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May 15, 1951

The Hockey News May 15, 1951

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-011972/8554505-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THE PAYOFF MEN are shown above. Eight of hockey&rsquo;s highest scorers in the four professional leagues. Top left is Grant Warwick of Buffalo who was second to Ab DeMarco (11) center top, also of Buffalo. Gord Howe is beside DeMarco with the smile for leading the National League in points. Top right is Maurice Richard of Canadiens who ran second to Howe. On the left is Doc Haldorsen of Tulsa (14) who led the United States League in scoring and inset in the bottom center is Cal Stearns of Kansas City (stars on sweater) who was runner up in the U. S. H. L. On the right hand side of the page is Eddie Dorohoy of the Victoria Cougars who led the Pacific Coast League in scoring. On Dorohoy&rsquo;s left inset is Ken Ullyot of the New Westminster Royals who was second in the Coast loop scoring.</b></figcaption></div><p><b>National Hockey League</b></p><p><b>American Hockey League</b></p><p><b>United States League</b></p><p><b>Pacific Coast League</b></p><h2><b><i>First And Second In Four Loops</i></b></h2><h2><b>Where 20 Goal Members Shot Them</b></h2><p><b>Below is a labeled account of where the 15 members of the 1950-5120 goal club of the National League scored their goals.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-021316/8554498-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1473" height="564"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Twenty Coal Club Still Hard Nut To Crack

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03996/8554152-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED KELLY&hellip;Versatile Young Man</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>First winner of the new Lady Byng Memorial Trophy is a defenseman. The winner is Leonard Patrick (Red) Kelly, high scoring rearguard of the Detroit Red Wings, who polled 31 points out of a possible 54, and finished nine points ahead of Woody Dumart, veteran left winger of the Boston Bruins, who totalled 22 points.</p><p>The Lady Byng Memorial Trophy is presented by the National Hockey League in memory of the late Countess Byng of Vimy, wife of a former Governor General of Canada, who died last year. In 1925, Lady Byng an ardent hockey fan presented a trophy to be awarded annually to &ldquo;the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability during the season.&rdquo; The Lady Byng Memorial Trophy replaces the Lady Byng Trophy but the basis for selection remains exactly the same.</p><p>Bill Quackenbush of Boston, only defenseman prior to Kelly to receive similar recognition, finished in third place in the balloting with 17 points. When Quackenbush won the award in 1948-49, he was also a member of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>The voting for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy was carried out by a panel of 18 sportswriters and sportscasters&mdash;three from each N.H.L. city&mdash;and points were awarded on the basis of three for a first choice, two for a second and one for a third. A perfect score would be 54 points.</p><p>No less than 13 players received consideration for the trophy, although four only garnered one third-place vote each. Following Kelly, Dumart and Quackenbush there were Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, New York Rangers, 11 points; Roy Conacher, Chicago Black Hawks, 10 points; Sid Smith, Toronto Maple Leafs, 5 points; Don Raleigh, New York Rangers, 2; and Bert Olmstead, Canadiens; Turk Broda, Toronto; Sid Abel, Detroit; and Leo Reise, Detroit, one point each.</p><p>The 24-year-old Kelly, a unanimous selection to a defense post on the 1950-51 N.H. L. All-Star team, is the recipient of a $1,000 from the National Hockey League for winning the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy.</p><p>Kelly was the first choice of six selectors, the second of five and the third of three. Fourteen of the 18 selectors voted for him as one of their selections. Dumart picked up votes from 12 of the 18 nominators. Four named him as their first choice, two as their second and six as their third. Quackenbush had three first-place votes, three seconds and two third-place picks.</p><p>The 1950-51 season was Kelly&rsquo;s fourth in the N.H.L. He jumped straight to the Red Wings from the Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Juniors, after leading that club to the Canadian Junior Championship. Kelly made a hit with Detroit fans right from the start. His flaming red hair, his Irish name, and his smooth effortless style boosted him to popularity all around the circuit. He played every game for the Wings in 1947-48, his first season with the team, and scored six goals and had 14 assists. The next year he had five goals and 11 assists for 16 points, while in &lsquo;49-50, his third year in the loop, he finished the regular season with 15 goals and 25 assists for 40 points. He also played a valuable role in the playoffs as the Wings went on to win the Stanley Cup.</p><p>His effective all-round play was finally realized and he was named to the Second All-Star Team in 1949-50. The Wings use Kelly on defense, at center and at right wing on occasion. Ha is so versatile that many people thought he would never receive the credit or recognition due him in earning a berth on an All-Star Team. In the four seasons he&rsquo;s been a member of the Red Wings-The team has won the National Hockey League title three times.</p><h2><b><i>Most Gentlemanly</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Kelly Wins Byng On 31 Points, Nine Ahead Of Bruins’ Dumart

<p>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The five man refereeing staff of the American Hockey League, who are in a perfect position to do the judging, have decided that Jerry Reid of the Indianapolis Capitals is the player who best combines efficient playing ability with clean and gentlemanly conduct during games. The twenty two year old Hoosier center player thus becomes the winner of the Jack Fox Memorial Trophy and a $300 league cash bonus which is presented annually to the league&rsquo;s best sportsman. In gaining his honor, Reid spent only four minutes in the penalty box, on two minor sentences, in 69 regular season games. For his three year career in the AHL. Reid has a total of but 32 minutes. 18 in his rookie year of 1948-49, 10 in 1949-50 and this season&rsquo;s four.</p><h2><b>Refs Voted Three Players</b></h2><p>Each of the referees voted for three players, with points on a 5-3-1 basis to determine the winner. Reid had 15 of the possible 25 points he could have amassed, on three first place choices. Two of the arbiters did not vote for him. Cliff Simpson of St. Louis was second with 11 points and Max McNab, Reid&rsquo;s teammate had 7 for third place. Simpson had one first place selection, two seconds with two non-backers. McNab was recognized for two second choices, one third and also did not receive votes from two of the referees. The additional first place vote went to Wally Hergesheimer, Cleveland rookie winner this season, who totalled 5 points.</p><p>Other players to be considered in the tabulation were Murdo MacKay of Cleveland, 3 points. Tommy Williams also of the Barons who had 2, and Ken Hayden and Billy Gooden, both of Springfield, with one each.</p><p>Reid played his last amateur hockey with the Barrie Flyers of the Ontario Hockey Association and entered professional ranks in 1948-49 with Indianapolis, gaining recognition for rookie honors that season, which were won by his teammate Terry Sawchuk. During the Stanley Cup Playoffs that year he took part In two games with Detroit. His other two seasons of professional hockey were spent entirely in an Indianapolis uniform, and he played a large part in bringing the circuit&rsquo;s Calder Cup Play-off Championship to the Capitals in 1949-50.</p><p>This season he compiled 68 scoring points on 17 goals and 51 assists in 69 games for an average of 0.99 points per game. His three year AHL totals are 76 goals and 129 assists for 205 points.</p><p>Reid was born In Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada on October 13, 1928, plays center with a righthanded shot, stands 6 feet and weighs 160 pounds. His full name is Gerald Roland.</p><p>The AHL referees describe him as &ldquo;a good kid&rdquo;, one who plays his hockey expertly, without continuous wrangling with officials, opposing players or fans, and although aggressive, never does anything to injure an opponent.</p><h2><b>No Wrangling</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-13131/8555246-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="592" height="904"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY REID</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Jack Fox Memorial To Capitals’ Reid

<h2><b>STANLEY CUP RESULTS</b></h2><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</b></h3><p>Tuesday, March 27 At Detroit&mdash;Canadiens 3, Detroit 2</p><p>Thursday, March 29 At Detroit&mdash;Canadiens 1, Detroit 0</p><p>Saturday, March 31 At Montreal&mdash;Canadiens 0, Detroit 2</p><p>Tuesday, April 3 At Montreal&mdash;Canadiens 1, Detroit 4</p><p>April 5 At Detroit&mdash;Canadiens 5, Detroit 2</p><p>Saturday, April 7 At Montreal&mdash;Canadiens 3, Detroit 2</p><p>* Richard scored for Canadiens at 1.09 of 4th Overtime.</p><p>** Richard scored for Canadiens at 2.20 of 3rd Overtime.</p><p><b>Canadiens won Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; 4 games to 2.</b></p><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</b></h3><p>Wednesday. March 28 At Toronto&mdash;Toronto 0, Boston 2</p><p>Saturday, March 31 At Toronto&mdash;Toronto 1 Boston 1</p><p>Sunday. April 1 At Boston&mdash;Toronto 3, Boston 0</p><p>Tuesday, April 3 At Boston&mdash;Toronto 3, Boston 1</p><p>Saturday, April 7 At Toronto&mdash;Toronto 4, Boston 1</p><p>Sunday, April 8 At Boston&mdash;Toronto 6, Boston 0</p><p>* Game halted after 1 period of Overtime due to Toronto Curfew Law.</p><p><b>Toronto won Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; 4 games to 1 with 1 game tied.</b></p><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;</b></h3><p>Wednesday. April 11 At Toronto&mdash;Toronto 3, Canadiens 2</p><p>Saturday, April 14 At Toronto&mdash;Toronto 2, Canadiens 3</p><p>Tuesday, April 17 At Montreal&mdash;Toronto 2, Canadiens 1</p><p>Thursday, April 19 At Montreal&mdash;Toronto 3, Canadiens 2</p><p>Saturday, April 21 At Toronto&mdash;Toronto 3, Canadiens 2</p><p>* Smith scored for Toronto at 5.51 of 1st Overtime.</p><p>** Richard scored for Canadiens at 2.55 of 1st Overtime.</p><p>*** Kennedy scored for Toronto at 4.47 of 1st Overtime.</p><p>**** Watson scored for Toronto at 5.15 of 1st Overtime.</p><p>***** Barilko scored for Toronto at 2.53 of 1st Overtime.</p><p><b>Toronto won Stanley Cup 4 games to 1.</b></p><h3><b>INDIVIDUAL POINT STATISTICS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-09153/8554723-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="621" height="1098"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-10129/8554716-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="626" height="922"></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/f0008-11114/8554709-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="565" height="116"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1289/8554702-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="1169" height="192"></div><p>* Broda replaced Rollins after 16:36 of 1st period on Mar. 28.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1374/8554695-1-eng-US/f0008-132.jpg" title="f0008-13" width="1166" height="184"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE OFFICIAL SCORING PLAYOFF SERIES 1950-51

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>It was the end of a championship famine for two amateur clubs this season. When the Vallgyfield Braves of the Quebec Senior League won the new Alexander Trophy and the colorful Barrie Flyers copped the Memorial Cup it marked the first time that the two small town clubs had hit the top. Both have been battling for years for the honors that eluded them until this season.</p><p>To Happy Enins, coach of the Flyers and Toe Blake, leader of the Braves must go much of the credit. At the start of the season they were not marked as the favourites to cop the bunting. The Quebec Citadels and Saskatoon Quakers or Edmonton Flyers were favoured if anybody was.</p><p>Emms and Blake both built speedy, spirited teams around two or three players who were outstanding. Once the clubs were assembled it was up to Blake and Emms to apply the polish. They must be experts tor they applied it well.</p><p>The Flyers in particular were highly polished outfit. They whipped the Toronto Marlboros then beat the powerful Quebec Citadels and finally outclassed the Winnipeg Monarchs in four games to win the cup.</p><p>Emms, who produced such hockey stars as Paul Meger, Gil Mayer, Gord Pennell, Ray Gariepy, Sid McNabney, Don Ashbee and Stan Long will shortly have another pack of potential stars to send out into the professional ice world. Such names as Toppazzini, Labine, Chevrefils, Morrison and Don Emms will be heard from in the next few seasons.</p><p>Emms, after his club won the trophy said it was won in the east. By whipping the Marlies and Citadels in their gruelling series the Flyers were able to take on any type of team, fast, rough or what have you. Emms had them moving in a class by themselves at the end and the gallant Monarchs from Winnipeg were no match for the Boston Bruins&rsquo; sponsored club.</p><p>Perhaps the outstanding victory for Emms and company was that over the Quebec Citadels. Boomed as a powerhouse through most of the season the Flyers were immediately made the underdogs when the series started. But it wasn&rsquo;t to be. The Flyers took the first two, went back to Quebec and lost two and it went like that until the seventh and last game when the Flyers went all out and completely outclassed, outhustled and Emms outcoached the Cits. That, in a nutshell was a big factor in the Flyers win. They were expertly coached by one of the smartest hockey brains in the business.</p><p>The Valleyfield Braves were an expertly manned club as well. They were well balanced and Toe Blake had them playing his style of hockey. They were tricky, and had one of the best powerplays ever seen in the senior world and had players who could put the puck into the cage.</p><p>They were a mixed breed of veterans, castoffs and rookies who blended together to form a powerful aggregation who would have done justice to themselves any season against many of the best seniors clubs of the past.</p><p>Outstanding for the Blakemen was tough Jack Irvine, a honey of a hockey player who rates as outstanding when you talk about seniors. Irvine was the sparkplug of the Braves all season.</p><p>But Blake like Emms, must also take credit for victory. Expert coaching brought Valleyfield its first senior and dominion championship. Just to prove that point one just has to look at the statistics of the final game against the Quebec Aces in the Q.S.H.L. playoff. It went seven games and the Braves were behind 3-1 with just a little more than a minute to go. In the last minutes Blake took out his goaler and flung open his attack. Kitoutte Joannette, a legend in the Quebec Hockey world and certainly one of hockey&rsquo;s greatest stickhandlers, popped in two goals to tie the game. Then the Braves went out and won it in overtime. That&rsquo;s the kind of club Blake had. He got the most out of his players because they swore by him. They were just a so, so team when the season started but at the finish they were powerful.</p><p>The Braves actually had little trouble with the Sydney Millionaires. But they ran up against it when they hit the powerful St. Mike&rsquo;s, a strong team representing the college with nearly a dozen ex-professionals in their lineup. But once again the Blakemen came through, although they were the underdogs in the last game. They came back from a 6-1 whipping to win the last two games. When the cleaned out Toronto in the last game in Maple Leaf Gardens 4-1 it was the first time either club had won on the others home ice.</p><p>The big three for the Braves in the playoffs were a trio of Frenchmen who could skate like the wind. Joannette, Jean Paul Bisaillon and Andre Corriveau. The second line of Irvine Johnny Schmidt and Larry Kwong was the powerline and the third trio of George Bougie, Don Menzies and Paul Larivee were the hitters. It was a perfectly balanced crew. On defense Jimmy Orlando was the standout in the playoffs with Bingo Ernst and Bob Bourassa played a prominent part in the victory. So verstatile were Blake&rsquo;s men that when Defenseman Jacques Deslauriers broke a bone in his foot against Sydney, Irvine went back to the blueline and was a star.</p><p>Paul Leclerc was the outstanding goaler of the season in senior hockey in the opinion of the Quebec experts. His swiftness was constantly a big factor in robbing sure goals from the opposition.</p><p>And so the 1950-51 hockey season goes into the books. The Leafs took the Stanley Cup, Cleveland were champs in the A.H.L. Omaha in the U.S.H.L., Victoria on the Coast and two really great clubs, the Barrie Flyers and Valleyfield Braves took home the silverware in the amateur parade.</p><p>They deserved their victories for they were the best, their fight, desire and hockey ability proved it.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Emms, Blake Prove Brilliant Leaders In Amateur Parade

<div class="byline">By ELMER FERGUSON</div><h2><b><i>Were Above Reproach</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-011648/8554052-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="555" height="947"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Georges Gravel</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-021391/8554045-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="620" height="735"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Storey</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-031031/8554038-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="572" height="944"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Chadwick</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The most remarkable development in the Stanley Cup play-downs, possibly constituting a hockey record of its kind, wasn&rsquo;t contained in the fact that Canadiens and the Toronto Leafs played five successive overtime games before the powerful Toronto club became champions.</p><p>That is a record that everyone who runs, or even walks, can read, and will go into the archives as a most unusual display of durability and stamina, denoting teams that were amazingly even in scoring and defensive ability, in will to win, in stubborn spirit, in everything that is traditional of Stanley Cup play.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04784/8554031-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="308" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Carl Voss</b></figcaption></div><p>That was great. Swell. But it isn&rsquo;t the record this agent has in mind. Indeed, that record won&rsquo;t go into the books, but it will remain sharply etched in the memories of those few who happened to notice the very unusual event.</p><p>In fact, it was hardly an event. Rather, just an incident. It happened when the officials were coming on the ice just before the fourth game of the Detroit-Canadien Stanley Cup semi-finals, on Montreal ice, the night of April 3. Over the loud speaker there blared the names of the officials in charge. Now from time immemorial, it has been the custom, when the referee&rsquo;s name is mentioned, prior to any hockey contest, for the customers to emit loud, blatant outcries of derision, scorn and disapproval. The customers in every city seem to feel that the referee is in league with the forces of evil, to wrong the home club. Customers at hockey are more notoriously biased, because of the very nature of the game, with its headlong speed and violent contacts, than customers at probably any other sport. They are so fervent, so sincere, in their support of the home club, that any ruling by a referee which adversely affects the home club is automatically deemed to be a piece of flagrant highway robbery, akin to horse-thievery and deserving the same punishment.</p><p>And so, when it was announced ever the loud-speaker in the Forum that night: &ldquo;Referee, Bill Chadwick,&rdquo; your agent resigend Wmself to the usual cat-calls and Jeers, always hitherto, inevitable, fio imagine our surpirse when there were no cat-calls, no jeers. Instead, there started a feeble cheer, scattered applause, which grew louder, more general.</p><p>We couldn&rsquo;t believe our hitherto trusty ears. So we turned to our next seat neighbor, and enquired: &ldquo;Did you hear what I heard?&rdquo;</p><p>We noticed the neighbor looked slightly dazed. But he answered in astonished accents of unbelief: &ldquo;Why, the crowd cheered for the referee.&rdquo;</p><p>And so they had. We never had thought to see the day, but when you figure it all out, it&rsquo;s coming to these Knights of the Whistle, every mother&rsquo;s son of them. Hockey is a tough game for players, but it&rsquo;s twice as tough for referees. Players, even visiting players, have friends in the house. Referees are friendless, once they&rsquo;re out on the ice. Or they were until the night of April 3. The referees travel the circuit the winter long. They are men apart. They lead lonesome lives, because they consider it quite unethical to ever mix with the players, and sports writers seldom, if ever, visit a referee, or even talk to him. They&rsquo;re lonesome men.</p><p>They&rsquo;re on the ice for 60 minutes, every game. They are fully aware of their responsibilities, fully aware that an error can bring down on them the wrath of the crowd, of the League governors, and in a Cup series, an error, completely unintentional, could conceivably alter the course of many thousands of dollars. Their&rsquo;s is a rugged task, of heavy pressure, of extreme tension, a task often unappreciated.</p><p>So when the crowd cheered Bill Chadwick, we thought of these things and felt good about it. For the refereeing in the Cup series was above reproach. Chadwick, George Gravel and Red Storey handled the games magnificently, we thought, with impeccable judgement. They kept the games, for the most part, well in hand, gave penalties only when necessary, in full realization of what a penalty might mean. Sports writers seldom refer to the refereeing, especially if its good. But throughout the course of the play-offs the games were handled in such remarkably fine fashion that nearly every sports writer felt impelled to offer a tribute to the men of Carl Voss&rsquo; staff.</p><p>Carl is a former professional hockey player, a college graduate, a quiet, cool and detached young man who knows what it is all about, the sort of man who won&rsquo;t be panicked. He has chosen and instructed his referees well. This agent has watched National Association games before that, and believes the refereeing has never reached such a high pitch of efficiency as now prevails.</p><p>Perhaps it&rsquo;s becoming a trend to pay a tribute to the men who have the arduous task of handling the whistle in hard-fought contests in hockey and elsewhere.</p><p>Not long ago, just about the time the Stanley Cup series was coming to its thrilling finish, soccer teams representing Germany and Switzerland played an international championship final at Stuttgart, Germany. Germany winning a hectic contest, 1-0, with more than 100,000 persons cheering both sides.</p><p>At a banquet of players, officials and fans after the game, a committee announced its selection of the &ldquo;best man on the field.&rdquo; Unanimously committee members had selected the referee, an Englishman named Ellis.</p><p>Well, if it&rsquo;s a trend, all we can say is that it couldn&rsquo;t happen to more deserving guys.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Officials Got Cheers For First Time In Cup Final

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05523/8554083-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Paul Meger, who is no Richard scores a goal on Rollins.</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>When Al Rollins sounded off against the Montreal Canadiens in Edmonton recently, the members of the Habs-most of whom live in Montreal-labeled him a blabber mouth. They unanimously agreed that the only reason hat manuafcturers produce those huge and famous ten gallon chapeaus&mdash;most of which are exported to the west&mdash;is to put on the heads of guys like Rollins.</p><p>Rollins, in an interview in his home town last week said that without Maurice Richard the Habs would be &ldquo;just a senior team.&rdquo;</p><p>If it so, then what does that make Rollins, his teammates and most of all Conn Smythe, boss of the Torontonians? For wasn&rsquo;t it Smythe who, at the beginning of the season, picked the Canadiens as the club to beat? And wasn&rsquo;t it the Canadiens who took the Leafs into overtime five times in the cup final before losing out? If the Habs were just a good senior team then Rollins doesn&rsquo;t rate his own club in a much higher category. The worlds champions had plenty of trouble with that senior team.</p><p>It remains to be seen now whether Rollins will have the gag rule applied to him for such a statement. For Smythe heaped praise upon the Canadiens in their defeat, called them a great club that on occasion was outlucked. Then along comes Rollins, a guy who needed 36-year-old Turk Broda to back him up just in case he got shaky, to rebuke Smythe&rsquo;s statement. It was in effect a case of insubordination. That was why MacArthur was fired so perhaps Rollins shouldn&rsquo;t talk so loud</p><p>As most of the players around here don&rsquo;t know Rollins too well they are not sure whether his statement was strictly for home consumption or perhaps he was just joking. Whatver the reason they will be gunning for him next season, if Broda doesn&rsquo;t take over.</p><p>Most of Montreal didn&rsquo;t take too kindly to the lanky goalers&rsquo; statement. They are proud of the Habs for the showing they made, particularly since they were relegated to last place before the season started. It didn&rsquo;t gain too much space in the local papers but there was comment Said Sports Editor Elmer Ferguson of the Montreal Herald:</p><h2><b><i>Ain&rsquo;t No Richard</i></b></h2><p>&ldquo;While other belated hockey awards are being distributed we nominate Al Rollins, Toronto Leafs goaler, the stupid remark prize&hellip;he wins off by himself with a declaration that without Rocket Richard, Canadiens would be &ldquo;just a senior team&rdquo;&hellip;for a Johnny-come-lately, Rollins has shown the audacity of rookie Joe Palooka in setting himself up as an authority after a single season&hellip;a guy named Gerry McNeil did pretty well in that Leaf series, and so did a number of other Canuck players&hellip;&rdquo;</p><p>To say that Gerry McNeil did pretty well for himself was a gross understatement. He put on one of the greatest goalkeeping exhibitions ever seen during the six games with Detroit and five against the Leafs. Jim Vipond, sports editor of the Toronto Globe and Mail wrote that if he had to pick an all-star team to include the playoffs then McNeil would win in a cake walk.</p><p>Rollins statement would affect McNeil more than the rest of the club. For Richard, who is not noted as a great defensive player, was not the guy who was stopping those pucks when such greats as Howe, Lindsay. Abel, Kennedy, Max Bentley were breaking in all alone. And in doing so McNeil assured himself a post with the Habs next season.</p><p>In coming through during the latter part of the schedule and in the playoffs, McNeil proved himself a far better goaler than Rollins. It was not just an overnight spasm of success that McNeil enjoyed during the latter part of the season and in the playoffs. He found his confidence and clearly showed it against the Leafs by overshadowing Rollins in every game.</p><p>Yet nothing can be taken away from Al for in the mere 40 games he goaled he did perform in fine style. He whipped the Habs through most of the season and performed well on most occasions.</p><p>But that doesn&rsquo;t give him the power to set himself up as an authority nor to take such verbal slaps at his defeated opponents by such juvenile remarks.</p><p>Such a statement is one you&rsquo;d expect from some raw rookie playing in some back woods league, not from a major league rookie who has just won one of hockey&rsquo;s most prized awards.</p><p>It is one thing to be disliked by opponents on the ice and another to gain disfavour from the rest of the loop for off ice actions. And the shortest was to gain that disfavor is by opening your mouth when it should be closed.</p><p>Rollins has not only drawn the ire of the Canadiens but also the rest of the league. For what he said about the Habs must also go for the teams that finish below them in the schedule and the Wings, the club the Habs beat in the playoffs.</p><p>If anything Al Rollins should pat the Habs on the back. It was the latter who put money in his pockets, and every rookie can use the extra dough. For wasn&rsquo;t it the Habs who beat the Wings 3-2 in their 69th game of the season to practically hand Rollins the Vezina Trophy? And wasn&rsquo;t it the same Canadiens who ousted the Red Wings in the first round of the playoffs? Had the Wings entered the finals then there is a good chance the holders of the Stanley Cup today would not be from Toronto. The Wings had little trouble with the Leafs all season, just as the Leafs had little trouble with the Habs through the regular schedule.</p><p>Records show that it was not Maurice Richard who did all the scoring for the Habs against Toronto during the season. The Leafs outscored the Montrealers 42 to 24 throughout the regular schedule. They won 10, lost two and tied two in 14 games. And for the information of Mr. Rollins Richard only scored four goals against the Leafs all season.</p><p>So records prove that Rollins is wrong. Either that or he let a lot of senior players score plenty of goals on him. If such is the case then what does that make Rollins?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-05

Rollins Sounds Off, Labeled Bigmouth

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Milt Schmidt had to play in the National Hockey League for 12 seasons before he was able to win one of the League&rsquo;s prized indiviidual awards. However, the 1950-51 season proved to be the greatest in his career and the 33-year-old captain of the Boston Bruins was selected as winner of hockey&rsquo;s highest individual award, the Hart Trophy.</p><p>In winning the Hart Trophy for 1950-51, Schmidt amassed a total of 40 points out of a possible 54, and finished 12 points ahead of Maurice Richard of Canadiens, who polled 28 points. Points were awarded on a three-two-one basis, and the selections were made by a panel of 18 hockey writers and broadcasters&mdash;three from each N.H.L. City.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-011999/8554121-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="314" height="481"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Richard Runs Second</b></h2><p>Schmidt was the first choice of 10 selectors, the second pick of four and the third choice of two. Richard had five first-place votes, four seconds and five thirds. Red Kelly and Gordie Howe, both of Detroit Red Wings, were next with 11 points apiece, although Kelly would get the call over Howe as he had a first-place vote. The red-headed defenseman had one first-place selection, two seconds and four thirds, while Howe had five second-place votes and one third-place pick.</p><p>Other players who received votes for this trophy which is awarded annually to &ldquo;the player adjudged to be most valuable to his team,&rdquo; were Ted Kennedy, Toronto, 8; Bert Olmstead, Canadiens, 6; Bill Quackenbush, Boston, 2; and Al Rollins, Toronto; and Roy Conacher, Chicago; one point each.</p><p>Besides being the 1950-51 winner of the Hart Trophy, Schmidt was also the unanimous choice as center on the N.H.L. All-Star Team. He played 62 games tor the Bruins during the regular season, scored 22 goals and had 39 assists for 61 scoring points. He was the top scorer on the Bruins and the third highest in the League. A terrific two-way player who gives his all every second he&rsquo;s on the ice, it was the great play of Schmidt that enabled the Bruins to garner a playoff position.</p><p>A great inspirational player, Milt is the key man on the Boston team. He has held that role for several years. He was center on the N.H.L. All-Star Team in 1939-40 and rated the best in the business in those days. Then he joined the R.C.A.F. and missed the 194243, &lsquo;43-44 and &lsquo;44-45 seasons entirely while serving in the armed forces. He returned to the Bruins in the 1945-46 season and soon took up where he left off as one of the stalwarts of the sport. There&rsquo;s never been a case in history where a player made the All-Star Team and then repeated 11 years afterwards. That&rsquo;s exact<b>ly</b> what Milt did when he won honors this season. He also made the All-Star Team in 1946-47.</p><p>Milt was born at Kitchener, Ont. on March 5, 1918. He stands six-feet tall and weighs 190 pounds. Before he went away to war, Schmidt played center on the famed &ldquo;Kraut Line&rdquo; with Bobby Bauer at right wing and Woody Bumart on left wing. This line is ranked with the bast of all-time and in 1939-40 the trio finished one-two-three in the N.H.L. scoring. Bauer retired after the 194647 season but Dumart still plays on the left side of Milt. The friendship that Milt and Woody have for one another is one of the closest to be found anywhere in sport. They are inseparable buddies. Schmidt and Dumart are big leaguers in every way and are highly respected by sportswriters and sportscasters around the N.H.L. circuit</p><p>During his N.H.L. career Milt has, scored a total of 179 goals and assisted in 268 others for 447 scoring points during regular scheduled play. He has not played one complete season in the National Hockey League without incurring some type of injury and in only one season out of 12 has he taken part in his team&rsquo;s full complement of games. He has had more injuries than almost any player in the loop. Milt has had a broken jaw, a cut ankle, torn ligaments in both knees a pulled groin, wrenched shoulders, pulled muscles in his side and many others too numerous to mention.</p><p>Married, the father of a girl and a boy, Milt now makes his year-round home in Boston. During the summer he acts as a golf pro at one of the Boston courses.</p><p>Everyone in hockey is happy to see such a grand competitor, a player who has been an asset to the sport in every way, win the Hart Trophy and the accompanying $1,000 that goes with it, for 1950-51. News that Milt Schmidt has been named winner of the Hart Trophy will be greeted with, &ldquo;It couldn&rsquo;t happen to a more deserving guy!&rdquo;</p><h2><b><i>Old Number 15</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-021579/8554114-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1765" height="1877"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-01

Boston Vet Polls 12 Points On Richard

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-011951/8554211-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="306" height="463"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>P</span>RESIDENT BILL TOBIN</b> of the Chicago Black Hawks figures the refereeing during the Stanley Cup playoffs the finest he&rsquo;s ever seen. Tobin, who acted as supervisor for the N.H.L. during this year&rsquo;s playoffs, had this to say about the officiating: &ldquo;Every game was well handled and I think the referees deserve a lot of credit for the excellent way in which, they coped with certain situations that may have proved troublesome with less competent officials.&rdquo;&hellip;Bob Dawes may not be able to walk for months and will be lucky to skate in six months. The tall center of the Montreal Canadiens who broke his leg in several places during the final game of the playoffs is presently in a Montreal hospital. The break was in the middle of the leg and an attending physician described it as: &ldquo;a nasty one&rdquo;&hellip;Doug Bentley was held up for two days by a blizzard on his way back from Chicago to his Delisle farm&hellip;Phil Hughes, giant-sized goalkeeper of the Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Monarchs, is a mixture of Bill Durnan and Frank Brimsek in the nets&hellip;That is as far as looks go&hellip;Toe Blake did a wonderful job in coaching the Valleyfield Braves this season. The &ldquo;Old Lamplighter&rdquo; is one of the best coaches to show on the horizon for a long time. He has the knack of being able to inspire his players at the right time. Everyone of his chatels swears by him. Toe is an asset to hockey&hellip;Jack Irvine, captain of Valleyfield, is one of the headiest players in the game. He is also one of the best players outside the National Hockey League&hellip;Ernie Trigg, veteran defenseman of the St. Louis Flyers, has latched on to a good job with a brewing company in St. Louis and will retire from hockey&hellip;George Milligan and Coach Johnny Mitchell of the Flyers are spending the summer in St. Louis, as are Lloyd Doran and Eddie Olson of Cleveland and Barry Sullivan of Providence. Metro Prystai has been spending the time since the hockey season finished in Detroit having his teeth attended to. Metro has had a series of dental treatments following the removal of three abcessed teeth&hellip;Jimmy Peters is how making his year-round home in Detroit and has joined the staff of a Motor City Tool Company&hellip;Len (Red) Kelly, who pocketed all the extra cash for being on the N.H.L. All-Star Team and winning the Lady Byng Trophy, hurried back from his Florida vacation to his home in Simcoe, Ont. to act as best man at his brother Joe&rsquo;s wedding. Marty Pavelich was one of the groomsmen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-021642/8554204-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="301" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Dawes</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-031336/8554197-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="300" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Metro Prystai</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-041086/8554190-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="315" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Toe Blake</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05876/8554183-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="294" height="479"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Tobin</b></figcaption></div><p><b>THE SCOREBOARD</b> read: C.N.R. 51, Pictou one, after a game recently for the Pictou County juvenile hockey championship. The series was scheduled as a two-game total goals affair but Pictou decided to forfeit the second game. &ldquo;C.N.R. had all the breaks,&rdquo; one wag remarked&hellip;A woman spectator at the Valleyfield-St. Mike&rsquo;s series kept referring to the referee as the &ldquo;Puck Man&rdquo;. &ldquo;Why doesn&rsquo;t that Puck Man blow the whistle?&rdquo; she would shriek&hellip;Gordie Howe is busy these days painting the family house in Saskatoon&hellip;Doug Harvey is the playing-manager of the newly-organized Lachine baseball team. Pete Morin, a star for years with Montreal Royals, is the backer of the team Two of Harvey&rsquo;s teammates on Canadiens, Maurice Richard and Kenny Mosdell plan to play on Harvey&rsquo;s club&hellip;Right-winger Johnny Peirson of the Boston Bruins was married recently in Wellesley, Mass. Linemate Paul Ronty was best man and ushers included Bill Quackenbush, Woody Dumart and Eddie Sandford&hellip;Peirson and Quackenbush repeated their trip of last year to Pinehurst, North Carolina right after the hockey season ended. Both are ardent golfers&hellip;Bob Crosby, manager of the New Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, held a similar position with the Schumacher, Ont., recreational center&hellip;Murph Chamberlain was watching a hockey game in the Montreal Forum the other night when a fire broke out in his farm house at St. Sebastien, Que. Damage was estimated at $9,000. Chamberlain, who did a terrific job with the Vancouver Canucks this past season, isn&rsquo;t certain at the moment where he will line up next year&hellip;One of Montreal&rsquo;s best known sportsmen passed away recently with the sudden death of little Jimmy Foley. He was secretary of the Quebec Senior Hockey League for years, and was active in an executive capacity in many other branches of sport&hellip;Dr. Bob Brodrick&rsquo;s book, &ldquo;Ice Hockey&rdquo; should be of great interest to the young British player and to the general hockey public. &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; has treated his subject matter in such a way as to make pleasant and informative reading for the average fan who is keen enough to wonder over the trick plays and clever moves that are the highlights of smart hockey. Bob informs us that hockey in England is just a step below that played in the Q.S.H.L. and on a par with that played in the Maritime League.</p><p><b>HAPPY EMMS</b> rates as the finest coach in junior hockey. The tempestuous mentor of the newly-crowned Barrie Flyers has turned out more good hockey players for professional ranks during the last five years than any other coach in amateur hockey. He handles every player as if he was going to be an eventual pro and has every boy on his teams thinking along those lines. Although they&rsquo;ve been knocking on the door these past few years and even reached the finals in 1948, this is the first time that Barrie has won the Memorial Cup&hellip;A sponsored club of the Boston Bruins, the Flyers should turn out some first-rate players for the Bruins during the next few years&hellip;Bill Ezinicki will serve as a golf pro at the Colonial Club in Boston this summer&hellip;Near the end of the hockey season, four keen fans, Donald Crandall, Donald Soderberg, Thomas Cardiff and Edward Gilligan of Chicago, took in three games in three leagues in three cities in three States in two days. They drove from Chicago to St. Louis to see the Flyers play Cincinnati on March 17; from St. Louis they went to Milwaukee to watch the Sea Gulls defeat the Kansas City team on the afternoon of March 18. That evening they were back in Chicago to attend the Black Hawks-Detroit tussle&hellip;The boys sent along ticket stubs and pictures from each game&hellip;Marcel Pronovost is working as a steam fitter in Shawinigan Falls, Que., during the summer&hellip;Those two old pros, Sid Abel and Milt Schmidt, are both slated to play again next season&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-01

Passing The Puck

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Judging by the number of votes cast for Terry Saw-chuk, goalkeeper of the Detroit Red Wings, there was little doubt as to who was the best rookie in the National Hockey League during the 1950-51 regular season. Saw-chuk, who has now made the Grand Slam of being picked as the outstanding rookie in every professional league he has played in, was the first choice of 15 of the 18 hockey writers and broadcasters who did the selecting. He was the second pick of three and polled a total of 51 points out of a possible 54.</p><p>In winning the Calder Memorial Trophy for 195051 as &ldquo;the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition in the National Hockey League,&rdquo; Sawchuk receives a cheque for $1,000 from the National Hockey League. A panel of 18 hockey writers and broadcasters&mdash;three from each N.H.L. city&mdash;did the voting, and points were awarded on the basis of three for a first choice, two for a second and one for a third.</p><p>Runner-up Sawchuk was another goalie. Al Rollins of Toronto. Rollins polled 26 points. He was number one choice of two selectors, second choice of nine and third pick of two. Danny Le-wicki, Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; left winger, finished in third place with nine points. He had two second-place votes and five third-place selections.</p><p>Other players to receive consideration were Reg Sinclair, New York Rangers&rsquo; left winger, who polled eight points; Tom Johnson, Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; defenseman, who polled five; Gerry McNeil, Canadiens&rsquo; goalie, who had three; Boom Boom Geoffrion, Montreal right winger, and Max Quackenbush, Boston defenseman, two points apiece; and Bud MacPherson, Montreal defenseman, and Lome Ferguson, Boston left winger, one point each.</p><p>Sawchuk is the second goalkeeper is as many years to carry off this award. Jack Gelineau of Boston was the top rookie last season. Other goalies to be named the outstanding freshman in their first season in the N.H.L. were Frank McCool of Toronto in 194445, Frank Brimsek of Boston in 1938-39 and Mike Karakas of Chicago in 1935-36.</p><p>Terry Sawchuk has had a fabulous career in professional hockey. He has won almost every honor possible since he turned pro with Omaha Knights of the United States Hockey League in 1947. He was named top rookie of that loop in 1947-48. The next season he advanced to the Indianapolis Caps of the American Hockey League and once again was selected as the outstanding first-year player in that circuit. He played the 1949-50 season with Indianapolis, too, and was picked as the A.H.L.&rsquo;s All-Star goalkeeper.</p><p>He continued his torrid pace in the National Hockey League and was picked as the N.H.L. All-Star goalkeeper in his first season in the loop. Terry has picked up $3,500 extra this season from the National Hockey League. When Detroit won the N.H.L. Championship he pocketed $1,000 for that. He added another $500 as his share of the semi-final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. He earned $1,000 for a first-place berth on the Al&mdash;Star team and of course, his $1,000 for winning the Calder Memorial Trophy.</p><p>Born in Winnipeg, Man. on December 28, 1929, Terry is a big fellow as hockey players go. He stands 5&rsquo; 11&rdquo; and weighs 190. pounds. He has extremely fast reflexes and moves about the goal like a cat. He has a marvellous pair of hands and stops a large number of bullet-like shots with his gloves. Sawchuk plays a crouching style of goal and his face is down close to the ice on many occasions. He is colorful to watch in action and supplies the spectators with plenty of thrills.</p><p>The 22-year-old cage custodian spends his summers in his home town of Winnipeg. He is quite a baseball player and was once offered an invitation to attend the training camp of the St. Louis Cardinals. He is a heavy-hitting first baseman and more than once has led the league in hitting.</p><h2><b>Second Wing To Win</b></h2><p>Sawchuk is the second Detroit player to win the Calder Memorial Trophy. Jim McFadden captured the trophy in 1947-48. There wasn&rsquo;t any Calder Memorial Trophy in 1932-33, but Carl Voss, a Detroit player, was selected as the outstanding rookie that season.</p><h2><b>Led In Shutouts</b></h2><p>In 70 games with the Red Wings this season, Sawchuk allowed 139 goals to be scored against him for an average of 1.98. He topped all other netmin-ders in racking up shutouts with. 11. He missed winning the Vezina Trophy by a single goal.</p><h2><b>Terry&rsquo;s Memorable Year</b></h2><p>Winning the Calder Memorial Trophy, being selected as the League&rsquo;s All-Star goalkeeper, and playing for the National Hockey League champions constitutes a highly successful season. Terry Sawchuk did all three. So it would be safe in saying that the 1950-51 season will be remembered as a memorable one for Goalie Terry Sawchuk of Detroit.</p><h2><b><i>Tops Again</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06528/8554242-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="780" height="880"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0004-06

15 Of 18 Experts Pick Terry Over Al As Loop’s Top Rookie

<h2><b><i>Six Best, Say Ice Scribes</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-011960/8554357-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="597" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-021404/8554350-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="385" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03910/8554343-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="386" height="599"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Quackenbush</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04584/8554336-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="383" height="599"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05379/8554329-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="488" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-06244/8554322-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="549" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MILT SCHMIDT</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.-</p><p>Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins failed to make the Stanley Cup finals but they certainly dominated the 1950-51 National Hockey League All-Star Team. Between them they contributed all six players to this year&rsquo;s squad. Four players from Detroit and two from Boston were named to berths on the select sextet.</p><p>Gordie Howe of Detroit finally unseatted Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard as right wing on the team after Richard had held down the post for six consecutive seasons. Milt Schmidt, 33-year-old captain of the Boston Bruins and a veteran of 12 N.H.L. campaigns, made the League&rsquo;s All - Star Team for the second time in his career. Schmidt made the center spot. As a matter of fact Schmidt and Defenseman Red Kelly were the only two unanimous selections on this year&rsquo;s aggregation. Other Detroit players to make the team besides Howe and Kelly were Terry Sawchuk in goal and Ted Lind-say at left wing. Defenseman Bill Quackenbush was the other Boston player to gain top rating.</p><p>The 1950-51 N.H.L. All-Stars were picked by hockey writers and broadcasters in the six big League cities. Eighteen ballots were sent into League Headquarters, three from each city. Points were awarded on the basis of five points for a first choice, three for a second and one for a third. A unanimous choice polled 90 points. Each member of the First Team is the recipient of $1,000 from the N.H.L., while each member of the second squad receives $500.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-07138/8554315-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="308" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Chuck Rayner</b></figcaption></div><p>Terry Sawchuk, rookie Detroit goalie, was named to that position on each of the 18 ballots. He was the first choice of 10, second choice of six and the third choice of two. His 70 points were 30 more than his closest rival, Chuck Rayner of New York Rangers. Rayner was named on 14 of the 18 ballots, Ho had five first-choices, three seconds and six third-choices. Al Rollins, Toronto Maple Leaf&rsquo;s rookie goaltender, was the only other nettminder to garner a sizeable number of points. Rollins polled 36 points.</p><p>Red Kelly, Bill Quackenbush, Jimmy Thomson of Toronto and Leo Reisa of Detroit stood head and shoulders over the rest of the defensemen in the balloting. The rest of the rearguards weren&rsquo;t even close in the voting. Kelly, the red-headed Irishman, was the first choice on all 18 ballots and he had a perfect score of 90. Quackenbush was the first choice of nine, the second choice of seven and the third pick of two. His total of 68 points was six more than polled by Thomson. The Toronto defender had eight firsts, six seconds and four thirds. Detroit&rsquo;s Leo Reiso partnered Thomson on the Second Team. Reisa polled 50 points. He had 16 second-place selections and two third-place choices.</p><p>Milt Schmidt was the first choice on all 18 ballots for the center position, while Ted Kennedy of Toronto and Sid Abel of Detroit ended up in a dead heat for the Second Team. Kennedy and Abel each had nine second-choice votes and eight thirds for a total of 35 points. Max Bentley of Toronto was the only other player to receive any recognition a; center and ho polled two third-place votes.</p><p>Gordie Howe moved up to the First Team this year after hold ing down the right wing berth on the Second Team for the last two-years. He polled 81 points to Richard&rsquo;s 63. It was strictly a two-man battle for right wing honors Tod Sloan of Toronto was an automatic third choice on all 18 ballots, while Richard was the first choice of four. They split one first-place selection.</p><p>Seven players earned points in the balloting for left wing but only three were considered seriously. Ted Lindsay made the Firs: Team handily when he amassed 86 points, but ths voting was closest for the second squad where Sid Smith of Toronto nosed out Chicago&rsquo;s Roy Conacher by a single point, 33 to 32. Lindsay, the peppery Detroit wingman who is the only repeater from last year&rsquo;s First Team, had 17 first-place votes and one third selection for 86 points. Smith was the second choice of nine, and the third cholco of six which gave him a point total of 33. Conacher polled one first, eight seconds and three third for his 32 points.</p><p>This is the first N.H.L. AllStar Team for rookie Terry Sawchuk, and it&rsquo;s the first time that Red Kelly and Gordie Howe made the First Team. Both were members of the Second Team a year ago. It marks the third time Bill Quackenbush has gained a spot on the First Team. He was awarded a defense post in 1947-18 and 1948-49 while a member of the Detroit Red Wings. Ted Lindsay is the only other three-time performer on this star-studded six.</p><p>Three members of the Second Team Goalie Chuck Rayner, Defenseman Leo Reise and Center Ted Kennedy, held down the same position on the second sextet a year ago, This is the first time that Toronto&rsquo;s Jim Thomson and Sid Smith have earned All-Star recognition. Sid Abel and Maurice Richard, other members of the Second Team this year held down position on the First Team in 1950.</p><h2><b><i>The Teams And Points</i></b></h2><h3><b>FIRST TEAM</b></h3><p>T. Sawchuk, Detroit (70) Goal Red Kelly, Detroit (90) Defense B. Quackenbush, Bos. (68) Def. Milt Schmidt, Bos. (90) Center Gordie Howe, Det. (81) R. Wing Ted Lindsay, Det. (86) L. Wing</p><h3><b>SECOND TEAM</b></h3><p>Chuck Rayner, Rang. (40) Goat Jim Thomson, Tor. (62) Defens. Leo Reise, Detroit (50) Defens: Ted Kennedy, Toronto and Sid Abel, Detroit (35) tie Center Maurice Richard, Can. (63) R. W. Sid Smith, Torontto (33) L. Wing</p><h2><b><i>The Runner Up Sextet</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0872/8554308-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="306" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Thomson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0944/8554301-1-eng-US/f0005-092.jpg" title="f0005-09" width="301" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Reise</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-1026/8554294-1-eng-US/f0005-102.jpg" title="f0005-10" width="304" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Smith</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-1118/8554287-1-eng-US/f0005-112.jpg" title="f0005-11" width="300" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-1214/8554280-1-eng-US/f0005-122.jpg" title="f0005-12" width="300" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Abel</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-1312/8554273-1-eng-US/f0005-132.jpg" title="f0005-13" width="288" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Schmidt, Kelly Unanimous As 1950-51 All-Star Brethern

<p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded October 1, 1947</b></p><p><b>Published by</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY</b></p><p><b>Circulation</b></p><p><b>Room 204, King&rsquo;s Hall Bldg., 1231 Ste. Catherine Street West,</b></p><p><b>Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Advertising & Editorial</b></p><p><b>603A Sun Life Bldg., 1155 Metcalfe St.,</b></p><p><b>Montreal 2, Que,</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Price $2.50 in Canada&mdash;$3.50 in U.S.A.</b></p><p><b>Authorized as second class mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa.</b></p><p><b>Entered as second class mail at the Post Office in Buffalo, N.Y., and Saint Albans, Vt.</b></p><p><b>Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company, Room 204, King&rsquo;s Hall Bldg., 1231 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Printed in Canada</b></p><p><b>Vol. 4 May, 15. 1951 No. 31</b></p><h2><b>SIR MONTAGUE ALLAN&rsquo;S WISH</b></h2><p>It would be wise for us to explain right here and now that the return of the Allan. Cup for competition by the senior clubs would be against the wishes of the late Sir Montague Allan who donated the trophy. When Sir Montague presented the trophy for competition in 1908 it was upon one stipulation, it would not be competed for by professionals. He presented it the same year that the Stanley Cup came into the exclusive possession of the professionals. Sir Montague Allan&rsquo;s one wish was that his trophy be played for by a group that were as amateur as any in the country. The trustees of the trophy agreed and haye since ruled that Sir Montague&rsquo;s wishes will be strictly adhered to.</p><p>It was for that reason that the Allan Cup was replaced by the Alexander Cup as the top trophy outside of professional ranks. It was felt that the major series teams would be too out and out professional to come within Allan&rsquo;s stipulations. And so it was reclassed.</p><p>The recent series for the newly-donated Alexander Cup between the Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s and Valleyfield Braves did not do much to enhance the sport of hockey across the Dominion. In fact if anything it did a lot to hurt the game and soured some of hockey&rsquo;s greatest boosters. Interest was lacking right from the start. Even the players failed to show any interest. And if the players do not display a keen interest how can the fans be expected to show any. It is virtually impossible to sell an entirely new series for a new trophy during the month of May to a hockey public.</p><p>It is indeed a farce to be playing hockey in May when the weather is more seasonal to such sports as baseball, golf and tennis among others. After the Stanley Cup champion has been crowned hockey interest seems to fall off automatically. Everything else seems anti-climatic. The thrilling and exciting pace usually set in the Stanley Cup playoffs boosts fan interest up to a peak. When the playoffs are finished and the peak has been reached, there is a natural decline of interest and falling-off of patronage. The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association might be wise to try to arrange their playoffs to end at about the same time as the Stanley Cup finals, which is always around April 20th. Possibly a week later would still be all right but certainly not three full weeks after the Stanley Cup finale has taken place.</p><p>The idea of the Major Series is fundamentally a good one. In fact it is an excellent one and has done more to boost hockey in the smaller areas that were unable in other years to compete with the big city teams than anything else. There was more interest shown this season in the Senior B and Intermediate districts than for many years. So actually hockey in general benefitted by having the five Big Leagues of senior hockey in Canada play off by themselves for the Alexander Cup. The fault, howevere, is that the playoffs in the different leagues should have started weeks sooner than they did in order that the inter-sectional and inter-league playoffs would have been run off in time for the hockey equipment to be packed in moth balls by May Day. The solution would appear to be that the different leagues should schedule less games during the regular season. In this way they would be playing playoff games during the time they played league games this year. There is no need to shorten the playoff series. The length of the series is fine providing it starts at a proper time.</p><p>This editorial is not meant as a rap at the C.A.H.A. for scheduling a separate series for the Alexander Cup. It is fine that the stronger senior teams in Canada are competing among themselves. It gives the smaller teams with less financial backing a chance for them to earn a place in the hockey firmament.</p><p>The new Alexander Cup lacks the tradition that the Allan Cup had in such large measures. And tradition alone was responsible in many years for making the turnstiles move rapidly. Some years the Allan Cup finals were not the greatest exhibitions in the world but they usually attracted capacity crowds. The reason being that the two top senior clubs in Canada were battling for the historic Allan Cup. Most coaches and managers believe that senior hockey lost a lot of glory and honor when the Allan Cup was replaced by the Alexander Cup.</p><p>Yet with all those factors in favor of another reclassification of the Allan Cup nothing can be done by the C.A.H.A. The trustees are complying with Sir Montague Allan&rsquo;s wishes. The Allan Cup is an amateur trophy and since it is Sir Montague&rsquo;s wish why should it not he complied with.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-012170/8554412-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Down With Wings</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>Have enjoyed reading your paper for the last two years. Keep up the good work.</p><p>A letter in the Fan Forum in the issue of March 17 concerning the poor sportsmanlike tactics of the Detroit Red Wings by Alan Tavroges really hit the nail on the head.</p><p>I have meant to write expressing my views for quite some time, but living only some 50 miles from Detroit thought the condition existed only locally. Mr. Tavroges living in Montreal and able to see these unsportman like conditions made me want to tell him he is lucky he doesn&rsquo;t have all the Detroit papers to read with such writers and Marshall Dann and Paul Chandler sobbing over a loss or jumping around with glee over a win. They are very excellent sports writers as long as the Wings are WINNING but when they lose it is always the fault of some DIRTY tactics of the opposing players. I see the odd Detroit game (the odd one is enough) on television and when the Wings are going great Paul Williams, the voice of television, really blows up the not so great players into all time greats. One night Shawchuk made about fifteen to twenty saves against the Bruins as he shut them out 4-0. Williams blew this up as one of the better games of Shawchuk&rsquo;s career. What I am wondering is why they ever let men like this, who have only one team in mind, pick the all-star team.</p><p>See how lucky you are Mr. Tavroges that you don&rsquo;t live in the Detroit area.</p><p>Well enough from me, but lets hear what the other fans think.</p><p>William Carr<br>Dresden Ontario,</p><h2><b>Shutout Time</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Could you please tell me which goaltender in the N.H.L. holds the record of not being scored on for the longest period of time? &ldquo;I think it is Bill Durnan former star of Montreal Canadiens&rdquo;. Could 1 possibly be right?</p><p>Eddie Charron.<br>Matachewan, Ont.</p><p><b>(The Record is held by Alex Connell of Ottawa Senators and was made during the 1927-28 season. Alex scored six consecutive shutouts that season. It must be said however, that forward passing was not permitted in the attacking zone at that time. Connell went 440.09 minutes without allowing a goal to be scored on him. In modern times Bill Durnan of Montreal Canadiens holds the record. In 1948-49 he started a sequence of shutouts at Chicago on February 24 and ended it at Chicago on March 9. During the time he had four consecutive shutouts and went 309 minutes and 21 seconds without being scored upon)</b></p><h2><b>Embarrassing Correction</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I fail to understand how the best Interests of a boy could be Intended when his father is stated to be as illiterate as (presented in your article of March 17, 1951) to be unable to conserve with his son in the same language.</p><p>Your Information could have hardly through ingnorance furnished particulars further from the truth, and sure went to the extreme in an effort to write a most distorted article, concerning the family&rsquo;s home life and its environment.</p><p>As a papers reputation is based on presenting reliable news, I expected you will appreciate knowing the true facts in this connection which are as following.</p><p>Leo LaBine and all members of the family Including his parents unfortunately are only versed in the English Language, all being predominately of Irish descent, who were born in Ontario Canada a province where his parents and their ancestors have lived for several generations.</p><p>I am sure you will appreciate receiving this information, which will enable you to have the errors complained about corrected.</p><p>John A. LaBine.<br>Hailsbury, Ont.-</p><p><b>(THE HOCKEY NEWS editors wish to apologize to the LaBine family for the article appearing in the March 17 issue. Ken McKenzie was misinformed by a gentleman who was thought to be close to the scene.)</b></p><h2><b>Liked Brown Story</b></h2><p>I would like to thank you for that swell story on Adam Brown in the March 10 issue of the Hockey News. I&rsquo;m sure all Chicago liked it.</p><p>I would like to know if there is any way I could obtain a picture of Adam Brown that appeared on page 3 of that issue. Would you please tell me how I could get it.</p><p>&ldquo;Babe&rdquo; Bregenzzer<br>Chicago, Ill.</p><p><b>(Write to the Chicago Black Hawks tor your picture)</b></p><h2><b>Hot and Cold</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I&rsquo;m writing this short letter to prove to a group of fellow hockey players which is the better, hot water or cold water to flood an outdoor rink with at temperature ranging from 10 above to 25 below zero.</p><p>I say that steaming hot water is the better because it will seal the new layer to the old layer of ice, whereas the cold water doesn&rsquo;t and will chip off at these low temperatures.</p><p>Would like to have your opinion on which is the better and why?</p><p>Would also like to have you publish this so these players can find out which is the better.</p><p>Sgt. David Mergele<br>Seattle, Wash.-&mdash;</p><p><b>(Mr. Bert Newberry of the Montreal Forum and Canada&rsquo;s premier ice maker admits that he has never made ice under such conditions but thinks cold water would be right. Mr. Newberry thinks hot water would freeze too fast to get a decent surface. However, he suggest you experiment with both hot and cold to find out. That is if you can find anybody who wants to freeze a rink in such temperature)</b></p><h2><b>Lindsay&rsquo;s Points</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I believe that you have gypped Ted Lindsay of Detroit of one assist in your &ldquo;Final Statistics.&rdquo;</p><p>In your March 24 issue, Lindsay had 22 goals and 33 assists for 55 points. According to the Hoekey News he picked up the following points in the week. Tn a game against the Rangers which Detroit won 4-1 Lindsay assisted on Abel&rsquo;s goal and then scored himself, 2 points.</p><p>In Saturday&rsquo;s game when the Habs won 3-2 he assisted on both goals.</p><p>On Sunday when Detroit won 5-0. He scored a goal. This should be 5 points giving him CO but you have given him only 24 goals and 35 assists for 59.</p><p>Kenneth McLennan<br>Cargill, Ont.</p><p><b>(According to the final official statistics from the N.H.L., head-quarters Lindsay ended up with 24 goals and 35 assists for 59 points.)</b></p><h2><b>Quick Swearing Alibi</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I am a Maple Leaf fan. and hold Howie Meeker and Ted Kennedy as my idols.</p><p>I heard Doug Smith&rsquo;s broadcast from Montreal on Tuesday night and was certainly excited when Teeder whipped in that overtime goal. The one thing I disliked was, when Meeker was given that misconduct penalty, it was not the penalty that irritated me but, Doug Smith said that Meeker swore; now, if you can tell me how Smith, who was about forty feet from the ice could hear Howie swear. I would be relieved. Tn my estimation that is a black mark against Smith. &ldquo;Thank you&rdquo; Harold Piercy Grand Bank. Nfld.</p><p><b>(Simple. There is a phone from the penalty box to the press box where Smith broadcasts from. When Meeker got the penalty Smith&rsquo;s spotter immediately phoned down to find out what happened.)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-021424/8554443-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="601" height="281"></div><h2><b>MAY</b></h2><p>17&mdash;CROWDIS, Lou Denver, goaler, 1927.</p><p>22&mdash;SPROUT, Danny, Seattle, defense, 1915.</p><p>23&mdash;ST4SHJK, Vic, Detroit, forward, 1923; EVANS, Joe, Victoria, forward, 1924.</p><p>24&mdash;McDERMID, Duff, Portland, goaler, 1027.</p><p>25&mdash;WEAVER, Fred, Seattle, forward, 1924; BENTLEY, Al. Providence, goaler, 1927.</p><p>26&mdash;NATTRASS, Ralph, Cincinnati, defense, 1925; FERGUSON, Lcrne, Bostin, forward, 1930.</p><p>27&mdash;HILDEBRAND, Ike, Kansas City, forward, 1927.</p><p>28&mdash;McKAY, Doug, Omaha, forward, 1929-</p><p>29&mdash;MacKENZIE, Ken Denver, forward, 1920.</p><p>31&mdash;LUNDY, Pat, Chicago, forward, 1924.</p><h2><b>JUNE</b></h2><p>2&mdash;BUTLER, Dick. Tulsa, forward, 1926; DUBE, Gilles, Cincinnati, forward, 1927; HAMILTON, Jackie, St. Louis, forward, 1925; HELLER, Ott, Indianapolis, playing coach, 1910.</p><p>3&mdash;DELMONTE, Dutch, Kansas City, forward, 1927-</p><p>4&mdash;CAMPEAU, Tod, Cincinnati, forward, 1923.</p><p>10&mdash;GRAVELLE, Leo, Indianapolis, forward, 1925; MacKINTOSH, Ian, St. Paul, forward, 1927</p><p>14&mdash;JUKES, Bing, Denver, 1826; LANCIEN, Jack, Cincinnati, defense, 1923; ADAMS, Jack, Detroit, manager, 1895; DAY, Hap, Toronto, assistant, manager, 1901.</p><p>15&mdash;PRONOVOST Marcel, Detroit, defense, 1930; HORECK, Pete, Boston, forward, 1923.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<p><b>It is our policy to notify all subscribers well in advance of the expiration of their subscriptions.</b></p><p><b>The ever-increasing demand for THE HOCKEY NEWS means that most issues are practically sold out before the printing is completed; and that copies are seldom available for moiling to subscribers who are even one issue in arrears.</b></p><p><b>Subscribers receiving &ldquo;expiration&rdquo; notification are reminded that, to make certain of continued receipt of THE HOCKEY NEWS it is necessary to send us their renewal orders promptly.</b></p><p><b>If you have renewed your subscription then disregard our notice.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

DID YOU RECEIVE A NOTICE?

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Only 15 players hit the 20 goal charmed circle of the National Hockey League during the 195051 season. It was one less than in 194950.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03822/8554560-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="289" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John Peirson</b></figcaption></div><p>Eight of the 15 are repeating the feat.</p><p>Back into the 20 goal or more club are Howe (43), Richard (42), Max Bentley (21), Abel (23), Roy Conacher (26), Prystal (20), Sid Smith (30), and Ted Lindsay with (24).</p><p>Those who joined the circle this season are Schmidt (22), Sloan (31), Gardner (23), Lach (21). Dumart (20), Mosienko (21) and Nick Mickoski with 20 goals.</p><p>Paul Ronty, Doug Bentley, Johnny Peirson, Bert Olmstead, Edgar Laprade, Ted Kennedy, Gdye Stewart and Gerry Couture all dropped from the 20 goal club. Peirson was closest to gaining reentry as he finished the season with 19 goals. Kennedy, Olmstead and Stewart finished with 18 each. Ronty had a comparatively bad year scoring just 10 goals while Doug Bentley sat out with injuries most of the schedule and only garnered nine goals. Edgar Laprade was also hit by the injury jinx this season and only accounted for 10 goals in 42 games. Doc Couture, in 53 games scored just seven goals for the Wings in one of his worst years.</p><h2><b>32 Scored 15 Or More</b></h2><p>Thirty-two players scored 15 or more goals this season with seven hitting the 18 mark and only one gaining 19. Peirson of the Bruins scored the latter. Ted Kennedy who scored 20 goals last season fell two short of the mark this year as he came up with 18. Olmstead did likewise. Harry Watson scored 19 last year and fell one short with 18 this season. Pete Babando had a good year in comparison to last year when he scored only six goals. This season Babando scored 18 goals. Gaya Stewart, who netted 24 goals last season, only managed 18 this year. Also in the 18 circle was Rookie Reg Sinclair of the Rangers and Cal MacKay of the Canadiens.</p><p>Last season six players hit the 19 mark as compared to just one this season. Leo Gravelle, Billy Reay, Tony Leswick, Milt Schmidt, Bud Poile and Harry Watson finished on the verge of entering the 20 brigade in 1949-50.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Only 15 Make Grade-Eight Are Old Vets

<div class="byline">By ROLLY ETHIER</div><p>NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Indeed it was a stormy year for one Ted Lindsay, the classy left wing all-star product of Detroit Red Wings. And none other than Lindsay himself will readily admit it.</p><p>Stopping off here recently to say hello to his many friends, Thumping Theodore still bears the mark under his left eye where Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice (Rocket) Richard flattened him with a punch he never saw in the Stanley Cup semi-finals.</p><p>&ldquo;I never saw that Richard punch coming, but brother I surely felt it. It was like running into a two-ton truck,&rdquo; Lindsay remarked in revieywing the NHL year with THE HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>In discussing the Incident, Lind-Bay told of how he had been watching Montreal&rsquo;s Boom-Boom Geoffrion, the hard-shooting rookie, when The Rocket let fly with an upper-cut that would have done justice to Joe Louis in his prime.</p><p>&ldquo;It was Geoffrion that I had just tangled with. He ran into one of my elbows and didn&rsquo;t like it. He came after me but everyone started pushing around. I was still paying particular attention to what Geoffrion intended doing when Richard clipped me but good,&rdquo; Lindsay revealed.</p><h2><b>What, No Howe?</b></h2><p>Luckily for Richard my old buddy Gordie Howe wasn&rsquo;t on the ice at the time&hellip;lucky for Richard I mean. One night right in Montreal with all those idolizing Richard fans looking on, Gordie tangled with Rocket and really cleaned his clock,&rdquo; the Kirkland I Lake pride said.</p><p>Lindsay also took part in the wildest brawl of the season one game against Boston Bruins when he soundly thrashed Wild Bill Ezinicki, Both combatants were summoned before president Clarence Campbell for their actions and handed stiff $300 fines plus three-game suspensions.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess Ezzy and I have been carrying on a feud since our junior days when he played for Oshawa and I was with St. Mike&rsquo;s. We just seem to get into each other&rsquo;s hair. But all is forgotten now as far as I&rsquo;m concerned,&rdquo; Lindsay pointed out to this HOCKEY NEWS correspondent.</p><p>Upon being told that in making the first all-star team this Season he was the second member of the Detroit team in history to have made the select six three times, the fiery Red Wing leftwinger was emphatic that the record would be shortlived.</p><p>&ldquo;Gordie Howe is just getting warmed up. He&rsquo;s only 22 years of age and for my money he&rsquo;ll be dominating the right wing position for a long time to come&mdash;Richard or no Richard. I night be accused of being prejudiced but Howe is the best there is,&rdquo; Lindsay remarked.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure Rocket Is great but he can&rsquo;t do the things that Gordie can do with a puck. As for being the best all-around player in the league look no further than the NHL&rsquo;s scoring leader,&rdquo; he continued in praising his flashy linemate.</p><p>The solid 160 pound Detroit Red Wing firebrand is taking on a new job during the summer months. He is joining the staff of the Ford Motors Company in Detroit and plans on learning the business. As usual, Lindsay was driving a super-streamlined Cadillac but has Indicated that he will sell it shortly.</p><p>&ldquo;Wouldn&rsquo;t look right driving a Cadillac and selling Fords would it?&rdquo; asked the sun-tanned, popular Theodore.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Richard’s Punch Would Do Louis Justice - Lindsay

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Gordie Howe ran a race all by himself in the individual scoring parade of the National Hockey League. The final statistics show no change in his seasonal record as he led the loop in actual goal scoring and tied with Toronto&rsquo;s Ted Kennedy in the assist department. Both Howe and Kennedy ended the season with 43 assists apiece. Howe led Maurice Richard of the Canadiens by one goal, scoring 43 to Richard&rsquo;s 42.</p><p>Howe led the loop after playing the complete 1950-51 schedule. He was in all 70 games for the Wings to garner his 86 points. Ho also spent 74 minutes in the penalty box throughout the season.</p><p>Richard missed five games through injuries this season, getting into 65 games and garnering 42 goals and 24 assists for 66. points exactly 20 behind the Red Wings&rsquo; star.</p><p>Leafs&rsquo; Tod Sloan was third high goal scorer this season. The youthful right winger banged in 31 goals and was high man on the Toronto club in that department.</p><p>Veteran Max Bentley was third in the scoring behind Richard and Howe. Max garnered 21 goals and 41 assists for a grand total of 62 points. Running behind him and tied for fourth place were three veteran centermen. Sid Abel, Milt Schmidt and Ted Kennedy all ended the season with 61 points. Abel had 23 goals and 38 assists. Schmidt ended the season with 22 goals and 39 assists and Kennedy finished with 18 goals and 43 assists. Abel played in 69 games while Schmidt saw action in 62 with Kennedy getting into 63 games.</p><p>Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly was the highest scoring defenseman in the league. The youthful redhead finished ninth in the individual scoring race. He played in 70 games, scored 17 goals and added 37 assists for 54 points. It was also Kelly&rsquo;s big year in the penalty box a she took no fewer than 12 trips to the cooler for 24 minutes time spent.</p><p>The combination of Al Rollins and Turk Broda of Toronto showed the best goals per game average as they finished the season by edging past Terry Sawchuk by the skin of theirteeth. The Toronto pair ended with a 1.97 goals average while the Wings&rsquo; eager finished up with a 1.98 average.</p><p>Rollins played nine more game than Broda and the combined pair actually showed in 71 league games. Broda replaced Rollins after 26 minutes and 50 seconds of play in a game on December 2nd. Rollins played 40 games and Broda 31. Each were credited with playing the game but Broda was credited with ths victory which was a shutout.</p><p>Sawchuk led the league in shutouts with 11.</p><h2><b><i>Third High</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08188/8554591-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="562" height="572"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOD SLOAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Howe, Richard and Sloan Garner 116 Goals In 1950-51

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-012062/8554664-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>FINAL STANDING</b></h2><h2><b>INDIVIDUAL POINT STATISTICS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-021540/8554657-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="617" height="2204"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-031078/8554650-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="616" height="1947"></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/f0008-04565/8554643-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="552" height="163"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05396/8554636-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="1162" height="223"></div><p>&bull; Broda replaced Rollins after 26 minutes 50 seconds of play on Decmber 2nd.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06315/8554629-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="1163" height="303"></div><p>&bull; Francis replaced Rayner at start of 3rd period on March 4th.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07233/8554622-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="1159" height="220"></div><p>&bull; Pelletier replace? Lumley after 4 minutes 48 seconds of play on February 1st. &bull;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE OFFICIAL SCORING REGULAR SEASON 1950-51

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The final official American Hockey League records for the regularly scheduled season, released after a thorough re-check of all scoresheets, reveal that Ab DeMarco of the Buffalo Bisons was the leading point maker with the same totals as announced at the conclusion of the season on March 18. DeMarco, veteran center ice star of many seasons in professional ranks had 113, points, comprised of 37 goals and 76 assists in 64 games, for an average of 1.77 points per game. His assist total of 76 established a new league record, surpassing the old mark of 72 playmaking efforts turned in by Wally Stefaniw, when with Philadelphia in 194 748.</p><p>Second place in scoring, officially went to Grant &ldquo;Nobby&rdquo; Warwick, teammate of DeMarco, who had 99 points. Jack McGill of Providence was third with 98, with Fred Thurier of Cleveland next with 95. Three players, Fred Glover and Max McNab of Indianapolis and George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan of Hershey were tied for fifth place, each having 84.</p><h2><b>Glover Top Goal Scorer</b></h2><p>The scoring and penalty re-check also showed no changes in the various department leads. Glover led the actual goal scorers with 48, DeMarco&rsquo;s record breaking 76 assists was top mark, and Harry Dick of Buffalo led the circuit in penalty minutes with 212, also a new league record. Dick had the most minor penalties with 66, was tied with Norm Corcoran of Hershey in ten minute misconducts with 4, and also deadlocked in match misconducts with Charles &ldquo;Bus&rdquo; Gagnon of Springfield, each having 2. Johnny Denis of Cincinnati and Sammy Casanato of Springfield each had 7 major penalties to lead in five minute sentences.</p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh goaltender, allowed 174 goals in 71 games to lead with an average of 2.45, and had 6 shutouts, also top mark.</p><h2><b><i>A New Record</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04597/8554754-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="606" height="1190"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AB DeMARCO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ab Clicks On 76 Assists—Breaks Walt’s Old Record

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-011880/8554813-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"></div><p><b>FINAL STANDINGS</b></p><h2><b>EASTERN DIVISION</b></h2><h2><b>WESTERN DIVISION</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-021290/8554806-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="1241" height="222"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03785/8554799-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="1300" height="3142"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-011776/8554792-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="1264" height="2214"></div><h2><b>GOALTENDERS RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-021280/8554785-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1218" height="517"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE OFFICIAL SCORING REGULAR SEASONS 1950-51

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05450/8554858-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>SERIES A</b></h2><p><b>Between first place teams in each division, best four of seven Cleveland won series 4 games to 0, and advanced to Finals.</b></p><p>March 20&mdash;Buffalo 3. at Cleveland 4&mdash;(13:29 Overtime)</p><p>March. 22&mdash;Cleveland 7, at Buffalo 2</p><p>March 24&mdash;Buffalo 4, at Cleveland 5&mdash;(1946 Overtime)</p><p>March 25&mdash;Cleveland 3, at Buffalo 2</p><h2><b>SERIES B</b></h2><p><b>Between second place teams each division, best of three of five. Hershey won series 3 games to 0, and advanced to semi-finals.</b></p><p>March 20&mdash;Indianapolis 1, at Hershey 3</p><p>March 22&mdash;Indianapolis 3, at Hershey 4&mdash;(10:00 Overtime)</p><p>March 24&mdash;Hershey 4, Indianapolis 3</p><h2><b>SERIES C</b></h2><p><b>Between third place teams in each division-, best three of five. Pittsburgh won series 3 games to 0, and sshranced to semi-finals.</b></p><p>March 24&mdash;Springfield 0, at Pittsburgh 6</p><p>March 26&mdash;Springfield 0, at Pittsburgh 9</p><p>March 28&mdash;Pittsburgh 7, Springfield 2</p><h2><b>SERIES D&mdash;SEMI-FINALS</b></h2><p><b>Between winners of Series B and C, beat three of five. Pittsburgh won series 3 games to 0, and advanced to finals.</b></p><p>March 31&mdash;Pittsburgh 3, at Hershey 2&mdash;(44:30 Overtime)</p><p>April 3&mdash;Pittsburgh 2 at Hershey 1</p><p>April 5&mdash;Hershey 1. at Pittsburgh 5</p><h2><b>SERIES E&mdash;FINALS</b></h2><p><b>Between winners of Series A and I), best four of seven. Cleveland won series 4 gomes to 3 for Calder Cup Championship.</b></p><p>April 7&mdash;Pittsburgh 3, at (&lsquo;leveland 2&mdash;(10.00 Overtime) **</p><p>April 10&mdash;Pittsburgh 4, at (&lsquo;leveland 5</p><p>April 12&mdash;Cleveland 2. At Pittsburgh 9</p><p>April 14&mdash;Cleveland 4, at Pittsburgh 1</p><p>April 17&mdash;Cleveland 3. at Pittsburgh 1</p><p>April 19&mdash;Pittsburgh 3, at Cleveland 1</p><p>April 21&mdash;Pittsburgh 1, at Cleveland 3</p><p>* Winning goal scored at 00:44 of overtime period.</p><p>** Winning goal scored at 05:31 of overtime period</p><p>Under American League rules, first 10 minute overtime period must be completted, regardless of a score.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05466/8554851-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="1216" height="715"></div><p>* Indicates Goaltenders. There were nos misconduct penalties</p><p><b>SYMBOLS USED:</b> GP, Games Played; G, Goals; A, Assists; Pts, Points; APGs, Average Points Per Game; Min, Minor Penalties; Ma, Major Penalties; Pim Penalties in Minutes.</p><h2><b>Team Statistics</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06381/8554844-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="1239" height="354"></div><p>All misconduct penalties count for ten minutes in the records, regardless et when the occurred during the game, and are Included as much in the total penalty minutes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE OFFICIAL SCORING PLAYOFF SERIES 1950-51

<p>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.</p><p>Lloyd Doc Haldorsen, the veteran Tulsa warrior, finished ahead of the United States Hockel League the final look at the statistics shows. Haldorsen, in 62 games scored 27 goals and added the amazing total of 67 assists for a grand sum of 94 points. He was two points ahead of Cal Stearns of the Kansas City Royals.</p><p>It was a three way battle through most of the season for the honors with Haldorsen, Stearns and Ike Hildebrand, also of the Royals in the race. Both Stearns and Hildebrand led the loop at some time or other during the season.</p><p>In 64 games Stearns netted 28 goals and 64 assists for 92 points. Hildebrand, who led the loop in actual goal scoring, netted the disc 42 times during the regular season. He added 49 assists for a grand total of 91 points. That&rsquo;s where the race ended. In fourth place, but way out of the running was Denver&rsquo;s George Agar. In 63 games Agar scored 31 goals and 51 assists for 82 points. Frances O&rsquo;Grady of Omaha was fifth with 81 points.</p><p>Little Lome Worsley of the St. Paul Saints racked up the best goals aganst average when he allowed just 184 pucks past him in 64 games for an average of 2.88 per game. Jim Henry actually had the best average but only played in the league with Omaha for seven games. Bill Brennan of Omaha was second best goaler with an average per game of 3.23.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t much of a race when it came to finding the bad man of the loop either. Pete Durham of the Knights of Omaha was well ahead of the pack. He found the referees thumbing him to the sin bin for no less than 275 minutes throughout the season. Pete played in 61 regular season games and so averaged nearly four and a half minutes in the cooler per game. Ian Fritz Fraser of the Denver Falcons was runner up to Durham with 180 minutes in the cooler. But Durham, besides being an outstanding man in the penalty box was also outstanding on the ice. He finished 17th in the league scoring with 20 goals and 37 assists for 57 points.</p><h2><b><i>Ran Second</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03912/8554889-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="601" height="906"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CAL STEARNS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Haldorsen Ekes Pair Of Royals In Loop Scoring

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-012031/8554927-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>FINAL STANDING</b></h2><h2><b>REGULAR SCHEDULE PLAYOFFS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-021464/8554920-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="1262" height="2042"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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U.S.H.L OFFICIAL SCORING RECORDS 1950-51

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04621/8554972-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg"></div><h2><b>GOALTENDERS AVERAGES REGULAR SCHEDULE PLAYOFFS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05450/8554965-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="1256" height="327"></div><h2><b>TEAM TOTALS (Regular Schedule)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06345/8554958-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="1257" height="244"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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U.S.H.L. OFFICIAL SCORING RECORDS 1950-51

<p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Young Eddie Dorohoy of the Victoria Cougars slipped into first place in the individual scoring race in the Pacific Coast League and to prove it was no fake he also led the loop in playoff scoring when his club won the championship.</p><p>Dorohoy, who has had one major league chance and may get another, scored 29 goals and added 58 assists for a grand total of 87 points in 68 games He also spent 64 minutes in the penalty box throughout the season.</p><p>Runner up to Dorohoy for honors was veteran P.C.H.L. star Ken Ullyot of the New Westminster Royals. Ullyot scored 39 goals and added 47 assists for 86 points in 70 games. Third was Walt Samanski of the Portland club who scored 33 goals and 49 assists in 70 games for 82 points.</p><p>Veteran Joe Bell of Seattle was fourth in the scoring with 78 points in 63 games. Bell also led the loop in actual goal scoring with 46 markers to go along With his 32 assists for his total.</p><p>There were no fewer than 29 players in the league who scored 20 goals or more this season. The first 13 were over that mark.</p><p>Dorohoy led the league in assists with his 58.</p><p>The bad man of the league this year was Norm Gustavsen of the Tacoma Rockets. Big Norm spent no less than 171 minutes in the cooler this season and he split it up between 68 games.</p><p>Outstanding goaler during the season was Lucien Deschene of the New Wesaminster Royals. In the complete 70 games Deschene allowed 198 pucks past him for an average per game of 2.82. He also led the league in shutouts with five.</p><p>Gerry Cotnoir of the Victoria Cougars was runner up to Deschene with an average of 3.11 in 60 games. In that time Cotnoir allowed 187 pucks into his cage. In the playoffs Cotnoir allowed just 26 goals in 12 games played for an average of 2.16. He also racked up three shutouts during those dozen games.</p><h2><b><i>46 For Him</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07398/8555003-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="600" height="905"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOE BELL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ed Dorohoy Tops Field In League, Playoff Statistics

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-011792/8555069-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>LEAGUE STANDINGS</b></h2><h2><b>TEAM SCORING</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-021288/8555062-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="1239" height="267"></div><h2><b>PLAYOFF STANDINGS</b></h2><p><b>SEMI-FINALS</b></p><h3><b>Victoria - Portland Series</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03859/8555055-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="1242" height="131"></div><h2><b>GAME RESULTS</b></h2><p>March 20&mdash;Portland 4, at Victoria 3&mdash;OT. 26:53</p><p>March 22&mdash;Portland 1, at Victoria 0&mdash;OT. 8:45</p><p>March 25&mdash;Victoria 4, at Portland 1</p><p>March 27&mdash;Victoria 5, at Portland 4&mdash;OT. 6:19</p><p>March 29&mdash;Portland 3, at Victoria 4</p><p>April 1&mdash;Victoria 1, at Portland 2&mdash;OT. 18:19</p><p>April 3&mdash;Portland 0, at Victoria 3</p><h3><b>New Westminster - Tacoma Series</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04658/8555048-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="1234" height="138"></div><h2><b>GAME RESULTS</b></h2><p>March 21&mdash;Tacoma 4, at New Westminster 2</p><p>March 23&mdash;New Westminster 0, at Tacoma 4</p><p>March 24&mdash;Tacoma 0, at New Westminster 6</p><p>March 25&mdash;New Westminster 1, at Tacoma 0&mdash;OT. 5:56</p><p>March 28&mdash;Tacoma 2, at New Westminster 4</p><p>March 30&mdash;New Westminster 3, at Tacoma 2</p><h2><b>FINAL STANDINGS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05516/8555041-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="1234" height="124"></div><h2><b>GAME RESULTS</b></h2><p>April 5&mdash;New Westminster 0, at Victoria 4</p><p>April 7&mdash;Victoria 3, at New Westminster 2</p><p>April 10&mdash;New Westminster 2, at Victoria 5</p><p>April 11&mdash;Victoria 3, at New Westminster 7</p><p>April 13&mdash;New Westminster 0, at Victoria 3</p><h2><b>SCHEDULE PLAYOFFS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06444/8555034-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="1265" height="1700"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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P.C.H.L OFFICIAL SEASON, PLAYOFFS SCORING RECORDS 1950-51

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08362/8555107-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg"></div><p>* Goalkeepers</p><p>** Hec Highton played for Portland in the playoffs.</p><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS SCHEDULE PLAYOFFS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09343/8555100-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="1235" height="351"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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P.C.H.L. OFFICIAL SEASON, PLAYOFFS SCORING RECORDS 1950-51

<h2><b><i>A.H.L. All-Star Squad</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-011974/8555215-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="313" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gil Mayer</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-021551/8555208-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="285" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pete Baclior</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-031012/8555201-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="309" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hy Buller</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04607/8555194-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="307" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fred Glover</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05436/8555187-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="303" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Paul Meger</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06355/8555180-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="290" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ab DeMarco</b></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>The Second Team</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07297/8555173-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="302" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Bower</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08251/8555166-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="309" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>M. Pronovost</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-09204/8555159-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="308" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hugh Currie</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-10184/8555152-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="302" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>W. Hergesheimer</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-11170/8555145-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="301" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Gooden</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-12145/8555138-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="302" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fred Thuricr</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Five of the American Hockey League&rsquo;s nine teams had representatives on either the first or second All Star Teams, which have been announced by the league headquarters office in New York. There were four teams which placed players on the first team, with four clubs also sharing positions on the alternate squad. Pittsburgh and Buffalo each had two of the top team nominees, with the remaining two positions going to Cleveland and Indianapolis. Although Cleveland, which won both the league regular season championship and the Calder Cup Playoff title did not have top honors for first all star selections, they did show the way on the second team with three places. Buffalo, Indianapolis and Springfield each had one selectee on the second team. Each of the first team players will receive a league bonus of $300.00 and a gold souvenir hockey puck, while members of the alternate team will be reward-eo with $200.00 and a silver puck.</p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh goaltender and his defense teammate Pete Backor were the Hornet representatives. Ab DeMarco of Buffalo, league&rsquo;s leading scorer was awarded the center ice position with his linemate Paul Meger holding down the leftwing spot. Hy Buller, Cleveland defenseman and rightwing Freddie Glover of Indianapolis rounded out the first team. The three Cleveland players to be selected for the alternate team were goaltender Johnny Bower, center Fred Thurier and rightwing Wally Hergesheimer, brilliant first year man of the Barons. The rest of the second team was comprised of Hugh Currie of Buffalo and Marcel Pronovost of Indianapolis on defense, and Billy Gooden, Springfield veteran at left wing. Gooden and Meger were tied in points with 21 each for the leftwing position, but the Buffalo youngster, who finished out the season in the National League was awarded first team honors as he had four first place votes compared to Gooden&rsquo;s two.</p><h2><b>Each Chose Three Teams</b></h2><p>Points were awarded on a 5-3-1 basis, with each voter choosing three complete teams. As the members of the press and radio who did the selecting were permitted to vote for members of the team from the city which they represented, a possible 45 point points were the maximum total for any position. This would have been the result of the voting if each of the nine cities had chosen the same candidate for any position. DeMarco compiled the highest number of points with 41, comprised of seven first place votes and two for second choice. Glover had 39 points with seven firsts, one second and one third. Buller had seven first place votes for 35 points.</p><p>There was only one player to repeat his selection of last season, with Backor, stellar Pittsburgh defenseman being honored for the first team for the fourth year in a row. This was the first time in league history any player had been chosen for four conse-cutive top teams. The second team was made up of an entirely different group of players than last season. Two of last year&rsquo;s alternate squad, DeMarco and Meger advanced to the first team this season.</p><p>Three of the first team players selected shared the top honors in the various departments of individual play during the season, with Mayer having the best goals against average as well as the most shutouts, DeMarco leading in total scoring points and assists, and Glover showing the way with goals scored. Buller holds all records in points, goals and assists for defensemen for an American League career, as well as being regarded as one of the circuit&rsquo;s top rearguards on defense.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Five A.H.L. Clubs Represented On First, Second All-Star Clubs

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><p>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Ab DeMarco, veteran center ice star of the Buffalo Bisons has been selected by the members of the American Hockey League press and radio as the circuit&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player for the season of 1950-51. Thus for the second consecutive year, a player who led the regular season scoring race and was then voted to the first All Star team becomes the league&rsquo;s most valuable, as Les Douglas of the Cleveland Barons performed the feat last season. For his achievement, DeMarco will receive the Leslie Cunningham Trophy, presented by the St. Louis Flyers Booster Club, and a league cash bonus of $300. This added to the $30000 for being the top point scorer of the league, and a like amount for his all star team selection, gives DeMarco a jack pot of $900.00 over his regular contract pay and playoff rewards. He also receives the Carl Liscombe Trophy, a league presentation, for his scoring title. In the voting for most valuable honors last season, DeMarco finished second to Douglas.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-011794/8555284-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="294" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fred Glover</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Ab Garnered 27 Points</b></h2><p>With each of the nine league cities submitting a single ballot, a committee of the press and radio deciding on the choices, a possible 45 points were the maximum for any candidate, based on a 5-3-1 point selection. DeMarco gathered 27 points, which gave him his award by 9 over Freddie Glover of Indianapolis, league&rsquo;s leading goal scorer who had 18 points. Four players, Paul Meger of Buffalo, Wally Hergesheimer and Fred Thurier of Cleveland and Coach Johnny Crawford of Hershey were tied for third place with 5 points each. DeMarco received four first choice votes, two seconds and one third with two cities failing to consider him, Glover had a single ballot for top honors, four for second place, one third and three with no selection. The remaining first choice votes were shared equally by the four players who were next in line, Meger, Hergesheimer, Thurier and Crawford, which gave each of them his five points. Thus the voting was well distributed, with varied opinions from each award.</p><p>Altogether fifteen players received nominations, the additional nine from the six mentioned being Jim Henry of Indianapolis, Johnny Bower, Cleveland and Ralph Almas of St. Louis, all goaltenders, who received three points each. Sammy Casanato of Springfield had two points, and single votes went to George Sullivan, Hershey, Ivan Irwin of Cincinnati, Hy Buller of Cleveland and Pete Backor and Gil Mayer, both of Pittsburgh.</p><h2><b>Ab&rsquo;s Points Second Highest</b></h2><p>During the recent season, DeMarco tallied 113 points on 37 goals and 76 assists, in 64 games for an average of 1.77 points per game. This was the second highest amount of points ever compiled in the American League, and failed by just 5 of equalling the all time league and professional record of 118 held by Carl Liscombe, retired Providence star. Liscombe scored his total in 68 games in the 1947-48 campaign, and there is a strong possibility that if injuries hadn&rsquo;t forced DeMarco from the late season lineups, a new mark would have been set. DeMarco&rsquo;s 76 assists established a new league record for playmaking, surpassing the old one of 72 set by Wally Stefaniw of Philadelphia in 1947-48.</p><p>DeMarco is a veteran of the old smooth skating expert strick handling type of hockey player. He is rated as one of the finest playmaking centers of all time, one who can place a pass in the exact correct spot for a teammate to gather in for a scoring shot. The fact that he was chosen as most valuable to his team, stems from the assistance his ability has given to his teammates in making them dangerous scoring threats. Last season, DeMarco was largely responsible for the development of rookie winner Paul Meger for 1949-50, and his continued aid to Meger helped this past season to such an extent, that Meger&rsquo;s contract was purchased by Montreal of the National League, and upon joining that team in mid February, Meger starred for the balance of the season and playoffs.</p><p>Developing first year men is getting to be a habit with DeMarco, as back in the 1947-48 season, while playing for Cleveland, he was quite instrumental in the winning of the rookie award by Bobby Solinger. now starring for Pittsburgh. DeMarco first turned professional in 193839 with Chicago Black Hawks, after finishing his amateur days with Baltimore Orioles. Since then the veteran has seen service with Toronto, Boston and New York in the National League as well as playing for Providence, Cleveland. Washington and Buffalo in American circuit.</p><h2><b><i>Value Plus</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-021259/8555277-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="560" height="912"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AB DeMARCO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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DeMarco Most valuable In AHL, Takes Cunningham And $300 Too

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04761/8555322-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg"></div><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Leaf player.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Pulford, now in &ldquo;Hall of Fame&rdquo;.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Baldy&rdquo; North-cott.</p><p>7&mdash;Month in which Roly McLe-naban celebrates birthday (abbr).</p><p>9&mdash;A member of the Rangers.</p><p>11&mdash;One (Scot.).</p><p>12&mdash;Initials of a Cleveland forward.</p><p>13&mdash;To make mistakes.</p><p>15&mdash;This N.H.L. netminder played with Detroit Olympics in 1935-36.</p><p>17&mdash;Basic colour of the Canadiens&rsquo; uniform.</p><p>18&mdash;Francis had to do mis for Rayner recently.</p><p>19&mdash;McGill, ex-Bruin is often called &ldquo;&mdash;Jack&rdquo;.</p><p>21&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Spex&rdquo; Telford of Tulsa.</p><p>22&mdash;Number of seasons &ldquo;Babe&rdquo; Pratt played with Boston.</p><p>23&mdash;Initials of coach of Montreal&rsquo;s Junior Canadiens.</p><p>24&mdash;Calder Trophy winner of 1941-42.</p><p>27&mdash;Junior club with whom Lee Fogolin once played.</p><p>29&mdash;Name given a Cincinnati rearguard.</p><p>32&mdash;In 1948-49 Abel and Lindsay ended in a&mdash;for third place in scoring race.</p><p>33&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Polly&rdquo; Drouin.</p><p>34&mdash;Part of &ldquo;to be&rdquo;.</p><p>36&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Rags&rdquo; Raglan.</p><p>37&mdash;Given name of &ldquo;Gump&rdquo; Worsley.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Member of the Leafs in 1938-39.</p><p>2&mdash;Another name for &ldquo;Obie&rdquo; O&rsquo;Brien of Tulsa.</p><p>3&mdash;Bernie Geoffrion injured one recently.</p><p>4&mdash;Bedard of Cincinnati is called this.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Taylor this season with Cleveland.</p><p>8&mdash;This season the sports writers will&mdash;the All-Star teams.</p><p>10&mdash;Played goal for Rangers in 1927-2.8.</p><p>14&mdash;Murray Armstrong is now coaching in this city.</p><p>16&mdash;Abbr. for Dutch (old form).</p><p>19&mdash;Cleveland&rsquo;s goaltender.</p><p>20&mdash;Given name of a former member of the &ldquo;Razzle Dazzle&rdquo; line, once with Canadieus.</p><p>21&mdash;Initials of a Black Hawk.</p><p>23&mdash;Bill Mosienko is considered a swift one.</p><p>25&mdash;Initials of a Toronto forward.</p><p>26&mdash;An Indianapolis defenseman answers to this.</p><p>28&mdash;Lithium (Sym.).</p><p>30&mdash;&ldquo;Hub&rdquo; Macey celebrates his birthday in this month (abbr).</p><p>31&mdash;Short for given name of Bruins&rsquo; scout.</p><p>35&mdash;Artifical language.</p><h2><b>LAST MONTH&rsquo;S X-WORD KEY</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03922/8555315-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="561" height="873"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>ational Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the N.H.L. Final Statistics free of charge. These handysized records cards contain the final standing of the Clubs, the Individual Scoring Records for every player during the regular schedule and the Stanley Cup Playoffs, as well as the Goalkeepers Averages and the Penalty Records of each Clubs.</p><p>Request should be mailed to: N.H.L. Information Bureau, 603 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Que.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The official American Hockey League announcement of the selection of Wally Hergesheimer of the Cleveland Barons as the most outstanding rookie player of the past season, will create no great surprise among those who have seen him play or who have read about the achievements of the brilliant freshman all season. No other player in league history entered the circuit with as fine a record breaking first year as did the flashy rightwing of the champion Cleveland team, and his honoring by the league staff of coaches will be well received. Hergesheimer by virtue of his award, is the recepient of the Dudley &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Garrett Memorial Trophy, plus a league bonus of $300.00 in cash. He recently was chosen as the rightwing on the league&rsquo;s second all star team also, which reward gave him an additional $200.00 to add to his seasonal salary and championship playoff remuneration.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-011950/8555391-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="434" height="695"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack McIntyre</b></figcaption></div><p>With each of the league&rsquo;s nine coaches voting for three candidates, with a point rating on a 5-3-1 basis in order of choice, and with each mentor being permitted to select players from his own team, a possible 45 points could have been amassed. Of this possibility, Hergeheimer had a total of 34 points, which placed him far in front of his closest rival for rookie honors, Jack McIntyre of Hershey, who had 13. Third place went to the coming star defenseman of Indianapolis, Marced Pronovost, who had 10 points. The remaining players considered and the points they received in the balloting were, Don Ashbee of Buffalo who had 6, Bronco Horvath of Springfield with 5, Johnny Wilson of Indianapolis 4, Bill Jones, Springfield 3, George Ford also of the Indians with 2, and Glen Sonmor, teammate of Hergesheimer who received 1 point. Hergesheimer received 5 out of the nine first choice votes, three for second place, with one coach giving him no. points at all. McIntyre had two of the remaining top votes, with Ashbee and Horvath dividing the other pair.</p><h2><b>May Be &ldquo;Whirlwind Wally&rdquo;</b></h2><p>The name of Hergesheimer has long been a familiar one in American League circles, as Wally&rsquo;s older brother Phil, now with Cincinnati thrilled the circuit&rsquo;s followers for many seasons with his brilliant play and scoring efforts. They call the older Hergy, &ldquo;Phantom Phil&rdquo;, and an appropriate name for his kid brother to carry on the family honors, could easily be &ldquo;Whirlwind Wally&rdquo;, both being as hard to overtake in skating as phantoms and whirlwinds.</p><p>What with young Hergy being selected for league honors by two different groups, the press and radio giving him his all star berth and the coaches the rookie award, evident proof is offered that he pleased and satisfied everyone.</p><p>He tallied 83 points in scoring during the regular season in 71 games, for an average of 1.17 points per game. His 42 goals was a new record for tallies for a first year player, surpassing the old mark of 40 made by Bobby Solinger in his first season. Hergesheimer&rsquo;s 41 assists displayed an ability to set up plays as well as finish them off. He only spent 8 minutes in the penalty box on 4 minor sentences, another valuable asset to his club.</p><p>During the recently completed Calder Cup Playoffs, he sparked his team to its title with 11 goals in 11 games, this being a new all time playoff record for AHL goal scoring, the former being 10 in a series. In five of the eight Baron playoff victories, Hergesheimer supplied what proved to be the winning goal for another playoff record, the former for game winners being three. Thus his season long achievements, added to his continuance of brilliant play in the post season games earned him his honors, which were well deserved. All ballots were in before the playoffs started, thus his playoff efforts had no bearing on his selection, but merely fortified the reasons.</p><p>Hergeshimer has been nursed along through the Cleveland Baron chain of farm teams for some time, until he was ready for the jump to AHL ranks. His last amateur club was the Brandon Elks Juniors, a Baron sponsored club. From there he went to Minneapolis in the United States League for 1947-48 and the following season to San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League for more seasoning. In 1949-50 he was back with Minneapolis where he scored 43 goals. That he was ready for the advancement to the American League is proven by his scoring only one less marker this season in faster company.</p><p>Wally was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on January 8th 1927. He stands 5&rsquo; 8&rdquo;, weighs 155 pounds and is a righthanded shot. The fact that he has such a remarkable shot from the starboard side is even greater, considering that the first two fingers of his right hand are off at the knuckles and the third damaged, as the result of a factory punch press accident six and a half years ago. Wally says that it doesn&rsquo;t bother his goals shooting, to which the opposing goaltenders are quite ready and willing to agree with the way he has tormented them all season.</p><h2><b>Ahead Of The Field</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-021476/8555384-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="1240" height="1661"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WALLY HERGESHEIMER</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Third</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-031026/8555377-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="606" height="906"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MARCEL PRONOVOST</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Whirlwind Wally” Easily Voted In 1950-51’s Top Rookie In American

<div class="byline">By JIM VIPOND</div><p><b>(Sports Editor, Toronto Globe and Mail)</b></p><p>TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Conn Smythe, explosive boss of hockey&rsquo;s new world champions, was at his blasting best as he scanned the NHL 1951 All-Star team and failed to find one of his Maple Leafs among the select six.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03899/8555429-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="287" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Max Bentley</b></figcaption></div><p>Smythe&rsquo;s greatest wrath centred around centre and the choice of Milt Schmidt over Ted Kennedy. &ldquo;I see that Schmidt was the unanimous choice for the first team, which means the Toronto writers voted for him. What does a home town boy have to do to gain recognition in this city?&rdquo; asked Smvthe.</p><p>Toronto selectors were the sports editors of the three daily newspapers. This observer&rsquo;s choice was Al Rollins in goal, Red Kelly and Jim Thomson on defense, Milt Schmidt at centre, Ted Lindsay and Gord Howe on the wings. On our second team we put Terry Sawchuk in goal, Leo Reise and Bill Quackenbush on defense, Ted Kennedy at centre and Maurice Richard and Sid Smith on the wings.</p><p>In light of subsequent events we would probably like to change our mind in at least two spots but must recall that the team was selected on the basis of a 70-game schedule and had nothing to do with the playoffs. The ballots were in the hands of League President Campbell before the playoffs started.</p><p>If selections were to have been made on basis of playoffs, it would have been a different story entirely. Then one could not have looked anywhere else but at Ted Kennedy for centre and Sudden Death Richard would have swamped Gordon Howe at right wing. For that matter, Gerry McNeil would have won the goal post and Sid Smith rated ahead of Ted Lindsay on left wing. Even the defense would probably have been different, as both Toronto and Montreal displayed some magnificent blue line performers.</p><p>However, we repeat, playoffs had nothing to do with the mythical team but we would suggest that its release at a time when hockey fans are still talking over the greatest cup final in the history of the game is bad timing. But then again, the announcement date was chosen before the playoffs. The selection probably looks all the more amazing at this time, particularly to Montreal and Toronto fans, because 10 players on either of those two teams, cup finalists, were among the chosen six.</p><p>Returning to Smythe, he had more to say about his great team captain. &ldquo;Ted Kennedy is the ehampion player of the National Hockey League,&rdquo; he asserted. &ldquo;They can have the All-Stars. Once again we&rsquo;ll take the champions.&rdquo; And he has a point there.</p><p>Smythe said that he was at a loss to understand why Max Bentley rated so little consideration. &ldquo;When Max was with Chicago he usually made the first or second All-Star team, but the Hawks rarely made the playoffs. Since joining the Leafs he has been on a Stanley Cup team three out of four years, yet has failed to make All-Star. I don&rsquo;t understand it.&rdquo;</p><p>He did admit that picking the All-Star team returned to the sports writers this year after the coaches had a whack at it for four or five years, was a tough job.</p><p>Smythe said that if he had the choice of all the centre. players in the world, he would still pick Kennedy. And after watching Teeder Kennedy rise to such great heights in the playoffs, who can argue?</p><p>With announcement of the AllStar team, plans started to move for next fall&rsquo;s pension fund game here before the start of the regular season. As an innovation, the first All-Star team, augmented by reserves from teams in the United. States, will play the second AllStar team, augmented by players from teams in Canadian cities.</p><p>In previous years the annual All-Star game has been played in the home city of the Stanley Cup winners, with the champions tackling the All-Stars. This has failed for some reason to prove much of an attraction in United States cities and Toronto&rsquo;s Conn Smythe and Montreal&rsquo;s Frank Selke offered to underwrite the new scheme.</p><p>The game will be played in Toronto, where the first All-Star team, bolstered by recruits from Boston. Chicago, Detroit and New York, play the second All-Star team, helped by recruits from Montreal and Toronto. To assure that this plan is carried out. the game&rsquo;s underwriters have offered second All-Star goalie, Chuck Rayner of New York, to the first team&rsquo;s side and also Sid Abel, who shared the second All-Star centre berth with Kennedy.</p><p>That way the first team will use Sawchuk and Rayner in goal, with Harry Lumley as another reserve, while the second team would use Turk Broda, Gerry McNeil and Al Rollins. Other details have yet to be worked out but the suggestion certainly merits consideration and the game should be a good attraction.</p><p>Despite the heat and steam Smythe generated after looking at that All-Star business, he still had time to talk contracts with one of his players. Vezina Trophy winning Al Rollins, slated for the No. 1 netminding role next season, was the latest player to ink a new contract.</p><h2><b><i>Takes Champs</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04664/8555422-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="568" height="860"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Conn Smythe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL Star Choices Rile Conn Smythe As Leafs Missing

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-01282/8555481-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="247" height="293"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-02170/8555474-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="256" height="297"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-03104/8555467-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="2983" height="1750"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Omaha Knights won for Mud Bruneteau again this season. They copped the United States League Championship first then went on to win the playoffs. Above is the championship team: Front row (left to right): Motto McLean, Jim Uniac, Bill Brennan, Jim Hay and Pete Durham. Second row: Charles Homenuk (Trainer), Bernard Kelly, (Publicity Director), Lloyd Hinchberger, Bruce Giesebrecht, Frank O&rsquo;Grady, Hartley McLeod, Bert Giesebrecht, Pat Coburn, Glen Skov, &ldquo;Mud&rdquo; Bruneteau, coach and Harry Fowler, manager. Back row: Eddie Bruneteau, Earl Reibel and Jake Forbes.</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0461/8555460-1-eng-US/c0004-042.jpg" title="C0004-04" width="2961" height="1892"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Victoria Cougars, coached by ex-Montreal Canadien Roger Leger showed their heels to most of the league and landed up on top when the final whistle sounded. They won the Coast League Championship and the Shipstads and Johnson Trophy. For winning the playoffs the Cougars took the Phil Henderson Memorial Cup. Here they are: Back row, left to right: Fiori Goegan, Stan Long, Geoff Burman, Bernie Strongman, Don Webster, Joe Evans. Middle row, left to right: Eddie Mazur, Reg Abbott, Andy Hebenton, Trainer George Wilkinson, Bobby Frampton, Joe Medynski, Joe Lepine. Front row, left to right: Jerry Cotnoir, Jack McIntyre, President Lester Patrick, Coach Roger Leger, General Manager Fred Hutchinson, Eddie Dorohoy, Joe Bryant.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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