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Let's start off with a little
talk about golf this week.
Munro Pickering passed
along this story about the
Upper Course final Men's
Night of the season and while
on the subject of Munro, he
and Debby wished me to
pass along their thanks to
the people, members,
guests, et al, who have
supported them so well
during the passing golf
season.
For myself and all the
members I have played with
during the summer, I want
to say thanks to Munro and
Debby for being such good
hosts. We hope you'll be back
when another season rolls
around.
Anyway, it was a grand
night for men's night this
past week and according to
all reports the members
made it a memorable one. ·
With 52 in attendance,
competition was in 11
categories. They were in the
following order: four balls
were handed out for the least
putts, going to Gary

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Gwillim, Dave McKessock,
Jim Markle and Phil Bouma,
each had 14 strokes on the
greens. Three more guys got
a ball each for the most
putts; they were Tim
Timbrell with 23 and Dave
Nicol and Ike Bosse with 22
each.
George Gordon got the
returning award and Bob
Davidson parred the short
hole. In the pokerhand
category, Bill Woodburn had
five sevens in his nine while
the following had five sixes.
They were "Chier• Buna,
Rom~o DeBiasio, John
Harasin, Garth Granstrom,
Wayne Harder and Dave

Muir.
Jim Duckworth had high
gross with a 59 while Len
Babcock never did finish his
round as darkness caught up
with him. Fer the shortest
drive off No. 1 tee, Dave
Nicol collected his second
prize of the night, a drive of
some 20 metres and Phil
Bouma stayed with him,
getting his second award for
a short drive off No. 9

measured at about 22
metres.
Arnie Sherwood was
closest to the pin on No. 3
winding up one to seven
metres from the cup and Ron
Parker pulled off a good putt
on No. 9 a distance of some
eight metres to cap off the
prize categories.
Well, the hockey season is
upon us and so far I have had
the chance to · watch the
Warriors in action twice,
against Trail last Saturday
- and then again on Monday
against Castlegar Rebels.
Against the Trail team on
Saturday the Warriors were
in pretty good shape and
though the defence was loose
at times as the Trail kids
pressed for the first two
periods, they managed to
stay close. When Trail got
into penalty trouble, they
were in shape enough to
press the advantage and
collect the goals necessary
to win by an ~ score. Gary
Cahoon got three for the
Warriors and was a stan-

dout.
The game against
Castlegar was a different
story. The Warriors beat the
Rebels in Castlegar by an~
count and going by what I
saw on Monday evening they
must have played a lot better
hockey game out at
Castlegar to beat that
hustling Rebel team than
they showed the home fans
on Monday.
Rossland scored first and
except for brief moments of
constructive hockey midway
through the third period they
were completely outplayed
by a Castlegar team that
doesn't .know the word
"quit". Twice Rossland
pulled to within a goal at 3-2
and 4-3, but the Rebels
quickly pulled away and in
the third led 10-3, it looked
like a long night then but
with an advantage in
manpower in the third, the
Warriors scored four times
to make it more respectable.
However, late in the third
the Rebels added another
and the game ended 11-7.

At this time of the season it
would serve no good end to
start criticizing, but I did get
an idea that the team were a
little over-eager. There were
so many times passes went
awry and there was a certain
sloppiness in getting the
puck out of their own end.
Supposed clearing passes
ended up on a Castlegar
stick. Maybe it was a bad
night for the team but from
what I've seen and what I
hear the Warriors are eager
to improve their showing in
theKIJHL.
Overall, we have seen all
three goalies in action now.
Bert Brooker, Doug DeGans
and Darryl Lindgren have
all been pretty well tested
and have come through with
some pretty good work for
this early in the season. As I
said before they have been
victimized by some sloppy
play in their own end by the
defence. The forwards are
doing a lot of passing, mostly
accurate, but a good defence
does a lot of work on
blocking
and turning

passes

things around. This team
can score goals too; 23 in
three exhibition games
prove that. You just have to
get more in each game than
the opposition.
Tuesday we wound up our
Retirees for the golf season
at the u'pper course. This
was an afternoon session and
was a fine fall day.
We had pokerhand, low
gross, least putts and closest
to the pin after three shots on
No. 9. Harold Dixon, Marcel
Proulx and this writer came
up with five 7's each. .
.
Gil Page backed his 43
with 15 putts to take low
gross, Jim Scott put his third
shot 22 inches from the pin to
take that category and
Frank Blackwell was very
stingy with his putter, one of
the six clubs allowed
Tuesday; using it only 13
times
Next thing I guess will be
on to curling! Till next week,
then.
J