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Porcupine Advance, 25 Mar 1937, 3, p. 4

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Mike Rodden Tells of Many Hockey Incidents in North Refereging the Toughest Job in the World, he Sa Acted as Referee for Many Northern Games. Fans Take it More Seriously than Players. By M. J. (Mike) Rodden In Maclean‘s Magazine You robber! Kill the referee! him out! You‘ll never referee town agair. You‘re crooked! Yes. vou‘ve guessed itâ€"it‘s a crow@ yellin an unpopulatr mob in a fre hockey refereel that sport has even further : toughest jb in I can see t yaised in But I‘m stickir the mill as a crosse, footbal ly 1400 games, 4 Internati Amateur league gt statemen daon‘t know STALIN not Ough 11 | ie world usands sands of eyebrows m at that statement. » it. I‘ve been through fficiar in hockey, laâ€" asesall, softball, boxâ€" . I‘ve refereed nearâ€" gamesâ€"Stanley Cup p, National League, gue. United States ation â€" games,. bush d I‘m stickirng to my reing a hockey game b in the world. 1( 14 wWwho s he voice do know that â€"toughest job n fact. I‘ll go feree! Throw feree in this i hockey o‘s mado FLOATING CARBOLIC SOAP 2 i: 25 FANCY STATIONERY _« 45 LENTHERIG SHAVING SETS «â€"» 1.75 LADIES TOILET _ 75 â€" 8.50 T00TH BRUSHES Mi~tEama _ 50 Â¥eou‘ll want to take Photos Easter Sunday,. We films in all Kodak a n d Coronet Cameras priced as low as Deviltry â€" Shalimar â€" My dram $1.50 dram $1. dram Champagne du Bain Bath Oil Parker and Shaceffer Pen Sets ..................... . $58.00â€" C All a referee need efficient is: (1) Kn rules; (2) experience impartiality; (5) ind cism: (6) ability to BOXED FRESH CHOCOLATES Appropriate Easter House of Picardy China Toys Tea or Egg Cups with Chacolate Easter Eggs 2:)(._'31)(' Wooden or Metal Wheel Toys with Easter Egg. Aighâ€"strung : One would | could become reverse is the mentioned. b less officials who, having t plause, could Crit1C with theti er Smeator never plave very little C knew how t Chocolate Coated Egg Cream centres Delicate Perfumes ranmnic whet wvhistle 3câ€"30¢ Picardy and Hunt‘s il¢ tn iT ail¢ moalk Knowled Exgs pack, Smiles n‘ Chuckle 10 1 F 1+ OL € V ; Cosmetic counter. raducitory Treatment order alo FTreatment . Has Thiuks 1°€ My Sin dram 81. 101 Kit Pure milk chocoâ€" lateâ€"a â€" treat for bing NA the kiddic your OWn Ask for x the n*w Vreatment CHOCOLATE BUNNIES everal enCce One cf these courage truck me from behind. hat ensued I saw Youn tick at evervbody withi iC cb psychology. They made mistakesâ€"â€" erybody they had confiâ€" nce in their own ability, were enthusâ€" stic and never afraid. Ror the most part players are not uawkers, and they sympathize with ficials. Some of them will argue, but :‘ly in the heat of hostilities. They are 1 contrition when a tough battle is One of the dn ~ 60â€" eT 14 t k e at OT Harry Holimes 1 rs and then orc ke the offender ng room. On T on, Holmes rem ed the er. 2l ~ed C f these courageous individuals ne from behind. In the melee sued I saw Young swinging his everybody within reach. Manâ€" uty Holmes hit one of my atâ€" and then ordered a policeman the offender to the Cleveland room. On reaching this desâ€" . Holmes removed his coat and the irdignant fan that +the as about to see a real battler in The fan reneged.: Later that eveâ€" oung said to me: "I hope you niss the fact that I woent to your to one. Bitter Enemies nme?n actics, ‘but he is man referee, knowing that 1v ecutnumbered about icb play br mies and had a fe miserable for about that they They appealed nockey reféree Haileybury and ago. That was start with. r. however, beâ€" eyhounds, Donnelly, . ill Phillips HMIY er angle. H. to decision:s AIY mighAt De traffic di Jim Suth W o ble 11 THE PORCUPINT ADVANCE. TTMMINS, ONTARIO H the OH.A. dary until thcu considera ment. ans cree and a re great 300 ma Allan Cup 0o not in stride apart to win tragedy. Later on that evering I s a poolroom cwned by the the Greyhounds, and heard ; ual proclaiming that I had game. I was on the point of cbjectior when Bill Phillips. player for the Soo, went 1 Phillips didn‘t even know th spectator, but he earned m cratitude for his sportsman I ran into mary thrilling â€" ipart to win by aw an unknow ‘alling the pla ind scme of 1€ he importal n my way t me a notice that I must c train for Toronto or ta cuences. I had intended altered my decision. Th held a conference with and discovered that he c During one boisterous outburst I was made the target of many missiles, ard l one of them missed my head by inches. | Bill Phillips, the impertubable Soo centre, picked up the "dud" and said. "I don‘t mind the vegeta‘les, but when : they start throwing cutiery, I object."‘ The missile was an open knife. | After the game a traveller from Toâ€" rorto rapped at the dressing room door and told me that I was going to be atâ€" tacked by three men and that the fans were awaiting my arrival cutside. The ncble trio entered, and all were astonâ€" ished when I locked the door after adâ€" mitting them. One of them asked, "Why are you bolting the docr?" and I reâ€" plied, ‘"Because I don‘t want anybody else to get in, and I don‘t want any one of you to get out." We had a most interesting fistic sesâ€" sion and each of the trio hit the floor. But my troubles were not over. After the dooer was opened a heavyweight deâ€" fenceman on the TIroquois team came barging in and laid a strangle hold on my reck that still is painful, even if ¢nly from memory. Leaving the arena, I was surrounded by belligerent fans, but none 0of them tried anything drastic. Later that eveâ€" ning, however, a "gertleman" called me a foul name,. but being crossâ€"eyed, he was lcoking at Bill Phillips when he spoke, and "Thessalon Bill" beat him as badly as Jack Dempsey did Jess Wilâ€" lard at Toledo in 1919. I went kack to Iroquois Falls later that season, was given most cordial treatmert and received $300 to referec two games, both of which were lost by the home team. _ That same year I had a lot of ofâ€" ficlating in Pittsburgh, and thereby hangs a tale. The late Lou Marsh had been down that way, so following the first two games that I refereed there, Pittsburgh as : salary of $20, w clals ever knew one the en break It wasn‘ first two games that I refereed there, the late Roy Schooley asked me how much I wanted per match. Now I had been informed that Marsh had received $60 a game, so jocularly I said tc Schocley, "If Marsh got that much, 14 take $125." I expected to get the wellâ€" known rush, but to my amazemert h: handed me $250 in cash. After that I always received $125 g game in Cleveland and Pittsburgh, anc I was given $500 for the two playof games between Eveleth and Pittsburgh BRilly Burch got half that amount, [ hnheard that several es had fared poorly : d naturally I wonde? reception awaited me ver been in the Soc I had the rat being arrested C uprising. It was quite absurd. A s wWway ol In 1924 I Then I r referees alone in (he ries it cost the United St ur Association $1250. If anybody tells you that 0 tting that kind of mon ive his head read. In the North, the Soo Ch i I remembet i the Nickel C sn t anyth 10 machiine and he was al Sutherlana h right suggestic assignment. ite Ro rame, Su conlfiqence. Arrested‘! rather dow: ‘as all very A learned ippent ap mo 4 i1 ry Laflamme. i Sudbury pl and he made ind w the mt ) @I enl lea LV comical at T AII Toâ€" Trey 1l pa 1 b: One in i1 1 riptl if L1 Id give you v ordered | rrv appeale biown my and the r tes before play was even hurled a chair another tossed his promptly dropâ€"kick he third period Russe he puck past Joe Millet t for the Raangers. and The Body CC A Young a clerk in the store, had known Noleseue well and he had warned her mys tellouslv once or twice of a possible atâ€" tack by Chinese. That‘s all Mr. Beck had to start with. What he found after a few days on the job is told thrillingly in This gripping serial begins on Thursday, April 1st in a mystery story written by J. R. Wilmot, author of "Zore the Invisible," "Death in the Stalls" and many othel successful novels. e thousan{ nd I replied * of the ki er, and no I was weal Ttime in y 1owever. 1 w OY wirt res uld be of tho rthele:s e L Sseries eveI Maroons and he Montreal ) games,. anc 11 M "Deon 11 1l Murder n O.H â€"â€"‘ths el1 THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE im out. HMe wouldn io the police. The 11 melee Odie Cleghorn knocked@ â€"down ar 1, "No, I «on‘t know nd, but even if you million each T‘ll call ee them." " The Silk Enigma" VeI VOuU a dollatr 1@a nds on né _ 1, and thousands de the Forum for kily I emerged by cody recognized me rg a hard hat for ‘s. President Frank (elolel was Supe been ‘ree. â€" Lt occurred nt, but I do no d polity to tel 10 were partici might add tha players did th main hostilitie my } a W Maroon know we resumed. One at Lou Marsh hard hat and d it off the 1, but the a rule and called it j owed begga played, tt e New YC forum. Ea he what the death o rintendent Beck of manage} 16 ~lAst on rilling 0o He nt Frank ortunate. he asked 10 erything t was 20 Oa 101 M Mars] Stan . â€"tha itman irding arentâ€" there play if wC inmne WA ACI ormn rred On was found under peculiar cireumstances, lying behind one of the counters of the store, in among the beautiful Chinese silks of which the manager knew so much. in h tered horn ‘Then their joy tcurned to grief oi immense proportions when I ruled out the goal. They knew that the play had cccurred at Marsh‘s end of the rink, and backed by Americar officials, they blamed Marsh. I might add that they have continued to do so until this day. I had given my ruling izsecause Leo Reise had interfered with Goalkeeper John Roess Roach as Shephard fired A\n About a quarter of an hour later Rangzers counted, and their followers emulated the supporters of the Amerks by staging a celebration, but again I had to rule the goal out, and now I was as unpopular with one sigec as with the other. Eventually "Butch"‘ Keeling got a ccunter according to the code, and Rangers were winners of the series by the orly gsal legally scored in almost _ _strarger who acC o another daressin: It was Lou Marsh‘s valedictory as a National League referse, and I‘m here to tell you that he never was more efâ€" ficient than he was during these two stupendousâ€"struggles. I could go on indefinitely with pulse thrcbbing reminiscerces, but what of that? It would all lead to the same conclusion. But I repeat that a referee‘s task But I repeat that a referee‘s task presents no bed of roses. He walks by He is not even permitted to travel on the same train as the players, of nhe oOrly SSaAal hree hours Of s ma They > puck About dens between y went overtime T[Nat nigill, DCâ€" Johnny Shephard of the Ameriâ€" tallied. Marsh wasn‘t in good poâ€" _to see any foul, so he skated for «it and supporters of the Amerks frantic with delight. They litâ€" the place with missiles, they blew o thev tossed their hats high in iceman fand SAr im. He has admit Referees Are F ollowing season | 1@ nCdied a Cuyp» seri¢ amous | in and d monocle at Odie, C Cleghorn 1 The lady s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but good, too. to check up once in a while and make sure yO n‘+ lost the things that money can‘t buy." MWOtive Remus Optical Dept. Mars who 10 woeVv{E and on of Nikolas Noleseue see £ Scotland Yard. The im ous London silk store, All the maney in the world can‘t buy a new pair of eyes. _A little attention now may preâ€" serve your most valuable possessionâ€"evesight Have your eves examined toâ€"day! was no score in the n the afternoon of was approached by vised him to change rroom. No alteration imitted who he is! re Honest on Lou Marsh an t‘ern and merciles atter parted with The victim‘s wife manding who he "I‘m Charlie ached for a worâ€" hrieked, "Officer, RANCCT GEORGE HORACE LORIMER mercues a Squar â€"and th No under contract like a baseball umpire, he is a lone wolf in his profession. There is, however, a definite need for inprovement in the status of the hockâ€" oy referee. If hockey is to live, referees will have to be accorded more support and protection than is the case toâ€"day. Professional baseball magnates learned this lesson long ago, ard thus paved the way for better sportsmanship and more profizient playing. In organized baseball the umpire‘s word is law. If he is found inefficient he is dismissed, but if he is capable he works in all cities despite protests made by the most powerful orgarizations or manageâ€" ments in the various leagues., The same shculd be true of hockey. Globe and Mail: The employer, acâ€" cording to Mr. Wilfrid Heighington, is in danger of becominzg the forgotten man. Workers generally seem to be satisfied if he turns up once a week to do his stuff on pay day. THURSDAY, MARCH 28TH, 1937 be seemed to ‘ man had tay at the same ho n outcast who is n ets neither sympat no THE N[W TONIG BLOOD PURIFIER INVIGORATES AND STIMULATES THE SYSTEM RICH IN VITAMIN D J rel n the ither sympathy nor support lub heads or the fans. all the clamour ever raised y referee is honest. He has etain his position. He is alâ€" the spot." Just one bad game him emplovment. He is not ame hotel. He‘s a kind and

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