The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
TALKING
ITOvER
By JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, March Boy all
4 Y practical and reasonable
standards, the New York Rangers
should be accepted today as the
champion hockey team of the world.
But such is the peculiar system by
which hockey championships are
determined that after walloping
everybody there is to wallop in the
professional field the Rangers re-
main just another contender.
For the benefit Of those who take their
hockey in casual doses. IL at an. I viii
attempt to explain the situation. The
divisions. roughly psraiieiins the Ameri-
can and the National League. in baseball
two division CHAMPIONS mn anHS meet season 'n'
division and the Canadians Won in theirs
out IT. Of i've. Which ended on raS the SA garden
ice Tuesday night before $4,000 custo-
victory would mafs them
! say they 40 the thing differently in
The division leaders aren't the only
teams that engage IN plav offs. The two
second place teams come together Il a
place teams. In due course the second
place winners meet the third place win
Rangers. 1t is all very simple and how
YOU DO ike your chop suey?
n
COME unfeeling critics have
- charged that the involved play
off system was devised with view
to Turing additional cash customers
through the turnstiles and that the
entire arrangement is a mockery and
a sham-a county fair come-on that
outrages the fair name of sport.
They have been saying these things
Of years now, but I note that business is
never 50 brisk as when the scheduled
season ssaso is r over and the post Championships
the various arenas. So the answer must
be the customers want them.
system on. the ground that the best team
ask; 1T 2 team, isn't good enough to
champion7" If YOU don't know the answer
Another point they make is that by
bringing together the, three Leading teams
OF eacn olstsio IN, is poSsioe 10 ges i
ties. Still another point of minor i'm
portance. is that the Arrangement pro-
teams before the customers-especiallv in
cities where both divisions of the league
Mr.. Lester patrick. manager of the
Rangers. tells me baseball is making
mistake in. not adopting similar system,
though I fail to. see lust what would be
Cincinnati Reds appear before the custo-
mers Of Detroit or Washington. Obviously
the procedure is not wholly without ar
THE Rangers in the beginning
l. were put together by Tex
Rickard and at time when the late
fight promoter did not know a
goalie from an act of parliament.
Up to the time of his death he
knew very little about the game and
only a few of the players by name.
ut must be good game, though"
he'd say, 1T makes money"
The Rangers have been uniformly sue
son they have been in the play offs.
Much Of the credit for their success must
90 70 Patrick. a. product of McGill uni
Kinks. Tall. lean and gray. Patrick is both
an able organizer and keen strategist.
His team didn't have much trouble put
Canadians were badly crippled. Pete Lee
broken leg. Aurel Joliat. the wing man.
played with his battered leg heavily tapped.
He was a pathetic looking figure hobbling
Except for one valiant flare up in the
second period the champions Of last wear
we're distinctly outclassed without Lepine
nx that Connie Mack would be If he took
the field without Cochrane and Simmons.
from THE the - Hangers. but certainly they
didn't have much to beat.