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“Pimekeeper: George Pauling.” We doubt if there ever has been or ever will be a “slug ejected from a local tinotype with = more consistency than one bearing ‘the above lettering ... Actually it has been going on in the print shop for a“ quarter of a century of hockey in Medicine Mat, for it was back in 1922-23 that George Pauling took up a position with stop-water in- hand at the old rink opposite the General hospital to check time against the bal boys sent to the penalty box to impenance for misdemeanours en Pred against their opposing fellow men on the ice lanes, : ie Ever since that time, George has become as prominent a fixture in local ice palaces as the ice itself ie the twenty-five year period the veteran dime keeper insists he has missed only ten official contests of a done string that runs into the hun dreds... in addition, he ties the velled many miles with Medicine Hat teams in the capacity of time keeper over the years, mostly dur ing playoff games, to such points as Brooks, Gleichen, Calgary, Innis fail, Lacombe, Taber, Lethbridge, Blairmore and other Pass centres. Oh h K Needless to say. In his capacity ibs time-piece Manipulator, Pauling simply oozes out all over with color ful stories revolving around the ex ploits of former Medicine Tat loans and players .. . he has not lacked to his own ansxious moments, when, in the course ouf bothy contested playoff games George has ran afe of charges of jumgling the time piece to the detriment of the visit ing team, but he has always come out of these clashes with a smile, and a clear conscience. Time-keeping is one of the most responsible positions occupied by any person involved in the handling of a hockey game... It calls for split-second timing on players’ pen alties, where seconds may measure the difference between a goal and no goal; it requires steel nerves, an alert mind and quickness of the trigger-finger on the gong that sounds the end of each period and every game... All these, George Pauling possesses, ‘which accounts for his selection year after year by a hockey clubs as official time ever. Hok of Aside from beig a hockey time keeper of wide respect and repute, the gentleman who insists you pay your telephone bill on the dot each month (or else) has been a consist ent booster for hockey in the city ever since he took up residence here in 1920... he has done his share of organization work, having held prominent positions on many of the hockey associations in past seasons. 1 + Ed When caught in a reminiscent mood, he always likes to tell of the time Medicine Hat lost a champion ship at Calgary through lack of co operation between the referee and himself... It seems one Jimmy Scott of the local Monarchs — re ceived a serious injury during the titular game and despite George's frantic sounding of the pong to suspend play while the injured player could be removed from the playing surface, the referee permit ted the match to continue... Bill Woodhouse, then Monarch net cus todian, believing “thine” had been called rushed from his citadel to aid to prostrate Jimmys and Cal gary impolitely pushed the pack into the empty het, to salh away the same, and the series! At ae After reciting that one, George will tell your “dust a minutes that's only the beginning.” . 2. Where upon he switch proceed to jump from (Continued on Tage Nine)
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Medicine Hat Daily News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Tue, Feb 18, 1947
Page 3
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Clipped by
Gregory R.
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