The again New York Rangers revealed championship form when they defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, Canadian Division leaders, 4-3 in a National Ice Hockey League tussle at Madison Square Garden tonight.
The Blueshirts, however, failed to climb in the American Division, for the leaders, the Boston Bruins, took the New York Americans into camp with a 7-0 pasting. The result was that there is still a four-point difference between them.
Both teams showed better form than they did at the start of the week when the Rangers bowed tọ the Amerks and the Bruins lost to the Red Wings, "cellarites."
Despite the drubbing taken by his team, Gordon Drillon of the Maple Leafs continued to lead the individual scoring race with 37 points, followed by his teammate, Sylvanus Apps, with 35 markers. They were well above lather challengers in the Canadian or National group. -In the American Division, Cecil Dillon was dislodged from the top for the first time since the start of the season. He had to concede first place to Paul Thompson of the Chicago Black Hawks who had a total of 39 points. The star of the Rangers only has 37 points to his credit.
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