.L. goalkeepers are displaying a better brand of puck stopping or else the loop&rsquo;s foremost goal getters are not finding the mark with their customary consistency. Last season after 142 games had been duly recorded in the record books a total of 856 goals had been scored by the six National League teams. After 142 games of the current campaign 822 goals were notched by the clubs.</p><p>Three clubs are down in goal production this season and account for the entire 34 goals decrease. The other three clubs show an increase in collecting goals this term with Detroit Red Wings showing the biggest increase of any team with an additional 14 tallies this season. Chicago Black Hawks are one back with 13 added goals this year.</p><p>Detroit scored 154 goals this year compared to a 140 a year ago while Hawks upped their total from 136 to 149. The third team to show an increase is New York Rangers who have jumped their total from 135 to 139 this semester.</p><p>Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins are the three squads that have fallen behind in goal production this year. Oanadiens are down from 155 goals a year ago to a meager 107 this season&mdash;a 48-goal decline.</p><p>Toronto are 11 behind their mark of last season. The Leafs have tallied 144 this campaign whereas in 142 games last season they had notched 155. Boston Bruins are down six this year. They fell from a 135 goal total to 129 this season.</p><h2><b>20-G0AL MEMBERS</b></h2><p><b>On February 25 there were seven players in the N.H.L. who had scored 20 or more goals this season. Topping the list is Ted Lindsay of Detroit Red Wings with 27 tallies. Max Bentley of Toronto is next with 25; followed by Elmer Lach, Canadiens, 28; Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, Rangers; 22; Gaye Stewart Chicago, 21; and Grant Warwick, Boston 21.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

Snipers Below Par In N.H.L. To Date

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03776/8465531-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg"></div><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday, Feb. 15)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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A.H.L TEAM TOTALS

<h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>Final Standing</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-011780/8466170-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="610" height="222"></div><h3><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</b></h3><p>February 17&mdash;Marlboros 12, Owen Bound 1; Kitchener 9 Hamilton Pats 4.</p><p>February 18&mdash;Kitchener 6, Hamilton Fats 0; Stratford 16. Brantford 0.</p><h2><b>SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 14</b></h2><h3><b>Ham. Tigers 5, at Owen Sound 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-021247/8466163-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="620" height="423"></div><h3><b>Ham. Pats 0, at Stratford 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03913/8466156-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="606" height="348"></div><h2><b>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17</b></h2><h3><b>Owen Sound 1, at Marlboros 12</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04753/8466149-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="607" height="681"></div><h3><b>Ham. Pats 4. nt Kitchener 9</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05591/8466142-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="605" height="767"></div><h2><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18</b></h2><h3><b>Kitchener at, at Ham Pats 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06492/8466135-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="610" height="371"></div><h3><b>Brantford 0, at Stratford 16</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07448/8466128-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="601" height="629"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-16133/8466121-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="610" height="100"></div><h2><b>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20</b></h2><h3><b>Stratford 1, at Kitchener 3</b></h3><p><b>(Kitchener leads best-of-three series, 1-0)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09383/8466114-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="604" height="364"></div><h3><b>Marlboros 3, at Hamilton Tigers 1</b></h3><p><b>(Toronto leads best-of-seven series, 1-0)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10360/8466107-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="604" height="309"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>Final Unofficial Statistics</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08415/8466100-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="607" height="340"></div><p><b>Most Goals:</b> J. Blute, Kitchener, 39.</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> J. McCormack, Dukes, 49.</p><p><b>Most Penalties:</b> H. Psutka, Dukes, 131 minutes.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Harvey, Dukes, 4.</p><h2><b><i>More Room Wanted</i></b></h2><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Coach Frankie Boucher of the Rangers thinks the end zones&mdash;from each blueline back to the goal&mdash;aren&rsquo;t big enough to hold 11 scrambling players, or even 12 when the goalie is removed for a power play. He suggests either removing the blue lines and leaving the red centre line, or vice versa. As an extreme measure, he advocates lengthening each end zone by 10 feet, to make room for today&rsquo;s shoot-and-follow hockey.</p><h2><b><i>Lofendahl Shines</i></b></h2><p>Vic Lofvendahl, husky blueline blocker with Fort Worth, has been playing great hockey in recent weeks. Vic decided he couldn&rsquo;t score goals nor help his team while sitting in the penalty box and since that time as been playing the finest hockey of his career. He recently scored both his team&rsquo;s goals in a 2-2 tie with Tulsa.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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O.H.A. SENIOR “A”

<div class="byline">By BILL SHERRILL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03902/8464983-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg"></div><p>DALLAS, Tex&mdash;</p><p>Necessity caused the invention by a Dallas dentist of a nose guard that not only may take hockey by storm but other sports as well. It&rsquo;s called Sure-View and is the brain child of Dr. M. T. Marietta, official dentist for the Dallas Texan club of the United States Hockey League.</p><p>When Lou Smrke, Dallas wingman, suffered a broken nose earlier in the season that threatened to bench him for a considerable period, Coach Lex Cook and Trainer Frankie Christie looked over a standard &ldquo;iron bar&rdquo; mask but decided against it because of limited visibility.</p><p>Marietta, who has fashioned rubber mouth pieces and other equipment for athletes for years as a hobby, thought he could fashion an acceptable nose guard from Plexiglas. He did, using sponge packing between the flesh and mask to eliminate any bruise possibilities, and utilizing heavy twill straps to hold the mask in place.</p><p>It worked fine, offering both protection and a full view by the player from any direction. In fact, it turned out so well that Dr. Marietta has made application to patent the guard, and is laying plans with Cook to market the newcomer not only to hockey clubs but to football, basketball, and other sports organizations.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-021389/8464976-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="610" height="649"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Martian-Like Nose Guard, Brain Child Of Dallas Dentist, Passes Smrke Test

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-011038/8466717-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>OUT OF DANGER&mdash;Toronto&rsquo;s veteran netminder, Turk Broda, is shown charging out of his cage to clear a loose puck from the stick of Detroit&rsquo;s rookie forward, Jimmy McFadden. Broda skated 15 feet from his net to foil McFad den&rsquo;s clear path.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Torofsky)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>A Veteran Foils a Rookie</i></b></h2><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Maurice Podoloff, president of the American Hockey League, has announced that this season the league will inaugurate the policy of making special awards for outstanding players in different departments of individual play. Each of the new awards will carry with it a cash prize of $300.00 for the honored recipient. There will be five special commendations presented, and they will be for th. Most Valuable Player, Outstanding Rookie Player, League Leading Scorer in Points, Goaltender, and &ldquo;Clean Player&rdquo; award.</p><p>The Jack Fox Memorial Award will be given to the player judged to have shown the most sportsmanship combined with effective play during the season. Jack Fox, a former member of the Syracuse team when that city had a representative in the American League, was the first professional hockey player to lose his life in the war. Fox was serving overseas with the Canadian Army when he was killed in action.</p><p>The American Hockey League has decided to employ a very novel and unique method in choosing the league&rsquo;s &ldquo;cleanest player&rdquo;. The winner will be selected by the refereeing staff of the league. Each referee will vote for three choices, the first player to receive three points,. the second two and the third one. The player with the most points will be declared the winner. As there are 11 referees at present on the officials staff, a maximum number of points any player could receive would be 33. To be eligible a player must have played 30 or more games during the season.</p><h2><b>MEMORIAL AWARDS</b></h2><p>The Most Outstanding Rookie player will receive the Dudley &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Garrett Memorial Award. &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Garrett was a member of the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League, and was considered to be one of the finest young men to ever play in the circuit. He, was killed while on active duty with the Canadian Navy during the war. The requirements for the rookie award are that a player in order to be eligible must not have played more than 20 games during past combined seasons in either the American or National Hockey Leagues, prior to this season. Service in the United States Hockey League will have no bearing on the award.</p><p>The winner will be chosen by the 11 American League coaches, and the method of selection will be similar to the &ldquo;clean player&rdquo; award in that each coach will vote for three players. A coach may not choose any member of his own club, thus a maximum amount of points for a player will be 30. To be eligible, a player must have participated in at least 30 games this season. The list of players eligible for the award are listed. While some of the players have not played 30 games as yet, there is a possibility that they may attain that total before the season concludes. If any of the players do not reach a 30 games played total, they will not be considered in the voting.</p><h2><b>THOSE ELIGIBLE</b></h2><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Tod Campeau.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Bob Solinger.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Pentti Lund, Joe Schertzl, Bob Schnurr.</p><p><b>Indianapolis:</b> Lee Fogolin, Barry Sullivan, Calum MacKay.</p><p><b>New Haven:</b> Ken Davies, Duncan Fisher, Jack Gordon, Steve Hrymnak, Winston &lsquo;Bing&rsquo; Juckes, Jean Paul Lamirande, Jack Lancien, Ian MacKintosh, George Robinson, Doug Stevenson.</p><p>Philadelphia: Maurice Courteau, Walter Hnatiuk, Harvey Jessiman, Harold Bangay.</p><p>Pittsburgh: Les Costello, Phil Samis, Fleming Mackell, Cyril Thomas, Hugh Mair.</p><p>Providence: Pete Kapusta, Jack Stoddard, Art Michaluk.</p><p>St. Louis: Henry Backor, Steve Black, Joe Lund, John Raynak, George Milligan.</p><p>Springfield: Ken Hayden, Gordon Tottle, Bob Thorpe, Ralph Hosking.</p><p>Washington: Walter Babey, Joe Ciuman, John &ldquo;Carr-Harris, Bud Foley, Harvey Raney, Pat Wilson, Win Mousseau, Dan Por teous, Frank Porteous, George Hunchuk.</p><p>The player to be selected as the Most Valuable in the League, will receive the Leslie Cunningham award. A committee of five newspapermen and radio broadcasters from each league city will choose the player for the honor. By stipulating exactly five voters from each city, it will be assured that an equal number of votes will be received from all cities. Each of the five selectors of every city will have a separate ballot and will vote for three players on a point basis ot 3, 2 and 1. They will not be permitted to vote for players in their own city. As in the case of the other awards, a required number of games will be 30, for this season, with 11 cities represented, and five voters from-each city, the maximum number of points for a player will be 150.</p><p>Les Cunningham, for whom the award is named, has long been considered the most outstanding player that ever played in the American League. His entire A.H.L. career was spent in the service of the Cleveland Barons and extended for 10 seasons. Cunningham holds the league records for most goals, 233, assists 346 and total points 579. He was the first player to score 200 goals in the circuit, and for seven straight seasons he tallied 20 or more goals.</p><p>In addition to his very effective playing, he was also one of the most respected in the league for bis sportsmanship, receiving only 216 penalty minutes in 10 seasons, an average of 21 per year. Cunningham retired from professional play at the end of last season, and is now coaching the San Francisco team in the Pacific Coast League.</p><h2><b>Other Awards</b></h2><p>The winners of the scoring and goaltender awards will be based on the season records. The player with the most points from goals and assists will be given the Wally Kilrea award. Wally Kilrea holds the present league record for total points in a season at 99, which he set while playing for Hershey in the 1942-43 season. He also is the holder of the league assist record of 68, set the same year. It is the present intention of the league, to retain his name for the leading scorer&rsquo;s award as long as he holds the record. Should a new player pass that record, the award will then be named after that player. Kilrea is now coaching the Philadelphia Rockets of the American Hockey League.</p><p>The goaltender&rsquo;s award will be called the Harry &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Holmes award, and will be presented to the team with the best average for goals allowed during the season. If that team has used more than one goaltender during the season, the one with the best average will receive the award, with a 30 games played requirement necessary. The late &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Holmes was rated as one of the greatest goaltenders of all times. He first gained hockey prominence as netminder for the old Toronto team, Stanley Cup winners in 1913-14. During his hockey career, Holmes performed on the same teams with such famous hockey personalities as Lester Patrick, Frank Nighbor, Frank Foyston, Jack Walter, Frank Frederickson and Clem Loughlin. Holmes joined the Cleveland club as playing-manager for the 19272 8 season, after a brilliant career as goaltender for a number of Stanley Cup winners.</p><h2><b>Multiple Winners</b></h2><p>In addition to the league awards, the winner of the Most Valuable Player prize will also be presented with the Ice Capades Award, donated by one of the leading ice skating musicals of the United States and Canada, The winner of the goaltender presentation, will also be the recipient of the Al Sutphin Award, which has been given to the league leading goaltender by the Cleveland Baron owner in past years.</p><p>The league&rsquo;s annual All-Star Teams selected by the votes of newspapermen and radio broadcasters will be conducted along the lines of the most valuable player award. The same committee of five that chooses the winner of that award, will pick the All-Star Teams. Each player on the first team will receive $300, and the players on the second team $200.</p><p>The same requirements as called for in the award selections will prevail for the teams. A player must have participated in 30 or more games, a selector cannot vote for anyone on his local team and the ballots will be restricted to five from each city. Every voter will choose three players for each position, goal, right defence, loft defence, centre, left wing and right wing, with a 3, 2 and 1 point system being used. Thus a winner on the All Star team can receive a maximum of 150 points for each position.</p><p>The winners of the special awards and All-Star Teams will be announced by League Headquar-completion of the league playoffs in April.</p><h2><b><i>&ldquo;Most Valuable&rdquo;</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02544/8466710-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="558" height="1557"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LES CUNNINGHAM, now coach of San Francisco in the P.C.H.L., gives his monicker to the A.H.L.&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player Award.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PLAYING AWARDS SET UP IN A.H.L

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p><b>(Stating the game of February 11 as an example, the writer pins Boston&rsquo;s playoff chances on the club&rsquo;s great netminder, Frank Brimsek).</b></p><p>If the Chicago Black Hawks had Frankie Brimsek for a goaltender, they might be pushing Detroit and Toronto for top honors in the National League.</p><p>And if the Boston Bruins did not have Frankie, they in turn might be challenging for the lead&mdash;in the American League.</p><p>When a team is outshot 40 to 8, like the Bruins were on February 11 by the Hawks, the score should rightfully reach double figures for the winners.</p><p>Yet after the weakest exhibition a Bruins team has ever given on Boston ice, the Hawks only had three goals on the tally sheet.</p><p>Brimsek stopped shots with his skates, stick, gloves, body and anything else he could get in front of the flying puck. The best defenceman was Referee King Clancy, who prevented a Chicago goal by ruling that a Billy Mosienko shot hit the crossbar, and not the inside of the net, before bouncing back onto the ice.</p><p>Boston&rsquo;s playoff chances are still alive, however. They won&rsquo;t die until Brimsek&rsquo;s nerves give out. That may be only a matter of time.</p><p>On the first Chicago goal by Bill Gadsby, a long lift from 45 feet out in the first period, Brim-sek&rsquo;s vision was obstructed by Woody Dumart, who was practically sitting in his lap.</p><p>On the second Hawks&rsquo; counter, midway through the third period, Mosienko used Jack Crawford as a screen for his neat backhander, after taking a tricky pass from Doug Bentley.</p><p>And Gus Bodnar was unmolested as he beat the harassed Brimmie from the left side of the net in the late minutes.</p><p>On 37 other occasions Frigid Frankie plugged the dyke with stops ranging from the magnificent to the unbelievable.</p><p>In fact, so well did he do on &ldquo;sure things&rdquo; that one was almost tempted to believe that if the Bruins bad kept their defencemen on the bench the score would have been 0 to 0.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bruins Are In Says Writer IF Brimmie Holds

<div class="byline">By GLEN GARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-011639/8464583-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LESTER PATRICK</b></figcaption></div><p>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.&mdash;</p><p>Every spring, as hockey leagues wind up their regular schedules, a sports phenomena known as the &ldquo;playoffs&rdquo; break out. A few die-hards still look with disapproval on the playoff system. The vast majority, however, continue to pack the arenas and ball parks from coast to coast as more and more sports adopt the playoff system. The owners point at the fans as they go through the turnstiles.</p><p>&ldquo;When the fans disapprove of the playoffs, they will let us know by the most direct method in the world staying away,&rdquo; they say.</p><p>Many of the playoff system&rsquo;s critics forget that during the de&mdash;remember?&mdash;when minor baseball leagues were during with alarming frequency the magnates turned to the playoff system&mdash;which they had scorned before&mdash;in desperation. The records tell us that it saved many leagues from going out of business.</p><p>In baseball the play-offs are known as the &ldquo;Shaughnessy Playoffs&rdquo; so named after Frank Shaughnessy, president of the International Baseball League, and the first in baseball to adopt the system. At the time even the strong and wealthy International Baseball League was seriously ill in the pocketbook. The playoffs undoubtedly had much to do with keeping that circuit in action.</p><p>Actual invention of the system, however, goes to Frank and Lester Patrick, two of the most widely known and honored figures in hockey. Shaughnessy invited both Patricks to a meeting of the International Baseball League to explain the playoffs to the baseball magnates but they were unable to attend, hence the name, &ldquo;Shaughnessy Playoff&rdquo; was adopted.</p><p>Back in the fall of 1917, with the first world war in full swing and athletes as scarce as in the last war, the Pacific Coast Hockey League (then a major league) was in bad shape. Frank Patrick, then president of the circuit as well as playing-manager of the Vancouver (B.C.) club, called a meeting of the league.</p><p>Frank unfolded a plan which, at the end of the regular schedule would enter the leading club in a challenge or playoff round and the right to play the champions of the National League for the Stanley Cup</p><p>The plan was a success from the outset and in the first playoff series of record the league leading Seattle Metropolitans, who were also the Stanley Cup holders at the time, were defeated in the playoffs by the second place Vancouver Millionaires.</p><p>This season in the United States Hockey League six teams will qualify for the playoffs. In the first series (known as Series &ldquo;A&rdquo;) the leader of the Northern Division will meet the leader of the Southern Division; second-place teams meet in Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; and third-place teams in Series &ldquo;C.&rdquo;</p><p>The winner of Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; and &ldquo;C&rdquo; meet in Series &ldquo;D&rdquo;, a best two-of-three series, lor the right to challenge the league champions (the winners of Series &ldquo;A&rdquo;) for the playoffs championship and the Paul W. Loudon Trophy. This final series (known as Series &ldquo;E&rdquo;) is a best three-of-five series with the league champions having precedence in choice or ice for the first, second and fifth games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Approach Of Puck Playoffs Recalls First Patrick Plan

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>President Conn Smythe of Maple Leaf Gardens henceforth will be able to cool out in comfort after those exciting hockey games.</p><p>At a dinner in his honor, tendered by Local 13 of the Gate Crashers&rsquo; Union last Saturday night, Smythe was presented with an electric blanket. It pleased him greatly, but no more than did a cash contribution which he was asked to relay to the Ontario Society for Crippled Children fund.</p><p>Union members of Local 13 are those local sportsmen who get their Intermission coffee in the Gardens press room without the help of a police pass. Harold Ballard made the presentation when chief crasher Charlie Querrie stopped for breath. It was the longest Querrie speech since the sales talk he used to dispose of the old St. Patrick&rsquo;s franchise.</p><p>Leafs&rsquo; trainer, Tim Daly, was not present at the dinner, but agreed afterward that the new-fangled blanket would help him inhis duties.</p><h2><b><i>He Started It</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-021383/8464614-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="575" height="1047"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK PATRICK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Conn Smythe, Is Like His Hockeyists, Readies Himself For Blanket Finish

<p>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;</p><p>It was at the 6.15 mark of the first period on February 18 that Albert &ldquo;Ab&rdquo; DeMarco, veteran centre of Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League, recorded his 100th goal of A.H.L. competition. He racked-np his century score in a game against the Philadelphia Rockets.</p><p>DeMarco is the 31st American League player to join the loop&rsquo;s choice &ldquo;100 Goal Club&rdquo; and he is also the 12th member of the Cleveland club to enter the century circle.</p><p>DeMarco, who was born in North Bay, Ontario, on May 10, 1916, broke into professional hockey with Chicago Black Hawks in 1938-39 and after a short stay with Chicago he was sent to Providence. After four seasons with the Reds, Ab hooked-up with Toronto Maple Leafs near the close. of the 1942-43 season and then shifted to Boston for the playoffs that year. In 1943-44 he divided his playing time between Boston and New York Rangers. The last three seasons he was with the Rangers and in 1944-45 he scored 24 goals and 30 assists with the Blueshirts.</p><h2><b><i>Really Cousins</i></b></h2><p>When a player is unusually effective against a certain opponent, he is called a &ldquo;cousin&rdquo; in the language of sport. In the American Hockey League this season, there are two players who call each other cousin and really mean it from a relative viewpoint. They are Murdo MacKay of Buffalo and Calum MacKay of Indianapolis.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

DeMARCO ENTERS 100 GOAL CLUB

<p><b>A.H.L. INDIVIDUAL RECORDS</b></p><p><b>Most seasons scoring 30 or more goals&mdash;(3)&mdash;</b></p><p>By Lou Trudel of Cleveland in 1941-42, 1944-45 and 194546; Les Cunningham of Cleveland in 1942-43, 1944-45 and 1945-46;. Tommy Burlington of Clevelanid in 1943-44, 1944-45 and 1945-46.</p><p><b>Most successive seasons scoring 20 or more goals&mdash;(3)&mdash;</b></p><p>Set by Tommy Burlington of Cleveland in 1943-44, 1944-4o and 1945-46.</p><p><b>Most goals scored in any three seasons&mdash;(115)&mdash;</b></p><p>Set by Lou Trudel of Cleveland.</p><p><b>Most goals scored in three successive seasons&mdash;(107)&mdash;</b></p><p>Set by Lou Trudel of Cleveland.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Who Holds That Record?

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-031026/8464714-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg"></div><h2><b>WINS DOW AWARD</b></h2><h3><b>ALEX RAINVILLE of Montreal</b></h3><p><b><i>performs daring feat to prevent accident</i></b></p><p>The corner of Lafontaine and Letourneux streets is in the eastern section of Montreal. There are three schools in the vicinity and around 4 o&rsquo;clock of an afternoon the sidewalks are crowded with children on their way home.</p><p>Alex Rainville, a night watchman employed by Canadian Copper Refiners Ltd., immediately thought of these children when he saw the runaway horse its eyes frightened and crazy&hellip;galloping at a terrific speed along Letourneux street,</p><h4><b>DRAGGED 150 FEET</b></h4><p>Realizing that not a moment was to be lost, Rainville dashed into the street just as the maddened animal came opposite him. Lunging fearlessly at the horse&rsquo;s harness he managed to grasp one of the reins and hang on grimly&hellip;using his full weight in an effort to slow the wild charge. It was only after a desperate fight&hellip;and after being dragged about 150 feet&hellip;that the gallant watchman succeeded in stopping the animal.</p><h4><b>POSSIBLE TRAGEDY AVERTED</b></h4><p>Had it not been for the quick thinking and cool courage of this man, the episode might easily have ended in tragedy. We are proud to pay tribute to Alex Rainville of Montreal through the presentation of The Dow Award.</p><p><i>THE DOW AWARD is a citation for outstanding heroism and includes, as a tangible expression of appreciation, a $100 Canada Savings Bond. Winners are selected by the Dow Award Committee, a group of editors of leading Canadian daily newspapers.</i></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04777/8464707-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="568" height="450"></div><p>Rainville immediately thought of the danger to the school children&hellip;and rushed into the street to tackle the bolting horse.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05518/8464700-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="572" height="492"></div><p>After being dragged 150 feet, the watchman finally was able to calm the horse. A serious accident&mdash;possibly a tragedy had been averted.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06386/8464693-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="656" height="378"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Watchman Stops Runaway Horse In Heart of School District

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Win Elliot In Action …As Hockey Game Televised

<div class="byline">By WIN ELLIOT (CBS Hockey Telecaster)</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>It takes a lot more talking to cover a hockey game on television than on radio. On the air, the play-by-play reporter need not call every play, but rather logically develop the action so that his report is a smooth word-picture of the highlights as the game progresses, and sometimes makes it a more exciting game over the air than it is on the ice. On television, the viewer sees every play and wants <i>to</i> know the who&rsquo;s and why&rsquo;s. Television demands more of the sports-radio least in coverage. The tele-sportscatter must, at times, anticipate a play and explain how it is forming. The viewers want this type of coverage to understand what is happening.</p><p>At Madison Square Garden, where I cover professional hockey games for the Ford Motor Company over WCBS-TV, I sit perched in a special overhanging box at centre ice. Before me is a monitor and I alternately watch the image on it and the action on the ice.</p><h2><b>Keeps Fans Posted</b></h2><p>From the monitor I can&rsquo;t always tell who the players are&hellip;so I assume the viewer can&rsquo;t. But a quick glance at the live action reveals the player&rsquo;s identity without any doubt, so I pass this information on.</p><p>I identify the player, his mates involved in the play with him and any inside information I can give that will help the viewer understand the motive for that type of play and the defensive reaction to it, along with personal knowledge of the players&rsquo; background and idiosyncrasies. My job, more or less, is to act as an animated score card.</p><p>In hockey in New York, where the game is really just coming into its own, New Yorkers particularly want to know about the game, the rules, the reason for certain plays, and the why&rsquo;s and what&rsquo;s of the individual performances. The action in hockey is so fast that the viewer would tend to get lost. It is for the telecaster to keep him orientated, and immediately clarify any situation that might arise.</p><h2><b>Sizing &lsquo;Em Up</b></h2><p>To insure the best coverage, I always spend at least a half hour in the locker room with the visiting team. I talk with the coach, and the players. I size up the players, get to know what they look like, not only profile and full face, but from the back of their heads.</p><p>In a mix-up on the ice, when numbers on jerseys are not visible, and when heads are down, I can usually rely on the identification of the players in the scramble by looking at their hair line, or the shapes of their noggins.</p><p>In few other sports do the substitutions come with such speed as in ice hockey. The men move en masse, and are in the action so fast, the spectators often don&rsquo;t realize there have been substitutions, for the men melt into the action without a stoppage of play.</p><p>Then it is that the sportscaster must report quickly and decisively. Yet the announcer must not be guilty of talking just for the sake of beating his ivories,. Whenever he talks, he must have something of Interest to add.</p><h2><b>Pitch Is Important</b></h2><p>His voice must be pitched to the pitch of the game. When there is a lull in the activity, the announcer finds it advantageous to slacken his vocal pace&mdash;but when there is an intensification of interest, then he must key his entire delivery to the renewed effort by the players.</p><p>The television announcer cannot &ldquo;create&rdquo; the action. &ldquo;Coloring&rdquo; a game would be disastrous. This viewer is seeing the action and the game must be called as it is, whether it be dull or lively.</p><p>Using earphones and a speaking tube to communicate with the director and the two cameramen, I am constantly in the know about what is contemplated. The telecaster must coincide his commentary with the picture. This type of co-ordination presupposes ace high co-operation among commentator, cameramen and director. It takes plenty of practipe, believe me.</p><p>The basic rule and guide in doing any television commentary is: What Is the picture and how much orientation and explanation does the spectator need?</p><h2><b>EAGLE EYE ELLIOT</b></h2><p>Win Elliot (Win is short for Irwin) is a tall, fast-thinking and talking fellow. He went to the U. of Michigan, starting in premed. and majored in zoology.</p><p>He took a public-speaking course thinking that doctors ought to know how to talk in public. In his senior year he signed up for diction class, but by this time, Elliot knew that his future was not as a sawbones.</p><p>He returned to Boston in 1937 and at WMEX became one of the regular staff announcers. After three years, he got a job in Washington as NBC night manager. Thence he went to WFBR, Baltimore, as assistant news editor.</p><p>He now appears on the Betty Crocker Magazine of the Air, County Fair, Tales of Willie Piper, and Quick As a Flash and does hockey over CBS Television.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Telecaster Needs Keen Eye, Fast Tongue

<div class="byline">By SYD THOMAS</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>If the packed houses in evidence in all National League rinks and most other professional hockey arenas is any criterion, the new system of televising hockey games hasn&rsquo;t hurt attendance any&mdash;in fact, there&rsquo;s no appreciable effect either way, since you couldn&rsquo;t pack any more fans in the stadia than have been cramming them the past few seasons All told, five cities in pro hockey have either some or all of their games televised. Three of these are in the National League and two in the American circuit.</p><p>National League cities where fans can take their choice of seeing real live action, or staying home to watch it on the television screen, are New York, Detroit and Chicago. In the A.H.L. games are televised at Washington and St. Louis, while some other centres are expected to fall in line within the next season or two as television networks are extended.</p><p>It&rsquo;s interesting to note that in the three N.H.L. cities where the telecasters are at work capturing hockey action on the air waves the rinks invariably play to capacity crowds. In fact, the Chicago Stadium packs the largest attendanoe of any rink, while Detroit Olympia has been pulling record or near-record crowds this season also. In New York, Madi son Square Garden is the mecca of hockey fans whenever the Rangers are at home.</p><h2><b>Flyers, Lions Telecast</b></h2><p>In the A.H.L., television has gone over with a bang in St. Louis, described by some as the most rabid hockey town on this continent. Win, lose or draw, the Mound City sport filberts turn out en masse every time their beloved Flyers are performing. Far from harming attendance, television probably is increasing the number of people who are becoming interested in the hockey team, even though it is languishing in the cellar of the Western Division.</p><p>Washington is the only television city where attendance has been disappointing this year, but there are any number of reasons the television sponsors can point to when explaining that one. This is the first season in big league pro hockey for the Lions, who moved up virtually as a team from the Eastern United States Amateur circuit where they played last season.</p><p>Outclassed at the start of the schedule, Lions have been tagging along at the end of the parade in the Eastern Division all season, and fan support hasn&rsquo;t been too noticeable for that reason. Given a stronger team and a chance to get out of the doldrums, Washington could well pack in the crowds, television or no video.</p><p>For the benefit of fans who may live within television range of cities where the games are put on the pictorial air waves, here are the vital statistics about telecasts of the world&rsquo;s fastest game.</p><p>WBKB, the Chicago television station which brings the game to any unfortunate Stand-bys or Rink Rats who can&rsquo;t get down to the stadium, telecasts the entire game every time Chuck Conacher&rsquo;s Hawks are defending their own wigwam.</p><p>WCBS-TV telecasts the entire game when hockey goes on the screen in New York, but some games are not covered. Local television logs will give you the information on which games are telecast.</p><p>WWJ-TV in Detroit only telecasts games when Toronto Maple Leafs are in town. The show starts at 8.30 P.M. EST, and whenever Leafs and Wings tangle it is show!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Video Hasn’t Hurt Attendance At Hockey Gaines Up To Present

<div class="byline">By HUGH CARLYLE and C. W. &#x201C;MAC&#x201D; McMANAMY (Hockey Broadcasters on Stations KFMX-KSWI, Omaha)</div><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>ll claims of recreation, health, and physical development not withstanding, the ultimate justification for any competitive sport is the development of true sportsmanship. The learned Mr. Webster defined sportsmanship as &ldquo;skill in, devotion to, or understanding of, sports of various kinds. Conduct becoming to a sportsman involving honest rivalry, courteous relations and graceful acceptance of results.&rdquo;</p><p>We would call your special attention to the last four words of this inclusive definition. True sportsmanship is by no means confined to the few active participants in any event. Every spectator by his very presence becomes a participant in the occasion and should therefore feel obligated to conduct him or herself in the true spirit of sportsmanship Surely it should not prove too difficult for the spectator-participant to fulfill the last phrase of our definition above.</p><p>&ldquo;Graceful acceptance of results&rdquo; certainly doesn&rsquo;t anticipate the need for your team to win every time. It doesn&rsquo;t anticipate their winning any time. Nowhere in the definition of sportsmanship do we find any reference to the percentage of wins or losses. Let&rsquo;s be good sportsmen; let&rsquo;s accept the results gracefully. Do you feel badly about your team&rsquo;s losing streak? If you do, you should drop into the dressing room and see a bunch of boys who really feel badly. Those boys are giving their very best under handicaps that would put less hardy souls out of competition altogether. Let&rsquo;s show those lads that they are part of the greatest bunch of sportsmen in the world, who can and will &ldquo;gracefully accept the results&rdquo; whatever they are. So let us, as real fans, stay right in there to plug for them to get back in the groove. Sportsmanship does it, my friends! Sportsmanship!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

An Editorial On Sportsmanship

<p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>t&rsquo;s going to be a battle royal among the candidates for selection as Coach of the Year&rdquo; and leader of THE HOCKEY NEWS All-Star sextet, but right in the forefront of the race are a pair of rookie generals who rate as strong threats. Tommy Ivan who took over the active leadership from Jack Adams last fall, has his Detroit Red Wings breezing along at a rapid clip in their battle for the Motor City&rsquo;s fourth league championship, while Chuck Conachein has supplied the surprise of the year as a result of the gallop he has put in the long-suffering Chicago Black Hawks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-011935/8464890-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="305" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Ivan Detroit</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-021630/8464883-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="269" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hap&rdquo; Day Toronto</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-031326/8464876-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="303" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucner New York</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-041078/8464869-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="302" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Chuck Conacher Chicago</b></figcaption></div><p>Of course, Clarence &ldquo;Happy&rdquo; Day of the Stanley Cup champs, Toronto Maple Leafs, also has a thing or two to say about that, as the Mapleos are by no means out of first place, In fact it would take a brave man to venture a prediction on the final outcome, so closely have Wings and Leafs been locked in the battle so far.</p><h2><b>Boucher Strong Threat</b></h2><p>Then there&rsquo;s Frankie Boucher of New York Rangers, carrying on the fine tradition of fighting Blueshirt teams set by Silver Fox Lester Patrick in many a derring-do race of previous years. Rangers this season, under the former starry centreman&rsquo;s guiding counsel, have surged into third place in the race, after finishing a dismal fifth last season and an even sadder sixth in 1945-46 and the three previous seasons.</p><p>Rounding out the list are the leaders of Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens, the doughty &ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper and Dick Irvin respectively. Both Clapper and Irvin&mdash;whose Canadiens swept to four successive league titles starting in the 1943-44 season-have run across a series of disappointments this season as their teams have faltered beneath them.</p><p>The current situation is especially bitter to Irvin, who won the coaching spot on the official All-Star team three times in a row&mdash;1943-44, 1944-45 and 194546 as his Canucks ruled the roost. With much the same material to work with this year, and with new blood from Canadiens&rsquo; amateur farm club of Montreal Royals, Irvin has failed to find the winning combination through no fault of his own.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05873/8464862-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="283" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin Montreal</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06526/8464855-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="276" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper Boston</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>No Coach In &lsquo;47</b></h2><p>Boston&rsquo;s trouble is similar to Canadiens, with the oldsters slowing up and the promising newcomers called up this year showing lots of hustle, but so far not enough to put together a winning combination.</p><p>No coach was chosen for the official All-Stars last winter, since the selection was made for the first time by the coaches themselves, and they weren&rsquo;t called upon to rate their fellow masterminds. But there&rsquo;s little double that the Coach-of-the-Year in 1946-47 was smiling Hap Day, who blended a flock of green-as-grass rookies and canny veterans into a fighting crew that swept Canadiens off their throne.</p><p>As a result of the lapse in coach selection last season, Irvin and Boucher remain as the only former All-Star coaches still active in hockey&rsquo;s Big Top.</p><p>Boucher copped the accolade in the 1941-42 season, when the Blueshirts won their last league championship only to lose out to Leafs who went on to win the Stanley Cup.</p><h2><b>Patrick Big Winner</b></h2><p>The other All-Star coaches now are out of the active front line Leading them all was the astute Lester Patrick, who won the award seven times. Irvin was chosen three times, Jack Adams twice, while Boucher, Art Ross. Paul Thompson, Cooney Weiland each were given the honor once.</p><p>With balloting for the coaching job on the dream team, THE HOCKEY NEWS All-Star selection winds UP in this isssue. Fans still have nine days in which to mark their ballots and mail them in, however, since the deadline isn&rsquo;t until March 4. All ballots, either those clipped from the paper, or reasonable facsimiles or tracings, must be mailed and postmarked NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT OF MARCH 4 to be eligible. Then the staggering job of counting the votes begins, with announcement of the team slated for the March 24 issue.</p><p>Good luck, fans, now let&rsquo;s see your selections!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rookie Coaches Threat In N.H.L. All-Star Selection

<div class="byline">By BILL GAYNON (Sports Editor Evening Review)</div><p>NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>There&rsquo;s going to be a wide open contest in making the N.H. L. coach of the year award and it would be a daring individual who would go overboard at this minute on any certain party. Certainly unusual attention has to go to Frankie Boucher, who took an ordinary Ranger club of the two preceding seasons and moulded same into one of the league&rsquo;s most pleasing aggregations.</p><p>It must be admitted that he displayed shrewdness in his preseason trade with Canadiens. gaining Buddy O&rsquo;Connor and Frankie Eddolls, each rating among the best in the business, for a trio of boys named Joe.</p><p>He also made the right shift in returning Jim Henry to the nets at a time when Chuck Rayner was among the league&rsquo;s greatest. Tommy Ivan, the rookie pilot at Detroit, has kept his Wings up near or at the top most of the way, his every move matching those of his more experienced coworkers, and surely he rates some considferation for the number one piloting role.</p><p>Then what about Charlie Conacher? The former playing star has worked miracles with a constant tailender and right now has them hotter than any other club. There may be other contenders, but it&rsquo;s the belief here that Frank, Tommie and Chuck will rate most consideration at final balloting time.</p><h2><i><b>THE RULES</b></i></h2><p>1&mdash;Anyone can cast ballots for All: Star teams of the National, American and United States Hockey League, but each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming one complete team, in each league.</p><p>2&mdash;Stories and pictures of some leading candidates for each position will appear in THE HOCKEY NEWS each week. You NEED NOT name any of the candidates mentioned. If you consider some other player better qualified for the position.</p><p>3&mdash;N.H.L. ballots will run until February 25; A.H.L. ballots to March 3 inclusive; and U.S.H.L. ballots to March 10.</p><p>4&mdash;Ballots for the choice of three players at each position (six in the case of defencemen) must be filled in as in-dicated, with the names of the players and their clubs, and the names and addresses of the voters given in the blanks provided each week. Use ballots appearing in paper, or reasonable facsimiles or tracings if you wish to keep your HOCKEY NEWS intact.</p><p>5&mdash;Ballots may be sent in each week as published or held until all have appeared and selections for all six positions, plus coach, submitted at the same</p><p>6&mdash;Ballots must be mailed to&mdash;All-Star Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, 803 Dominion Square Building, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.</p><p>7&mdash;N.H.I. All-Star ballots must be POSTMARKED NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT, MARCH 4; A.H.L. ballots NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT MARCH 11; and U.S.H.L. ballots NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT, MARCH 18.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

COACHES CONTEST WIDE OPEN AFFAIR

<div class="byline">By STAN BAUMGARTNER (Philadelphia Inquirer)</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-011942/8464945-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;BAT MAN&rdquo; EDDIE BUSH</b></figcaption></div><p>PHILADELPHIA, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Three years ago Roger Leger, a husky stickhandler of the Buffalo Bisons scored 57 points in one season to set a new American League mark for defencemen&mdash;22 goals and 35 assists.</p><p>There were many who said the mark would never be beaten. Yet today, just three years later, the record has been broken wide open by big Eddie Bush, the colorful bad man of the Philadelphia Rockets. And Bush still has six more games to go to add to the mark.</p><p>In his first 58 games Bush has scored 58 points&mdash;one more than the former record&mdash;on 23 goals and 35 assists. The 23 goals also set a record for rearguards.</p><p>Bush does not have a particularly wicked shot but he breaks fast, carries the disk cleverly and when he gets near the goal has what experts call &ldquo;shooter&rsquo;s intuition&hellip;he instinctively draws the goaltender out of position. He is one of the greatest offensivedefensive hockey players in the league.</p><p>But, Bush also has a penchant for getting tossed into the &ldquo;cooler&rdquo;. Last season he set an all-time American League mark for minutes spent in the penalty box. He served 182 minutes behind the boards. Thus far this year he has spent 130 minutes in the cooler.</p><p>At the beginning of this season he said he was going to be a good boy&mdash;keep out of trouble and keep his temper calm. But Bush can&rsquo;t be a good boy. When someone starts booting the smaller Rockets around, he&rsquo;s the father, protector He sees red and goes out to give the opposition a lesson.</p><p>That is what happened in Buffalo a few weeks ago when he tangled with big Art Lessard and almost caused a riot. Lessard, who is no small pip squeak himself at 210 pounds, charged after little John Mahaffy of the Rockets as the latter had his back turned and was going toward the Rockets&rsquo; bench.</p><p>Lessard hit Mahaffy in the small of the back with his stick. The full force of 210 pounds travelling at a high rate of speed, crumpled Mahaffy under the attack like a paper bag folded in the middle.</p><p>The next time Bush got the puck he started straight down the ice at Lessard. As he neared the Reds&rsquo; defence, Bush dropped the puck and gave the big fellow all he had. Lessard went up in the air like a booted balloon and came down on his face.</p><h2><b>Nicknamed &ldquo;Bush Fire&rdquo;</b></h2><p>When there is trouble on the ice you will always find Bush in the midst of it. Lefty Jordan, trainer of the Rockets has nicknamed him &ldquo;Bush Fire&rdquo; because he gets on fire when there is a fight.</p><p>Six years ago when he was playing defence for Detroit in the National League, the Red Wings went to Montreal to meet the Canadiens. Jimmy Orlando&rsquo;s father was in the stands. Jimmy was one of Bush&rsquo;s teammates. The game was rough. There was a big brawl on the ice and spectators started to fight among themselves. A gang picked on Orlando&rsquo;s father.</p><p>Bush saw what was going on, dropped his stick, climbed up in the stands and started swinging his fists to protect Orlando&rsquo;s Dad. Bush got a match penalty for this&mdash;but three spectators got black eyes.</p><p>He is seldom knocked off his feet and despite hundreds of bumps has been in the hospital for only two stitches.</p><p>Strangely enough this injury was not sustained during a fight. It came at the faceoff when the opposing stick handler accidentally lifted his club when driving at the puck.</p><p>He is one of the fastest skaters on the team and has the shooting instinct of a wingman, invariably hitting the corners when he scores.</p><p>It was as a wingman that he graduated from the Guelph Juniors-&mdash;his last amateur club&mdash;to the Detroit Red Wings in 1938. Then started a junket of cross country hopping from Detroit to Pittsburgh, Kansas City. Indian-apolis, Providence, Detroit, and St. Louis, that came to a stop at the Arena this year.</p><h2><b>Always High Scorer</b></h2><p>Bush&rsquo;s scoring record this year is not an accident He set a new Stanley Cup mark in the 1941-42 playoffs when he scored 5 pts on 2 goals and 3 assists, in a game against Toronto. And last year while dividing his time between St. Louis and Providence, he totalled 37 points. Ever since he entered the league he has been among the leading defence point makers.</p><p>Bush is married and has two children, Sandra Louis, 6, and Eddie Jr., 2. He lives in Collingswood, Ontario, where he was born 29 years ago and now owns his own home. During the off season, he works as a ship builder at the Collingwood Ship Yards.</p><h2><b><i>Plan Huge Rink</i></b></h2><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;The suggested building of a huge auditorium here, rivalling the hockey palaces of Eastern Canada&rsquo;s major cities, has Vancouver sport fans looking forward to a new sport era on the Pacific coast.</p><p>Their hopes are pinned on a recommendation made by Mackenzie Bowerl, retiring president, in his annual report to the directors of the Pacific National Exhibition.</p><p>Mr. Bowell requested that a large sport and concert auditorium, to seat from 10,000 to 12,000, be built &ldquo;as soon as possible.&rdquo;</p><p>Although the recommendation was for an auditorium for sports, meetings and concerts, hockey is the major reason for the proposal. The present Pacific Coast Hockey League will change from an amateur to a professional status next year, and San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle are also planning pro entries.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Burly Ed Bush Of Rockets Breaks Two A.H.L. Marks

<p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p>Founded October 1, 1947</p><p>Published by</p><p>Hockey News Company, 803 Dominion Square Building, Montreal, Que.</p><p>Subscription Price 12 to 30 Issues in Canada-$3 in U.S.A.</p><p>Authorized second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa.</p><p>VOL, 1 FEBRUARY 25, 1948 NO.22</p><h2><b>AWARDS IN THE A. H. L.</b></h2><p>With an announcement from the President&rsquo;s office last week the American Hockey League has taken a good step forward in the presentation of awards to outstanding players in various departments of play-along with an even more encouraging note for the purchasers is the granting of cash awards for leading performances.</p><p>Thus the circuit presided over by Maurice Podoloff, the versatile and progressive-thinking President, has followed the trail blazed by the National Hockey League in granting every possible encouragement to the players who give their best.</p><p>The new awards in the American League follow the pattern set in the National loop&mdash;including presentations for the Most Valuable Player, the Outstanding Rookie the leading goaltender, the &ldquo;Cleanest Player&rdquo; and the leading pointgetter.</p><p>These parallel the N.H.L. awards of the Hart Trophy for the Most Valuable Player; the Calder Memorial Trophy for the best rookie; the Vezina Trophy for the outstanding goalie; the Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship; and the recognition as leading point-maker, which carries no special trophy but does give the winning player a cash bonus of $1,000 in the N.H.L.</p><p>Under the new system announced by the A.H.L., each of the awards to be presented this season will carry a cash award of $300, as will winning of places on the First All-Star Team. Members of the Second All-Star Team will receive $200 each.</p><p>It is of more than passing interest to not the men whose names will be perpetually honored in presentation of these awards. Two of them were servicemen and former star hockey players who were killed in the late conflict&hellip;The Jack Fox Memorial Award for sportsmanship is given in memory of a former player with Syracuse when that city was represented in the A.H.L. several years ago. He was killed while on service with the Canadian Army&mdash;the first professional hockey player to give his life for his country in the Second Great War.</p><p>The Dudley &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Garrett Memorial will go to the outstanding rookie, perpetuating the memory of a former Providence Reds player who was killed while on service with the Canadian Navy during the war.</p><p>The method to be employed to choose the winner of the sportsmanship award also is interesting in view of its novel method. In place of the selection by sports writers and broadcaters&mdash;as is the usual procedure&mdash;this trophy will be awarded by vote of the 11 referees in the league. That is a sensible, as well as unique, method for selecting the player&mdash;since the referees above all others have perhaps the best opportunity to gauge the sportsmanship and clean playing habits of the players under their charge during the heat of battle.</p><p>The other awards also wjll perpetuate the reputations of former A.H.L. players, with the leading goaltender the Harry &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Holmes Award as a memorial to the late netminder who performed so brilliantly back in the days of such famous hockey personalities as Lester Patrick, Frank Nighbor and those of that era.</p><p>Living players will be honored in the person of Les Cunningham, the league&rsquo;s leading all-time scorer and now coach of San Francisco Shamrocks in the Pacific Coast League, and Wally Kilrea, present coach of the Philadelphia Rockets.</p><p>The Cunningham Award will go to the league&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player, while the Kilrea Award is for the league&rsquo; leading point-getter. The latter award is the only one which may be changed in name as the years go by. Kilrea at present holds the record for the most points&mdash;99&mdash;scored in one season, but if some player of the future exceeds that impressive total the Award will then be named after him.</p><p>Aside from the added glory which these awards will bring to the player winning them, their inauguration is also something to which the league and the member clubs can point to with pride in future years as a mark of progressiveness and forward thinking. There&rsquo;s something about trophies and awards which captures the imagination of players and fans alike.</p><p>They not only lead to greater effort, a boon to incentive for the players concerned, but are invaluable in perpetuating the names of the stars, of any particular year and keeping them fresh in the minds of the hockey public.</p><p>The A H.L. is to be congratulated on this step.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<p><b>LETTERS FROM READERS</b></p><h2><b>BOSTON&rsquo;S SECRET</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I am a Boston Bruins fan and more specifically a Frank Brimsek fan. I would like to know why he did not play in the exhibition game with Ottawa Senators on January 6. Was Brimsek injured?</p><p>Could you tell me where Milt Schmidt was born?</p><p>Bruce Somers <br>Newark, N.J.</p><p>(Brimsek was given a few days off at that time while the team was barnstorming. Schmidt was born in Kitchener, Ontario, on March 5, 1918).</p><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Could you please tell me the farm clubs of Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Rangers and Montreal Canadiens?</p><p>Kenneth Bachman<br>Compass, Sask.</p><p>(Boston&mdash;Hershey and Tulsa; Canadiens&mdash;Buffalo and Dallas; Detroit&mdash;Indianapolis and Omaha; Chicago&mdash;Kansas City; Rangers&mdash;New Haven and St. Paul).</p><h2><b>THE DEAD QUAKERS</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Woud you be kind enough to publish in your next edition what year Philadelphia Quakers were in the National Hockey League and who were a few of their stars.</p><p>Jack Munro <br>Beaconsfield, Que.</p><p>(It was in 1930-31, and the stars of the team were Lowrey, Howe, Shields, Barton, Milks and Jarvis).</p><h2><b>WHY OH WHY!</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Why in the world do the fans boo Detroit&rsquo;s big Jack Stewart so much? In my very humble opinion, it&rsquo;s because they all wish he were playing for their side. What other defenceman could play through almost fifteen minutes out of every twenty? Every time you look, Stewart&rsquo;s out there bodychecking like mad! They say he&rsquo;s too rough, well&mdash;what&rsquo;s he out there for,&mdash;to knit little things? We sure could use his services in the defence department of our Boston Bruins!</p><p>Pauline Soderberg <br>Lexington, Mass.</p><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>In the Happy Birthday column of your December 24 issue, you list Albert Shewchuk, Philadelphia defenceman, as being born December 28th, 1917.</p><p>As there has been some argument about the year, we would like to know if this is correct.</p><p>Roberta Wharton <br>Barrie, Ont.</p><p>(Shewchuk was born on December 38, 1924).</p><h2><b>CONFUSION REIGNS</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I&rsquo;d like to know the exact date of Tod Sloan&rsquo;s birthday. In your October 1 issue in the Maple Leaf roster you gave his birth as November 13. In your November 26 issue in the Happy Birthday To You column you gave his birth date as November 30. Could you please tell me which date is correct.</p><p>Also, how about the addresses and arenas of the teams in the American and United States Leagues as you said you would print</p><p>Rita Clement <br>Chicago, Ill.</p><p>(Sloan&rsquo;s official birthday is November 30, 1927).</p><h2><b>THE NUMBERS GAME</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Could you tell me the numbers Syl Apps, Howie Meeker, Vic Lynn, Harry Watson, Bill Ezln-icki, Garth Boesch and Ted Kennedy wear?</p><p>My friend and I had an argument over Bill Ezinicki. He says Ezinicki played defence before he joined the Maple Leafs. I say he didn&rsquo;t.</p><p>James Petro <br>Simmie, Sask.</p><p>(Apps wears 10; Meeker 15; Lynn 14; Ezinicki 12; Boesch 18 and Kennedy 9. Ezinicki never played defence).</p><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I understand that the Prince of Wales Trophy is awarded to the team finishing first in the N.H. L. schedule. Yet in the 1932-33, 1934-35 and 1937-38 seasons, the Toronto Maple Leafs finished first and the Official National Hockey League Guide has listed the Boston Bruins as winners of this trophy in each of these three seasons.</p><p>Am I mistaken that Leafs finished first in the three aforementioned years. Or is there a misprint in this record? Also, who was the N. H. L. penalty leader in the 1944-45 season?</p><p>A. O. Holoten <br>Copper Mountain, B.C.</p><p>(From 1927-28 until the end of 1937-38, the Prince of Wales Trophy was awarded to the top team in the American Division&mdash;the O&rsquo;Brien Trophy going to the Canadian Division winners. Since the league was reduced to one section the P of W. has gone to the league champion and the O&rsquo;Brien to the club eliminated in the Stanley Cup final. Pat Egan was the &ldquo;bad man&rdquo; in 194-45, serving 86 minutes in 48 games with Boston.)</p><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>A question: If two teams are tied for fourth place when the playoffs begin what would happen and what team would get the right to enter the playoffs?</p><p>Jerry Spooner <br>Sahe Alma, Sask</p><p>(The club having the most wins, most goals for or least goals against would be the winner).</p><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Congratulations on your HOCKEY NEWS. I would like to ask you a question. What has become of Defenceman Eddie Cutts formerly with Pittsburgh Hornets?</p><p>William Buzan <br>Montreal, Que.</p><p>(Cutts is now living at his home in Edmonton, because he was suspended for failing to report to Pittsburgh).</p><h2><b>THESIS IS WANTED</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I would like to know where I could obtain the 8000 word thesis written on goalkeeping by Connie Dion of Buffalo Bisons.</p><p>Louis Huberdeau <br>St-Lazare, Man.</p><p>(Drop a line to Charlie Barton, Buffalo Auditorium, Buffalo, N.Y., for that info.)</p><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Could you tell me on what team Reg Bentley, brother of Doug and Max Bentley, is playing now, also where is Paul Bibeault who played for the Black Hawks?</p><p>Davis Walker <br>Chicago, Ill.</p><p>(Reg Bentley is with Saskatoon in the Western Canada League. Bibeault is tending goal for Buffalo).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hockey Fans’ Forum

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he last of Boston&rsquo;s great Kraut Line of Schmidt, Bauer and Dumart, Woodrow Wilson Dumart has suddenly returned to the playing form of old and his splendid scoring feats last week wins him THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; weekly Player Of The Week nomination together with the Morgan Hat award.</p><p>During the last week Boston&rsquo;s playoff hopes took on a new look as the Bruins won two of their three games to pull away from the Canucks of Montreal, and Dumart&rsquo;s play was an outstanding factor in the club&rsquo;s recent comeback. Last Wednesday in Chicago Woody sparked the Bruins to a 4-2 win over the Hawks by scoring two goals and an assist. In Mont-treal on Saturday he bagged another goal and aided in the scoring of another as Boston downed their nearest rivals 3-1.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03811/8465215-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="277" height="436"></div><p>The five points he registered last week jacked Dumart&rsquo;s point total for this season to 18 goals and 13 assists for 31 points. Despite the fact that he has been playing without his two buddies from Kitchener, Dumart&rsquo;s game has been up to par of late. With Bauer now retired from the N.H.L. and Schmidt on and off the injury list all season, Dumart is the last member of the one-time great Kraut trio.</p><p>Like Bauer and Schmidt, Woody was born in Kitchener, Ontario on December 23, 1916. Standing five-foot, nine inches and weighing 170 pounds, Dumart is playing his ninth season with the Bruins. Last season was his best as far as point-totals go. In all 60 Boston games he scored 24 goals and 28 assists for 52 points. He started his big time career with Boston in 1936-37 when he was recalled from Providence late in the season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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PLAYER-OF-THE-WEEK

<h2><b>Century Maker</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>gile Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, league leading scorer of New York Rangers, joined the ranks of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s &ldquo;100 Goal&rdquo; members. Buddy potted his 100th tally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday night in a game against Boston Bruins,</p><h2><b>Snap Slump</b></h2><p>When the Rangers humbled Boston Bruins on Suuday night it was the New Yorkers&rsquo; first N.H.I., win since January 31. It was the club&rsquo;s worst slump this season but the win put them back into sole possession of third place. On Jauuary 31 they beat Canadiens 4-2.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON WED. A.M. FEB. 25</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-011954/8465184-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="606" height="189"></div><h3><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</b></h3><p>February 18&mdash;Detroit 3, Rangers 1; Boston. 4, Chicago 2.</p><p>February 19&mdash;Canadiens 3, Toronto 1.</p><p>February 21&mdash;Toronto 3. Detroit 2; Boston 3, Canadiens 1;</p><p>February 22&mdash;Detroit 4, Canadiens 3; Rangers 4, Boston 11 Toronto 3, Chicago 2.</p><h3><b>Games of Coming Week</b></h3><p>February 25&mdash;Boston at Toronto; Chicago at Rangers.</p><p>February 28&mdash;Detroit at Canadiens; Chicago at Toronto.</p><p>February 29&mdash;Canadiens at Rangers; Boston at Chicago.</p><p>Make no mistake the present fight between Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings for possession of the first place in the National Hockey League race will be waged right up until the last night of the 1947-48 schedule. For the second straight week the two clubs are deadlocked in top spot. Both clubs finished off the week with the same record of two wins and one setback.</p><h3><b>Habs Win One</b></h3><p>On Wednesday the Wings toppled the New York Rangers 3-1 while the following night in Montreal the Maple Leafs suffered a 3-1 upset at the hands of Les Canadiens. On Saturday in Toronto, the two clubs clashed in a show-down battle that saw the Leafs emerge as the victors by a 3-2 count. On Sunday the Leafs maintained the pace by edging Chicago Black Hawks 3-2 while the Wings were setting down Canadiens 4-3.</p><p>After another week Detroit&rsquo;s youthful netminder, Harry Lumley held a slim one-goal lead over Toronto&rsquo;sTurk Broda in the marathon for the Vezina Trophy. Holding a game-in-hand, Broda has had 120 goals scored against him to Lumley&rsquo;s 119 for 50 games.</p><h3><b>Back in Third</b></h3><p>Rangers win over Boston in New York moved them back into sole possesion of third place over the Bruins. It was New York&rsquo;s first win in eight starts and while holding a game-in-nand over the improved Bruins they head the Hub club by two points.</p><p>Both clubs have won 18 games but the Bruins have dropped 21 games to Rangers&rsquo; 18. After a surprising 3-1 triumph over Toronto Leafs on home ice Thursday, Montreal Canadiens fell back into the rut by losing both weekend games to Boston and Detroit. The two losses hurt Les Habitants chances to gain a playoff spot as they now trail Boston by seven points.</p><p>When the last-place Black Hawks lost to Boston Wednesday they lost an excellent chance to tie Canadiens for fifth place and they fell again to Toronto Sunday. The Habs now head Chicago by four points.</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18</b></h3><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Detroit Red Wings moved into undisputed possession of first place when they scored three goals in the second period to defeat New York Rangers 8-1 before 15,075 fans at the Madison Square Garden.</p><p>Ted Lindsay, Gordon Howe and Don Morrison notched the Detroit goals before Rangers roke the scoring ice on Ed Kullman&rsquo;s tally at 19.14 of the same oanto. Harry Lumley had a busy night in the Wing cage stopping 29 shots to Jim Henry&rsquo;s 14.</p><p>Detroit: Goal. Lumley: defence, Quackenbush, Stewart; centre, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay. Subs.: Reise, Gauthier, Horeck, Guidolin, McFadden D. Morrison, R. Morrison, Conacher, Pav-ellch, Kelly.</p><p>Rangers: Goal. Henry; defence, Colville, Moe; centre, Laprade; wings Kull-man. Leswick, Subs.: Eddolls, O&rsquo;Connor, Watson, Raleigh, Hextall, Lamirande, Juzda, Slowinskl, Perreault.</p><p>Referee: Bill Chadwick. Linesmen, Sammy Babcock and Ray Getliffe.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-021304/8465177-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="600" height="251"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04522/8465170-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="592" height="173"></div><p>CHICAGO&mdash;The Black Haaks were foiled in their attempts to move into a fifth place tie with the idle Canadiens as Boston Bruins dropped the fighting Chicago club 4-2. The in moved the Bruins two points closer to Rangers while Chicago still trails Montreal by two points.</p><p>The veteran Woody Dumart was the game&rsquo;s hero. He scored two of the Boston goals and assisted in the winner by Ed Sandford at 1G.37 of the middle session Grant Warwick scored the other Bruins tally. Gus Bodnar and Roy Con-acher scored for the Hawks.</p><p>Boston&mdash;Goal Bfimsek: defence, Henderson. Crawford; centre, sand ford; wings, Peters, Dumart; subs; Egan(Fla-man, Gallinger. Warwick, Harrison. Smith. Ronty, Wilson, Babando Pierson.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;Goal, Francis; defence, Nat-trass, Gadsby; centre, Bodnar; wings. Poile, Stewart; subs: Mariucci, Dickens, Prystai Bentley, Conacher, Gee Mosicn-ko, Hamill, Kaleta.</p><p>Referee&mdash;Butch Keeling; linesmen, George Hayes and Doug Young.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05359/8465163-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="600" height="396"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19</b></h3><p>MONTREAL&mdash;In a game that was marred by 24 penalties and resembled a donnybrook rather than a hockey game, Montreal Canadiens gained revenge on Toronto by stopping the Maple Leafs 3-1 before a roaring crowd of 11,218 at the Forum.</p><p>Maurice Richard opened the scoring before the game was one minute old but Howie Meeker tied it up soon after. In the second frame Kenny Reardon scored the winner at 18:22 and Norm Dussault clinched the game with a goal in the third period. The first period was featured by a fight between two bitter rivals, Butch Bouchard and Wild Bill Ezinicki.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal, Broda; defence, Mortson. Thomson, centre. Kennedy; wings, Lynn, Meeker; subs: Stanowski, Watson, Metz, Bentley, Apps, Ezinicki, Smith, Klukay. Barilko.</p><p>Canadeian&mdash;Goal Durnan; defence, Reardon. Bouchard; centre. Lach: wings, Richard, Plamondon; subs; Riopelle, Locas, Harmon, Filion, Chamberlain, Reay, Mosdell, Carveth. Leger, Dussault.</p><p>Referee&mdash;King Clancy: linesmen Sibby and Sam Babcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-06278/8465156-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="601" height="384"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-07216/8465149-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="604" height="94"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBIUARY 21</b></h3><p>TORONTO&mdash;Joe Klukay scored the winning goal at 14.28 of the last period to give Toronto Maple Leafs a 3-2 victory over Detroit Red Wings. The win put the Leafs into a first place tie with the Detroit club. Pete Horeck gave the Wings the lead in the second period but Sid Smith tied it up a few minutes later.</p><p>Bill Bacilko&rsquo;s goal put the Toronto club ahead 2-1 and Klukay clinched the contest a few minutes before Rookie Red Kelly notched Detroit&rsquo;s second goal.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal, Lumley; defence, Quackenbush, Stewart; centre, Abel; wings Howe, Lindsay; subs: Reise, Kelly, D, Morrison, Gauthier, Horeck, Guidolin, McFadden, Conacher, Pave-lich, R. Morrison.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;Goal, Broda; defence, Mort-son, Thomson; centre, Kennedy: wings, Meeker. Lynn; subs: Apps, Ezinicki, Watson, Stanowski, Barilko, Bentley, Smith, Klukay, N. Metz.</p><p>Officials&mdash;King Clancy, referee: Ray Getliffe and Sibby Mundey, linesmen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-08172/8465142-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="602" height="490"></div><p>MONTREAL&mdash;After dropping Toronto on Thursday, Montreal Canadiens were unable to make it two-straight as they bowed to Boston Bruins 8-1. In a tame exhibition before 11,231 fans, the Bruins moved into a temporary tie for third place with New York.</p><p>Boston held command throughout the game and held a 3-0 lead before Murph, Chamberlain broke through late in the third period for Canadiens&rsquo; only goal. The Boston scores.were notched by Woody Dumart, Grant Warwick and Don Gallinger. There were only two penalties handed out and both to Boston.</p><p>Boston&mdash;Goal, Brimsek; defence, Flam on, Egan; centre, Sandford; wings, Peters, Dumart. Subs.: Henderson Gallinger, Warwick, Harrison, Smith, Martin, Ronty, Wilson, Peirson, Babando.</p><p>Canadiens&mdash;Goal. Durnan; defence, Reardon, Bouchard; centre, Reay; wings Harmon, Leger, Riopelle, Richard, Lach, Curry, Mosdell. Carveth, Dussault.</p><p>Referee, Bill Chadwick; linesmen, Jim Primeau, Eddie Mepham,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-09131/8465135-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="600" height="299"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 22</b></h3><p>CHICAGO&mdash;Toronto kept pace with Detroit in tho running for first place by edging Chicago Black Hawks 3-2. The game marked Toronto&rsquo;s eighth win over the Hawks this season. The Leafs scored twice in first and once in the second.</p><p>After Syl Apps and Bill Mosienko matched goals in the opener, Nick Metz hammered Toronto into the lead with a goal at 15:39. Ted Kennedy upped the Leaf lead to 3-1 at 9:12 of the second frame and Red Hamill ended the scoring at 12:43.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-10105/8465128-1-eng-US/f0007-102.jpg" title="f0007-10" width="604" height="432"></div><p>DETROIT&mdash;Canadiens received a severe jolting in their drive for a playoff berth when they were defeated by Detroit Red Wings 4-3. It is Montreal&rsquo;s sceond defeat in two nights and left them seven points behind the fourth place Boston Bruins.</p><p>Maurice Richard found his old scoring eye by hitting the cords twice in the last period but his play wasn&rsquo;t enough to down the front running Wings. Pete Horeck Jimmy McFadden, Don Morrison and Rod Morrison scored for the winners with Bobby Fillion adding the third Habitant marker.</p><p>Canadiens&mdash;Goal, Durnan; defence, Leger, Harmon; centre, Carveth; wings, Curry, Riopelle. Subs: Harvey, Bouchard, Locas. Richard, Fillion, Reay, Lach Reardon, Mosdell, Dussault.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;Goal, Lumley; defence, Quackenbush, Stewart; centre, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay. Subs: R. Mor-rison, D. Morrison, Kelly, Pavelich, Conacher, McFadden, Guidolin, Horeck, Gauthier, Reise.</p><p>Referee&mdash;George Gravel; linesmen, George Hayes and Sammy Badcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1186/8465121-1-eng-US/f0007-112.jpg" title="f0007-11" width="601" height="445"></div><p>NEW YORK&mdash;New York Rangers won their first game in eight starts and took over sole possession of third place when they came from behind to whip Boston 4-1. The Bruins took a one-goal at the mid-way mark of the initial period. The Rangers tied it up five minutes later and then scored two more In the second frame and another in the finale.</p><p>Murray Henderson fanned Henry at 10:15 and Phil Watson came through with the tyingmarker. Goals by Buddy O&rsquo;Connor and oTny Keswick put New York ahead to stay while Keswick scored his second goal in the third.</p><p>Boston&mdash;Goal, Brimsek; defence, Fla-man, Egan; centre. Sanadford; wings, Peters, Dumart. Subs: Crawford, Henderson, Gallinger, Warwick, Harrison. Smith, Martin, Ronty, Wilson, Babando.</p><p>New York&mdash;Goal, Henry; defence, Colville, Moe; centre, O&rsquo;Connor; wings, Hextall Watson. Subs: Eddolls, Per-rault. Raleigh. Laprade, Kulhnan, La-mirande, Gardner. Keswick, Juzda, Slowinski.</p><p>Referee, Butch Keeling; linesmen, Jim Primeau and Ed Mepham.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-14212/8465114-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="600" height="371"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Feb. 22)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1270/8465107-1-eng-US/f0007-122.jpg" title="f0007-12" width="592" height="2686"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05477/8465100-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="600" height="696"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06376/8465093-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="603" height="640"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07292/8465086-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="592" height="159"></div><h2><b>HE DOOD IT!</b></h2><p><b>Fern Gauthier, spare Detroit forward, has scored only one goal ail season. His teammates have ribbed him that he &ldquo;couldn&rsquo;t put the puck in the ocean.&rdquo; To prove them wrong in New York the other day, he collected a couple of his Red Wings teammates, a hockey stick and puck, went over to the east side and shot the puck in the East River.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-01

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>here&rsquo;s just one more spot to be filled on the American League All-Star team&mdash;outside of the coaches&mdash;and this is the week when the right wing post of the mythical sextet is on the block and the hopefuls in the Podoloff circuit are canvassing for votes.</p><p>Oldtimers like 31-year-old Pete Leswick of Cleveland Barons and the 34-year-old captain of Philadelphia Rockets, veteran Phil Hergesheimer, are in there slugging to retain the laurels they have won in past seasons. But youngsters like Fleming Mackell, the St. Mike&rsquo;s Junior whiz kid who is burning up the starboard lanes with Pittsburgh, are out after their scalps.</p><p>Hergesheimer, who captured the official All-Star right wing berth in the A.H.L. last winter, scored his 200th goal only two weeks ago to move into the select circle of only three other players who have ever racked up that total in the circuit.</p><h2><b>Mackell Ace Rookie</b></h2><p>Mackell, one of the reasons Pittsburgh Hornets have held the top position in the Western Division the past several weeks, is having a bumper season with the Maple Leaf affiliates and rates as one of the loop&rsquo;s best rookies. Up to last Sunday Mackell had notched 59 points, good enough to put him up in 21st position in the scoring standing.</p><p>Another right winger who is well up in the scoring list is Ed &ldquo;Whitey&rdquo; Prokop of Providence Reds. The Hamilton, Ontario, winger came within three games of equalling an A.H.L. point record early in the season when he rang up a string of 21 games in which he either scored or garnered an assist. Though he slowed up since, his point total still is good enough to rate him sixth among a high-scoring group of contestants.</p><h2><b>Reds Strong On Right</b></h2><p>Leswick and Roger Bedard of Providence, another scintillating starboarder, have been waging a stirring fight with Mackell and Hergesheimer for ranking among the select of their position, with Eddie Olson of St. Louis and Johnny Chad of Providence not far behind them. Chad spent parts of three seasons in the National League with Chicago Black Hawks. He had his best season in 1940-41 with 25 points before he marched off to war to serve a four-year stretch away from the ice lanes.</p><p>Bill Summerhill, 32-year-old veteran of nine campaigns in pro hockey with Montreal Canadiens, New York Americans and other crews, is the leading candidate for Springfield Indians in the right wing race, with Harry Frost running him a close second.</p><h2><b>Hershey&rsquo;s Hopefuls</b></h2><p>Lloyd Gronsdahl, a Saskatchewan boy who broke into pro hockey with Boston in 1941-42 before entering the services, is one of Hershey&rsquo;s candidates. Pacing the Hershey starboarders are the brilliant youngsters Mark Mar quess and Johnny Peirson, who has shuttled back and forth between the Bears and the Bruins, meanwhile scoring over 40 points with the American Leaguers.</p><p>Tommy Cooper, a 31-year-old Winnipegger who didn&rsquo;t break into pro ranks until two seasons ago, is carrying Buffalo&rsquo;s hopes along with Les Hickey and Paul Mundrick in the All-Star race. Tony Licari and Eddie Brune-teau, both of whom have seen action with Detroit Red Wings, are two of the Indianapolis entries in the running, along with Barry Sullivan.</p><p>Bobby Walton, who pastimed with Cleveland Barons in the 1946-47 semester, is carrying the right wing mail for Washington Lions in their first post-war season in the AHL while pint-sized Walter Babey&mdash;also used as a scrappy substitute defenceman&mdash;and John Carr-Harris are able assistants.</p><h2><b><i>Eight Play Off</i></b></h2><p>SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.&mdash;Eight teams in the 10-club Pacific Coast League will sail into the playoffs after the regular schedule is completed. The first and fourth place teams in each division will meet in a best-of-five quarter final series as will the squads finishing second and third. Winners of these series then tangle in a best-of-five semi-final set-to, and finally the Northern Division winner will meet the Southern Division winner in a best-of-seven final playoff for the right to advance ^n the United States amateur tourney.</p><h2><b>RIGHT</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-012043/8465281-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="312" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pete Leswick Cleveland</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-031068/8465274-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="312" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fleming Mackell Pittsburgh</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05391/8465267-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="300" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Olson St. Louis</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>WING</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-021525/8465260-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="312" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lloyd Gronsdahl Hershey</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04557/8465253-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="300" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>P. Hergesheimer Philadelphia</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06310/8465246-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="300" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tom Cooper Buffalo</b></figcaption></div><p><b>ALL-STAR CANDIDATES</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-01

Youthful Hornet Among Star AHL First Year Men

<div class="byline">By DICK FORTUNE</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Last season Ernie Dickens, rangy defenceman of the Hornets, set a new scoring record for Pittsburgh rearguards he rang up 11 goals and 40 assists for a total of 51 points. There were plenty of regrets expressed when Ernie was sold to Black Hawks early in the season-because fans pointe Hornets were losing a good defenceman who also could score-However, Pete Backor, the hard-working veteran took over Dickens&rsquo; job and right now appears to be on his way to erase Ernie&rsquo;s mark of last season. Already Peter has racked up 12 goals to surpass Dickens&rsquo; tally total and also has 29 assists, in games up to and including February 26.</p><p>Like Dickens, Backor draws a mean bead on the net from just beyond the blueline and his shot is hard to stop. On several occasions it has been Pete who lit the red light during a tough game. However, he doesn&rsquo;t waste too many shots and still prefers to pass it to some teammate who is closer to goal unless he has a path through which to drive the puck.</p><h2><b>Among The Best</b></h2><p>His scoring spree hasn&rsquo;t caused his defence work to suffer either and right now, Pete Backor rates with the best guards in the league. It&rsquo;s a good year for the good-natured husky.</p><p>Backor, a husky 185-pound, six-footer from Fort William, Ontario, is in his third season with Hornets, with a 16-game stretch in the Pacific Coast League thrown in for good measure.</p><p>Pete, now 28 years old, forsook the amateur ranks in 1944-45 when he went from St. Catharines Saints of the O.H.A. Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; group to play 36 games with Toronto Maple Leafs. He notched four goals and five assists that season for a none too startling performance.</p><h2><b><i>Chasing Ernie</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07228/8465312-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="512" height="997"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PETE BACKOR</b></figcaption></div><p>The next year found him with Pittsburgh, playing 61 games and compiling 31 points&mdash;26 of therri on assists. Last season he played 48 games with Pittsburgh, getting 19 points, and spent the aforementioned 16 games with Hollywood of the P.C.H.L., collecting another 10 points.</p><p>This year he apparently has found a new lease on life, and his point-getting activities are fast making the local fans forget about the loss of Dickens.</p><h2><b><i>Many Long Years!</i></b></h2><p>NEW HAVEN, Conn.&mdash;Ott Heller, captain of the Ramblers, broke in with Springfield of the Can-Am loop in the 1928-29 campaign, which is the same year that two of this season&rsquo;s Ramblers, Jackie Gordon and Nick Mickoski, were born<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-07

Burly Hornet Rearguard Plays To Beat Dickens

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04589/8465500-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="647" height="1161"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CARL LISCOMBE</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>here is a strong possibility that a good number of all-time records will be broken in the American Hockey League this season both for player and team performances. Among the more important markers likely to fall for individual play are the total points, goals and assists records. Carl Liscombe, veteran Providence wingman, is the leading candidate to topple both the point total and goal scoring records. The high mark now for the league is 99 points held by XX ally Kilrea and set in the season 1942-43.</p><p>Kilrea is now coach of the Philadelphia Rockets of the AHL The goal objective that Liscombe is shooting at is held by Johnny Holota at 52, and set just last season. Kilrea also holds the assist title, which he also set in 1942-43, with 68. The chief threateners of this total are XX&rsquo;ally Stefaniw of Philadelphia and Ray LaPlante of Providence.</p><p>Big Ed Bush, hard playing defence star of the Philadelphia entry has already set a new record for rearguards. On Feb. 21 he scored his 23rd goal and his 58th point with an assist later in the game. Koger Leger while playing for Buffalo in 194546 set the point mark at 57 and the goal high at 22. Ernie Dickens playing with Pittsburgh last season aided teammates to score 40 times to set the assist record. Bush is now hovering near all three records.</p><p>Four teams, Cleveland, Providence, Buffalo and Pittsburgh all have excellent chances to set new totals for team play-The most prominent club records to fall by the wayside may be the goal total for a season and games won records in combined total and also games, won at home and away. The most goals scored by a team thus far was 286 by Indianapolis in 194546. The high flying Providence Reds are out in front in prospects to better this mark. All four of the teams have good chances to best the totals in complete games won and also victories at home and away. The complete win total for a season is 38, while the home total is 24 and the road record is 18.</p><h2><b><i>Unlucky Rams</i></b></h2><p>NEW HAVEN, Conn.&mdash;Since the days when New Haven was first represented in organized hockey&mdash;and the start was in 1926 as a member of the old Canadian-American League&mdash;-only eight Elm City teams have got into the playoffs. None of these clubs went past the first round in the elimination series, although the 1926 Eagles were automatically in the finals as they wound up the regular season in first&rdquo; place.</p><h2><b><i>True &ldquo;Lies&rdquo;</i></b></h2><p>When a hockey player speaks about a &lsquo;Tie&rdquo; he is not talking about a falsehood. That is the term used to describe the angle of a hockey stick to the vertical portion. Hockey sticks have blades at various angles, depending on the likes and dislikes of particular players, and are numbered with a &ldquo;5 lie&rdquo;, &ldquo;6 lie&rdquo; etc. The higher the number of &ldquo;the lie&rdquo; means the smaller the angle.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-04

Many A.H.L. Records Threatened

<h2><b>Reaches 100 Mark</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he league leading scorer of the A.H.L. and a player who appears headed to break more than one learue record, the veteran Carl Loscom be of Providence Reds scored his 100th American League goal Sunday night. It was against Cleveland that Carl attained the century mark.</p><h2><b>Out For Record</b></h2><p>The fleet-footed centreman Wally Stefanlw of Philadelphia&rsquo;s top line of Narduzzi, Hergesheimer and Stefaniw, is going all out to break an A.H.L. assist record set by his present cooch, Wally Kilrea. He is aiming for that mark of 68 set by Kilrea in 19424.3.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDING ON TUES. A.M., FEB. 24</b></p><h3><b>Eastern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-011866/8465469-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="675" height="184"></div><h3><b>Western Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-021279/8465462-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="679" height="160"></div><h3><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</b></h3><p>February 17&mdash;Philadelphia 5: Spring 4&rdquo; Hershey 3. St. Louis 3; Cleveland 7. Washington 2.</p><p>February 18&mdash;Indianapolis 6 Buffalo 6 Cleveland 5. Philadelphia 2, Spring field 1. Pittsburgh 0.</p><p>February 19&mdash;New Haven 7. In dianapolis 4; Providence 3,</p><p>February 20&mdash;Providence 8, Washington 5</p><p>February 21&mdash;Hershey Pittsburgh 2; Philadelphia 4, Indianapolis 2 Cleve land 8, Springfield 1; St. Louis 4, Buffalo 3.</p><p>February 22&mdash;Buffalo 7. St Louis 4; New Haven 10, Washington 3. Cleve land 7, Providence 6; Indianapolis 8, Springfield 5.</p><h3><b>Games of Coming Week</b></h3><p>February 24&mdash;Pittsburgh at Cleveland; Springfield at St. Louis; Hershey at Washington.</p><p>February 25&mdash;New Haven at Buffalo; Cleveland at Hershey; Washington at Philadelphia; Springfield at Pittsburgh</p><p>February 26&mdash;Buffalo at Providence; Indianapolis at Washington.</p><p>February 28&mdash;New Haven at Cleve-land; Indianapolis at Hershey. Buffalo at Philadelphia; St. Louis at Pittsburgh, Washington at Springfield.</p><p>February 29&mdash;Washington at Buf; Pittsburgh at Indianapolis; Springfield at New Haven; Hershey at Pro-veidnce; Cleveland at St. Louis.</p><p>The Cleveland Barons provided the only change in the American League standings during the week. The Barons jumped from third place in the Western Division to second place and three points behind the division leading Pittsburgh Hornets who had a rather precarious week.</p><p>The Barons at last writing were eight points behind the Hornets but wins over Washington, Philadelphia, Springfield and Providence gave them a perfect four for four weeks. The Hornets in the meantime were shutout by the lowly Springfield squad, dropped a crucial game to Providence 3-1, and drew with Hershey 2-2.</p><p>In the Eastern Division Providence Reds continued to hold a healthy 11 point lead over the other teams in the section. The Reds dropped Hornets 3-1, outscored the Washington Lions 8-5, and lost to the surging Barons, 7-5. The Ramblers consolidated their hold on second place in the Eastern division with wins over Indianapolis and Washington. The cellar-dwelling Lions in an effort all out and lost their three sche-to get out of the basement went winless in three games.</p><p>The Buffalo Bisons managed to win but one game this week and thus fell in behind the Cleveland Barons. The Indianapolis Capitols failed to make any headway in the race while the St. Louis Flyers were hopelessly stuck in the basement.</p><p>The Cleveland Barons face a stiff week meeting Pittsburgh and New Haven, then taper off with St. Louis.</p><h2><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15</b></h2><p><b>PROVIDENCE</b>&mdash;A free-for-all fight in the third period in which eight players took part featured a rough and tumble game that saw Providence Reds trip Phialdelphia 8-4 before 6,243 fans at the Auditorium. The win put the Reds 11 points up on New Haven in the Eastern Division.</p><p><b>Providence&mdash;</b>Goal. Bennett; defence. Arcand. Stanley; centre Taylor; wings. Chad Scherza. Subs: Fraser, Bedard. Liscombe, Michaluk. Church. Prokop Laplante. Kapusta. Collings, Stoddard</p><p><b>Philadelphia</b>&mdash;Goal. Courteau; defence. Bush. Hotter; centre. Stefaniw; wings Hergeshcimer, Narduzzi. Subs: Kraig Shewchuk, Kilrea, Waldriff. Hnatiuk, Mahaffy, DeFelice, Wochy. Jamieson. Bangay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05442/8465455-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="664" height="862"></div><p><b>INDIANAPOLIS</b>&mdash;The Capitols came to life in the last period and drilled four goals past Goaler Henry to defeat Hersey Bears 5-2. Cliff Simpson was the scoring star with two tallies and an assist.</p><p><b>Indianapolis&mdash;</b>Goal, Almas; defence, Nicholson, Miller; centre, Simpson; wings Couture, Sclisizzi. Subs; Lundy, Sullivan. Podolsky, Summers, Fogolin, Bru-neteau. Licari, McKay.</p><p><b>Hershey</b>&mdash;Goal, Henry; defence, Bra-nigan, Pratt: centre, Mario; wings, Gronsdahl, Gaudreault. Subs: McAtee, Marquess Lund, Slobodian. McLenalian, Cooper, McGill, Bruce, Cain, Bettio.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06373/8465448-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="670" height="541"></div><p><b>NEW HAVEN</b>&mdash;Pete Leswick&rsquo;s goal after a rink-16ng rush provided the clincher a rink-long rush provided the New Haven 3-1 to end the Ramblers streak at six straight games. Russell and Holota scored the other two Baron Goals Cleveland&mdash;Goal. Bower; defence. Wares Allen: centre, Holota; Wnigs. Carso Leswirk. Subs: Davidson, Sprout. Sawchuk, DeMarco. Thurier, Gagne, Russell. Solinger. Kelly. Brennan.</p><p><b>New Haven</b>&mdash;Goal, Stevenson; defence Heller. Robinson; centre. Davies: wings, Johnson. Webster. Subs: Bell. Lancien. Fisher, Mackintosh, White, Denis, Mickoski. Hrymnak, Gordon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07323/8465441-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="671" height="315"></div><p><b>BUFFALO</b>&mdash;Tommy Cooper scored four goals as Buffalo Bisons edged Springfield 6-5. He scored twice in the first frame and singles in the second and third. Gooden bagged two for the Indians.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal, Dion; defence, Jackson Laycoe; centre, Campeau; wings, Hickey, Pargeter. Subs: Field. Mc-Mahon. Douglas, Cooper, Bell, McKay, Mundrick. Brown. Halderson, Lewis.</p><p><b>Springfield</b>&mdash;Goal, Nadon; defence, Johnstone, Tottle; centre, Kobussen; wings Jones, Kuntz. Subs: Lamoureux Courteau. Unger, Summerhill, Hayden, Frost. Gooden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08293/8465434-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="656" height="371"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09279/8465427-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="670" height="300"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18</b></h3><p><b>SPRINGFIELD</b>&mdash;The Pittsburgh Hornets suffered their first shoutout A.H.L. season when they were blanked by Springfield Indians 1-0. The only-score of the game came at 17.48 of the first period when Harry Frost drilled a five-footer past Baz Bastien. The Hornets pulled Bastien from his cage in the last minutes of the game but they failed to score with the extra man.</p><p><b>Springfield</b>&mdash;Goul, Nadon; defence, Lamoureux Allen; centre, Courteau; wings, Summerhill, Gooden. Subs: Johnstone, Tottle, Unger, Hosking, Hayden, Frost, Jones, Ko-busscn, Kuntz.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal, Bastien; defence, Kemp, Backor; centre, Langelle; wings, O&rsquo;Flaherty, Thomas. Subs: Samis, Mac-kell, Morris, Hamilton, Hill, Benson, Le mieux Mair, Dawes, Costello.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10256/8465420-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="652" height="268"></div><p><b>CLEVELAND.</b>&mdash;Cleveland niuveu into second place in the Western Division standing by trimming Philadelphia Rockets 5-2. The Barons&rsquo; undefeated streak reached 11 games. Ab DeMarco jointed the A.H.L. &ldquo;100 Goal Club&rdquo; on his goal early in the first period.</p><p><b>Cleveland</b>&mdash;Goal, Bessette; defence, Wares, Allen; centre, Holota; wings, Les-wick, Carse. Subs: Davidson, Sprout, Brennan, Shawchuk, Thurier, Russell, Layoie DeMarco, Kelly, Sollinger.</p><p><b>Philadelphia</b>&mdash;Goal, Courteau; defence Bush, Motter; centre, Stefanlw; wings, Hergeshelmer, Narduzzi. Subs: Shewchuk. Waldriff, Kilrea, Kraiger, Hnatiuk, Mahaffy, DeFelice, Wochy, Jamieson, Bangay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06338/8465413-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="604" height="469"></div><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Before a crowd of 8,497 fans at the Memorial Auditorium, the Indianapolis Capitols handed Buffalo BIsons a 6-5 setback. The Caps scored four goals in the opener which was enough to assure their win. Sclisizzi was the Caps&rsquo; scoring star with two goals while Hunt nicked a pair for the Herd.</p><p><b>Indianapolis</b>&mdash;Goal, Almas; defence, Nicholson, Miller; centre Simpson; wings Couture, Sclisizzi. Subs; Summers, Fogo-lin. Lundy, Sullivan, Bruneteau, Podolsky, Licari, McKay.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal, Dion; defence, Jackson, Laycoe; centre. Halderson: wings, Lewis, Hickey. Subs: Field, Lessard, Douglas. Cooper. Bell. McKay, Hunt, Brown, Campeau Pargeter.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07241/8465406-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="602" height="764"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19</b></h3><p><b>PROVIDENCE</b>&mdash;The largest crowd of the season, 6,619 watched the Providence Reds whip their arch rivals, Pittsburgh Hornets 3-1. The Reds fashioned their win by scoring a goal in each of the three periods. Les Costello scored the one Hornet tally in the opener. Scherza, Taylor and Areand scored for Providence.</p><p><b>Providence-</b>&mdash;Goal, Bcunett; defence, Stanley, Ateand; centre Taylor; wings, Chad, Scherza. Subs: Liscombe, Bedard, Kapusta, Prokop. Lapl ante, Stoddard, Collings, Church, Michaiuk.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal, Bastien; defence, Kemp Backor; centre, Langelle; wings, O&rsquo;Flaherty, Thomas. Subs: Samis, Morris, Hamilton, Benson, Mair, Dawes. Mackell. Costello, Lemieux, Hill.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-08182/8465399-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="601" height="381"></div><p><b>NEW HAVEN</b>&mdash;The Ramblors took the lead in the first period and from then on were never threatened as they toppled Indianapolis Capitols 7-4. The game was slow because of soft ice and only one penalty was handed out. Dune Fisher and Jean Paul Denis led the New Haveuites with a brace of markers each while Enio Sclisizzi scored two for the Caps.</p><p><b>New Haven</b>&mdash;Goal, Stevenson; defence, Heller, Robinson; centre, Davies-wmgs. Johnson, Webster. Subs: Lancien, Cameron, Juckes, Fisher, White, Denis Mickoski. Hrymnak. Gordon.</p><p><b>Indianapolis</b>&mdash;Goal, Almas;-defence Nicholson. Miller; centre, Simpson; wings Couture, Sclisizzi. Subs: Summers, Luiidy, Bruneteau, Sullivan, Podolsky, Licari McKay, Fogolin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-09138/8465392-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="597" height="697"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20</b></h3><p><b>WASHINGTON.</b>&mdash;The Providence Reds, never headed took an early 4-1 lead to finally win out 8-5 from the Washington Lions on home ice&rsquo; before 1,210 fans.</p><p>Carl Liscombe added to his scoring leadership, one goal and three assists.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal. Bennett; defence, Stanley, Areand; centre, Fraser; wings. Liscombe, Bedard; subs.: Church, Chad, Laplante, Stoddard, Scherza, Prokop. Collings, Taylor, Kapusta, Michaluk.</p><p><b>Washington:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Archambault, Foley; centre, F. Porteous; wings, Babey, D. Porteous; subs. Port-land, Walton, Ciuman. Carr-Harris, Slater, Mousseau, Hunchuk, Lovett, Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-10115/8465385-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg" title="f0010-10" width="602" height="754"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21</b></h3><p><b>CLEVELAND</b>&mdash;After Springfield tied the score at 1-1 early in the opening period, Cleveland Barons went on a scoring spree to win out 9-1. Leswick led the attack with three goals while teammates Lavoie also bagged a &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo;. Kelly scored twice and Holota sunk a single.</p><p><b>Springfleid</b>&mdash;Goal, Nadon; defence, Lamoureux, K. Allen; centre, Kobussen; wings Jones, Kuntz; alternates, Hosklng, Johnstone, Courteau, Gooden., Summerhill, Unger, Hayden, Frost.</p><p><b>Cleveland</b>&mdash;Goal. Bower; defence. Wares, G. Allen: centre, Hoiota; wings, Leswick, Carse; alternates, Sawchuk, Sprout, Buller, Brennan, Thurier, Russell, Lavoie, DeMarco, Kelly, Solinger.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1193/8465378-1-eng-US/f0010-112.jpg" title="f0010-11" width="606" height="674"></div><p><b>PITTSBURGH</b>&mdash;Gordie Bruce scored the tying goal at 4.40 of the second period as Hershey Bears and the league leading Pittsburgh Hornets battled to a 2-2 tie. Pittsburgh led 2-0 on goals by O&rsquo;Flaherty and Sloan. Marquess cut the lead to 2-1 just before the first period bell sounded.</p><p><b>Hershey</b>&mdash;Goal, Henry; defence, Bra-nigan, Pratt: centre, Mario; wings, Gronsd-ahl, Gaudreault: alternates, Sio-bodian, McLenahan, Cooper, McGil, Bruce, Caln, MsAtee, Lund, Marquess, Bettio.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>&mdash;Goal, Bastien; defence. Kemp, Backor: centre. Langelle; wings, Mair, O&rsquo;Flaherty; alternates, Samis, Morris, Hamilton, Benson, Sloan, Dawes, Costello. Mackell, Hill, Thomas.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1271/8465371-1-eng-US/f0010-122.jpg" title="f0010-12" width="599" height="387"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1350/8465364-1-eng-US/f0010-132.jpg" title="f0010-13" width="604" height="113"></div><p><b>PHILADELPHIA.</b>&mdash;The Rocketi scored two goals late in the second period and another in the third to defeat Indianapolis Capitols 4-2. Bush, Mahaf-fy, Waldriff and Hergesneimer scored for the winners while Licari and Sullivan, were the Cap goalgetters.</p><p><b>Indinapolis</b>&mdash;Goal Almas; defence, Nichelson, Millar, centre, Simpson; wings, Couture. Sclisizzi; alternatives, Summers, Lundy, Sullivan, Bruneteau, Podolsky, Licari McKay, Fogolin.</p><p><b>Philadelphia</b>&mdash;Goal, Courteau; defence, Bush, Motter; centre, Stefaniw, wings Hergesheimer, Narduzai; alternatives, Waldriff, K. Kilrea, Wochy, Mahaffy, Jamieson, DeFelice, Hnatiuk, Kraiger, Shewchuk. Bangay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1439/8465357-1-eng-US/f0010-142.jpg" title="f0010-14" width="609" height="496"></div><p><b>ST. LOUIS.</b>&mdash;St. Louis staved off a third period rally by Buffalo to topple the Bisons 4-3. Gladu and Cooper swapped goals in the opening fram but Pozze came through to put the Flyers ahead 2-1 in the middle frame. After Lewis tied the score again Gladu and Black both beat Bibeault to clinch the game.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>&mdash;Goal, Bibeault; defence, Laycoe Jackson; centre, Douglas; Wings, Bell, Cooper; alternates. Field, McKay, Hunt, Hickey; Brown, Campeau, Lewis, Halderson. Pargetter Lessard.</p><p><b>St. Louis</b>&mdash;Goal, High ton; defence), Lund, Kampman; centre, McComb; wings Pozzo, Olson: Subs: Grosso, Trigg, Black, Raynak, Backor, Milligan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1535/8465350-1-eng-US/f0010-152.jpg" title="f0010-15" width="600" height="462"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday, Feb. 22)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11223/8465343-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="661" height="733"></div><h3><b>THE LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Goals</b>&mdash;Carl Liscombe, Providence (42)</p><p><b>Assist</b>&mdash;Wally Stefanlw, Phila. (50)</p><p><b>Penalties&mdash;</b>Phil Samis. Pitts. (133 mln.)</p><p><b>Shutouts</b>&mdash;Baz Bastien, Pittsburgh (3)</p><p><b>Most Penalized Club&mdash;</b>Philadelphia (593 min.)</p><p><b>Leading Goalie&mdash;</b>Baz Bastien. Pittsburgh 56 games, 138 goals, 2.46 average.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-012010/8465590-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="301" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tom Forgie Minneapolis</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-021453/8465583-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="301" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bus Gagnon Dallas</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03904/8465576-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="301" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gino Rozzini St. Paul</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04614/8465569-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="301" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hank Blade Kansas City</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05443/8465562-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="301" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alex Ritson Fort Worth</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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U.S.H.L Pivots On Parade

<p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>own the middle in the United States Hockey League, it&rsquo;s just as tough making a selection as it was for the centre ice spot on the American and National League All-Star sextets. The pattern is repeated in the Hendy hacienda whereby the pivotmen are taking over the heavy scoring duties from their wingers to reverse a once-hallowed tradition of the ice lanes. At the moment five of the first seven scorers in the U.S.H.L. are centre ice playmakers&mdash;and if you delete Paul Mundrick who has since moved over to Buffalo Bisons of the A.H.L. that leaves five out of six!</p><p>Leading them all, and practically a lead pipe cinch to capture the scoring honors in the league, is smoothie George Agar of the second-place Houston Huskies in the Southern Division. Agar, who will be 29 years old come May 3, has been around the pro loops since the 1939-40 season except for three years spent at war. In that time he has shuffled around between Cleveland. Minneapolis, Fort Worth, Houston, Springfield and Buffalo&mdash;playing with all the four last-named teams in the 1946-47 campaign.</p><p>Trailing him in the scorng is Ray Powell of Kansas City Pla-Mors, who racked up 70 points last season and stands to better that mark this year. He is closely followed by little Gino Rozzini of St. Paul Saints, with Tommy Forgie of Minneapolis Millers and Hub Macey of Houston not far behind.</p><p>Other classy score-makers in the first 20 are rookie Max McNab of Omaha Knights&mdash;who broke in with Indianapolis Caps last season&mdash;Hank Blade of Kansas City, a former Chicago Black Hawk. Mel Read of St. Paul, Doug McMurdy of Tulsa Oilers and Gordie Petrie of Dallas Texans.</p><p>The form followers who like to look at past performances before making their selections can&rsquo;t judge much on last season&rsquo;s AllStar selections, since the top two choices of 1946-47 have since moved on to other leagues.</p><p>The 1946-47 first team centre was 23-year-old Don Morrison of Omaha Knights, who is playing with Detroit this season along with brother Rod, and proceeding to show the boys some class there. Centre on the second team selected by league coaches last season was flashy Ken Davies, the U.S.H.L.&rsquo;s outstanding rookie who now is with New Haven of the A.H.L. and treading close on the heels of the leading pointmakers there.</p><p>Other pivots who rate attention for nomination to THE HOCKEY NEWS All-Star U. S. H-L. team for this semester include Bus Gagnon and Laurie Peterson of Dallas; Alex Ritson and Tommy Fowler of Fort Worth Rangers; Hub Macey of Houston; Ray Powell and Frank Ashworth of Kansas City; Stan Smith and Normie Burns of Minneapolis; Joe lannarelli of Omaha; and veteran Clint Smith, coach at Tulsa who still is proving himself mighty adept at setting up plays for his charges.</p><h2><b><i>Dubious Laurels For Dartnell In Sin Line</i></b></h2><p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;In a recent game played here, Eddie Dartnell. player-coach, tied an individual penalty record held jointly by three other P.CH.L, performers when he was penalized five times&mdash;four minors and one misconduct. Dartnell&rsquo;s four minors were: high-sticking, boarding, interference and cross-checking. His misconduct was administered when the Seattle coach had words with the referee.</p><p>The three other players who jointly hold this record are: Ed Papike while playing with San Diego, he&rsquo;s now with Los Angeles; Paul Waldner when in the employ of Seattle, he&rsquo;s wearing an Oakland outfit now; and Frank Warshowski, erstwhile Seattle defenceman.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

High-Scoring Centres Feature Hendy Circuit

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>alling all U.SH.L. leading scorers.! Calling all U.S.H.L. leading scorers! Be on the look-out for a dark-haired young centre named Maxwell Douglas McNab. His weight is 170 pounds and height six feet, two inches. Be careful, he is a dangerous character (especially around the net) and he is armed (with a sharp pair of scoring eyes).</p><p>Max is presently setting a red-hot scoring pace with Omaha Knights of the United States Hockey League and although he joined the club several weeks after the schedule started, McNab has established himself as one of the top-ranking point-getters in the league. He has been on a-steady climb up the U.S.H.L. scoring ladder ever since he played his first game for the Knights.</p><p>He leads the league in goals-scored with 32 and 24 assists gives him a point-total of 56. Although he has only played 30 games, which is 19 less than the leader, George Agar of Houston. He trails Agar by 20 points, which in itself is an exceptional showing. This is his second year as a pro. He joined the Detroit Red Wing chain last season and was sent to Indianapolis where he played but six games. He was then sent to the Knights for the remainder of the year.</p><p>In 37 games with Omaha last year, Max scored 20 goals and 19 assists and registered 12 more scoring markers in 11 playoff games. Born in Watson, Sask., on June 21, 1924, McNab is rated as one of the best young players in the Detroit hockey empire and if he maintains his present clip he is a sure bet to be on the Detroit lineup within a few years.</p><h2><b><i>Scoring Marvel</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09337/8465781-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="567" height="906"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX..McNAB</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Max McNab, Dazzling Omaha Centre, Continues His Red-Hot Scoring Pace

<p class="dropcap"><span>O</span>MAHA&mdash;In a game between Kansas City and the Knights that threatened to turn into a riot, Kansas City Coach Reg Hamilton was arrested as an outgrowth of the free-for-all. Taken to a police station, he was booked for disturbing the peace and resisting an officer and was released on $25 bail.</p><p>The largest crowd of the season, 6,6541 witnessed the excitement which started when Conn of the Pla-Mors and George Se-nick of the Knights tangled in the penalty box. Both were banished from the game, drawing match penalties and a $50 fine.</p><p>Doug Baldwin, acting player coach, refused to continue the game without Hamilton and the interuption extended 20 minutes while Kansas City players engaged in acid repartee with the fans.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

HAMILTON ARRESTED DURING WILD GAME

<h2><b>National Mixup</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>en Motchceon. the speedy forward of Fort Worth Rangers, is a man of many races. The way he dashes around the ice it appears as if he has considerable Indian blood. Actually he is of French and Chinese decent.</p><h2><b>Good Start</b></h2><p>Eco DeCourey, We youthful net-minder whom St. Paul Saints secured from New York Rangers, got off to a fine start recently. In his first game with the U.S.H.L. Saints he scored a shutout when by blanking Fort Worth 5-0.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDING ON SUNDAY A.M., FEB. 22</b></p><h3><b>Northern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-011779/8465750-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="608" height="132"></div><h3><b>Southern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-021277/8465743-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="602" height="130"></div><h3><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</b></h3><p>February 16&mdash;St. Paul 5. Fort Worth C: Kansas City 7. Tulsa 3.</p><p>February 17&mdash;Omaha 7, Tulsa 2.</p><p>February 18&mdash;Minneapolis 5, St. Paul Tulsa at Houston (postponed); Fort Worth 6. Dallas 2.</p><p>February 19&mdash;Fort Worth 4, Omaha</p><p>February 21&mdash;Houston 6, Tulsa 4; Dallas 3, Minneapolis 4; Kansas City 7, Omaha 4.</p><h3><b>Games of Coming Week</b></h3><p>February 25&mdash;Dallas at Kansas City.</p><p>February 26&mdash;St. Paul at Houston; Minneapolis at Fort Worth.</p><p>February 28&mdash;St. Paul at Dallas; Tulsa at Omaha.</p><p>February 29&mdash;Minneapolis at Houston; Bt. Paul at Fort Worth; Omaha at Kansas City</p><p>The Minneapolis Millers maintained their eight-point lead over the Northern Division pack. The Cookies are now eight points up on Kansas City Pla-mors who last week dislodged St. Paul from second place. At this time last week the Pla-Mors and Saints were all even in the No. 2 spot with 50 points apiece but the Chicago farmhands forged ahead last week with two wins to take over.</p><p>Kansas City now has a two-point hold on second place with 54 points to St. Paul&rsquo;s 52 and the Pla-Mors have two games inhand. Trailing the Sants by a single marker is Omaha with 51. Their improved showing during the last month has moved the Knights right up into a contending spot for the playoffs.</p><p>With 22 wins in 54 starts, the Knights now stand an excellent chance to drop the Saints from second to last place.</p><p>Fort Worth&rsquo;s Rangers, who led the Southern section by one-point last week, increased their hold on the top position last week by defeating Dallas and Omaha with 54 points, made up of 25 wins and four ties in 53 games, Fort Worth heads Houston Huskies by three points.</p><p>The Southern Division has now developed into a two-team race between the Rangers and Houston. The Dallas Texans failed to pick-up a point last week and they are now nine points out of second place. Tulsa comes close behind with 40 points. Houston leads the loop in goals-scored with 221 in 50 games with Minneapolis second with 215.</p><h3><b>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12</b></h3><p><b>OMAHA</b>&mdash;The Knights stored away their fifth straight U.S.H.L. win as they set aside Fort Worth Rangers 4-3 as 4,727 home spectators looked on. Omaha moved within one point of St. Paul in the Northern Division race.</p><p><b>Omaha</b>&mdash;Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Forbes, Bak; centre, McNab; wings, Wiseman, W. Smith, subs: Lavitt, Dews-bury, Strongman, Glover, Senlck, Kennedy, Iannarelli, McLean, Riegle Weist.</p><p><b>Fort Worth</b>&mdash;Goal, McAtee; defence, 13-rodeur, Baby; centre, Fowler; wings, Bedard, Ritson. subs: Lofvendahl, Kane, Hewson. Thorpe, Kaiser, Drainville, Schmidt, Mutcheson, May.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03850/8465736-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="615" height="510"></div><p><b>ST. PAUL</b>&mdash;Minneapolis Millers ran wild in the second period and scored five goals os they romped over St. Paul Saints 9-2. The victory was No. 26 for the Cookies and moved them six points ahead of Kansas City. Tomiuk was the leading Miller goalgetter with a pair of tallies.</p><p><b>Minneapolis</b>&mdash;Goal, McQueston; defence, Williams, Allum; centre, Smith; wings, Bartholome, Wycherley; subs: Sherritt. Milne, Melynk, Furgie, A tanas, Strobel, Hergesheimer, Kaiser, Tomiuk, Robertson.</p><p><b>St. Paul</b>&mdash;Goal, McGill; defence, Lambrecht, Shero; centre, Toole; wings, Pe-chet, Schwartz; subs: Sandalack, Ailsby. Dill, Read, Brown, Bend, Levandowski, Dowling, Shack, Rozzini.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04650/8465729-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="593" height="721"></div><p><b>TULSA</b>&mdash;Tulsa Oilers moved into a third place deadlock with Dallas by dropped the Texans 5-2. It was Tulsa&rsquo;s 17 th win aginst 21 deafeats. Clint Smith, Oiler playing coach, scored two goals along with Nick Knott while Thomson notched the other. Poitras and Finkbeiner scored for Dallas.</p><p><b>Dallas</b>&mdash;Goal, Pidsodny; defence, Milford, Rockey; centre, Shill; wings Allen, Horeck, Subs.; Finkbeiner, McKay, Peterson, Poitras, Homenuke, Petrie, Bellemarre. Medynski, agnon.</p><p><b>Tulsa</b>&mdash;Goal, Little; defence, Dick, Dillon; centre, McAtee; wings, Bray-shaw, Dheere. Subs.; Smith, Schnurr, Ubriaco, McMurdy, Knott Webster, Matthews, Jones, Young, Thomson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05508/8465722-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="606" height="371"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14</b></h3><p><b>DALLAS</b>&mdash;Omaha&rsquo;s fast-improving Knights clammered out of the Northern Division cellar and a three-goal salvo within three minutes of the second peroid gave them a 7-2 win over Dallas Texans. The Texans in turn were drop-ped into last place in the Southern section as Tulsa defeated Houston. Winky Smith, George Senlck and Sam Kennedy each scored two goals for Omaha.</p><p><b>Dallas</b>&mdash;oGal, Pidsodny; defence, Milford, Rockey; centre, Peterson; wings, agnon Medynski. Subs. Finkbeiner, McKay, Petrie, Homenuke, Poitras, Shill,. Horeck, Bellemarre.</p><p><b>Omaha</b>&mdash;Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Bak. Forbes; centre, McNab; wings Smith, Wiseman. Subs.: Lavitt, Riegle, Glover Weist, Strongman, Senlck, lannarelli, Kennedy, McLean. Dewsbury.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06437/8465715-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="600" height="320"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07391/8465708-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="600" height="265"></div><p><b>MINNEAPOLIS</b>&mdash;Goaler Harry McQueston racked-up his third shut-out of the season as Minneapolis Millers blanked Fcrt Worth 6-0. The win increased Millers lead to eight points over Kansas City. The six goals were scored by Smith, Wycherley, Strobel, Forgie Melnyk and Kaiser.</p><p><b>Fort Woorth</b>&mdash;Goal, McAtee; defence, Kane, Lofvendahl; centre. Hewson; wings, Mutcheson, Schmidt. Subs.: Brodeur. Baby Drainville, Fowler, Bedard, V. Kaiser, Ritson, Thorpe, May.</p><p><b>Minneapolis</b>&mdash;Goal, McQueston; defence, Allum, Williams; centre. Smith; wings, Wycherley, Bartholome. Subs.: Sherritt, Milne. C. Kaiser, Forgie, Strobel, Atamas, Robertson, Tomiuk, Melnyk. Hergesheimer.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08356/8465701-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="600" height="395"></div><p><b>TULSA</b>&mdash;Tulsa Oilers jumped into third place in the Southern Division standings ahead of Dallas by whipping Houston 6-4. Led by Chakowski with two goals, the Oilers trailed the Huskies 3-0 before they started to move in the second period.</p><p><b>Houston</b>&mdash;Goal, Gauthier; defence, Blake, Melong; centre, Agar; wings, Gravelle McArthur. Subs.: Maher, Mc-Kenzie, Macey, iesbrecht, Brown, Thibault, Skinner.</p><p><b>Tulsa</b>&mdash;Goal, Little; defence, Jones, Young; centre, McMurdy; wings Knott, Webster. Subs.: Matthews, Dick, Dil-oln, Smith, Schnurr, Chakowski, McAtee, Brayshaw, Dheere, Thomson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10305/8465694-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="594" height="559"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15</b></h3><p><b>ST. PAUL.</b>&mdash;The Saints moved back into third place over Omaha Knights by blanking Fort Worth Rangers 5-0. Star of the game was 30-year-old Bob Decourcey who scored a shutout in his first game with St. Paul. He handled 24 shots on goal.</p><p>Fort Worth: Goal, McAtee; defence, Brodeur, Baby; centre, Fowler; wings, Thorpe, Ritson; subs.: Drainville, Mutcheson, Schmidt, Bedard, Hewson, Kane, May, Lofvendahl.</p><p>St. Paul: Goal, Decourcy; defence, Lambrecht, Shero; centre, Read; wings, Shack, Levandowski; subs.: Sandalack, Ailsby, Dill, Toole, Schwartz, Pechet, Brown, Bend, Dowling, Rozzini.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11275/8465687-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="592" height="336"></div><p><b>KANSAS CITY</b>&mdash;Kansas City trounced Tulsa Oilers 6-3 for their third straight victory. The loss dropped Oilers five points behind Houston in the Southern Division. Trailing 4-0, the Oilers bagged all their goals in the last period.</p><p>Kansas City: Goal, D. Jackson; defence, Mitchell, J. Jackson; centre, Blade; wings, Wilson, Grove; subs.: Tarala, Conn, Baldwin, Powell, Harms, Miller, Ashworth, Olmstead, Butler.</p><p>Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence, Dick, Dillon; centre, McMurdy; wings, Webster, Knott; subs.: Young, Jones, Matthews, McAtee, Brayshaw, Dheere, Smith, Thomson, Chakowski, Schnurr.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12245/8465680-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="594" height="523"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17</b></h3><p><b>TULSA.</b>&mdash;The resurgent Omaha Knights battling for a playoff spot in the Northern Division won their seventh straight victory by defeating the Tulsa Oilers 7-2. Following a third period fight between Don Webster and Al Dewsbury, fans threw chairs, boxes and other articles on the ice.</p><p>Omaha: Goal, Sawchuk; derfence, Forbes, Reigle; centre, McNab; wings, Wiseman, V Smith; subs.: Strongman, Senlck, Glover, Wiest, McLean, Kennedy, Dewsbury, Lavitt, Bak Iannarelli.</p><p>Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence, Jones, Young; centre, McMurdy; wings, Webster, Knott; subs.: Dillon, Dick, Mat-thews, C. Smith, Chakowski, Thomson, McAtee, Dheere, Brayshaw, Schnurr.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1694/8465673-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="616" height="443"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18</b></h3><p><b>MINNEAPOLIS.</b>&mdash;Minneapolis stretched their lead to eight points by defeating St. Paul 5-3 on home ice. The Millers have gone 11 games without with their twin-city rivals.</p><p>St. Paul: Goal, Decourcey; defence, Shero, Lambrecht; centre, Toole; wings, Schwartz, Pechet; subs.: Sandalack, Dill, Ailsby, Read, Brown, Bend, Levandow-ski. Shack, Rozzini.</p><p>Minneapolis: Goal, McQueston; defence, Milne, Williams; centre, S. Smith; wings, Wycherley, Bartholome; subs.: Sherritt, Kaiser, Forgia, Strobel, Atanas, Robinson, Tomiuk, Melnyk, Hergeshelmer.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13246/8465666-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="606" height="514"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>Including Games of February 15</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-13193/8465659-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="598" height="547"></div><h3><b>THE LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Points</b>&mdash;Agar, Houston, 76</p><p><b>Most Goals</b>&mdash;Brown, St. Paul, 3 4</p><p><b>Most Assists</b>&mdash;Rozzini, St. Paul, 4 9</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b>&mdash;Jackson, K.C., 4</p><p><b>Most Penalties</b>&mdash;Dick, Tulsa, 149 min.</p><h3><b>GOALTENDERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-14150/8465652-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="598" height="299"></div><h3><b>TEAM PENALTY TOTALS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-15122/8465645-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="596" height="244"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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UNITED STATES LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-011956/8465836-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DANNY GALLIVAN, sportscaster of station CJCH, Halifax, rashly told his listeners he&rsquo;d eat his &ldquo;mike&rdquo; if 5,000 people didn&rsquo;t show up for an exhibition game between Montreal Koyals Juniors and Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s. They didn&rsquo;t, so he did, with Mayor J. E. Ahearn watching. P.S. It had a nice flavor&mdash;the candy maker said it was one of his best jobs.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Sportscaster Eats His Mike

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>The Maritime Senior (Big Four) Hockey League ended its 48-game schedule on a bizarre note when the tailend Halifax Crescents, playing their best hockey of the season, drubbed the Truro Bearcats 11-4 and shot the Moncton Hawks into the first place position the Cats had held nearly all season.</p><p>Hawks finished a year ago and eventually captured the league championship Truro finished in a tie with Saint John for second place last season and was all alone in the runner-up spot this year. Halifax Crescents finished in the cellar, as they did in the 1946-47 schedule.</p><p>Only 11 points separated the first-place Hawks and the last place Crescents. Moncton and Truro won 23 games each; Saint John and Halifax 20 apiece. Over the long schedule only 10 games ended in ties, despite the fact no overtime was played.</p><p>In the semi-final playoffs, to be decided on a best in five basis, the first-place Hawks meet the last-place Crescents, and the second-place Bearcats play the third-place Beavers. Actually that is the same playoff schedule as last year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Down East Clubs Wind Up Season Same As In 1947

<p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES OF FEBRUARY 15)</b></p><h2><b>DALLAS TEXANS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-021537/8465947-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="608" height="508"></div><h2><b>FT. WORTH RANGERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-031002/8465940-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="616" height="758"></div><h2><b>HOUSTON HUSKIES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04599/8465933-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="608" height="670"></div><h2><b>MINNEAPOIJS MILLERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05429/8465926-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="608" height="594"></div><h2><b>OMAHA KNIGHTS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06349/8465919-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="600" height="676"></div><h2><b>KANSAS CITY PLA-MORS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07291/8465912-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="606" height="606"></div><h2><b>ST. PAUL SAINTS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08245/8465905-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="612" height="642"></div><h2><b>TULSA OILERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-09200/8465898-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="602" height="410"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-16101/8465891-1-eng-US/f0012-162.jpg" title="f0012-16" width="611" height="322"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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U.S.H.L. MONTHLY RECORDS

<h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDING ON MONDAY A.M., FEB. 23</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-10180/8466069-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="610" height="215"></div><h3><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</b></h3><p>February 18&mdash;Montreal 2, Quebec 1; Ottawa 8, Boston 4.</p><p>February 19&mdash;New York 4, Valleyfield 3; Shawinigan 9, Boston 3.</p><p>February 20&mdash;Montreal 7, New York 6.</p><p>February 21&mdash;Ottawa 4, Shawinlgan 3; Montreal 7, Boston 2.</p><p>February 22&mdash;Montreal 4, New York 0; Quebec 6, Valleyfield 4; Ottawa 4, Shawinlgan 1.</p><h3><b>Games of Coming Week</b></h3><p>February 23&mdash;New York at Boston.</p><p>February 25&mdash;Boston at Quebec.</p><p>February 26&mdash;New York at Valleyfield; Boston at Montreal.</p><p>February 27&mdash;Montreal at Boston.</p><p>February 28&mdash;Valleyfield at Shawi-nigan; New York at Boston.</p><p>February 29&mdash;Quebec at New York; Shawinigan at Valleyfield; Ottawa at Montreal.</p><h2><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18</b></h2><h3><b>Montreal 2, at Quebec 1.</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-11166/8466062-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="605" height="338"></div><h3><b>Boston 4, at Ottawa 8.</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-12142/8466055-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="604" height="646"></div><h2><b>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19</b></h2><h3><b>Boston 3, at Shawinigan 9</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-13128/8466048-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="616" height="812"></div><h3><b>New York 4, at Valleyfield 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-14119/8466041-1-eng-US/f0012-142.jpg" title="f0012-14" width="611" height="528"></div><h2><b>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20</b></h2><h3><b>New York 6, at Montreal 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-15111/8466034-1-eng-US/f0012-152.jpg" title="f0012-15" width="604" height="238"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1873/8466027-1-eng-US/f0012-182.jpg" title="f0012-18" width="608" height="544"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 21</b></h2><h3><b>Shawinigan 3, at Ottawa 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1963/8466020-1-eng-US/f0012-192.jpg" title="f0012-19" width="615" height="472"></div><h3><b>Montreal 7, nt Boston 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2059/8466013-1-eng-US/f0012-202.jpg" title="f0012-20" width="610" height="469"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22</b></h2><h3><b>Montreal 4, at New York 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2144/8466006-1-eng-US/f0012-212.jpg" title="f0012-21" width="613" height="371"></div><h3><b>Valleyfield 4, at Quebec 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2230/8465999-1-eng-US/f0012-222.jpg" title="f0012-22" width="600" height="230"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11327/8465992-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="600" height="526"></div><h3><b>Ottawa 4. at Shawinlgnn 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12286/8465985-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="596" height="428"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>Including Games of February 15</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1784/8465978-1-eng-US/f0012-172.jpg" title="f0012-17" width="607" height="763"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC SENIOR LEAGUE

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>In these days of inflated prices even hockey players, whether amateur or professional, have placed an abnormal value on their services.</p><p>It&rsquo;s particularly tough on amateur clubs who have to get along on a shoestring, for the price they have to pay for a useful player is nearly always beyond their means.</p><p>A case in point is brought forward by Ivan (Hamilton Spectator) Miller who suggests to Hamilton fans that they consider the situation at Kitchener, Ont., if they&rsquo;re wondering why the Mountain City&rsquo;s two senior clubs, Tigers and Pats, &ldquo;just don&rsquo;t walk right out and pull high-class players out of a hat &ldquo;</p><p>Ivan relates that the Kitchener Flying-Dutchmen of the Ontario Hockey Association&rsquo;s Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loops made bids for Howie Cox, outstanding defence player with Toronto Young Rangers, to replace Flash Hollett, playing coach who was forced to the sidelines through illness.</p><p>Ivan said the Young Rangers, going nowhere in the O.H.A. Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race, asked $500 to release Cox and that the youngster himself put a price tag of $600 on his services for the rest of the season.</p><p>Of this Ivan wrote: &ldquo;If sums like $1,100 are involved in the acquisition of a junior, you can imagine what the tariff is for half-decent players.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

HOCKEY PLAYERS NOW DEMANDING HIGH PRICES FOR THEIR SERVICES

<p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>dding special interest to the race to the playoff-wire for desired positions in the Ontario Hockey Associations&rsquo;s senior and junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series, was the nip-and-tuck campaign put on by individual players for the final scoring honors.</p><p>Never before in the history of the &ldquo;A&rdquo; division in both &lsquo;the senior and junior series has there been such a finish. Although figures, for the time being must remain unofficial, because of the necessary check-up, Marlboro&rsquo;s Johnny McCormack picked up three points in his last league game to finish up with a season&rsquo;s total of 77 points, one ahead of Hamilton Tigers&rsquo; Clarence Shillington who claimed 76.</p><p>It is the same story in the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series with Stratford Kroehlers&rsquo; George Armstrong one point better with 73 than Barrie&rsquo;s Gil St. Pierre who finished the regular grind with a total of 72 points, Jimmy Reid also of Barrie, made a belated cling to get near the leaders and finished a good third with a total of 62 points.</p><p>In the run-down for the six playoff positions in the OHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series, Hamilton Tigers, stated in previous editions of THE HOCKEY NEWS, clinched first place, with Marlboros second. But it took the final weekend of games to clear the jam around third, fourth and fifth positions. Stratford Indians won a 16-0 home game against the eliminated Brantford Indians to make certain of finishing in third place.</p><p>Kitchener-Waterloo&rsquo;s Dutchmen had to win both of their last week games against Hamilton Pats to clinch fourth position-Owen Sound Mercurys, still in their slump, after their midseason drive, dropped both of their last scheduled games to Hamilton Tigers and Toronto Marlboros, respectively, to windup in fifth position. Hamilton Pats were never in doubt about finishing in the sixth and past playoff spot.</p><p>The same interest held true in the wind-up of the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series&hellip;This time the big excitement was centred around the two top positions. Oshawa with 55 points had a chance to tie Windsor with 57, if they could beat Windsor at the Border City Arena on the last scheduled day of the season. Should this have happened they would have finished up tied with 57 points each. There was much to-do about goal-average and goal-percentage deciding the issue, and it went as far to cause OHA President George Panter to come out with an official ruling.</p><p>But Windsor settled the matter in the most acceptable manner, that of defeating Oshawa by a 3-1 score for their lone win of the season over the Generals and finished up on top with a total of 59 points, and Oshawa had to settle back to second position with 57 points. Barrie Flyers clinched third place early last week, but Strgtford made a game try to get close to Happy Emms lads with a surprise 7-5 win over Windsor for their final home effort. Stratford finally finished up in fourth place and Galt clinched the fifth spot. St. Catharines never stopped driving ahead during the last three weeks and piled up a safe margin over the stumbling Toronto Marlboros to make sure of the sixth and final spot on the playoff trail.</p><p>So they&rsquo;re at it this week with the playoffs in both the senior and junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series. In the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; it&rsquo;s Hamilton Tigers and Toronto Marlboros in a best four out of seven games. They started in Toronto last Friday night and are playing Monday and Wednesday of this week in Hamilton and back in Toronto Friday night&hellip;.</p><h2><b><i>Point Champion</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-15176/8466201-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="586" height="894"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY McCORMACK</b></figcaption></div><p>Kitchener Dutchmen opened in Stratford last Friday night in their best two out of three games with the return game in Kitchener Monday night of this week. Should a third game be necessary in declaring a winner, it will be played in Stratford on Wednesday night.</p><p>Hamilton Pats have elected to play all their available playoff games away from home. And that means they&rsquo;ll stay in Owen Sound for their entire series. They played Saturday night, again on Monday of this, week, and if necessary, the third game goes on Wednesday night. Remember, all these games are to be played in Owen Sound.</p><p>In the junior playoffs, Oshawa opened at Windsor on Saturday night in their best four of seven games. They stayed over in Windsor for the second game on Monday night of this week. Then the both clubs move to Oshawa for the third and fourth games on Wednesday and Saturday nights of this week.</p><p>In the other junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; playdowns, Stratford opened at Barrie last Friday night and resumed Monday night in Stratford. They play the third game, if needed, in Barrie on Wednesday night. St. Catharines opened in Galt on Saturday night, second game went on at St. Catharines Monday night and the third is due back in Galt Wednesday night. Both these series are to be decided on a best two out of three game basis.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bunny Morganson Views the Ontario Scene

<h2><b>MARITIME BIG FOUR</b></h2><h3><b>Final standings</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-011933/8466312-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="606" height="136"></div><h3><b>Semi-Finals Playoffs</b></h3><p>(Best-of-Five)</p><p>February 19&mdash;Saint John 6, Truro 5.</p><p>February 20&mdash;Moncton 4, Halifax 0.</p><h2><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-021463/8466305-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="600" height="710"></div><p>All-star team as selected by Maritime sports writers for the Canadian Press:</p><p>Goal&mdash;Angus (Sonny) McDonald, of Truro and Saint John.</p><p>Defence&mdash;Frank Grabowski and Bert Steele of Truro.</p><p>Centre&mdash;Roy (Buck) Whitlock of Moncton.</p><p>Left Wing&mdash;Lou Medynski of Truro.</p><p>Right Wing&mdash;Les (Jake) Wade of St. John.</p><h2><b>CAPE BRETON SENIOR (Finals Standings)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-031017/8466298-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="604" height="112"></div><h3><b>Semi-Final Playoffs</b></h3><p><b>Best-of-Five</b></p><p>February 16&mdash;North Sydney 4, Glace Bay 3</p><p>February 19&mdash;Glace Bay 5, North Sydney 3.</p><p>February 20&mdash;North Sydney 5, Glace Bay 3.</p><p><b>(North Sydney wins, 3 games to 1).</b></p><h2><b>QUEBEC PROVINCIAL SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>Standing on Monday A.M. Feb. 23.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04703/8466291-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="611" height="133"></div><h3><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</b></h3><p>February 17&mdash;Victoriaville 4. St. Hyacinthe 0; Sherbrooke 9. Lachine 1.</p><p>February 18&mdash;Sherbrooke 7, Lachine 4; Victoriaville 4. St. Hyacinthe 2.</p><p>February 21&mdash;Sherbrooke 4, St. Hyacinthe 1.</p><p>February 22&mdash;Victoriaville 10. Lachine 6; Sherbrooke 1, St. Hyacinthe 1.</p><h2><b>CANADIAN INTERCOLLEGIATE</b></h2><p><b>Including Games of February 21</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-08240/8466284-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="599" height="136"></div><h3><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</b></h3><p><b>February 20</b>&mdash;McGill 3, Toronto Varsity 2.</p><p><b>February 21</b>&mdash;Queen&rsquo;s 6, University of Montreal 5.</p><h2><b>O.H.A. JUNIOR &ldquo;A&rdquo;</b></h2><p><b>Final Standing</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-09209/8466277-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="597" height="303"></div><h3><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</b></h3><p>February 16&mdash;Stratford 7, Windsor 5.</p><p>February 17&mdash;Galt 10, Marlboros 4.</p><p>Feruary 18&mdash;St. Catharines 11, Young</p><p>Rangers 4; Windsor 3 Oshawa 1.</p><h3><b>PLAYOFFS</b></h3><p>Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; (Best ot Seven)</p><p>February 21&mdash;Windsor 6, Oshawa 2.</p><p>Serios-&ldquo;B&rdquo; (Best of Three)</p><p>February 20&mdash;Barrie 5, Stratford 1.</p><p>Series &ldquo;C&rdquo; (Best of Three)</p><p>February 21&mdash;Galt 12, St. Catharines 3.</p><h3><b>Leading Scorers</b></h3><p><b>Final Unofficial</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-10188/8466270-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="590" height="356"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>Final Standing</b></p><h3><b>Northern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-11164/8466263-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="597" height="167"></div><h3><b>Southern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-12150/8466256-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="598" height="139"></div><h3><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</b></h3><p>February 16&mdash;Nationale 8, Canadlens 4.</p><p>February 17&mdash;Canadlens 4. Leafs 2; Royals.4 Quebec 0; Valleyfield 7, Three Rivers 4.</p><p>February 18&mdash;Quebec 1, Leafs 1 (tie); Cyclones 8, Lachine 0.</p><p>February 19&mdash;Quebec 3 Canadlens 2; Three Rivers 4, Lachine 2.</p><p>February 20&mdash;Canadlens 3 Lachine 1.</p><p>February 22&mdash;Canadlens 2. Quebec 1; Nationals 7, Royals 3; Verdun 3, Three Rivers 3; Verdun Cyclones 4. Valleyfield 4.</p><h2><b><i>New Flyer Flying</i></b></h2><p>One of the reasons for the recent upsurge of the St. Louis Flyers in the American Hockey League, has been the play of Norm Tustin, obtained during this season from Hershey. Tustin has been scoring plenty of important goals to help out the fine work of Don Grosso, Paul Gladu and Billy McComb, other standout Flyer forwards.</p><h2><b><i>Adept Rearguard</i></b></h2><p>Followers of the Providence Reds in the American Hockey League are firm backers of. Allen Stanley, youthful defence star of the Rhode Islanders. Stanley is rated as one of the top blueline defenders in the circuit and is quite adept at scoring himself as well as setting up his teammates with adroit passes.</p><h2><b><i>Get Rich Scheme</i></b></h2><p>CHICAGO, m.&mdash;Hockey players here don&rsquo;t care how mad the fans get&mdash;as long as the missiles they throw on the ice are as useful as they were last Thursday night. In a game between Black Hawks and Boston Bruins, the gallery gods protested a ruling by Referee Butch Keeling by showering nickles, dimes, quarters and even some half bucks on the ice. Doug Bentley scooped up about six dollars in change but the others didn&rsquo;t report their earnings.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Amateur Parade At Quick Glance

<div class="byline">By LEO OBNEST</div><p>LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;</p><p>Never before in the history of the Southern Division of the Pacific Coast Hockey League has the fight for playoff positions been so rabid and uncertain, that with less than four weeks of the regular league schedule remaining, not one of the section&rsquo;s five teams is absolutely assured of one of the four playoff berths&mdash;the clubs are that closely bunched&mdash;and it is doubtful if the final positions of the teams will be known until the schedule runs out March 14.</p><p>Only 13 points separated first-place Los Angeles (64) and tailenders, Oakland (51), in games up to Feb. 19.</p><p>Los Angeles, heretofore considered a &ldquo;shoo-in&rdquo; to win the division bunting, is going to have its hands full in keeping the resurgent San Francisco Shamrocks from overtaking them and catapulting into first place and the section championship.</p><h2><b>Shamrocks Flying</b></h2><p>Les Cunningham&rsquo;s Shamorcks are the &ldquo;hottest&rdquo; club in their group at this time. The Bay Area sextet has won their last five games and their 61 points&mdash;three in back of L.A.&mdash;has them firmly ensconced in second place.</p><p>Meanwhile Fresno, San Diego and Oakland are conducting a private feud of their own&mdash;and what a dandy it is turning out to be! One lone point&mdash;that&rsquo;s all&mdash;separates Fresno and San Diego, tied for third with 52 points each, from Oakland who have 51 points. However, the Oaks have played 55 games, two more than Fresno and one more than San Diego.</p><p>San Francisco and Oakland made the largest gains during the past week. S.F. by winning all three of their games picked up six points and cut Los Angeles&rsquo; lead by four points. Los Angeles, only able to win one of their four games, brought to a close the worst road trip in the club&rsquo;s history. They won only two, tied one and lost six in nine games. In Inter-sectional play they lost three, won one (New Westminister) and tied one (Tacoma).</p><h2><b>Fresno Fighting</b></h2><p>Fresno, &ldquo;doggedly&rdquo; hanging on for a playoff berth, split their two games. San Diego, last club to make swing around circuit, could only win one of four games in a busy but unsuccessful week. Their triumph was over Seattle, 4-3, in overtime at Seattle.</p><p>Not to be outdone, the Northern Division has its own playoff feud. Tacoma and Vancouver-are battling&rdquo; it out for the runner-up position to league leading Seattle. Vancouver, riding the crest of a sensational nine game win skein, won both their games last week to give them 57 points. Tacoma, travelling at near perfect speed, won three of four games to remain four points ahead of the challenging Canucks. They have 61 points.</p><p>Seattle with 74 points, it can be safely said, has practically cinched first. Tacoma and Vancouver are fighting for second and third. And five New Westminister wins in their remaining 11 games or five Portland losses in their 13 contests will give the Royals fourth position and the last playoff berth.</p><p>Portland, striving desperately to gain one of the coveted playoff spots, started the week off in championship form by handing Seattle its worst defeat of the season, 8-1, in Portland, Feb. 12. The win was the first of the campaign for the Eagles over the Ironmen and finally put a stop to Seattle&rsquo;s 10-game win streak over them.</p><p>However, evil days once more fell upon Jimmy Ward&rsquo;s fading division champions, and they all but eliminated themselves from the pennant race, losing to Tacoma and Vancouver for their 37 th and 38th defeat.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TBLURS. A.M., FEB. 19</b></h3><p><b>Southern Division</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-13129/8466434-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="603" height="162"></div><p><b>Northern Division</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-14107/8466427-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg" title="f0014-14" width="598" height="134"></div><h3><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</b></h3><p>February 12&mdash;Seattle 1, Portland 8.</p><p>February 13&mdash;San Diego 2, Oakland 4; Los Angeles 4, Vancouver 7.</p><p>February 14&mdash;Oakland 2, Fresno 5; San Diego 5, San Francisco 6; Seattle 4, Tacoma 5; Los Angeles 6, New Westminster 5</p><p>February 15&mdash;Tacoma 7, Portland 3; New Westminster 2, Seattle 5.</p><p>February 17&mdash;San Francisco 3, Fresno 2; Los Angeles 3, Oakland 9: San Diego 2, Tacoma 4; Portland 4, Vancouver 6.</p><p>February 18&mdash;Los Angeles 4, San Francisco 6; San Diego 4, Seattle 3; Tacoma 3, New Westminster 9.</p><h2><b>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13</b></h2><h3><b>San Diego 2, at Oakland 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1597/8466420-1-eng-US/f0014-152.jpg" title="f0014-15" width="593" height="411"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 14</b></h2><h3><b>Seattle 4, at Tacoma 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1684/8466413-1-eng-US/f0014-162.jpg" title="f0014-16" width="598" height="534"></div><h3><b>Los Angeles 6, at N. Westminster 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1780/8466406-1-eng-US/f0014-172.jpg" title="f0014-17" width="593" height="535"></div><h3><b>Oakland 2, at Fresno 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1861/8466399-1-eng-US/f0014-182.jpg" title="f0014-18" width="590" height="463"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 15</b></h2><h3><b>Tacoma 7, at Portland 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1956/8466392-1-eng-US/f0014-192.jpg" title="f0014-19" width="591" height="462"></div><h3><b>N. Westminster 2, at Seattle 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2054/8466385-1-eng-US/f0014-202.jpg" title="f0014-20" width="598" height="519"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>Including Games of February 15 NORTHERN DIVISION</p><h3><b>NORTHERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2148/8466378-1-eng-US/f0014-212.jpg" title="f0014-21" width="607" height="1185"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2245/8466371-1-eng-US/f0014-222.jpg" title="f0014-22" width="612" height="502"></div><h3><b>THE LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Pat Desbiens. Port 50.</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Ken Uilyot, NW.50.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks Against:</b> Dinny McManus, NW. 11.</p><p><b>Most Shots Saved:</b> Jerry Cotnoir Tac. 1536</p><p><b>Most Winning Goals Scored:</b> Walt Doro-thoy, Sea. 6.</p><p><b>Most Shut Outs:</b> Dinny McManus, NW&rsquo;. 2.</p><p><b>Most Penalties:</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2339/8466364-1-eng-US/f0014-232.jpg" title="f0014-23" width="569" height="49"></div><h3><b>SOUTHERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2435/8466357-1-eng-US/f0014-242.jpg" title="f0014-24" width="604" height="1128"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2530/8466350-1-eng-US/f0014-252.jpg" title="f0014-25" width="598" height="385"></div><h3><b>THE LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Maurice Vaillancourt SD.33</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Ray Chaisson LA. 44.</p><p><b>Most Shut outs:</b> Duff McDermld SF. 5.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks Against:</b> Vic Polich LA 5.</p><p><b>Most Shots Saved:</b> Duff McDermld SF. 1506</p><p><b>Most Winning Goals Scored:</b> Stan Werecki SD. 7.</p><p><b>Most Penalties:</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2630/8466343-1-eng-US/f0014-262.jpg" title="f0014-26" width="594" height="63"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON SAT. A.M., FEB. 21</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-011761/8466507-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="604" height="154"></div><h3><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</b></h3><p>February 14&mdash;Calgary 6, Begina2.</p><p>February 16&mdash;Edmonton 6, Regina 2.</p><p>February 17&mdash;Saskatoon 8, Lethbridge 5.</p><p>February 18&mdash;Regina 7, Lethbridge 6.</p><p>February 20&mdash;Calgary 6, Saskatoon 1.</p><h3><b>Games of Coming Week</b></h3><p>February 23&mdash;Saskatoon at Lethbridge.</p><p>February 25&mdash;Lethbridge at Calgary.</p><p>February 27&mdash;Edmonton at Calgary; Saskatoon at Regina.</p><p>February 28&mdash;Edmonton at Lethbridge; Regina at Saskatoon.</p><p>March 1&mdash;Lethbridge at Edmonton.</p><p>March 2&mdash;Calgary at Saskatoon.</p><h2><b>By HEC MacLEAN</b></h2><p>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>The most interesting finish since the Western Canada Senior Hockey League was formed three seasons ago is currently being waged among the four sextets. Unlike the two former terms the battle for the fourth playoff position is just as hot and interesting as the fight for top spot.</p><p>A review of the season so far reveals that the circuit experienced its most successful season this year. Saskatoon Quakers and Regina Caps came out on the right side of the ledger for the first time while Edmonton Flyers and Calgary Stampeders experienced rich years. Possibly the only club in the loop that didn&rsquo;t do so well at the turnstiles is Lethbridge.</p><p>Ever since the league was formed Calgary and Edmonton have played before packed houses and they would have done better this term had they been able to jam any more fans into their respective rinks.</p><p>Competition in the circuit has been keen all year and upsets have sparkled the schedule. Road games have been rugged for visiting clubs while the home towners have scored wins in the big percentage of contests</p><p>The Lorimer Fenwick. versus Tom Moore journalistie feud also made for an interesting season. Moore contended that the Western senior loop was just as good as the N.H.L. To each his own but we can&rsquo;t see the Western clubs being within four goals of an N.H.L. team. If it came to a real test an N.H.L. squad could out Tough a senior squad.</p><p>Now that the schedule is nearly over it&rsquo;s time to start dishing out awards. The race for the Jim McNamara goal scoring medal, donated by Jim Bruce former trainer of Calgary senior clubs, will be close while the individual scoring race will also offer a tight finish. Right now we&rsquo;ll pick Morey Rim-stad of Edmonton for scoring honors and Ab. McDougall of Regina for goal scoring laurels.</p><p>Most valuable player to his club in this writer&rsquo;s opinion is Steve Latoski. The Lethbridge fireball has remained well up in the scoring race throughout the year despite the fact he performed on a faltering club and missed several games through injuries. If Latoski had more to work with he certainly would give the scoring leader a rugged battle.</p><p>We believe the rookie award should also go to Lethbridge. Bill Gibson, youthful centre who is a product of the Lethbridge Native Sons junior organization, has played along with good success with more experienced company all year and should top the 50-point mark in scoring for the season.</p><p>Our all-star sextet is as follows: Goal, Russ Dertell, Calgary; defence, Gus Kyle and Gordie Watt; centre Morey Rimstad, Lethbridge; right wing, Ab. McDougall, Regina; left wing, Bill Mahar, Edmonton; coach, Joe Fisher, Regina.</p><h2><b>TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 10</b></h2><h3><b>Edmonton 5, at Saskatoon 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-021266/8466500-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="613" height="224"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03889/8466493-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="606" height="268"></div><h2><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11</b></h2><h3><b>Lethbridge 3, at Calgary 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04655/8466486-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="604" height="486"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 3, at Regina 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05457/8466479-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="599" height="441"></div><h2><b>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17</b></h2><h3><b>Lethbridge 5, at Saskatoon 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06365/8466472-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="600" height="745"></div><h2><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18</b></h2><h3><b>Lethbridge 6, at Regina 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07307/8466465-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="606" height="730"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN CANADA SENIOR

<p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>ans around the Western Canada Senior Hockey League are getting lots of scoring these days, if that&rsquo;s what they like, but shutouts have been few and far between. In fact, after 108 contests in the 120-game schedule there have been exactly two measly whitewash jobs. The matter is very annoying to Joe Purvis, a former goaltender himself, who donated the Mrs. R. J. Scott Memorial Trophy to be presented each season to the netminder marking up the MOST SHUTOUTS.</p><p>Just now he is racking his brains trying to decide whether to award the trophy on the basis of lowest number of goals allowed during the season&mdash;as is done with the Vezina Trophy in the N.H.L.&mdash;or by some other system.</p><p>Shutouts? They represent nothing but headaches to Purvis.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Shutout Dearth Causes Dismay In Western Loop

<div class="byline">By STAN SAPLIN</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s Peewees, a band of New Haven youngsters ranging from 10 to 13 years of age who have been taught to play hockey by the former Ranger star, strutted their stuff before a Madison Square Garden audience Sunday afternoon (Feb. 22) in a special feature of the usual amateur doubleheader.</p><p>Patrick, now coaching the New Haven Ramblers, Ranger farm team in the American League, inaugurated the Pee Wee League last fall to prove a contention of his that hockey players can be made anywhere&mdash;and do not have to be born in Canada. The New Haven kids overwhelmed Lynn with their response to his invitation to learn to play the ice game but before Patrick was in position to teach the art of stick-handling, he found it necessary to provide skating instructions.</p><h2><b>Play Regular</b></h2><p>Today four teams&mdash;the Leafs and Red Wings are the other two&mdash;play regular league games every Saturday morning at 6 a.m. in the New Haven Arena. The fathers of the boys come along as &ldquo;managers &lsquo;. Lynn is assisted in the coaching chores by Harry Thompson and Jack Blake, onetime college and club players.</p><p>Several of the youngsters are under five feet in height and any number do not weigh so much as 100 pounds.</p><p>Bobby Nelson, a choir boy from Hamden---a New Haven suburb&mdash;reached his tenth birthday last November 21. A left wing on the &ldquo;Rangers&rdquo;, he weighs 65 pounds and is 4 feet 5 inches tall, the tiniest of the peewees.</p><p>Eleven-year-old Tommy Doherty, son of Captain Everett Doherty of the Hamden Fire Department, weighs 95 pounds and stands three inches under five feet. He is a right wing on the Bruins.</p><h2><b>11-year-old Promising</b></h2><p>Patrick thinks highly of the chances of Bobby McVeiy, 11, a seventh grade grammar schoo student, for a professional careei as a big league hockey player Bobby, who will be 12 next month, is 5-2 in height. He tips the scales at 105 pounds. He is a Bruin right wing.</p><p>The only exception to the 13 year maximum age limit is the Bruins goaltender, Bobby McKier. nan, who is 14. The difficulty is obtaining players for this specialized position compelled the lifting of age regulations in his case. Bob Hitt, of the Rangers, the opposing goalie Sunday, is 13.</p><h2><b><i>Jinxed Themselves?</i></b></h2><p>New Haven Ramblers have had tickets for the Calder Cup playoffs printed. It is hoped that this will not work out as jinx for the hustling Blueshirts who seem to be headed for the elimination series.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Patrick’s Peewees Strut Stuff On Madison Square Garden Ice

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-01275/8466600-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="256" height="288"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-02163/8466593-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="262" height="302"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0397/8466586-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="1179" height="1435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PETE MORIN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Razzle Dazzle Kid

<div class="byline">By LEX BBAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Pete Morin, better known as &ldquo;Pistol Pete&rdquo; of the Allan Cup Montreal Royals, will soon return to the professional hockey scene. The leading scorer of the Quebec Senior League will join the Montreal Canadiens for three games before the Habs finish out their 1948 schedule. He is the second Royal to join the Habitants on the lend-lease basis. Gerry Plamondon joined the Red-White and Blue for three games recently in an all-out effort to save Dick Irvin&rsquo;s clan from dropping into the cellar position of the N.H.L. The agreement between the C.A.H.A. and the N.H.L. concerning amateurs reads that an amateur may play up to three games in the professional ranks before losing his amateur status.</p><p>Morin, it will be remembered caused quite a fuss between the Canadiens and the New York Rangers. The Rangers invited Pete to the fall training camp at the beginning of the current season, and knowing that he didn&rsquo;t have many more years left in the game Pete accepted the offer, packed his grip and headed toward the Blueshirt camp at Lake Placid, New York. Pete proved to Coach Frank Boucher that he still had what it takes to play in the monied ranks of hockey and was all set to sign his name to a contract when the Canadiens vetoed the deal. Frank Selke, General Manager of the Canucks declared that little Pete was the property of the Habs and although he hadn&rsquo;t been invited to their training camp for the past three seasons he was still Hab property. President Campbell of the National League upheld the protest of the Montrealers and Peter returned to the Royals for another season.</p><p>This won&rsquo;t be the first time Morin has donned the garb of the Irvin crew. In 1941 the famous Razzle-Dazzle Line turned professional after proving to the amateur world that they were the best in the country. It was a sorrowful loss for the Royals when they turned, but a great gain for the Canadiens The line consisted of Morin, Buddy O&rsquo;Connor of the Rangers and Gerry Heffernan, who has now retired. Oddly enough O&rsquo;Connor is at present leading the scoring race in the National Hockey League while Morin continues to ride on top of the heap in the Quebec Senior League.</p><p>In Montreal, Pete is known as &ldquo;The Aiderman&rdquo;. I cornered the little man while he was taking in a junior game at the Montreal Forum and asked the reason why.</p><p>&ldquo;I used to be the after dinner speaker for the team,&rdquo; replied Pete. &ldquo;Every time we had a dinner I was always nominated to speak for the boys. It was Freddie Roberts who tagged me with that nickname. I&rsquo;m actually in the insurance business,&rdquo; Pete finished.</p><p>However being in the insurance business does not stop Pete from being a politician at heart. When the Royals visited Quebec City for a game recently he spent the whole afternoon in the gallery listening to the Quebec Legislature debating. It is said that Pete will run for a seat in Parliament under the Union Nationale ticket.</p><p>Morin has many times been named the greatest stickhandler in the game today. Once during a game against the lowly New York Rovers he carried the puck around the Rovers net no fewer than six times before he finally passed out in front to his linemate Jimmy Haggerty, who scored.</p><p>Pete related how he learned to stickhandle to such perfection.</p><p>&ldquo;Out at Lachine where I live,&rdquo; said Pete, &ldquo;I used to clear a patch about as big as one end of a rink on the canal, then about 300 hundred kids would come out to play and to keep the puck in that crowd was a hard job I used to weave in and out. I did that from eight in the morning until it was too dark to see the puck, and if you don&rsquo;t think you can learn to handle a puck that way, you should try it.&rdquo;</p><p>In the off season Pete keeps in shape by socking the golf ball and can often be seen teamed with Johnny Mahaffy, of the Philadelphia Rockets against Buddy O&rsquo;Connor and Elmer Lach, battling it out as if the Stanley Cup was at stake.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The “Little Alderman” Slated For Canadiens

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Only two coaches survived the entire Maritime Senior (Big Four) Hockey League schedule&mdash;Les Ramsay of Moncton Hawks and Jackie Keating of Saint John Beavers. And of the two the greater glory must go to the latter because he had much less to work with.</p><p>As a matter of fact Jackie Keating performed managerial feats of magic to bring his team into third place, with a record of six straight victories down the stretch. As they entered the final month the Beavers were as much as a dozen points behind the third place Halifax Crescents. At the finish they were three points ahead.</p><p>Of course Keating, a native of New Brunswick and a veteran of many seasons in the best minor professional circuits, has always done well with little. In the 1945-46 season he piloted the Beavers to the Maritime championship over a hotly favored Halifax Navy team; last winter he landed his club into a second-place tie with Truro, and this season he came down the stretch with his regulars and castoffs from other clubs playing the best hockey in the league.</p><p>Keating first attained prominence in Maritime senior hockey circles away back in 1928 when he played a tidy game at centre for the Saint John Fusiliers. Truro Bearcats ousted his club that season and went on to present the first Maritime challenge for the Allan Cup against the Montreal Victorias, who numbered among its stars one Frank Carlin, now coach of the.cupholding Montreal Royals.</p><h2><b>ICE STRATEGIST</b></h2><p>Jackie then drifted into the major leagues and played so well he remained &lsquo;up there&rsquo; for a long stretch. He saw service with various clubs in the Canadian-American League, the International League and the American League, and even had a brief fling with the New York Americans in the National League.</p><p>Jackie is an ice strategist. He can size up an opponent&rsquo;s strong and weak points and can use those observations to advantage. Two years ago, when he was more or less on trial as a coach, he changed his team&rsquo;s playing pattern three times in the Maritime finals against Halifax Navy. The Beavers twice came from behind and then skated home in the grand finals That was the year the Hamilton Tigers surprised all Canada by whipping Montreal Royals in straight games. That was the year that Jackie Keating&rsquo;s Saint John Beavers won one of three playoff games from the same tattered Tigers.</p><p>During the long season Keating cast his expert eye on more players than all the other clubs combined. Many of his stalwarts today are castoffs from other clubs. Spike Larabie, Joe Szabo and Ralph Croucher started the season with Halifax Crescents but went on to greater glory under the Keating banner. Veteran Truro goalie Sonny McDonald produced even better for Jackie than he did for the several and assorted coaches at Truro.</p><p>Keating started the season under a great handicap. All-Star goalie Bill Giggey went to Sha-winigan and outstanding defenceman Walter (Gus) Kyle to Regina Capitals. Those were two great gaps to plug and if he hasn&rsquo;t quite filled those spots at least the substitutes are doing well enough to make the Beavers the &lsquo;dark-horses&rsquo; of the playoff grind.</p><p>Keating had no reason to feel optimistic as the season opened but now, in his quiet way, he exudes a gleam of satisfaction. He&rsquo;s done a grand job with what he&rsquo;s had. And it might be enough at that.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Jack Keating’s Managerial Feats Rate Him as Top Maritime Coach

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0455/8466679-1-eng-US/c0004-042.jpg" title="C0004-04" width="612" height="280"></div><h2><b>February 25 to March 2</b></h2><p>25&mdash;Rudy Brodeur, Fort Worth, left wing, 1924; Clare Martin, Boston, defence, 1922; Johnny Holota, Cleveland, 1921; Frank Mario, Hershey, centre, 1921.</p><p>26&mdash;Joe lannarelli, Omaha, centre, 1922; Conrad Poitras, Dallas, left wing, 1924; Bus Wycherley, Minneapolis, left wing, 1920.</p><p>27&mdash;Jack Fogolin, Indianapolis, defence, 192 6.</p><p>28&mdash;Jean Paul Denis, New Haven, right wing, 1924. March</p><p>1&mdash;Max Bentley, Toronto, centre, 1920.</p><p>2&mdash;Stan Kemp, Pittsburgh, defence, 1924; Bill Quackenbush, Detroit, defence, 1922.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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