Seen as Biggest Sports "Come-back" of Year Chicago, Apr. 12.
The Chicago Black Hawks completed the year's greatest sports "Come-back" tonight by winning the Stanley Cup with a brilliant 4-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
An enthusiastic, Highly partisan crowd of-17,204 spectators saw an inspired home team crush the strong Cànadian defence in the roughest game of the entire play-off series of the national ice hockey championship.
Furious quarrels between the players and even the rival team managers resulted in rowdy scenes og sticks were used freely to aid the verbal arguments, Ofmcials had a hard time handling the players and the penalty boxes were nearly filled throughout the contest.
The spectators. were distinctly hostile toward the Leafs and jeered their efforts. When the body-checking became too robust, the spectators algo started displays of fisticuffs.
After a fast and rough first period which resulted in a 1-1 deadlock, the Black Hawks spurted and in a series of furious charges they tore through the Canadian defence and sent the puck skidding in for two goals in the third quarter and one in the final session.
The mighty defence of the Leafs withstood the attacks in the second but later crumbled under terrific pressure despite attempts to rough-up the proceedings with bustling body-checking and a free use. of sticks on opponents rather than the puck.
For the first time in the play-off series the Hawks were quoted as favourites just prior to the start of the same. They were listed as 7-5 favourites, switching from underdogs following announcements that their ten injured players would appear in the encounter.
"Tony" Ricketts, undaunted by the opposition, played fearlessly, and held his own easily through the green. His long game was particularly powerful and accurate, and when he put his side ñe up at the long 500-Yard fourth, which he won with a birdie four, following two perfect woods, Shanghai's hopes rose. His short putts, however, just failed, and but for this weakness in his game he would have indeed turned in a remarkable score, and pressed his redoubtable opponents closer. As it was, he turned in a 72.
Graeme Nicholl, his partner, played a number of holes remarkably well but, no doubt due to nervousness, did' not quite do himself justice. Again, in this respect, the class of the opposition, and the scores turned in by Hagen and Kirkwood, must not be overlooked. To Kirkwood full marks must be given for, after having kept the spectators amused and astounded. for over an hour while giving his famous exhibition of golf wizardry, he managed to turn in a card of 69, the best score of the afternoon—bravo Joe!
Favoured by far better conditions than on the last occasion of his v here in May 1930, he was able to give of his best. The more serious side of his exhibition was particularly interesting and. instructive to keen followers of the game. Kirkwood's charming personalty certainly gives a great flip to the game, Popular Hagen Walter Hagen, or "Sir Walter," he is popularly known the world over, is a born competitor and showman—a crowd stimulates him. In England especially, an idol is not easily forgotten; "Sir Walter," per-sanifies the swashbuckling tempo Greatest Feat of Year The victory of the Hawks was greeted as the greatest feat of the Present sports year and one of thè greatest in the history of ice hockey. Finishing third by a narrow margin in the American Division, which just enabled "them to enter the ' play-off series after the collapse of the De-trait Red Wings, Stanley Cup holdeis, the Hawks turned in one upset after another, They beat the favoured Canadiens, third ending team in the Canadian or International Division, and swept through ili their all-conquering style against the powerful Americans, winners of the ' second-team "play-offs, They started off the final in smashing style by beating the Maple Leafs at Toronto. The Leafs evened. the score but fell again before the silver skates and accurate. sticks of the Chicagoans in the third tussle at Chicago. Today's tussle was the fourth game and since the Hawks won it eliminated the necessity of holding the fifth and last game.
The Hawks won the battered $16 Stanley Cup today after a lapse of four years—United Press.
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