Stanley Cup

Smallest player on the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team is their reserve right wing, 137-lb. Ken Doraty. In a way his insignificant appearance is an advantage: opposing defensemen find it hard to be prepared for the sudden bursts of speed his short legs can achieve. A bigger man is a better target for a bodycheck. Last fortnight little Doraty, at the end of his first year in major league hockey, did something that should insure him more: he ended an historically long game (2 hr. 44 min. 46 sec.) by scoring the goal against the Boston Bruins that put the Maple Leafs in the final play-offs for the Stanley Cup. Last week he proved his achievement was no fluke. In the third game against New York he slapped two shots past the Rangers' noisy young goalie, Andy Aitkenhead. The Rangers tied the score but red-haired Reginald Horner of the Leafs, playing with a plaster-cast on his broken right hand, finished what Doraty had started, won the game for Toronto 3 to 2 with a goal in the last period.

That made the score for the three-out-of-five series 2 to i for the Rangers, who had won the first game in New York, the second in Toronto (TIME, April 17). Deprived of their chance to equal the three-in-a-row beating Toronto gave them last year, the Rangers played wary hockey in the fourth game, waited for a break that did not come until the seventh minute of an overtime period. With the score still

0 to 0, two Toronto players went to the penalty box; Lester Patrick, Rangers manager, took out his defense men, sent in forwards to replace them. Butch Keeling took the puck at a face-off, whipped through the Toronto defense on the left side of the rink, made a pass all the way across the ice of which he later said: "If I hadn't seen that Bill was there, I would have kept the puck myself." Bill was Bill Cook, oldest active player on the Rangers, leading scorer of the National League, finishing what he thinks may be his last season of hockey before he retires to his Saskatchewan wheat farm. He took the puck without breaking his stride, feinted to bring tall Lome Chabot away from the Toronto net, then flipped the puck over Chabot's shoulder for the goal that ended the game 1 to 0, the series 3 to 1.

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