Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toronto (1L) 13, Philadelphia...
Fast Friends. In Toronto, the University of Toronto newspaper reported a local shocker: the parents of a teen-age girl, eavesdropping on daughter's goodnight to her beau, came a-running downstairs when they heard her scream, discovered that the young lovers had got their dental braces tangled...
...painful hush gripped the crowd of 12,500. On the ice of Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens the impossible had happened. Olympic Champion Barbara Ann Scott, at the end of the opening number of her first performance since she returned from Europe, had slipped and fallen, duff-first, on the ice. Until that night last week, peerless Barbara Ann had never taken a tumble in public. She picked herself up, got an ovation from the crowd, skated away. Said the Ottawa Journal soothingly: "It didn't matter...
...Game. There are 70,000 registered amateur hockey players in Canada. Dominion youngsters ask for skates almost as soon as they can talk, at seven are ready for competitive hockey in the "peewee leagues." This year the Dominion's two big-league teams (Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens) will spend more than $70,000 to help keep amateurs on ice, groom some of them ultimately for the big time. In a setup similar to major-league baseball, N.H.L.'s six teams own farm teams in the lesser professional and amateur leagues...
...hints that Tamer had "made contact" with players on other teams in the league. And it was no secret that gamblers congregated near the entrance of the Detroit rink before hockey games to hawk bets. There were lots of gamblers at other big-league hockey arenas, too, particularly at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens...