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November 17, 1962
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Gamble Overweight, Must Reduce Says GM Blair
KINGSTON, Ont.— Bruce Gamble has been told bluntly by Wren Blair that in his opinion he is too fat for the Eastern Professional Hockey League. The fiery Blair, GM of the Kingston Frontenacs, warned the portly netminder that he would have to lose 20 pounds and promptly benched him until he wins his battle of the bulge. Gamble, the former NHL goalkeeper with Boston Bruins, has been replaced by rookie Wayne Rutledge, a 20-year-old who made his pro debut a winning one, 3-1 against Syracuse and making it all the more difficult for Gamble to get his job back. Blair was no annoyed at Gamble’s play and attitude that he ordered him off the ice at a recent practice for letting an easy shot from blue line beat him. Blair’s actions were prompted by complaints…
EPHL Summaries
Wednesday, Nov. 7 KINGSTON 8, HULL-OTTAWA 1 HULL-OTTTAWA — Goal: Cardinal: defence: La-brosse, Harper, Hamilton, Roberts; forwards: Carter Beaudin, Ellett, Senior, K. McCreary, White, Mork, B. McCreary, Rodger, Smith. KINGSTON — Goal; Rutledge: defence: Sinden, Stephanson, Westfall, Schultz; forwards: Ouellette, Leiter, Cherry, Panagabko, Blackburn, Gilbert, Kozie, Knibbs, Parise, Miller. Referee: Casterton; linesmen: Partis, Harrison. FIRST PERIOD SECOND PERIOD THIRD PERIOD Saves: Friday, Nov. 9 HULL-OTTAWA 3, KINGSTON 2 FIRST PERIOD SECOND PERIOD THIRD PERIOD SUDBURY 4, SYRACUSE 2 FIRST PERIOD SECOND PERIOD THIRD PERIOD Saturday, Nov. 10 KINGSTON 11, SUDBURY 4 FIRST PERIOD SECOND PERIOD THIRD PERIOD…
Veteran Mayer Still Amazes In 14th Year As AHL Goalkeeper
PROVIDENCE, R.I.— Guess who’s back at his old game of foiling the opposition 7 Why none other than Gil Mayer, 14-year veteran of American League goaltending! The tiny 5’6” netminder, winner of five Hap Holmes trophies with the Pittsburg Hornets in his heyday, is back to his old tricks in this, his second full campaign with the Rhode Island Reds. The diminutive, but determined Mayer, who in street clothes looks more like a dapper advertising executive than a battered professional goaltender, has been the recent backbone of the Reds, time and time again coming up with the “big” save. At this writing, the 32-year old goaltender, still possessing the reflexes of a jack-rabbit, leads all regular AHL goaltenders with an admirable 2.44 goals against average, and has a shutout to boot. The chippy little Mayer,…
‘Iron Man’ Hebenton In 500th Straight Tilt
NEW YORK, N.Y.— Somebody remarked the other day that stocky Andy Hebenton, the Rangers perennial right wing, looked like he was slowing up. Which was a pretty funny line men when you come down to it — because the 33-year-old Winnipeg native was slowing up when he broke into the NHL seven years ago. The hitch is, he never got around to stopping. Like the old tortoise of Aesop’s Fables, Andy just plodded on and on and on, scored a net full of goals here and there and is STILL plodding on and on. Just last week at Montreal the 5-9, 182 pounder racked up his 500th consecutive NHL game. He has raised his total since to 504, one more than Glenn Hall of Chicago, who has been forced to give up the battle…
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