http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0443667
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [Taylor, Dave]
issued: 2024-05-22
issued: 1951-05-11
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note: pfffPHpi ********************** I CAPITOL THEATRE \ i FOR THE LATEST $ t CAPITAL PICTURES % . Eevery Week Night 5 ************>*******»-*i. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR ****************** *•*,(-*■ W J CAMERON'S GROCERY % * * * The Modem store * PHONE 137 * 3B_S OUR AD r *********************» Fiftieth Year; No. 16 — PRINCETON, B C. FRIDAY, 11th MAY, 1951 Sc per Copy; $2,00 per Ytar But Which Is Our Uncle Sammy? PLAY BALL WITH ROUND THE ® HOT STOVE FIFTY YEARS OF SIMILKAMEEN SPORT! I******** m THE SCHOOL GROUNDS have been the site' of some epic sports battles. The first games were played there, or on adjacent ground now incorporated into them, with races, including the colorful Kloochmen's horse races, through pine-1 ned Vermilion Avenue. Then sport moved up to the race course until it was taken over by the airport. And great softball games were played in a senior ci'y league, with a bunt occasionally sailing over the opposite sidewalk, _e main qualification for an outfielder being to dodge trucks and jump picket fences. S'lm Thomas, he was quite a man, even if he did have one of them pansy bank jobs. When you batted against Sim it was like trying to hit an atom dropped from the Empire Steak Building. Clarence Soulier had him a team in; that was the only way h« could get him a game. With Jack .Rhodes and Samuwel Schisler "rounding" out the keystone. Bones Plecash on first had only to lie down and .the bases were blocked from Halifax to the hot spot. And don't th'nk Gentleman Shanks was above it, for every corner was hot In that league. Life was nice and quiet. You would find yourself playing filba' softie(!)ba', basketba', a band concert and a couple of dance jobs in the same week (and on celebrations almost the same day!) And the big time athletes rounded it off with an all night game at Peg's or Tug's. That 1928 July 1st in the good old. "prohibition' Hays — with the saloon (front) doors dulv shut.. And the town copper doing (or rather having) his bit. That was how the Kim…

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