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AS I SEE IT
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HARRY PEPPER
Little League President Don
Holmes called on Sunday night
to tell me that the baseball
organization will hold its annual meeting on the evening of
March 29th in the city council
chambers at 7 p.m.
He is hoping that there will
be a substantial turnout for this
meeting as two previous gettogether meetings have failed
because of lack of attendance .
He is asking that everyone
interested in baseball , Little
League variety, should give
some thought to attending .
While on the subject of Little
League and former Little Leaguers around Rossland , a recent writeup in the Vancouver
Sun reports that Mike Haley,
third son of Mr . and Mrs . Joe
Haley of Rossland , has signed
a two-year pact with the B.C.
Lions .
For the past few years Mike
has attended Boise State College in Idaho and has played
football during all those years .
I never had the pleasure of
watching Mike play football ,
but if he plays it the way he
played Little League ball, he
will be something to watch and
I for one.will b~ looking forward
to seeing him in action when the
Lions' season opens .
Mike played)lis firstfootball
in Kelowna where he attended
Immaculata High School and
progressed to Boise State
where he had some good seasons before a knee injury forced him to the sidelines.
Now recovered, his performance in camp caused coach
Jackie Parker of the Lions to
say , " If I asked him to run
through a brick wall he' s probably do so." It's quite probable that our area 's first representative in the Canadian
Football League could turn out
to be quite an attraction.
Well , the Kootenay ' s first
representative
Intermediate
Hockey team to visit the Methodist University at ,Anchorage,
Alaska didn't win any games
but they did have a good trip
and did appear on the local
T. V. circuit in the northernmost of the United States .

ing words that filtered back
here of a 5000 capacity rink ,
full for most games , this must
have been quite a let-down .
Jimmy said that the fans he
talked to on the trip were
really impressed with the play
of the Junior Warriors big centreman , Jimmy Stuart, who was
along to bolster the team , and
also with the play of " Long
John" Christianson in the nets
for Rossland.
The 1971-72 Kootenay Junior
Hockey title is today in the
possession of the Cranbrook
Colts, a team which during the
seasen has proven that they
would be hard to beat when the
chips are down . I am reminded
of the last game they played in
Rossland when they dressed
only ten players and played to
a 2-2 tie in regulation time ,
and broke the tie in just a
couple of minutes into the overtime .
They certainly did a work manlike job on Roy Casler 's
Junior Smokies with scores of
9-3 and 7-4 , and I' m told that
they played without the services
of starry young Derek Spring .
I guess it 's crazy to make
comparisons at this time , but
I cannot help feeling that had
the Warriors been able to ice
their top team in the Trail
series , and played the hockey
which they earlier proved
themselves capable of, a Rossland-Cranbrook series would
have been somewhat closer to
what a hockey final should be.
I don 't know how many people
caught the news flashes of the
final Spokane-Cranbrook Sen ior series on Monday evening ,
but one thing stuck in my craw
in the newscast and that was Ed
Sharman 's catty remarks about
the possibility of Cranbrook
coming up with more protests
to lengthen the series.
When a sportscaster on a
network with almost national

The opening game ended in a
6- 3 loss and after a Saturday
spent sightseeing, the boys
learned they were to be on
television and what with one
thing and another the team must
have tightened up, with the
result they took a real hammering, something like 12-3 .
Sunday's game was the best,
and the U.S. team had to come
from behind to win it 6-4 and
after it was over the boys returned to Seattle and arrived
back in Rossland around 5 p.m.
on Monday .
In his phone report on the
trip , Manager Jim Williams
told me that the Arena in which
the team played would compare
favorably with Castlegar' s present facilities . After the glow-

coverage has to resort to that
sort of thing , it doesn't shine
up the already tarnished image
of the Spokane hockey team . It
seems they would do almost
anything to win .

·-AS I S-EE ·1T
WITH

HARRY PEPPER
Last Friday evening the second annual Play-For-Fun Banquet and Cabaret was held at
the 1.O.O.F. Hall and I really
don't know what we will be able
to do for an encore if these
parties keep increasing in popularity.
We thought last year was the
best ever but this year's even
topped it, not only in attendance
but also in fun for everyone
there.
Refreshments were being
served when we arrived on the
scene , that is, the wife and I,
along with Kenny and Barbara
Stanton, and after a few drinks
we sat down to a bang-up supper prepared and served by
Rebekah ladies . After having
partaken of two of these suppers in a short time I'm convinced y_ou 'll get no better meal
and service than these ladies
dish up .
The tables were loaded with
good food and around 120 guests
proceeded to unload them . After the meal the tables were
moved back to allow room for
dancing to the music of the
" Country Squires" and anyone
who has ever danced to the
music they play will agree that
one would go a long way before
getting any better.
During the course of the evening we were treated to a couple
of renditions from Tom Jones,
the Pateson boy who is a great
favorite in these parts and a
member of our play-for-fun

league .
The only sour note in the
whole night , for me, that ,is ,
occurred as we wended our
cheerful way homeward . The
wife had the misfortune to slip
and fall and she suffered a
badly broken ankle, which will
keep her off her feet for some
months .
I would like to suggest to
anyone who would like to become a member of this entertaining organization, during the
winter, to get your name on the
list of prospective members .
Come next fall , after a summ er
spent among good guys enjoying
themselves , you too can be eli gible to attend the third annual
get-together. You 'll never regret it.
Well it' s getting close to the
time for me to write my Christmas greeting column, have to
start working on that in the next
week or so.
In the meantime I am going
to try to take a few of the Junior
Warriors at a time and salute
them through this column. Maybe next week I'll get sta rted on
that.