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    with Gregg Drinnan

    Wednesday, April 9, 2008
    The Memorial Cup: A history . . . 1919

    1919 MEMORIAL CUP
    Regina Patricias vs. University of Toronto Schools
    at Toronto (Arena Gardens)

    The Regina Patricias, having eliminated the Winnipeg Lutherans in the Western Canadian final for the Abbott Memorial Cup on March 10, 1919, were off to the Memorial Cup.
    The Patricias won the two-game, total-goal series with Winnipeg 8-5, taking the second game 3-1 in front of 1,935 fans at the Regina Arena.
    In the meantime, the University of Toronto Schools, backstopped by goaltender Joe Sullivan, who would go on to become a well-known physician and senator, were wrapping up the Eastern Canadian championship, whipping the visiting Montreal Melvilles 8-2 in a sudden-death game on March 17.
    (Sullivan's son Frank would have a lengthy minor league career, and would get into six NHL games over the 1949-50 and 1952-53 seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs and one each with the Chicago Blackhawks in 1954-55 and 1955-56 and Toronto Maple Leafs in the early 1950s. Frank's son Peter would be a key member of three WHA championship Winnipeg Jets teams and would play two seasons with the Jets after they were admitted to the NHL.)
    And so it was that the 1919 Memorial Cup, a two-game, total-goal affair, was scheduled for Toronto, with games on March 19 and 22 at Arena Gardens on Mutual Street.
    W.J. Finlay, sports editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, reported prior to the first game: “Toronto fans are greatly worked up over their juniors and they are just a little afraid that their favorites are going to get beaten.
    “However, it looks like a great game and, in our opinion, should be in doubt right to the finish.”
    It was anything but in doubt as the U of T opened with a 14-3 victory, causing Finlay to write: "Travelling at a dizzy pace from start to finish and uncorking team play that was revelation to the western fans, the University of Toronto Schools nifty young hockey machine cantered through the Regina Patricians in such a commanding style that they not only swamped the westerners 14-3 but outclassed them from stem to stern ...”
    Toronto, coached by Frank Carroll, a noted coach in his time, led 2-0 after the first period and 7-2 after the second.
    As Finlay noted: "The Toronto outfit has the six-man hockey system as used by the professionals down to a science and they have the ability to make use of the system to perfection. Coached by Frank Carroll, the noted Toronto professional pilot, the boys have developed team play that was really pretty to watch.”
    Forwards Don Jeffreys and Jack Aggett scored six goals each for Toronto, with defenceman Dunc Munroe adding the other two. Regina got goals from two wingers — Laudas Dutkowski, who was known as Duke and who, late in his life, dropped the ‘k’ from his surname, and S. Conrad — and defenceman M.A. Wingham.
    It's worth noting that the game was an hour and 15 minutes late in starting, as The Canadian Press reported, "to allow the fans to greet the 4th C.M.R., the first Toronto unit to come home in a body.”
    The Canadian Press also reported: "It was not known tonight whether the Patricias would default the second game on Saturday night. It is a moral certainty that they cannot pull down the lead.”
    Give the Patricias credit — they showed up for the second game on March 22. This time Toronto posted a 15-5 victory to win the series by a combined score of 29-8.
    "Though the score was trebled on them the Pats played much better hockey than they did on the opening night and the score is no indication of the play,” wrote Finlay.
    Getting glowing reviews was Mordecai Brown, the Regina goaltender who it was said was only 16 years of age.
    Toronto, which led 8-4 and 10-4 at the period breaks, got five goals from Steve Greey, four from Munroe, and three each from Jeffreys and Aggett.
    For the record, the Memorial Cup-winning goal was Toronto's ninth one in the opening game. It came from Aggett early in the third period.
    It's also worth noting that Lou Marsh, a noted sports writer with the Toronto Star, officiated both games, while Finlay — yes, the same Free Press sports editor — teamed with Marsh for the second game.
    As Finlay's report noted: "Two sporting scribes, Billy Finlay of the Free Press, Winnipeg, and Lou Marsh, of the Toronto Star, handled the game, which was very clean.“
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    From Gregg Drinnan...1920

    1920 MEMORIAL CUP
    Selkirk Juniors vs. Toronto Canoe Club Paddlers
    at Toronto (Arena Gardens)


    The Toronto Canoe Club Paddlers squared off against the Selkirk Juniors, starring Joe Simpson, in the two-game, total-goal Memorial Cup final.

    Games were played on March 23 and 25 in Toronto.
    This was a high-powered Toronto Canoe Club team. Coached by Ron Carroll, the Canoe Club was captained by Billy Burch, who would go on to play in the NHL with the Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Americans and Hamilton Tigers.
    Also on the Toronto roster were goaltender Roy Worters (Pittsburgh Pirates, the Americans and the Montreal Canadiens); the immortal Lionel (Big Train) Conacher (the Americans, the Pirates, Montreal Maroons and Chicago); and, Wilfred White (the Philadelphia Quakers, the Pirates and the Americans).

    En route to playing Selkirk, the Paddlers — paced by a line featuring Burch between White and Francis McCurry — had posted some impressive victories.
    They lost 6-5 to the Stratford Midgets, a team that featured Howie Morenz, but then roared back with a 10-2 victory to win the two-game, total-goal affair, 15-8.

    The Paddlers hammered the Quebec-champion Loyola College of Montreal 16-4, and beat the Fort William Beavers 16-1.
    Prior to journeying east, the Selkirks, who were also known as the Fishermen or Fishtown lads, spent some time touring western Canada, using exhibition games — including two victories over the Eskimos in Edmonton — as tuneups for the Memorial Cup games.
    This tour almost turned tragic, as reported by a March 15 dispatch from Calgary:
    "Members of the Selkirk hockey team who have been on a tour as far as Victoria, B.C., returned to Calgary today and will remain until early Thursday morning (March 17) when they leave to play the Vics at Regina that night. En route here the Fishtown boys were delayed 22 hours, due to a snow slide at Sicamous. While there, Crutchie Morrison and Hammy Gillespie hired a skiff and had a narrow escape from drowning. When about 150 yards from shore, one of the oars slipped and the boat overturned. The hockey stars plunged into the ice-cold water where they remained for 10 minutes before being rescued.”

    Prior to that game in Regina against the Victorias — it was played on March 18 — the Regina Leader reported: "Those who stayed away from last night's match should make it a point to see the Selkirk team in action for they will be assured of witnessing one of the classiest teams in the west. Joe Simpson has played here before and his corkscrew rushes are always worth seeing.”

    The Selkirk roster for that March 18 game in Regina: Wall (goal), Gillespie and Joe Simpson (defence), Jocko Anderson (rover), Harry (Pee Wee) Oliver (centre), Ernie Anderson (left wing), Crutchie Morrison (right wing). Subs: Mitchell and Brandow.
    The Selkirks lost that game, 5-3, and then began the trek home and, ultimately, to Toronto where they opened against the Paddlers on March 23.

    Here's how Winnipeg Free Press sporting editor W.J. (Billy) Finlay began his report:

    "After putting up a game battle for two periods, in which they displayed a lot of class against superior odds, Stan Kennedy's Selkirks faded badly in the final session, and were forced to submit to a 10-1 beating at the hands of Dick Carroll's hand-picked Canoe Club stars in the first game for the junior hockey championship of Canada.”

    In front of about 3,000 fans, the Paddlers led 2-0 and 3-0 at the period breaks.

    "Starting off badly, when they appeared to be affected by stage fright,” Finlay reported, "the Fishtown lads finally caught themselves and were unlucky to be two goals down on the first session, and when they came back and outplayed their heavier and older opponents though outscored 1-0 in the second session, the 3,000 fans began to take notice, and cheered them loudly for their plucky work. But they had shot their bolt in their strenuous efforts in the second session, as they were badly outplayed in the final spasm, when the locals ran in six goals, mostly by fast combination play, in which the scorer worked in on top of the net.”

    As for the Canoe Club, Finlay wrote that Burch was especially sharp. "Burch, at centre, is a long, rangy boy, who is a wonderful backchecker and a wonder in carrying the puck,” Finlay wrote.

    But Finlay pointed out that the Paddlers weren't too popular in the east.
    "They are very unpopular here,'' he reported, "owing to the fact that they were picked up from different parts of the country and molded into one strong aggregation, and have such a big advantage over all the Ontario teams that they have killed interest in junior hockey.”

    The Canoe Club wrapped up the Memorial Cup on March 25 with a 5-4 victory in a game that was described as listless.
    "The canoeists showed little interest in the game,” according to one report, "and the handful of spectators expressed disappointment in the comparatively small score.”

    NEXT: 1921 (Winnipeg Falcons vs. Stratford Midgets)
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    From Gregg Drinnan...1921

    1921 MEMORIAL CUP
    Winnipeg Falcons vs. Stratford Midgets
    at Toronto (Arena Gardens)


    The Regina Victorias, or Vics as everyone called them, left for Winnipeg on March 14.

    Having dropped the Calgary Beavers 11-6 in a two-game, total-goal series, the Vics were on their way to meet the Winnipeg Falcons of manager/coach Connie Neal.
    The first game of the Regina-Winnipeg series was played March 15.
    "Displaying remarkable form against a team that outweighed them in every position the Winnipeg Falcons, defenders of the Abbott Cup, emblematic of the junior championship of Western Canada, took the Regina Victorias into camp by a 5-3 score,” reported the Regina Leader.

    The Falcons led 2-0 and 3-2 by periods.
    Two nights later, on March 17, the Falcons wrapped it up, posting a 3-1 victory to win the series, 8-4.
    That victory sent the Falcons on against the Fort William YMCA in the Western Canadian final.
    The Falcons featured players like defenceman Harry Neil, who would later coach the Winnipeg Monarchs to the 1932, 1935 and 1937 Memorial Cup finals, winning the latter two titles. Another player, Art Somers, was a Falcons substitute who would go on to play seven seasons in the NHL with the Chicago Blackhawks and New York Rangers.

    The Falcons won the first game in Fort William 9-3 on March 20.
    "The match was played in slush that interfered with the speed of both teams,” read one report.

    One night later, the Falcons wrapped it up with an 11-4 victory, giving them the series by an aggregate of 20-7.
    While the Falcons were dominating the west, the Stratford Midgets, featuring Howie Morenz, were romping to the eastern title, an honor they wrapped up on March 19 by beating Lower Canada College, the Quebec champions, 13-5 in a sudden-death game.
    And so it was on to Toronto for the Falcons, a team that had been formed from the Young Men's Lutheran Club of the Icelandic Lutheran Church, the forerunner of junior hockey in Manitoba.
    The Falcons came through, too, although not without surviving a real scare.

    The series opened on March 24 with the Falcons posting a 9-2 victory. You would have thought it was in the bag.
    It wasn't.
    On March 27, Stratford, with Morenz scoring three times, roared to a 7-2 victory. But that wasn't quite enough and the Falcons won 11-9 on total goals.

    "From the commencement of the game, the Midgets forced the pace,” read one report. "By close back-checking and heavy body-checking they stopped the rushes of the speedy westerners and bit by bit backed them into defensive tactics. At the end of the second period they had worn them to a shadow of the team which won in such an outstanding fashion Thursday night. In the third period, the Falcons got four shots on Ruston, while the Midgets bombarded the Falcons' net minutes at a time. All they could get past Comfort was three.

    "(Wally) Fridfinnson, Somers and (Sam) McCallum were much in the limelight for the Falcons, though the bulk of the glory should go to (Freddie) Comfort. For Stratford, (Frank) Carson, Roth and Richards played excellent hockey, the former turning in one of the finest games of his career and being in a very large measure responsible for the great showing of Stratford.“

    NEXT: 1922 (Regina Patricias vs. Fort William War Veterans)
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    From Gregg Drinnan...1922

    1922 MEMORIAL CUP
    Regina Patricias vs. Fort William War Veterans
    at Winnipeg (the Auditorium)


    On March 15, 1922, the Regina Leader reported: "For style and class the famed Vancouver Millionaires had nothing on the Regina Patricias as they left for Winnipeg last night where on Thursday and Saturday they battle the Manitoba champions in a pair of games for the Abbott Cup. All told, there were 13 in the party, but this jinx number did not bother the athletes one iota.”

    Coached by Graham Reid, the Patricias lost the opener of the two-game, total-goal series 4-1 to the University of Manitoba.

    Things looked bleak for the Patricias but two nights later, on March 18, they played one for the ages.

    Going into the game three goals down, the Patricias tied the series. They led 3-0 after three periods and then struck for two overtime goals, by Harry Naismith and Sylvester (Sil) Acaster, to win the series 6-4.

    Naismith and Acaster played on a line centred by Howie Milne, who would in time become one of the best-known hockey figures on the Prairies. He would also become well known on western gridirons.

    The Patricias stayed in Winnipeg where they played the Fort William War Veterans -- they had ousted the Toronto-based Aura Lees in the Eastern final -- in a two-game, total-goal series for the Memorial Cup.
    The series opened on March 20 with Fort William posting a 5-4 victory. Fort William led 3-1 after the first period but trailed 4-3 going into the third after Acaster struck for three consecutive goals to end the second.
    But Clark Whyte, a speedy winger, provided Fort William with the victory by scoring the tying and winning goals, his second and third of the game. Walter Adams and Fred Thornes also scored for the winners, while Naismith had Regina's other goal.

    Regina actually thought it had scored a tying goal late in the third period. The goal umpire ruled the puck had entered the Fort William goal; however, the referee overruled him. In hindsight, that would turn into a huge ruling.
    Two nights later, the War Veterans played the Patricias to a 3-3 draw. That was enough to give Fort William an 8-7 series victory.
    The Leader reported: "It was one of the most heartbreaking finishes ever seen in a cup final. The Thunder Bay champions had a difficult time holding the Westerners to an even break for two-thirds of the way ... Though the Fort Williams were returned the victors they were not the better team tonight. They did not look nearly so good as in the first combat.''

    Whyte, again, proved Regina's undoing as he scored all three of his club's goals. Acaster scored twice for Regina, with Naismith getting the other.
    In the end it was a second-period goal by Whyte that stood up as the Memorial Cup-winning score. It gave Fort William a 3-2 lead in the game (8-6 in the series) but turned into the winner a few minutes later when Naismith scored to tie the game 3-3.

    "Regina went down to defeat with colors flying,'' reported The Leader. "There was a big demonstration at the finish, the Forts being carried off the ice.”

    NEXT: 1923 (University of Manitoba Bisons vs. Kitchener Greenshirts)
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    From Gregg Drinnan...1923

    1923 MEMORIAL CUP
    University of Manitoba Bisons vs. Kitchener Greenshirts
    at Toronto (Arena Gardens)


    The 1923 Memorial Cup would be contested between the University of Manitoba Bisons and Kitchener Greenshirts.

    But before it came to that there was an incident on the Prairies that would throw fuel on the rivalry between Saskatoon and Regina.
    It's a rivalry that is long and bitter, and one that encompasses all of life, from sports to politics to entertainment.
    In the spring of 1923, the Regina Pats and Saskatoon juniors met in the Saskatchewan junior final. Saskatoon emerged victorious -- the teams played to a 2-2 tie on Feb. 27; Saskatoon won 2-1 on March 1.
    But hold your horses -- a protest was filed.
    And, on March 5, 1923, a decision was handed down.
    As reported by the Regina Leader: "When the Pats' protest was discussed at the meeting of the committee, it was found that the Saskatoon team had never been properly organized. It was neither affiliated nor registered with the provincial body, and three of the players, Wilson, Phillips and Sillers, have played with the University team in the northern division of the senior league. Wilson, Saskatoon Phoenix files showed, has played five senior games this winter, and Phillips three.

    "The protest was sustained by a unanimous vote, even C.H. Bolton, of Saskatoon, voting against his own club.”

    Saskatoon counter-protested, claiming two Regina players, Howie Milne and Harry Naismith, were too old. But proof of age was offered and the protest was thrown out.
    Needless to say, this news was not taken quietly in Saskatoon.
    "Regina won't get away with its latest, that of disqualifying the Saskatoon Junior Hockey Club, which action cost the locals the Saskatchewan championship,” read an editorial in the Saskatoon Star. "Records at Division 1, of the SAHA headquarters, showed that these three players were properly registered and transferred as junior players and that only neglect on the part of Murray Thomson, of Moose Jaw, retiring secretary of the SAHA, allowed the protest committee to be misinformed and the arbitrary action taken ...

    "The action of the Regina members of the protest committee in allowing the Pats' complaint to be upheld deserves severe censure.”

    To which The Leader responded: "The Saskatoon Star doesn't think very much of Regina. To be more specific, the Saskatoon Star doesn't think very much.”

    The decision, however, had been made and it was final. The Pats went on to meet the Calgary Canadians in a Western Canadian playoff series.
    On March 7, Regina, playing at home in Exhibition Stadium, won the first game 3-1 over a Calgary team that had been in Saskatoon preparing to play there. The Canadians went virtually from the Regina train station to the Stadium for the game.
    That same night, in Toronto, the University of Toronto and Kitchener played to a 3-3 tie in the first game of a home-and-home battle for the OHA's junior title. Kitchener led 3-1 until Sandy Somerville scored twice within 10 seconds during the last minute of the third period.
    Kitchener would win that series at home three nights later.
    The next night, in Winnipeg, the University of Manitoba, coached by Hal Moulden and captained by Murray Murdoch, qualified for the Abbott Cup final with an 8-1 victory over Brandon.
    In Regina on March 9, Calgary roared back to defeat the Pats 6-2 and win the total-goal series 7-5. Calgary got a big game out of future Hockey Hall of Famer Herbie Lewis, who figured in four goals, scoring one and setting up three others.
    Calgary traveled on to Winnipeg to meet the University of Manitoba.
    On March 12, in the Amphitheatre, the university team won 5-4, the same night that Kitchener edged Iroquois Falls 3-2 in a one-game eastern Canadian semifinal.
    According to one report from Toronto: "Near the close of the game, Dewar, Iroquois Falls defenceman, charged Maurice Schnarr and was given a match foul. Later he hit inspector Bond of the Toronto police force and was taken to the police station.”

    Kitchener would later whip Montreal A.A.A. 10-4 in a sudden-death game to advance to the Memorial Cup final.
    The University of Manitoba won the Abbott Cup on March 14, thanks to a 5-3 victory over Calgary. That gave the university boys a 10-7 advantage in the series.
    And so it was on to Fort William to meet the Cubs, with the winners to meet Kitchener for the Memorial Cup.
    The Cubs and Manitoba played to a 3-3 tie on March 18 in a physical game. "Clark Whyte, captain and star right winger of the Cubs, was laid out twice,” according to one report.

    On March 19, Manitoba posted a 6-1 victory, winning the series 9-4.
    The Memorial Cup opened in Toronto on March 22 with Manitoba, showing what was called "superior speed, and courage, uncanny checking and resourcefulness,” whipping Kitchener 7-3 in Game 1. The referee was Lionel Conacher.

    The teams were tied 2-2 after one period, but the varsity boys banged in five straight goals in the second period to put it away.
    Murdoch scored four straight second-period goals for Manitoba, with singles coming from Blake Watson, Nip Johnson and Jack Mitchell. Babe Siebert, Maurice Schnarr and W. Schnarr replied for Kitchener.
    Four nights later, Manitoba wrapped up the Memorial Cup with a second consecutive 7-3 victory that gave it the round by a 14-6 aggregate. Murdoch's last goal in the first game, with 2:30 left in the second period, was the Cup-winning score.
    "The westerners were superior in all departments and Siebert was the only Kitchener player to hold his opponents in check,” read one report.

    Albert Charles (Babe) Siebert would go on to play in the NHL with the Montreal Maroons, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens. His life would come to an untimely end when he drowned on Aug. 25, 1939.
    "In Murdoch, the University of Manitoba has one of the best players in the amateur ranks. He has ability to star in senior company next year,” stated one report.

    Murdoch followed up his four-goal opening game by scoring five times and setting up another in Game 2. All told, he scored nine of Manitoba's 14 goals in the two games.
    Watson and Mitchell also scored for the winners. Molson, W. Schnarr and Gross replied for Kitchener.

    NEXT: 1924 (Calgary Canadians vs. Owen Sound Greys)
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    From Gregg Drinnan...1924

    1924 MEMORIAL CUP
    Calgary Canadians vs. Owen Sound Greys
    at Winnipeg (Amphitheatre)


    The Regina Pats -- formerly the Patricias, they now were commonly referred to as the Pats -- headed for Winnipeg on March 14. The duration of their stay was unknown at the time.
    After lengthy negotiations, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association had ordered the Pats to Winnipeg. There, they would play the Winnipeg Tammany Tigers, the Manitoba champions, on March 18 and 20.
    The winner of that series would play the Alberta-champion Calgary Canadians for the Abbott Cup on March 22 and 24.
    And that winner would stay in Winnipeg to meet the Eastern Canadian champion in the Memorial Cup's two-game, total-goal final, March 26 and 28.
    Regina opened with a 2-0 victory over the Tammany Tigers on third-period goals by Sil Acaster and Ken Doherty. But press reports credited the play of Regina defencemen Johnny Gottselig and Jack Gilhooley, along with goaltender Jack Cunning, who was described as "the elongated custodian.”

    Regina wrapped it up two nights later, beating the Tigers 7-2 to win the round 9-2.
    "Cunning played brilliantly in goal for the westerners and was largely responsible for holding the Bengals in check,” reported the Regina Leader.

    Gottselig scored Regina's first three goals. Acaster and Eric Pettinger added two each. Winnipeg's goals came from Bun Stephenson and ???? Davis.

    Prior to meeting Calgary in the western final, the Pats came up with a surprise -- they brought in the man known across the prairies as the Silver Fox.
    As reported in The Leader of March 22, 1924: "When the Regina Pats step on the ice at Winnipeg tonight ... they will be taking their orders from Al Ritchie, the skipper who directed them in their final dash for provincial honors. Following continued requests from the players who have implicit faith in Ritchie's powers as a strategist, Al left for the 'Peg last night and will take over the reins this afternoon.”

    There wasn't any mention of who had been coaching the Pats. But Ritchie would stay behind the bench for years to come.
    However, in this instance, Ritchie's presence wasn't enough.

    The Pats played strong defensively in beating Calgary 4-2 in the opener. But the series ended in protestations two nights later as Calgary won the game 5-2 and the series 7-6 thanks to an overtime goal by Johnny Loucks.

    Of the protest, The Leader reported: "The Saskatchewan team is lodging its protest on the first goal scored by Calgary in the opening session. Herbie Lewis shoved a pass from behind the Regina net to (Vic) Ripley. Just as Ripley grabbed the puck, referee Bill Noble rang his bell. Ripley lifted the puck from the blue line and scored. Noble allowed the goal and it appears as if Regina has good grounds for its protest.”

    Regina, of course, would lose the protest and Calgary went on to meet the Owen Sound Greys in the Memorial Cup final at the Amphitheatre in Winnipeg.
    The Greys had split a two-game series with Kenora, winning the first 11-7 and losing the second 5-4, but won it all 15-12 on goals.
    Scoring three times on rebounds, Owen Sound led 1-0 and 3-2 at the period breaks en route to a 5-3 first-game victory over Calgary on March 26.

    Mel (Butch) Keeling and Ralph (Cooney) Weiland scored two goals each for the Greys, with George Elliott getting the single. Lewis, with two, and Ripley scored for Calgary.

    Reports indicated that both teams gave it their all: "The players were pretty well ***ged and the last few minutes brought one scramble after the other.”

    When the second game, on March 28, ended in a 2-2 tie, Owen Sound went home with the Memorial Cup, victors by a 7-5 two-game score. It was not a popular victory.
    "No team escaped with a championship after being so badly outplayed as the easterners did,” read the game report. "For 50 minutes of the 60 they were behind their own centre, battling desperately to stave off the attacks of the western lads, and they succeeded though outclassed and outplayed.”

    A lot of the credit for the championship was given to Hedley Smith, the Greys' 16-year-old goalkeeper. “This young lad staved off what looked like certain defeat by his marvelous stops,'' read one report.

    It doesn't seem that shots on goal were counted during the game, but one report credited Smith with 24 stops in the third period alone.

    Calgary was most disappointed, and claimed to have scored two goals which officials wouldn't allow.
    Weiland gave Owen Sound a 1-0 first-period lead, before Irving Frew and Lewis sent Calgary into the third with a 2-1 lead.
    It remained for Elliott to score what would be the Memorial Cup-winning goal some five minutes into the third period. The winner was a heartbreaker -- Elliott centred the puck from a corner and it went in off one of Loucks' skates.

    NEXT: 1925 (Regina Pats vs. Aura Lee)
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    From Gregg Drinnan...1931

    1931 MEMORIAL CUP
    Elmwood Millionaires vs. Ottawa Primroses
    at Toronto (Arena Gardens) and Ottawa (Auditorium)


    The defending-champion Regina Pats were the favourites again as the series to decide the Abbott Cup and the West's berth in the Memorial Cup series opened on March 18 at the Amphitheatre in Winnipeg.

    Again, the Pats were up against the Elmwood Millionaires in the two-game, total-goal affair.

    The experts were of the opinion that this Pats team was "even a greater club than that which swept through all opposition to win the Dominion championship last year.”

    The previous season, the Pats went up against Elmwood having shut out the Calgary Canadians in back-to-back games. And the Pats proceeded to shut out Elmwood in two straight games.

    This time, Regina rode a six-game shutout streak into Winnipeg. That's right -- the Pats hadn't given up a goal in six straight playoff games.

    And this series started the way the 1930 one ended -- goaltender Kenny Campbell and the Pats blanked the Millionaires 1-0 on a goal by left-winger Ralph Redding.

    "Halfway through the second period,” reported the Regina Leader, "Redding tore half the length of the ice and planted a beauty behind (Art) Rice-Jones. That one tally made the Pats favorites to win the series.”

    It wasn't to be, however.

    The March 21 Leader ran this headline: Fighting Elmwoods Eliminate Pats in Epic Hockey Match.

    And epic it was.

    "The fighting Millionaires humbled Regina's widely famed Pats, defeating them 4-2 in a dramatic 20-minute overtime struggle,” reported The Leader.

    Regina's Art Dowie opened the scoring early in the third period. But Elmwood led 2-1 after the third on goals by Bill McKenzie and George Brown, the latter scoring at 18:15 of the third to tie the total-goal series, 2-2.

    That sent the teams into overtime -- two 10-minute periods played in their entirety.

    Redding scored at 1:40 of the first extra session, only to have Kitson Massey answer for Elmwood at 9:45. And then, at 3:25 of the second overtime, Bert (Spunk) Duncanson scored what turned into the winning goal.

    Elmwood won the series 4-3 on goals and advanced to meet the Ottawa Primroses in the Memorial Cup final, which opened March 23 in Toronto. The Primroses had split two games with the Niagara Falls Cataracts, winning 4-0 and losing 2-1, to win the Eastern final 5-2.

    Game 1 of the best-of-three final, played before more than 5,000 fans, was won 2-0 by the Primroses, who were representing a city that had never had a Memorial Cup winner.

    The first goal, late in the first period, came courtesy of the Cowley brothers, Bill and Dan. They broke away, with Bill passing to Dan, who bounced a shot off one of Rice-Jones' skates and into the net.

    Bill Cowley upped the lead to 2-0 some 15 minutes into the third period, ripping a shot off Rice-Jones' pads and into the goal.

    According to one report: "Bill MacKenzie, fast travelling Elmwood defence star, was the pick of the western champions and his work savored of senior calibre. (Duke) McDonald, at centre, showed bundles of ability.”

    The second game, played March 25, went to Elmwood by a 2-1 count and forced a third and deciding game on March 27.

    Elmwood is reported to have held a wide edge in play in the first two games "but again the close checking of the gallant Ottawa band in their defensive zone prevented the Millionaires from carrying their flashing thrusts right to the goalmouth.

    "The contest was not brilliant but the close score and frequent penalties kept the fans in constant excitement.”


    Duncanson opened the scoring at 3:10 of the first period. Bill Cowley tied it just over three minutes later. And after a scoreless second period it remained for Brown to net the winner for Elmwood.

    "Brown picked up the disc after (Gordie) McKenzie had lost it and snapped a low shot in behind (Rick) Perley,” The Leader’s report read.

    Having played the first two games in Toronto, the teams headed to Ottawa for the third and final game. This one would be played in the Ottawa Auditorium.

    Elmwood wasn't too fussy about suddenly moving to Ottawa, but its management said the game was transferred by the authorities and the team was prepared to make the best of it.

    Which is exactly what it did in blanking the Primroses 3-0 before 9,000 fans, the largest crowd ever to watch a game in Ottawa to that point.

    "The Winnipeg Elmwoods, a battling band of sturdy youths with skating speed galore, are enthroned today as Canada's junior hockey monarchs,” began one report. "They won the title by handing the Ottawa Primroses a 3-0 defeat that left no doubt as to their superiority.”
    McDonald got what turned into the Memorial Cup-winning goal when he took a pass from MacKenzie and rifled it home midway in the second period.

    MacKenzie made it 2-0 before the close of the second, and Massey rounded out the scoring halfway through the third.

    The game was delayed at times in the third period by unruly fans who chose to throw vegetables, crumpled newspapers and eggs onto the ice.

    Elmwood's victory meant that the Memorial Cup had been won by the west seven times in the past 13 seasons.

    NEXT: 1932 (Winnipeg Monarchs vs. Sudbury Cub Wolves)
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    From Gregg Drinnan... 1932

    1932 MEMORIAL CUP
    Winnipeg Monarchs vs. Sudbury Cub Wolves
    at Winnipeg (Amphitheatre)


    The 1932 Memorial Cup championship is perhaps best remembered because of the participation of Hector (Toe) Blake.
    A star with the Sudbury Cub Wolves of 1931-32, Blake would go on to a memorable career, as a player and coach, with the NHL's Montreal Canadiens.
    But winning the 1932 Memorial Cup was no easy task; in fact, it was in doubt right down to the final moments.
    The 1932 final would feature the Cub Wolves against the Winnipeg Monarchs.
    The Monarchs were coached by Harry Neil and Fred (Steamer) Maxwell. Neil had played for the Winnipeg Falcons, a team that beat the Stratford Midgets to win the 1921 Memorial Cup. Maxwell was a familiar face in junior hockey circles and had even done a fair amount of refereeing.
    The Monarchs featured the likes of defenceman Robert (Pinkie) Davie, who would play with the NHL's Boston Bruins before he became a well-known and well-liked recreation director in Manitoba; captain Norm Yellowlees; goaltender Art Rice-Jones; forward George Brown; and, defenceman Cam Shewan, who would play for the 1935 world champion Winnipeg Monarchs and later become the city's fire chief.
    Four of the Monarchs -- the line of Yellowlees, Brown and Archie Creighton, along with Rice-Jones -- played with the 1931 Memorial Cup-winning Elmwood Millionaires.
    The Cub Wolves were coached by Sam Rothschild. Born in 1899, Rothschild played on the 1925-26 Stanley Cup-champion Montreal Maroons. He also played with the NHL's Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Americans before he suffered a career-ending knee injury.
    Besides Blake, who would coach the Habs to eight Stanley Cups, Cub Wolves like Max Bennett, Adelard LaFrance Jr., and Dalton J. (Nakina) Smith went on to play in the NHL.
    That this season was something special was never more evident than in mid-March when the Monarchs played the home-town Saskatoon Wesleys. At least 4,000 people were expected in the 3,400-seat Saskatoon Arena for Game 1. The series was to conclude in Winnipeg, thus the hockey fever in Saskatoon.
    The Wesleys posted a 1-0 victory in Game 1, handing the Monarchs their first loss of the season (game reports did not indicate how many games the Monarchs had played to that point). Clint Smith, a future Hockey Hall of Famer, scored the game's only goal just four minutes into the first period.
    The series moved to Winnipeg for the second and final game on March 28. The Monarchs, who went into the game down a goal, rebounded for a 3-1 victory to win the series, 3-2. Shewan's goal with 1:45 left in the third period put the series on ice for the Monarchs and sent them on against the Cub Wolves.
    On March 21, Sudbury defeated the home-town Ottawa Shamrocks 3-2 to win the two-game, total-goal series 5-2 and advance against the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association Winged Wheelers -- they were known as the Montreal A.A.A. Winged Wheelers -- in the eastern Canada junior final.
    The first game of the eastern final was played on March 25 in Montreal with the teams settling for a 1-1 tie.
    One report had the Cub Wolves "famed speed crashing on the rocks of a rugged and powerful Montreal A.A.A. defence.”
    That series continued in Toronto on March 28 before more than 11,000 fans at Maple Leaf Gardens.
    "A fighting young band of hockeyists, Sudbury Wolves are today headed for Winnipeg in quest of the Memorial Cup and Dominion hockey championship laurels,” read the report in the Regina Leader-Post.
    The Cub Wolves won the second game 3-0 -- Anthony (Ant) Healey got the shutout -- to take the series, 4-1. The final game, according to the report, was "a terrific struggle -- an epic of puck chasing and a classic of roaring hockey.”
    All of which set the stage for the Memorial Cup, which would be played in the Amphitheatre in Winnipeg.
    It was a best-of-three series and the Monarchs were the favorites. As one report put it: "Outweighed 10 pounds a man, the Wolves plan to upset the Monarchs with the speed and cohesive perfection of their attack.”
    The series opened on March 31 with the Monarchs skating to a 4-3 victory.
    "It took all the defence power the Monarchs possessed to stave off the Wolves, and all the 6,000 fans who saw them do it are wondering if they can repeat (in Game 2),” one report read.
    Sudbury led 1-0 after the first period on a goal by LaFrance.
    But Winnipeg scored three second-period goals to take command -- Johnny Templeton, Yellowlees and Brown pulling the trigger.
    LaFrance scored again early in the third but Davie put it away six minutes into the third.
    "Because they won't be slowed up, the Wolves are an even money choice with bettors to even the series,” stated one report prior to Game 2.
    And even the series they did.
    Sudbury posted a 2-1 victory on April 2, losing a 1-0 lead late in the third period and winning it in overtime on another goal by LaFrance.
    After a scoreless first period, Sudbury took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Gordon Grant. But with less than three minutes left in the third period, Shewan got through the Wolves defence to pick up his own rebound and score the tying goal.
    That set the stage for LaFrance to score the winner at 2:20 of overtime.
    The game was highlighted by a brawl in the middle of the second period.
    Here's what happened, according to one writer:
    "Rough for a period and a half, the game settled down to a drama of straight hockey after a wild free-for-all in the second stanza. George Brown, 180-pound Monarch left winger, and Adelard LaFrance came to blows and started a general fist fight in which every player on both squads, with the exception of goaltenders, took part.
    "LaFrance's stick cut Brown across the face as the two fought for the puck at centre ice. Brown pulled off his gloves and went after the Sudbury forward with his fists. Without delay their teammates dropped sticks and took sides, picked opponents and started to throw punches. It was several minutes before police quelled the player riot.”
    Sudbury was without defenceman Bob McInnes and Smith. McInnes had injured an arm in the first game; Smith left Game 2 early in the first period after a bone-jarring check from Davie. Smith was left with a sore face thanks to a sprained jaw.
    Smith was well enough to play in the third and deciding game on April 4.
    And he scored the game- and Memorial Cup-winning goal as the Wolves, behind Healey's goaltending, posted a 1-0 victory.
    "The Wolves from Sudbury, crafty beyond their years and dead game as they come, sit proudly atop the junior hockey world today,” read the story in the Regina Leader-Post. "Nakina Smith, slight Sudbury centre, who went back into action after being knocked out in the second game, placed a neat shot past Art Rice-Jones in the Winnipeg cage to climax the first Wolf raid. He picked up Adelard LaFrance's pass at the Monarch defence, swept around ‘Pinkie' Davie and drove the score shot from a few feet out.
    "Ant Healey played a remarkable game for the rest of the night.”
    It should be pointed out that Blake, a star throughout the season, was a substitute player in all three games of the final series.
    And how did the folks of Sudbury handle all of this?
    According to one report: "There was a hot time in the hometown when word was flashed from Winnipeg that Sudbury had triumphed ... Scenes reminiscent of Armistice Day were enacted as the entire populace thronged into the downtown section to shout acclaim to the courageous little hockey band.
    "Even undertakers' hearses bore emblems of rejoicing.”

    NEXT: 1933 (Regina Pats vs. Newmarket Redmen)
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    From Gregg Drinnan... 1933

    1933 MEMORIAL CUP
    Regina Pats vs. Newmarket Redmen
    at Toronto (Maple Leaf Gardens)


    For the fourth time in eight years Regina would be represented in the Memorial Cup final, Al Ritchie's Pats having won the Abbott Cup in a thrilling three-game series with the Brandon Native Sons.
    The first two games were ties before Regina won the series with a 2-1 victory on March 30 before a soldout crowd of 5,025 fans at the Winnipeg Amphitheatre. (Howie Milne, former Regina junior star player and coach, was one of the referees used in this series.)
    Meanwhile, in the East, the Newmarket Reds and Montreal Royals played to a 2-2 tie in front of 11,000 fans at the Montreal Forum. Two nights later, in front of 8,000 fans in Toronto, Newmarket won the two-game, total-goal series with a 1-0 victory on centre Normie Mann's goal on a long shot early in the second period.
    Coach Bill Hancock's Redmen went into the best-of-three Memorial Cup final in Toronto without left-winger Howie Peterson, who had suffered a knee injury against Montreal. And defenceman Gar Preston would see limited duty because of a shoulder injury.
    Game 1, played on April 5 before 8,250 fans at Maple Leaf Gardens, was won 2-1 by Newmarket.
    Willis Entwistle, writing in the Regina Leader-Post, called it a "thrilling struggle.”
    Newmarket goaltender Randall Forder received rave reviews for his work in the opener, especially in the second and third periods when the Pats owned a wide territorial edge.
    Mann opened the scoring early in the first period when he beat Regina goaltender Jimmy Franks (who wore a blazing red cap) from the blue line.
    Regis (Pep) Kelly scored early in the second to up Newmarket's lead to 2-0 before Reg Strong counted Regina's lone goal about seven minutes later.
    Ritchie, writing in The Leader-Post, had this to say: "Newmarket has the fastest junior hockey team I have seen for many a year. They skate like the old 1925 Pats ... just like lightning.”
    Entwistle wrote: "Comparisons are odious but, at first glance, the present Pats are hardly as electrical as their predecessors. They are, however, a hard-working, smooth combination and should fare much better in the second game.“
    There were almost 8,000 fans in the Gardens for Game 2 on April 7 and they watched the Redmen win the Memorial Cup with a 2-1 overtime victory (they played 30 minutes of extra time).
    Again, Mann opened the scoring, this time batting in his own rebound in the last minute of the opening period.
    Les Cunningham tied it on a solo effort late in the second period.
    The winner came with less than two minutes left in the third 10-minute overtime period when Don Wilson scored a power-play goal with Regina defenceman Moose Stinson and centre Murray Armstrong -- he would later coach the Pats -- in the penalty box.
    After which the stuff hit the fan.
    Here's Entwistle's description: "The only untoward incident was at the close of the second game when one or two players adopted an ugly attitude after Newmarket had triumphed following 30 minutes of overtime. However, what looked like an ugly scramble was really nothing more than a few players throwing their arms around some of their comrades who appeared less able to control their feelings.
    "The teams were soon rushed to their dressing rooms although someone, not a player, hit referee Johnny Mitchell in the face. Mitchell was a little exasperating. The penalties tell their own tale -- 13 Regina, 8 Newmarket.”
    In the Toronto Star, the respected Lou Marsh wrote: "Al Ritchie, force Majeur de Sport in the west, is through with amateur sport -- sick and disgusted after his team's defeat last night.”
    Marsh quoted Ritchie as blaming Mitchell for being "gypped” and adding that his players could hardly be blamed for "losing their tempers.”
    "I never saw a more partisan official in my life,” Ritchie said. "He gave us penalties we did not deserve and let Newmarket get away with things for which they should have been punished.”
    Marsh also wrote: "There is no excuse for any player attacking an official and Kerr as instigator is about sure to be asked to be paraded on the official carpet: He may get a suspension.”
    Mitchell suffered a cut lip in the scuffle. Alex (Curly) Kerr, the Pats' captain, was hit with a suspension. He had been penalized three times by Mitchell during the second game.
    In fact, four of the Pats -- Kerr, Franks, Cunningham and Bill Cairns -- were immediately suspended by the CAHA.
    A week after returning home, Ritchie was still seething.
    "Kerr certainly did not hit Mitchell,” Ritchie said. "It was a well known hockey player that did the damage. As far as Jimmy Franks, Cunningham and Cairns being implicated, that is a joke. The true facts will all come out through time.”
    Asked if he still felt "gypped“, Ritchie said: "Certainly. And that is no losers' squawk. I have taken beatings before, many of them. Just to show you what I mean, Chief Justice J.T. Brown of Regina and Joe Caulder, now of Toronto, saw the game. They were disgusted by the officiating of Mitchell ... Lester Patrick and his New York Rangers openly stated they had never seen anything like it in their lives before. Nor had Dick Irvin (Sr.).”
    Finally, on May 25, the CAHA made its long-awaited announcement.
    Kerr, who now had used up his junior eligibility, was suspended until Feb. 1, 1934. By the time the suspension was announced he had joined the Prince Albert Mintos, a senior team. He would miss six weeks of the 1933-34 season.
    Cunningham, Franks and Cairns were given warnings.

    NEXT: 1934 (Edmonton Athletics vs. Toronto St. Michael's
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    From Gregg Drinnan... 1934

    1934 MEMORIAL CUP
    Edmonton Athletics vs. Toronto St. Michael's Majors
    at Winnipeg (Amphitheatre)


    It was on March 21 when hockey fans who were paying attention must have known that the St. Michael's Majors out of Toronto were destiny's darlings for this season.
    It was that night in Toronto when the boys from St. Michael's, the Irish Catholic school, opened a playoff series with the Ottawa Shamrocks.
    Despite the Shamrocks being referred to as "one of the most tenacious checking teams” St. Mike's had little trouble skating to an 8-2 victory. Nick Metz, a Saskatchewan lad, pumped in three goals for the winners.
    St. Michael's then posted a 9-3 victory in Ottawa to win the series, 17-5.
    St. Mike's featured the likes of Bobby Bauer, Reg Hamilton, Art Jackson, Regis (Pep) Kelly, Metz, Don Wilson, Mickey Drouillard, Jack Hamilton and goaltender Harvey Teno. Kelly and Wilson had come over from the Newmarket Redmen, the 1933 Memorial Cup champions.
    The Toronto team was coached by Dr. W.J. (Jerry) LaFlamme, a dentist who had quite a hockey history. He had refereed in the NHL in the 1920s. That was after he had played defence on the Allan Cup winners from St. Michael's in 1909-10 and captained the Allan Cup-winning Dentals of Toronto in 1916-17.
    St. Mike's would ultimately advance to the eastern final against the Charlottetown Abegweits, who took a two-game, total-goal series from the Montreal Cranes, 12-5.
    The eastern final, played in Toronto, was a blowout.
    St. Mike's opened with a 12-2 victory.
    "The Toronto team, called the greatest aggregation of junior puck chasers gathered together in a decade, smothered Charlottetown,” The Canadian Press reported of Game 1, played on March 27.
    Game 2 was no better, as St. Mike's romped 7-2 to take the round, 19-4. The Majors were without Drouillard, who centred the second line. He had suffered a charley horse in Game 1.
    Meanwhile, out west, it was to be the season of the Edmonton Athletic Club (known as the Athletics), featuring captain Dan Carrigan, brothers MacNeil and Matthew Colville, and Bill Carse.
    Edmonton got rid of Trail 10-0 and 7-0, and then sidelined the Saskatoon Wesleys 10-5 (winning 6-0 and losing 5-4). It's of interest that the Wesleys, a first-year junior team, were managed by Charlie McCool, who had been a good friend of war hero Lyman (Hick) Abbott after whom the Abbott Cup is named.
    Included in the Saskatoon lineup: Doug Bentley, Peter Leswick and Mel Hill, who would go on to earn the nickname ‘Sudden Death' during his NHL days with the Boston Bruins, Brooklyn Americans and Toronto Maple Leafs. Bentley played with the Chicago Blackhawks and New York Rangers; Leswick would play with the Bruins and New York Americans.
    While Edmonton was rolling along, the Port Arthur West Ends -- they were known as the Westies -- beat the Kenora Thistles 9-8 (they tied 5-5 at Port Arthur and the Westies won 4-3 at Winnipeg, with Sammy Gigliotti scoring the winner halfway through the third period).
    Kenora was coached by Sandy Sanderson and featured defenceman Walter (Babe) Pratt -- he had three goals and two assists in the 5-5 tie -- and forward Jake Milford. Years later, Milford would be at the forefront of the European invasion when, as the general manager of the Brandon Wheat Kings, he brought in Juha Widing, a stylish centre, from Finland.
    The western final was all Edmonton, however. Played entirely in Winnipeg, Edmonton won 7-3 -- Carse scored three times -- and 4-0, with Fred Layetzke earning the shutout with a 47-save effort before "a handful of fans who braved a March drizzle.”
    The Memorial Cup final, a best-of-three affair, opened April 3 at the Amphitheatre on Whitehall Avenue in Winnipeg.
    "Four hundred curious railbirds watched the Toronto Irish go through their paces for nearly an hour at the Amphitheatre rink, and there was scarcely a spectator who was not visibly impressed with the skill and hockey ability of the easterners,” reported The Canadian Press after watching a workout.
    "Not having a spare goalie along,” continued the report, "St. Michael's invited ‘Turk' Broda, net custodian of the Winnipeg Monarchs, to guard one cage. After being blazed at from all sides during the practice, ‘Turk' seemed inclined to pick St. Mike's for two straight victories.”
    St. Mike's opened with a 5-0 victory over the Athletics.
    "The smooth-skating, sharpshooting Irish from the Queen City downed the western champions with a torrid attack in the second period but in the first and third periods the Edmontonians put up a better attack,” reported The Canadian Press.
    Kelly opened the scoring halfway through the first period, scoring on a backhand. Kelly would close the scoring early in the third period.
    In between, however, is where St. Mike's won it, thanks to three power-play goals. Johnny Acheson, with two, and Jackson scored the goals.
    There was one interesting incident in the second period. As CP reported: "With Bill Carse and Gordon Watt in the penalty box, Neil Colville grabbed the puck at centre ice in a brilliant effort to give Edmonton their first goal. Nick Metz gave chase. They bumped and Colville went through with only Harvey Teno in the St. Mike net to beat. Metz tore after him and threw his stick to stop the goal.
    "Both went down. Metz was chased for 10 minutes and Colville drew a minor for the scuffle on the ice. Peanuts were pitched onto the ice as the fans roared and the game had to be called while the ice was swept.”
    More than 4,500 fans showed up for Game 2 on April 5. And what a game they saw.
    It would end with St. Mike's winning its first Memorial Cup championship (the school would win three more), thanks to a 6-4 victory. But it wasn't decided until after 20 minutes of overtime.
    "The husky lads who wear the double blue of St. Michael's college in Toronto are the kings of junior hockey in Canada,” wrote Sam G. Ross, a staff writer for The Canadian Press. “The boys from the Alberta capital never quit trying, and they matched the hockey skill of the easterners all through the 80 minutes of hockey that left every player nearly exhausted.”
    Kelly scored twice for St. Mike's, as he was on the Memorial Cup-winning side for the second straight season. Acheson, Metz, Drouillard and Jackson also scored.
    The Colville brothers each scored once for Edmonton, as did Carse and Andy Maloney.
    Maloney's goal with 30 seconds left in the third period tied the score 4-4 and forced the overtime.
    "Jackson took Acheson's pass in the second overtime period to give St. Mike's all they needed for victory,” reported Ross in describing the winning goal. "Kelly made the victory certain when he rapped in St. Mike's sixth goal with only half a minute of the overtime to play.”
    The victory by St. Mike's left the east and west with eight victories apiece in Memorial Cup competition.

    NEXT: 1935 (Winnipeg Monarchs vs. Sudbury Cub Wolves)
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