Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Hawks' victory over the New York Americans was the most important professional hockey game played last week but there were others equally exciting. Drawn by municipal pride, love of the game, desire to gamble or vicarious sadism, 100,000 people witnessed them in seven U. S. and Canadian cities...
...years ago there was one professional hockey team in the U. S., the Boston Bruins which at its biggest games sometimes attracted crowds of 3,000. For the 1925-26 season the National Hockey League, a Canadian organization which then included four of the best teams in Eastern Canada, was remade to include three U. S. teams. Since then, professional hockey has flourished so rapidly that it is now, next to baseball and horse-racing, the most important money game...
...people paid approximately $2,000,000 to see the 231 National Hockey League games in the U. S. and Canada. Approximately 150 major-league hockey players earned salaries between $3,500 and $7,500. Of the 1,461,000 sports-addicts who paid admissions to Manhattan's Madison Square Garden in 1933-34, 440,000 went to see professional hockey games. This season, attendance in most of the cities represented by big-league hockey teams is ahead of last year's. By last week, the major-league hockey season was sufficiently advanced for experts to make their prophecies...
...opposite of his predecessor in temperament, appearance and technique, Lorne Chabot is a bulky, silent, languid French Canadian. Reared in Montreal, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Field Artillery at 16, fought at Passchendaele and Vimy Ridge. After the War he joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. His professional hockey career started in 1926 when he signed up with the New York Rangers. The next season it nearly ended when, in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, a flying puck cut his eye. The Rangers' manager, Lester Patrick, playing goal for the first time in his life, finished...
Goalies who have been seriously injured once are usually too wary of the puck to be of much use thereafter. Chabot proved an exception. Traded to Toronto, he helped that team win the Stanley Cup in 1932, the following year guarded its net throughout the longest hockey game on record (2 hr., 44 min.) which the Maple Leafs won, 1-to-0. Last year he played for the Montreal Canadiens. Before this season started he and three hockey-player friends went on a fishing trip. In a village saloon, one of them picked up a paper which contained the news...