Hockey Final

After the usual involved but lucrative series of preliminary playoffs, two teams of the National Hockey League survived to compete for the Stanley Cup, symbol of the world's championship-- the Montreal Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks. Wise money favored the Black Hawks, reasoned that the Canadiens were bruised and tired after their preliminary series with Boston, that Chicago, with its famed staff (biggest in hockey) of eleven forwards would come through if only on freshness. In the first game in Chicago, the Canadiens mustered speed for what seemed a dying effort, blocked the rushes of Cook, Adams, Gottselig, won 2 to 1. Then the Black Hawks hit their stride. In two games their rapid substitutions kept fresh men on the ice all the time and these men in their cubistic black & white jerseys skated parabolas around the tired Canadiens. With the series at 2 to 1 in favor of Chicago it seemed almost certain that the fourth game would also be Chicago's. Instead, after being two goals behind at the end of the first period, one behind at the end of the second, the Canadiens, with burly Gagnon and long-waisted Lepine playing like madmen, won the game 4 to 2, evened the series. Now it was the Black Hawks who had their hearts in their skate-boots, the Canadiens who were confident. With their cheering section, called the "Millionaires,"-- chanting their battlesong "Les Canadiens Sont L`a" (Tune: "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More") the Montreal team outplayed their rivals, won the game 2 to 0, the series, the championship cup.

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