ALK Big weekend coming up! The Rossland Annual SloPitch tournament will be held this weekend and we shall also have a big lacrosse game, the Redmen against Edmonton. The regular beer garden held in conjunction with th~ SloPitch tourney will probably be moved over to the curling rink if satisfactory arrangements can be made. Talking to recreation director Jackie Richardson Tuesday, I found out that there have been no details worked out as yet in this regard. He tells me that John Allen of the Redmen is trying to get the Edmonton game moved up to Monday night and if he is successful in this move it will take a lot of the confusion out of the situation. The Slo-Pitch people have always had their bash in the rink and it is just unfortunate that two worthy causes have to book dates that clash; however let's hope that a solution is reached which will be satisfactory to both sides. The Slo-Pitch tourney will be played in all parks in town as usual , will feature teams from all around the country. You can bet that it will be just as much fun as it has been in past years. The games are played come hell or high water and we've seen them played under pretty trying conditions in years past. H you come to Rossland to visit while the tourney is on you'll know that our hospitality is just as good, no matter what the weather is like. As previously reported in The Times, the Redmen took it on the chin on Sunday at the hands of a fired-up group of Calgary Shamrocks. The Saturd(ly night game was a comparatvely easy win for our Redmen but on Sunday it was a different story. The Shamrocks came out of the dressing room a very determined group of athletes and proceeded to put on the iressure and it paid off. They had a three-goal lead before Rossland dented the with Herry Pepper twine behind young Mike Keating in the Calgary net, then they rammed home five more before the Redmen got untracked and started to get some goals on the board. From that point on the Redmen outscored the Shamrocks9-4 but the damage had been done and the clock ran out before the Redmen could pull even and our boys had to eat crow for the first time before the home fans this season. Pursuing that fan point further, it does seem a shame that the people of our town can't see fit to give the team a little more support. In two games on the weekend you could have counted the people in the stands without any mechanical aid. Talking to some of the players in a bull session after the game, I gathered that they are quite disappointed in what Rossland teams have had to take as a matter of course over the years, the apparent lack of interest in the fortunes of our struggling young athletes. Going back over the years, we have seen some mighty fine young teams come and go. We've had champions in baseball, hockey, lacrosse and soccer and they've had so-so support fr