Word: hockey
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...type of accolade, which radio piously hopes will rank with journalism's Pulitzer Prizes and cinema's Oscars, was awarded for the first time last week. The trophies were four bronze medallions, each the size of a hockey puck. Their name: the George Foster Peabody Award "for conspicuous service in radio broadcasting." Selected for the first honors were: CBS (among chains), Cincinnati's 50,000-watt WLW (among big stations), Cleveland's 5,000-watt WGAR (among middle-sized stations), Columbia, null 250-watt KFRU (among small...
Pitching, a weak point last year, ought to improve with the return of Charlie Brackett and Johnny Schwede, both definitely better than last year. Burgy Ayres, a late starter because of hockey, undoubtedly will also see action, for he is touted as the leading pitcher this season. Catching for these hurlers will be Bob Regan who gets the nod over Bill Parsons...
Goals are the business of a hockey team's forward line, and the best forward line in hockey is the Boston Bruins' famed "Kraut Line": Right Wing Bobbie Bauer, Centre Milt Schmidt, Left Wing Porky Dumart, who grew up together in Kitchener, Ont., Canada's "Little Berlin." Last season (their first in the big time) they spread-eagled every other forward line in the league by scoring 61 goals-more than a third of the Bruins' total for the season...
Last week, behind the Kraut Line, the Bruins snowed the New York Americans under, 8 goals to 3, to salt away their third straight National Hockey League title (26 wins, 8 losses, 12 ties). The Bruins had just managed to nose out Toronto's Maple Leafs, who had the same number of wins, six fewer ties, six more losses. Never before had any team won three titles in a row. Starting the season sluggishly, the Bruins suddenly clicked, went 23 games without a defeat, an all-time record. Chortled Manager Art Ross: "My gang would be great...
Still ahead of the Bruins were the annual Stanley Cup play-offs - one of the silliest competitions in all professional sport. Emblematic of the world's professional championship, the Stanley Cup is awarded, not to the winner of the National Hockey League's season schedule, but to the winner of a postseason, round-robin tourney between the league's top six teams. In other words, the regular season's play does nothing but eliminate one team (the seventh). Any team, even the lowest-ranking, stands to win the playoffs. But even the addicts wanted heavy odds...