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A ball tournament in Yahk August 1-3 has room
for a few more teams. The entry fee is $125 per team
and the prize money $1,000.
The annual Legion inter-zone golf tournament is
held every year at the Creston course which sits
almost on the dividing line between the two zones,
the East and West Kootenay. Barney Boychuk
asked me to mention it here in case some members
didn't know about it, or had forgotten. It is on
August 8.
Another golf item regarding the West Kootenay
tournament which was cancelled earlier in the
season, it was to have been at the upper course but
has been re-scheduled for the Salmo course later in
the season, nothing has come down on this one as
yet. I shall let you know as soon as I find something
out.
Now to recent happenings. 56 retirees took' to
the upper course on Tuesday on a beautiful morning. It did get a little too hot as the day progressed
but by that time most of our members had finished.
Bill Dobbs and Sam Martin were in charge of the
festivities and played low gross, low net, least putts, .
long putt on no. 9, closest to the pin on no. 4 after two
shots and a hidden hole. Jack Buchanan won in a
draw needed to break a three-way tie with Jim Scott
and Herb Martin. Herb won the low net, also in a tie,
with Wes Tanner. In the least putts a tie again had
to be broken with Walter Smyth taking the ball,
once more Wes Tanner was the loser. The long putt
on no. 9 was a 29-footer sunk by Louis Forte and
Russ Broughton was closest to the pin after two
shots on no. 4.
The dubious honor of winning the high for a
hidden bole went to yours truly, the bole, no. 7 saw
me 4-putt which wasn't the only shortcoming to my
game on my return from an enforced two week
layoff, suggested by my doctor.
Next week Jack
McDonald and I will be on the desk and Jack will be
learning the ropes. Any others who might like to
take on the job some time and, like Jack, you'd like

some help, just offer, we'll find someone to go with
you for a turn to give some pointers.
I guess the guy who named the National League
the senior circuit and the American, the junior,
knew what he was talking about, it seems in those
long contests when endurance counts, the older
league seems to come through. That 13-inning game
on Tuesday night was certainly good proof that the
National has what it takes. And I guess there are
quite a large segment of our local sports fraternity
who would be willing to argue that point but the
record speaks for itself.
Now baseball starts its last half of the 1987
season and will head down the trail towards World
Series time. If the Canadian teams are to get in
there, they will have to do some real driving in this
half of the season. Both started off the season with a
real flare but that momentwn has suffered some
setbacks as both are now around the 9-10 games
behind mark. I think if I had my choice I would say
the Expos have the edge on a chance to reach that
magic position which really carries a lot of clout.
Recently I heard an American sportscaster say it
would be the worst thing that could happen to
baseball, in his words, Canadian teams don't have
the drawing power of their American cousins in the
cities south of the border. I believe, however, that
our teams sell their product pretty well on this side
of the border. I guess it's not possible but it would be
nice to see a team on the west coast to counteract
the draw to the east. However, I guess only time will
tell on this one, it would seem that the Yanks see
baseball in a different light to we Canadians.
If you didn't know it before, here it is now, the
tees on the upper course are closed on Tuesday to all
but retirees from 7 to 10:30 a.m. or whenever the
last retirees foursome tees off. Some evidence that
this rule is not being followed shows some need for
correction of these rules. Or at least enforcement.
And now, as the time has come, I'll say
'Til next time, then!

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