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December 5, 1959
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Happy Birthday To You
NOVEMBER 28 TO DECEMBER 4 29—Ian Cushenan, Rangers, defense, 1933. 30—Tod Sloan, Chicago, forward, 1927. 1—Val Fonteyne, Detroit, forward, 1933. 1—Jim Anderson, Springfield, forward, 1930. 1—Camille Bedard, Quebec, defense, 1933. 1—Willie Marshall, Hershey, forward, 1931. 1—Ed Stankiewicz, Spokane, forward, 1934. 2—Bill McCreary, Springfield, forward, 1934. 4—Myron Stankiewez, Quebec, forward, 1935. 4—Irvin Spencer, Rangers, defense, 1937. 4—Alex Delvecchio, Detroit, forward, 1931. 4—Fred Hucul, Calgary, defense. 1931.…
Bears Find Formula To Beef Up Attack—His Name Is LaForge
HERSHEY, Pa.— Coach Frank Mathers has come up with a forward line that could easily turn out to be the most powerful outfit assembled in reecnt years in the American League. Left to right, the Hershey Bears line is composed of wing Claude LaForge, center Willie (The Whip) Marshall and winger Dune Fisher. Mathers, who had been wondering if he would ever locate a line that could hit the mark consistently, inserted LaForge on left wing Nov. 6 at Cleveland. The tough, 5-9 winger replaced Les Duff. In the next seven games, the trio accounted for 15 goals and 22 assists, a whopping 37 point total! In ‘the stretch the Bears won three, lost two and tied two, picking up eight out of a possible 15 points. But on Nov. 21 Mathers got the fright…
Player-of-the-Week
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Wally Hergesheimer scored his 100th American Hockey League goal last week. Nothing to rave about, you say. Well consider the fact that he did so in just about 200 AHL games. That means he scored at a rate of one goal every two games, which is quite a feat. Hergy, one of the smallest men in hockey, he’s only 5’8” tall and weighs 155 pounds, is the second man in AHL history to score 100 goals in both the AHL and NHL. in his NHL career with both the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks, he netted 114 pucks. He scored that number of major league goals in 351 games. Hergy, a member of the Buffalo Bisons for the third year, although he did play 22 games for…
Chamberlain Adds Much Needed Rearguard To Make Wolves Howl
MONTREAL, Que.— Murph Chamberlain landed a big one when he pulled in the eighth defenceman given look-see by the Sudbury Wolves this season. David Amadio is the name, reporting at 215 pounds and six-feet-one in his socks. Out of Glace Bay, N.S., he adds to the Maritime flavor, if any, in Mr. Edward Houston’s Eastern Pro hockey circuit. He’s a younger brother of Leo Amadio, long time in the old Quebec League with Montreal Royals, Shawinigan Cataracts, Chicoutimi Sagueneens and Quebec Aces. Leo is now with Spokane in the WHL and earlier this season Dave, tilting ‘em on the back division for Edmonton Flyers, got into an embroglio with Leo, who is approaching 25. The boys made merry melee according to press accounts, indicating there is no “fix” or “payola” of any kind in…
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