This week the Retiree's was run by Bob York and
Clyde :Nyman and it was, as usual, a large success. Between .and 50 golfers took off in pursuit of the elusive par.
M usual, many of them were disappointed, but they had
fun anyway.
Roger.McKeown won the low gross with a 40. Low net
was taken by Pat Martin with a 33. Bob Evans won the
lea.t putts with a 13 and Eddie Nofield came out on top
with a 58 to take the most honest golfer section. In the play
for the poker hand, Be,nlie Ferrey had seven 6's to take
that department. I had six 7's and as far as I'm concerned,
the only difference between seven 6's and six 7's isn't that
big. I guess they gave it to Bernie because he didn't have
any7's.
Next week we shall have a couple of professionals on
the job and have they got a program for you! Eric
Kohlman and Bill Leaman will prescribe a program of
fint and second low gross, closest to the pin on %5 and any
one putt on %8 or %9, making it a little tough on our
regular patrons. I don't know if you know what mulligans
are, but the way this reads says: Play any shot over up to
the amount of your handicap and in straight play add any
handicap strokes to your total gross score. This sounds
like a good-id~.
We've had a ball out there so far so I don't think this is
going to disrupt things that bad.
During the P;8St couple of weeks we have had a couple
of characters visit 11:8 at the Rossland Legion. One of them
is an old friend from years back. Tommy Anderson now
lives in Regina and comes back to visit us every fall. The
other one has only visited us infrequently but we want him
to keep coming back, Tommy Owens, is a welcome addition to our branch anytime. Like the elder Tom he has a
lot of the qualities to make him a good Legion member.
Tommy Anderson has been coming to the Rossland
branch for a long time. He is our oldest veteran, having
served in the Fint World War. We like having him around
and we would also like our young Tommy to see if he can
grace our branch with his presence on occasion. These
people are the kind that make the Legion the kind of a
place it is. We have a clientele that makes it a very special

place to be.
Meanwhile, I would sure like to see a couple of
rainstonns. It would sure add to our comfort.
While I'm talking about people, it would be a good
idea to put in a little plug for a young man who has served
Rossland very well over the years. His name is Dave
Lawrence and I have never ceased to wonder at the
amount of get up and go he has. I can remember when the
Labatts were operating. David was quite a factor in that
club. But now it seems he has branched out and is doing
his thing all over the Kootenays. At least the West
Kootenays. Dave is a very capable coach and as such his
talents should be used to the utmost to help make our kids
in this area the best.
On of the young people I would like to mention at this
time is a young lady who has been instrumental in the rise
of the young Trail-Warfield Stingrays swim team. Her
name is Pamela Baines and she is a Rossland girl who has
had a lot of success in her swimming. The big thing about
this is that she has come along through the ranks until she
is probably one of the premier swimmers in this or any
other locality.
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Young people like this are what makes the sports
community so competitive. ll we didn't have the competition, sports wouldn't attract the attention it does right
now.
Off on another tangent, we have to look at the way our
weather man is treating us, not very well, should we say
The sunshine is wonderful but the thing we all worry about
is, when are we going to get some rain? I guess it will
eventually come, but in the meantime we are under
sprinkling restrictions and who wants that?
To wind up this effort, I want to say that let's hope the
baseball players don't see fit to go on strike, that's
something we can get along withoul I guess I'll never get
over it, but it seems to me that strikes in sports, when
these guys are getting so much dough, has to be a real nono.
Anyway, that has to be something that these guys
have to iron out for themselves. So until next time, I'll say
till then!

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