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TwoSessicms of golf have DOW taken place at the
upper course since I last reported.
Thursday, June 19 saw the Blrcbbank and upper
course retirees play together at the upper course.
As you know, Blrcbbank was being used by the
seniors tournament Anyway, we bad a good day
and a good time playing together. Jim Scott took
low gross with a 39, low net was shared by Jim
McDicken, 31, and Fred Volpatti, 32. The honey pot
prizes were shared by Ken Davies, 12, Ernie
Primeau, 12, andSamAnselmo, 11.
On June 24 things were back to normal and we
bad 54 people out Russ Broughton was low gross
winner with a 40, Jim McDicken, 31 and Al Bublitz,
32. Scott was in a five-way tie and won a draw for
low hidden hole with a four on number m, for the
high hidden hole Percy Cutler won a draw to take
this with a nine on number seven. In the longest putt
on number nine we met an old friend and former
neighbor of mine in the Gulch, Bruno Baldassi, ,mo
is now living at Lafayette, California, about 30 miles
from San Francisco. Bruno played a lot of fastball
in his younger days, and was a pretty good catcher
too. He also played lacrosse and looks real good,

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Next week Sam Martin will be major-domo and
he has decreed, bingo, bango, bongo, low net, long
putt on number nine, and a couple of hidden holes.
See you all there on July 1.
There is a gentleman in Rossland whom I have
known and bad a lot of respect for, for as many
years. He's a very erudite guy and can tell you
sports happenings from way back. He plays a pretty
good game of golf and something of a whiz with a
pool cue. His name, in case you haven't guessed by
now, is Bert Pengelly. He is an educated penon,
who also writes a column for the Trail Times.
Bert was born in Kincaid, Saskatchewan in
1937. He got his primary and elementary education
at Pennanat, Sask., and took a year of high school at
Swift Current, Sask., before starting work on
pipelines and oil fields in the area. He switched to
the Royal C&nadian Air Force in 1957 and when he
washed out of officers training he took another look
and decided to go back to school at Teachers college
in Moose Jaw. After graduation he taught school for
the next 10 years. Among his teaching stints were,
working with C&nadian Eskimos at Port Harrison,
Quebec. Another part of his teaching career saw
him teaching Hutterite children at the Spring Creek
Colony across the border in Sask. from Walsh,
Alberta, where Bert picked up his mail.
After teaching ended, Bert sold for Fuller Brush
for one year then took on the job of sports editor for
the paper in Swift Current, Sask., which he filled for
a year, before turning his face westward with Trail
as his target Arriving here in 1970 he worked until
1985 when he started his "On the Sidelines" column
which appears in The Times on 'l'bunday. Now you
know what I meant w}len I said this a a very
educated gent
Bert played baseball and hockey in school
Senior "B" baseball at 15 and hockey at 17 at
Pennant and in college he bad a batting average of
around .600. He bad an injury to his knee in a
baseball game at Rhineland, Sask., _. hasn't
played since, except on an occasional softballslowpitch game in Rossland. He told me he suffered
after every game, so he decided his playing days
had come to an end.
He ·s till moves around a pool table pretty well
and does a real good job of organizing pool tourneys
at the Rossland Legion. One other reason I think
he's okay is that he thinks Rossland is a grand town,
just like me!
So with that, I will •Y,
'Till next time, then!

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