Game 51: New York 5 at Chicago 1

Bronco Horvath scored twice within the last two minutes of the second period, breaking open a close game, and New York Rangers completed a season series sweep of Chicago Black Hawks with a 5-1 victory at Chicago Stadium.

Rangers (5-9-3) are 4-0-0 versus Chicago but 1-9-3 against the rest of the league. Still, Rangers are within two points of fourth place Detroit, and host Red Wings in their next game.

Chicago's (3-13-1) misery continues, as Black Hawks' impotent offense again reared its head.

Rangers fired 40 shots on goal to Chicago's meager 19.

Parker MacDonald, Dave Creighton and Bill Gadsby scored in the first period, staking Rangers to a 3-1 lead.

Harry Watson scored the lone goal for Black Hawks.

One of the few bright spots for Black Hawks was successfully killing off a five-minute major penalty to Ron Ingram (boarding) early in the second period.

1st Period
NY- MacDonald (Gadsby, Hebenton) PPG 6:00
NY- Creighton (Bathgate, Prentice) 11:17
NY- Gadsby (Horvath) 17:19
CHI- Watson (Lalande, Pilote) 18:17

2nd Period
NY- Horvath (Murphy, Sullivan) 18:04
NY- Horvath (Murphy, Sullivan) 19:08

3rd Period
No scoring

SOG
NY 12-20-8 = 40
CHI 8-5-6 = 19

PP: NY 1-4; CHI 0-1

Goalies
NY- Worsley
CHI- Rollins


Horvath salted game for Rangers late in the second period