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The past week in Rossland
has been rather uneventful.
The Redmen were in Calgary
and the Labatts took part in
the Kimberley annual soccer
tourney and neither team took
the trouble to phone in their
results, consequently, I can't
give any details. I did hear,
via the grapevine, that the
Redmen won both their
games in the Alberta city but
I don't know yet how the
Labatts fared.
This coming weekend the
Annstrong Shamrocks are
due in town to meet the
Redmen in the first round of
the playoff leading to the
Senior "B" championship of
Canada.
The Shamrocks defaulted on
their last scheduled trip here
and word was going round that
they might do it again.
However. the last word I had
was that they would be here,
so we'll hope they show up and
for the Redmen's sake we
hope we'll have a good crowd
out to watch both games.
That's Saturday evening and
Sunday afternoon.
As noted in last week's
column, the organizing for a
new Warrior season is starting
to heat up. Arnie Sherwood
has dropped his role of chief
official · and this season he
tells me he is going to go all
out to try and get 300-400
people per game to help boost
the Warriors' plans for a
more su~cessful season than
last year's rather lack-lustre
showing.
W-ell, the Vancouver pros

are all showing signs of
strength, the Whitecaps seem
to have found themselves
after a bad start in defence of
th-eir North American
championship, the Lions have
come out roaring and the
Canadians are atop their
section of the baseball league.
Now, if only the Canucks
can come up with a real effort
this coming season, the town
will have something to brag
about. The fans are sure
turning out to watch all the
different sports events.
Well, we finally got the
"Eighth Dwarf'' back on to
the golf course. After a long
period of idleness due to a bad
fall, little Jack Molyneux had
his first round of the season a
week ago and Wednesday out
at Birchbank his was the best
score in our foursome.
That, of course, doesn't
have to be anything real
monumental, seing whom he
has to beal John, Herbie or
myself will never win .any
large sums of money for our
golfing ability, but it's as tlie
fellow said "Golf is a lot like
sex, you don't have to be good
at it to enjoy it" and that's one
thing our foursome sure does,
is enjoy it.
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Jack, of course, has to have
a golf-cart these days, as his
eighty-plus old legs are not
what they used to be. He can
be a fearsome sight as he
roars down upon you at full
throttle. He would dearly love
to own his own cart so that he
could play where he likes to

best, the Upper Course, so if
anyone who reads this can tell
him where and how to buy one

let Jack know. He wants a
good one and is ready to pay
for it.
Trail teams in all branches
of minor league ball are once
again to the fore in provincial
playoffs. The town has
spawned a whole lot of
championship-calibre teams
over the years.
With guys like Andy
Bilesky, people dedicated to
the job of making ball-players
out of the Trail kids, the
youngsters there have a whole
lot going for them.
Baseball, the minor league
variety, has been dead in
Rossland for some time now.
Since Bev Berry left our town
there has been no one to take
up the slack, so you don't see
too many kids packing a ballglove around town these days.
It seems too bad but I guess
economics has something to
do with it.
It's a lot cheaper to outfit a
kid to play soccer than it is to
play ball, but I know a lot of
people around town who would
like· to see it going again.
Maybe a revival of the game
will come again in another
year.
To finish up this week, this
from a national magazine:
"Golf is a wonderful exercise,
you stand around on your feet
for hours watching somebody
else putt. It's just the oldfashioned pool hall moved
outdoors but with no chairs
around the walls."

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