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One item In tbe report on
Senior GoH Tournament
yed at Bircbbank on tbe
,-umcs caught my eye. It.
. . . .,eel tbe winner of the

low net In tbe over-70 age
group. Seems our old friend
Jim Flynn of Grand Forks,
who must be tbe granddaddy
of golfers In this part of the

world, can still bit tbe ball . lift u our scores were the
best most of us have bad for
In with a 131, fifteen strokes sometime.
Nut week we would like
less than his nearest rival In
some of the guys to come up
that category.
I was In a foursome with with some ideu •bout what
hhn three or four years they want to play, something
back. He wu over 90 then different is always welcome,
and although be needed the youknow.
Still on golf, from Dorothy
cart to go eighteen boles,
when be got down off it to Fines we have a report on
shoot be made some of us what happened to some of
look pretty bad Keep it up, the ladies while their
Jim, hope those putts keep spouses were engaged in the
Bircbbank tourney. Wowd
dropping for you!
you believe they too played
We were lucky on golf, a spur of the moment
Tuesday, all of 30 golfers at tourney wu put together at
Retirees' Day at the upper the upper course on
course completed their: Saturday and according to
rounds before we got a Dorothy, they bad fun.
terrific -.m1nute downpour.
Out.of-town winners were,
The original fonnat bad in low gross, Ann Davies of
been low net, low gross,
Kimberley, followed closely
longest putt on No. 9 and by Lll Stanwood of Femie,
closest to tbe pin on No. 5, low net went to Helen Ordbut we bad to vary that way of Kimberley with Fem
when the guys forgot to put Talarico of Clarkston, Wash.
their handicaps OD their and Irene Noddings of Kaslo
cards. I guess_no one got one tied in the runner-up spot.
on the green on No. 5, so Least putts competition wu
instead of low net we gave a won by Willie Meeker of'
ball for the most honest Sequim, Wash., and nut
golfer, Bernie Ferrey. In- came Mary Gardner of
stead of No. 5 we picked a Lewiston, Idaho.
The local girls in tbe prize
bidden bole, it turned out to
be No. 7 and Sam Maber won list were Kay DiPuquale for
low gross, Dorothy Fines
a ball OD that
Low gross went to Gord and Jane Tyson tied for low
McLaren with a 42 and I WU net, Marg Williamson bad
lucky ·enough to sink a 20- tbe least putts and Annabelle
footer on No. 9 to take that Anderson was judged the
part of tbe competition.
most honest.
Our foursome wu accompanied around the
Also on tbe weekend the
course by Cleve Cowland's Rossland
Play-for-Fun
young granddaughter, league held their playoffs
Tammy, she kept up a and in this one tbe Superrunning commentary on Scrap won out over the
everyone's shots throughout Rossland Motel .team. The
and must have given us all a
nut action for these two
teams and possibly some
others, will be when they
journey to Kamloops on.Aug.
1 to play in the final slo-potcb
tourney of tbe year.
While OD the subject _of
straight and true. He came ,

softball, it would sure be Dice
to see a move being made
have some seating ac-:
commodation made for the
use of fans at Centennial
Park.
The
overaq
surroundings at the parlri
lend themselves to a prett)j
easy solution to this
problem, the high slop
bank behind home plate
which extends all the way to
third base and part way to
first, forms a natural am,
pbitbeatre background OIi
which seating for 2-300 could
be made easily available
The park WU originally built
by volunteer labor. I'm sure
the fellows who display alj
that vigor on the pla~
field would gladly lend some
of it to a project ot this type.
With the Lions Trailer
Park in close proximity oJ
tbe ball park and tbE
possibility of a ma&ma
lake in the area, the ~
project could turn out to be a
real boon to the people of
city u well u our travellinl
cousins.
Incidentally the Lions Clad
of Rossland is DOW bavinl
their park continuallJ
policed, with two people ~
tbe payroll to take care ol
collections from users of tlM
facility and see that
washrooms are kept cl~
and tbe grass mowed arounc
tbesite.