The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-04

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 All reserved seats in Madison Huuare Garden were sold before noon yesterday, and long lines will De formed at the Garden hours be- fore the unreserved tickets go on Hale at D. m.
 Spare Won Game
 The Leafs reached the finals by beating the Boston Bruins, 1 to O, after playing 1 hour, A minutes and 46 seconds past the regular one hour of play at Toronto, last night. The issue was decided early today when Ken Doraty, diminu- tive Maple Leaf spare, slammed a pass from Andy Blair, past Tiny Thompson, Boston's star coalie.
 The Toronto-B Boston game was the fifth of the so-called first place playoffs. Each team had won two Of the "sudden death" contests when they met before a Canadian record crowd of more than 14,50O. The three regular 20-minute per- 1ods failed to produce score. Then the sudden death" play (sudden death because the game ends as soon as either side scores) was be- gun.
 Leaf Held Ont
 Mixing desperate scoring at- tempts with cautious guarding of their own nets, the rival clubs gurged up and down the Maple Leafs arena.
 Five of these overtime periods were completed when, during the 10-minute intermission, President Frank Calder of the N H. l.. sug- gested the issue be decided by a flip of . coin. The Bruins said "yes," and the Leafs changed their orig 1na1 'maybe" to a defiant "no!'
 So they started in on ( wearying sixth extra session, and the Leafs proved they had guessed rightly.
 The crowd at Toronto was all most as exhausted as the players. Twice they had seen the game sswon," only to settle back for more playing when the apparent goals were disallowed. Alex Smith shot in the third period, but an offside nu1lified the effort. King Clancy netted in the fourth overtime but he began the shot after the whistle.
 New Record
 The former record for endurance hockey was set at 1 hour, 8 min utes, 52 seconds, by the Rangers and Montreal Canadiens, three years ago.
 The Rangers reached the finals by winning two series. The first was the third-place playoffs in which Les Canadiens were bested in two games, to 5, on q total goal basis. A similar series with Detroit brought Ranger victory, . to 3. Detroit had won the sec ond-place playoffs, to 2. This is the first time in history of the Stanley cup that third-place team has reached the finals.
 As soon as their victory was scored last night the Maple Leafs rushed to a special train which had waited for more than one hour. The Leafs will come here underdogs in the first game bet ting. and probably in the final series.
 Expert hockey opinion given be- fore the playoffs was that the Bos- ton and Toronto series would leave the victor so worn out as to be easy pickings for the other final ] ist.
 The Leafs will be robbed of a much needed day of rest because of contract held by the circus, which will take command of the Garden as soon as tonight's game is complete.
 Ticket spectators were doing a rushing business across the street from the Garden. In some cases the specs asked and got nearly four times the face value of the tickets. They were selling the best $2.20 seats for $6 and s8 each, and got as much as $4 for $1.10 tickets calling for places high up in the balcony.