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This year, trouble dogged the U.S. team. Coach Jack Riley upset morale by tossing three members off his squad, adding three others who had not even shown up for the Boston tryouts: Defenseman John Mayasich, 26, a television-time salesman who once played for the University of Minnesota, and Boston's Cleary brothers-Bill, 25, and Bob, 23, a pair of insurance brokers who had been hard-nosed, hard-skating forwards at Harvard. To make matters worse, Goalie Larry Palmer was knocked out with an injured knee. Subbing for him was a bushy-browed, strapping...
Next came the Russians, who passed the puck back and forth with the ease of pro basketball players setting up a play. But Defenseman Mayasich and Captain John Kirrane felled attacking Russians in wind rows, slid to the ice time and again to block shots with their bodies. McCartan himself covered every corner of the cage with his big stick and big glove, bought time for hardy forwards like the Clearys and Minnesota's Bill Christian to wear down the Russians by sheer superior skating, swing the balance of the game in the third period. Final score...
...former varsity record-scorer Bill Cleary, a consistent visitor to varsity practice since his return from Germany three weeks ago, is reported to be one of the two leading forwards on the Amateur team, along with ex-Minnesota star John Mayasich...
Sweden's Robert Pettersson tied the score at 3 to 4:00 of the third period, but Dick Dougherty put the Americans ahead to stay one minute later. John Mayasich and John Petroskey sewed the game up with goals late in the final period...
Leading 3 to 2 on the strength of goals by Cleary, John Mayasich of Eveleth, Minn., and Gordon Christian of Warroad, Minn., the U.S. was unable to stave off a late rally by Sweden which culminated in two last period goals...