The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-13
.DUTTON hDOPIS BROOKLYN FOR HIS HOCKEYISTS
New York Club OiRciaIIy Named Brooklyn
 Americans"


 with the sudden switch og tho New York American hockey team ck the National league to Brooklyn, a1 e financial move to tap the tnex~ haustible sports-loving pOpulace og Greenpernt, Canarsie, E7athuAhs Ridgewood and other sections og tne borough that finished runner~up in the worlds series last months MerO Is the following story of interest," written by Waterbury's Jim Hurley hockey expert for the New York Daily Mirror; prior to the opening of its i7th season of league hockey tonight against the Chicago Black hawks.
 Says Jim Hurley:
 Their rink and their pertorma11ce may belong to Manhattan, bue henceforth the hearts of the Amer i:ans, who start their seventeenth season locally in the National Hockey league tonight by engage Ing the Black Hawks in the Garden belong to Brooklyn.
 Red Dutton, coach and mana~ ger of the club for the past &A years, who also become its press~ dent with option to buy, ans nounced at Q midtown luncheon yesterday that from now on the club would be known as the Brooklyn Americans. Only the fact that schedule was made ouA weeks ego prevented him from calling the team the Brooklyn Tee Dodgers, he added.
 Promising their public a new deal from season to season tor the last half-dozen years, the Axmsrt~ cans this term are determined to 90 all out in an effort to get sosnes where in the league standing.
 Thwarted by military regsSla~ tions which denied them the aaTv@ ices of Pete Slobodian, Bus Wychn erly, Norm Larsen and Btlly naaaa son, the As have come up with & handful of players who bid fair ta make their followers forgee about last years rockies.
 When the team squares oa against the Hawks tonight with the borough influence @treaed by having President John Caaha more face the disc, there will ba quartet of newcomers on hand which, with the holdoveEs from previous years, will give the Aa their best representation in geatA according to Dutton. w
 Earl Robertson, 70 pounds lighter than when Dutton sent him down to Springfield last term for reducing purposes will be in the nets. On defense there will ba Andy Brannigan, Wilf Field, Fat Egan and Tommy Anderson, tho lase named fitting nicely into reaxgumxa duty, according to Dutton,
 The As starting forwards wiiA be Mel Hill, former Bruin; Fred Thurrier, . natural goal marks. man, and Pete Kelly. New 4Qre ward reserves include Ken ageSA dell, Nick Mack" Knott and Red Heron.
 with 6 8 to 8 tie against tho Wings and . loss to the 6awha to show for their two eGorsa away from home, the AS are determined to climb all over Paul Thompson's Hawks tonight. The Chicagoans have beaten the Al 10 and earned c 2-2 tic with 0anm- diens in Montreal in their only starts to date.
 Ofe the Ice
 There may be a line point of ter ritorial franchise rights concerned in the Americans voluntary ncEns nations of Brooklyn as their home port For years Bill Dwyers busted head of the As, who bazak~ rolled hockey when 1t came to town ] iT years ago come the 18th o2 December, has had litigation pend- ing against the Garden gor exi~ croaching on his territorial rights. |. Now the As would seem to be gair- saying this automatically by pledge ing their allegiance to the Borough of Churches You'll never know the old Ice sheet in the Garden when you see 1t tonight May be a case of spots before your eyes with two faceoff circles in each end and two redspots near the blue lines in each zone for faceofEs. All tala curlecues are designed to speed un the game and keep players from geeing and having on 0ffside and out-of bounds faceoffs Also their will be three oficialS on the tces the referee and two lineSnier, ona of the latter at each blue line.