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players.
Hockey is a much slower
game today, said Mr, Elliott.
He firmly believes that this
started when players began to
ice the puck or freeze it along
the boards. This forces face,
offs, he said, and too many of
them cause the game to drag,
on.
The slapshot is another area
of modernized hockey that an-
noys Mr, Elliott.' ."In a Wrist
shot;" he said, "you have much
more accuracy." "If you look at
Ron Ellis when he uses the
slapshot, he misses half the
time."
Although hockey has
changed for Mr. Elliott, he still
loves the games. Any day, one
• can see Mr, Elliott in Bartliff's
Restaurant rerninising over
past experiences with the
regulars or out on the golf
cou rse,
Mr. Elliott also curls twice a
week at Seaforth during the
winter and has won a number
of trophies in the sport.
Mr. Elliott realizes that he
was lucky to have the oppor-
tunities that he had and when
speaking about life in Clinton
he remarks, "anyone living in
this area is very fortunate. I
call it God's country,"
This is the picture that hangs in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. Fred Elliott of Clinton,
first on right, second row, was part of the Owen Sound Greys that won the Dominion Junior ,
Championship in 1924. "Cooney" Weiland, of Edmondviile first on left in the back row, was a
team-mate of Mr. Elliott and he later went on to a great career in the NHL, including coaching
the Boston Bruins and the Harvard University team.
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It's been 50 years since Fred Elliott of Clinton played on the
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Dutch auction winners were
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Florence Routzon. Edna
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Mrs. Mae Hopson, and Mrs.
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Mrs. Young offered her home
for the next meeting with each
member to bring a few sand-
wiches or cookies.
The Clintonian club picnic
was set for June 18 at the Clin-
ton Park. Margaret Thorndike,
Violet Monaghan and Leona
Lockhart are on the sports com-
mittee. It was decided to hire a
bus to go to London for the
Mary Hastings picnic, at
Springbank Park. Pearl Cun-
ningham is to look after the
bus. Anyone wishing to go that
is not a member will be charged
$3. Members are allowed on
free. The meeting closed with
the Benediction.
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In—,m,INTON NEWS-RECORD, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1974
Fred Elliott of Clinton
Too much violence in game says Hockey. Hall of Famer
By ANN DURRELL
Hockey, Canada's so-called
fastest sport is not what it used
to be. Fred Henry Elliott of
Isaac Street in Clinton knows,
he was there, Shaking his head
sadly he says that today hockey
is more of a shinny game.
Fred Elliott's name has often
been linked to the all time
greats like King Clancy and
Ralph "Cooney" Weiland.
Noted for his good positional
play and his notorious back-
checking, Mr, Elliott feels that
the skills of hockey today are
not as good as they were when
he was playing. The passing, he
says, is often inaccurate, while
the stick-handling and shooting
are not nearly as proficient as
they were during Mr, Elliott's
hockey career.
A Hockey Hall of Famer, Mr.
Elliott began his hockey career
in 1916 when he was 14 years
old. Born and raised in Clin-
ton, he spent the first six years
of his early playing career with
a team from town.
Upon proving his hockey
prowess with the Clinton team,
he was invited to join the Owen
Sound Greys. During the 1923-
1924 season, this team won the
Dominion Junior Champion-
ship in Winnipeg. This small
town team defeated teams from
larger cities in Canada like
Toronto and Montreal. ,
Years later, the team was
recognized for its surprising
victory by gaining entrance into
the Hockey Hall of Fame. The
picture of the team of which
Mr,. Elliott was a Member now
hangs on the wall in Toronto,
After having a profitable
year with the Owen Sound
Greys, Mr, Elliott was offered a
position pa the Minneapolis
Millers. He played there for the
1924-1925 .season, but was
unable to play the following
year because of an operation,
The operation, however,
didn't keep Mr, Elliott out of
hockey. In 1926 he moved to
Toronto where he played for
the Goodyear Rubber Tire
Team in an industrial league.
Mr. Elliott was claimed the
best right winger in the in-
dustrial league that year so, the
following season Frank Selke
Senior approached him and
asked him to play for the
Tdronto Ravines, of the
Canadian Professional league.'
This was the start of Mr.
Elliott's professional career.
Following a successful season
with the Ravines, in which Mr.
Elliott scored 19 goals and ob-
tained four assists in 44 games,
he became the property of the
Montreal Maroons, a National
Hockey League team. The
Maroons, however, were unable
to use him so they sent him to
the , Ottawa Senators of the
NHL.
This proved to be the down-
fall of Mr. Elliott's hockey
career. He 'spent most of his
time on the bench and lost the
feel of the ice,
As a result of his unsuc-
cessful season, Mr. Elliott was
sold to the Windsor Bulldogs.
The next few years he spent in
the •Minor League playing with
such teams as the London
Tecumsehs, Niagara Falls and
Philadelphia. At the age of 30,
after 16 years of hockey, Mr,
Elliott decided to end his
playing' career.
Mr, Elliott has no regrets
concerning ,his career and if he
had the chance he would do it
all again. He modestly refers to
himself as an average hockey
player who was never really a
superstar.
According to Mr. Elliott, the
style of hockey today has un-
dergone dramatic changes since
his playing days. Violence has
come to dominate the game
more every year. He attributes
this to the entrance of the
United States into Canada's
national sport. "The
Americans, he says, "with their
drinking at the games, like to
see the fights."
High sticking is another an-
noying factor that has
developed over the years in
hockey. Mr. Elliott em-
phatically expresses his
agitation over wandering sticks
and feels that a number of
serious injuries could be
avoided if only hockey players
would keep their sticks on the
ice where they are supposed to
be. "Sticks," he says, "are
causing an awful lot of
problems today and makes it
harder to referee."
The referees also have
changed their style along with
the change of the hockey style.
They have to be able to skate
much faster, said Mr. Elliott, to
The May meeting of the Clin-
tonian Club was held on Thur-
sday afternoon May 2nd,
We' ' rre e n t; L'e 6 nti'
Lockhart, opened the meeting
with the Housewife's creed
followed by the Lord's Prayer,
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved and
the treasurer, Via Lampman,
gave the financial statement,
showing a very successful card
party on April 30.
A letter from the Central
executive was read regarding
the meeting and dinner at the
Ivanhoe, It was decided to send
Clintonian club plans picnic