any clues

[sclements at NEO.RR.COM]

Love to see your earliest hockey cite.

Using newsperarchive quickly, 1928, boxing, pier 6.  From then until 1939, 132 hits, most boxing, some baseball.  but not all were pier 6.  I saw pier 8, pier 28,

Sam Clements
---- David Barnhart <dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:
> I'm looking for the origin of the expression _pier 6 brawl_.  It seems to
> have originated in hockey in Canada.
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> David
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> barnhart at highlands.com
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