Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bailey went the gate receipts-$20,909 -paid in by the crowd of 14,000. Both Toronto and the disorganized all-stars were on their best behavior for the occasion. Only two penalties were called...
When National Hockey League governors sanctioned a benefit game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and an all-star team, to aid Toronto's Irvin ("Ace") Bailey, there was a question of whether Boston's Eddie Shore would be allowed to play. One of Shore's characteristically furious charges had caused the accident that gave Bailey a fractured skull, put him out of hockey for life (TIME...
Because Shore's presence would increase the gate, he was allowed to play last week. Before the game, which Toronto won handily, 7 goals to 3, he and Bailey shook hands, chatted for a moment at the centre of the rink. Shore, once the most unpopular player in the league, was thereafter cheered for every play he made...
...case of Toronto's Irvin ("Ace") Bailey, who was injured almost fatally in a game against the Boston Bruins last December, had two new aftermaths last week: 1) Toronto's Manager Connie
Smythe demanded that the League compel the Bruins to compensate Bailey, beyond the $6,700 which he received from a benefit game in Boston. The League governors compromised by ordering another benefit game, between the Toronto club and an all-star team made up of players from the other clubs. 2) Eddie Shore, Boston's crack defense man who was suspended for spilling Bailey, returned to the ice against the Rangers in Manhattan. His team had slipped into last place largely because of his absence. Heartened by sympathetic cheers from a gallery which nearly always booed him, Shore recovered...