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I Times - Friday. Jufi, 23,

The course is a real
challenge. After two comparatively easy holes you
come to a part of the course
where you don't get a look at
the pin until the fifth. Then
six, seven and eight are
hidden by hills and trees
until you get to nine where
you can get a glimpse of the
flag.
Straight drives are the
key, if one can do that you
can come in with a
reasonably good score. On
course.
Branch No. 14 members Saturday the fellows who
have earned a certain hadn't played the course
amount of recognition this before were spraying the
year as exactly one-third of ball around and found
all those attending came themselves doing a lot of
from the Rossland branch. climbing from one hillside to
Those in attendance were another.
Percy Cutler, Roy Fines,
Another winner was Ted
the
only
Phil and Jim Bateman, .French,
George Dyson, John Mc- representative of the Nakusp
Farland, Rich Watkinson branch. Ted was the. only
golfer who didn't carry his
andmyself.
Three of us came home own clubs, his young son did
with prizes. Rich was third that job for him. Ted waJked
in low gross, Roy closest to off with the low gross prize
the pin on the short fifth hole and the trophy that goes with
and I won the hidden hole it. That trophy, incidentally,
is named for a Rossland
prize.

Last weekend about 24
West Kootenay Legion golf
addicts congregated at the
beautiful little 9-hole Slocan
Valley course, Valley View.
The occasion was the annual
zone golf tourney which is
played on a different course
in the area every summer.
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I have been told the bid for
the 1983 tournament will be
offered by Branch No. 14
and, if it's successful, will be
played on the Rossland

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sportsman and avid golfer
who drowned some years
back, Johnny Dellow.
Ted also had a drive that
exceeded • yards on no. 2,
but the long drive of the day
was won by Trail's Al
McAulay who got his on the
designated fourth bole, just
outdriving Rossland's Rich
Watkinson. Al also added the
second low gross.
Ken Denis of Saimo won
low net and Fred Adie outchipped Dave Love of Slocan
for second. Dave was in our
foursome to act as a guide
around the tricky course.
The only lady golfer of the
day was named most honest,
Kim Malcolm of Nelson
getting that honor.
We in the Trail-Rossland
area are spoiled when it
comes to spaghetti feeds. I
don't think there is any other
place in the known world
where one could get it better
p ~ The feed we had in
Slocan left something to be
desired when compared to
what we are used to,
however the camaraderie of

the gathering was typical
Legion and sort of made up
for it
Retirees day at the upper
course on Tuesday was a
beautiful day and we had 40
or better golfers out. Morris
Sawyer and Jack Gellatly
ran a honey-pot competition,
eight balls were distributed
and were won by Russ
Broughton, Ron Gardiner,
Hal Dixon, Percy Hamilton,
Clyde Nyman, Bud Comba,
Chuck Dabner and Jimmy
Anderson.
Bud COmba joined our
foursome and showed us
some pretty nifty shotmaking coming in with a
gross 41. Bud hits a long ball
and most of them stay
straight and true. He carried
on for another nine after we
packed it in and was back by
the time we got ready to
leave.
It's been some time since I
mentioned the Rossland
Labatts but this week I
contacted Joe Hughes and
got some information on the
past couple of weeks.
After a 0-0 tie against Trail
July 7 the team played
Nelson and won 5-1. Getting
the goals in that game for
Labatts were Rob Martin
with three and Eddie Canzian with two. That was the
Labatts' second in a row
over Nelson, they defeated
the Royals 3-2 in Nelson June
16.
The team travelled to the
East Kootenay over the past
weekend for the Kimberley
tournament and didn't meet
with much success. The lost
two tough contests to Edmonton by a 4-2 score before
being edged by Cranbrook on
penalty kicks.

The Labatts will play Trail
at Rossland and against
Nelson on successive
Wednesdays July 7.8 and
Aug. 4. The league championship games goes on
Saturday, Aug. 14 at
Creston. The knockout round
starts Saturday, Aug. 14 with
championships to be played
in Creston Aug. 21-22.

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