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I came to Rossland in 1951
and at that time the only
park on which sports could
be played was Jubilee. It
was, and is, a very busy
plaae with kids' sports,
nien's baseball and minor
leasue ball.
_:lltere was a swampy piece
of ' _ground down on Cook
Avenue between the curve in
the-i'railroad tracks and the
aYenue. It took a lot of work
btft.'eventually it was turned
intd ·a respectable ball field
for ,the LiWe League teams.
Dugouts were constructed
and a backstop erected and a
small stand behind home
p~ . It turned out to be the
s~ne of many spin~tingling
coOtests between teams
fr!h all over the Kootenays
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Later on, land was made
available for a full size ball
field in the Black Bear area
of town and again volunteer
labor was a very big factor. I
have been given visual
evidence of this in the form
of pictures taken when the
park was being constructed.
This park is now twinned
with the Lions Campground
and is one of the best ball
diamonds in the Kootenays
according to people who
have a ·great deal of knowhow on the subject

Now we are going to get
down to the Ditty gritty. The
fans who would love to attend ball games in these
parks are severaly hampered by the lack of seating
capacity. In fact, it is

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practically non-existent. and a pool of potential
Fans who wish to be com- volunteer workers is
fortable through a six-inning available if it were to be ~
slow pitch or fastball game ordinated.
or a ~minute soccer conWe are fortunate in
test, must bring along their
own seating, i.e. lawn chair Rossland to have a very
willing bunch of young men
or blanket or what have you.
who have been doing a
In quite a number of towns tremendous job of operating
the service clubs have what are known as play-fordonated funds for the con- fun sports - both hockey
struction of seating at the and ball. The money they use
various parks used for to operate comes mostly
spectator sports and since from their own pockets and
we are told that there is no
the odd tournament where
money in the city's budget . they can charge admittance.
for this sort of thing, it would
Just recently these young
appear this is the route we
people
found time to vastly
will have to take.
improve the facilities at the
Many
service Cook Avenue Park by inorganizations have vast stalling new waterproof
reservoirs of know-how dugouts. Quite an imamong their retired ranks provement over the leaky

old shacks that passed for
dugouts in years gone by.
Now I'm given to understand the Black Bear
park is badly in need of some
work. Behind the backstop
there is a dense forest of
young saplings that are
rapidly becoming trees and
a quantity of underbrush
that defies description. Any
balls that are fouled over
that backstop can be considered long gone and balls
today run about$10 apiece. A
couple of power saws and
some scrub slashing
equipment handled by some
willing volunteer labor could
turn that hillside into a site
for seating a veritable
amphitheatre.
Some
grubbing and some CPR ties
could make seating for
~ of fans who just
might go along if there was
some place to sit
Rossland has the potential
athletes to be an even better
sports centre. Let's try and
give the people who would
like to go and watch them
perform a comfortable place
to go to do just that
Now to golf for a bit,
Tuesday was again a fine
day on the upper course
where once again 52 golfers
turned outfor Retirees' Day.
The competition was run
by Lou Crowe, Percy Cutler
and Rich Watkinson and was
high and low hidden hole and
least putts.
Prizes Tuesday were
handed ·out to Jim Scott for.a
42 low gross, Herb Martin
had a four on No. &, a hidden
hole. I won a ball for the high
score of nine on No. 2,
another hid~ hol!· ~
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Ieasue ball.
There was a swampy piece
of I B1'()und down on Cook
Avenue
between the curve in
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thh~ railroad tracks and the
awnue. It took a lot of work
b&"eventually it was turned
intf ·a respectable ball field
for,the Little League teams.
Dugouts were constructed
and a backstop erected and a
small stand behind home
p)#e. It turned out to be the
s($e of many spine-tingling
co~tests between teams
fr«tn all over the Kootenays
anGtheU.S.

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evidence of this in the form
of pictures taken when the
park was being constructed.
This park is now twinned
with the Lions campground
and is one of the best ball
diamonds in the Kootenays
according to people who
have a ·great deal of knowhow on the subject.
Now we are going to get
down to the Ditty gritty. The
fans who would love to attend ball games in these
parks are severaly hampered by the lack of seating
capacity. In fact, it is

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own seating, i.e. lawn chair willing bunch of young men
or blanket or what have you.
who have been doing a
In quite a number of towns tremendous job of operating
the service clubs have what are known as play-fordonated funds for the con- fun sports - both hockey
struction of seating at the and ball. The money they use
various parks used for to operate comes mostly
spectator sports and since from their own pockets and
we are told that there is no the odd tournament where
money in the city's budget they can charge admittance.
for this sort of thing, it would ·
Just recently these young
appear this is the route we
people found time to vastly
will have to take.
improve the facilities at the
Many
service Cook Avenue Park by inorganizations have vast stalling new waterproof
reservoirs of know-how dugouts. Quite an imamong their retired ranks provement over the leaky

there is a dense forest of
young saplings that are
rapidly becoming trees and
a quantity of underbrush
that defies description. Any
balls that are fouled over
that backstop can be considered long gone and balls
today run about$10 apiece. A
couple of power saws and
some scrub slashing
equipment handled by some
willing volunteer labor could
tum that hillside into a site
for seating a veritable
amphitheatre. Some
grubbing and some CPR ties
could make seating for
hundreds of fans who just
might go along if there was
some place to sit.
Rossland has the potential
athletes to be an even better
sports centre. Let's try and
give the people who would
like to go and watch them
perform a comfortable place
to go to do just that.
Now to golf for a bit,
Tuesday was again a fine

day on the upper course

where once again 52 golfers
turned outfor Retirees' Day.
The competition was run
by Lou Crowe, Percy Cutler
and Rich Watkinson and was
high and low hidden hole and

least putts.
Prizes Tuesday were
Mnded.out to Jim Scott for.a
42 low gross, Herb Martin
had a four on No. 6, a hidden
hole. I won a ball for the high
score of nine on No. 2,
another hidden hole. George
Pearson had 11 putts to take
that category. He was tied
by Herb Martin, the highest
putts category was won by
John Piva with 23.
As we mentioned last
week, will those winners who
did not pick up a ball do so at •
their earliest convenience.
Next week's competition will
be run by Jim Scott and
Ernie Primeau with Bingo,
Bango, Bongo and the
longest putt on No. 9.