12 Sports Aces, January 1943 — page 70: what you’re looking at

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68 12 SPORTS ACES eing a big-league hockey player be- cause a Manager was too hot one day. It makes an amusing tale. Away back in 1923, Frank Patrick was manager of the Boston Bruins, His was a long and distinguished hockey eareer, but Eddie Shore represents his biggest mis- take. In the summer of that year Vancouver was in the grip of a heat wave. One scorching day Frank Patrick drowsed peacefully on the shady porch of his home when suddenly a youngster clattered up the steps, nudged him out of his slumber and said, “Mr. Patrick, ’m a pretty good hockey player and I want a-tryout. My name’s Eddie Shore, I’ve been playing in the amateurs.” Patrick lazily drawled: “You’ve got a gall waking me up just when I get to sleep. Go on and beat it! It’s too hot to talk hockey. Come back when there’s ice on the ground. I can’t be bothered now.” Angrily Eddie Shore stomped off and the big league hockey manager went back to sleep, forgetting the whole inci- dent. Eddie Shore finally signed up with a small club in the Western Canada League and everything was fine except that he was so broke he didn’t have car- fare to get there, so he hitched a ride to Regina to start his hockey career. Eddie worked for the magnificent sal- ary of $800 for the season. But soon his fame spread and one night Frank Pat- rick stopped off at Edmonton to see him play, Patrick offered $3,500 for Shore, but - the team refused, Soon after, the Western Canada League blew up and Eddie was purchased by the Boston Bruins, where he became a big-league sensation. Here Shore was paid $7000 for the sea- son and Patrick thought he had a bar- gain at that. Imagine his chagrin when Bddie Shore confronted him and asked: “Remember me? I’m the hockey player you could have had for the asking, but now you’re paying plenty for the privi- lege. I'll bet this’l] make you hot, but I’m the same kid who came to you in Van- couver that summer, but you were too hot to talk hockey!” And indeed the big-league hockey man- ager did look foolish when he recalled the time he let Eddie Shore slip through his | fingers. STATEMENT OF THE ACTS OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AND Of 12 Sporta Aces published bi-monthly MARCH 3, 1933 at. Springfield, Mass. for October 1, 1942 State of New York \ County of New Yorks Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared A. A. 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