Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 229

Chicago Sunday Tribune Page Six Canada's Gift to Sports It Took Dominion-Born Bill Tobin to Put the Game on Ice in Chicago, But Now It Appears This Form of Legal Mayhem Is Really Here to Stay By EDWARD BURNS THE National Hockey league game between the Chicago Blackhawks and the world champion Detroit Red Wings, scheduled for Chicago Stadium on last Oct 19, was called off because the ice wouldn't jell on account of 72 successive torrid hours of Indian summer." This night that the 613th Blackhawk game was ivwtmnml (tha R0. nrtrtr vnmm included 18 Stanley Cup playoffs here thruout the 24 years the Hawks have been in existence), President Bill Tobin of the Hawks, sweating profusely because of. the heat of the moment and a long vigil watching the brine pipes, said it was just as well the fans would have a chance to see the match later. Tobin, a native of Ottawa, the capital of Canada, sized up the idea of summer hockey under the 70-game schedule introduced last season, when he said, with his picturesque French Canadian accent, the night of the postponement: "It urom'f rn fit niorVit fnr rnolr the reference to the historic indoor thaw because this is to be a setting down of hockey history, with some emphasis on Hawk hockey history, a flood of more or less rich tradition of the Canadian national game which is played much more extensively professionally in the United States than it is in the land of its origin played, that is, by Canadian players and promoted and produced for the most part under the planning of able Canadian gentlemen. In checking thru his records, which are as comprehensive as any, to make sure there never had been a previous postponement because of plumbing or other mechanical failure, Joe Farrell, already suffering from prickly heat as a result of the humid wave that had caused all the trouble, broke out in 'a historical rash which' glowed forth most of the data that is produced herewith.

I assume you know who Joe Farrell is. If you don't, I'll tell you. He is the best known man in hockey who wasn't born in Canada. He was born a few feet from the site of the Chicago Stadium, 73 years ago, or just about the time they were thinking up hockey in an approximation of its present form, at Kingston, Ont Joe is the Hawk press agent and has seen all the Hawk games played in Chicago in those 24 years plus. Suppose you and now that the thaw is over, put on our skates and glide around awhile with Farrell, President Tobin, and General Manager Johnny Gottselig, among their hockey records, clippings, archives, and ledgers.

Unbelievable as it may seem, there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of sports lovers living in Chicagoland who never have seen a hockey game. Some of these unfortunates might tell you, under cross-examination, -1 rfi mm K'iXv ii KH. VJ ll i r- -tt nor stick nor skate blade nor customers. You all kin have your Indian summer, even tho my hockey team is named after an Indian, and some of my best friends, here and in Canada, are Indians! Ice being as essential as it is to ice hockey (field hockey is a vastly different game), and Indian summer with temperatures near 90 degrees not being conducive to freezing sheets as big as the 187x85-foot surface at Chicago Stadium, you'd think there'd been many a postponement in the 32-year history of the National Hockey league. The postponement because of the Chicago freeze failure Oct 19, however, was the first in the N.

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