Word: syl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S experts (alias Syl MacDowell, alias Field and Stream*) think...
Brains & Short Bursts. Toronto's strength, over & above brawling brawn, lies in its fast, brainy centers (the quarterbacks of hockey). One is Syl Apps, 34, who once thought of becoming a clergyman. This season, afraid that Apps was slowing down, the Leafs traded five good men to the Chicago Black Hawks for pint-sized (150 Ibs.) Max Bentley, one of the most skilled stick-handlers in the game. But Apps, the playmaker, could still show dazzling speed in short bursts; and the Leafs had Bentley, too, and a young bulldog-type center called Teeder Kennedy...