AS I SEE IT

AS I SEE IT'

WITH

WITH

HARRY PEPPER

HARRY PEPPER

PLAY-FOR-FUN CABARET
HOPES TO ATTRACT

The past season in the PlayFor-Fun League may not have
been the most successful from
a playing viewpoint as the league was beset by first one
thing and then another -- bad
weather this past Spring followed by the first Cominco
vacation shutdown which saw
many games postponed, because of some lack of enthusiasm helped along by the var• ious 'setbacks it was difficult
for some clubs to field a team.
However, despite the troubles along the way, the proposed
schedule finished to the satisfaction of most and an interesting playoff was set up and
when all the results were in
the Hanson's Texaco crew went
undefeated through the roundrobin and wound up as League
Champions .
The comparatively young
squad got some good hitting,
excellent fielding and fine pitching from all members of the
club to insure the victory . Pitching chores were handled towards the end of the season
almost exclusively by Renato
" Rags " Magnone and he did a
pretty thorougJl job for the
green-clad Texans who are
sponsored by garageman Gordie Hanson.
The executive, however, hope
that their latest effort will not
meet with too many setbacks:
If the upcoming .cabaret which
is planned for November 26th
comes up to the standard set
by last year's bash it will be a
dandy.
Refreshments will be served

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at 6 p.m. and supper will be at
7 and dancing to the " Country
Squires" will start at 9 and
continue until around 2 a.m.
Tickets will be available to
members at $6 .00 a couple and
can be had from all team representatives . A new wrinkle
this year will see any tickets
not picked up by members by
November 1st will go on sale
to the public after that date .
Let's hope there won't be
too many in the latter category,
because it would not be a good
omen for an organization which
up to now bas been real fun to
belong to, and I for one am sure
hoping it stays that way.
Turning to hockey for a moment, the news bas come to me
that Joey Zanussi is having a
good camp with the Detroit
N.H. L. club and has been moved
to a wing spot from his former
defence spot.
This must be attractive to
Joe as he gets a bonus for
every goal scored. So he could
add considerably to bis pay
cheque tfy being moved up forward. He expects to be sent
back .to Fort Worth for a time
but hopes this will be the year
he makes it back up to the big
time .
I shall pass along any further
news I get on Joey , so watch
for it .

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Last Sunday was all-star day
in soccer at Butler Park and
one of the proposed games was
not played because of what I
consider to be a sour grapes
attitude taken by one of the
outside teams .
In all likelihood, bad John
Hughes been fit he would have
been given the job of coaching
the outside all-star Juveniles
against the Trail Juvenile stars
but in bis absence I was handed
the job and I expect that I shall
be told that I made a poor
showing of it, and it will be the
truth, too.
But the main contribution to
the failure was the refusal of
the Castlegar Juveniles to send
in 5 representatives as I had
requested, when the Rossland
players were contacted in regard to making up the extra
players they refused , and from
my point of view, rightly so.
Their attitude was, if Castlegar
didn't care enough about being
selected for the all-star, why
should they be pushed into it to
fill in.
Which brings me to the point
I am trying to make . I would
like to go on record as never
having been in favor of the
all-star day as it has been defined by the local soccer association.
Why pick an all-star team by
the present format? Any allstar team should be picked by
positions , regardless of what
team the candidate is on. In
this way the boy selected for a
certain position would feel honored. It is not the same when
the selectees are picked at
random by their coach and are
then turned over to the all-star
coach to be used as and when
~e chooses .
I would like to see selection
committees formed, composed

of all coaches, one for the Trail
teams , another for the outside
teams. Their selections would
be made and boys named well
ahead of all-star day . This way
a boy would know where he
would fit in , either on the starting line-up, or as an alternate .
In making this suggestion I
know that I shall get lots of
arguments , but, what the heck,
what's wrong with a good argument . It might turn up something of value that has been lying
dormant.
A group of athletically oriented young men who are looking
for some winter entertainment
are providing their own by hiring the high school facilities at
a cost of $15 .00 apiece, and an
instructor to go with it.
Pete Bourchier is the instructor and among the guys
energetic enough to attend are
Barry Seal, Joe Rosse, Ivan
"The Terrible " Bell, Charlie
Schwartzenhauer, "Rags" MagCederholm, Rich Miller, Jimmy
Ling, John and Bruce Holm and
Jimmy Portz . There may be
others but at the moment of
writing the names escape me .
They get a chance to play a
variety of indoor sports and I
imagine this may mushroom
into something like the playfor-fun program since a lot of
the guys in one are in the
other. That they 'll have fun is
not a question, and it could be
that some benefits will come
from it.