Stanley Cup

The Toronto Maple Leafs have the youngest forward line in the National Hockey League--Conacher, Primeau and Harvey Jackson, youngest player in the league and its leading scorer. In the league season, they lost most of their games away from home but only four in Toronto's new hockey rink, Maple Leaf Gardens. This was to their advantage last week when they played the New York Rangers in the finals for the Stanley Cup. The last three of the five-game series were scheduled for Toronto. The Maple Leafs started by winning the first game, 6 to 4, in New York, when Roach, the Rangers' goalie, was off his game; the second, 6 to 2, in Boston, when the Rangers tried to improve a two-goal lead instead of guarding it.

Unlike the Rangers, the Maple Leafs depend on speed and power, not on clever hockey and adroit passes. In Toronto, needing one game more to end the series, the Maple Leafs quickly piled up five goals. Only one Ranger shot, by Frank Boucher, got past Lome Chabot, who used to be goalie for the Rangers. In the last period, Boucher was busy again. He passed to Bun Cook for one goal, made two more himself in less than two minutes. By this time it was too late. The Maple Leafs stopped protecting their lead long enough to score one more goal, won the third game 6 to 4 and Toronto's first Stanley Cup since 1922.

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