Sport: Hockey, Midseason

Like baseball watches who say that the team that leads the league on the Fourth of July will win the pennant, hockey followers also have a mid-season superstition. They say that the Stanley Cup is won in January. Of the ten major league teams that begin this week the critical middle month of their activity, four stand high in the running.

Montreal Canadiens, present world champions, are the fastest and one of the toughest teams on the ice. In their lineup is still famed slope-faced, round-shouldered Howie Morenz, the highest paid, the fastest hockey player in...

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