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SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1961 How forwards see the Gump. IFE has been a song sung in off-key notes for the game. little goalkeeper Gump Worsley, who risks his life these nights in the bombarded goal of the New York Rangers, A happy wish for the new year is that it will be kinder to Gump than the 10 pre- ceding seasons in which he's bounced all across the hockey map, He wears more than 60 stitches in his face, has lost most of his teeth, has had tendons sliced and once lay paralyzed in hospital after an injury and was told he'd never play hockey again -- if, indeed, * »'d ever walk, Coaches have hounded him, rivals have pousrded him, and whenever he looks around there's always someone threatening to take his job, But none of it fazes Gump, a fat little philosophical warrior of five-feet-seven whose arched eyebrows give him a look of eternal surprise, Actually, nothing ought to surprise Gump any more and in spite of his cherubic appearance it's likely that nothing does, He has played hockey in New York, New Haven, St, Paul, Saskatoon, Vancouver, Provi- dence and Springfield in his 12 seasons as a profes- sional, In all that time and in all those places he has managed to play a full season only twice, either be- cause of severe injuries or conflict with a coach, IS verbal vendettas with Phil Watson were famous, Once, Watson, the former Ranger coach, was irately telling newspapermen in the dressing room at Madison Square Garden that his team was terrible, "The worst of the lot," stormed Watson, looking scornfully at Worsley, "is that beer-belly over there," "Baloney," said Gump matter-of-factly, "I don't drink been" As Watson opened his mouth to reply, Gump added, "I drink only whisky," Although their arguments were widely publicized and Watson was forever threatening to send Worsley to the minor-league farm, Gump says he and the fiery coach were pretty good friends, "Most of the time, I didn't pay any attention to him," Gump recalls, "He knew I didn't mind his rant. ing, and so it was a good way for him to get off steam and maybe stir up the rest of the players," Once, independent Gump walked out of a game before it ended, It was in the fall of 1957 during an exhibition in New Haven, The weather was unseason- ably warm and fog began to rise from the ice, At the end of the second period Watson found Gump remov- ing his equipment, "What the hell are you doing?" demanded Watson, "I can't see anything for fog out there," Gump . observed blandly, "I'm quitting for tonight, I'm too valuable a man to risk getting injured in a game that doesn't mean anything" i - He climbed into his pants and departed, "Good night, coach," he said. ONTARIO TODAY Phil Watson. HILOSOPHICAL Gump grows edgy only job is threatened, "I can't keep in shape if some other guy is alternat- ing with me," he says. "I don't care where I play, even if they ship me to the minors, as long as I'm playing. If I lose my edge, pretty soon the other guy is going to have my job" That's why he was unhappy when coach Alf Pike employed the U.S, Olympic hero Jack McCartan earlier this season, "I kept telling Alf and Muzz Patrick either to give me the job or trade me." The Rangers settled the dilemma by shipping McCartan to Kitchener for seasoning, although Gump thought for a while they were going to trade him to Boston and keep McCartan, Some injuries he scarcely notices, others are frigh- tening, Scarcely noticeable was one he took from Bobby Hull early this season, Crouched low to face the onrushing Hull in Chicago, Gump was unable to avoid a high blast, He managed to turn his head and took the full impact of the puck on his ear and cheek. The blow knocked him unconscious, battered loose a back tooth and broke open an 11.stitch cut, McCartan finished the game, all right, but Gump was back in goal for the next one, IS worst injury felled him in Calgary in 1954 when a big defenseman Gus Kyle collided with him, The blow as Gump landed injured a spinal nerve and Gump was paralyzed when he was taken to hospital, "I couldn't feel anything for three days and three nights," he recalls, "Doctors would come in an stick pins into my feet and I couldn't feel 'anything, I couldn't sleep, worrying, 'How am I going to work?' I'd ask myself, 'How can I support my wife and two kids?' One doctor told me I'd never walk, Then one night the feeling seemed to be coming back, When they stuck me with a pin, I felt it. My God, what a relief!" Why does he stay on in this precarious business? "It's a good job," says Gump, wearing that surprised look. "It pays well, Everything I got I owe it." So a Happy New Year to you, Gump Worsley. 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