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A week ago I attended the
Christina Lake Golf Club's
annual invitational to the
Rossland-Trail
and
Castlegar retirees clubs and
ran into a perfectly beautiful
day for the outing.
Leaving Rossland at 7:30
a.m. we arrived at the
course in Christina at about
8:30 for a shotgun start at 9.
Each tee had three foursomes and it was sort of a
slow start, but once we got
going we rolled right along
and finished our nine before
noon.
Lunch was served at 1
p.m. and some of the guys
went around again after the
prizes were handed out.
Topping the list for low net
was local golfer Ches Edwards and Rossland-Trail's
Lou Crowe, each with 32.
Following them were Bud
Comba, Walt Gerrard and
Eddie Nofield of Trail and
Clyde Nyman of Rossland
with 33; Bob Melrose, Bob
Mann, Zeke Clements and
Joe O'Connor were next with
23 and then came Butch Zak,
Duke Scodellaro, Jock
McRobb, Bud Hachey and
Danny Williams with 35 and
Percy Hamilton and Dick
Pearce with 36.
Special prizes for
categories unnamed went to
Tom Reed, Doug Cavill,
Jack Acres, Bill White,
Richie Watkinson, Les
Brown and Darrell Varner.

All in all it was a great day
spent in the company of a lot
of old friends, from the
curling and golfing parties of
past years. I enjoyed every
minute of it, playing with
Bud Comba, Dan Burnett
and our host Harry Thorpe
made it that much more
enjoyable. I was definitely
outclassed on every hole,
but, what else is new?
Tuesday we were back on
the upper course for our
regular weekly outing, we
played hidden partners and
low net. Jack Buchanan and
Sam Martin came out on top
with 73 while Jack Barnes
and guess who had a 74.
There were 24 golfers out
under lowering skies but
most of them made it before
the rains came.
Our foursome of Rich
Watkinson, Cleve Cowland
and Carl Seefeldt played the
last hole in a light rain but it
wasn't bad and was soon
forgotten in the warmth of
the clubhouse.
The finals of Rossland's
Slow-Pitch season were
played over the weekend and
John Habicht passed along
the results. The league
winner was Wise's Scrap but
they did not survive the
playoffs. Rossland Legion's
Royals were second in the
standings followed by the
Orwell Hotel, Rossland
Motel and Payless. In the
playoffs it came down to the
Royals and the Orwell in the
final and the Royals came
out on top, winning the Joe
Issel trophy in the process.
Among the players on the
Royals were guys like the
Holm boys, Jon and Bruce,
Jim Schuck, Howie Mc-

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get some of the help they promised delivery in time.
need. Let's hope it goes The Rossland Legion
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signified their approval of
Back to the golf scene for a the action at a general
moment, I have talked to meeting on Tuesday
some people connected with evening. Branch No. 14 was
the 60th anniversary of the Jack's home branch and it
Rossland-Trail Golf Club was a place where he spent a
this coming Sunday. They · lotoftime.
were receptive to a
IguessJackwasoneofthe
suggestion I made that a original members of the R-T
trophy honoring the memory club. He has told me about
of one of their most playing the old course which
illustrious members should was situated alongside the
be given to the oldest player present highway across
taking part in the Sunday from the Milk Creek dairy
play at the upper course.
farm. He even pointed out
I have placed an order for some of the tees on the old
an appropriate trophy course when we were going
honoring wee Jack to Trail one day.

Have you heard this one?
Pierre Trudeau was
vacationing in the Shuswap
Lake area when his canoe
.overturned, dumping him
into the chilly waters. Two
youngsters saw the accident
and rowed over to help.
Trudeau thanked them and
asked what they would like
in return. After one boy had
stated his request, the other
said he would like a state
funeral. When asked why
such a young fellow was
interested in that sort of
thing, he replied:
"What I get home and tell
dad who I pulled out of the
lake, he'll do what's needed
for a funeral."

ke Scodellaro, Jock'
McRobb, Bud Hachey and
Danny Williams with 35 and
Percy Hamilton and Dick
Pearce with 36.
Special prizes for
categories unnamed went to
Tom Reed, Doug Cavill,
Jack Acres, Bill White,
Richie Watkinson, Les
Brown and Darrell Varner.

The Dnals of Rossland's
Slow-Pitch season were
played over the weekend and
John Habicht passed along
the results. The league
winner was Wise's Scrap but
they did not survive the
playoffs. Rossland Legion's
Royals were second in the
standings followed by the
Orwell Hotel, Rossland
Motel and Payless. In the
playoffs it came down to the
Royals and the Orwell in the
final and the Royals came
out on top, winning the Joe
Issel trophy in the process.
Among the players on the
Royals were guys like the
Holm boys, Jon and Bruce,
Jim Schuck, Howie McMeekin, Walter Rosner, Skip
Ferguson, Tim Thatcher,
Mike Schroeder, Winston
Baines, John McFarland and
PaulBroyd.

The Warriors have been
working out at the Beaver
Valley arena for the past
week or better. I haven't
been able to get out there to
watch them but Thursday,
they started practicing at IJ
home. I had another meeting T
but will get a look at what SI
they have tonight. Their first
exhibition game is scheduled for Oct. 1 against Grand
Forks in Rossland.
While on the subject of
hockey, I have word that
former Warrior defenceman, Pete Corrado, is
playing in Australia at the
present time. I didn't get any
details on where and was
thinking he could be playing
alongside of a couple of Trail
boys who are also over there.
Peter was a big man on the ,
Warrior defence over the
past couple of years and will
be sorely missed during the
coming campaign.
Apparently my message of
last week was picked up by
some people in the B.C.
hockey scene. I heard last
night that there could be a