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AS I SEE IT.
WITH

HARRY PEPPER
·u the Ross land Minor Hockey
Association has a successful
season in 1971-72 it will be in
no small measure due to the
efforts of a corps of young
people who thus far have shown
a remarkable degree of dedication to the jobs they volunteered for.
Starting at the bead of the
list with President Jim Markle
and his exec, composed of Jack Dayle
McKerracber,
Mark
Fisher, Vice-Pres., Don McCross, Jimmy Williams and
Gordie Leduc .
Kay, sec.; Vi Krest, Treas.;
Working under the direction
Bill Profili, Ref-in-Chief and
of Chief Ref. Bill Profili as
Lloyd McLellan as Head Coach,
referees and linesman are Dave
we can carry on with coaches
and managers of the various , referees and linesman are
Rep and House league teams . Bob;Campbell, JacktWert, Kenn}
The Midget Rep will be han- · Ivan Bell, Hal McCormack, Jim
dled by former Senior Warrior Brinson, Ken Gibbard and Jim
centre, Steve Chorney who will Cotton .
This makes a grant total of
have Kenny Davis as assistant.
some 45 men and women who
The Bantam Reps have Art
are taking an interest in the
Jenner as manager and Joe
activities of some 175 kids enRosse as coach. Joe will be
rolled in Minor Ho'ekey this
assisted by Gerry Flanagan and
Bob Profili.
season, which is a giant step
in the right direction . If this is
The Bantam "B" team bas
continued on down through the
Jim Dupuis as bead man and
coming years it will be a fine
Jim can call on Don Drake for
thing for Rossland youth ' s winhelp. Doctor Phil McCormack
will fill a dual role here as
ter activities.
Despite the fact that the Junmanager, also acting as manior Warriors.have hardly playager for the Pee Wee Reps,
ed a game without incurring a
who have Kelly Campbell and
game or match penalty to at
Wayne Harder as coaches .
least one player, they are still
The Pee Wee house league
on top of the local league with
consisting of " A" and "B"
a 2-point lead over Trail and
teams have Ken Fines, Jim
Cranbrook.
stuart and John Piros with .the
Two players have already
"B" squad and Terry Woodreceived 2 and 4 game suspenhouse and Rollie Phillips with
the "A" group .
sions and it is very likely that
when league statistician George
Looking after the fortunes of
Vlariich of Trail releases bis
the Pee Wee Pups are Lou
next report the Warriors will
Corrado, who is director of
this division, Jack Woodward
be leading in most departments
especially the sin-bin parade .
and Ron Davis are coaches of
One thing about it is , this
"A" and "B" teams respectshows the Rossland kids are
ively. Their helpers- are Robnot backing down from anybody
bie Simm, Ken Gibbard and
Ivan Peacock Jr.
and maybe as the season goes
along this statistic wilJ make
The Mighty Mites who started
itself felt one way or the other.
out last year with Lou Corrado
Penalties can hurt , but as long
as head man, have Bert Molnar
in that position this year. He • as they are not cheap ones ,
they won 't be too bad.
will be assisted by Cal and

AS I SEE IT.
WITH

HARRY PEPPER
Today, around noon I took a
trip down to the Trail hospital.
I went 'there to fake a friend of
mine in to have some surgical
adjustments made to bis otherwise normal physical frame .
The friend, in case you would
like to know, was the happiest
guy in our fair city the evening
before, as his hustling soccer
club had just won the Juvenile
Soccer Cup by beating the Castlegar Dynamos by a 4-2 score.
His name -- John Hughes.
When we in Rossland decided
to enter teams, in what was
then the Trail District Minor
Soccer League, John was one
of the originals . He has seen
the soccer picture develop in
our town, and now has got bis
just reward .
I think that this cup-final
victory means quite a lot to
John, as indeed it should. But
I'll be willing to bet that he
would be the first to say, "Give
the kids the plaudits, they are
the ones who earned it."
When you work with young
people you get the feeling that
whatever you do largely depends on what you have to work
with and I know John would
say be has had the best, and
they proved him right with the
performance they put on last
Monday .
These kids wanted to get that
championship for John so bad.
they could taste it, and throughout the ninety minutes it took to
decide it, they never let down .
If I had to pick stars I would
have to pick fifteen of them,
as every kid did exactly what
was required of him. John Feeney and Dave Secco on the
right wing did a fine job while
scoring 3 of the 4 goals, while
a youngster who never ceases
to amaze me with his gutsy
performances , Torri my ''The
Mighty Mite " , Stanton, got the

other.
The showing of young Ken
Bertoia in the Rossland goal
was not much short of perfection and ot in front of him,
Brad Haynes and Paddy Flanagan performed stupendously.
The, youngster wearing the
ribbon around his head was
Ernie Jacobson, and when they
make better soccer players
than him, I'd like to have them
on my team .
Dave Martin, GeoffTulburst,
Mike Evans, Ron Roberts,
Lorne Lambert, Gerry McNulty and young Gary Stanton
all filled the bill when called
upon while Ernie Rella and Pat
Portz were waiting in the wings
if needed.
Every one of these boys have
come up through the ranks of
our minor league soccer and we
hope that during the next few
years to develop a system that
will allow them to go on playing
this grand game for as long as
they wish to.
Elsewhere in this issue you
will find the rundown on the full
day's operations from last
Monday and next week we will
endeavor to give you final league standings plus goal scoring
records for the whole season.
I would like to say here and
now how grateful I am to people
who help to make it possible
for us to continue this program.
To name names would be a big
job, but you all know who I
mean so you take it from here,
Thank You!