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Lots of hockey to tell you about this week. The
Labatts 10th Annual Rossland Fun Hockey Tournament took place this past weekend; and the Atom
Tournament, the first of its kind to take place in
Rossland, starts tonight, Friday the "8th, and will
nm Saturday and Sunday with ten teams. Coming
from Trail two teams, Shoppers Drug Mart and
Champion Sports; from Rossland two teains, The
Red Warriors and the Esso Warriors and there will
be single teams from Slocan, Grand.Forks, Creston,
Beaver Valley, Castlegar and Nelson, A mo&
valuable player will be picked from each game with
the awards donated by Seth Martin Sports. Joe
Furiak will donate and make hat emblems and each
kid playing will get one.
Starting at 5 p.m. tonight each team will play
three games and the third period of each will finish
with five ~utes of stop time. It will be a house
tourney for the kids and Dan McFarland and DoMy
Brandt will be the people in charge. They would like
to thank the following sponsors for their handsome
donations: Rex Hotel, Cantons Cafe, Arts Auto
Parts, Terra Nova Motor Inn, Cooper Insurance
Agency, Rock Island Tape Centre, Local 480,
Safeway, Eagles Aerie No. 10, Target Auto Body,
Alpine Drug Mart (Lottery Fund), Jim Schuck's
Happy Returns, Double Happiness Restaurant, AM
Ford, Donut Factory, A and W Restaurant, McDonald's Restaurant, NDP MLA Chris D'Arcy,
Century 21, Uplander Hotel, Kootenay Cattle
Company, Rossland Service Co-op, Butch Boub-y,
Dixie Lee (Rossland), and Branch No.14 Legion.
Among the trophies will be one by DaMy
Ashman for first place in the tourney which will
stay perinanently in Rossland, replicas will go to
wiMers. A down-filled vest from Rossland Co-op,
various dinners and gas supplies are draw prizes.
The programs have been printed and the covers
were designed by Jim Scott of Kelowna, a Rossland
boy now in business over there.
As Dan and DoMy tell me they are hoping the
hockey fans in Rossland will turn out in large
numbers to support this effort. There is no doubt
that each visiting team will have its share of
following fans. A large turnout will assure the
success of the boys tournament and will also be a
big boo& towards turning it into an aMual affair.
Now to the Labatts Tournament. It was well
attended and well handled. The play was spirited all
the way through, at times it verged on, you might
say, rough, but this was kept to a minimum by very
efficient officiating by a group of BCAHAaccredited refs and linesmen - Jim Schuck, Arnie
Sherwood, James May, Ken Tenisci, Dave
Espenhain, Patrick Corrado and Greg Schuck. I
hope I didn't miss anyone, if I did it's not an intentional slight. It was in charge of a good bunch of
young men in the timers box who did a really fine
job. The whole tournament was straight time and
tempers got a little ruffled in the late third in close
games.
Ken Stanton dropped by to do one game and the
other boys were Ron Cunningham, Bob Syverson,
Tommy and Mike Feeney. Tommy did double duty

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as he was assistant coach to his uncle, Joe Feeney of
Campbell River. Also o~ the team from the Island
were former Rosslanders John Feeney, Joe Caron
and Mike Evans. We had excellent co-operation
from the people responsible for the tourney, led by
Blaine McCuaig, Sam Manson, Howie Kam and
KeMy Hill. They did yeoman duty all the way
through the weekend, the hours they kept would
strike fear into the heart of lesser men.
. Starting at 5:50 on Friday night the teams were
on the ice promptly on time for the three games that
night, all went perfectly, it was on Saturday morning that things got turned a little problematical,
two games between the Campbell River team and
Trail Marauders and Rossland Skidders and Kaslo
Marbleheaders ended in 3-3 ties which had to be
broken by shootouts, the first ran to nine shots each
before a winner was decided and the second to six
which threw everything a half hour off balance. We
never did · pick up that time, with Ripe games
Saturday and nine again on Sunday it was pretty
steady going, bu thanks to find co-operation all
round we stayed on target, with both days' games
gradually aarrowing, the deficit, Sunday's last
game was ended just about the 30 minutes behind
schedule. ·
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The final games saw the Kaslo Burners take
their fellow townsmen, the Marbleheaders to win
the "C" final. In the "B" final it was Beaver Valley
B1ades taking the measure of Rossland Skidders,
while in the "A" final it was Campbell River and
Trail Hawks clashing in quite a batle before the
boys from the Island playing to what sounded like a
partisan crowd overcame the Hawks to win that
trophy for their third time. DaMy Poznikow of
Beaver Valley was awarded the Jack Cox trophy as
the best goalie in the tournament. '

I had a little bit of a surprise before the first
game on Saturday. While welcoming the boys from
Annstrong, one good looking young fellow stuck out
his hand and said, "My name is Doug Pepper."
After I recovered somewhat, I said "and my name
is Harry Pepper." We had quite a visit'and I told
him about my seven-year-old grandson whose name
is also Doug. '.l'his Annstrong boys was quite interested and told me he was from the Cochrane,
Alta., branch of the family and more so when I told
him that I felt be couldeuily be related as I had two
uncles w}¥> came over right after the First World
War and both raised large families.
Now, to the Warriors for a moment, we are
invited to another Warrior party to wind up the
season. All our imports will be on hand, I am told
tonight at the Parish Hall.
Back to the kids for a moment Rossland sent a
team to the Grand Forks Atom TournamentFeb.1516 and finished third behind Lumby and Kelowna.
They took the mo& valuable player awards in four
game and wiMing three of .t hem. Chad Brandt and
Brett Johnson took one MVP each while Aaron
McFarland took two. Don Brandt and Peter McNaughton ~ched the boys.
And now, till next time, then!
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