The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-31
RANGERS BEAT
 BRUINS AGAIN
 IN CUP CONTEST
Payoff in PlayOff Comes During Overtime Be-
 fore 17,0OO


 best-of-seven series for Stanley Cup final berth between :he Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers seemed headed for the limit today.
 The Rangers, playing courageous hockey with a substitute goalie, won their second straight game, 2-1, in overtime last night before 8 capa- city crowd of 16,409 at Boston Gar den. With the sixth game sched- uled for Saturday night at New York, the Rangers were favored to even the series at three all.
 Center Clint Smith took 8 double relay from defenseman Babe Pratt and Lynn Patrick to score the win- ming goal for the blue shirts with less than three minutes of the first sudden death" session left. The victory cut Boston's advantage in the series to one game.
 The end came suddenly as both teams waited for a scoring oppor- tunity. Lynn Patrick worked the puck inside the Boston blue line. He passed over to Pratt, who centered to Smith. Smiths fast shot landed low in the left corner for the pay off at 17:19.
 Lucky
 Art Coulter's shot from 35 feet out bounced off the left post and trickled past Frankie Brimsek to put New York ahead, To, at 6:20 of the first period. Red Hamill of the Bruins was serving a two-minute penalty for interference at the time.
 Bobby Bauer netted the equalizer for Boston less than two minutes later. During scrimmage in front of the Ranger net, Bauer grabbed double relay from Porky Dumart and Milt Schmidt and belted the puck past Goalie Bert Gardiner, who again substituted for the in- jured Dave Kerr.
 Both teams were content with de. fensive hockey in the second period. The pace continued fast, however, as each took advantage of the oth- CTS penalties. Early in the third period, Roy Conacher and then Flash Hollett were knocked out by the hard-checking New York de- fensemen, but both returned later. For a time, the game threatened to get out of control. A barrage of beer cans and asserted fruits from partisan fans stopped play several times.
 Good Goalie
 The Rangers turned on their full offensive power midway in the third period. Goalie Brimsek, who won the most valuable" rookie award, turned aside IA shots at least four of which were labeled sure things.
 In the overtime period, Gardiner, in the New York net, played sensa- tionally, stopping three certain tal- lies as Boston caught the Rangers up the ice. First Cooney Weiland, then Bill Cowley and Schmidt were thwarted by the rookie net hinder.
 If the Rangers win Saturday nights game on home ice, the sev- enth contest will be played here OuIlOdy ulgQC. @..f.
 The Stanley Cup playoff prelimi- naries extended almost to the limit will produce one finaliSt and pos- Sibly both tomorrow night.
 Detroit and Toronto each have a victory in the best-of-three semi- final series so their tilt in Toronto tomorrow night will send the winner into the final best-of-seven playoff for the cup emblematic of world ice hockey supremacy. Boston leads the New York Rangers 3-2 so if the Rangers win the sixth game in Madison Square Garden tomorrow night determination of the other f1nalist will be delayed until the seventh game in Boston Sunday night.
 Reversed
 Detroit looked superior in winning over Toronto 3-1 last night as the Maple Leafs had looked in winning the first game Tuesday night. It clinched the game by scoring all of its goals in a furious first period that had Referee A. c. Smith blow ing on his whistle continuously. Eight times players were sent to the jug with Ebbie Goodfellow of the Wings and Red Horner of the Leafs making two trips each.
 A penalty to Toronto's Nick Metz gave Detroit 8 chance to score early in the period, and Charley Conacher took a pass from Don Deacon for the first goal at 3:37. Drillon evened it up five minutes later when the Leafs caught Detroit short 8 man, but Deacon beat Broda with a slid- ing shot at 1911 that put the Wings ahead for keeps. Herbie Lewis scored