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October 6, 1951

The Hockey News October 6, 1951

<div class="byline">By ED FITKIN</div>TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;Didn&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;d live to see the day when we could put the lie to the old and oh-so-truthful bromide that there&rsquo;s no one with endurance like the guy who sells insurance.But what about the longevity records of the top brass of the Toronto Maple Leafs?Figger Filberts have doped it out that Conn Smvthe. Han Dav. Joe Primeau. King Clancv. Bob Davidson and Reg Hamilton have toiled a total of 108 years for a club that is entering upon its 25th season of hockey competition in the N.H.L.This does not constitute the feat of the century or a poser for Einstein. Merely a case of adding up the years of service these men, who now formulate the hockey fortunes of the Leaf organization, have given to the Toronto club. Also what success each helped achieve.It reads like this:CONN SMYTHE&mdash;President and Managing Director. 25 years with Leafs. Managed seven Stanley Cup winners&mdash;1931-32, 1941-42, 194445, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1948-49, 1950-51&mdash;tying record set by Tommy Gorman with Ottawa, Montreal and Chicago teams.C. H. (Happy) DAY&mdash;Assistant manager. 22 years with Leafs. 11 years as playing captain; 10 years as coach, 1 year as assistant manager. Played on 1 Stanley Cup team. Coached 5 Stanley Cup Winners.JOE PRIMEAU&mdash;Coach of Maple Leafs. 25 years in organization, seven and half as player, 1 as coach of Leafs. First man to sign Leafs contract in 1927 Has coached Leafs amateur affiliates since retiring in 1936, winning Memorial Cup twice with St. Micheal&rsquo;s College and Allan Cup once with Marlboro Seniors. Coached 1950-51 Stanley Cup champions, played on 1931-32 champions.FRANK (KING) CLANCY&mdash;Coach of Pittsburgh Hornets. Spent seven seasons with Leafs from 1930 to 1937, six as player, one as Good-will Ambassador-for club. Played on 1931-32 champions.BOB DAVIDSON&mdash;Chief Scout. In organization 18 years. Played with Leafs 10&frac12; years, was on 1941-42 and 1944-45 Stanley Cup winners, Coached Leaf minor team and Pittsburgh.REG. HAMILTON&mdash;Coach of Marlboro juniors. In organization 11 years, nine years as Leaf player. Played on 1941-42 and 194445 Stanley Cup champions.<h2>Rangers Send Vic Howe To Saskatoon On 24 Hr. Recall</h2>Vic Howe, Bill Kyle, Cy Rouse and Alex Kuzma were all shipped to Saskatoon of the reorganized Pacific Coast League team, coached by ex-Ranger star Bill Cook.Howe and Kyle had brief late-season trials with the Rangers. Howe is the kid brother of the NHL&rsquo;s scoring champ, Gordie of Detroit, and it is the hope that Cook, who scored most goals in Ranger history, bring&rsquo;s out Vic&rsquo;s potential talent. Howe is subject to immediate recall. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Smythe And Mates Total Over Century In Service

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-011952/8556542-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="315" height="460"></div>ALWAYS INSISTENT on having &ldquo;strength down the middle,&rdquo; Conn Smythe of the Leafs, has been trying out Danny Lewicki, ace rookie left winger of last season, at the center slot in pre-season workouts. Lewicki has been pivoting a youthful line with Fleming Mackell and Ray Timgren on the wings. Other centers on the Toronto squad are Cal Gardner, Ted Kennedy and Max Bentley&hellip;Johnny McCormack became a father the same day he arrived at the Montreal Canadiens training camp. The ex-Toronto center engaged in a practice skirmish his first day on skates. Lots of hockey interest in Saskatoon these days as the Hub City&rsquo;s new entry in the Pacific Coast loop are busy going through their practice sessions. Bill Cook, coach of the Quakers, is expected to ice a strong contender in Saskatoon this season&hellip;Lester Patrick&rsquo;s Victoria Cougars also trained at Saskatoon!&hellip;Bev Bentley, goalkeeping nephew of Max and Doug who tolled for Regina Caps last winter, will line up with Scoop Bentley&rsquo;s Spokane sextet this campaign&hellip;Jean Beliveau reported to the Quebec Aces 15 pounds overweight. It won&rsquo;t be an easy year for the much-discussed Beliveau. The more robust checkers in the Q.S.H.L. are all waiting for him. He showed his dislike for heavy going in the Barrie series and we predict right now that Beliveau will be the flop of 1951-52 season&hellip;. Jack Gelineau told iriends in Montreal last summer that he would refuse to report to a minor league club should the Bruins decide to replace him. It looks right now as if Sugar Jim Henry will open the-new season in the nets of the Rossmen&hellip;Edgar Laprade has had a little trouble skating on the leg he fractured last season in early workouts. The New York center is a big cog in the Ranger mechanism and if he falters so might the team&hellip;Montreal Canadiens are picked by most N.H.L. followers as the most improved team on the eve of the new season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-021643/8556535-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="314" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">John McCormack</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-031337/8556528-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="305" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Timgren</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-041087/8556521-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="315" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Henry</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05877/8556514-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="313" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption></div>HUGH McLEAN has been offered the job of referee-in-chief of the Maritime Hockey League&hellip;Providence Reds are extremely high on their new defenseman, 195-pound Andy McCallum of Brandon, Man. He played with Chicoutimi of the Q.S.H.L. last semester and was scouted by Johnny Gagnon&hellip;Jack Giesebrecht, last season with Denver Falcons of the U.S.H.L., was recently voted the most valuable player in the North Renfrew Baseball League. Jack&rsquo;s brothers, Bruce and Bert, played with Omaha last winter, while brother Roy formerly played with Detroit Red Wings&hellip;Fred Hucul and Sid Finney, rookies with Chicago Black Hawks, looked very impressive in pre-season exhibition games of the Hawks. Hucul, the Moose Jaw junior grad, is expected to stick with the Hawks this season&hellip;Jim Ellery, publicity director of the American Hockey League, made a month-long trip to western Canada recently. While in the west Jim called on a number of A.H.L. players. He also visited the American League training camps on the way back to New York&hellip;Butch Bouchard returned from a Florida vacation shortly before reporting to Canadiens&rsquo; training camp. Frank Frederickson, one of hockey&rsquo;s greatest centers, renewed acquaintances with many of his hockey confreres of the turbulent twenties, on his recent visit to eastern Canada. Frank is now a prominent Insurance executive in Vancouver&hellip;Red Almas, regular goalie of the St. Louis Flyers for the past two seasons, is undergoing a stiff battle for his job from Phil Hughes, sensational netminder with Toronto St. Mikes, Alexander Cup finalists of last spring&hellip;Fred A. Huber, Jr., Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; publicist and well-known amateur hockey executive, narrowly missed serious injury in an automobile accident in northern Ontario. A car driven by Huber overturned on a sharp curve while he was returning from a Detroit-Chicago exhibition game at Copper Cliff, Ont., to the Wings&rsquo; camp at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Ralph Keller, Detroit advertising executive and rabid Red Wing follower, who was riding with Huber, was also uninjured. The car was almost completely demolished.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06529/8556507-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="313" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Butch Bouchard</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07332/8556500-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="310" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Edgar Laprade</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08218/8556493-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="307" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Herbie Cain</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-09188/8556486-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="290" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Gelineau</figcaption></div>GORDLE HOWE won $100 for winning the Detroit Red Wings annual golf tournament at their Soo, Mich, training camp&hellip;Herbie Cain, former Boston Bruin star, who held the record for most points in a season before Howe fractured it last year, also figured in the golfing limelight the other day. Cain sank his tee shot on the ninth hole of a Toronto course while posting a three under par 32 for the round&hellip;Johnny Gagnon serves as interpreter as well as scout for Providence Reds. Eight French laddies attended the Reds camp who couldn&rsquo;t speak a word of English and Coach Terry Reardon was having a futile time instructing them until Johnny arrived on the scene&hellip;Calgary Stampeders of the P.C.H.L. signed four members of the defunct Milwaukee club for this season&rsquo;s ice wars. They are Harry Groves, Bob Goodacre, Jack Miller and Eddie Leier&hellip;Several pro teams are experimenting with Frank Patrick&rsquo;s new hockey stick at pre-season practices&hellip; The N.H.L. Players Pension Society will hold a meeting on the afternoon of the All-Star game in Toronto on October 9. &#9632;

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Passing The Puck

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03900/8557477-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">KING RICHARD II used as his sporting emblem, a white hart with golden collar and the WHITE HART became yet another traditional English inn sign. Later in English history, eighteenth century soldiers returned from the Indian frontier to demand India Pale Ale&mdash;the &ldquo;real man&rsquo;s drink&rdquo; they had known there. Brewed to stand the long sea voyage to India, it had a special zest and character to it. And today those who still want a &ldquo;man&rsquo;s drink&rdquo; ask for Labatt&rsquo;s India Pale Ale&mdash;brewed to the original English recipe by John Labatt.&mdash;John Labatt Limited.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Famous Inn Signs No. 10

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-01283/8557667-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="257" height="284"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-02171/8557660-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="269" height="277"></div>ALL-STARS 4 TORONTO 3 1st GAME 1947-48ALL-STARS 3 TORONTO 1 2nd GAME 1948-49ALL-STARS 3 TORONTO 1 3rd GAME 1949-50DETROIT 7 ALL-STARS 14th GAME 1950-51<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-03105/8557653-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="3130" height="3802"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE FOUR ALL-STAR GAME WINNERS&mdash;Top picture, left to right standing: Brimsek. Dumart, Irvin, Bsuchard, Reardon, C. S. Campbell (President), Jack Stewart, Durnan, Cook (Trainer). Middle row: Schmidt, Leswick, Max Bentley, Warwick, Richard, Doug Bentley. Bottow row: Quackenbush, Mosienko, Bauer, Lindsay, Laprade. Second picture, back row, left to right: Colville. Leswick, Lach, Laprade, Lindsay, Howe, D. Bentley. Middle row: Bouchard, J. Stewart, Richard, Poile, Reardon, G. Stewart, Dumart. Bottom row: Ivan, Broda, Brimsek, Schmidt, Durnan, Quackenbush, C. S. Campbell, Third picture, back row, left to right: Mattson (Trainer), Mosienko. Harmon, Lindsay, O&rsquo;Connor, Laprade, D. Bentley, Egan. Second row, Ivan, J. Stewart, Leswick, Ronty, Richard, Quackenbush, Howe, C. S. Campbell. Bottom row: Reardon, Abel, Durnan, Rayner, Goldhom, Roy Conacher. Bottom picture, Detroit: Back row, left to right: Prystai, G. Stewart, Carl Mattson, Harry McQueston, Walter Homenuke (Trainers), Couture, Goldhom, Stasluk, Peters, Pavelich. Second row: Reise. Raglan, Gravelie, Sawchuk, Jack Adams, Abel, Ivan, Lindsay, Howe, McFadden, Martin, Kelly.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Hockey News

Entered as second class matter at the Poet Office in Buffalo, N.Y., and Saint Albans. Vt<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02550/8557726-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="489" height="491"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-04101/8557719-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="Cover-04" width="458" height="485"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-011052/8557712-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="450" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOE PRIMEAU Coach 1st team</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-03263/8557705-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="754" height="624"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maple Leaf Gardens where All-Star game will take place.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0536/8557698-1-eng-US/cover-052.jpg" title="Cover-05" width="430" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK IRVIN Coach 2nd team</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Boucher Would Step Over CAHA For Hockey Draft

<div class="byline">&#x2026;By Collins</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0616/8557757-1-eng-US/cover-062.jpg"></div> &#9632;

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Homework…

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;On the eve of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s fifth annual All-Star game and as players, coaches and managers made their way to Toronto to attend the classic the most predominant line of chatter centered around one question: &ldquo;To have a draft or not to have a draft.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-076/8557788-1-eng-US/cover-072.jpg" title="Cover-07" width="295" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Boucher</figcaption></div>Frank Boucher, in Guelph, Ontario where his Rangers are presently training for the coming season was the first with an opinion. He told Rex McLeod of the Guelph Mercury that if he had his own way he would write off the present sponsord clubs system in favor of a draft system to keep the pro clubs staffed with players.&ldquo;When you figure it out,&rdquo; Boucher said, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think the present system is paying off. We haven&rsquo;t got a Ranger in the past five years from our sponsored clubs. There&rsquo;s still a chance that we are reaching our peak and that we might start turning out players soon but it&rsquo;s costing us a pile of money.&rdquo;<h2>Smythe Agrees</h2>Conn Smythe, president of the Toronto Maple Leafs agreed with Boucher that the N.H.L. should scrap it&rsquo;s present sponsored clubs system in favor of such a draftBut scrapping a system which is the backbone of the game is not an easy move to make. Observers and critics point out that a draft system in hockey would not in any way, shape or form be parallel with the present draft system in American professional basketball or football. Whereas these two games rely on public backed educational institutions to supply them with ready made players, who can step out of college and into the professional games without a side glance at the minor leagues to gain experience, hockey cannot. They cannot see a professional hockey organization spending thousands of dollars on a farm system that is primarily set up for the breeding of the big league stars of tomorrow, and then have them scooped up on the open market by some other club.As an example, supposing the Montreal junior Canadiens spent $30,000 to groom some young players then lost him in an open market dealing it would mean that they had lost the player plus the money they Invested in tutoring him.Much in the same manner as the vast baseball empires, hockey cannot depend on colleges to furnish them with ready-made stars. They must bring them along slowly through their chain systems to a point where they have reached major league maturity. But in order to accomplish this they must first Invest countless thousands.As one observer, from an amateur club pointed out recently: &ldquo;If a professional club with any kind of farm system at. all cannot get a player out of that system then it is only because of their own shortcomings. They have not kept a constant watch on prospective players in their own system and consequently good players who play for their sponsored clubs are not listed by that club and are snapped up by other professional organizations.Many people have attempted to liken the hockey draft system with its counterpart in American football and basketball. There are no two systems further apart. In the first place, American football and basketball players are usually sent to college on athletic scholarships. Once they are ready to graduate they are placed on the professional draft list. It they decide not to continue their sporting activity that&rsquo;s all there is to it. However, if they do want to go further along the sports trail they are drafted by the club that finishes in the cellar of the respective league to which they are bound.Boucher&rsquo;s plan has merit but it might take a lot of convincing and years of planning before it could ever be adopted.At that it would be by-passing the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, but Boucher shrugs that off. As matters stand now the CAHA collects a tidy bonanza from professional hockey each season and it is doubtfull if the CAHA would consent to see it cut off without a battle.The CAHA now collects $2,000 from each NHL club for all players turning pro in any one season. Another $1,000 is tossed in the pot for each operating membar club of any affiliated or minor league. The CAHA keeps 90 percent and the other 10 percent goes to the Amateur Hockey Association of the U.S.Boucher contends that isn&rsquo;t necessary. &ldquo;If we had a proper draft system,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;we wouldn&rsquo;t need sponsored clubs. The pro clubs would get together in order of seniority and pick their own players. Then we wouldn&rsquo;t need an agreement with the CAHA. And we would not need sponsored clubs. I don&rsquo;t know how the others feel about it but I think it&rsquo;s an unnecessery expense. Pro clubs are spending far too much on sponsored clubs for the players they actually get.&rdquo;Although Boucher has been mulling over a draft plan for some time he hasn&rsquo;t hit upon a definite scheme and he was unable to say if any of the other pro clubs would approve of a change from the present system.&ldquo;Of course we would have to have an agreement about the draft price,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;The money would be paid either to the CAHA or to the amateur clubs. Let them worry about disposing of it. If the CAHA refuses to go along with it so much the better. Then we&rsquo;ll get the players for free.&rdquo;The cost of developing even one player for possible service in the NHL is prohibitive, Boucher said: &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t even guess at what is costs us,&rdquo; he sighed. &#9632;

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Critics Insist Present System Is Much Better

<h2>Second Team Starting Lineup</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-031032/8556417-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="294" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chuck Rayner</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04785/8556410-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="289" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Reise</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05524/8556403-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="294" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jimmy Thomson</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06390/8556396-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="292" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Smith</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-07247/8556389-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="295" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-08123/8556382-1-eng-US/f0002-082.jpg" title="f0002-08" width="291" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Kennedy</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0972/8556375-1-eng-US/f0002-092.jpg" title="f0002-09" width="290" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-1038/8556368-1-eng-US/f0002-102.jpg" title="f0002-10" width="292" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Irvin</figcaption></div><h2>To Be Played Here</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-011649/8556361-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="1674" height="1187"><figcaption class="caption-body">An inside picture of Maple Leaf Gardens where the-Fifth Annual N.H.L. All-Star Game will take place.</figcaption></div><h2>First Team Starting Lineup</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-1125/8556354-1-eng-US/f0002-112.jpg" title="f0002-11" width="306" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-1217/8556347-1-eng-US/f0002-122.jpg" title="f0002-12" width="299" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Kelly</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-1312/8556340-1-eng-US/f0002-132.jpg" title="f0002-13" width="300" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Quackenbush</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-149/8556333-1-eng-US/f0002-142.jpg" title="f0002-14" width="295" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-158/8556326-1-eng-US/f0002-152.jpg" title="f0002-15" width="283" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-166/8556319-1-eng-US/f0002-162.jpg" title="f0002-16" width="294" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Primeau</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-174/8556312-1-eng-US/f0002-172.jpg" title="f0002-17" width="291" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption></div><h2>Information At a Clance</h2>Fifth Annual All-Star Game Game played at: Maple Leaf GardensCity: TorontoDate: Tuesday. October 9, 1951Starting time: 8:30Broadcast: To be sponsored by Imperial Oil for the Red Feather Campaign.Play-by-play announcer: Foster Hewitt, Leaf&rsquo;s regular announcer.Radio Station: To be heard over Trans Canada Network. Will not be aired to United States.Broadcast time: From second period to end of game. Starting nt 9.00 p.m.Capacity of Gardens: 14,550 including 1,864 standees.Crowd expected Approx. 14,000 Gate expected: Approx. 826,000 net.Receipts to be added to the N.H.L. player&rsquo;s pension fund.Location of entrances to Gardens: Church Street, Carlton Street and Wood Street.Largest pro crowd in Gardens&rsquo; history: 16.318 on Saturday&rsquo; Nov. 16, 1946. (Toronto 3, Canadiens 0)(Record was set before new capacity allowed)Officials for game: Referee: Bill Chadwick; Linesmen: Bill Morrison and Sam Babcock.Dimensions of rink: 200 feet by 85 feet.Ends of rink: HerculiteBand in attendance at game: One of Toronto regimental bands.<h3>FIRST TEAM</h3>Coach: Joe Primeau, TorontoGoal: Sawchuk, DetroitDefense: Kelly, DetroitDefense: Quackenbush, BostonLeft Wing: Lindsay, DetroitCentre: Schmidt, New YorkRight Wing: Howe, DetroitFirst Team SubsGoal: Lumley, ChicagoDefense: Gadsby, ChicagoDefense: Fogolin, ChicagoDefense: Stanley, New YorkCentre: Sinclair, New YorkCentre: Raleigh, New YorkCentre: Bentley, ChicagoRight Wing: Peirson, BostonRight Wing: Sandford, BostonLeft Wing: R. Conacher, Chi.Left Wing: Babando, Chicago<h3>SECOND TEAM</h3>Coach: Dick Irvin, MontrealGoal: Rayner, New YorkDefense: Reise, DetroitDefense: Thomson, TorontoLeft Wing: Smith, TorontoCentre: Kennedy, TorontoCentre: Abel, DetroitLeft Wing: Richard, MontrealSecond Team SubsGoal, McNeil, MontrealDefense: Harvey, MontrealDefense: Bouchard, MontrealDefense: Mortson, TorontoLeft Wing: Meger, MontrealLeft Wing: Watson, TorontoCentre: M. Bentley, TorontoRight Wing: Curry, MontrealRight Wing: Sloan, MontrealLeading scorers and penalty men in four All-Star Games<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-021392/8556305-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="566" height="1375"></div>Player no longer in National Denotes Major Penalty.<h2>Playing In Their 5th All-Star Game</h2>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;There are six players in the lineups of the All-Star teams who will meet here on the night of October 9th who have taken part in each of the other four annual games.Bill Quackenbush of Boston, Ted Lindsay of Detroit, Edgar Laprade of New York, Maurice Richard of Montreal, Doug Bentley of Chicago and Jim Thomson and Ted Kennedy of the Leafs are the six.All of these players are either listed on Joe Primeau&rsquo;s first team or Dick Irvin&rsquo;s second sextet for the fifth annual game coming up. &#9632;

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NHL’S 5th ANNUAL DREAM GAME DATA

<div class="byline">By ED FITKIN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-012000/8556455-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Queen City of Toronto, as seen from Lake Ontario, which will play host to the 1951 All-Stars in their fifth annual clash. The tall castle like building on the left is the Royal York Hotel.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Sports of all sorts are thriving in the City of Toronto, capital of the Province of Ontario and the home of this year&rsquo;s N.H.L. All-Star game. One of the fastest-growing Cities in North America, Toronto proper has a population of 66 0,000. Including the greater Toronto area, which is fanning to the north, east and west at a tremendous rate, the current population Is estimated at 1,030,000.Once noted as the City of Churches, which it still is, Toronto now has such modern innovations as Sunday sport, cocktail bars and Canada&rsquo;s first and almost-completed subway transit system. It is a far cry, indeed, from the Lake Ontario landing place that originally was called Toronto, (meaning &ldquo;meeting place&rdquo;) by the Indians. Founded by Governor John Graves Simcoe and named York in 1793, captured and burned by the Americans during the war of 1812, it became Toronto again and was selected as the site of the capital of Ontario in 1849.With its rapidly-expanding territory, denser population and easing of some of the blue law regulations, Toronto, always a great sports centre in the past, has become one of the top entertainment spots on the continent. Professional hockey plays to standing room only crowds throughout the lengthy season with the average arure for each game hovering wound the 14,000 mark.International League baseball ew roughly 329,000 fans this 11st summer despite a fifth-place am. The almost-pro Big Four senior football league and the College teams draw from 15,000 to 1,000 for each game during the atumn gridiron campaigning. rorse-racing&mdash;and the King&rsquo;s plate is just one of the great pents&mdash;continues to set new attendance and mutuel records, sock car racing, harness racing, oftball, soccer, the &ldquo;Big Swims&rdquo; the Canadian National Exhibiron, wrestling&mdash;in fact, just about every sport you can name seems to be enjoying a boom.Toronto has long been a city of Champions. The Toronto Maple Leafs, current Stanley Cup holders, have won professional hockey&rsquo;s top honors five times in the last seven years and seven times in the 24-year history of the club. Before the Maple Leafs came on the scene, such Toronto teams as St. Pat&rsquo;s, the Arenas and the Torontos captured Stanley Cup laurels, thus giving the city a record of 10 championships since 1914. Its amateur hockey teams, too, have compiled gaudy records. Eight of her senior teams have won the Allan cup, emblematic of the Canadian Amateur Championship, and two of these teams, the Granites and the Varsity Grads, were two of the greatest representatives of Canada in Olympic hockey competition. The Memorial Cup, symbol of Junior hockey tupremacy in the Dominion, has been won by Toronto teams on seven occasions since its advent in 1919.No football team in Canada is better known than the famed Toronto Argonauts. Current defending Canadian senior champions, the Double Blue has never been beaten in Grey Cup championship competition. In the final on seven occasions, Argos have been crowned Grey Cup champions seven times.In soccer, Ulster United of Toronto are the present Dominion champions. In softball, which has always been a flourishing sport in the city. Peoples of Toronto won a recent Canadian championship tournament. Sculling, always a popular pastime, has produced from Toronto such Giants of the sport as Ned Hanlan, Lou Scholes, Joe Wright, Jack Guest, all winners of the famed Diamond Sculls competition at Henley, England, and now, in Jack Guest, Jr., another potential champion. Great swimmers, too, have emanated from Toronto, the famed George Young first winner of the Catalina Marathon, for example. And more recently Winnie Roach, Lueszler, who this summer became the first Canadian to ever swim the treacherous English Channel.And so it goes. Great athletes, great names have made the City of Toronto famous. Of them all the Toronto Maple Leafs of hockey fame have undoubtedly been the best sports advertisement for the Queen City down through the years. The Leafs, in fact, are as renowned in hockey as the New York Yankees are in baseball. Until they appeared on the professional hockey scene, the play-for-pay competitors took a back seat to the amateurs in Toronto&rsquo;s fan interest, but within five years from their initial appearance in N.H.L., the Toronto Maple Leafs were the best-known group of athletes in Canada and an estimated two million fans in all parts of the country followed their fortunes via the radio.The Maple Leafs made their N. H.L. debut in the 1927-28 season, but pro hockey in Toronto actually commenced in1912. At the time a young Montreal business man named Billy Bellingham decided that Toronto was a likely spot for a pro team in the National Hockey Association, fore-runner of the N.H.L. He financed the erection of a new arena, the Mutual Street Arena, and the city&rsquo;s first prc hockey championship was won by Torontos who took the Stanley Cup honors in the 1912-13 season. Another team, the Tecumsehs, a name more famed for lacrosse success, operated during the same season and there were such teams as the Ontarios, Shamrocks and the 228th Battalion representing Toronto in the monied ranks before the Arenas came along to corral the City&rsquo;s second Stanley Cup title in the 1917-18 season. In that season the National Hockey Association had been supplanted by the National Hockey League and Toronto thus became the first winner of the N. H.L. championship.Charlie Querrie was the manager of the Champion Arenas and players included Happy Holmes in goal; Harry Cameron, and Harry Mummery, Ken Randall, Reg Noble, Rusty Crawford, Harry Meeking, Corbett Dennenny.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-021580/8556448-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1195" height="1548"><figcaption class="caption-body">Conn Smythe, left, president and general manager of the Leafs shows off the Stanley and Memorial Cups with Coach Joe Primeau.</figcaption></div>Two years later pro hockey was in a bad way. The arena management had no inclination to finance the team any longer, so Querrie, Paul Cicero, Frank Heffermau, Harvey Sproule, Percy and Fred Hambly chipped in and bought the franchise, sticks, uniforms and ice privileges for a mere $2,000. They changed the name to St. Pat&rsquo;s won the Stanley Cup in the 1921-22 season, and in 1927. Going nowhere fast, the franchise was sold for $160,000 to a group of young Toronto sportsmen led by Conn Smythe, Ed Bickle and the late Peter G. Campbell.Smythe and Co. changed the name to Maple Leafs, adopted the now-famed blue and white colors, and put pro hockey in Toronto on the map. By 1930 interest in the play-for pay brand of hockey had increased to such proportions that the Mutual Street Arena couldn&rsquo;t accomodate the number of people who wanted to see the pros perform and the result was the erection in 1931 of Maple Leaf Gardens, one of the most beautiful arenas on the continent.The building of the palatial ice palace removed the last vestige of leaky-roof atmosphere from hockey in Toronto. It gave the monied game a touch of class. Box seats were ocupied, in the main, by the city&rsquo;s leading citizens and dress suits and beautiful evening gowns gave a Metropolitan Opera air to those early games in such plus surroundings, the Maple Leafs performed in regal manner and won the Stanley Cup in the 1931-32 season.Ten years elapsed before the City of Toronto was to honor another Stanley Cup winner. But in 1941-42, making the greatest comeback in pro hockey annals, the Leafs, after losing the first three games of the finals to Detroit, took the next four and the championship. They won again in 1944-45 and since then the Stanley Cup has almost become part and parcel of everyday life in Toronto. The Leafs won it in 1947, 1948 and 1949.&mdash;The first time any N.H.L. team had every taken the famed trophy three years in succession&mdash;&ldquo;Missed in 1950 but came back last spring to win the 1951 championship. &#9632;

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Toronto Opens Arms For 1951 All-Stars

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-12" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1245/8556632-1-eng-US/f0004-122.jpg"></div>&mdash;1947&mdash;Played at Toronto, October 13, a crowd of 14,169 contributed a gross gate of $25,865.40. Score was 4-3 for the All-Stars.N.H.L. ALL-STARS:Goal, Duman (Canadiens) and Brimsek (Boston); Defence, Bouchard (Canadiens), Reardon (Canadiens), J. Stewart (Detroit) and Quackenbush (Detroit); Forwards, M. Bentley (Chicago), D. Bentley (Chicago), Mosienko (Chicago), Warwick (Rangers), Richard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Lindsay (Detroit), Dumart (Boston), Schmidt (Boston), Bauer (Boston) and Les wick (Rangers). Coach, Dick Irvin (Canadiens).TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS:Goal, Broda; Defence, Goldham, Stanowski, Mortson, Thomson and Barilko; Fowards, Watson, N. Metz, Poile, Kennedy, Apps, Ezinicki, Lynn, Meeker, G. Stewart, Klukay and Mackell. Coach, Hap Day.Referee, King Clancy; Linesmen, Ed Mepham and Jim Primeau.&mdash;1948&mdash;Played at Chicago, November 3, a crowd of 12,794 contributed a gross gate of $23,018. Score was 3-1 for the All-Stars.N.H.L. ALL-STARS:Goal, Brimsek (Boston) and Dnman (Canadiens); Defence, J. Stewart (Detroit), Quackenbush (Detroit), Colville (Rangers), Reardon (Canadiens) and Bouchard (Canadiens); Fowards, Lindsay (Detroit),*D. Bentley (Chicago), Richard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Howe (Detroit), G. Stewart (Chicago), Dumart (Boston), Schmidt (Boston), Lach (Canadiens), Leswick (Rangers) and Poile (Chicago). Coach, Tommy Ivan (Detroit).TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS:Goal, Broda; Defence, Thomson. Mortson, Boesch, Barilko, Mathers and Juzda; Forwards, Watson, M. Bentley, Klukay, Kennedy, Meeker, Ezinicki, Lynn, Costello, Mackell and Gardner. Coach. Hap Day.Referee, Bill Chadwick; Linesmen, Sam Babcock and Mush March.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1326/8556625-1-eng-US/f0004-132.jpg" title="f0004-13" width="1165" height="305"></div>&mdash;1949&mdash;Played at Toronto, October 10, a crowd of 13,541 contributed a gross gate of $25,920.75. Score was 3-1 for the All-Stars. N.H.L. ALL-STARS:Goal, Durnan (Canadiens) and Rayner (Rangers); Defence, Stewart (Detroit), Goldham (Chicago), Egan (Rangers), Quackenbush (Boston), Harmon (Canadiens) and Reardon (Canadiens); Forwards, O&rsquo;Connor (Rangers), R. Conacher (Chicago), D. Bentley (Chicago), Mosienko (Chicago), Richard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Abel (Detroit). Howe (Detroit), Lindsay (Detroit), Leswick (Rangers) and Ronty (Boston). Coach, Tommy Ivan (Detroit). TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS:Goal, Broda; Defence, Thomson, Boesch, Juzda and Barilko; Forwards, Watson, M. Bentley, Klukay, Meeker, Lynn, Mackell, Kennedy, Gardner, Timgren, Dawes and Smith. Coach, Hap Day.Referee. Bill Chadwick; Linesmen, Ed Mepham and Jim Primeau.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1416/8556618-1-eng-US/f0004-142.jpg" title="f0004-14" width="1166" height="257"></div>&mdash;1950&mdash;Played at Detroit, October 8, a crowd of 9,166 contributed a gross gate of $17,512.80. Score was 7-1 for the Detroit Red Wings.N.H.L. ALL-STARSGoal, Rayner (Rangers) and Broda (Toronto); (Chicago), Mortson (Toronto), Thomson (Toronto), Harmon (Canadiens), Quackenbush (Boston) and Bouchard (Canadiens); Forwards, D. Bentley (Chicago), Mosienko (Chicago), Richard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Kennedy (Toronto), Leswick (Rangers), Ronty (Boston), Peirson (Boston) and Smith (Toronto). Coach, Lynn Patrick (Boston) DETROIT RED WINGS:Goal, Sawchuk; Defence, Goldham, Kelly, Reise, Fogolin. Pronovost;. Forwards, Lindsay, Gee, Howe, Peters, Stewart, Abel, Prystai, Pavelich, McFadden, Carveth, Black. Coach, Tommy Ivan.Referee, George Gravel; Linesmen, George Hayes and Doug Young.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1512/8556611-1-eng-US/f0004-152.jpg" title="f0004-15" width="1165" height="356"></div> &#9632;

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The Last Four Games

<div class="byline">By ED FITKIN</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Most Big Time Hockey coaches who could ice a starting array of Terry Sawchuk in goal, Red Kelly and Bill Quackenbush on defense, and Milt Schmidt, Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay for offensive blitzness would presumably be in a Seventh Heaven of coaching delight. But not Gentleman Joe Primeau.The former playmaking ace of hockey&rsquo;s famed Kid Line who piloted the Toronto Maple Leafs to Stanley Cup heights last spring in his first fling as an N.H.L. mastermind has been given the assignment of handling the First All-Star team against Dick Irvin&rsquo;s Second All-Star squad in the annual &ldquo;Dream Game&rdquo; at Maple Leaf Gardens, Tues., Oct. 9. But even armed with the six stalwart gladiators who were considered tops in the league last winter, Joe isn&rsquo;t at all confident of victory.He was having lunch in the Gardens&rsquo; Grill one noon hour when he was shown a newspaper containing a list of players picked by Irvin for the &ldquo;Night of Stars&rdquo; duel. Primeau studied Irvin&rsquo;s selects, frowned and shook his head.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to have our work cut out to win that game,&rdquo; he remarked. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s quite a team Irvin has picked. A solid team. Five good defensemen, plenty of power and plenty of balance.&rdquo;Briefly, Irvin&rsquo;s players include the Second All-Star team of Chuck Rayner, goal; Jim Thomson and Leo Reise, defense; Ted Kennedy and Sid Abel, centre; Maurice (Rocket) Richard, right wing; Sid Smith, left wing. Supplementing these aces are such stars of the Toronto Leafs and Montreal Canadiens as Max Bentley, Tod Sloan, Harry Watson, Gus Mortson, Doug Harvey, Butch Bouchard, Gerry McNeil, Floyd Curry and Paul Meger. A potent array, as Primeau conceded.What has he got to compare with it?Well, the Toronto coach, had his choice of eleven additional players from the four United States Clubs. On a representative basis, it might be pointed out. So, of the 17 players Primeau will handle, six are from Chicago, four each from Detroit and. Boston, and three from New York Rangers.<h2>Gets Defensive Strength</h2>Joe dug deeply into the ranks of the Black Hawks for defensive strength. He named Harry Lumley to share netmindng duties with brilliant young Terry Sawchuk, the Detroit ace. And he chose Bill Gadsby and Lee Fogolin of the Hawks to bolster his defense.&ldquo;I picked them because they play it rugged,&rdquo; Joe explained. &ldquo;My first defense pair, Kelly and Quackenbush, Isn&rsquo;t noted for heavy-hitting. Those boys go in for stickwork and finesse. Gadsby and Fogolin like to hit &rsquo;em. So does Allan Stanley (Rangers). He&rsquo;s my fifth man. A good, rugged player.&rdquo;Primeau, with Milt Schmidt as his No 1 centre, added a couple of playmaking Fancy Dans from the Rangers&mdash;Don (Bones) Raleigh and Reg Sinclair&mdash;and the veteran Doug Bentley of the Hawks. &ldquo;Raleigh rates in my book as one of the cleverest playmakers in the league.So is Doug Bentley, who&rsquo;s had a great record in hockey and has plenty of experience.&rdquo;Primeau took two Bruins for right wing chores. He wanted Bill Ezinicki as one but, at the time supplementary players were being selected, Ezzy was a doubtful N.H.L. performer. There was talk that he was considering retirement from hockey. So Primeau picked Johnny Peirson, a youngster he rates as one of the best prospects in the league, and, in lieu of Ezinicki, the Boston club suggested Eddie Sandford as a Bruin worthy of All-Star recognition.&ldquo;Sandford&rsquo;s a centre, I know,&rdquo; Primeau remarked, &ldquo;but he can play right wing and he should prove an asset.&rdquo;Two Chicago aces, Roy Conacher and Pete Babando, round out the left-wing patrol. &ldquo;Roy has always been one of the game&rsquo;s best goal-getters,&rdquo; Primeau said, &ldquo;and Babando won the world&rsquo;s championship for Detroit a couple of seasons back. He had a good record with Chicago last winter. He&rsquo;s fast, a good checker and he can go get you a goal on his own.&rdquo;So that&rsquo;s his team How does he intend to align them against the Second All-Star squad?&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; Primeau said, &ldquo;the way I understand it from President Campbell, the players selected by the sportswriters for the first and second teams are supposed to play against each other throughout the game. That means we&rsquo;ll have Schmidt, Howe and Lindsay going against either Kennedy or Abel, Richard and Smith. I figure on using Raleigh, Peirson and Roy Conacher together and they&rsquo;ll probably oppose Bentley, Sloan and Watson. Then I&rsquo;ve got Laprade, Sandford and Babando, with Doug Bentley in reserve, to put against whatever third line Irvin sends out.&rdquo;Primeau studied his line-up, compared it with Irvin&rsquo;s team, and shook his head again.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to have our work cut out,&rdquo; he reiterated, &ldquo;It looks to me like a real, tough go. That other team is so well-balanced.&rdquo;Yet, looking over Primeau&rsquo;s team, there doesn&rsquo;t seem to be any absence of power apparent, either. And Gentleman Joe, the only coach in hockey history to ever win Memorial Cup, Allan Cup and Stanley Cup championships, would like to add another feather to his hockey cap&mdash;coaching the winning team in an N.H.L. All-Star game.<h2>The Strategists</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-10132/8556580-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="588" height="807"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK IRVIN</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1179/8556573-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="607" height="811"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOE PRIMEAU</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Primeau Looks Over Irvin’s Club--Expects Real Tough Go

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-011961/8556663-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Irvin, coach of the N.H.L.&rsquo;s second All-Star team is shown fitting little Gerry McNeil with the sweater he will wear when he takes over from Chuck Rayner sometime during the night of October 9. Irvin chose McNeil over Al Rollins as sub to Rayner despite the fact that Rollins won the Vezina Trophy, was on a Stanley Cup winner and nearly chosen as rookie-of-the-year. But Irvin laughed it all off by casually remarking: &ldquo;McNeil is a much better goaler.&rdquo; Next Tuesday night will tell.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;They don&rsquo;t call Dick Irvin the Grey Fox for nothing. He may have startled the hockey world by chosing McNeil over Rollins for his second All-Star club but he didn&rsquo;t startle one Dick Irvin. The Maestro from Les Canadiens has been hatching this plan since way back in early August after he had sold his fantail pigeons, wiped the dust and wheat chaff from his coveralls and he and his family boarded an eastbound, waiving good-bye to Regina and hello to Montreal. Perhaps he&rsquo;s been hatching it even longer. for according to Irvin, Rollins himself talked McNeil right into the All-Star post as sub to Chuck Rayner.Asked if there was anything personal in his choice Irvin merely nodded: &ldquo;The only thing personal about it all is that personally I think McNeil 13 a much better goaler than Rollins.&rdquo;Why is everybody so up in the air over the choice? Well Rollins won the Vezina Trophy last season and was beaten out by Sawchuk at the finishing line in the race for the rookie-of-the-year honors. It will mark the first time in the history of the All-Star games that the Vesina Trophy winner did not take part in the annual game and it will also mark the first time that a Leafs&rsquo; goaler has not seen action.That Rollins talked Gerry into the All-Star game,&rdquo; laughed Irvin. &ldquo;I remember sometime ago when Rollins told the press that without Richard the Canadiens were Just a good senior team. At first I didn&rsquo;t believe he said that but some of my players, who come from the west say he did.&ldquo;Well, we&rsquo;ll see how McNeil does with a good team in front of him. I know he is much better than Rollins and besides I want the best players on my team&mdash;I don&rsquo;t consider Mr. Rollins a very good goaler.&rdquo;Irvin is going into this game with ears and eyes open. He&rsquo;s using every form of trickery to get his club on top. His main aim is to win the game and his second is to embarrass as many newspapermen as he can. Irvin believes, like many others that his team is better than the first. If it&rsquo;s embarrassing tor the newspapermen then Irvin will love it all the more: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mind making it embarrassing for them, they have made it very embarrassing for me on many occasions.&rdquo;Put Irvin can be a sincere guy, too. He is looking at this game from a very sane angle. &ldquo;These games are very important to our game,&rdquo; said Dick. &ldquo;They help our player&rsquo;s pension fund greatly and it also helps to put our game over. I feel that it&rsquo;s a great honor to coach a club in this game&mdash;and an even greater honor to win it.&rdquo;The Great One is not leaving any hatches open. He wants to win and won&rsquo;t spare the gas to mako the first team look as though they Should have been the 10th team. His defense will be as strong as possible. With Reise and Thomson he&rsquo;ll pair Bouchard and Harvey from his o.vn club. His only regret is that Bill Barilko has not been found. For, although Barilko had done much damage to the Canadiens in the past Irvin still thinks the blonde from Timmins is the toughest and roughest in the league. He is hoping that by the night of the 9th of October Barilko will come forth from the north country, don a pair of skates and make his debut on Maple Leaf Gardens&rsquo; ice wearing the colors of the second All-Star team.On the forward lines Irvin will have Richard, Kennedy and Sid Smith as one unit with Abel, Watson and Sloan as his second. His third line will be made up of Max Bentley at center with Paul Meger and Floyd Curry on the Wings.&ldquo;I still have the right to pick one more man. But I&rsquo;ll not in any hurry. I&rsquo;m going to wait until &lsquo;he very last minute&mdash;find out who&rsquo;s really hot on the Canadiens and then put him on my team, said Dick.So, if on the night of October 9th the second All-Star team should happen to beat the pants off the first team, feel happy for the second team, sorry for the first and even sorrier for those newspapermen who chose the&rsquo; two teams. If his team wins Irvin will never let those scribes forget that they picked the Whole thabang.<h2>Just A Dress Rehersal &#9632;</h2>

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Irvin Cuts Down Rollins, Puts Wee Gerry In His Spot

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The 1951-52 All-Star game will not only be a contest between the first and second teams but it will come close to being a contest between players representing the NHL in &lsquo;the United States against those playing in Canada.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-021405/8556694-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="308" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>Only three players and a coach are misplaced. Three players who perform for NHL teams in the States are on the second team. Joe Primeau coach of the Leafs will handle the first team.The three players are Chuck Rayner in goal, Sid Abel at center and Leo Reise on defense. Those are the only players on the second whose home team is in an American cityThe first team Is completely listed with players from across the border. Only Primeau represents either Montreal or Toronto on that club.This is how the lineup will read: First team: Joe Primeau, coach (Toronto) defense. Red Red Kelly (Detroit) Bill Quackenbush (Boston), center, Milt Schmidt (Boston), right wing, Gordie Howe (Detroit), left wing, Ted Lindsay (Detroit). The alternates which Primeau has picked are from the four American clubs. &#9632;

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Game Close To States, Canada One

<div class="byline">By ED FITKIN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03911/8556725-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL BARILKO&hellip; THE &ldquo;KID&rdquo;</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Dick Irvin, famed grey eagle of Montreal Canadiens and the man who will guide the Second All-Star team in the annual All-Star game at Toronto, ticked off the names of the players he had selected&ldquo;There&rsquo;s one other fellow I&rsquo;d sure like to see out there with us and that&rsquo;s Bill Barilko.&rdquo;But Bashin Bill, the colorful, confident, hard-hitting young defenseman of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the hero of last year&rsquo;s victory over Irvin&rsquo;s Canadiens, has disappeared somewhere in the vast lake-studded woodland of Northern Ontario.He and Dr. Henry Hudson, Timmins dentist, took off from Rupert House on James Bay in Hudson&rsquo;s plane on Monday, Aug. 27 on the last leg of their return flight from Seal River to Timmins, and haven&rsquo;t been heard from since. No clue to their whereabouts, or their possible fate, has been uncovered, at this writing, despite one of the most intensive searches ever conducted by the Royal Canadian Air Force.Gusty, good-natured, full of exuberance on and off the ice, Barilko was the man of the hour on April 21 of this year. It was Bashin&rsquo; Bill, as he was invariably known to sportswriters, who broke up the fifth and final sudden-death Stanley Cup duel between the Leafs and Canadiens when he romped in from the blueline to lash a backhander of Howie Meeker&rsquo;s passout into the Montreal net.Barilko&rsquo;s goal climaxed a sensational comeback by the Leafs who had tied the score at 2-2 with only 32 seconds of regulation time to play, and it gave them the series, 4 games to 1, each game requiring sudden-death play to determine a winner. To Canadiens, it was ironic that Barilko should emerge as the Stanley Cup hero. His shattering body checks were disliked so intensely that one Montreal club executive remarked: &ldquo;I hate that Barilko so much, I sure wish we had him with Canadiens.&rdquo;It was Barilko who deprived Montreal of victory in the first game when he threw himself full length across the Toronto net to deflect a sure-goal shot by Rocket Richard over the top of the cage. A few minutes later the Leafs scored the winning goal, and Conn Smythe said later: &ldquo;We wouldn&rsquo;t be feeling so good right now if it hadn&rsquo;t been for Barilko. That was really the old college try.&rdquo;The &ldquo;old college try&rdquo; typified Barilko. His rise to N.H.L. stardom read like something out of Horatio Alger. He was little more than a juvenile playing for the Hollywood wolves in the Pacific coast League in the 1946-47 season when his big chance came.In February, 1947, Smythe was frantically trying to get help for his Leaf defense corps which had been decimated by injuries. He got in touch with Pittsburgh, then Hollywood. Tommy Anderson, former N.H.L. star with New York Americans and playing-coach of the Hollywood team, was high in his praise of Barilko, the 19-year-old rookie who was his defense partner. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s pretty green,&rdquo; Anderson said, &ldquo;but he&rsquo;s a big boy, not afraid of anyone and he learns fast.&rdquo;The choice finally narrowed down to a veteran defenseman with Pittsburgh and young Barilko. Smythe picked Barilko. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve done pretty well with young fellows,&rdquo; he said &ldquo;I&rsquo;m willing to gamble on another one.&rdquo;Ordered to report to the Leafs, Barilko had to travel by plane, train and then by taxi from Buffalo to Toronto in order to arrive by the designated time. He reached Toronto in the midst of one of the heaviest snow storms in years but when he bounced into the team&rsquo;s dressing room for a practice at Varsity Arena, the youngster from the sunny climate of California startled sportswriters by declaring: &ldquo;Brother, the sun is really shining now!&rdquo;And for young Bill Barilko, it really was. He was a big, blond, rugged youngster with a pleasant smile for everybody (except incoming forwards) and a lot of confidence in his ability to make good. He referred to himself as &ldquo;The Kid&rdquo; even in conversation. He was asked how he figured he&rsquo;d make out in the Big Time and his answer was typical.&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry about the Kid,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re not chasin&rsquo; The Kid back to Hollywood. This is something I&rsquo;ve always dreamed of and I&rsquo;m aimin&rsquo; to stay around.&rdquo;He did, too, despite a debut that was anything but sensational. In his first game, Canadiens walloped the Leafs, 8-2, at the Forum and Barilko was on for quite a few of the goals. But he also demonstrated that he could dispense devastating body checks.Expert tutoring by Hap Day and Barilko soon became a big man on the Leaf defense. Rival players tried to keep clear of his punishing hip checks. Elmer Lach once termed his &ldquo;the hardest hitter in the league&rdquo; and added &ldquo;When he hits you, he hurts you&rdquo;Once a Leaf, he remained, as he had vowed, a Leaf. Last winter he couldn&rsquo;t get going through the early stages of the league race but came on briskly in the final stages and his performances, defensively and offensively, in the playoffs played a major part in Toronto&rsquo;s ultimate Stanley Cup conquest. &#9632;

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Barilko Would Have Been An Irvin Choice

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY Founded. October 1, 1947Published by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY Circulation Room 204, King&rsquo;s Hall Bldg., 1231 Ste. Catherine Street West. Montreal 25, Que. Advertising & Editorial 603A Sun Life Bldg., 1155 Metcalfe St., Montreal 2, Que.Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 in Canada&mdash;$4.00 In U.S.A.Authorized as second class mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa.Entered as second class mall at the Post Office Buffalo, N.Y., and Saint Albans. Vt. 3679 to the Hockey News Company, Boom 204, King&rsquo;s Hall Bldg., 1231 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Printed in CanadaVol 5 October, 6th No. 1<h2>Fifth Edition of a Great Event</h2>Hockey&rsquo;s great pre-season show, the Annual All-Star Game, makes its fifth stand next Tuesday night, October 9, when the greats of the National Hockey League tangle at Toronto. It&rsquo;s always a memorable event, but changes in the regulations for this year&rsquo;s game promise to make it the most notable of all.Because this year for the first time since the annual production got underway, it will in reality be an &ldquo;All-Star&rdquo; game through, and through. The rules provide that both teams will be made up of players selected as the best at their position throughout the League. Under the previous plans, the All-Stars formed one team and then played the current edition of the team which won the Stanley Cup the season before.Not that the first four games haven&rsquo;t been worth every penny of the customer&rsquo;s money and every moment of his time. Far from it. They have supplied action and thrills, drama and moments of highlight like last season&rsquo;s 7-1 drubbing handed the Stars by the Detroit Red Wings.The one serious drawback was that, as provided in the rules, any members of the Cup winners chosen to All-Star spots had to play with their own squad in the annual game. Thus, as was the case last year, the fans saw only a partial All-Star team playing together, and the results were rather disastrous for the top-line boysBut next Tuesday, when the teams skate out on the ice, the fans will see a real power-packed collection of players. Arrayed on one side will be the six men who captured first place rating in the balloting of sports writers and radio experts. Opposing them will be the alternate choices, and as substitutes on each side will be others of the loop&rsquo;s leading lights.It should be quite a battle, and best of all will give the second guessers a good chance to judge their dissenting opinions. As is the case whenever All-Stars are chosen in any sport, there are always those who disagree with the first place selections. Now, they will be lined up against the runner-ups, position for position, and actual performance on the ice will tell the tale in the heat of battle!Incidentally, this will be the third of the annual games played in Toronto, due to that city&rsquo;s penchant for collecting Stanley Cups&mdash;the basis for selecting the site of the contest. Toronto played host in the first, third and now the fifth edition. Chicago was the scene of the second game, and Detroit drew the assignment last season.<h2>His Name Will Live On</h2>Sir Hugh Montagu Allan, the man who donated what was once the most coveted trophy in Canadian amateur hockey, is dead. In his passing, Canada loses one of its prominent citizens, and hockey loses a man who, back in the early, struggling days, gave the game a vitally needed boost.For, while the famed Allan Cup has now been relegated&mdash;we can hope it is only temporarily&mdash;to the status of a second-class trophy, there was a time when its name was magic in the world of hockey. Now it is little more than an intermediate trophy, with the big-money amateurs competing for the shiny new Alexander Cup. But at one time it was the prize for which the top amateur teams of Canada staged some stirring battles.Sir Hugh Montagu Allan, who died recently at his Montreal home at the age of 90, donated the Allan Cup back before the turn of the century after the professionals had taken over the Stanley Cup, once the emblem of amateur supremacy.The amateurs needed a trophy to compete for, to maintain interest and develop young player in centres which couldn&rsquo;t afford the financial drain of pro hockey. Sir Hugh Montagu Allan, a prominent businessman and financier, donated a trophy to help these struggling amateurs along, and over the years the feats of competing teams have added lustre to it. Whatever happens in the future, the record books will still reserve an important place for the Allan Cup&mdash;perpetuating the name of the man who gave it. &#9632;

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-012171/8556780-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2>Habs&rsquo; Gaining Fans</h2>Dear Sir:After reading a letter in your corner suggesting Montreal Canadians* games be broadcast every second week, I decided I would write my first letter to you.I am 100% in favor of this idea and am sure it would be gratefully received.No longer is Montreal representing a French speaking people but all different kinds all across Canada. Despite the fact that Toronto Maple Leafs get all the publicty and the network broadcasting, Montreal is steadily gaining popularity every day and in some sections greatly outnumbers all others.F. Roy Smith. Marigomish, N.S.<h2>Who is Bodnar?</h2>Dear Sir,I am renewing my subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS for another year. I want to congratulate you on your fine paper. Seeing that the editors do not refuse to publish letters of other subscribers and fans that are even less in the know than I am, I figured I might as well try my luck and have a few words in there to.I&rsquo;m refering to the letter by Michael Vasil, published in THE HOCKEY NEWS of September 15th issue. His beefing about Bodnar sounds so wonderful that probably Bodnar himself wouldn&rsquo;t believe it. In his letter he states that Bodnar is the best player Chicago has or will have. I wonder if he knows that Lumley, Stewart, Gadsby and a few others are still with Chicago. Who knows in the near future one of the great stars like Richard, Howe or Lindsay might be sold or traded to the Hawks and where would that put him?He even goes as far as to say that Bodnar was the best player Toronto Maple Leafs had. I see that he still remembers Max Bentley. It is no use mentioning the same of the great Syl Apps to this fellow Vasil as he doesn&rsquo;t seem to remember him, even though he was on the same Toronto team.I&rsquo;m sure many hockey fans will agree with me that Bodnar has a long way to go, even though he&rsquo;s a fine little hockey player, before he passes the records that Syl Apps holds.M. Dolinar. Sudbury, Ont.<h2>Split Broadcasts</h2>Dear Sir,The suggestion that the hockey broadcasts should be split every other week between Toronto and Montreal is a good one.We have only two Canadian hockey clubs in the big league so the right thing to do would be to alternate the broadcasts between Toronto and Montreal.No doubt the Imperial Oil Company will agree that such a program would create still more interest in hockey.John Romanus. Kelvington, Sask.<h2>Downright Downhearted</h2>Dear Sir;I do not profess to possess powers of prognostigation, for only a fortuante fortuneteller could favourably figure the first all-star team as concocted by the wizardly woe begotten writers of our delicate day and age.I was despondent, despairing, depressed, disillusioned, dissappointed, dejected, disconcerted and down in the dumps when the dastardly, dreadful, disgraceful deed was disclosed of dropping the deftest center in the league, Ted Kennedy to the degredation of second fiddle to Milt Schmidt and to add Insult to Injury, to the same category as Sid Abel.Ted Cooley. Toronto, Ont.<h2>Fixing an Argument</h2>Dear Sir:As a native of Regina, Saskatchewan, now living in the USA, I wish to congratulate you on your paper. It&rsquo;s my only contact with my favourite sport, and much pleasure is mine following the teams and progress of the players, some of whom I know personally.There are many times while living here I find myself in an argument (Or I should say constructive criticism) about my national sport. The latest is from a fellow from Minneapolis, about the number of Americans playing in the N.H.L. Could you please help me on this with names and places of birth, if possible?Al Yarton. Long Beach, Calif.(Well Al, we hope you don&rsquo;t lose any money rrom our answer. There is only one player now in the N.H.L. who was born in the United States and has actually retained his American citizenship. He is Pete Babando of the Chicago Black Hawks, Pete was born in Braeburn, Pa. but moved to Canada at a very tender age. Others who have performed in the league and may possibly be back are Nornle Dussault of Montreal (Springfield, Mass.) Billy Moe of Hershey (Danvers, Mass.) Ivan Irwin who is trying out for Montreal but who played for Cincinnati last season was born in Chicago. Does that help you?)<h2>All About Book</h2>Dear Sir:I am a very keen hockey fan and have followed the sport for several years. A few months ago I subscribed to THE HOCKEY NEWS and I think it&rsquo;s a wonderful paper.Could you tell me where I could obtain several good books of instruction on hockey and how much they would cost? I am also interested in buying any second-hand books on hockey anyone would like to sell. Have the 1950-51 revisions of the N.H.L. Record Book been published? When the hockey seasons starts if anyone would be interested in trading any hockey programs for N. Y. Ranger programs, please write me.Roger Bies. 14 Park Lane, Springfield, N.J.(We would suggest that you write to Gerry Cosby and Co., at 12 West, 48th Street in New York City. I believe they carry such books. The 1950-51. Revisions will not be published this year.)<h2>Check Out Wise Guys</h2>Dear Sir,I noticed that Frank Boucher finally came out and admitted that hockey needs a draft system the same as baseball has. I believe that with such a system hockey would fare much better. There would be less bickering and unwarrented charges that pros are trying to bleed the poor old amateurs dry. The amateurs themselves are to blame. They have been so generous with their money for the past few seasons that players lover to stay in the simon pure ranks. Now that they have run short of the necessary cash to keep up with the players they Immediately run wild with accusations about the professionals controlling players and hockey in general. Perhaps If those amateurs smartened up and began to realize that professional hockey is the backbone of our national sport our game would be better off. Either that or check out the wise guys who are no longer able to take the public for all they have.Mike Kenton, Guelph, Ont.<h2>Yea, The Rovers</h2>Dear Sir,In a New York newspaper recently, It was stated that the New York Rovers of the EAHL would disband. As a rabid hockey fan in the New York area, I would be robbed of many enjoyable Sunday afternoons if this&rsquo; move is completed. The Rovers have received very bad publicity in this area. If the Rovers do continue I wish there would be some space given to them in the New York papers. After a road game, there is nothing about the Rovers in the papers and after a home game a small article. Publicity would improve the crowds. A few years ago the Rovers drew about 10,000 each game. Now they average 4,000. I wish you would publish this letter as it might help the Rovers stay in New York. Here&rsquo;s hope for hockey greatest year in 1951-52. If the Hawks of Chicago make one good try, the NHL will be great.Sanford Zwickler. Brooklyn 14, N.Y.<h2>Here&rsquo;s Hoping</h2>Dear Sir,Your editorial in a recent-issue of the HOCKEY NEWS was 100% correct. I speak of the one which refers to the fans of Chicago rallying to the White Sox, who have produced a winner. Mr. Tobin had better take note and do the same with his long-faltering Black Hawks.The Sox made some very wise deals which strengthened weak spots. They made these deals with material from a second division club, too.,Chi-fans have backed a poor rate hockey club in our town for years now. It&rsquo;s come to the point where a lot of the fans open the season not with a &ldquo;O mon team&rdquo; attitude, but rather with a skeptical, &ldquo;Show me&rdquo; air. So it&rsquo;s up to the Hawks to do just that.Also, they might take note that spirited play is winning for the Sox. We need more. Here&rsquo;s hoping the Hawks will follow the winning ways of the &ldquo;Pride of Chicago&rdquo; this year.R. Westenberg. Chicago, Ill.<h2>DID YOU RECEIVE A NOTICE?</h2>It it eur pol.cy to notify all tubscribers well in advance of the expiration of their subscriptiont.The ever-increating demand for THE HOCKEY NEW$ meant that mott issues are practically told out before the printing it completed; and that copiet are teldom available for mailing to tubscribers who ore even one issue in arrears.Subscribers receiving &ldquo;expiration&rdquo; notification are reminded that, to make certain of continued receipt of THE HOCKEY NEW$ it it necessary to tend us their renewal ordert promptly.If you have renewed your subscription then disregard our notice. &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-021425/8556811-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="594" height="287"></div><h2>OCTOBER 2 to OCTOBER 9</h2>2&mdash;PETERS, Jim: Chicago, forward, 1922.3&mdash;HEBENTON, Andy: Victoria, forward, 1929; CASANATO, Sam: Syracuse, forward, 1928.4&mdash;McLEOD, Hartley: Indianapolis, forward, 1927.5&mdash;CONACHER, Roy; Chicago, forward, 19166&mdash;MALONEY, Phil: Pittsburgh, forward, 1927.7 BOUCHER, Frank: Manager, New York. 1901; MORRISON Rod: Indianapolis, forward 1925.8&mdash;O&rsquo;GRADY, Francis: Indianapolis, forward, 1929.9&mdash;KULLMAN, Arnie: Hershey forward, 1927. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-021317/8556873-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Broda slops one in his First All-Star game.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Veteran Turk Broda of the Leafs will be missing from the 1951-52 star studded All-Star Game. It will be the first time he has failed to dress for the annual classic.Possibly Broda&rsquo;s greatest disappointment of the four games he played was the fact that he never was on the winning side. In the first three games he performed for the Leafs&rsquo; against the All-Stars and the latter won each game. Last year he played for the All-Stars and the Detroit Red Wings became the first club to defeat the dream team&mdash;and they did it going away, 7-1.In the first All-Star game Broda was shaded by Bill Durnan and Frankie Brimsek. The Leafs with Turk in goal, Goldham, Stanowski, Mortson, Thomson, Stewart, Watson, Nick Metz, Lynn, Meeker, Klukay and Mackell, took a two goals lead by 1:03 of the second period. Watson put the Leafs ahead in the first period when he took a pass from Ezinicki and Apps and whipped it past Durnan. Apps was actually the star of the game, scoring one goal and assisting on the other two for the Leafs.Ezinicki made it 2-0 for the Leafs at 1:03 of the middle frame with Apps and Watson drawing assists. Max Bentley got one back for the Stars before Apps got the Leafs&rsquo; last goal. Grant Warwick then playing for the Rangers made it 3-2 when he converted a Laprade, Ken Reardon pass past Broda.Broda&rsquo;s downfall came in the first few minutes of the last period. After just 28 seconds had been played Richard got his first All-Star goal when he netted one unassisted. Less than a minute later Doug Bentley scored what turned out to be the winning goal when he whipped Schmidt&rsquo;s pass into the cage. Richard also drew an assist on that one. The score ended 4-3 in favor of the Stars.The second contest finished 3-1 in favor of the N.H.L. club and Broda had many new faces in front of him for this game. Boesch, Mathers, Juzda, Max Bentley, Costello and Gardner had joined the Leafs with Apps and Nick Metz retiring and Stanowski going to Rangers. Gaye Stewart and Bud Poile with Bob Goldham had gone to Chicago for Bentley.Actually Broda had made the All-Star team that season but was permitted to play for the Leafs in the game. It was Brimsek and Durnan who won the glory that year as well. All the scoring was done in the second period with Lindsay, Dumart and Gaye Stewart tallying for the Stars and Max Bentley getting the lone counter for the Leafs. It was in thesecond period of that game that the first major penalty was given out in an All-Star tilt. Referee Bill Chadwick meted it to Gordie Howe for fighting with Gus Mortson.The third game also finished 3-1 in favor of the All-Stars and this time Durnan and Rayner took the victory at the expense of Broda. Goldham, Ronty and Doug Bentley scored for the Stars and Barilko got the lone tally for the Leafs.Last season, for the first time Broda actually played for the All-Stars. He shared the goaling duties with Rayner. But neither had much luck in holding off the powerful wings and particularly Ted Lindsay. Broda took over from Rayner at the half way mark in the game and allowed four goals. Peters, Pavellch, Prystal and Lindsay each scored against Broda as the All-Stars took the wost beating of the four games. Lindsay personally took care of things when he netted the first hat trick in All-Star history. He got one against Broda and two against Rayner.<h2>The Stars Foretold &#9632;</h2>

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Turk Broda Will Miss First All-Star Game

<div class="byline">By FRED ROBERTS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03823/8556904-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wee Willie Mosienko, the Chicago Black Hawks great little forward is shown above being wheeled out of Maple Leaf Gardens after he fractured his leg in the 1947-48 All-Star game. Mosienko&rsquo;s injury has been the most serious of any ever incurred in All-Star play.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;With the All-Star game just around the corner, hockey moguls traditionally are burdened with one less worry than their contemporaries in the football field.For unlike the pigskin pastime with its annual epidemic of injuries sustained in preseason exhibition tilts, hockey has known only one serious injury to a player in the four years since the hockey classic was Inaugurated in 1947.That first NHL All-Star game was mayhem from start to finish and it was no surprise to the 14,318 fans after the tilt when they learned that Bill Moslenko had suffered a fractured left ankle during the second period. They knew something tragic had happened when the starry Chicago Black Hawks playmaker was crashed to the ice by a jarring body-check by Jimmy Thompson and had to be carried from the ice. There was no penalty on the play.<h2>Only One Casualty</h2>The surprising feature was that Mosienko was the only casualty from a game crammed from start to finish with forceful body contact and some super-feuding between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadien All-Star defencemen Butch Bouchard and Ken Reardon.The All-Stars won the classic 4 to 3 but at the loss of Mosienko&rsquo;s badly needed services to the Hawks for several critical weeks of the season.The All-Stars made it two straight in the second get-together in-1948, again over Toronto Maple Leafs, by a 3-1 score.This game was marred only by a rousing bout of fisticuffs between two hockey enemies of many a previous NHL campaign-&mdash;Detroit&rsquo;s Gordon Howe and Toronto&rsquo;s Gus Mortson. Both Mortson and Howe swung wildly with their fists, scoring several points in a boxing sense and major penalties hockey-wise.The only other Indication of violence in this contest came in an otherwise dull third period when Toronto&rsquo;s Jimmy Thompson&mdash;who dumped Mosienko in the preceding contest&mdash;tangled briefly with Montreal&rsquo;s Maurice Richard. They were pulled apart after exchanging a few shoves and hot words but no baymakers. This, the second of a series of games to raise money for the NHL players&rsquo; pension fund, was staged in Chicago before 12,681 apparently satisfied customers.In 1949 the All-Stars did it again, trouncing Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 on Toronto ice before a capacity crowd, their third straight victory in as many starts against the perennial subway-city champs.<h2>Chose To Feuds</h2>There were stormy spots in the game and it might have been even more torrid had not the arbiters quickly extinguished the feud that started to blaze between Rocket Richard and Toronto defenceman Bill Judza. The violence was restricted to hard body crashes and the Rocket took one bad crash in the exchange with the stocky rearguard.There was more near-feuding near the end when Ranger&rsquo;s Pat Egan, Sid Smith and Judza got into a three-corner squabble from which Egan and Smith drew penalties.The All-Stars suffered their first set-back last year when the Detroit Red Wings ran them ragged by a 7-1 count in Detroit, before a near-capacity crowd of well over 11,000.Neither memory or the records recall any outstanding clashes between players and the only violence was probably suppressed in the breasts of the playing customers at the ragged performance of the 1950 edition of the game&rsquo;s All-Stars.<h2>The First Casualty &#9632;</h2>

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All-Star Games Have Sidetracked Serious Injuries Since 1947-48 Fray

<div class="byline">by Len Bramson</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-011973/8556842-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="338" height="529"></div>&bull; WHEN LEO REISE&rsquo;S father came out of retirement to coach Brantford many years ago he stepped into the arena in that city and was amazed to see so many red and blue lines all over the ice.&bull; LEO HAD BEEN farming around Hamilton, Ontario and hadn&rsquo;t seen a game in over 10 years. He&rsquo;d never heard of the center ice red line, the icing lines or the faceoff circles.The first morning Reise arrived at the arena he called his faltering team together for a talk. Then he ordered his players to get dressed for their first practice under their new coach. Reise put on his skates and went out with his boys. He looked up and down the rink in amazement and then called his skating players to the center of the rink:&ldquo;From now on we&rsquo;re going to eat, sleep and talk hockey 24 hours a day,&rdquo; he warned. Then pointing to the red line, lie added, &ldquo;but the first thing we&rsquo;ll do is get these darn curling marks off the ice so we can practice.&rdquo;&bull; It was back in the 1938-39 season that Toe Blake had his best year in hockey. Blake, then playing for the Montreal Canadiens led the league in scoring, won the Hart Trophy and made the All-Star team and in fact was named Canada&rsquo;s outstanding athlete.So it was with great pride that Toe boarded a westbound train heading for Coniston, Ontario. He was sure that there would be brass bands and crowds to greet him when he stepped from the train at his little home town.But when Toe arrived it was a different story. There was no band, no flags and, in fact, no crowd.Feeling rather low Blake picked up his bag and started up the platform. On his way out he hailed the local expressman.&ldquo;Hi, Toe,&rdquo; came back the reply, &ldquo;ya going away?&rdquo;&bull; MODERN GOALERS should be quite thankful they don&rsquo;t have to face some of the handicaps that Red McCusker did many years ago in Regina.McCusker, a fighting, colorful character, performed in an arena that featured an overhanging balcony which was directly over his goal.Consequently, customers in the front row took great delight in chewing great wads of tobacco and using the back of McCusker&rsquo;s neck for a target. Often the puck would go by him when he was momentarily blinded by tobacco juice.One night the customers supplemented tobacco with missiles, ranging from eggs to coal. The game took four hours to play and Red was knocked unconscious three times. But he came back to finish up the game with his head swathed in bandages.&bull; WHEN PAT EGAN was playing with the New York Americans a few years back he just about ran the team. Manager Red Dutton tried everything to get the &lsquo;Box Car&rsquo; to settle down. Finally, in a fit of anger Dutton imposed a 12:30 curfew on his players and on Egan in particular.That same morning he called Egan&rsquo;s room at three o&rsquo;clock and the lovable Irishman wasn&rsquo;t in.Early the next morning Egan was on the carpet in front of Dutton, who was ready to impose a $200 fine.&ldquo;Why do you think put that curfew on?&rdquo; asked Dutton.&ldquo;So we&rsquo;d get to bed early,&rdquo; replied Egan.&ldquo;But you don&rsquo;t like curfews. You like to do as you please, don&rsquo;t you?&rdquo; said Red.&ldquo;No. sir,&rdquo; said Egan.&ldquo;Say, do you think you&rsquo;re having a good year?&rdquo; asked Dutton.&ldquo;No sir, I don&rsquo;t,&rdquo; came the reply.&ldquo;But you do think you&rsquo;re a big shot all-star hockey player, don&rsquo;t you?&rdquo; barked Red.That did it. Egan, red in the face looked Dutton square in the eyes and bellowed right back. &ldquo;If I thought I was a big shot hockey player 1 wouldn&rsquo;t be playing for you for a crumby 33,500 a year, would I?&rdquo;With that Egan hit Dutton for a hundred dollar advance on his pay and walked out. &#9632;

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Ice Chips

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-021541/8556966-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg"></div>Back in 1919 when I started to write National League hockey as a regular thing, players did not enjoy their present status, either in salary, prestige, or in a Business way. It is doubtful If there was a player in the league who earned more than 12.500. Stanley Cup money on an Individual basis was around 3400 for players on the winning team. In 1923 Ottawa players received $750 each, which was tops up to that time. There was no talk then even of a future as coaches, because there were few teams, and it looked at the time as though the coaches who were also manager, were destined to become &ldquo;life members&rdquo; of their organizations.For instance in the N.II.L. around that time the coaches were lusty Tommy Gorman with Cttawas, versatile Leo Dandurand with Canadiens&rsquo; Charlie Querrie with St. Fats, and if we remember rightly Percy Thompson with Hamilton, Later of course the situation changed in the N.H.L. but out west there were men like Wes Champ in Regina, Kenny Mackenzie, no relation to our Ken; the Patricks in Victoria and Vancouver, who were rink owners, players and general managers among other things. Newsy Lalonde wag at Saskatoon as a playing coach, and Robby Rowe was at Portland.It wasn&rsquo;t till Maroons, Boston, New York, and Pittsburgh camo into the setup that there was a swing in the direction of the old player as a coach. Art Ross moved into Boston, Odle Cleghorn into Pittsburgh, Jimmy Gardner into Few York and Eddie Gerard Into Montreal to handle Maroons.<h2>BIG MONEY STARTED WITH MAROONS</h2>We guess the big money era started when Maroons stepped into the picture. Legend has it that Dune Munro received in cash and business considerations as much as $22,500 each season over a three year span. Which made him the highest paid player in the history of the game. Anyway from there on salaries zoomed. Harry Watson of Granite fame spurned a $100V0 a year offer to join Maroons.Ching Johnson, the Couk Brothers and Frank Boucher stepped Into high brackets in New York with Rangers. Howie Morenz, greatest player of his era who had signed for an insignificant $1,600 some years before, was aide to dazzle his admirers with a lavish scale of living, and spending that matched the best efforts of the most munificent of the Maroons, bar Munro, one of the last of the great hockey spenders.Organization tightened. Weak teams were dropped, the league became more compact. Connie Smythe, shrewd and far seeing, came into the game preaching a doctrine of thrift for his players, making deals which for audacity and long term returns have been unequalled lu his time,Fans gasped when almost a whole league was sold by the Patricks and their auxiliaries for $350,000. The deal was completed when Charles F. Adams of Boston underwrote the project. Out of it he got Eddie Shore, Harry Oliver and others who helped build Bruins into a mighty menacing machine for years. Others he sold around the circuit. Smythe bought Frank Clancy for $35,000 and two players. Maroons paid $22,500 and Harry Broadbent for Hooley Smith.Frank Ahearn of Ottawa unable to keep pace with the dizzy financial setup, smartly cut his losses by selling his players as he went along gathering in some $120,000 in the process. Ten year* before this era such goings on would have sounded fantastic to even the most optimistic magnate or hockey follower. It all indicated a trend. Hockey was not only a game, it was becoming big business. It attracted men of vision and showmanship. Salaries became stabilized. As the league survived depression, only to be plunged into the maelstrom of war, it was assured financial survival at least, though the quality of play naturally deteriorated under the exigencies of war time pressure.<h2>HOCKEY IS NOW A BIG BUSINESS</h2>After the death of Frank Calder, former N.H.L. president, and the interim term of Red Dutton, the present incumbent Clarence Capbell developed the present Insurance plan. His plans were greetd with acclaim by players They were enthusiastic in helping him to frame a workable deal, through the suggestions of Syl Apps and Glen Harmon in particular.The All Star game idea was suggested as one means of addin? Incentive to the project. They have been great, successes. A levy was imposed on Stanley Cup playoff tickets. The fund was bedrocked in this way. Players of course paid the essential premiums. Out of it all came a scheme by which a ten year player for instance when fourty five gets something like SB&rsquo;S a month for the rest of his life. Those who serve in lesser measure are compensated in comparative fashion.So all in all the lot of the hockey player has risen to heights undreamed of even twenty years ago. Whereas in those days pro hockey was a good deal of a haphazard pastime, it is now a career. It is on industry so far as the magnates are concerned, edged with the sharp points of competition.Young players can now look forward to some semblance of financial security when their playing days are over. The game offers in a pension way much of the protection afforded in most industries. Those who play it are highly respected, endowed with prestige, prominence and often social distinctions. &#9632;

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The Passing Sport Show

<div class="byline">By VERN DeGEER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-012063/8556935-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Smythe, in formal attire gives advice to Hap Day In that memorable Boston game.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The way I get it, the idea of his proud parents was that their son should go through life as Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe.It was never destined, however that anybody should either write the script or play the leading role as boy and man, but the fellow himself.At a tender &lsquo;teen age he decided the name should be &ldquo;Conn&rdquo; after an Irish king who had fought a hundred battles.Today the man who had fought more battles than his Irish namesake, on behalf of his beloved Toronto Maple Leafs, the Maple Leaf Gardens, his war-time 30th Battery, and countless charities stands exposed.He dropped two decisions, both to newspapermen, and they&rsquo;re probably the only setbacks he&rsquo;s secretly relished&mdash;a rare concession for one of sport&rsquo;s most bombastic balls of fire. The fellow described as a &ldquo;conglomeration of opposites.&rdquo;Decision Number One, which doesn&rsquo;t show in Nat Fleischer&rsquo;s Record Book, nor anywhere else, was scored by Ralph Allen, now editor of Maclean&rsquo;s Magazine. Number Two went to Ted Reeve, sports columnist for the Toronto Telegram.The buttons almost burst from Major Smythe&rsquo;s uniform one afternoon on a parade ground at Victoria, B.C. when his 30th Battery was drilling early in the Second World War. Five sturdy sergeants stiffened as the Major barked a drill command.As the story goes, the Major didn&rsquo;t quite follow the script of the army manual. Four sergeants, however, provided the correcting echo for their charges, who acted accordingly.<h2>A Dignified Occasion</h2>Sergeant Allen, a stickler for accuracy, as well as discipline, echoed his Major, but without the correcting note&mdash;and the parade was topsy turvy. So was the Major, in several languages, including the sign.Without going into the gory details, suffice to say Sergeant Allen stuck to his dear old Bofor gun, a most commendable effort on the part of a former Globe and Mail sports writer who probably couldn&rsquo;t his a cow in the derriere at 20 paces, and with a handful of wheat.The case of Ted &ldquo;Durante&rdquo; Reeve was more delicate, but Smythe loved it just the same. The Major decided &ldquo;Old Bones&rdquo; was cut out as a natural officer material for his anti-aircraft unit. He used all manner of Smythlan gile, disarming syrup, and some of his better growls. Even some of Ted&rsquo;s favorite tonic.Irish Conn didn&rsquo;t gain an inch. Reeve had enlisted as a private, and he intended to remain a private for the duration, come hell, high water, or Smythe. Decision too.On the other side of the ledger and still in personal vein, one of the most highly publicized decisions credited to the man who has sparked Toronto Leafs to five Stanley Cup championships in the last seven tries, was a Boston dilly.It was in pre-war times. General Manager Ross of Mie Bruins, through the newspapers, had demanded that Smythe &ldquo;show more dignity&rdquo; in his conduct during visits of the Leafs to Beantown. Conn had been deriving maniacal glee out of Boston situations, although never once losing sight of the box office attention they created.Next trip the Leafs made to Boston Conn warned Boston newspapermen to be prepared for a society item worthy of Cape Cod&rsquo;s Lodges and Cabots.His Boston Garden entry was electrifying to say the least. Parading to his seat beside the Toronto bench was Conn, a breath of Old England&rsquo;s satorial splendor. He was arrayed in silk topper, cutaway coat, striped trousers, white scarf and gloves and spats.Never had there been such an entrance.The stunt was so effective Conn smuggled the idea back to Toronto in a cutaway pocket and when &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Horner was married, the sports pages took over with pictures featuring Baldy Cotton, Joe Primeau, King Clancy and Hap Day rigged out in similar trimmings.They say they had to hog-tie Clancy and hire a couple of blacksmiths to pour him into the modish raiment.Another decision for the fellow who&rsquo;s always written his own script and then climsed into the principal role. &#9632;

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Decisions Lost By Mr. Smythe Can Be Counted On One Hand

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-011881/8557011-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-021291/8557004-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="868" height="1227"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03786/8556997-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="854" height="1227"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marty Pavelich of the Detroit Red Wings is a versatile young man who is at home on the diamond, left, on ice, center-or on the golf course, right. But come what may Pavelich&rsquo;s first love is hockey and he&rsquo;s expected to be a big help to the Wings during the 1951-52 season.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Pavelich Came Up A Long Tough Road

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04598/8557042-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marty can remember back to the days not too many years ago when he used to dream of being a N.H.L. star just like the kids of today. The fact that he is an established National Leaguer hasn&rsquo;t turned his head one bit. He is never too big nor too busy to sign a kid&rsquo;s autograph book or give some advice. For that reason he&rsquo;s Sault&rsquo;s most popular guy.</figcaption></div>SAULT STE. MARIE. Ont.&mdash;The Marty Pavelich story is a story of a youngster setting a goal, hard-rock determination and plenty of plain hard work. The handsome, immensely-popular 172-pound Sault Ste. Marie youth has come a loug, long way from the day a Minister pulled him out of a thin-ice creek to save his life to the big day he became a solid regular with his beloved Detroit Red Wings.As a mere lad of seven he took all sorts of crazy chances after his mother innocently enough bought him his first pair of skates as a-birthday present. He ran wild on icy streets skating his fool head off.; knocked people down on the streets when Ice formed and he could skate on them; drove his mother literally crazy by skating on deep creeks no matter how little ice they had.Reverend Allan Dyke happened to be walking past a creek near Marty&rsquo;s home one blizzardy day in January, 1935, when he saw the daring &ldquo;kid&rdquo; break through the thin ice. The Minister dashed to Marty&rsquo;s rescue, just saved him in time and led the freezing, dripping &ldquo;kid&rdquo; to his mother.<h2>A Spanking For Marty</h2>&ldquo;I had to do something to try and make Marty understand the risks he was taking so I gave him a good spanking where I thought it would hurt most,&rdquo; affable, kindly Mrs. Rose Krmpotich, Marty&rsquo;s mother, told The Hockey News in an interview. (When Marty&rsquo;s father, Martin Pavelich passed away in 1938, Mrs. Pavelich re-married). But Marty&rsquo;s mother agreed it didn&rsquo;t do much good.&ldquo;That crazy Marty used to take those skates to bed with him; he was afraid somebody would swipe them on him. He would skate from morning to night,&rdquo; she revealed.When he reached eight years, Marty learned to play &ldquo;shinny&rdquo; with older boys and &ldquo;bugged&rdquo; them so much they gave in and let him play. When he got down to playing hockey he adopted the Detroit Red Wings (&ldquo;I really can&rsquo;t explain why&hellip;&rdquo;) as his team. He scanned all the papers and cut out pictures of Les Douglas, Don Grosso (Sault Ste. Marie&rsquo;s gift to the NHL), Larry Aurie, Ebbie oodfellow and other reigning stars of the day.<h2>Hockey Picture Walls</h2>&ldquo;The walls of Marty&rsquo;s room were completely covered with these hockey pictures. I would take some down and right away more would go up; all of Detroit Red Wings,&rdquo; Mother Pavelich told us. &ldquo;What could a mother do with a kid like that?&rdquo;As Marty grew into a sturdy youngster, he skated more and more; never missed a chance to play hockey with older boys. By the time he finished David Kyle Elementary School here at the age of 14, he ate and slept hockey. At night he dreamt of playing for the Detroit Red Wings.&ldquo;Marty, there must have been some really good reason you wanted to be a Red Wing,&rdquo; we asked him. &ldquo;Why wasn&rsquo;t it Toronto Maple Leafs or Montreal Canadiens, or one of the other bigtime teams?&rdquo;&ldquo;Jack, I really can&rsquo;t explain it. Right when I was young and first able to read about sports I somehow took to the Red Wings. Later, when our own Don Grosso made the jump to Detroit to be the first Sault Ste. Marie player to make the NHL, I knew that my feeling about Detroit was right.&rdquo;Marty played his first organized hockey at Public School when he reached 10 years. He started out a centre, the youngest player on the school team and by the time he graduated developed into one of the most promising &ldquo;bantam&rdquo; players in the rabid hockey centre of Sault Ste. Marie.<h2>Planned Career Early</h2>The hockey germ got into every vein in Marty&rsquo;s body by the time he was ready to enter Secondary School here.&ldquo;I knew when I was 14 that I wanted to make hockey my career. Even in summer, all I could think about was hockey. I used to take my stick and shoot pucks at our garage door. I played baseball, softball, and competed in track and field events but my heart was in hockey,&rdquo; Marty said.Marty got his first big break on the long climb up the ladder to success when he decided to enter Sault Ste. Marie Technical School where the sport-wise Ben C. Littner was athletic director. Ben Littner is the type of man who is completely unselfish and eager to do anything he can to help out a youngster who really wants to improve his game.Marty put it this way:&ldquo;Ben Littner was like a father to me at Tech. He knew I was crazy about hockey and spent countless hours teaching me the basic fundamentals&mdash;proper skating style, passing, shooting and checking. He impressed on me the absolute necessity of sound physical conditioning. He encouraged me to continue hockey because he felt I would never be happy doing anything else. He made me exercise, take part in other sports to build up my body. One man I will never forget is Ben Littner. He has done a lot for many other hockey players, too.&rdquo; (Among them, Joe Klukay).Playing for Mr. Littner in 1943, Marty was the No. 1 centre on the Tech team that blazed through all opposition winning the city title without a single defeat. It was one of the best school teams (if not the best) ever seen in this city. Marty scored over 60-points that season and was used by Littner on his Soo Rapids, NOHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; champions, also.<h2>HE CAN REMEMBER WHEN!</h2>Marty played several games with the junior team while only 15 and it was while he did thia that wily Freddy Cox, Detroit Red Wing scout and majordomo of Galt Red Wings, (Detroit&rsquo;s junior farm club), spotted him as a potential NHL player.Marty quickly signed a Detroit tryout-slip (as they called the forms then) and at 16 years was shipped to Galt.&ldquo;Marty I want you to continue in school. I don&rsquo;t want you to go away just to play hockey,&rdquo; Marty&rsquo;s mother pleaded.&ldquo;Mom, I Want to make good in hockey; I think I can become a star someday and now I have my chance. I must go,&rdquo; Marty replied hoping his anxious mother would understand. Being the kind of mother she is, she gave her son her blessing, said a prayer in her Yugoslavian tongue and saw Marty oft to Galt for the 1944-45 season.&ldquo;I left the Soo wanting my mother to feel proud of me. I wanted this more than anything else in the world,&rdquo; Marty explained. &ldquo;I made up my mind I wouldn&rsquo;t come back home until I made good.&rdquo;With a burning ambition to make good, Marty worked hard at Galt. Here was his proving ground; here were the crossroads.Working under Coach Al Murray, The Soo&rsquo;s Marty improved. Like Ben Littner, Galt&rsquo;s Al Murray stressed the vital need for clean-living, proper rest, good food, exercise. Having this important phase drilled into him early aided Marty&rsquo;s rise to the top.In his first year with Galt, Marty scored 38 points in 21 games. He played the first ten games as centre, then Murray switched him to left wing in a shift of players. That year Galt lost out to St. Mike&rsquo;s in the Junior OHA playoffs. Marty worked with such starts as Gordie Howe, Pete Babando and Lee Fogolin on that year&rsquo;s Galt teams. Gus Mortson, Jimmy Thomson and Ed Sandford played on the St. Mike&rsquo;s team which licked Galt.<h2>&ldquo;Hard Work The Price&rdquo;</h2>Marty realized that it was going to take a lot of hard work to get to the NHL and he simply made up his mind he was going to work hard. It was blood, sweat and tears, but he promised his mother he was going to make good and jump to the big-time. This promise became something sacred to the likeable kid.The hard work started to payoff in the 1945-46 season at Galt. Weighing 165 pounds, Marty lined up with Lyle Wiseman on right wing and Bill Curik at centre to form the team&rsquo;s top line. This trio formed the highest-scoring line in the league that year and Marty ended up with 58 points to place fourth in the OHA scoring race.This might be a tunny thing to write at this stage of the story, but I always felt Marty was just too nice of a guy to become an NHL star. He was soft-spoken, always willing to do anything in the world for anyone and utterly-devoted to his family. Now, these are good qualities, granted, but knowing Marty all my life, I felt he lacked that driving-punch, that Lindsay-type fire that may make the difference of making good in the competitive big-time.Fortunately for Marty, he acquired this fire at Galt. In the 1946-47 season, the famous Norman Himes took over as coach at Galt. He liked Marty and the way he worked so hard to make good. Himes instilled the fight and fire into Marty. Hockey-wise people know that Jack Adams wants hard-fighting, fiercely-competitive players on his robust Detroit club. Marty got this at Galt and by getting it climbed up several rungs of the ladder to success.Now 18, Marty worked on the top line with Lyle Wiseman on right wing and Bert Giesebrecht (today a red-hot Red Wing prospect). Marty got 59 points that season despite being out six weeks with a knee injury.He saw his hopes for a Galt victory in the playoffs dashed when the red-hot St. Mike&rsquo;s once again knocked them out in the playoffs. But Marty&rsquo;s big thrill was to come. Right after the final playoff game that season, Himes called the eager Soo &ldquo;kid&rdquo; to his sporting-goods store. Marty had just played terrific hockey for Galt in the playoffs and he felt pretty bad about losing.He didn&rsquo;t know what was in store for him at Himes&rsquo; store and went in wondering what the sudden summons was all about. What happened soon made him forget about the loss in the OHA playoffs.Himes didn&rsquo;t waste any time telling Marty what was up.&ldquo;Kid, you&rsquo;re going to Detroit. Start packing. They want you up there for the Stanley Cup playoffs against Toronto. You&rsquo;ve worked hard, played swell hockey for me; now get up there and make good.&rdquo;Marty almost went through the floor but did manage to get to Detroit. However, he sat on the bench and saw no action.&ldquo;But, boy, was it a thrill to get on the ice with the Red Wings. At last I felt my dream coming true.&rdquo; he related. &ldquo;It felt wonderful even to skate beside such players as Syd Abel, Roy Conacher, Adam Brown Jack Stewart and Ted Lindsay.&rdquo;<h2>Adams Gives Blessings</h2>The rest of the Marty Pavelich Story races along as though some fiction writer had a. hand in it.Jack Adams and Coach Tommy Ivan liked Pavelich; they liked his spirit, his ability, his fine physique and his burning ambition. They lost little time signing him up as a pro. Marty started out the 1947-48 season with Indianapolis Capitols after a bang-up showing at the fall training camp at Waterloo, Ontario. He scored often and was one of the most promising rookies at camp.He played 20 games with the Caps, then got a call to come to Detroit for a two-game trial. He did not see action in the first game, but in the second got one of the biggest thrills of his entire life.He no sooner got on the Ice in his first real NHL test when he actually got his first big goal. Here&rsquo;s what happened: He was playing with Gordie. Howe. The big Howe rifled a blazing shot at Emil (The Cat) Francis in the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; net Francis saved, but failed to clear the puck. Alert and eager, the speedy Pavelich pounced on the puck and blasted it past Francis.That goal seemed to set the pattern for the rest of Marty&rsquo;s story. He finished out the season with. Detroit and developed into one of the big-time&rsquo;s best-looking rookies. He scored 19 points.The next year, Marty worked on the third line with Bep Guidolin and Jim McFadden and get 10 goals and 16 assists.Marty got eight goals and 15 assists in the regular 1949-50 season and played outstanding hockey in the Wings&rsquo; march to the Stanley Cup as he got four goals and two assists in the playoffs against Toronto.Last season, he developed into one of the best defensive players in the league and formed one of the top penalty-killing units with Jimmy Peters. Working on the second line, he got nine goals and 20 assists even though he was out of action with a shoulder injury for three weeks.<h2>Looks For 45 Points</h2>As the 1951-52 season nears, Marty at a robust 23 years and weighing 172 is in the best condition of his entire career. Playing baseball and golf throughout the summer has helped him keep fit and he feels he is in for the best season.&ldquo;I feel right now that I can hit the 45-point mark this season.&rdquo;As the fall-training camp of the Detroit Red Wings got underway in September at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Jack Adams and Tommy Ivan said:&ldquo;We are counting heavily on Marty this year. He is one of our most reliable, hardest-working players and we see no reason why he can&rsquo;t hit stardom with a bang this year.&rdquo;Marty was certainly a house afire as training camp opened and if faith, hard-work and burning ambition have anything to do with it, he will soon be an All-star.Right now, two people are might happy; Marty&rsquo;s mother for getting him those skates away back in 1934, and Rev. Dyke for pulling him out of that creek in 1935.Since then, Marty has come a long, long way. &#9632;

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Adams Expects Marty Will Hit Stardon In ’51 Chose To Play With Wings As He Grew Older

<div class="byline">By ROLLY ETHIER</div>NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;Two straight exhibition shellackings from the potent Detroit Red Wings have failed to dampen the optimism of president W. J. (Bill) Tobin and coach Ebbie Goodfellow as far as their 1951-52 edition of the Chicago Black Hawks are concerned.Hawks, the most remodelled squad in the National Hockey League, recently absorbed 3-0 and 5-1 defeats at the hands of the better conditioned Detroiters.Goodfellow has been whipping his charges through their paces feverishly in a determined effort to ice a winning club for the faithful Chihawk fans this season.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not too concerned over those two losses to Detroit. They had an edge of 11 days training on us and that certainly was a determining factor. If you&rsquo;ll notice the Wings scored five of their eight goals in the two games in the final period indicating our lack of adequate conditioning,&rdquo; the Hawk leader remarked here recently.Goodfellow also attributed injuries as another influencing development In their double loss to the NHL champs.Both Clare Martin and Max McNab, obtained from Detroit during the summer in the big $75,000 deal, were sidelined in training scrimmages. Big Al Dewsbury suffered a broken thumb and speed-merchant Bill Mosienko incurred an eight-stitch gash on the forehead in the second game of the set-to with Detroit. &ldquo;Mosie&rdquo; was high-sticked by the NHL&rsquo;s top scorer Gordie Howe, who was banished with a major penalty as a result.On top of that, the Chicago crew played without the services of Black Jack Stewart, Doug Bentley and Roy-Conacher.Stewart is being given plenty of time for his injured back to heal. He sustained a spinal injury last December and it was doubtful whether the sturdy all-star defenceman would ever play again. However, the Pilot Mound. Man., native has made a remarkable recovery.Bentley and Conacher arrived too late at camp to play in the Detroit series.&ldquo;This year&rsquo;s Black Hawks are a rough-tough squad and we intend to mix it with any team in the league that wants to get rugged. This Chihawk team will be at least 25 per cent stronger than last year,&rdquo; Goodfellow has pointed out.Rookie prize of the Black Hawk camp has been a rugged 19-year-old kid named Fred Hucul, who hails from Esten, Saskatchewan. A defenceman when he arrived at camp, Hucul has been converted into a forward. His moxie and hustle has the Chicago brass delighted. It is likely that Hucul will be wearing a Chihawk uniform when the NHL season opens.Goodfellow has been grooming Fred for a left wing spot on Chicago&rsquo;s number one line with George Gee and Jimmy Peters.Another line likely to stick together has Jim McFadden operating in the pivot spot with Pete Babando and Bill Mosienko on the wings. Roy Conacher. Jim Conacher and Gus Bodnar may work on another attacking unit with Doug Beutley, Bep Guidolln and Max McNab linked on a fourth string line.Goodfellow&rsquo;s pick of the six defensemen he wants wearing Hawk colors are Jack Stewart, Clare Raglan, Bill Gadsby, Clare Martin, Al Dewsbury, and Lee Fogolin.Bentley will be shooting to break the all-time point scoring record held by Bill Cowley and needs only 21 points to eclipse the mark. Durable Doug will be starting his 12th year with the Windy City Braves.One spot where the Chicagoans are not worried is in goal where apple-cheeked Harry Lumley is likely to once again pose as a difficult obstacle for rival NHL marksmen.President Bill Tobin has boldly stated that the Hawks will be better than both Boston Bruins and New York Rangers and maybe Montreal Canadiens. This bit of crystal gazing would mean that the Hawks would be In the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since the spring of 1947.<h2>Six Coaches&hellip; No New Faces&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-012032/8557108-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="580" height="611"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOE PRIMEAU (Toronto)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-021465/8557101-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="584" height="611"><figcaption class="caption-body">NEIL COLVILLE (New York)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03913/8557094-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="560" height="617"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK IRVIN (Montreal)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-011793/8557087-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="592" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOMMY IVAN (Detroit)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-021289/8557080-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="593" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body">LYNN PATRICK (Boston)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03860/8557073-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="592" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body">EBBIE GOODFELLOW (Chicago)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Tobin Boasts His Hawks Will Ton Bruins, Rangers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04622/8557153-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg"></div><h2>Well Represented</h2>Four other Notional league elubo are reprrwtited on the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; tram thio eeaaon. When the Canadlenn purchased Johnny McCormack from the Leaf# it meant that every team except the Rangers have dealt a player to the Ilnbe. But the Habo don&rsquo;t mind&mdash;they feel that each will torn out to be big gun in their attack.<h2>Open Early</h2>The National Hockey League schedule will be pried open two day earlier that the American League which la very Annual. In the pant the A.H.L. always opened before the major loop. This season the N.H.L. open no on the 11th of October with Chicago at Montreal and Hoeton at Detroit. The A.H.L. open on the 13th with St. Ixraia at Herahey.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05451/8557146-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="3061" height="1619"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04659/8557139-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="3188" height="1582"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK MORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;Coaching in the American Hockey League, like that in any other circuit, is a precarious profession.Nevertheless, only two of the bench bosses who finished the A.H.L. 9 campaign last year will be missing when the 1951-52 campaign opens.Johnny Mitchell, peppery little mentor of the St. Louis Flyers a year ago, has been promoted to &ldquo;troubleshooter&rdquo; for the Chicago Black Hawks organization. Mud Bruneteau, fresh from several successful seasons at Omaha in the defunct U.S. League, was named to replace Mitchell.Tommy (Cowboy) Anderson, who recently was picked to guide Calgary&rsquo;s new pro entry, left the Pittsburgh Hornets job open for Frank (King) Clancy.The colorful King, in turn, was succeeded at Cincinnati, where he held sway the past two seasons, by Clint Smith, the one-time National League ace backchecker.The only other switch in the coaching ranks was more in the way of a &ldquo;mass movement&rdquo; from Springfield to Syracuse than an individual change.Frank (Butch) Beisler, who started the 1950-51 season as coach of the New Haven Eagles and finished up at Springfield, was picked to &ldquo;swing the gate&rdquo; for the new Syracuse entry. Syracuse is succeeding Springfield in the Eastern Division.<h2>Cook Is Back With Barons</h2>The dean of American League coaches&mdash;and the most successful&mdash;Fred (Bun) Cook is back at the Cleveland helm for the ninth straight year. Prior to succeeding brother Bill in the Ohio city in 1943-44, Bun led the Providence Reds for three campaigns.The Reds, incidentally, once again will be piloted by dapper Terry Reardon. It will be Terry&rsquo;s fifth year at Providence, the longest any coach has directed the Rhode Islanders in over a decade.Ott Heller, who for a time appeared destined to wear a New York Ranger uniform forever, will continue developing talent at Indianapolis for the parent Detroit Red Wings. Heller, one of the oldest active campaigner in the ice sport, took over at Indianapolis four years ago.LeRoy (Goldy) Goldsworthy, a member of the Buffalo Bisons when the Queen City club entered the A.H.L. 12 years ago, has agreed to terms for his fifth season as coach of the Herd.Actually, the popular man from Edmonton will be starting only his third consecutive season. He was replaced by Hector (Toe) Blake before the 1948-49 season opened.However, in mid-season when the &ldquo;Old Lamplighter&rdquo; and General Manager Art Chapman found that they had a difference of opinion over what constitutes &ldquo;interference&rdquo; with a coach, Goldsworthy was brought back from the U.S. League where he was operating Buffalo&rsquo;s Houston farm club.At Hershey, Gentleman Jack Crawford, who made a fine impression in his freshman year as a coach in 1950-51, once again will direct the Bears on the ice.So, it&rsquo;s quite evident that despite the uncertainty of the job, coaching can be more than a one year proposition&mdash;at least. It is in the A.H.L. this season. &#9632;

Two ’50-51 AHL Coaches Not Around This Semester

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The &ldquo;Campbell Circle&rdquo; is getting warm praise from Detroit players and officials.They expressed approval after testing the proposed new faceoff circle in exhibition games. They hope it will be adopted officially.The new circle, 10 feet bigger in diameter, replaces the two smaller faceoff circles at each end of the ice. It was conceived by Clarence Campbell, NHL prexy, and is undergoing trials by all clubs in exhibition. The surpreme test comes, in the All Star Game at Toronto Oct. 9.After that NHL officials will decide whether it comes off pobation and becomes official.While Campbell states his original purpose of the change was to liven up offensive play in the attacking zone, various Wings found another result more apparent.Capt. Sid Abel called the new circle a &ldquo;break&rdquo; for the defending team, in that it gives two avenues of escape from the end of the rink, up each boards.Coach Tommy Ivan commented that players will &ldquo;have to think more about freezing the puck, now&hellip;and there shouldn&rsquo;t be BO much of such freezing anyway with the better openings for the defending teams.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-011975/8557215-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="309" height="467"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Ivan</figcaption></div><h2>108 Years Together</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-021552/8557208-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1795" height="1231"><figcaption class="caption-body">Conn Smythe, president and managing director of the Toronto Maple Leaf totals up the number of years he and five compatriates have been together. It totalled 108 years. Seated, left, Hap Day, assistant general manager of the Leafs and Smythe. Standing, left to right: Bob Davidson, King Clancy, Reg Hamilton and Joe Primeau.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Wings Approve Prexy’s New Faceoff Circle

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-011795/8557277-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="301" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gus Kyle</figcaption></div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s chances of making the Boston Bruins a championship contender this season probably depend most on the ability of a half-dozen players to play better than they ever have before.Patrick, whose coaching debut at Boston last year resulted in a fourth-place finish for the Bruins, is supervising the pre-season practice of nearly three dozen skaters at the spacious Hershey rink.If he knew what the future held for a mere handful of his charges, however, he could probably slice his squad to workable size right now.Question marks who may hold the answers to the Bruins&rsquo; finish are Left Wings Lorne Ferguson and Dave Creighton, Center Eddie Sandford, Right Wing John Peirson and Eddie Kryzanowski, carried on the Bruins&rsquo; roster as a defenseman.<h2>Ferguson Did O.K.</h2>Ferguson did a satisfactory job as a major league freshman last winter, impressing Patrick with his determination and hustle. The 21-year-old husky scored 16 goals, second-high in the league Tor a first-year man.Patrick hopes, with justification, that Ferguson will be steadier as a sophomore, and that he will increase his scoring punch as a result.Creighton is the 21-year-old giant from Port Arthur who played on and off for the Bruins for two seasons. Toward the end of last year, particularly in an emergency role during the playoffs with Toronto, big Dave showed signs of reaching his peak of coordination, of shedding the signs of awkwardness which were previously visible.Patrick has believed for a long time that Creighton has the knack of scoring, but the husky blond&rsquo;s Inability to untrack himself has hampered his progress.Sandford has been the successor to Capt. Milt Schmidt as the Bruins&rsquo; &ldquo;hard luck&rdquo; player. The curly-haired Torontonian has been on the thresh-hold of consistent brilliance several times, only to be thwarted by injuries.Now 23 years old, Sandford knows how to play high class hockey. All he needs is a chance to prove it without being set back by a serious Injury.Peirson was the enigma of last season, perhaps pulled down by the general slump of the once-potent Muscles line. With Ken Smith traded and Paul Ronty sent to the Rangers, only Peirson is left to carry on.An off-season bridegroom, Peirson has as much talent as any right wing in the league. Big, fast and aggressive, the dark-haired native of Montreal may break out as the wing he has long promised to be.Kryzanowski&rsquo;s part in Patrick&rsquo;s plans is still uncertain, because the ex-collegian can play any of five positions. Last year he operated as a utility man, with admirable results for his coach. At the age of 25 Kryzanowski hopes to be a regular, but Patrick may decide that his greatest value to the Bruins lies in his versatilitiy. If so, he rates as a key man.There were few changes from last spring in the varsity list which was announced when the Bruins started training. Gus Kyle, the new defenseman obtained for Ronty, boosted the defense corps to five, with Bill Quackenbush, Hal Laycoe and Murray Henderson as holdovers.Besides Ferguson and Creighton, the left wing squad included Woody Dumart. Jack McIntyre, Vic Lynn, Sambo Bettio and Adam Brown, purchased from Chicago.Sandford and Schmidt had George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan for company at center, and other right wings besides Peiraon were Duncan Fisher, Norman Corcoran and Ellard O&rsquo;Brien.Besides Ronty, other forwards missing from last year were Pete Horeck, reportedly sold to Cincinnati, and Ezinicki, the league&rsquo;s leading penalty collector. Ezinicki is a golf professional at a course near Boston, and has announced his intention of making the winter tour with the pros instead of playing hockey.In addition to that group, a number of amateurs has been working out here, several of them destined to spend the winter with Coach Jack Crawford&rsquo;s Hershey Bears. Wings Jerry Toppozzini and Leo Labine and Defenseman John Armstrong, formerly of the Barrie Flyers, and Ranier Maklia, formerly of the Quebec Citadels, made early favorable impressions.<h2>Greetings, Mr. Leswick</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-021260/8557270-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="1794" height="1240"><figcaption class="caption-body">A new face at the Detroit camp but a very familiar one around the National Hockey League gets a greeting from two of his new teammates. Left to right: Metro Prystai, Tony Leswick and Marty Pavelich. Leswick went to Detroit from the Rangers in exchange for Gaye Stewart.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Six Players Could Spell Difference For Bruins--Ezzie’s Not Among Them

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;Jack Adams and his determined band of Detroit Red Wings shoved off for Olympia Stadium in Detroit after holding the NHL club&rsquo;s most successful fall training camp at Pullar Stadium here. After a gruelling two-week camp highlighted by no less than six exibition games, including two with Chicago Black Hawks and four with Indianapolis Capitols, General Manager Adams and his peppy, diminutive Coach Tommy Ivan had picked 10 regulars, five farmhand rookies and one import from another NHL club to start the season in October.Looking at the 1951-52 team as it stands ready to capture its fourth straight NHL crown we find that Terry Sawchuck had no trouble keeping his goaltending job. The All-star netminder was downright sensational in goal in the six exhibition games allowing only four goals and earning three shutouts, one coming against Chicago. In the fast-moving &ldquo;Tommy Ivan-Simon Legree&rdquo; workouts he was virtually unbeatable.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03923/8557315-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="274" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Wilson</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04762/8557308-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="277" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Wilson</figcaption></div>As far as defense was concerned, it was a foregone conclusion that All-Star Len (Red) Kelly, Leo Reise, Bob Goldham and colorful Marcel Pronovost were in; the big question was who would win the one open rearguard spot. Big Benny Woit of Fort William, Ont., had the inside track because of his great playing for Indianapolis last year, but he was given a stirring fight by rugged Hugh Coflin of Blain Lake, Sask., who moved over to the Wings from Chicago as final payment of the big summer trade which saw the Black Hawks buy six Wings for $75,000 and one player.Coflin was the surprise of the camp and showed that he is a great NHL prospect. The young 196-pounder will be farmed out to the Caps for the season but is hot on Woit&rsquo;s heels.<h2>Abel Keeps Rolling</h2>Detroit&rsquo;s famous &ldquo;Production Line,&rdquo; called the greatest line in the Wings&rsquo; history by Jack Adams, will remain intact. Sid Abel, now 35 and starting his 11th season with Detroit, weighed in at 192 pounds and in excellent condition. A lot of skeptics thought Captain Sid could not keep up to the incomparable Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay for another season.As usual popular Sid fooled everybody. He made it hard to believe he was 35 the way he took his regular turn between the two scoring stars.&ldquo;Sid is still a great forward and we believe he has at least two more big seasons between Howe and Lindsay before he moves back to defense for us,&rdquo; Adams revealed to The Hockey News. &ldquo;Sid&rsquo;s vast experience and generalship, especially his driving will be win, always means much to our fight toward a championship.&rdquo;<h2>Skov For Abel</h2>Right now, as far as Abel is concerned, it&rsquo;s just a question of how long his legs can-stand the gruelling 70-game NHL pace. He has everything else. Big, blonde 177-pounds Glenn Skov, who has studied Abel&rsquo;s style and habits closely ever since his Windsor Spitfires&rsquo; days, has been chosen to spell off Abel during the season on the big line. Skov got experience on the big line after Metro Prystai got hurt last season and showed up so well he won the assignment again this season. Skov will also be utilized in a penalty-killing role.Prystai, who hails from Yorkton, Sask., has been given a spot on the fast-moving &ldquo;Pavelich Line,&rdquo; with Sault Ste. Marie&rsquo;s own Marty Pavelich and Toronto&rsquo;s Freddy Glover. This trio will form the important second line with Prystai working at centre and Pavelich on left wing. Adams and Ivan are taking a gamble on Glover despite the fact that he was the leading goal-getter in the A. H.L. last season with 48 goals.Glover is among the slowest skaters on the squad. This deficiency cost him. a chance to play with Detroit two seasons ago. However Coach Ott Heller of the Indianapolis Capitals worked extra time with the enigmatic, silent Toronto youth trying to snap him out of it.At the training camp this season, Glover worked out one-half hour more than the other players trying to improve his speed and as camp broke up said: &ldquo;I really think I am going faster.&rdquo; Adams agreed and said he was going to give Glover his big chance this season.In the six exhibition games, Pavelich scored five goals to trail Howe who topped them all with six. Prystai and Glover got three apiece.<h2>New Brother Act</h2>Formation of the third line caused the most excitement and speculation. First of all, Adams & Co. see in the sensational Wilson Brothers, Larry and John from Windsor, two rugged, hard-driving forwards, a potential all-time-great brother combination for Detroit.Larry Wilson, centre, is only 21 and weighs 172 pounds. John Wilson is 22 and weighs 164, performing at left wing. The Wilsons came all the way up the ladder through the Detroit farm system, Windsor-to-Omaha-to-Indianapolis-to-Detroit. Hard driving Tony Leswick has fit into their pattern of play perfectly. &#9632;

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Wings Will Carry Five Rookies From Farm Clubs In ’51 Opener

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-011951/8557346-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Kennedy, captain of the Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs reported to the St. Catherines trainig camp in the best of shape as can be seen by his big smile, above. He&rsquo;s seen picking up a nice new sweater to start the season.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Teeter Turns Up

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-031027/8557408-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Two new players who are expected to be a big help to the Chicago Black Hawks this season are Clare Martin, left and Clare Raglan, right. Both were secured from the Wings in their recent deal.</figcaption></div>NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;President Bill Tobin has a potent Black Hawk stew brewing at North Bay, Ontario!He&rsquo;s taken a dozen experienced puck chasers and seven new acquisitions and spiced the combination with a handful of anxious rookies. These ingredients have been cooking over an oven fire, built by Coach Ebbie Goodfellow for the past three weeks. Montreal will get the first taste October 11.The stew started out at poisoning the Black Hawks&rsquo; rivals a year ago, but it lost punch when it boiled away with injuries. This season the recipe has been drastically altered by Tobin and associates and the return of the injury jinx is now very unlikely.The Hawk forward combinations are expected to be about the most improved in the National Hockey league. The purchase of wingman Jim Peters and ceuters Jim McFadden, George Gee and Max McNab from Detroit will be the big reason for the change.With the Wings last season, Peters, Gee and McFadden produced 48 goals and 59 assists. As Prexy Tobin. pointed out sometime ago, these figures are a far cry from the 21 goals and 27 assists accounted for by Steve Black. Don Morrison and Pat Lundy with the Hawks during 1950-51. The two Jims and Gee should be much improved replacements and McNab, who scored 36 goals and 48 assists with Indianapolis in the AHL last season, will improve the situation all the more.Hawk front liners listed as veterans of course include, Doug Bentley, Roy and Jim Conacher, Pete Babando, Bep Guidolin and Gus Bodnar. An all-rookie line of Sid Finney, Steve Witiuk and Fred Hucul has showed particular promise at training camp and Guyle Fielder is a fourth amateur bidding for a Hawk uniform.The Chicago defensive lineup has also been vastly improved by two separate deals with Detroit. Clare &ldquo;Square&rdquo; Martin and Clare &lsquo;Rags&rdquo; Raglan came to the Hawks in the $75,000 deal with Peters, Gee and McFadden. Max Quackenbush, younger brother of the great Bill Quackenbush, switched to Chicago recently from the Wings in a straight trade for Doug McCaig.Capt. Jack Stewart, bidding for the comeback of the year after a back injury threatened to shelve him for life last season, will also improve the general effectiveness and morale of the rearguards tremendously. Veterans Bill Gadsby, Al Dewsbury and Lee Fogolin round out Chicago&rsquo;s guardsmen for goaler Harry Lumley.<h2>Brave Hew Braves &#9632;</h2>

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Habs Get 1st Taste of New Chicago Brew

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div>ST, CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leaf hockey camp opened here without a single pre-season prediction of any description and under a shadow of deep gloom in the absence of defenseman Bill Barilko, the good-natured blond Hollywood Kid, who just a few short months before clinched the club its fourth Stanley Cup in five years with a spectacular overtime goal against the Montreal Canadiens. Speculation ran high that Barilko, missing over a month after an ill-fated flying fishing trip into the rugged territory north of his Timmins home, might still be found but the reality still faced the Leaf management that his absence left a gaping hole in the defense corps that had to be filled.Conn Smythe named three of his Pittsburgh Hornet farmhands for the job counting primarily on the ability of Frank Mathers to warrant his selection.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-021477/8557377-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="297" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mathers</figcaption></div>&ldquo;He has the ability and the experience to do it,&rdquo; said Smythe.But failing Mathers&rsquo; come-upance Smyth holds in reserve young Tim Horton, the St. Michael&rsquo;s College graduate who stood them on their ear and sat them on their pants with equal ease while with the Hornets last season and Abe-Lincolnish-Hugh Bolton, a product ot the Marlboro chain who might have stuck with the Leafs last season had it not been for a bad shoulder injury and a dinky knee which kept him out so long that he was tent back to the farm to work himself back into condition.With a week of the camp gone it was still obvious that the race for the job would finish in a picture. Mathers, 27 and with more know-how than his competition, was giving every practise his best effort.&ldquo;I figure this will be my last chance,&rdquo; said the tall Ottawan who has been with the Leafs twice before but has been yo-yoed back to the minors. &ldquo;If I don&rsquo;t make it this time, I never will.&rdquo;Mathers, essentially a puck carrying-defenseman is nontheless an aggravating man for a forward to have to pass. He has learned under former coach Hap Day and the current mentor Joe Primeau that a man taken out of a play is still dangerous if you let him back in it. Mathers, a tricky artist at tieing a man up, will keep him that way till the end of the period if he is called upon to do so.Horton, full of moxie that carries him like a magnet to an enemy of any proportions who needs bodychecking, is a passable puckcarrier but the railbirds here feel that a year under the rough and ready tutelage of King Clancy, new coach of the Pittsburgh Hornet farmsters, wouldn&rsquo;t do him any harm. Railbirds, however, have an uncanny faculty for being wrong and Horton might prove it again.Bolton says nothing, but Primeau admitted during the first week of drills that Big Yug ranked among the top three defensemen in at least three of the drills. The lanky Torontonian, who played 13 games with the Leafs last season before the Injury jinx hit him, is getting to be quite an operator with the puck and he has an amazing talent for getting in the way ot the opposition. He&rsquo;s a lanky 180 pounds, about eight pounds shy of his playing weight of last season but solid enough to stop anybody whose intentions aren&rsquo;t honorable.While the eventual winner of that job remains open to conjecture, Dashin&rsquo; Danny Lewicki, who has probably suffered more hockey growing pains than anybody, has probably made for himself a double threat utility man title with his almost amazing ability to take the switch from left wing to centre. Lewicki took to the centre lane so smartly that Hap Day, the Assistant General manager of the Leafs was prompted to remark:&ldquo;He&rsquo;s playing better there than he ever played on the wing.&rdquo;Lewicki takes to the new job kindly because he says he gets to handle the puck more which is what he likes. He can take a pass from any direction including up and he lays down a snappy but soft relay himself that makes it easier for his wingmen to carry out their missions.Who he&rsquo;ll have for linemates is a question. Smythe started the camp with two other Hornets, Bob Solinger a left winger who the Leafs picked up from the Cleveland Barons two years ago and centre Rudy Migay who is improving so fast he&rsquo;s threatening perfection. Solinger and Migay tied for the most number of points scored in the playoffs with Pittsburgh last season, 16. Migay had 15 assists, a league record. &#9632;

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Mathers Takes Inside Track For Barilko Job

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Dick Irvin has troubles. Some coaches may term them delightful troubles, Irvin does not. Cutting his squad down to 15 regular players and probably an extra two to ride the bench just in case, is his big problem.Since the Habs camp opened on the 17th of September Irvin has been whipping his squad through two practices a day. But it would be a hard job to judge just where it will end up the season if you go by their training camp form. On occasion they looked as though they might go right through the 70 games schedule with little difficulty but at other times they have looked as though they would have a hard job whipping the Vassar Girls College team.Irvin has twice blasted his players since the camp opened. Once he came out of the dressing room nearly foaming at the mouth. He said he was thoroughly disgusted with at least 10 of his regulars and opinioned that there would at least be five new faces in the Canadiens&rsquo; lineup when they open the new season against the Chicago Black Hawks on October 11. Since that day Dick Gamble, one of the leading goal scorers of the Quebec Senior League Aces has signed a two year contract with the Montreal club. His signing made things all the more confusing. It gave the Habs five left wingers.Gamble is one of the five new faces Irvin was talking about. The other four starting their first season will be Paul Meger who came up from Buffalo at the tall end of last season, Ross Lowe who came to the Habs from Boston in exchange for Laycoe, Doc Couture who came from Detroit for Bert Hirschfeld and Johnny McCormack who came from Toronto via Pittsburgh in a straight cash deal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-011777/8557446-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="305" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Gamble</figcaption></div><h2>Four Newcomers</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-021281/8557439-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1192" height="881"><figcaption class="caption-body">Four new players who are pretty sure to open the season with Canadiens are left to right: Paul Meger, Ross Lowe, Doc Couture and Johnny McCormack.</figcaption></div>Only Glen Harmon will not be back from the squad that went to the Stanley Cup finals last season. Since then the team has been cut to 15 men from 17, pot including the goaler. Which means that Irvin is going to have to either bench three players or send a few of his veterans to the minors.The Habs are pretty solid on defence. Lowe has shown particularly well despite the fact he pulled a groin muscle in his second day of practice. Johnson, McPherson and Harvey have all shown to good advantage and Butch Bouchard, despite his age has shown signs of having a very good year.Irvin&rsquo;s first two forward lines are pretty near set. It just remains to see who he&rsquo;ll use at center. Since the camp opened he&rsquo;s been using Lach with Geoffrion and Meger and had Doug Anderson of Edmonton at center with Olmstead and Richard. Since McCormack appeared on the scene there will probably be a change made. Irvin in all probability will switch Lach back to his old spot on the first line and will toss in Lanky &ldquo;Goose&rdquo; on the second line. That leaves Anderson on the outside looking in. The latter has looked good on occasion but will need at least one season in the minors before being able to handle himself in the majors.The third line is where Irvin is having his troubles. Whereas last season he used Mosdell, MacKay and Curry as his ace checking line, this season he has yet to put the three together. He is peeved at MacKay for checking into training camp overweight and has, in fact, put him into practice with a group of irregulars. In his spot he has Gamble.Curry has shown well but Couture also plays right wing. Then too, there is Paul Masnick to worry about at center and Eddie Mazur on left. So, Irvin has to make up his third lice from Mazur, Gamble and MacKay at left, Mosdell and Masnick at center and Curry and Couture at right.It will be pretty hard for Irvin to ship MacKay to the minors without even giving him a chance to open the season. He didn&rsquo;t have too many 18 goal scorers on his club last season and he has no guarantee that either Mazur or Gamble can get 18 and still be as effective a checker as Baldy.At center, Mosdell looks to have the spot well clinched but then he may throw Masnick there and keep Kenny for penalty killing. On right wing Curry and Couture have both looked good at camp but who will get the job is a mystery and so far Irvin hasn&rsquo;t given any clues as to who&rsquo;s got the inside track on the post. &#9632;

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Players, Players, Players, Mr. Irvin Has Them—In Fact Too Many

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;The Buffalo Bisons, training in the city they represent for the first time in history, will have a hard time winning their third consecutive Eastern Division title in the American Hockey League this year.The fight for positions is heated. For example, take the battle for the right to succeed retired Connie Dion in the nets.Phil &lsquo;(Red) McAtee, who was obtained from Springfield in a mid-season trade for Gordie Bell last year but never saw any action with Buffalo, is trying to convince Coach Goldy Goldsworthy and General Manager Art Chapman that he is the man for the job.However, Larry Frechette, experienced Pacific Coast Leaguer, and Nick Pidsodny, who has been in the Buffalo chain for several seasons, also are seeking the job.<h2>Chapman May Deal</h2>In addition, Big Dick Bradley, the Boston boy who made quite a reputation as a collegiate goal keeper the past three years, has shown to advantage. His lack of experience may result in his being optioned to either Wilf Field&rsquo;s Halifax club in the Maritime League, or Ducky Skinner&rsquo;s New Haven sextet in the Eastern Amateur circuit.&ldquo;If none of the goalies we have in camp right now give us the protection in the nets that we need to have a winning club, we&rsquo;ll just have to go out on the open market and get someone else,&rdquo; Chapman declared. &ldquo;I have a young fellow in mind who I think would fill the bill. I&rsquo;ll wait and see what McAtee, Frechette and the other fellows show Goldy before I go making any other deals,&rdquo; he added.<h2>Hard At Work</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-011732/8557508-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="582" height="619"><figcaption class="caption-body">RED McATEE</figcaption></div>At defense, Goldsworthy has an equal number of holdovers and newcomers&mdash;four of each.Returning from last year&rsquo;s squad are Lloyd Finkbeiner, Hughie Currie, Harry Dick, and Larry Archambeauit. Also bidding for rear guard jobs are Ernie Roche from Cincinnati, Orville Kelly, Carroll Bloom, a trio of willing workers all short previous experience with the Herd, and Danny Nixon, Stan Long of Victoria and Dune McIntyre.Currie, incidentally, has recovered completely from the bad shoulder separation which he suffered in Springfield in the 1950-51 campaign. At the time, the handsome 190-pounder was threatening to become the highest scoring defenseman in A.H.L. history. He already sad set a new mark for assists for a defenseman.Finkbeiner rules as the veteran in point of service with Buffalo, having spent two full seasons and portions of two others in Bison spangels. Dick, a great favorite with Buffalo fandom despite his reputation as the loop&rsquo;s &ldquo;badman&rdquo; and Archambault, who can play up front, too, are determined to keep their jobs.&ldquo;All four of my veterans have their strong points,&rdquo; Goldy injected. &ldquo;Dick can bump any of them; Currie is always an offensive threat; Finkbeiner can go when the goin&rsquo; is tough and has a very hard shot from the point, and Archambeauit is versatile. But they&rsquo;re going to have to win their jobs all over. As I&rsquo;ve said before, every job is open.&rdquo;All of which makes the position of Nixon, Kelly, Bloom, and McIntyre less precarious.Both Nixon and Bloom toiled in the Pacific Coast league last year. Nixon divided the season between Portland and Seattle, while Bloom did his body checking for Seattle. Kelly, who looked good in a single game shot with Buffalo, with Johnstown in the Eastern League. McIntyre also is trying to make the jump from the amateur to the pro ranks.In hockey, as in baseball, a team must be strong &ldquo;down the center.&rdquo; Buffalo has that strength in the persons of Ab DeMarco, Gordie Pennell, and Sid McNabney, the three playmakers who set up most of Buffalo&rsquo;s scores last year.DeMarco, the League&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player and leading scorer, nevertheless, must be rated as somewhat of a question mark. Pennell and McNabney both showed great improvement&mdash;and figure to continue to do so&mdash;over their freshman season of two years ago. The squire from North Bay, Ontario, on the other hand, must fall victim to old father time one of these times&mdash;and the Buffalo management is worried that this might be it.In the event that his legs no longer will carry &ldquo;The Count,&rdquo; one of the game&rsquo;s finest stickhandlers, Goldsworthy may have his successor in young Kevin Rochford, star of the Montreal Canadien juniors the past two campaigns. &#9632;

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New Faces Flash Early Form In Bid For Bisons’ Contracts

<div class="byline">By GEORGE CARSON</div>NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;Headed by their new coach Mud Bruneteau, 26 hockey players are battling it out here for positions with the 1951-52 edition of the St. Louis Flyers.Last season the Airmen of St. Louis finished fourth in the American Hockey League Western Division, missing a third place playoff berth by two ten-thousands of a percentage point, but from the way Bruneteau has his charges working here, the St. Louisans look like they will be a tough team to beat, in the coming campaign.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-021357/8557539-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="320" height="496"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ernie Dickens</figcaption></div>At present the 17 players which will compose the Flyers squad for the opening of the American Hockey League Season at Hershey October 13th is in the indefinite stage. First of all the Flyers must take at least three youngsters to St-Louis according to the new league rule of the A.H.L. Added to the list of 15 regulars of last year&rsquo;s team; plus the fact that Ebbie Goodfellow is expected to send to the Flyers five or six men from the Chicago Black Hawks roster one can easily see the reason for the manner in which the Red White and Blue skaters of St. Louis are hustling for a regular job.<h2>Chi Sends Rookies</h2>Of the Rookies Brent McNab burley, 20-year-old defense man from Winnipeg, Sid Finney, 22-year-old Center from Calgary and Steve Witiuk 22-year-old right winger of the Winnipeg Flyers appeared to be headed for the Mound City. All three of these youngsters are the property of the Chicago Black Hawks, with whom the Flyers have a working agreement.Under Mud Bruneteau, who has developed many of the current stars listed with the Detroit Red Wings, while coach of the Omaha Knights, Ebbie hopes that the three rookies will develop for the use of his Windy City Sextet, for next season.The likely Chicago veterans to be loaned to the Flyers are, defenseman Max Quackenbush and Ernie Dickens, while from the front lines the Airmen hope to receive, Don Morrison, Pat Lundy and Steve Black, plus ot course the three amateur rookies.With this excess of players on hand Coach Mud Bruneteau has a problem in the selection of talent, and as a result many trade rumors are floating around the Flyers&rsquo; camp. As the old saying goes, &ldquo;Where there is smoke there must be fire&rdquo;, and a deal or two will probably be announced In the very near future.To this observer, this is the way the Flyers will line up for the season of 1951-52. In goal, Ralph &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Almas, a veteran of last season and one of the best net guardians in the American League. At defense, George Nicholson and Steve Hrymnak, veterans of last season. Max Quackenbush on loan from Chicago and Brent McNab a hard hitting rookie, plus Ernie Dickens or George Milligan or a rear guard obtained in a near future deal.The Forward lines have been a real problem to Bruneteau, but they should follow pretty close to this pattern. At left wing Jackie Hamilton, Center Cliff Simpson, both Flyer veterans, with Harry Taylor obtained from Cleveland at right wing. Glen Sonmor also obtained from the Barons at left wing, Don Morrison at Center and Roy Kelly a Flyer veteran at right wing. Steve Black on loan from Chicago at left wing, with Pat Lundy at Center also on loan and the fasting Flyer veteran Al Baccari at right wing.The fourth Flyer line will find Billy McComb captain of the Flyers last season at left wing, with amateurs Sid Finney at Center and Steve Witiuk at right wing.In all it looks like the Flyers are in for a good season barring the old injury jinx which has followed the team tor the past two years. &#9632;

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St. Louis’ Talent Flows Like Water At Camp-Big Job Is Cutting

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-011550/8557577-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">This was a familiar sight in the dressing room of the Chicago Black Hawks last year as Ebbie Goodfellow&rsquo;s injury-plagued charges sank to the bottom of the league. The old injury bug-a-boo has refused to leave the ranks of the harrassed Chihawks this year again in training. Here Bill Mosienko, whose forehead was cut open by the stick of Gordie Howe of Detroit in an exhibition game at North Bay, is attended in the Chicago dressing room by Dr. Alex Smith. &ldquo;Mosie&rdquo; took eight stitches over the eye.</figcaption></div><h2>A Small Repayment</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-021207/8557570-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="1191" height="1234"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mrs. Bernice Holota, widow of the late Johnny Holota, former member of the Detroit Red Wings. Indianapolis Caps, Cleveland Barons and Denver Falcons, who was killed in a motor accident outside of Denver last March, is shown receiving a check for $10,000. from Dick Kroesen, president of the Cleveland Barons, as General Manager, Jim Hendy, looks on. The check presented the full sum paid the Barons by D. M. MacRae, Most-treal insurance broker, who covered the entire Cleveland organization under a blanket accident and death policy on or off the ice. Mrs. Holota resides in Celeveland and was left with three children, one born a couple months after Johnny&rsquo;s death.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Old Jinx

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-011612/8557622-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Newly aquired member of the Bruins pictured in centre.5&mdash;Ab DeMarco had 113&mdash;last season (abbr).7&mdash;This N.H.L. player recently became an M.P.8&mdash;Country in which Ivan Irwin was born (abbr).9&mdash;Larry Regan is on the negotiation list of this N.H.L. club (abbr.).11&mdash;Coached Marlboro Seniors last season.14&mdash;Ranger rearguard.16&mdash;Initials of coach of club ousted from play-offs by Canadians last season.17&mdash;There can&rsquo;t be one in a Stanley Cup final.19&mdash;Land measure.21&mdash;Nickname of a former N.H.L. &ldquo;bad man&rdquo;.22&mdash;Name given Moore, ex-N.H.L. goalie.23&mdash;Frank Eddolls once injured one.25&mdash;Coached Ottawa Senators last season.28&mdash;Number of season &ldquo;Mud&rdquo; Bruneteau coached Omaha Knights.30&mdash;Name given one of the Habitants.31&mdash;cup won by Trail Smoke Eaters in 1938.32&mdash;Initials of a Providence forward.34&mdash;Cnaeous (abbr.).35&mdash;What Garth Boesch&rsquo; son is called.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Coach of St. Louis Flyers.2&mdash;Vic Grigg played for this club last season.3&mdash;Initials of a Bruin winger.4&mdash;First name ot an N.H.L. coach.5&mdash;Short for first name of Conacher, last season with Galt Black Hawks.6&mdash;Former member of Montreal Maroons.10&mdash;Wing played by Eddie man (abbr.).12&mdash;Adverb.13&mdash;Initials of Kwong, forward with Valleyfield Braves.15&mdash;Former coach of Ottawa Senators.17&mdash;Eddie Froelich was once one for the Black Hawks.18&mdash;A farm club of the Detroit Red Wings.20&mdash;Initials of Finkbeiner, ex-N.H.L. player.24&mdash;Name given Shill of Vancouver Canucks.25&mdash;There have been many of these in the N.H.L.26&mdash;Initials of Bedard, once with Providence Reds.27&mdash;Initials of Ritson who played for Seattle in 1949-50.28&mdash;Alex Shibicky, ex-Ranger, has one.29&mdash;Initials of team mate of 3 down.33&mdash;Initials of player sent to Cleveland by the Rangers recently.34&mdash;Short for first name of player sent to Leafs with Bentley by Chicago.<h2>LAST MONTH&rsquo;S X-WORD KEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-021242/8557615-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="556" height="881"></div><h2>The Long Hike</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03908/8557608-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="1226" height="1868"><figcaption class="caption-body">Coach Terry Reardon of the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League, right and chief scout Johnny Gagnon strike a pose for THE HOCKEY NEWS. Outside Rhode Island Arena the pair start their long hike to Grand Mere, Quebec where the Reds are doing their training.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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