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The t.ournament was hotly . I think I can speak for Chuck Whitecaps all the city-bas~
contested throughout despite and the two Joes when I say teams, Canadians in baseball
the over-all unfavorable thanks t.o all the people who . and the Lions in football, aEe
conditions. The weath~r man showed their appreciation. showing their mettle and tlte
certainly wasn't on his best This goes for the visit.ors and fans are really eating it up,
behavior on Sunday, but most the committee members t.oo long queues of ticket searof the games were close and it so we'll look forward to next chers are the· result of the
seemed to me who were on the · year, too.
city's contending teams in all
job of serving up the refreshTo the organizers, headed the major summer sports.
ments, that the spirit of the by Cam and Kenny and their Nowifthe Canucks can become
teams was certainly of an
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h k f a legitimate contender in the
especially high standard.
wives, you peop e o a ec o NHL, Vancouver can realfy
a job. This is one of the
Pearl-diving is a rather reasons it is such a good have a banner year in the
chilly job; i~ depends on the weekend, enjoyed by everyone sports world.
The feat of the Whitecaps in
way it's done and it seemed who will spread the word of
that this year we had it down Rossland's hospitality far and lmocking off the Cosmos ip
their home park has to rank as
t.o a science. Borrowing some wide.
one of the super achievements
of Super-Valu's milk crates we
were able to hand out each
Next weekend our city will of recent years. Now they
team's allotment at a get another chance to have to handle the Tampa Bay
moment's notic~, utilizing the welcome a lot of visitors as we Rowdies in the same fashion
time between games to fill the swing into the annual Golden to take it all in a sudden-death
crates with the required quota City Days celebration. The match-up against the other
··
and clean the tables after the scope of this effort is quite a last year's finalist.
departing teams. Free coffee bit greater than the past
By the way, one of the
for those who wished for it was weekend on a per capita basis
there, hot all the time, and lots and if as much effort is put Vernon Slo-Pitch players lo~t
On their way to the final of free pop for the youngsters. into this as we have just a brown velour jacket either
game the Rollers were un- Food was available from noon witnessed then it too will be a at the banquet on Saturda1
night at the High School, ~t
beaten. After taking out on Sunday and it too was rousing success story.
one
of the playing fields or at
Calgary in game one, they
f
h
lmocked off the Outfielders dispensed free O c arge.
I understand a few snags the Arena; it has stripes on the
from Enderby, also on•
Chuck Harlmess and the have been encountered in the sleeves and a zipper front,
Saturday, then ran up three Legion's No. 1 and No. 2 Joes, . p-eparations, hopefully, they Dennis O'Ferrall would apstr.aight wins on Sunday to Thalman and Gyte, plus yours will be resolved ·without preciate its return, it can b.e ·
take all the marbles, beating truly, got quite a lot of com- dampening the over-all pic- sent COD to Box 193, Vernon,
Kamloops Kats and two . pliments for our handling of ture of our big 'celebration. B.C. or notify me at 362-5205
Rossland aspirants to the title, the refreshments but it makes Despire a determined effort and I will make arrangements
the Road-Runners in the semis a long day from 9 a.m. to the .by the contractors it does not to forward it to him.
and the Orwell Scrap in the end of the cleanup, 4:30 on look as though the roof on the
final game.
Saturday and 7 p.m. on arena will be complete by
It was almost a rainout at
The Scrap team had to do it Sunday, but it can be qQite opening day, so we'll just have. the upper course on Tuesdar
the hard way as they lost their pleasant when people are t.o p-ay for good weather and morning for Retirees Day,
first game to the Fortune appreciative of your efforts. hope our prayers are an- seven golfers were present
and Walt Gerrand turned in a
Bakery team from Kamloops We met, as always, a heck of a swered.
low net 34 for a ball and Al
and then beat Vernon's Big 4, lot of pretty nice people;
Rossland's Nuggets, Vernon's
Mostofthemagreeditwasa
The city of Vancouver's Turner got one for being an
Claudes Radiator and the real good tourney and said sports enthusiasts are having average golfer. Let's hope the
Outfitters to advance to the . they would be back again next what appears to be their best weather will co-operate for
final against the Rollers.
year.
~ e r ever. Led by the next week.

Rossland's Annual Slo-Pitch
Tournament for 1979 is now
history, most of it was played
under threatening skies o.n
playing surfaces that were by
no means ideal, despite ex•
tensive work done by ·the
super-active committee to
make the conditions playable.
A total of 35 games were
scheduled over the two-day
. tourney, out of these one was
defaulted, as Calgary's
Animals, last year's winner,
lost an 8 a.m. game to Vernon's ANAF. The report had it
that they were held up in Trail
for some reason and missed
their deadline.
They had dropped their first
two games, to the eventual
winners, BA · Rollers from
Vernon, and the Sno-boys
from Kamloops so their
default sidelined them in
defence of their title.

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