AS I SEE .IT
WITH

HARRY PEPPER
Two young Rosslanders are
going to be the subject of this
weeks' column. I'm not going
to put them down by saying that
the reason for my-writing about
them is the fact that sports
news in our town in the past
week has been non-existent.
But it does give me a chance
and an opening for a series I
hope to write about local young
people, which I hope will be
accepta,ble reading to the local
public.
" Butch" Boutry, muscular,
30 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Boutry of our town,
has lived practically all his
young life in our locality, and
at the present time is engaged
in teaching the finer points of
ski racing to a group of people
in the 13 - 20 age group, known
as the Columbia Valley Racers,
and at the same time carrying
on a full-time business, that of
promoting and selling Yamaha
products in this area.
"Butch" received all his education in Rossland schools and
during those days participated
in Minor League Hockey and
Ball as well as Senior Lacrosse, in his later years. But
it was the slopes of Red Mountain that enticed this adventuresome young man .
Starting to ski at the age of
5 years, "Butch" graduated to
competitive skiing at the age
of 13 in Western Canada, and
at the age of 18 he started in
international competition in
both Canada and the U.S .
"Butch" rates his capturing
of the Western Canada Championship in 1963 as the highlight
of his career in s~iing.
He hopes to coach for some
time while combining it with
his business career and credits
two people with futuring his
skiing career , Ernie McCullagh, who was director of skiing
at the Mont Trembianc resort
in Quebec and Larry Nelles of
Revelstoke, with the National
Ski Team for the past 8 years.
" Butch " asked me to pass
along the following , to tell all
the young skiers at present

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He took part in all the sports
offered in this area at the time
of his youth, playing Minor
Hockey as well as Little League
Ball. And as he grew up, he
starred in both Junior and Senior Baseball as well as playing
a year for the famous Rossland
Lacrosse Redmen .
1956 saw Lloyd in Saskatchewan playing Junior Hockey for
the Melville Millionaires and
the following year he came back
to play for Trail along with
Gerry Fabbro , Al McCluskey,
Rudy Pantuso, Mike DiVito and
the two Secco boys , Ernie and
Primo. This was the year that
unfortunate occurrences at
Kamloops so upset league officials that they saw fit to bar
some members of the team,
Lloyd among them , for up to
3 years . The next time Lloyd
played hockey, was locally in
a commercial league.
He rates the years of ' 56 '57 - '58 as among his most
memorable . These were the
years he played with guys like
Bob Morton, Joe Rosse and
Joey Zanussi on the Junior
ball team .
People who contributed to the
furtherance of his sports career include Babe LaFace and
Sarge Sammartino, whose offensive battling gave Lloyd
quite a kick, and Irv Lavorato
who coached him for a tim e
during his Junior ball years .
The one thing that impresses
one when talking to Lloyd about
anything , and sports in particular , is his overall dedication
and honesty .
Believe me, if the Junior
Warriors , whose coach he is
this season , don't benefit from
the association, it won 't be
Lloyd McLellan's fault .
He has given me quite an
insight into the workings of his

under his wing that he is very
pleased with their performance
and to remind everyone that
competition for all " B" and
" C" Class skiers, will take
p I ace this weekend at Red
Mountain in the form of slalom
and downhill races, downhill
on Saturday and slalom on Sunday .
With the prominence of the
Yamaha line of sports equipment, and skiing in the Rossland
area , it looks like " Butch" has
got himself into an exceptional
line
of work . Good luck,
"Butch" !
The other young man in my
pair of aces is none other than
the young fellow who is doing
such a bang-up job of coaching
our Junior Warriors this season·. His name, as you all
know, is Lloyd McLellan.
Born in Rossland in 1938, the
son of Mr . and Mrs . Murray
McLellan, Lloyd has gotten all
his schooling in area schools ,
and at present is in the employ
of the district school board.
Lloyd is married to the former Helen Gallamore and they
have 3 children, 2 of them are
boys, Peter and Geoff, while
the third is a beauteous daughter, Robin.
My most vivid memories of
Lloyd ' s young athletic career
were compiled in the days when
he played Little League Ball,
and my impressions of him
were that of admiration of his
competitiveness . Losing a ball
game was a major catastrophe
in Lloyd ' s young life .

hockey club that have made me
re-assess the boys ' chances
of winning .
I' m firmly convinced that
Lloyd's idea of 'getting it all
together ' is going to be a tremendous factor in the coming
weeks, and what comes out of
it all is going to depend on how
everyone reacts .
The past week has been the
holiday season and all sportsi'
have taken the regular year-6d
break , consequently no sports ,
however next week should be
differ~nt.