On Tuesday we held our final Retirees windup and
considering the early morning cloud and fog, it
turned out to be a fine day and from the remarks
made to me by quite a number of the boys they
enjoyed the golf game no end.
After the game, the club, with help from stewards
Max, Dave, and Bill, served the participants meals
which the boys enjoyed. Of course, when you get
something like we had on Tuesday and you don't
have to dig down to pay for it, that seems
reasonable. But as I told a bunch of them, you're the
ones who supported the dues change to 50 cents and
who came along faithfully every week. An average
of 52 retirees per week is pretty good. You've
already paid for it, and for that and for your attendance we thank you and hope to see you all again
next year.
Bart Dudley, Carl Seefeldt and I had another
round of golf after it was all over. Bud Comba joined
us on the first tee and I rode with Carl in his cart.
Pretty nice way to play a round of golf at the Upper
Course. But I still didn't set any records.
Competition was least putts, low gross, low net,
closest to the pin on five and the long putt on nine.
Torchy Torresan won the long putt with a 30 footer,
Jim Scott was closest to the pin on five with a drive
that stopped less than five feet from the pin.
Romeo Di Biasio took 12 putts while Herb Martin
checked in with 13. In the low net it was Chris
Christianson and Brick Bisaro each with 34 while in
low gross Al McAuley and Sam Amsehno showed a
42 each while Roger McKeown had a 43 to wind up
what most guys figure has been a very successful
season. As I said before, maybe we'll get Indian
summer now and we can still play some more
before the snow puts a stop to our fun.
And when it does finally come, we'll still have
winter activities.
Now we look forward to curling, hockey games
and of course the skiers will hope for lots of snow
and for their enjoyment we wish it too. Winter in
Rossland would be a very dull place without it.
Drinking beer is OK in its place but its hardly a fulltime exercise.
I know one fellow who will miss his year-round
golf. Wilf Woodhouse returned to Rossland from
Parksville on Vancouver Island and he said to me
the other day, "Harry, what will I do with all my
spare time this winter?''. I lost no time in extolling
the virtues and pleasure of oqr premier winter
sport, curling. Of course, I don't know yet if he will
become a convert or not but it won't be because I
don't work on him about it.
We always seem to lose some of our retiree
curlers every summer but, something like weeds,
there are always some come on to take their place.
I've talked to a number of possibilites already and I :
expect the others have too. Older curlers are
everywhere you look.
Saturday morning in tQe Legion in Rossland we
shall be having' a Retirees pool tournament. Sam
Manson is the major-domo of this event and he bas
got 24 bodies in teams of two for a real knock-down,
drag-out affair. All I can say is we've come through
some heart-stoppers before and we'll probably
survive this one. In fact I look for the old boys to
start yelling for more.
So now, if you don't see us on the golf course you'll
know where to look for us, curling rink, hockey rink,
or the Legion where you can do something besides
play pool!
And with that, I can now say
'Til next time, then!