  Tponetom Member Username: Tponetom Post Number: 97 Registered: 06-2007 |
No fair using the Sports Encyclopedia: What sport, what team and what position did the following Detroiters play: (Spelling may be a little suspect.) Ace Gutowsky Mud Bruniteau Gee Gee Walker Bill Shepherd Lloyd Cardwell Syd Howe (Not Gordie) Harry Eisenstadt Tiger Tasker (This might be the tough one.) | ||
Sharms Member Username: Sharms Post Number: 16 Registered: 07-2007 |
Embarrassed to say I only know of Syd Howe who played for the Red Wings. I believe he wore #6 which the Wings retired. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1543 Registered: 03-2006 |
mud played for the wings, gee played for the tigers, | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1885 Registered: 11-2003 |
Ace Gutowsky played for the Lions. | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 702 Registered: 03-2006 |
Eisenstadt was a pitcher for the Tigers. | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 305 Registered: 01-2007 |
This is all off the top of my head: Ace Gutowsky - Lions - 1930's Mud Bruniteau - Wings - 1930's - Scored the winning and only goal in the longest hockey game ever. Gee Walker - Tigers - 1930's - I think his nickname was "The People's Cherce." Syd Howe - Wings - Scored 6 goals in one game. Harry Eisenstadt - Tigers - Was the oldest Tiger to return to Tiger Stadium when it closed. My grandfather loved Detroit sports and talked about it non-stop until the day he died. I feel I know more about the players from the 1930's - 1950's then I do about the current ones! Ookpik | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1887 Registered: 11-2003 |
How about another name--one of the first pro athletes, maybe even the first, I ever met....Ebby Goodfellow. Any takers? Come on Oopik, step up to the plate---I mean the net. | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 704 Registered: 03-2006 |
Tiger Tasker was a pro wrestler. And I thought he was from Canada. And I believe his position was Full Nelson | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 306 Registered: 01-2007 |
Ebbie Goodfellow - Wing's - 1930's. Rock - here is one for you.  Do you know the name of this ship?  For a larger version of the photo, please click here. Ookpik | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1889 Registered: 11-2003 |
Good for you! Goodfellow is a Red Wing Hall of Famer.--But you are really testing me, Ookpik. That silhouette looks like the older 580 ft class of the US Steel boats, and there were a good 25 or more of them. All the same dimensions, all with different names-- Affleck, Buffington, Dickson, Thomas, Johnson, Cory,Rehm, to name a few. About the only difference we used to look for was whether the stern mast was forward or aft of the stack. As I recall, not all of them had "Pittsburgh Steamship Company" printed on the side. I thought those were more common with the 600 footers. Clemson,Kerr, Roberts. Trimble etc. And with somewhat larger wheelhouses. Little Hint? Initials? 500 or 600 footer? Multiple Guess?? We are going back a good 40 years! I'm sure it's not named after a former Detroit athlete. Although,come to think of it, we did have both a James Norris and a Red Wing that sailed the Lakes. | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 307 Registered: 01-2007 |
Rock - I grew up at a time when only 4 teams didn't make the NHL playoffs - guess which team was always one of the 4? Thus, listening to my Grandpa's stories about about Goodfellow, Bruneteu, Normie Smith, Syd Howe, "Black" Jack Stewart, Sid Abel and others was a great thrill. As for the ship - I do not know the name of it.  I came up with some of the names you did. Among the "10,000 Negatives" are various photos of ships. Unfortunately, none of the names are visible. I was going to post some of them in the "Old Photo" threads but I don't think anyone would be interested. Instead, I created the following blog: Mystery Ships Of The Great Lakes. Ookpik | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1371 Registered: 02-2005 |
Rock, here you go -- http://www.liveauctioneers.com /item/3998162/ | ||
Tponetom Member Username: Tponetom Post Number: 100 Registered: 06-2007 |
Ookpik and Kenp: You both get "attaboys" Ace Gutowsky played during the Dutch Clark and Lloyd Cardwell era for the Detroit Lions. Would you believe that we rode our bicycles to Neighborhood Field in Grosse Pointe and watched the Detroit Lions work out there? No fence, no grandstand. Pro football, at that time was still a fledgling sport in the early forties. My dad took me to see the wrestling matches at the Brodhead Naval Armory and I remember Tiger Tasker. He smeared blood (read, catsup) all over his opponent but lost the match. His opponent was "The Masked Marvel" who was the "Dick Bruiser" of his time. He was, of course, eventually unmasked and continued wrestling under his real? name, Leo, 'something or other.' Any help on that last name??? The Edmund Fitzgerald would be too obvious a guess on the ship. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1892 Registered: 11-2003 |
WOW, Jiminnm!! Ebbie's autograph on a hockey stick. I went to Jr. High with Ebbie's son. I should have had him sign mine. WOW, Ookpik!! Your blogs are reall neat. I will check out your Mystery Ships for future photographs. Mystery Ship 2 is the John Roen IV, a tug owned by the old Roen Salvage Company out of Sturgeon Bay. Mystery Ship 1, the "Mighty Mac", is tied up in Mackinaw City, and as mentioned, is a museum ship. I haven't given up on that old U.S Steel photograph. Gotta dig into the old books in the basement. | ||
Grandpamike Member Username: Grandpamike Post Number: 17 Registered: 04-2007 |
Ookpik, A couple of possible corrections: I went to the final game at Tiger Stadium, and it was announced that Elden Auker was the oldest former Tiger to appear. When I (and I guess you) grew up, there were six teams in the NHL and only TWO of them did not make the playoffs. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1893 Registered: 11-2003 |
Elden Auker lived a few streets over from us when I grew up in Birmingham. After he retired, he came over to Quarton School and gave us kids a demonstration on his famous "underhand" delivery. | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 308 Registered: 01-2007 |
Rock - Glad you like the blogs! Grandpamike - In regards to the "Oldest Tiger" to appear at the final game - I think we are both wrong. I'd have to look at a tape I have of the game but I'm pretty sure Billy Rogell was there. If so, he would have been the oldest in age as well as a member of the earliest team represented. I must be younger than you - I'm more from the expansion era of hockey than the days of the Original Six. You are right, in the Original Six format only two missed the playoffs - in the expansion era four teams missed the playoffs. From the 1970-71 season through the 1982-83 season, the Red Wings made the playoffs ONCE. Ookpik |
