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August 1, 1966

The Hockey News August 1, 1966

<div class="byline">&#x2013;By Bill Libby</div><h2>Portland Club Sold</h2>The Western League picture continues to shift restlessly. The most interesting development of the past month was the purchase of the Portland franchise by Executive Director Harry Glickman and General Manager-Coach Hal Laycoe from C. Howard Lane, Albert Forman and the estate of the late Ted Gamble. After much debate with himself, Laycoe declined an offer from Jack Kent Cooke to become the leader of Cooke&rsquo;s new Los Angeles Kings in the new division of the NHL. Glickman was also considered by Cooke. Both are big-leaguers and belong in the big-leagues. But their decision to stay in the Western League strengthens that circuit&rsquo;s future considerably. In the six years they have run the Portland Club, it has led the league in attendance every year, won four pennants and two playoff titles. It is the finest franchise in the minors. Inevitably, it will decline somewhat under the pressure of expanded NHL activity on the West Coast and on TV, but Glickman and Laycoe sized up the situation and decided to dig in.In Vancouver, Coley Hall, acting as temporary general manager, has hired Ken Wilson as business manager. Wilson, a Saskatoon native and 20 years in hockey, most recently at Toledo in the International League, will probably assume many of the general manager&rsquo;s duties also, as Hall says he will not let his hockey duties interfere with the usual course of his private life, including a winter vacation in Hawaii. It&rsquo;s a curious situation in Vancouver, to say the least. Bert Olmstead continues as coach, but the loss of Billy Mc-Neill, Howie Hughes, Bruce Carmichael and Jack Evans will require the Canucks to rebuild extensively if they are going to have a decent season. Work on the proposed new arena, to seat 16,000 to 18,000, on the Pacific National Exhibition grounds has begun, however. With $2,000,000 from the Canadian government, $2,000,000 from the British Columbia government and $1,750,000 from the Vancouver administration, and the PNE people promising to take up any slack, financing seems sound. Target date is October, 1967.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-012038/8454442-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="254" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Wilson</figcaption></div><h2>Blades Hire Flaman</h2>In Northern California, the Oakland-San Francisco Seals brass met with WHL officials and agreed to pay $175,000, approximately half of what was originally asked, as indemnities to WHL clubs for taking the territory for future NHL play. After George Flaherty, Barry Van Gerbig and a lawyer Frank (Sandy) Tatum agreed to make a payment, their right to play the next &ldquo;interim&rdquo; season in the WHL, in the new Oakland Coliseum, was approved. WHL president Al Leader said, &ldquo;Saner minds won out, but it was close going. It appeared for awhile like we would go with a six-club operation.&rdquo; Rudy Pilous and aide Charley Burns will head up the Seals next season, while laying the ground-work for NHL play the following season.In Southern California, the Los Angeles Blades have hired 39-year-old Ferny Flaman as their new general manager and coach and it will be his job to yank the club out of the cellar. Through 15 years and 908 games in the NHL, Flaman performed not only as a fine defenseman, but a policeman who may have been the most effective fighter hockey has ever known. Although most people assume the Blades are operating only one more season to strengthen their legal position against the inroads being made by the NHL franchise awarded Jack Kent Cooke&rsquo;s L.A. Kings for 1967, Blades&rsquo; Executive Director Jack Geyer insists, &ldquo;We are hopeful, eternally optimistic about the future.&rdquo; Meanwhile Cooke, having picked Inglewood for his new building, The Forum, continues to seek a general manager coach.<h2>Kromm Amateur Coach</h2>Deposed Seattle coach Bobby Kromm is resuming amateur coaching duties with the Nelson club&hellip; In his first move as general manager-coach in Seattle, Bill MacFarland swapped veteran defenseman Gordy Sinclair for honest workman Chuck Holmes&hellip; With MacFarland, Sinclair and Len Haley gone from the Seattle playing ranks, the Totems will have a new look this season&hellip; Victoria lost winger John Sleaver, but will probably keep defenseman Bill Shvetz and have acquired Bruce Carmichael&hellip; Ray Cyr may be reassigned to Oakland-San Francisco, but says he won&rsquo;t play there and would like to go to L. A&hellip;. Victoria had to return goalie John Henderson to the Seals&hellip; There is talk that the L.A. Blades are going to wind up with some pretty good players for a change.The Western League will play a balanced 72-game schedule next season with each team playing every other team six times at home and six times on the road. The interlocking schedule with the American League is, of course dead&hellip; The season will run from mid-October to the end of March&hellip; Because the new San Diego Arena will not be available until mid-November, the new Gulls will play their first 13 games on the road. General Manager-Coach Max McNab now has six players, all wingers, with the most recent additions Al Nicholson and John MacMillan, who played for San Francisco and Memphis, respectively, last season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-021521/8454435-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="302" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fern Flaman</figcaption></div>In St. Louis, General Manager Lynn Patrick has signed Scotty Bowman as his chief aide but says he has not decided who will coach the Blues in their first NHL season. Not yet having sold his home in the plush Palos Verdes section of L.A., the Patrick family continues to reside in Southern California while Lynn is living in an apartment in St. Louis&hellip; Ed Fitkin, Jack Kent Cooke&rsquo;s chief aide in L.A., has obtained his visa and moved into L.A. quarters with his wife&hellip; The Kings have signed Larry Regan as a top Canadian player-development man&hellip; The new NHL division is seeking to turn the International League pro with each of the new clubs operating one of the clubs there and placing some of the talent it acquires during the next interim season there. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Western Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont.Will Carl Brewer return to big-league hockey with the Maple Leafs this fall?A definite answer seemed a little closer after Brewer met his former boss, Punch Imlach, for lunch recently.But just what the answer might be, no person was prepared to guess, least of all Brewer or Imlach.Brewer listened to what Imlach had to say, speaking as coach and general manager of the Toronto club, then promised to think it over and get in touch later on.&ldquo;We had a good chat,&rdquo; Imlach reported. &ldquo;At least, I know he hasn&rsquo;t dismissed hockey from his mind completely. If you can call that encouraging, then I&rsquo;m encouraged.&rdquo;Brewer apparently requested the meeting with Imlach.That, too, represents a step forward, since Brewer&rsquo;s hostility toward Imlach was considered one of the reasons he walked out of Leafs&rsquo; training camp last autumn and announced he was quitting hockey.He enrolled at the University of Toronto and steadfastly resisted all entreaties from a series of Leaf representatives.His value increased, though, as it became increasingly obvious during the season how vital he was to the Leaf defence. His absence was one of the chief reasons for Leafs&rsquo; 1965-66 failures. &#9632;

Is Carl Brewer Mellowing? Asks Imlach For Meeting

DETROIT, Mich.Teams for the second annual Great Lakes invitational collegiate hockey tournament in Detroit were announced by tournament director Alan J. Bovard of Michigan Tech.Participating will be the defending NCAA champion Michigan State University, University of Michigan, the University of Western Ontario and host school, Michigan Technological University.The tournament is set for December 22 and 23 at Olympia Stadium.Michigan State, with a record of 16 wins and 13 losses last season, captured its first NCAA hockey tournament title in the school&rsquo;s history. State is coached by Amo Bessone, last year&rsquo;s NCAA &ldquo;Coach of the Year&rdquo;.University of Michigan, the 1963-64 NCAA champion, compiled a 14-14 record last season under coach Allan Renfrew. The squad includes six Detroiters on its roster.The University of Western Ontario, from London, Ont., finished second in the strong Ontario-Quebec Athletic Association League last season, a single point behind the University of Toronto&mdash;last year&rsquo;s Great Lakes winner. Western is coached by Ron Watson.Michigan Tech, coached by John Maclnnes, will be competing for the second time in the Tournament. Always one of the real hockey powerhouses in the country, Tech last year ran up a record of 23 wins, 6 losses and one tie, and were WCHA champions. &#9632;

Champion Michigan State In Great Lakes Tournament

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Hockey’s Top Active Scorers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-011033/8455116-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div>The NHL expansion program picked up considerably this past month, particularly in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, where construction of new hockey rinks got underway. In photo at top, HAL FREEMAN, president of the new Philadelphia sports arena, points out start of rink work to, left to right, KENNY BLACKBURN, assistant to president, HARVEY POLLACK, HOCKEY NEWS correspondent and KEN McKENZIE, publisher of THE HOCKEY NEWS, who was on a visit to Philadelphia. The ground breaking ceremony in Los Angeles brought smiles to the faces of this group in bottom picture. Left to right, Inglewood mayor WILLIAM GOEDIKE, club owner JACK KENT COOKE and mayor SAM YORTY of L.A. &#9632;

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NEW NHL TEAMS ‘DIGGING IN’

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Frank Udvari, for years the National Hockey League&rsquo;s No. 1 referee, has accepted the new position of supervisor of league officials.Ian (Scotty) Morrison, referee-in-chief of the NHL, announced Udvari&rsquo;s appointment effective August 1.Udvari, 42 years old. joined the NHL in 1951 and refereed 788 league and 70 playoff games. He is a prospering insurance business executive during the off season in his native Waterloo, Ont. &#9632;

Udvari Given New NHL Post

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.The wheels of expansion are picking up speed for the National Hockey League&rsquo;s six fledgling clubs.Establishment of minor farm teams, new amateur leagues, construction of rinks and many other progressive moves have brightened the NHL&rsquo;s expanded hockey picture for 1967.The biggest and most pleasing news to the ears of the present NHL hockey family is the advancement made by Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Minnesota in regards to getting work under way for the cities&rsquo; proposed new rinks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-03258/8455178-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="286" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Putnam</figcaption></div>Philadelphia is already ahead of schedule in its plans to erect a spanking new 15,000-seat rink, which will be completed by Labor Day of next year in time for the city&rsquo;s plunge into major league hockey. Arena president Hal Freeman, the McCloskey Construction Co., who are building the rink and club president Bill Putnam are reportedly pleased that work is proceeding as planned.Putnam, who was recently elected spokesman for the six new cities in their dealings with the old six-team division and the league&rsquo;s board of governors, said he expected everything to be in readiness for Philadelphia&rsquo;s NHL debut in October, 1967.Out in Los Angeles, where the granting of an NHL franchise to Jack Kent Cooke touched off a fair-sized city hockey controversy, plans for the colossal new $7,000,000 Forum were disclosed by Cooke.The fiery Los Angeles sports tycoon said he secured 29 acres of land in suburban Inglewood at a cost of $4,014,240 on which to build the rink. Elaborate ground breaking ceremonies were carried out with Cooke promising a Dec. 31, 1967 completion date for the roman-styled Forum hockey centre.Cooke said the new arena will house his NHL Los Angeles Kings and pro basketball Los Angeles Lakers. The move, announced in a real &lsquo;Hollywood&rsquo; setting with movie starlets, television cameras and civic celebrities on hand, undoubtedly quietened the cynics who questioned Cooke&rsquo;s sincerely to build his own stadium.&ldquo;All Los Angeles waited for this moment,&rdquo; said Cooke as he told a huge audience in Inglewood that he planned to locate his new building in the city&rsquo;s prospering suburb city.&ldquo;This is a proud day for me,&rdquo; said the ebullient Cooke, &ldquo;not because the doubting Thomases have been put to rout&mdash;but because it has been my ambition to build an arena better than abreast of the best.&ldquo;Perhaps 200 years from now people will say it was one of the fine buildings erected during the 20th century,&rdquo; he added. Cooke said he intended to have the gala opening New Year&rsquo;s Day 1968.The Minnesota situation was improving gradually in the opinion of Gordon Ritz, the team&rsquo;s NHL governor. Ritz said that construction of the new 14,000 seat rink in Minneapolis will commence October 1. The club hired an architect and a contractor and expects that once work begins, the rink will be ready for the proposed October 1967 opening of the expanded NHL.&ldquo;We are presently negotiating for financing of our new rink and expect to reach a decision very soon,&rdquo; said Ritz. The arena will be built adjacent but not attached to the huge metropolitan outdoor stadium complex in Minneapolis where the Minnesota base-ball Twins and Minnesota football Vikings play their games.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02539/8455171-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1675" height="1600"></div> &#9632;

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Philly Starts Rink Building; Cooke Breaks Ground In L.A.

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IS THIS YOUR YEAR?

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-021378/8453825-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">&lsquo;Gordie Howe Day&rsquo; in Saskatoon July 22 brought out many well known hockey names. Here&rsquo;s GORDIE HOWE, second left, posing with Rangers* JIM NEILSON, left, Toronto&rsquo;s JOHNNY BOWER and DAVE BALON, right, of Montreal. Great Detroit winger was honored with a day for his great contribution to hockey and sports. Howe will be starting his 21st season in the NHL this year, all with Detroit.</figcaption></div>SASKATOON, SASK.Gordie Howe, the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; fabulous right winger regarded as the greatest all-around hockey player of all time, was honored here July 22 with a &ldquo;Day&rdquo; in his hometown.The highlights of the rousing &ldquo;Gordie Howe Day&rdquo; included a parade, a civic luncheon, a special children&rsquo;s reception at the newly-named &ldquo;Gordie Howe Park&rdquo;&mdash;a minor sports complex&mdash;and an evening tribute program. It also marked the first complete family reunion in 18 years for the Howe family as Gordie&rsquo;s brothers Vic, Norman and Vern traveled to Saskatoon to join their parents and five sisters for the big day.The guests included NHL President Clarence Campbell and CPHL president Jack Adams, the ex-Red Wings general manager who signed Howe to his first professional contract. Howe will be starting his 21st NHL season this year.The Red Wings were represented by assistant general manager John Mitchell, long-time teammate Alex Delvecchio and former teammate Doug Barkley.Among the other players on hand for the events were John Ferguson, Dave Balon and Gary Peters of the Montreal Canadiens, Johnny Bower of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pierre Pilote of the Chicago Black Hawks, John Bucyk of the Boston Bruins and Bill Hicke and Jim Neilson of the New York Rangers.The idea for Gordie Howe Day originated with CFQC television and radio and became a city-wide project to honor Howe. Veteran sports reporters said it was probably the largest tribute ever paid to a Canadian sports figure.Although he was born on a farm near Floral, Saskatchewan, Howe moved with his family the ten miles or so to Saskatoon when he was only nine days old. He grew up in this city and learned to play hockey here.According to his mother, Howe&rsquo;s first pair of skates were included in a gunnysack-full of things she bought at the door for $1.50. &ldquo;It was during the 30&rsquo;s when we didn&rsquo;t have much,&rdquo; Mrs. Ab Howe recalled. His next skates came from a neighborhood boy in exchange for a package of cigarettes.&ldquo;It was hockey, hockey, hockey all the time,&rdquo; Mrs. Howe stated, &ldquo;even in July when he used to break shingles off the house practicing shooting both right and left handed.&rdquo;Howe started in organized hockey in Saskatoon as a goaltender but soon switched to defense and then to forward. He played pee wee, midget and juvenile hockey in this city, then attended a New York Rangers camp in Winnipeg in 1943 when he was 15. But for whatever reason the Rangers failed to sign him when he reached the legal age of 16 and Detroit picked him up. The next year was spent playing exhibition games for the Galt Red Wings, a junior farm club, and Howe turned professional in 1945 with the Omaha Knights of the United States Hockey League. He entered the National Hockey League with Detroit in the 1946-47 season&mdash;only 4&frac12; years after graduating from the pee wee Red Wings in Saskatoon!In the 20 years from age 18 to 38 Howe has played more games (1,329), scored more goals (624), assisted on more goals (812) and collected more points (1,436) than any other performer in the history of the National Hockey League. And he leads in playoff assists (91) and points (156). In addition, he is tied with Bill Gadsby and Dit Clapper for most seasons in the NHL (20) and holds league records for winning the Hart Trophy as Most Valuable Player (6), the Art Ross Trophy as Leading Scorer (6), leading the NHL in goal scoring (5), most seasons over 20 goals (17), most seasons over 30 goals (11), most seasons over 40 goals (4) and most all-star selections (17).No matter what the future holds&mdash;Saskatoon is proud of Gordie Howe as an outstanding player and gentleman. It&rsquo;s a long way from being a kid with patched pants and hand-me-down skates to being recognized as perhaps the finest performer the game of hockey has ever seen&hellip; and to travel the road with humility.Gordie Howe Day was Saskatoon&rsquo;s way of saying: &ldquo;Well done.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Saskatoon Gives Great Red Wing Star Rousing Day

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div>BOSTON, Mass.The gavel signifying the end of the June meetings at Montreal had hardly been placed in its case and the Bruins hadn&rsquo;t even checked out of their hotel before action was started to set up a trade, or a series of trades for next season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-011634/8453794-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="305" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bucyk</figcaption></div>Yet before he entered conversation with Sid Abel of Detroit and Emile Francis of New York, General Manager Hap Emms made it known that there are at least eight untouchables on the Bruins present roster.The Bruins were conspicuous by their inactivity during the intra-league draft as they passed on all eight rounds, but their draft inactivity was prompted by the failure of any of the other clubs to finger their &lsquo;touchables&rsquo;.&ldquo;We were very happy not to draft,&rdquo; said Emms. &ldquo;We were just hoping that we didn&rsquo;t lose too many of our players. We didn&rsquo;t see anyone we wanted more than what we already have.&ldquo;When the other clubs passed our list I was more than willing to skip their unprotected players.&rdquo;Emms thought the Bruins would make at least two trades even before the draft started. He felt he had virtually clinched a two for one deal with Montreal for Red Berenson. But the deal fell through.Instead Berenson went to New York for Ted Taylor.Any possibility of a trade with New York also fell through because Emms refused to part with the talent demanded by the Rangers.&ldquo;I have a list of untouchables,&rdquo; admitted Emms. &ldquo;As a matter of fact I&rsquo;ll name eight right now and others are touchable only if someone will make a real offer.&rdquo;Emms then proceeded to list the men he definitely won&rsquo;t part with unless a new arena for the Bruins is also provided in the package.The &lsquo;Big Eight&rsquo; are goalies Eddie Johnston and Bernie Parent; defensemen Gil Marotte, Gary Doak and Teddy Green; Forwards Pit Martin, Murray Oliver, Johnny Bucyk and John McKenzie.&ldquo;I think we would be foolish to part with any one of those players,&rdquo; said Emms. &ldquo;They are the backbone of the club as we now are rebuilding it.&rdquo; &ldquo;Remember, too. we have an expansion draft coming up next summer and we also have to think about that.&rdquo;Still Emms is willing to talk trade. He openly admits he is trying to strengthen the Bruins left side with a left defenseman, a centre and a left wing in that order.In his talks with Abel the most likely name on Hap&rsquo;s list probably is Bruce MacGregor. He might also be willing to talk with New York about the likes of Earl Ingarfield.MacGregor would fit Emms&rsquo; plans of dealing for youth since he is only 25. Ingarfield will be 32 in October but would satisfy Emms for a year or two.&ldquo;I still would like to add a left wing if possible,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But that position is not so demanding as the other two. We have a couple of kids almost ready, Ross Lonnsberry and Glenn Sather. Ron Murphy will be back next year and we will have Bob Dillabough and Johnny Bucyk.&ldquo;But I will make any trade that will help the Bruins. And I&rsquo;ll be talking with all the teams for the rest of the summer.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hap Emms Lists Eight Untouchable’ Bruins

<div class="byline">BY BOB HARRIS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-011976/8453918-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="310" height="398"></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Blond Bomber Bobby Hull of the Chicago Black Hawks continues to make meteoric strides in the National Hockey League&rsquo;s goalscoring derby.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-021560/8453911-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="301" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption></div>The muscular left winger of the Hawks, who two years ago blasted his way into the NHL&rsquo;s exclusive new &lsquo;250-Goal Club,&rsquo; has now jumped from 11th place to seventh in the all-time goal race and from fifth place to third among the high active goal scorers in the NHL.Hull&rsquo;s 54-goal campaign last season swelled his life-time record to 318 and enabled him to catapult past such NHL immortals as Howie Morenz and Aurel Joliat and such active stars as Alex Delvecchio and Andy Bathgate.While Hull continues to make the biggest strides in the goalscoring department among today&rsquo;s top-line stars, two more players were admitted to the coveted &lsquo;250-Goal Club&rsquo; since last season. Detroit&rsquo;s Norm Ullman pushed his life-time mark to 268 goals and Toronto&rsquo;s Frank Mahovlich made his 259 to boost membership in the club to 17.At one time scoring 200 goals was considered the mark of distinction around the NHL. But the marksmanship standards were raised to 250 at the outset of the 1964-65 season.When the NHL established the &lsquo;250-Goal Club there were 12 charter members, both past and present men of the ice wars who displayed extraordinary scoring prowess during their big league careers.The 12 NHL club &lsquo;originals&rsquo; were Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard, Bernard Geoffrion, Ted Lindsay, Jean Beliveau, the late Nels Stewart, Andy Bathgate. the late Howie Morenz, Aurel Joliat. Bill Mosienko. Alex Delvecchio and Dickie Moore.These were the hockey greats who stood out above all the rest since the NHL first started operations in 1917. They had compiled the most goals in a lifetime and for some it would continue for at the outset of 1965-66 season, six of the 12 were still active in the league.The great grand daddy of NHL scorers of course is Howe, the indestructible right winger of the Detroit Red Wings, who stands unchallenged as the most prolific goal scorer of all time with 624 goals. Starting his 21st NHL campaign, Howe could conceivably reach 700 if he managed to play another four years. There were some who doubted the big Floral, Sask., star would ever attain 600, which he did last season.Retired Maurice Richard stepped out of the NHL after scoring 544 goals in 18 years with Montreal Canadiens. He ranks as the No. 2 man and is likely to be replaced in time by only one man, Hull, who is being hailed as the NHL&rsquo;s next 500-goal scorer.Big Jean Beliveau of Montreal stepped up last season to become the new holder of third place in the all-time race with 387 goals replacing retired Ted Lindsay, who went back to inactivity after a one-year fling with the Wings. Lindsay quit with 379 goals.Bernard Geoffrion ranks fifth with 371 goals and since he is returning to an active playing role with Rangers following two years of retirement, his chances of passing Lindsay look extremely bright.The late Nels Stewart, most productive of the &lsquo;oldtimers,&rsquo; is sixth on the scoring list with 324 goals but Hull with 318, Alex Delvecchio with 311 and Andy Bathgate with 306 were fast closing in on him.The rest of the scorers in the &lsquo;250-Goal Club&rsquo; included Morenz and Joliat 270. Ullman 268. Red Kelly 267. Mahovlich 259, Bill Mosienko 258, Dickie Moore 256 and Camille Henry 253. Henry did not get into an NHL game last year for the first time but may be returning this season with Chicago.Barring unforseen circumstances, the doors of the &lsquo;250-Goal Club&rsquo; should swing open next season for three more National Leaguers. Henri Richard of Canadiens and Toronto&rsquo;s George Armstrong have scored 243 goals each and need but seven more to make the grade. Detroit&rsquo;s Dean Prentice with 242 is right behind.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03988/8453904-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1088" height="1315"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY HULL&hellip; Climbing In Scoring Race</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Ullman, Mahovlich New ‘250-Goal Club’ Members But Hull Making Biggest Strides In All-Time Race

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04554/8453949-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg"></div>Here are hockey&rsquo;s select &lsquo;250 Goal Club&rsquo; members and their records: &#9632;

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NHL’s ‘250 Goal Club’

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-011930/8454035-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><h2>Canadian Cities Needed In Expansion of NHL</h2>Hockey News Editor:I really can&rsquo;t understand what is going on in the expansion of the National Hockey League. The only specific justification I have heard for this expansion is that it will enable the NHL to get nationwide television coverage. Are there really enough good players around to stock all these extra teams without lowering the standard of play? Has minor league hockey really grown enough to support the NHL expansion? I want to see this issue squarely faced.I also feel that it was a big mistake not to put some of the new franchises in Canada. Virtually all NHL players are Canadian. Canada supports a large part of the farm systems and so deserves a share of major league activity. I am sure that cities like Sudbury, Ottawa, or Quebec could easily support an NHL team. It would hardly be necessary for Maurice Richard to travel to these places to drum up enthusiasm.JOHN P. HYDE, Summit, N.J.<h2>Hawks Showed Need For New Ice Leader</h2>Hockey News Editor,There has been much publicity recently in regard to Bobby Hull&rsquo;s goal and point scoring feats.His achievements are without a doubt the highlight of hockey during the past decade.However, it is my personal opinion and sadness that the Chicago team has been willing to sacrifice its position and achievements after so many losing years to aid Mr. Hull in his quest for new scoring feats.After hearing the play by play of Chicago&rsquo;s 7-0 loss to Detroit in the second game of this year&rsquo;s semi-finals it is very evident that as Mr. Hull goes, so goes the Chicago team. You do not notice such disastrous results happening to the Montreal Canadiens with the loss of such a great star as &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard.Furthermore, I imagine it is obvious to every one that Chicago has as many good players as any team within the league.Looking back now, one could only be amazed at what feats a &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard or a Gordie Howe may have achieved with the same all-for-one support given Mr. Hull. This is the reason no one has any basis to dispute the predominance of the Montreal, Toronto and Detroit teams in the past 30 odd years.DON KING, Terrace, B.C.<h2>Likes Name Patriots For New Philly Team</h2>Hockey News Editor,In your July issue of &ldquo;The Hockey News&rdquo;, you stated that you personally liked the name Philadelphia Patriots. Well so do I. In fact, I wrote to President Wm. Putnam several times in regard to this team&rsquo;s name, and color scheme.I had suggested the name &ldquo;Patriots&rdquo;, with a read, white, and blue color combination. Mr. Putnam believes the name &ldquo;Patriots&rdquo;, would cause a problem, because a football team in Boston uses the same nick-name. I do not believe this would happen. The city of St. Louis, Mo., has a baseball and football team bearing the same name, which is &ldquo;Cardinals&rdquo;. Here is an example of two professional sports teams with the same name, in the same town! Victoria, of the WHL, uses the same name as Toronto, of the NHL I firmly believe Philadelphia could use &ldquo;Patriots&rdquo;, successfully.Furthermore, I think a red, white, and blue color arrangement would fit nicely with this name.Mr. Putnam disagrees. He believes that there are presently too many other clubs currently using these colors. I disagree. I think Philadelphia could use a uniform design exactly like the one which is worn by Rochester of the AHL.LeRoy ASHTON&nbsp; Topton. Pa. &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-021625/8454101-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="409" height="428"></div>&bull; PHILADELPHIA&mdash;McCLOSKEY & CO., biggest construction firm in the United States, were busy putting the pilings into the ground for the new Philadelphia Sports Arena, the day we visited this city last month&hellip; &ldquo;If anything we are slightly ahead of schedule,&rdquo; stated Hal Freeman, president of the lavish new sports edifice which will house Philadelphia&rsquo;s entry into the NHL in 1967&hellip; The new arena is situated in South Philly, right beside Kennedy Stadium where the Army-Navy football game is played every year and site of the famous Tunney-Dempsey fight&hellip; The McCloskey Construction Co. built the Supreme Court building and Pentagon building in Washington, D. C. among other projects&hellip; They also built the spanking new D. C. Stadium in Washington&hellip; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill are the architect engineers for the Philadelphia Sports Arena. This firm was responsible for the Portland Arena and the new Arena in Oakland&hellip; The Philadelphia Hockey Club started a two-week &ldquo;Name the Team&rdquo; contest on the day we were here. Contest forms were prominently displayed in 242 Acme Market stores within a 50-mile radius of Philly&hellip; The hockey offices of the Philadelphia club are plush and the organization appears well set up in every department&hellip; Kenny Blackburn, who was assistant to the late Branch Rickey for 17 years and lately held the same position with Jack Kent Cooke in Los Angeles, recently joined the Philadelphia Hockey Club as assistant to President Bill Putnam&hellip; Putnam, incidentally, is recovering from an emergency appendectomy&hellip; Dapper Jerry Schiff, secretary-treasurer of the Philadelphia hockey Club and one of the owners, runs his thriving construction firm out of the same building that houses the hockey club office&hellip; Hal Freeman, who is on top of every detail in the building of this arena, has an impressive sports background and was formerly publicity director of the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL. The youthful arena president is most optimistic about hockey&rsquo;s future in the City of Brotherly Love.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-031323/8454094-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="304" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hal Freeman</figcaption></div>&bull; DETROIT will open their pre-season training camp on September 19. They expect 70 players to report to Olympia Stadium&hellip; Sid Abel is having difficulty stirring up anything in the way of trades. &ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t even had a phone call in weeks,&rdquo; he said&hellip; Ray Miron, well-respected general manager of the Tulsa Oilers of the CPHL, has the same title with the Florida (formerly Jacksonville) Rockets of the Eastern Hockey League. It is his responsibility to sign up the players for Rockets and make the team into an EHL contender this year. Ray would appear to be the man for the job as he&rsquo;s been running hockey clubs in various leagues throughout Canada and the United States for 20 years and his teams have not failed to make the playoffs once during that time&hellip; Danny Gallivan said he can&rsquo;t recall anything to touch the Gordie Howe Day in size etc&hellip; &ldquo;It was Big League all the way,&rdquo; said Jack Adams&hellip; Speaking of Howe, Adams had this to say: &ldquo;In the end it will be his desire that will decide when he&rsquo;ll quit. As long as he keeps that boyish desire about the game, he can go on and on. Of course he could lose that desire over night, but I doubt it. It&rsquo;s part of him.&rdquo;&hellip; John Brooks, sports director of KJEM in Oklahoma City, who does such a fine job of play calling for the Oklahoma City Blazers, runs a nightly sports show with Bill Goldsworthy, clever right winger of the Blazers, as his co-host&hellip; Our old pal Woody Woods had his finest season yet with his Little League hockey in Palm Springs, California. Woody is laying bigger plans for this coming year&hellip; One of the best coaches in U.S. collegiate hockey ranks is Amo Bessone of the Michigan State Spartans&hellip; Jaime Roberts advises from Mexico City that his hockey league is booming along. This is the hockey season in Mexico City. An amateur club from Houston. Texas, recently downed his top club, 8-7.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-041076/8454087-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="269" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Miron</figcaption></div>&bull; IRVING MITCHELL FELT, chairman of the New York Rangers, was delighted when the Rangers were able to acquire the services of Boom Boom Geoffrion. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re certainly happy to have obtained a player of Geoffrion&rsquo;s calibre,&rdquo; stated Felt. &ldquo;New York fans are well acquainted with his outstanding record, and I&rsquo;m sure he will be a big favorite here.&rdquo;&hellip; Geoffrion is the fifth highest goal scorer in NHL history. Only Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard, Ted Lindsay and Jean Beliveau have scored more regular-season goals than Geoffrion&hellip; Geof-fion is another of the former members of the Montreal Canadiens to move on to the Rangers&hellip; In recent years the Canadiens have sent the Rangers such players as Doug Harvey, Albert Langlois, Jacques Plante, Donnie Marshall, Phil Goyette, Bill Hicke and recently Red Berenson&hellip; Frank Eddolls and Buddy O&rsquo;Connor made the same journey in the late 1940&rsquo;s&hellip; Many hockey fans from Canada, especially the Montreal and Toronto areas, visiting New York during the summer months, stop at the Hotel Piccadilly on West 45th St. Fred McBride, popular managing director of the Piccadilly, has made a large number of Canadian friends over the years&hellip; Colorful Joe Morgan, well-known Toronto sports announcer, is leaving CKFH after eight years and will move over to Toronto&rsquo;s CKEY where he will be a commentator on the day&rsquo;s news events. Morgan&rsquo;s hard-hitting sports editorials will be missed by the Toronto sports public&hellip; Construction on the six-and-a-half million dollar San Diego International Sports Arena is ahead of schedule according to President Bob Breitbardt&hellip; Don Scott was recently named director of special events and promotions for the San Diego International Sports Arena. Well qualified for the post, Scott had previously held positions with the San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos. One of Scott&rsquo;s promotions with the Chargers resulted in the longest telegram in the history of Western Union. It was a &ldquo;good luck&rdquo; telegram to the team signed by fans in San Diego. It was 110 yards long, single spaced.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05871/8454080-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="308" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Irving Felt</figcaption></div>&bull; BOBBY ORR. the Boston hockey prospect, is a busy fellow. Besides teaching the game at a summer hockey school in Haliburton, Ont., he sells cars. They say Orr&rsquo;s asking price from the Bruins is getting higher all the time and he secretly doesn&rsquo;t care if they match it or not as he would very much like to play for Canada&rsquo;s National Hockey Team in the World Championships next year&hellip; Newsy Lalonde, a member of both the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, is recuperating in Montreal&rsquo;s Victoria Hospital from a fractured hip&hellip; Al Hulme, well-known in Canadian advertising circles and the first president and cofounder of the very successful Kinsmen&rsquo;s Pee Wee Hockey League of Saskatoon, died in Regina last month. This is the same league that gave Gordie Howe his hockey start&hellip;Les Edwards, news director of Station CFQC in Saskatoon, worked tirelessly in making the Gordie Howe Day in Saskatoon on July 22 such a sensational success. He deserves a great deal of credit for his outstanding efforts&hellip; Glen Sonmor, who succeeds Johnny Mariucci as coach at the University of Minnesota, is another player like Doug Barkley, Bill Dobbyn. George Parsons and Baz Bastien, who had to retire from hockey as an active player due to the loss of sight in one eye&hellip; Toronto Maple Leafs sold controlling interest in the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League to a Rochester syndicate headed by Bob Clarke, well-liked Rochester attorney, who has been associated with the Amerks since they were formed in 1956&hellip; Joe Crozier could be called up from Rochester to coach the Leafs if something happened to Punch Imlach such as illness or accident. That was one of the provisions in the deal when Leafs sold the club&hellip; Handsome Barend Van Gerbig, chief executive officer of the San Francisco-Oakland Seals and a newly created NHL Governor, is an outstanding amateur golfer and has won a number of tournaments in the United States.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06525/8454073-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="288" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Crozier</figcaption></div>&bull; OKLAHOMA CITY BLAZERS, through the stellar work of the Hockey Hounds, hope to sell 2,000 season tickets before the opening game this October. Bill Levins, general manager of the champion Blazers says: &ldquo;Every hockey town should have a group like the Hockey Hounds&rdquo;&hellip; Al Baron, president of the Eastern League&rsquo;s Long Island Ducks, will also act as general manager next season. He will take over from John Muckier, who resigned the post to work with the New York Rangers&hellip; Gene Achtymichuk will serve as player-coach of the Ducks next season. He has been the Eastern League&rsquo;s All-Star centre the past two seasons&hellip; Andy Mulligan was elected Commissioner of the International Hockey League for the fifth year&hellip; Lefty McFadden, who has done such a spendid job with the Dayton Gems, was elected vice-president of the IHL along with John Wismer of Port Huron Flags&hellip; Pittsburgh&rsquo;s NHL entry may be known as the Penguins. Some of the Pittsburgh owners favor that nickname&hellip; Father David Bauer, overseer of Canada&rsquo;s National Hockey Team, is spending the summer contacting his players for next season&hellip; The Kingston International Hockey Hall of Fame recently admitted the late Harvey (Busher) Johnson and Fred (Bun) Cook to its rolls&hellip; The International Hockey Hall of Fame at Kingston is not associated with Toronto&rsquo;s Hockey Hall of Fame&hellip; The first annual Hockey Referees School will be staged at Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe Hockeyland Aug. 11 through Aug. 13&hellip; NHL Referee-in-Chief Scotty Morrison will head up the school and will supply the instructors.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03774/8454066-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="289" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lefty McFadden</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-011937/8454132-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here&rsquo;s a panoramic view of how the Roman-styled Los Angeles Forum will look in Inglewood when it is completed for NHL expansion.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Expansion Rinks Before And After As New NHL Teams Get Ready

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.&mdash;Former University of Minnesota hockey coach and Chicago Black Hawk star, John Mariucci, has been named director of player development of the new Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League.Wren Blair, general manager of Minnesota, said Mariucci will be in charge of all North Stars&rsquo; U.S. area scouts and also will work with the Minnesota entry in the proposed new junior league and will assist with the club&rsquo;s public relations, program.Mariucci was named recently as coach of the 1967 U.S. National team and of the 1968 U.S. Olympic hockey team. Blair said this would not interfere with his duties for the North Stars. &#9632;

Mariucci Back In NHL Set-Up With Minnesota

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-021384/8454187-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Construction goes ahead on the new Philadelphia rink as workers drive pilings into ground to support city&rsquo;s 15,000-seat arena that will house NHL club in 1967.</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.The National Hockey League has apparently lost its hockey television deal with NBC but the league is confident of hooking up with another network.&ldquo;We are considering other networks and are confident that there will be at least a limited programming of color telecasts on a national U.S. network next season,&rdquo; said Don Ruck, the NHL&rsquo;s publicity representative in New York.Other major networks are CBS and ABC&mdash;both of which have shown interest in the hockey telecasts, but both of which have scheduling problems.NBC recently turned down the NHL&rsquo;s package deal by announcing they merely were not picking up the league&rsquo;s option. The deal offered by the NHL included 12 regular-season games and an undetermined number of playoff games. The annual allstar game, shifted to mid-season for next year, was not part of the package. &#9632;

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NBC Rejects NHL’s TV Deal, League Eyes Other Networks

<div class="byline">BY CHARLIE BARTON</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;Buffalo will be represented in the American Hockey League next winter for the 27th consecutive season.The long-awaited decision on whether the the hockey Bisons would operate came when General Manager Fred Hunt notified Jack Button, the AHL secretary and publicist, that the club will function again.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-012147/8454218-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="294" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Hunt</figcaption></div>The owners, the Pastor brothers, Ruby, Sam and Al, gave Hunt the go-ahead sign.The league twice granted the Pastors extensions in their efforts to seek player help, and tabled the Bisons&rsquo; request to have the franchise suspended indefinitely.Ruby Pastor, the Bisons&rsquo; president said, &ldquo;We will operate. There is nothing more than I can add at this time.&rdquo;The Bisons had been granted two extensions within nine days in their search for players.The call to Button was delayed for 24 hours as Ruby Pastor and Hunt paid flying visits to unidentified National Hockey League cities.&ldquo;The Pastor brothers have decided to operate the team, and we will do everything possible to assemble a representative club,&rdquo; Hunt said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sorry that I can&rsquo;t reveal any details along those lines now. Any premature statements might hurt our chances of acquiring desirable players.&ldquo;We have been told that suitable players will be made available, and that our club will be a contender.&ldquo;This has been trying time for all of us. The Pastor brothers have been determined to keep hockey here, if at all possible. That is their prime objective. This has never been a matter of dollars and cents.&ldquo;There have been several opportunities to sell the franchise, but never with a guarantee the team would remain in Buffalo. The Pastors refused to entertain any such propositions.&ldquo;Now, with the co-operation we&rsquo;ve been promised, we should be able to give our fans a strong club once more.&rdquo;In Rochester, Button said, &ldquo;I have been busy notifying the league governors that the Bisons will operate, and we are all pleased the club will continue.&ldquo;For years, the Bisons have been among the best attractions in the American League. Buffalo is a fine hockey city, and we are confident that the fans will support a contender, as they have in the past.&rdquo;The Bisons have had a working agreement with the Chicago Black Hawks for the past 10 years, and it appears that arrangement will continue, at least on a partial basis.The Bisons own six players. They are goalie Ed Chadwick, defenseman Roger LaFreniere, and forwards Larry Wilson, Gerry Ouellette, Dennis Kassian and Greg Pilling. Pilling and Kassian were drafted last month for $10,000 apiece.The Black Hawks, who have supplied the major portion of the player personnel, are expected to provide five or six players next winter, and may be able to make more available.Several other major league teams have indicated they will make surplus players available to the Bisons.The tentative American League schedule calls for the Bisons to play 24 Sunday night games in Memorial Auditorium, 10 on Friday nights, with one Wednesday and one Suturday completing the 36-game list.In addition to obtaining players, the Bisons must also name a coach to succeed Phil Watson. Watson will handle the Quebec Aces this season following two terms with the Herd.The guess here is that Hunt may add the coaching duties to his portfolio as general manager. Manager-coaches are becoming fasionable in professional hockey, and three of the six NHL clubs operate that way. &#9632;

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Buffalo Tells AHL They’II Operate Again

HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Coach and Business Manager Frank S. Mathers, who starts his 11th season as the Bears coach and makes the popular Hershey mentor the dean of the American Hockey LeagueTraining camp for the Hershey Bears will open on Monday, September 26.Plans were announced by General Manager Lloyd S. Blinco and coaches. This will be Hershey&rsquo;s 28th season as a member of the American Hockey League, having started under Herb Mitchell in 1938-39.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03825/8454249-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="292" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mathers</figcaption></div>Reporting to the Sports Arena training camp will be such Hershey-owned players as goaltender Andre Gill; defensemen Barry Ashbee, Ralph Keller, Nick Polano, Mike Mahoney and Howie Yanosik; center and captain Mike Nykoluk; left wing Roger DeJordy; left wing Myron Stankiewicz; right wing Bruce Cline; left wing Gene Ubriaco; and centers Bruce Draper and Michel Harvey. &#9632;

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Mathers Set For 11th Season As Coach Of Hershey Bears

PROVIDENCE, R.I.Ivan Irwin will not be back as coach of the Rhode Island Reds in 196667.Lou Pieri, owner of the American Hockey League team, said Irwin, who coached the Reds last year and had only a one-year contract, will not be rehired for the coming season.&ldquo;It was a hard decision,&rdquo; Pieri said. &ldquo;But I feel we needed a change in the coaching department, so we&rsquo;re now looking for another man&hellip; possibly a player-coach.&rdquo; The Reds are also hunting a new general manager with Fern Flaman&rsquo;s departure to take over as manager-coach of Los Angeles Blades.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-021415/8454280-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="292" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ivan Irwin</figcaption></div>Pieri said that Flaman&rsquo;s three-year contract with the Reds was to terminate shortly and that the ex-Boston Bruins&rsquo; great had been offered an opportunity in Los Angeles &ldquo;too promising to pass up.&rdquo;Pieri went on to say that his regard for Irwin as a hockey man remains high, and that he has approached the former AHL All-Star defenseman with a proposition about scouting for the Reds in Canada this winter. Irwin, he said, has not yet made a decision.The 39-year-old Irwin, who was one of the most popular players in Reds history during a two-year tenure with the Roosters back in the mid-50&rsquo;s, had rough sledding during the 1965-66 season. His Reds finished last in the AHL&rsquo;s Eastern Division with a record of 20-49-3. &#9632;

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Irwin Out As Coach With Reds

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK NEWMAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-011949/8454325-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="479" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body">WILLIE MARSHALL&hellip; Faces New Challenge</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-021299/8454318-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="487" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB BRINKWORTH&hellip; Grabbed In Draft</figcaption></div>BALTIMORE, Md.Adversity isn&rsquo;t standing in the path of the Baltimore club owners to assure themselves and their hockey fans the best team they can put on the ice for the coming season.General manager Terry Reardon and club owners Jake Embry and Zan Krieger, in a flurry of off-season activity, have already added seven new names to the team roster. And indications are that more changes will be made prior to the opening of training camp in September.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03806/8454311-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="285" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Aldo Guidolin</figcaption></div>The latest wheeling and dealing has brought to 17 the number of players under Baltimore contract. The newest additions, via the inter-league draft with the National League are centre Bob Cunningham, defenseman Bob Wilson and Centre Bob Bob Brinkworth.Added to the squad through a seven-man trade with Providence are defenseman Aldo Guidolin, centre Willie Marshall, winger Jimmy Bartlett and defenseman Ian Anderson. That quartet was secured for defenseman Ken Stephenson and forwards Ed Lawson and Mike Corbett.The activity on the personnel front shows that Baltimore, despite being shunned in the NHL expansion, is still rated a top-flight hockey town by the club&rsquo;s brass. And, an off-season in both the win-loss column and at the gate last campaign, isn&rsquo;t a roadblock to them trying to ice a winning and more independent squad.The addition of the new players will make Baltimore&rsquo;s training camp one of the most competitive in its relatively short four year tenure in the A.H.L.The addition of Guidolin, a local favorite who should help boost attendance and Anderson, the expected addition of one and possibly two backliners from an affiliation with the New York Rangers, the return of promising youngster Pete Ford and the possible return of veteran Doug Harvey should create quite a battle for the blueline spots.The battle for forward positions should be no less competitive. The roster already lists returnee Duncan MacDonald, Bartlett, the team&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player, Jean Marie Cossette and rookie Art Chiupka at left wing with another player expected to join the list from New York.Marshall, one the AHL&rsquo;s alltime scoring leaders, and Cunningham, who played here in the Clipper&rsquo;s first season in 1962, figure to have the inside on pivot posts. Brinkworth, a 25-year-old former college AllAmerican, has his work cut out for him for gaining a team berth, especially since a centre is expected from the Rangers.The right side, already listing Ken Schinkel, the team&rsquo;s leading scorer, returnee Sandy McGregor and Ed MacQueen, also considering retirement should be strengthened by the possibility of two men being assigned by New York.The Orioles have caught the fancy of the sports fans in Baltimore and the always popular Colts are nearing what should again be a successful season. The Clippers, who vie for the winter sports dollar with the National Basketball Association Bullets, haven&rsquo;t taken the summer off and could figure as the team&rsquo;s most successful ice hockey representative. If they&rsquo;re not, it won&rsquo;t be for the lack of trying by the team&rsquo;s officials.Reardon has squelched rumors he might be in line for the office of league president, vacated by Jack Riley. The latter is now the GM of the new Pittsburgh entry in the NHL.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m very happy with the job I have and I am working on next season. We have a lot of work to do for the coming year.&rdquo; Reardon also emphatically denied that he had been officially approached about the job although &ldquo;I did hear something with my name mentioned.&rdquo;CLIPPER CLIPPINGS: Trainer Gump Embro back on the job selling advertisement for the Baltimore program&hellip; Baltimore Clippers&rsquo; Booster Club had a fine turnout of 194 members for May 24 meeting&hellip; A panel of Reardon, club president Embry, publicist Bob Elmer and broadcaster Jim West fielded questions about team&rsquo;s 1966-67 prospects. &#9632;

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Baltimore Adds Seven New Players To Roster

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04519/8454356-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rochester&rsquo;s manager-coach JOE CROZIER, left, has an audience of rival AHL coaches as he holds court at recent AHL meeting. Listening to the wily Rochester leader, left to right, are FRANK MATHERS of Hershey, FRED GLOVER of Cleveland and Quebec&rsquo;s PHIL WATSON.</figcaption></div>ROCHESTER, N. Y.The American Hockey League Rochester Americans have new owners&mdash;a Civic Group headed by Attorney Robert W. Clarke.The club was purchased for an estimated $500,000 from the parent National Hockey League Toronto Maple Leafs. The purchase price includes contracts for 19 players.Besides Clarke, other owners are Merle Sweet, operator of a Motor Inn, and Larry Quinn, a builder.Clarke has been associated with Rochester Americans since 1956 when the club entered the league.He said the new corporation will own the players outright, but that the Americans will retain a working agreement with Toronto of the National Hockey League for the next three years.Clarke, President of the new corporation, did not give a reason for buying the club except to say that the Leafs could use the money in their building program.Rochester will own all the players that participated last season in the Calder Cup play-offs except Mike Walton and Jim Pappin, a team spokesman said.Clarke also said that Joe Crozier, general manager and coach of the champion Americans, would remain in those posts next year and will be offered stock.Under the purchase agreement, Toronto would pay the new Rochester owners $30,000 a player if any of the Rochester players were drafted because of the expansion of the NHL. Rochester, in turn, would pay Toronto $20,000 for a replacement from Toronto&rsquo;s minor-league system.The three-year working agreement provides that Toronto may purchase only two players a season from Rochester unless there is an emergency, such as injuries to Toronto players. If Toronto were to buy additional players during an emergency, Rochester would be given a choice of players from the Toronto farm system.The 19 players involved in the deal are:Goalies&mdash;Bobby Perreault and Gary Smith:Defensemen&mdash;Al Arbour, Duane Rupp, Darryl Sly, Don Cherry and Darryl Edestrand;Forwards&mdash;Dick Gamble, Gerry Ehman, Stan Smrke, Bronco Horvath, Peter Stem-kowski, Eddie Litzenberger, Terry Clancy, Mike Corrigan, Les Duff, Red Armstrong, Larry Jeffrey and Brian Conacher. &#9632;

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Civic Group Buys Rochester Hockey Franchise

ROCHESTER, N.Y.The American Hockey League voted to discontinue its interlocking schedule with the Western Hockey League and also discussed plans for the two leagues to merge sometime in the foreseeable future.Jack Riley, AHL president, said the owners voted at the league&rsquo;s annual meeting to dis-continue the schedule after one year. He said AHL teams did not earn much money at the gate when they played the WHL teams at home.He added that each league has set up committees to work out details of a merger and that &ldquo;the Western League is very receptive to the idea.&rdquo;He said the teams may merge by the 1967-68 season, or possibly before. There are nine teams in the AHL and seven in the WHL. &#9632;

Interlocking Play Ended, AHL-WHL Discuss Merger

ROCHESTER, N.Y.Newest addition to the Rochester Americans is a man who can&rsquo;t even skate&hellip; and general manager-coach Joe Crozier doesn&rsquo;t even care.Jim Ball, a Rochesterian since 1955, is the new employee. He became publicity director of the American Hockey League champion Amerks on August 1st.His duties won&rsquo;t include any skating, but he&rsquo;ll keep busy enough writing press releases, handling programs, selling advertising, working on tickets and promotions and doing a number of jobs connected with bringing the Ice Capades to the War Memorial. &#9632;

Amerks Appoint Ball Press Chief

SAN DIEGO, Calif.The new $6.5 million San Diego International Sports Arena will stage its grand opening on November 17 with the first game of the San Diego Gulls as the featured attraction.The announcement of the opening night for the multi-purpose indoor arena was made by Robert Breitbard, president of the Gulls, when he released the club&rsquo;s 1966-67 Western Hockey League schedule.The Gulls will play 36 home games&mdash;six against each WHL opponent&mdash;in the new arena, now in the final construction stages in the Midway-Frontier section of Pt. Loma.The Seattle Totems, under the direction of new coach Bill MacFarland, will provide the opposition for the Gulls when professional hockey returns to San Diego after a 17-year absence.The Gulls will play again against Seattle on November 19.Gull hockey games will start at 8 p.m. on week nights and at 7 p.m. on Sundays.The new Arena will be completely air conditioned with fully upholstered, individual-theatre type seats. There will be 33 acres of parking for more than 4,000 cars.In addition to the 36 home games, the Gulls will play 36 games on the road. They will play each of the league&rsquo;s six teams in a 12 game series&mdash;six at home and six away.San Diego&rsquo;s opponents in the Western Hockey League are: Los Angeles Blades, San Francisco-Oakland Seals, Portland Buckaroos, Seattle Totems, Vancouver Canucks and Victoria Maple Leafs. Portland is the defending regular season champion while Victoria is the Lester Patrick Cup playoff champion. &#9632;

Seattle To Help San Diego Gulls Launch New $6,500,000 Ice Rink

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES, Calif.There will be two hockey clubs operating in Los Angeles next season, one coming and one going. Jack Kent Cooke&rsquo;s L.A. Kings, without general manager, coach, players or even a place to play as of this writing, will be preparing for the first season of the National League&rsquo;s new sister circuit in the West, scheduled to open in the fall of 1967. Meanwhile, the L. A. Blades, with a new coach, players of a sort, and a nice home, but without the NHL berth they wanted so much, will be preparing for their sixth season in the Western League.Cooke&rsquo;s Kings will not even have a place to play when the new NHL division opens, if it opens on time, but it does appear they will have a place to play in the future. The long-overdue settling on a site and ground-breaking ceremonies for the building Cooke will call The Forum came in early July, and with that move Cooke tightened his hold on the NHL franchise, a hold that never was shaky, except in the eyes of his foes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-031066/8454497-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="285" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hal Laycoe</figcaption></div>The Forum will be located on a 29.5 acre site at the corner of Prairie and Manchester Avenues in Inglewood, just north of horse racing&rsquo;s Hollywood Park. Mayor Sam Yorty of L. A., who had sought to provide Cooke a more suitable location within the city limits of L.A. so that L.A. could get the tax money, failed. Cooke has had his eyes on the Ingle-wood site from the beginning. And if it is not located in L.A. proper, Inglewood touches L.A. and is closer to much of the wellheeled population than is much of L.A.Cooke paid $4,014,340 for the land and estimates the cost of building the arena at around $7,000,000. giving him an $11.000.000 stake in hockey at the outset. Additionally, he must pay the NHL a $2,000,000 franchise fee for the right to draft players to stock his club, and he may or may not have to pay indemnities to the WHL. The latter point has not as yet been settled.The new arena, a beautiful building, which will look like a modern day Roman coliseum on the outside, will hold around 16,000 for basketball and 15,000 for hockey. Cooke&rsquo;s L.A. Lakers of the National Basketball Association will be cotenants, along with any other customers Jack can round up.Target date for completion of the building is Jan. 1 of 1968, and the plan is for the Kings to play the first part of their first NHL season in the Long Beach Arena. The latter is a fine, large new building in a large city, not too accessible to the bulk of the L.A. fans, but within reach, and probably acceptable as a temporary home. The L.A. Sports Arena chose to side with the Blades and thus is losing Cooke&rsquo;s business, though his Lakers will continue there next, season.As his general manager and coach, Cooke sought the most attractive man in the minors, Hal Laycoe of Portland. While Laycoe hung him up for months reaching a decision, most of the other expansion clubs were picking off the top available men. Now Laycoe and his sidekick, Portland Executive Director Harry Glickman, who also was interviewed by Cooke, have chosen to buy and run the Portland club instead, so Cooke is back looking for a manager and coach, Montreal&rsquo;s Kenny Reardon remains a possibility. Meanwhile, Cooke&rsquo;s executive assistant, Ed Fitkin, and ex-NHL star Larry Regan, the latter based in Toronto, are laying preliminary groundwork.TV executive Tony Owen has joined forces with Dan Reeves&rsquo;, Clarence Martin and Jim Piggott in the direction of the Blades, who have decided to continue operations. With Lynn Patrick moved on to head up the new St. Louis NHL entry, the old defenseman Fern Flaman has moved in from Providence as the new Blades&rsquo; coach. He inherits a team that has run last two years in a row and badly needs overhauling. The Blade management insists it is in business for some time to come, but there remains a suspicion this may be their last year. Any law suits they may contemplate, any indemnities they may seek, any last hope of gaining the NHL berth they may nurse would seem boosted by their staying in business for the time being. &#9632;

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Hockey Pot Boiling With Blades, Kings Both Gearing In L.A.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;Los Angeles Blades will open their sixth season of Western Hockey League play at the Sports Arena when they host San Francisco-Oakland Seals Sunday night Oct. 23, it was announced by Blade Executive Director, Jack Geyer.The Blades will play 36 home games and 36 road games in a balanced schedule against the other six WHL clubs. &#9632;

Seals, Blades To Play In L.A. Opener Oct. 23

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div>CHERRY HILL, N.J.The Jersey Devils aren&rsquo;t dead after all as far as the Eastern Hockey League is concerned.At least the Devils have complied with the first step for performing in the circuit during the coming campaign. The Devils, like all the other nine clubs from the 196566 campaign, have posted their preliminary escrow money with the league headquarters.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-011862/8454552-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="309" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tom Lockhart</figcaption></div>As a result, no longer is there talk hereabouts that the club would die due to the coming appearance of a Philadelphia entry in the NHL for the 1967-68 campaign. To the contrary, rumors are making the rounds that perhaps the Philly team is not as disinterested as it was supposed to be at last reports.At that time Bill Putnam, Philly president, said his club was not interested in working with an EHL club. But perhaps new director of player personnel Bud Poile and coach Keith Allen were able to change Putnam&rsquo;s mind and point out some advantages to having some type of alliance with the Devils.However, at this juncture no one&rsquo;s talking because actually no one in authority with the Philly team is here. Putnam has been on the West Coast, after an appendix operation, visiting his ill father. Poile and Allen are home making arrangements to move their families here in the fall.Consequently the report couldn&rsquo;t be affirmed or denied that the Philly team might be thinking of changing its mind. In any event the Devils have cleared the first hurdle to a return to EHL action, and the second one will come up on August 28 when the remainder of the escrow money is due.Meantime Bill Conway, head of the local group, affirms that the Devils will be back on the ice. Last year both the hockey team and the arena were run by the same people. The way things look there will be a separation of duties this year when the Devils hope to ice a better club. There may be a new owner of the arena but that is not final as yet.Conway reports that his club will play 20 home dates on Fridays out of the 36-game home log. A few other dates are on Saturdays and Sundays with the remainder on the weak Tuesday night.Lockhart, who has been traveling extensively in between league meetings, is delighted that all teams are back. For awhile the status of Johnstown was shaky, but the way things now stand, Jersey, Clinton, New Haven, Johnstown and Long Island will comprise the Northern Division. In the south it will again be Knoxville, Nashville, Greensboro, Charlotte and Jacksonville (now Florida).Lockhart has devised a 72-game unbalanced schedule for the 10 teams, and hopes the preliminary log will be approved without too many changes. Florida&rsquo;s log officially shows six games at West Palm Beach, eight at St. Petersburg and 22 at Jacksonville. The Rockets hope by playing only one game a week at Jacksonville that the crowds will be more concentrated. If St. Petersburg can repeat its success of last year and similar success is enjoyed in West Palm Beach, the Rockets may make some money in their third season. Of course, all depends on a winning season, for the club&rsquo;s low estate the last two seasons didn&rsquo;t make them too good a drawing card at home or on the road.Lockart, incidentally, has been to Alaska recently and will head for Austria in August. Yet he&rsquo;s found time to create the league schedule that will open on Wednesday, Oct. 19, and continue through Sunday, Mar. 12. One of the unusual features is that no games will be played between Dec. 19 and 24. The clubs decided to allow any players, who wished to do so to go home for the Xmas period and thus decided not to schedule any games in the six-day period. &#9632;

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Jersey Devils Back In Good Books Of EHL; Prexy Lockhart Sets Up 72-Game Schedule

HOUSTON, Tex.The Houston Apollos have announced the signing of Ray Kinasewich as coach for the 1966-67 hockey season.Bill McCreary has been appointed assistant general manager and publicity director, it was announced by Sam Pollock, general manager of the Montreal Canadiens.Last season McCreary acted as player-coach for the Apollos and was selected left winger of the CPHL&rsquo;s first all-star team. He will continue playing for the 1966-67 season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-021275/8454583-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="493" height="570"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL MCCREARY&hellip; To Continue Playing</figcaption></div>Kinasewich was born in Smokey Lake, Alberta. He became a professional hockey player in 1955, and retired in 1965 while playing with Seattle Totems. During his ten year span, he played 729 games, scored 263 goals, and 280 assists for a total of 543 points. Ray was appointed coach of the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Canada Junior Hockey League last season, and coached his team to the Canadian junior hockey championship and the coveted Memorial Cup. Quite an accomplishment for a freshman coach. Ray was recommended highly by the Montreal club and the Apollos feel they are fortunate to acquire a coach of this caliber.Meanwhile Pollock announced extensive plans for their Houston affiliate for the 1966-67 season. He announced he is considering five candidates, some of whom are from the Houston area for the position of general manager which was made vacant by the resignation of Jerry DeLise.Pollock said the Canadiens were extremely happy with the support the Apollos had received in their first year in Houston and are looking encouragingly towards the coming season. He also announced the World Champion Montreal Canadiens will come to Houston to play an exhibition game in early October.The Apollos are also negotiating with the Chicago Black Hawks, second place finisher in the National Hockey League last season. to also appear in Houston this fall.The Apollos will open their training camp in Montreal on Friday, September 23rd, in conjunction with the NHL Canadiens. Pollock and Vice-President Howard Hamilton of the Canadiens were in Houston the first week of August to finalize all plans for the coming season. &#9632;

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Apollos Name Kinasewich Coach, McCreary Gets Front Office Role

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.Glen Sonmor, hockey coach at Ohio State University, will succeed John Mariucci as University of Minnesota hockey coach.Minnesota Athletic Director Marsh Ryman said Sonmor&rsquo;s appointment was approved at a meeting of the board of regents.Mariucci, a former Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; star in the National Hockey League, said earlier he was resigning to devote more time to his wholesale paper supply business. However, he later accepted a position with the new Minnesota North Stars of the NHL as director of player development.Sonmor played professional hockey with several teams in the American Hockey League and moved up to New York Rangers of the NHL before an injury ended his playing career in mid-season of 1955.Mariucci had served since 1952 as a part-time staff member. His teams won 215 games, last 152 and tied 17. &#9632;

Sonmor New Minnesota U. Puck Coach

WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;Bill Johnson, 25-year veteran of amateur and professional hockey, has been appointed hockey coach at United College in Winnipeg.Johnson, 37, played professional with Washington of the American Hockey League.The Winnipeg-born defenseman was a member of Canada&rsquo;s national hockey team in 1964-65. &#9632;

Johnson Named College Coach

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div>COLUMBUS, O.&mdash;Edward &ldquo;Moe&rdquo; Bartoli, aggressive right winger, who has led the International Hockey League in three different departments, is returning to the IHL as player-coach of the new Columbus Checkers.Bartoli spent five of his ten years in hockey in the IHL and still stands ninth in the all-time scoring list. His last stint in the league was in the 196263 season, with the Minneapolis Millers, when he led the league in scoring 130 points.One record that Bartoli set in that season still stands&mdash;most hat tricks in one season, seven.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-012005/8454669-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="300" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Moe Bartoli</figcaption></div>The scrappy new Columbus coach topped the IHL in penalty minutes in the 1958-59 season with Louisville, when he logged 191 minutes in the box. He had just led the Eastern Hockey League in that respect the previous season with 218 minutes.Bartoli. always a fine offensive player, is expected to supply plenty of punch to the Checkers&rsquo; scoring. Last season with Long Island of the Eastern League he had 45 goals and 61 assists for 106 points, eighth in the league. Bartoli was born in Sudbury, Ont., and still makes his home there. He gave up a promising baseball career to devote full time to hockey.The Checkers, who drafted six men from the IHL player pool, will be supplied talent from the Chicago Black Hawks organization. They are owned by the Schmelzer brothers of Cleveland, who secured Frank Gallagher, last season with the Turner Cup champions Port Huron, as their general manager.It is reported that one of the Checkers&rsquo; top draft choices. Patty Ginnell, of Des Moines, will not join the club. It is reported he is scheduled to coach the Flin Flon hockey club.Des Moines, in the process of shaking up the Oak Leafs, allowed Ginnell, its leading goal scorer the past two years, to depart because of reported dissension in the club, centering in a feud between Ginnell and Coach Minnie Menard, who will return to coach the Leafs.Other Oak Leafs stalwarts who were ticketed for departure under the new management headed by Norman Conway, Jr. are winger Laurie Langrell and defenseman Joe Kiss. Langrell. No. 2 scorer, was slated to go to Toledo in exchange for Moe Morissette and Mickey Cherevaty and Kiss was reported headed for the same club in a deal for Moe Benoit, former Toledo playercoach.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-021448/8454662-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="543" height="807"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAT GINNELL&hellip; Said Quitting IHL</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bartoli Named New Columbus Coach; Des Moines Leafs Cleaning House

DAYTON, O.&mdash;Daytons Gems, weak on defense in each of their first two seasons in the International league, took steps to plug the gap with the acquisition of Moe Benoit from the Toledo Blades.Benoit. 31. a native of Valleyfield. Quebec, has been on the All-Star team in the IHL each of the past five years. He coached Toledo to the league and playoff championship in 1963-64.The new Dayton defenseman, who stands 5-11 and weighes 180 pounds, has been in the International league six years, three years with Toledo and three with Omaha.In 1959 Benoit played on the Canadian team which won the world amateur championship in Prague, and the following year he played on the Canadian team which finished second to the United States in the Olympic Games at Squaw Valley. Dayton defenseman Rod Paavola was a member of the U.S. championship squad.Dayton&rsquo;s newest player is the father of five children, four boys and a girl. The Benoit family purchased a home on Oliver road in Madison township. Moe has been in sales work during the off-season and he&rsquo;ll be looking for a job in the Dayton area.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03899/8454700-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="481" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body">MOE BENOIT&hellip; Vet With Dayton</figcaption></div>Another newcomer to the Dayton Gems official family is Patricia Colleen Rupp. She&rsquo;s the first child born to Kathy Rupp, wife of Gem goalie Pat Rupp. The youngster weighed in at five pounds, five ounces.Meanwhile, the Gems will open the 1966-67 season at Wampler Hara Arena on Sunday evening, Oct. 23. against the Fort Wayne Komets.The Gems will help the Columbus Checkers pry the lid off the new campaign on Fridey, Oct. 21, at the State Fairgrounds coliseum in Columbus.According to the official schedule the Gems will play 19 Sunday games at home: seven on Tuesday; eight on Wednesday and two on Thursday.Dayton will play Toledo at home the night before Thanksgiving. Nov. 23: will host Port Huron on Christmas Night and Muskegon on New Year&rsquo;s Night.Home Sunday games at Wampler Hara Arena will start at 7 p.m., until after the pro football season is concluded in January. according to Gems general manager Lefty McFadden. After the football season the Sunday games, as usual, will be played at 3 p.m.All week night games are scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m., the same as last year.McFadden was in Oklahoma City recently working out plans for the pre-season training camp in St. Thomas, Ont., with Bill Levins, general manager of the Central league club. Oklahoma City and Dayton are Boston farm Clubs and both will train in Canada just nine miles from the Boston base at London, Ont. &#9632;

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Dayton Gems Solve Defensive Woes Purchasing Benoit From Toledo

COLUMBUS. O.&mdash;Columbus Checkers announced that they have reached a player agreement with the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League. The Columbus-Chicago affiliation was worked out at the NHL summer meetings in Montreal.The agreement provides that the Hawks supply Columbus with promising young players. The pact was arranged by Frank-Gallagher, Checkers&rsquo; new general manager, and Ken Campbell, director of player personnel for Chicago.Gallagher remarked: &ldquo;I feel very fortunate to have established this relationship with the Black Hawks. Good hockey players are hard to come by. Now we have nearly 50 scouts working for us. I&rsquo;m very confident we&rsquo;ll have a competitive team for this, our first year.&rdquo;Campbell said: &ldquo;The Black Hawks are happy to be associated with Columbus. We feel it will be a great hockey town.&rdquo;Chicago finished second in the NHL last season, just eight points behind the front-running Montreal Canadiens. The Hawks can boast one of the finest systems in professional hockey, having developed such stars as scoring champions Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita.Campbell will work very closely with Columbus. He is a close friend of Gallagher, who was affiliated with the Chicago system at Port Huron. &#9632;

Columbus, NHL Hawks Sign Pact

MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;The Montreal Junior Canadiens have a new hockey coach in Leo Bossy.Sam Pollock, general manager of the NHL Canadiens, announced that Bossy, a native Montrealer who coached the Halifax Junior Canadiens last season, would take over the Ontario Junior Hockey Association Club&rsquo;s coaching reins.The position became vacant when Scotty Bowman resigned to become coach of the St. Louis Blues in the NHL&rsquo;s expansion program. &#9632;

Bossy Named Junior Coach

<div class="byline">BY BOB MILLER</div>MONCTON. N. B.&mdash;Junior hockey in the Maritimes received a major shot in the arm this month when Rudy Pilous, coach and manager of the California Seals, one of the expansion teams to be included in the National Hockey in 1967. announced affiliation with a junior team to be based in Moncton.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04611/8454779-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="260" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Wilson</figcaption></div>Terry Fraser, a local hockey promoter, who has been leading attempts to form a Maritime junior league, met with Pilous and Bob Wilson, Seals&rsquo; assistant GM and announced the California squad will be working with a Moncton junior team next season.Wilson, who signed such players as Bobby Hull, Roger Crozier, Oscar Gaudet and others said &ldquo;I think the Maritimes is on the horizon for development of future pro players&rdquo;.Seals will hold a tryout camp here in early September. with the hopes of attracting players from all over the Atlantic region, but with particular sights on the Moncton, North Shore of New Brunswick and Quebec areas. Pilous and Wilson both indicated they would be on hand for clinics during the camp. &ldquo;If a boy shows good stuff, we&rsquo;ll grade him to one of the OHA teams&rdquo;, Wilson said.Fraser and Don Lewis, another junior pusher in the Moncton area, said they plan on setting up a co-operative plan with boys clubs in the city, high schools and the present Moncton Kinsmen Minor Hockey Association for the development of future junior and pro talent.Other centres originally interested in the junior setup included Saint John. Halifax, Fredericton and Charlottetown. However, Fredericton and Halifax have bowed out, Charlottetown is undecided and only Saint John has been showing much interest in going along with the scheme.Fraser, who was general manager of the Moncton Hawks during the 1964-65 season has been putting all his efforts behind the proposed circuit. He, along with local sports enthusiast Lewis, arranged the meeting with Pilous and Wilson and have been carrying the ball as far as conferences with other Maritime cities are concerned.Terry, an Ontario native, who has been involved in several business ventures already sponsors several sports teams in the city&rsquo;&mdash;in softball and hockey.A strong believer in Maritime junior hockey, Fraser, in the next few months will be doing everything in his power to form and promote the sport. Things are in an uncertain state at this writing, but, with Seals backing the local delegation and St. Louis Blues recently pledging assistance to Halifax, the scene looks a lot brighter than it has for many years. &#9632;

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California’s New NHL Seals Link With Moncton Juniors

<div class="byline">BY BOB MILLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-011774/8454810-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here&rsquo;s Moncton&rsquo;s OSCAR GAUDET, left, shown with St. Louis teammate ART STRATTON during last season when they ranked high among CPHL point men.</figcaption></div>MONCTON, N.B.&mdash;When the National Hockey League expansion formula is implemented next season, you can bet Oscar Gaudet, a personable 24-year-old Acadian from St. Joseph, New Brunswick will be on one of the six new rosters.That&rsquo;s if, Gaudet, one of the most promising young pros in the business, isn&rsquo;t already occupying a right wing berth with Chicago Black Hawks.The classy Gaudet, who turned pro with Buffalo Bisons only two years ago, is given a good chance by many experts to stick with the Hawks this time around. He tied for the league-lead in goals in the Central Pro Hockey League, while toiling with St. Louis Braves, as he and Paul Andrea, another Maritimer with Minnesota Rangers, each potted 37 markers.The youngest of two hockeyplaying brothers. Oscar was a sensational juvenile and junior star in Moncton, playing on Maritime winners in each division. He was a high-scoring member of the Moncton Junior Beavers, a squad that went all the way to the Eastern Canada Memorial Cup finals against a strong Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s team in 1960. That squad was coached by Oscar&rsquo;s older brother, Ronnie, a onetime junior star with Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s, who was playercoach with last season&rsquo;s Maritime senior champions, Moncton Hawks.Oscar played three seasons with Hawks, twice finishing in the runner-up spot in the loop scoring race in the now defunct Maritime Senior Hockey League, formally the Nova Scotia Senior League.The five-foot, eight inch, 170-pound Gaudet was scouted by Bob Wilson for the Black Hawks, and turned pro with the Bisons prior to the 1964-65 season. He rattled off 22 goals in his rookie season and was assigned to the fast CPHL last year where he finished in the top 10 in scoring.Gaudet gives the CPHL a slight nod over the older AHL in that the Central loop features younger players, &ldquo;on the way up, while the AHL has more players who have already had a crack at the NHL,&rdquo; says Gaudet. A CPHL ruling states each team may dress only five players who are more than 23 years of age.Oscar, who is spending the summer at his parents&rsquo; home in the Memramckko Valley, has been keeping in shape by playing baseball, softball, golf and handball. (&ldquo;Handball is probably the best sport for conditioning because it developes your reflexes more,&rdquo; he says).He has been taking part in the usual sports banquets and functions and expects to go to work for a while before training camp opens in September.Expansion? &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good idea, the smooth-working winger opines. &ldquo;Every player will have a chance to make the NHL now, and I&rsquo;m hoping I&rsquo;ll be one of them.&rdquo;What with his natural ability and hard-working attitude, he should have no trouble breaking in. If not with Chicago, then definitely with one of the new clubs. &#9632;

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Chicago-owned Oscar Gaudet Seen Certain To Crash NHL

CALGARY, Alta.The long time dream of Western junior hockey enthusiasts has finally become a reality.After years of discussions pro and con, the establishment of a nine-team Western Canada Junior hockey league gained formal approval by club representatives from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.Frank Boucher of Regina, commissioner of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, was named commissioner of the new league. Headquarters of the league will be in Regina where Boucher normally resides.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-021272/8454841-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="306" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Boucher</figcaption></div>In the league are Edmonton Oil Kings, Calgary Buffalos, Saskatoon Blades. Regina Pats, Estevan Bruins, Weyburn Red Wings, Moose Jaw Canucks, Brandon Wheat Kings and a new club to be formed in Winnipeg.Play will open Oct. 7. The league schedule, of a maximum 56 games, will be drawn later.Each club will be allowed to protect 40 players, 17 fewer than the maximum set by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.Del Wilson, general manager of Regina Pats, said another league&mdash;including teams from smaller centres such as Melville, Flin Flon, Saskatoon and Swift Current&mdash;also will be formed. A team from the secondary league will be allowed to compete against the major league for Western and Canadian junior championships.Main selling point of the new league is that it will allow boys to attend school and play hockey at the same time.Teams within the same province will play on weekdays, Wilson said, with inter-provincial games scheduled on weekends.The league eventually will be restricted to cities with universities, Wilson added, but &ldquo;first we have to get the league off the ground.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Boucher Named To Head Super Nine-Team Loop For Western Juniors

CORNER BROOK, Nfld.&mdash;Newfoundland hockey fans figure affiliation with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association came one year too late.With the champion Corner Brook Royals rated the strongest team ever assembled in Newfoundland, hockey followers here would have liked to have seen the Royals entered in Allan Cup play last season.To quote one official, &ldquo;it would have been interesting to see how far the Royals would have gone in senior cup competition. This was the best team ever assembled in Newfoundland hockey.&rdquo; Newfoundland finally linked with the CAHA this spring after years of independnt operation.According to hockey observer Nelson Mudge, the Corner Brook Royals, were a power-packed crew with the likes of Harry &lsquo;The Kat&rsquo; Katrynuk, Frank Dorrington, Jim Guy, Bert Blake, Ed O&rsquo;Quinn and Tony Keough, forming the nucleus of the team.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03845/8454872-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="298" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Faulkner</figcaption></div>Katrynuk scored 26 goals, Guy 23 and Dorrington 21 as the Royals skated off with the Herder Trophy, emblematic of senior hockey supremacy in Newfoundland.Royals outclassed Buchan Miners 4 games to 2 in the section &lsquo;A&rsquo; semi-final playoffs. Conception Bay Ceebees, sparked by the three Faulkner brothers, Alex, George and Jack, won the section &lsquo;B&rsquo; semi-final round from Gander Flyers.The Ceebees, long a power in Newfoundland hockey circles, were drawn against the Royals in the &lsquo;showdown&rsquo; for the title. With the prolific scoring power of the professionally-experienced Faulkners as their main weapon, the Ceebees were again rated a threat for title.The Ceebees won the series opener 8-4 on home ice but their superiority suddenly vanished and the Corner Brook team snapped back to sweep the next four games and win the final series 4-1 and the championship in a great hockey upset. Scores of the games were 8-4, 9-2, 7-4 and 7-2.Royals were led by Guy, 19-year-old junior star and Bob Smith, a strong-skating right winger, who scored seven goals each in the finals to bring Corner Brook the Herder Trophy.Another bright star for the Royals was playing-coach Frank Dorrington, who led both teams in the final playoffs in scoring 17 points, 5 goals and 12 assists. &#9632;

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Newfoundland Fans Wished Royals Could Have Had Shot At Allan Cup

National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the 1965-66 season N.H.L. Final Statistics free of charge. These handy-sized record cards contain the final standing of the Clubs, the individual Scoring Records for every player during the regular schedule and the Stanley Cup Play-offs, as well as the Goalkeepers Averages and the Penalty Records of each club.Mail requests to:NHL PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT922 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Que. &#9632;

NHL STATISTICS AVAILABLE FOR FANS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="C0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-01271/8454951-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOE BLAKE&hellip; Three Year Deals Cost Money</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.The annual rumors about Toe Blake&rsquo;s retirement have been put to rest for another year. Blake signed another one-year contract with Canadiens on June 29th, thus paving the way for his 12th season as coach of the club.It was also reported at the time of signing that Blake agreed verbally to coach the team for a period of years, though preferring to sign for a year at a time. At the end of each season he&rsquo;ll undergo a medical examination, and, with a doctor&rsquo;s okay, will coach again.The 54-year-old Blake has often expressed a preference for one-year contracts, and for a variety of reasons. In addition to health, there&rsquo;s money to be gained and complacency to be avoided by signing a one-year deal. Says Toe: &ldquo;If we do well during a season and I have a new contract coming up. I stand a chance of getting a raise. That wouldn&rsquo;t be the case in a three-year deal, although I&rsquo;d have more protection.&rdquo;During his 11 seasons as coach, Blake has steered Canadiens to seven first-place finishes and seven Stanley Cups. Five of the Cup wins were consecutive, which is a league record. In some ways, his most significant feats have come about in the last couple of seasons when he piloted Habs to the Cup despite the absence of superstars like Rocket Richard, Harvey and Plante.Blake&rsquo;s approach to his job is summed up in a quote he made, shortly after signing his new contract. Asked which of his Stanley Cup wins could be considered the most important, Toe replied: &ldquo;the eighth.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Toe Blake Given ‘OK’ By Medics, Signs Another One-Year Contract To Coach Canadiens For 12th Time

DETROIT, Mich.Alex Faulkner, the first Newfoundlander to make the National Hockey League when he played with Detroit Red Wings in the 1962-63 season, plans to return to professional ranks after two years playing senior hockey at home with the Conception Bay Ceebees.Faulkner, 30, said he has been invited by Detroit coach Sid Abel to attend the main training camp in September.&ldquo;Sid was pleased to know that I would like to try it again&rdquo; said Faulkner &ldquo;it&rsquo;s quite obvious that he would like as many potential NHLers as possible with the expansion due in 1967-68. If I can&rsquo;t make the Wings, I&rsquo;ll play anywhere in the farm system and hope one of the new clubs pick me up in the draft next summer.&rdquo;Faulkner, a centre, entered the American Hockey League six seasons ago with Rochester Americans, a Toronto Maple Leafs farm club. He scored 10 goals and 10 assists during his rookie year in the NHL, but blossomed in the Detroit-Toronto playoff series with five goals, three of them winners.He played in only 35 games the next year and was plagued by injuries. He returned to Newfoundland where he joined his two brother on the Conception Bay team. &#9632;

Faulkner Ready To Try Comeback

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL, Que.The Canadiens will have to produce playoff hockey in the regular schedule if they hope to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, next season.That&rsquo;s the shape of things to come in the never-ending rivalry between the two oldest clubs in hockey. The latest chapter in the long-standing feud shows that Canadiens completely dominate Leafs in a short playoff series, such as last April&rsquo;s, but fail to hold their own over a stretch of regular season games. Habs eliminated Leafs four straight in playoffs last spring, but managed only a 5-7-2 record against them during the season. It was the worst seasonal record Canadiens posted against a rival club.The more mystically inclined attribute such things to a &ldquo;jinx&rdquo; or &ldquo;hex&rdquo; that one team holds over another, but a realist like Toe Blake doesn&rsquo;t buy that theory. Says he: &ldquo;Toronto got up for games against us during the season, and we let down. It&rsquo;s as simple as that. Several times we had a lead going into the third period, and blew it.&rdquo;Some of the more notable letdowns occurred on Montreal&rsquo;s home ice. Habs posted a miserable record&mdash;two wins and five losses&mdash;against Leafs in the Forum, and were shutout three times along the way. The payoff came last January when they lost 6-0 and Canadiens fans kept up a steady roar of &ldquo;Go Leafs, Go!&rdquo;To avoid a repitition of this next season Habs will have to sharpen up their goal-scoring, stop taking silly penalties, and hope that Henri Richard avoids injuries so that he can direct their attack against the Imlach crew. A healthy Richard is one of the most important assets Canadiens can have against Toronto, for he virtually controls the game with his skating and stickhandling. When Henri wasn&rsquo;t playing with injuries last season, he was a stickout against Leafs and accounted for several winning goals. When he was below par, or sidelined, the whole team seemed to sag against the relentless forechecking of the Leaf centres, notably Bob Pulford.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0394/8455006-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="290" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Henri Richard</figcaption></div>One of the surprises of last season was that Toronto, among the lower-scoring clubs in the league, out-scored Montreal 39-34 over 14 regular games. In the Forum the count was 23-13 for Leafs. Among their biggest guns were Ron Ellis and the redoubtable Eddie Shack. Ellis was an almost constant threat and Shack was a great opportunist, who thrived on intercepting passes from Canadiens defencemen and rifling them into from Canadiens defensemen and rifling them into trouble against Leaf rearguards, and when they did get in on goal, their shots were hurried and off-target. A fair share of Toronto&rsquo;s goals came on powerplays after Canadiens had been enticed into taking an extra penalty, such as a doubleminor against a minor for the Leafs. One of the more notable examples of this occurred in an early-season game last November, when John Ferguson was banished for four minutes against Eddie Shack&rsquo;s two. Then, Ted Harris joined Fergie in the sin bin and Ron Ellis scored for the Leafs. The game wound up in a 3-3 tie, though Canadiens had held a 3-1 lead going into the third period.It was different in the playoffs, however, as Canadiens outhustled their rivals and outscored them 15-5 in a four-game series. They also outfought them in a number of riotous brawls which contributed to numerous penalty records&mdash;eight of them in one game. More important was the fact that when Habs turned on sustained speed and pressure they routed the Leafs, who didn&rsquo;t look like the same group of men who had been so troublesome in the regular schedule. Says Toe Blake: &ldquo;I hope the playoffs made Canadiens forget the kind of season they had against Leafs. They were our nemesis, just as Detroit were the year before. We seem to come up against that sort of thing pretty often, but if we play up to our potential next season, we&rsquo;ll do all right.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Champion Habs Looking Ahead, Must Overcome Maple Leaf ‘Hex’

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The Red Wings will meet all their Nationa1 Hockey League&rsquo;s rivals during the exhibition season except New York, manager-coach Sid Abel said after completing pre-season game plans.Abel tried to line up a game with the Rangers but the New Yorkers are making a western swing and Abel and Emile Francis couldn&rsquo;t get together on a date.The Chicago Black Hawks and Toronto Maple Leafs will make appearances at Olympia while the Wings will play a game in the Forum with the Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens and another against Toronto in Maple Leaf Gardens.Abel again lined up eight games against NHL teams and added one against the American Hockey League champion Rochester Americans in Rochester.The Wings will open the exhibition card Sept. 29 in Hamilton, Ont., against the Boston Bruins and close Oct. 15 against Toronto in Maple Leaf Gardens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-02159/8455037-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="288" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Warren Godfrey</figcaption></div>Detroit will train again at Olympia but there was a time when Abel was ready to switch to Port Huron, Mich., when it appeared a special show would be booked into Olympia. Plans for that fell through.Abel did go site-shopping, along with business manager Lincoln Cavalieri, for a future home for the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American League who will lose their rink when Pittsburgh joins the expanded NHL in 1967-68.Dallas, Tex., was one of the sites inspected by Abel and Cavalieri. They&rsquo;ll also need a rink should the Memphis Wings make the Central League playoffs this season because the Memphis Mid-South Coliseum is booked for that time.Generally the mid-summer weeks were quiet around Olympia but defenseman Warren Godfrey, a year-round Detroit resident, made another hospital trip.Godfrey underwent knee surgery at the University of Michigan Hospital. He was operated on once during the season but it wasn&rsquo;t successful.Team captain Alex Delvecchio was another patient. Alex lost his appendix.Following is the Red Wing exhibition card:Sept. 29 Boston at HamiltonOct. 1 Canadiens at MontrealOct. 2 Chicago at OlympiaOct. 4 Toronto at KitchenerOct. 5 Chicago at St. LouisOct. 7 Boston at LondonOct. 9 Toronto at OlympiaOct. 14 Amerks at RochesterOct. 15 Maple Leafs at Toronto &#9632;

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Red Wings Meet Five NHL Teams In Exhibition Run

MELVILLE, Sask.&mdash;The Memorial Cup champion Edmonton Oil Kings received the biggest share of playoff surpluses from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association this year, according to CAHA secretary-manager Gordon Juckes of Melville.Juckes said Oil Kings got $19,096 from the playoff surplus of about $96,000 earned by CAHA clubs last season.Estevan Bruins and Oshawa Generals received more than $10,000 each. Estevan lost to Oil Kings in the Western junior final and Oshawa lost to Edmonton in the national junior final. &#9632;

Big Playoff Cut For Oil Kings

MONTREAL, Que.The Montreal Canadiens will have one known change for next season.Larry &lsquo;Mickey&rsquo; Aubut has replaced Andy Galley as the team&rsquo;s trainer. The Canadiens announced that Aubut, who has been with the team several years as assistant trainer and equipment manager, will be the club&rsquo;s No. 1 trainer. Canadiens also announced that Galley will remain in the organization moving into the Forum box office as a ticket dispenser.The team also disclosed that Eddie Palchak, who trained the junior Canadiens last year, will take over the newly-created position of supervisor of equipment. &#9632;

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