1938: Hockey

The year in hockey was featured by the victories of the Chicago Black Hawks who came from third place in the American Division of the National League to capture the Stanley Cup and the world championship in the fourth game of the play-offs with the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Chicago team won the deciding game, held in Chicago April 12, with the decisive score of 4-1. The scores in the three previous games of this series were 3-1, 1-5, and 2-1. In the American Division, the Boston Bruins took first rank, while the Toronto Maple Leafs headed the International Division. In the play-offs, the Toronto Maple Leafs captured the League title in three straight games against the Boston Bruins, 1-0, 2-1, and 3-2.

The Allan Cup, emblematic of the Canadian Amateur Championship, was won by the British Columbia Trail Smoke Eaters, defeating Cornwall in the play-offs on April 20. In the American Amateur Championships, the Boston Olympics again captured the title, when they defeated the New Haven Brock Hall team 8-1. The world amateur championship tournament held in Prague was won by the Sudbury (Ont.) Wolves, representing Canada and defeating a strong British team 3-1. Britain placed second in the tournament and Czechoslovakia placed third.

In intercollegiate hockey circles, McGill University again ranked first in the International Intercollegiate League, winning nine games and losing but one. Queens, Toronto, and Dartmouth placed behind McGill in that order, and Dartmouth of the Big Four (Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton) in American intercollegiate hockey obtained the Quadrangular title.

In the International American League, the Providence Reds defeated the Syracuse Stars three games to one in the play-offs for the championship. In the United States Amateur Championship play-offs, the Hershey Bears defeated the Detroit Holzbaugh-Ford team in three straight games, and in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League Championship, the Hershey Bears also defeated the Atlantic City Sea Gulls to obtain for the third successive year the Eastern Amateur title. In the Metropolitan League comprising the teams of Greater New York, the Westchester Rangers took first rank and won the League title.