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On a morning that looked like it could go either
way, weatherwise, it turned out to be a very nice
day to be on the golf course. Forty-nine were out for
the weekly outing at the upper course and we played
low gross, low net, count your putts, long putt on
nwnber nine and closest to the pin on nwnber five. I
heard someoae mention that Emil Kwasney really
deserved some kind of a prize as he deposited five
perfectly good balls where only time, pure luck or
maybe a hungry rodent will ever find them.
Somewhere between the nwnber two tee and the
highway to Trail.
The winners on this fine day's outing were low
grOSS Ken Davies with a neat 42, several players
were in a group at the top for low net and Vic Bordin
took it with a 30, Percy Hamilton voluntarily
lowered his handicap and took second with a 31. In
-the least putts department it was Willie Scott and
Jimmy McDicken with 12 each who captured the
honors. "Chier• Bona was the closest to the pin on
nwnber five, a littler over three feet, while Bill
Vickers got the long putt on nwnber nine with a 1~
12 foot effort. On the desk for this week we had a
new recruit at this kind of job, Wilf Woodhouse, I got
him started and then went golfing while Rich
Watkinson helped him tie up the loose ends and
choose the winners. Wilf will do a good job for us
anytime.
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Next week we will have our regular early birds
on the desk as Jim and Willie Scott take over along
with Ernie Primeau. We won't know till then what
they will decide on for competition but you can bet it
will be entertaining. See you there!
Six members of the Rossland Legion went over
to Creston on Saturday to participate in the
Kootenay challenge tournament held annually at
the hilly Creston course with some seven or eight
branches in the two zones sending representatives
to contest for the trophy and various prizes.
From the West Kootenay, Rossland, Trail and
Castlegar with thirteen entries battled the East
which had 43 entries from Creston, Kimberley,
Cranbrook, Fernie and Invermere. The East had a
stroke average of 100.6 while the West came in with
105.2. Dick Pauls of Creston was the tournament
chairman for this, the 18th anniversary of the event.
Bart Dudley and I were teamed up against two
gents from the Invermere branch, Warren Schmidt
and Don Gardner, we had a very pleasant afternoon
in their company out on the course and had supper
with them and their wives after it was all over.
Warren, 68, and a retired mechanic for Parks
Canada lives in Fairmont with his wife Nellie and
Don, 62, works for Cominco and lives with his wife,
Thelma also at Fairmont. Both gents enjoy golf and
Don does a lot of curling when the \Veather gets cold.
I noticed, incidentally that Don abstains from using
his woods on the golf course, preferring to go with
his irons, with which he is quite proficient.
In the championship flight of the tourney the
winner overall was Wally Thrun of Fernie with a 76.
Don Lavis of Kimberley was second and Ralph
Shypitka of Cranbrook, third, the first flight was
won by Bud Mitchell from Libby, Montana a
member of the Fernie branch, second was Connie
Burnham of Creston and Laurance McKenzie also
of Creston, third. Two Creston men were one-two in
the second flight, Walter Bogstie was first and Tom
Newlove second. Bry Birney of Kimberley took
third, in flight three Bill Kelly of Castlegar won the
West's only prize, a first place finish. Nip Twells of
Kimberley and our friend Don Gardner rounded out
the winners.
And that's golf for this week. There are a couple
of other subjects I will leave until next week.
So, until then!