6- Trail Times - Friday, January 15, 1982

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The KIJHL season is
entering its "run to the
wire" and the only spot in
the West Division where
there is any contention is for
third and fourth playoff
spots.
Battling for the playoff
spots in this division are
Caatlegar Rebels, Beaver
Valley Nite Hawks and the
Rossland Warriors. The
Rebels were underdogs in
post-season play before and
confounded the experts.
They did it in their first
season, 1975, and have been
- in the thick of things ever
since.
1be Nlte Hawks, given no
chance early in the season,
have
shown
some
remarkable talent and are
right in the thick of things as
the season draws to a close.
1be Warriors have had a
pretty good record for the
season in games against
Caatlegar but have been
stymied thus far by the

Hawks.
At the start of the season,
having come off their worst
campaign ever the previous
season, the Warriors looked
ready to go places. They
won some at home and best
of all, had a reasonably good
record away, but of late
they have lost a number of

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big ones. Two of the most
were back-toback losses on the weekend
to Grand Forks and Nelson.
Looking ahead, the
remainder of the schedule
does not offer any real hope
for easy wins; their six
remaining home .games are
against Caatlegar, Beaver
Valley, Creston, Nelson
Columbia Valley and Grand
Forks who have just four
wins on the season.
Away games, five in
number, are the make up
game against Grand Forks,
which they missed because
of the Penticton exhibition,
Beaver Valley, Klmberley,
Creston and Nelson. So the
Warriors have no easy task
ahead if they are to make
the playoffs.
Can they make it? If they
can turn some of their
perfonnances on home ice
around, they can make it.
damaging

Curling has resumed on
all fronts now after the
holiday break and the
ladies' afternoon club has
passed along some tidbits on
their last competition.
The last trophy up for
grabs was the Cominco
trophy and it was won by the
Marg Rosse rink with
Dorothy Fines' foursome

coming in second. Corrie
Bateman, Mary Vickers and
Laura Thompson made up
the rest of the Rosse rink
while Dorothy had Dorothy
Albo, Ruth Dugan and
Jessie Skinner assisting her.
Play has started for the
Orwell Trophy and the
Winter Wonderland 'spiel is
scheduled for Valentine's
Day weekend. Anyone
wishing
information
regarding entries for this
event are asked to contact
Dorothy Fines or Ruth
Dugan.
Word has come to me that
the Rossland High School
team of Troy Albo, Mark
Allen, Darren Albo and
Gordie Ross will go to
Nelson this weekend to play
in the West Kootenay final.
The eventual winner will
play off with the East
Kootenay to decide who will
go to Victoria for the B.C.
high school championship.
These
four
boys,
chaperoned by Alfie Albo Jr.
were winners here last year
and this is the ~ year for
all of them except Darren,
so let's wish the boys all the
luck they need to go with
their good curling expertise
and a successful trip
wherever it may end.
The Retirees' club are
winding down their second
competition and Dick
Cotton's rink is leading the
way hard pressed by Angus
Popplewell and Phil
Bateman. A dark horse by
the name of Dyson is
making noises like ~•s

championship Smoke Eaters
and Jake played a lot of
Intermediate hockey after I
arrived here in 1946 along
with such guys as Bill and
Bert Milne and many
others.
Along with these two
came one of Trall's most
colorful citizens, well known
for his eXploits on the
lacrosse
floor,
Paul
Seymour. Vic Worley and
Red King from the Tadanac
Fire Department, Paul
Gavrillk and a couple of
gents named Archie and
Sonny completed the
gathering and we enjoyed

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the company immensely,
incidentally "we" were
John McFarland and Chuck
Harkness. It's fun - to run
into people you know and
whose company you enjoy.
Now this; a Sunday school
teacher, trying to teach her
students the difference
between right and wrong.
"All right, children" she
said, "if I were to get into a
man's pocket and take his
billfold with all his money,
what would I be?"
One student raised her
hand and responded, "You'd
be his wife."
That's all for now.

competition and Dick
Cotton's rink is leading the
way bard pressed by Angus
Popplewell and Phil
Bateman. A dark horse by
the name of Dyson is
making noises like he's
going to take a run at the
leaders, so look out you
fellows out front.

It looks like a playoff is in
the works to decide who will
represent our club· at the
over~ playoffs to be held in
Rossland later on this year.
At present there are four
rinks who have signified
their intention to contest for
the two spots open to our
club. They will be skipped
by Angus Popplewell, Arnold Vanness, Phil Bateman
and George Dyson.
Bateman
and
Dyson
represented the club last
year in Grand Forks and
Popplewell took the place of
a Nelson nCHlhow.
Speaking of Grand Forks,
our club has been invited to
play some games over there
on Monday. At this time it
looks like five rinks will
travel over that way and try
to show those people how we
do it in Rossland.
On Ute way home from a
visit to the Trail Hospital,
where we had visited llWe
Jack Molyneux, we dropped
into the Rex for a drop of
refreshment. Joe Sokollc
and Blackie Orlando were at
the next table but the group
grew some as some n¢iree
curlers dropped in and then
some guys off the Hill. When
all were assembled there
were 10 grouped around the
table. Jake McLeod and Ab
Cronie, who every hockey
fan in this district
remembers,
Ab
was
probably best known for his
partnership with Joe Benoit
and Bunny Dame on Trail's