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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 Kimber- ■eys and Callahans trained. Oh, they were athletes all right; on'y super physiques could havo stood it. • * * VVSOCCER they played 50 years ago as the sport of the British village green. Not so Yankee baseball, for Nighthawk or Oro- viUe would come up with a star pitcher. Lacrosse thrived with such enthusiasts as Bobby Car- michael. In 1907 they put up a Dominion Day purse. Hope en- teretii. The locals gathered to welcome them—horseback over the Hope Trails Shock! "Hope" was mostly the world champion Salmonbellies, the most famous 'Bellies of them all The whole lot of them were banned. They—er —managed to beat the locals. -Ged Lyall still wears one ot the original sweaters—such was the stuff of those days. • • • After All, Aune Is On PRINCETON HOLDING HER OWN »AS YOUTH BUILDS FOR FUTURE FAME The Big Three Bat. Fid. AB R H Av. ' Av. Aune 32 8 11 .444 .852 Nishihara 18 _ 7 .388 .942 K. Thomasl3 3 5 .381 -666 Doubles—Thomas 1; triples— Aune 3; home runs—A. Thomas 1; runs batted in—Aune 7, Nish ihara 4, Thomas 3; total bases— Aune 41, Nishihara 21, Thomas 16; stolen bases—Nishihara 2- Princeton 1, Omak 4 i_ stow PRINOETON AB R H PO A E Mullin lb 4 0 0 9 6 1 Currie 3b 3 0 0 14 3 A- Thomas cf.. 4 0 13 0- Aune 2b 3 10 3 2- Kovich ss 4 0 8 3 3- Bosnich c 4 0 3 0 0 0 Anderson If ... 4 0 2 3 flf 0 Crawford rf . 1 0 0 0 1 0 Harman p 3 0 0 4 2 0 Nishihara rf.. 200000 K. Thomas rf.. 2 0 0 0 0 0; ~33~ 1~~8~27~13 5 AB R H PO A E OMAK- 8 0. J, FOOTBALL was introduced *"* in 1928 and quickly went big time. Blakebum b?ca.me" a con\- bi-rialt' on vt Nana'mo Citv and Sauchie United. Copper M'n reeled Mrtth Bill Hrgg, i">dve Thorn son and Larrrv Loberg. but tho' Prince on and Hedlev never jeopardized their aimate_r stand inig, tihe Fosters and the Francis' QoniM always make a game of ii. with the best of tihffin and though nio one has seen tho cup since Biakeburn won the first competation, it res s, morally, in Princeton; who won the last ctaniipianBhAp match. It was in 1936, when Similka mean was In ithe depression doL- d Timls. The league had folded, flor tihe costly imparts had gone, but .there wane -till anpuiSi plovers for two gocd teams. The spirit of Nickel fcaaite was such that even with eleven. bow-Vg- ged widow fishwives .they would be sure *hey had one. It was no holds barred, sud- ■ dem death, land the imp m'sil- acuddJe innicioently ar-ianged a visit from a couple of old 'Varsity team mates who by this time spouted dominion chiaim- Ujionship medals. He could in- deed have had a team of them flor the lajf'ternoon, but even so the bunch that did tnot cut might h_ve done justice .to a in-tioniail crown, always rJpSoc- ing m'g, off course: Salty Shepherd; Johnny McJnltosh tawd B_i Rigtoy; Al Dcdd, Tammy Bnown anld m'g; Bhfb Mitchell, MotidBhaw, Brankston, Oherry and A%n Ttodid.. It included the are_m of Princeton, Blakebum (V■■-•cnuv r) a_di—Hedley! That was the cauip de grace- Salty had bsen posited'iae constable tlhiere. Tfoley didn't ask h'm ts play, possibly because no «ne suspected he knew a flootbaM torn a fi-hb-'ll. except m'g, who had known him as a LadyismMh sensation; and Salty, (Page Twenty-Three pieia&e 36 4 6 27 Short score Princeton —000 100 000—1 8 5 Omak — 022 000 000—4 6 .* Summary Omak—Marshand and Burnam Double play Princeton 1 Omak 2; stolen bases Bosnich 2; two base hits Omak 3; walks off Harman 1, Marshand 3; struck out by Harman 4, Marshand 3; passed ball Bosnich. Princeton 7, Mansfield 4 Box score PRINOETON AB R H PO A E Anderson If .... 4 0 3 0 0- Kovich ss 5 1 1 0 11 - K. Thomas cf .. 4 2 1 0 0 - Aune 2b 4 110 0- Currie 3b 4 112 2- Mullin lb 1 0 012 II . Harman rf .... 2 0 0 0 0 $ Gee c 3 0 0 2 0- Gray p 4 12 8 2- , A. Thomas rf.. 21100- I Nishihara lb .20113- 35 7 10 27 IS 2 MANSFIELD AB R H PO A E 35 4 6 24 10 3 Short score Mansfield —301 000 000—4 6 3 Princeton— 100 000 06x—7 10 2 Mansfield—Bowers, Branson anld Gleasner. Summary Two base hit K. Thomas; three base hit Aune; stolen bases Princeton 4; walks. Gray 2, Bow ers 1, Branson 1; strike . outs, Gray 8- Bowers 4, Branson 1; hit batterfi Branson 1. Losing pitcher Bowers. WELL, it is pretty fair ball, and " Princeton seems to be in the league all right, in no danger of busting out of the top or fallout of the bottom. With a third of the schedule over, that seems to be about the size of it. Princeton has won two, lost three, never by much of a. margin. If they are careful thty should just manage ihe play-of f& The N.B-C. affiliated International is a smart league, but nothing to be afraid of; doubtful if qu'te as fast as last year's hookup. Princeton has had much stronger teams, but, now within their depth, are playing heads up Based on youngsters, it should itnp'iiore. Depending on hitting. Wey w.ll have to hit bet'er yet. Pitch <ng is standi ^g un better th~n expected . Better fielding wou11 seem tc ijo'd the key. Startling ef th" teams se ms be a Pentagon top secret. Our Harry has written a l'-tter about It. Maybe Harry Truman w.ll write one of his. For the stind- ings, regular, I will not only shew him my fishing hole. I will even date Maggie or let her uncom- pany my piccoling, she can be so worse as Dinny Davis- Omak, however, is currently on top, Princeton about fifth. Wayne Aune is the bright boy. with old reliable Nishihara as always valuable anywhere. Ken Thomas has third best batting average, but brother Art, after a long layoff is proving his value Uncle Samuwel raves about the speed of young Whitehouse and seems to have another pitching find in Kid Ceccone. At Coulee Dam next, they deserve knighthoods If they win. Harry just goes to buy tobacco. Tonasket 11, Princeton 6 Box score PRINOETON AB R H PO A E Mullin 2b 5 JL 1 3 1 - Anderson, If ...5 2 3 3 0 - Aune 3b 5 2 2 2 2- Nishihara lb .. 5 1 2 6 0 - Kovich, ss 5 0 111- Crawford rf .... 2 0 0 0 0- P. Harman cf 4 0 1 1 0 - Gee. c 4 0 0 10- Guerin p 10 0 12- Bosnich rf 3 0-0 10 - Gray p 3 0 4 0- Three-Team Princeton League, Valley Series Well Under Way a HUT in front of Herr Kozak's '■' (or Maestro's) office post a cocky runt with a hooligan grin is blazing roundhouse curves through pedestrians uncivic enough to use the sidewalk, and low enough to associate With Herr K. He has the peaked cap and the hideous jumper and aU the swaggering showmanship that >s born to be pro.—and the rhythmic well-oiled motions; and we obviously don't mean Maestro, or. By and by Al. Hill's dump truck rolls up and a swarm cf effervescent youth dumps itself in; anld Waynie Aune, yesterday just one of them, but now a Bum stea'd Poppa, most maternal, tucks in his bantam chicks. Tiie ball game is on. Wonder how many of you saw it? Saw a historic preview of your future Anne's and Mullin's and Kov- ich's — and maybe Ruth's and Cobbs. For they aU were thus; and some have seen the Kovich's and the Mullin's—through larva and pupa and chrysallis-—to just plain bums. They sort out the ball games from the junk you make radio; the sport pages are an eager textbook In which they grade an easy A. They even see how their name looks in the local miss-print, and co-operate gravely in putting It there. This corner is none too hot on the contemporary version of flaming youth. Other manners other times to be sure, but there is one oil cf youth in whatever lamp it flames—or spouts—and this is the way it ought to be. This is the way our kids should be. Art.! we should be out there glorying in their glory, not only to encourage the right stuff, but man if you don't get a bang out of It for its own sake, your gizzard is ossified and you just ain't alive. A salute to these kids—and an occasional audience, please. And the big kids—big broftiers—who look after them Att'd a Brooklyn one for the public spirited papas who whine for support — until their own are. politicked with the seniors, and then find the current crop impossible. Mother, if you have one of these bug-bitten little roughnecks in your home, don't try to understand him. Just take the word of one of them grown up in its wisdom that you have a kid who's struck the oil of life. Arid go out and see him sometime. He won't admit it, but he'll be out there slaying dragons for y.DU. And maybe someday he'!! be president, of just another bum like Mullin and me. No matter, he'll LIVE. But Buddha Bush Was Just A Busher MV ]>f.i Jimmy Bush ma:.be *" never heard of Figaro, but ' I'll bet he -bares the same rot m with him in the Happy Haunting Ground. For my pal Jimmy eats ; sleeps and dreams sport, and one , look at Immy will tell you he ' can hold quite a lot of it. When , they refer'to Jmmy's class as peewee it is a mild under-state- ment. ;n fart t\ ls a b'g fib. When Jimmy is not building ' trapezes out of H°rr Kozak's | flirty sock l"ne he is buiTding j>ir castles of socko. for though he , cou'd pinch hit f«r B"ddha, he h'mself Idol'z-s Lefty Grove. The other day heaven erne to 'Jimmy and he put on his balo ai?d went tut.rn the mrun;). They murderefd our h'ro wi'h nine iiins bfore he jpt three cut, but Jimmy s<ayed on fnd cv n'ualltr fanned n'ne before unrrmintic Jhn Dealing was all wed to swil1 it <ut. The sere was 17-3 -'n f've ponderous in- nl-gs and the E gl s won Jimmy's team is the T'gers. Tigers—Fnncis if, G. Wil'am s-n 3b, W. Williamson ss, P Ic? rf. H wi t cf Northey lb, Ds- r^s'ers 2b. Sulmtich rF, S*a;k r lb Bush p. Dearing p. Eiglcs—Olsen c, Gr en lb, S r ich ss, Ceccone p_, Grant 3b, An dtrson cf, Dmri igliam 2'j Thom p^on-rf, G*r Ison If. 7m—P '. Wee Wee Standing Won Lost Pet. Heagles 2 1 .667 Auks 2 1 .667 Howls 0 2 .000 Der Manges ! Hox Wayne Aune Beagles Laura Currie ' Tigers Ron Crawford R0GKS OR ROSES FOR MEL -it But Just The Same He Will Be at the Nelson Summer Spiel In Juiy MELLOW MEL TOWRISS w.ll ™S have a problem com? thb- rocks and roses carnival at his - native queen city ot Ncilson ntxi month. Does court etique.te prescribe that the mayor apparent and queen-convener tske the negihboing carnival queen?- Maybe have to ask Mrs. Mel. It is getting to be a pansy tawn of henpecked hubbies. The ball team has to ask Mrs. Sammy can Sammy be the.r mange, Bloom has to ask Beulah and Mansfield has to consult Omak. On'y free man is Kozak, on account of he is not even on speak ng terms with himself. If I am a, goose I will rather have a gander. But m'gillicuddle wi'l solve the problem. Being very patriotic, he will consider taking the carnival queen. _ There is no doubt though about Mel going to the summer spiel, he never misses. Ea nam- ilton won the cup but he seldom- gres now. CouldDetady Hamilton is a henpecker or is it just the Nelson-Lady Hamilton story? ti Jimmy Bush, as Seen by Jimmy Bush_ A**&*i 42 6 11 27 5 4 TONASKET AB R H PO A E School Playground is being put in shape, providing downtown playing field. Front triangle will be planted In grass . * ' Why, Here Is Our Uncle Sammy 43 11 8 27 14 4 Short score Princeton— 021 200 200—6 ? 4 /Tonwsket —301 210 40x-ll 8 4 Tonasket—Farmer and Freel. Summary Doubles—Princeton I, Tonasket 1; triples—Tonasket 2; double plays—Tonasket 1: stolen bases—Princeton 2- Tonasket 3; walks off Guerin 1, Farmer 1. Vesser 2; hit by pitcher Guerin 2; wild pitch; iSuerin 2; winning i>itcher Farmer.loser Gray. R<3* HI Homer Hitting Hurler Helps Mtn a Kids Win A home-run hitting pitcher who fanned nine of the twelve "men" to face him should draw a 'oGk from Stengun Schisler; if Mrs. S-mmy doesn't object. Meamyhile the little Lemon —Bill Sieback—gave Copper Mt a 10-K win almost single handed over Pr'ncetnn as the juveniles pried the lid off the inter-c* series at Tombstone Park Wednesday. Even sp he didn't finish. Ceccon ?lso wh'ft'ed nine but good pitching was spoilt by <' k'lJs making more errors than Pappy Dionne. Do like Waynie Aun,e says, lads, not like he does Priiceicn — 020 204 0—8 7 8 Copper Mtn. —200 044 J-10 8 5 Copper Mt.—Dinsdale, ss; Sieback P, 3b; Kopola rf; Swed- burg, cf; Boudreau, If, p; Gordon, p, rf; Byer, 2b; Bicker, lb; Sautter, c. Princeton—Thompson, rf; Sar- ich ss; Green 3b; Olsen c; Grant If; Bowen, lb; Garrison 2b; Anderson cf; Ceccon p; Jones p. Peewee League Brewster 9, Princeton 3 Box score PRINCETON AB R H PO A E Anderson If .... 4 Kovich ss 4 Nishihara 2 Aune 2b 1 K- Thomas rf .. 1 Harman cf ._. 4 Mullin 3b 4 0 0 Bosnich c 3 Grav p 3 C Harmnan p 1 Ceccon p 1 . 31 3 4 24 6 5 BREWSTER AB R H PO A E yKi, 38 9 9 27 10 2 Short score . Princeton — 000 010 002—3 6 5 Brewster — 204 201 00-—9 10 2 PRINCETON has giong a. three team juvenile baseball league | It is p!anned later to stage a I Similkameen champonship ser- I ies among teams from aH towns in ihe Valley. A Some Most3 k LONGEST WIN STREAK — Giants. 1919, 23. k STRIKEOUTS—Bob Feller, 350 • HOME RUNS—Babe Ruth, 60 • SERIES WINS—Gomez, 6. k ERRORS—Harry Truman. • MOST STRIKES: Dockers. k QUINTUPLE PLAY— Donne. k FASTEST GAME—1 hr. 25 min Cubs vs. Tigers. Oct. 14, 1908. k FIRST PRO TEAM— Cincinnati Reds 1869. Top pay $1400. Summary Brewster—Kifer and Nelson. Double plays, Nishihara to Ko vich, Kovich to Nishihara to Nishihara; Brewster 2; walks off Gray 4, off Harman 4, off. Kifer 1; struck out by Gray 4, Harman 4. Kifer 9; hit batsman Kifer 1; losing pitcher Gray. Hedley Youngsters Keep Torch Alight —*— UEDLEY may be in the sp rt " doldrums hese days but the sons of the old gl.dUtor, can sti I play baU. Thy were ju t pipped 11-14 by Princeton H >wks in a dan y e m: at the eld Hedely park H d ey — An sen c, B ale p, C;lderoni cf, L^we lb, Hudgscn 2b, Bromley ss, C owther If, Walters rf, McLaren 3b, p. P.in .etin—Penny S", Smith 3i Franc's rf, GUIs c, N r h y lb, Lw n If.JFicfer n. M-Kenziy if Stalk'r p, C:u Ins 2b. Princeton —215 004 2—14 lfil 6 Hedley — 320 230 1—11 11 6 Noreen Said ________ And Swept The House to THERE was a foreignertn Mel's house as the mixed bonspiei opened Tuesday nisrh*i_i7N has a Pacific pact with Noreen, whose chubby hubby also gave Pap a heave. Noreen contributed an "O" with every thr-o and a double 'O' in the eighth when she slipped through the Darned L's, while Joyce rejoiced, to double U, Fred. But it was Pap's toss in the tenth which sunk the Admirable of the White she fleet. Both Pap and Noreen had n-ice sweaters, though Noreen's got all the attention. And fooey on your new score bores, says pte. m'g. Mac, with rare tutorial skiil (but he's no marm, Fairley) finally made the dim bulb glow, but m'g still insists you need your log tables and a Chinese interpreter to unmake simple things compli&c. Seventeen teams are in the play, and they should finish this week. It. has not been decided whether Jamie (Janie since he was hostess at the ladies' 'spiel) is a man or a woe- man or a ceepee sextuplet. Just so long as the ferocious tousle- headed wide moustachioed sergeant-minor is no k-" The Ungrateful Son By Donny K. Metzler HON (Danny Ka^e) Metzler " rates a spanking. Instead he gets the Similkameen Shield. W'th kids (including Jolly Cholly) younger than himself he hald the impudence to beat his pop, ace Harry Richmond, in the process. It was a firm final, for Jimmy Mitchell (the Irish sweeper) also knocked off the experts. So susnrized wuz th° others that the losing end of the dou-. ble knockout was abandoned. Harry must w'sh the crooning Don had been abandoned too. Four games he has lost this year—two to thai disrespectful brat- of an impersonator of crooners and curlers. k CULTURED Brother Jiiu does not approve of Donald's amateur a©iiigis. "If he has to Kiit- same famous t>sra;n, Wlw . net one worth wtotte, Uke mi?" Alter all, thie sacdetory hlas a srerefety A The Unworthy Son By Prince Clayton PRINCE CLA_TON the fur- teeth, ha'r transparent, of our Nelson pal's pal Lady Ham ilton, augmented the roiled family's clown jews when he walked off w"th Earl no H's new mug in the local bunsteal. JJJost of us were quite satisfied with the Earl's old mug anyways, but (Page Twenty-Three piclase ir Post Tergum This information Is not publish ed or disp'ayed by Mrs. Sehsler, manager of the henpecked manager, Samuwel Stengun Cueball Schisler, or his heirs apparent INTERNATIONAL ALL STAR I or unapparent. Screwball, Eight, baseball game is planned for ' ball and Snowball, substitutes Princeton Sunday, 1st July. anld solicitors. ************************************************ ************************************************- ??T ■ UK-: PAGE TWO- *THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C FRIDAY, 11th MAY, 1951 y \ CURLING From Page One 'VWVVVVVVVVAAA'VVVVVVVVVVVWVVVVWVVVVVV. them scirlers is a arlstobatic sept — witness the McScMsler tartar. Invaders from Copper Mtn. (south of the Cheesrots) civil- warred for the Day trophy with sp i.s to Kiiby JjlV-lson of the MSausages haggised the night cup). A Dumfreissman with a traitor name of Richmond (nee puir mon) won the grand challenge. Mel also currrrled. SPORTLORE ~ From Page One a great competitor, would play at any hour for the first man to .ask total. t",*» The affront only spurned the .■W-iSh wairirto-ls. Of course they lost,- but evemy man played all over the field. So iefMjjaM Cher- llU Luxon, storming down the right wing, was duty tack-ffd by 'tept-haifjn'f Bortfh. went dcwm, WORLD SEltjtOUS Kozak vs. Mansfield; Osmak vs. Coolies by a Damsite . RELIANCE SERVICES - PRINCETON. FOR EFFICIENCY tt US&SA^ and Char-e stayed!. Doc PMUips tolamfad m'g _<r Charlie's Buim kniee, tout whe:(e does 'he think m'g got has hArp_i. picking pansies? That' was the only time the B'.;ketium horde evaf cheered for a "Princeton" team. Burt mot Jerry. He stoutly main *jJni£?d that anyone who won that ouip—sveift a, half Biafctfourn team—shad to foe_t Biaksiburn for it. As a fccfc it is questionable if even that would h_vs done it. Ocfjper Mbn. were legally Idinmpiicns once—tout they never :siw the tup. Nobody has since |Blskei-urn. won it ths fi st y?ar; and v:ry ftw Blakebum folk. That WI3S the tenacity of thosa- valiant days, when every writB!- up m'ant a blow-up. k RAB MITCHELL recalls the infamous bald headed beagles who shocked the sacrimonlou* hypocrites of Penticton one sal- I ubrious Sabbath. Those were j the dreich depression days and the whole team went in for an economy baldy cut—probably at I Garrison's liver barn, with the 1 hoarse clippers. Surely it was nae bother to "kick it with your head I man" and Fairley wouftl qualify without paying union dues. I Rab—who incidentally played at 60—swears m'gillicuddle was included in, his hardwood jungle as bare as a baby's sitter. He does( remember that proud (but dis-' illusioned) parents had the mighty mane in long goltden ringlets down to the cuffs of his daipers. 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ESTIMATES FREE — Moore's Upholstery Leave orders at ALLENBY STORE SERVING ALLENBY'S NEEDS mmm store JOHN KASSA, ■PtrtOiprietlO-' Groceries, Provision., Dry Good- Hardware Fresh Vegetables, Ices • STAR ADS PAY e&s&i^e&es33s£83 DEPOT LUNCH Fine Food Swift Service Smooth Surroundings AT PRINCETON BUS DEPOT VERMILION AVE. P^ -*TrT'! I* bf^'-r -ll -.a«; :.TJ. 4 . CAPITOL THEATRE j * FOR THE LATEST * $ CAPITAL PICTURES $ $ Eevery Week Night £ ************y********-*\ • THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR * CAMERON'S GROCERY i k The Modem store PHONE 1ST $ SEE OUR AD * Fifty-First Year; No. 14— PRINCETON, B.C. FRIDAY, 11th MAY, 1951 5c per Copy; $2.00 p«r Y*«r Similkameen Greets Fishing and Ihe Fishermen , ************************* BIG HAULS AS SEAS0N0PENS Alleyne and Crater Hot; Visitors Influx Starts; Kids' Turn 1st June THE fishing is good. Reports of big hauls quickly made sent the season off to a good start. Alleyne and Crater Lakes pro. vide the best news so far. Snow an'd bald roads still bar remoter lakes. Check the Star creeks. Streams open 1st June. Then watch the kids go to town on the Chart. FISH AND TOURIST RUN IS HEAVY CISHING SEASON is under way * in Sunny Similkameen, anfl already they are packing them in—the fish and the tourist fish, ermen. This land of a thousand moun tain lakes is rapidly becoming a mecca for Waltonians, especially those in that unfortunate little protectorate beween the empires of cold snow and hot tomales. A generous stocking and science program is developing the potential of our heritage, with an able assist from enterprising rod anld gun dubs, with improved* roads and local amenities sup plementing our attractions of climate and scenery, and warm frontier hospitality. Regulars and repeaters are a healthy indication and summer villas are appearing. Local patronage is as avid as ever—and they get their share. A kid with a couple of hours at a creek can produce a string that makes most visitors' mouths water. Some of the lakes are not sc easy to get at; some of the country is rugged ai><t snow Ues late. Generally speaking, visitors are advised to stick to the One Mile chain unless accompanied. For up to the minute information look up cheerful T. O. Lessard. Free maps and interest, ing Similkameen lore gladly supplied to our visitors at The Star. tt . Close The Gate Or You'll Get The Gate WHEN we wuz kids, it happened to us too, T. O., only it was at the swimmin' "hole. Just the same, if you guys with the swell cars (and what goes with them) want to close the 'best fishing hole in these parts, just keep on acting worse than the kids. And meantime remem. ber in your Now In Lay Me's T. O. and his boys, who saved you from getting the gate this time. It's the oM story. The road, to Crater Lake lies through private property, and the meanie who owns it is unreasonable enough to ask trespassers to dose the gate. This car didnt; it didn't, even open it, so how could It? It just barged through. So T. O. and his good little fairies (NOT Prosser) went out and fixed it. We got a better idea, T. O. The Angel Gabriel is a gate keep er of renown. Donna would look quite becoming in a white night shirt, waving a baton of Vienna Twist. * -- Princeton Fly For Kamloops Trout —tt— SIMILKAMEEN, cradle of the Rocky Mountain s(t_rflsh and the Olalla nature-lax, has come up with a new fly- Entymologists are uninterested; biologists only renuo|tely by association, but Ray Bombard says It's a honey. T. O. is foster-father'ng it by the hundred and schools of poor fish of both species are giving «t such a p'ay that Joey StaHn is bound to wake up tomorrow and dec;de to pre-discov>er fit yesterday. Ceccidomylidae PrincesssUp- overme ac Lessard is beautiful but dumb- It has no reproductive pianos, a uniform sex sus- piciouly shemade.' It has neither button nor zipper. It can't cvon fly a ruddy stroke. But brother, if, gets around. D.D.T. won't prevail aga~'ns|t it, there is no getting rid of it; indeed, strong men would fight for it, who worsh'p it like a winged deity. It turns men's heads with a siren ph'osophy that again intrigues uncle Joe; but from crown gear to ventri- ,(Pft_e TWENTY, Please) To Princeton ************************ i 0LAHOWYA! If your visit i to Sunny Sim. Ikameen had been 70 years svne, I you hafl had the same warm genuine frontier welcome. But instead of skimming highway or silver plane or trusty train you would have come by burrow, pack-horse or shanks's pony—to the trail town At any of the perlod'c cabins you were welcome to shelter, firewood, blankets, grub—aU for free and help yourself, contingent only on the hill code of honor and necessity. If you had a luxury shirt you had better watch It, for the Indian' ferryman Shlawalakan hat- his ways. Accommodat-'on to-day is as appropriate in the transition from trail terminus to h'ghway hub, add you had still better watch your shirt with guys like Jake about, but the old hill hospitality makes this bonny, busy town a refreshing pause as gateway to Interior British Columbia and Washington State, a popular all-weather playground. 190 air miles from Vancouver and 30 from the International Boundary A land of hill anfl stream and vale, it is a geographical junction; blessed with varied resources, an Inland empire in it- own right. It is a fascinating compound of o'd and new. Pre-Hudson's (Page TWENTY, Please) Siren Similkameen Extends Her Lure U* NUKE the old lady, in the shoe, Princeton has tn tourists she dreamed of with the opening of the road: so mam are coming into Princeton th_" she can't accommodate them a.n, but she knows what to do, an,' there are. more and more camps and attractions. But though still stifled. Similkameen as a tourist mecca has definitelv arrived. Princeton's streets were aiwayr vexed, but now even aboreinais have to aoplv to gauleiter Koz'K at the post office for a permit' to cross Bridge Street, and i. vou don't yote CCF it's just too bad. If vou co-ected licence Busy Tourist Season Foreseen Here TOURIST trade has them busy. It was uuite an event w! old Eld Burr ventured the first "tourist nark" amour the pine.r below the hospital hill- Now we are seven and still gojng strong A new nark with four cabins and gas station and refreshment room is now. thriving just below the Similkameen bridge, and two Vancouver men are to nut un a 21-cabin camp ouposite the Pines Motel. The new proprietors of rb.e swimming nool oronose tc I go ahead with a larffe auto camp alongside. Out Three Brothers nark, says rosv-faced ra.neer Harrv Bfivr? (not of the Brooklvn boids). the ■.*************************i *• * * ______ —- £ AL DUNCAN, Copper Mtn. ************************ ■ Nature - Plus Men - Make Fishin' Hole 1951's Best Fish 121b. SCAN, Coppi Crater Lake, mid-May T. O. ********** STAR Anglers*1 GUIDE ********** LESSARD, IDITOR Lakes open 1st May. Streams open 1-t June. A thousand yean ago, more or « less by Dr. Johnson, inflation time, there was a lake back of Cold water Meadows. There were doubtless strange fish in it, maybe hydra - headed O.C.F. pterodactyls. But your map won't show any fish; not even any lake, unless you have a very recent one. Oh, but there is one, and fish too. It's a synthetic, man-made lake, and they're almost synthetic fish. Ten years ago, T. O. Lessard and other local angling enthus. iasts went up with saws and shovels and with their own hand- plus an assist from Isaao Newton's law of gravity gave a break to the apostles of Isaac Walton, the god of anglers. They built a dam, turned the creek, and presto, there was the lake where it used to was a thousand years ago, more or less, by Dr. Johnson's time. They had made a lake, so they had to make a name for it. They called it Jameson Lake. It was in the stamping grounds of old Jim Jameson who not far LAKES — (40). jDrive In via SB. Kamloops arUd Eastern Brook trout.. FHes Recommended — Black Gnat, Lioness, Princeton, Coach- m_n, Blue Upright, Kerry Special, BuoktaU. HOPE ROAD Too early yet—can't get in. LIGHTNING LAKES (mil*, from Princeton: 40) Three mile -Mice; hl'igfoiwaiy tx- oalleinit, some snow on iMtfi. Small but very good, NICOMEN LAKE— (SO) Effort mile Mice from old -taaiaor Camp. Hard going but worth it; a little early yet. TULAMEEN Too early vet—can't, get in. HEAR LAKE— (25) Flour n_J» bike. BOSS LAKE— (47) DB'rve In- One Mile route out, via Coal. mont recommended. Plenty, 3 to 5 lb and ve>-v game. PIKE MT. LAKES (40) Drive In One Mile or Coalmont roads, short hike. Good about July. Stocked three years ago, now fair game. HARVEY HALL Sc ROBINSON nlates vou couM outsine Sing- I tourists are beginning to trickle. (rom there sboi a0>m a deer j cton ®tem_en's. Thiey're yledlne Sine, and T. O-'s toll book —ro I and the concession is bus keeps a visitors' register — will save Saint Pete a lot of writer's cramps, for the other (and infer ior) paradise could hardly be more popular than Similkameen ■ ig getting to be. Mind, T. O. admits it's a bit of a racket, for if every sucker wh" went fishing got just one fish- though f arilit e« v>IP i*ot be read-? for the real rush till next vea>- (he savs) there iust wouldn't be enough fish in the Pacific Ocean to go round. Bui manv have such a c time thev quite forget thev came (Page TWENTY, Please) which kicked up an outcropping fish. and so discovered Copper Mtn. ' ..And—you gessed it—T. O. snd tne boys planted fish fry; and in what was dry land, right now fishin's good! * ROD AND GUN CLUBS are active at Princeton, Copper Mountain and Nickel Plate, OsPftfV L. ASPEN GROVE (All via One Mite) Easily accessible, advised in early season.' CRATER— (42). Drive in. 1 ' Good catches, fair size right along. ALLEYNE—(42). Drive in. ' Twelve pounder taken Sunday POTHOLE— (46). Drive In. ' Beware gumbo hill — get out, when rain threatens. Some big fish but too risky. ONE MILE HORNET—.(22). Road bad from Lewarfl cabin, but good trail, one mile. They go for Blue Upright Just now. KANE VALLEY—Series of six pretty lakes. Drive in but road tough, dive iMILE uoacl now restored. j—jm_ i_v__—tsssr. ixrive in. * air to good. CHAIN—(»7) Dl-W in* Gooa and improving. OS_lt__—un). Drive It- Good and improving. Cabins at Osprey; g_i'd'>3 to Chain. TEPEE LAKES — (40). 6ftM- mUie hate. Fair to good. Guide, pack-homaeis, cabin* and boats available. CREEKS Still a little high, and roll-, lishiaibAe amid f _H of sport. Moat popular wM_ the bent pin artists of tfoia junior fraternity and. the closer lones get the heavy run. Job here for a Junior T.O. Fishing Such Is A ^^ :er s Lrame; —*— THERE is more fish in the C PR as ever came out, anfl aU of them are suckers. Mackerel M'Erskine, who modelled^ for the new sensation, the Princeton Fly, is much disgruntled; thought it would be fitted-with that suffra-jet engine worth $9000 that our cherubic salesman couldn't sell for $500 bucks the time he heated the crankcase oil on Frau Er- skine's kitchen /range, with Mort Jr. dunking doughnut* (Page TWENTY, please) ■*************.**********» I IJ i * I * * I* * * * * * * * * * * * • k i * • i • * * * * *- I a- The Six Commandments Of The Hills it 1. Always take plenty of ammo; matches; compass; map (*); k-rations. (**) 2- When you are lost, accept it. Don't panic. 3. Pick the nearest good spot and sit Ught. (*•*) 4. If you do move, leave plenty of signs. Remember you will be looked for. 5. When contacted DON'T BUDGE. Your searchers know where they are and you don't. They -have also found where you are—if you stay there. 6. Don't kid yourself. If you lack facts forget the hunches. (*) Free mafljs for hunt- lers, lotf "Princeton) environs at The Star. (**) A Miqndie also comes in handy. ' ("•) *lf bored, write en epic poem on infinity. ************************ -_£-i-y-_£__i__ii — : ^^*" r*-^. .GE SIX- * THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C. FRIDAY, 11th MAY, 1051 FISHINGTHRILLS K5RYOU '-MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IMIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII11IIIIII11IIIIIIIHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII - SPORTSMEN'S SUPPLIES EVERYTHING FOR THE ANGLER HARDWARE—HOME FURNISHINGS SPORTING GOODS if FISHING AND CAMPING SUPPLIES A-L. WHITE'S | j BRIDGE ST. PRINCETON 47 § iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniimtHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiniiiimiiiih?- n i_, Ti ii 1 lli »ii ■■■ ■_■ _li i_i iftn i«i ■_■ ifc ifc _*i i-w _*i1f_l mtn il-t rr 1 -i- r ■•*- >»*»*»)f>*)M-***»»******»»»^^^ SIGNS NO FISHING NO TRESPASS AND AS REQUIRED at— THE STAR and Superlative Skiers For all Seasons and all Occasions, Princeton's Pioneer store offers superlative quality in Groceries, Hardware, Clothing, Footwear, Camping and Prospecting Supplies F? P. Cook Estate SINCE 18 NUMBER FISHING & TOURIST SECTION V*********************** t*^**+**********A-******^****Mlt********** **** FISHING TACKLE I SPORTS GOODS ♦ PRINCETON ELECTRIC — MR. & MRS. H» SCOVIL — SOUVENIRS SPORTS GOODS ELECTRICAL GOODS BRIDGE ST., PRINCETON—PHONE 124 The BIG Ones Are Here . . They oon'l get away a„d our scales are no fish scales . : FRISH & CURED Princeton Meat Mki BRIDGE ST. — PHONE 100 FOR A PERFEGT TRIP Have Your Car Checked and Serviced at Highway Motors SIMILKAMEEN'S MOST MODERN OARAGE POST OFFICE CORNER PHONE r-o-i Eg^cg33£m&cm$-3: k l WILD LIFE I1EEDS THE PROTECTlfE COVER Of CREEn FORESTS;!? BE CflREFffkUJITK FIRE intiMoo-s CAMERON'S GROCERY PICNIC MEATS- FRUITS VEGETABLES, DRINKS ICES;* ETC. When You Tire Of Fish Try BLOOM'S MEAT BALLS • Quality Meat Mkt. • BRIDGE ST., PHONE 21 TWO RIVERS Lumber & Building Supplies, Ltd. BRIDGE at HAROLD — PRINCETON 171 i WWYV-' WVVWaWWVa^WWWWMWjWWtfWVWWtfV^tfWWWW. I rW-WWt-_«W_V_VWVWfl_VW_%VWWWSA-V_^ !_«-■_■_■_■„■. SAVE ON SPORTS GOODS —Exceptional 1 Bargains—Investigate Them— Hamiltons Second Hand Store BRIDGE STREET, PRINCETON ■ ■ g ■ ■ ■.' ■ ■ B IBHffl \&****~^fl*K»~lJtft-*<»*^lf+^'rf^^ «^Va-W~W^VaHt Sports Headquarters HUNTING INFORMATION FISHING NOW OPEN I ;■ The sport Shop in the Princeton Billiard Hall, with a Nice Assortment of Hunting and Fishing Equipment RODS — Fibre Glass, Bamboo, Telescope and Casting Rods REELS — English and French Spinning Reels, Fly and Level Wind and Automatic. 6UTBOARD — Neptune, 1 1-2 h.p.; weighs only 171b. FLIES — A very good assortment, and special tied flies. BOAT TOTE — A one-man boat loader,loads from side of car. ter of auto. STREAMHOPPER — Fishing rod carrier, fastens to rain gut NETS — Small and large Trout Nets. Gaff Hooks, Fishing Creels, Haversacks, Steelhead and Pheasant Bags. FLATFISH — Sizes 4 to 7. Also many kinds of Lures, Tee Spoons, etc. BINOCULARS — Four power- PLASTIC FLOATS — A Float that makes your fly float on top of the water. AIR BEDS — English and American air mattresses. SLEEPING BAGS — All sizes and weights; all down-filled. TENTS — Palmetto Umbrella Tents; sizes 8' x 10' and 9' x 11'. ALSO Line Driers, Rod Cases, etc. fljff DE-LIARS — Weighs and measures your fish, no guess work. AMMUNITION, HUNTING KNIVES, GUNS. — HUNTING AND FISHING LICENCES SOLD HERE - Snort Shoo Closes 5:30 n.m. Week Daus: 8:30 Saturdaus: Closed Thursdays. m PRINCETON BILLIARD HALL & SPORT S! FISHING GEAR GRUB TOGS i Oamping and Picnicing Supplies COSMOPOLITAN RED & WHITE Handy to the Station:::Phone Princeton 85 T- O LESSARD, Manager PRINCETON, B.C. IB a a FISHING GEAR Everything for the Outdoors GENERAL HARD WARE;, BUILDING SUPPLIES HOME FURNISHINGS JOHN EWART HARDWARE, LTD. BRIDGE ST., PRINCETON—PHONE 80 ,4/em %e+>J\/*~*e+Jtf***+tT\f %mej^emem*jf/*»«*e»^ft» »W^r- >W^»<>^n.M^>»ilia^>»iM^'"W^» *m*ft/**'%e*\fl/****<Afst. ■ ■ — ^—- ^^^^^— - - ■■:; t********************* I CAPITOL THEATRE * * FOR THE LATEST * * CAPITAL PICTURES J _ Eevery Week Night $ ********************-*x He THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR PRINCETON, FRIDAY, 11th MAY, 1961 **************** **** »a * CAMERON'S SkOCERY f * Tha Modem store * PHONE 1*1 $ SEE OUR A£> I ********************** Sc per Copy; $2.00 per Y**r k OLE Johannsen settle)- down in Princeton. He married a Canadian girl, he won the Canadian ski championship. He decided to take out naturalization papers, for- as you will have gathered, Ole came from Ireland. His sponsor reminded him he would have to read English. "Oh yah," Ole reassured him. The test was a dismal failure. They brought out the Bible (if anyone doubts there was one in Prince, ton, it was swiped from an Indian mission) "Ote," the sponsor reproved, "you told me you could read." "Oh yah, I read. I read funny papers and ski news in Star, but this stuff I never hear before." • • * ir AS everybody known, Ofe vork for de ra lvay. But how Ole come to vork for de raiivay is not so veil knowed at alt Ole come from Sveden to wisit broder Sven. Boat she stop at Dublin, an' ven she go dere on de varf 0>e see little voman vave Ike hell. By yiminy. tink Ole, she miss boat. So Ole yump over an' grab her. ' _>on't to vorry," say Ole, "ve still make it. I bane shi yomper, in two yomp ve make it." But little voman yust for say goon bye, so now Ole have to marry. In Montreal take train for Princeton, and night for sleep in second-storey bed. Ole bane tired, big fella, 250 pund, sleep like hell, snore like hell. Vife bane Uttle fella. 100 pund. And ven Ole snore like hell, v'fe she kick like hell, kick Ole out de bunk. Tirteen time Ole hit de ground, make bump loud like hell. Twel' time O'e cl mb back, Ole don' mind. But tirteen she bane onlocky nomber Tirteen' time feller in noder bonk she raise hell wit' Ole. Ra lway, she raise hell with Ole. Fine fifty dollar. Vife, she take Ole's money, run avay wit' nofler feller. So Ole got to vork for ra'lvay- Anyvay. everybody vork for CJP.R. But not too long. Von day Ole vork in tunnel, also Nels and Yonny. Train come fast like hell. Nels yomp, Yonny yomp. By'n bye Nels, Yonny holler on Ole. look for Ole, two tree hour. By'n bye find belt bockle. v'te hair. Den Nels say to Yonny, "By yiminy maybe sometin' done happen t0 Ole." Skoll! . • • • k LANGWICH—When you call your wife a hussy, it is to b« hoped you are in a mood duly atfectionate Language is an interesting animal. So too no doubt is a hussy. But the pointj is, both are capable of amazing juxtapositions — meaning what th«-y don't say. If you want an interesting evening, try, ■ after the fashion of Omar, a book on etymology and a couple of hussies. Personally, I 1 ke the bock, sl'm and the broads otherwise; and if you have an intellect like Fairley's you can dispense w th erudition for plain (but not unvarnished perdition. But to get back to our own brand of academic hussy. You'd really be flattering the little flamingo, you know. My substantiation is the Edinburgh Burgh record of 1530, which decrees in trade-union tenets of the times that no servant shall mak' claithes (garments to the untwashed) other than their masteris' and husseis'. And Da foe compliments 'so good a hussy The Edinburgh edict, no doubt includes union suits. By 1641, however. Trapp con'fl Wilte of 'this worthless hussy- concubine' to Edward IIP. the inference being that, it does not ' take long for a housewife to become a hussy, or vice versa. So words change aad times change, and I would not. try it on the l'ttle flamingo, for you can take it from Fairley that even in Edinburgh hussies have changed, but are stlU more interest'ng than etymological. • • * • SANDWICH—It is intriguing but somewhat distressing to ie- lalize that so univeral amd infinite an adable as tihe sandwich is a neCative infant in tine long sllcein 'Otf so-aMed c'vflization. To think tfhat 200 years ago must of us would have starved.— tot after aU, you can't eat the o'.Sher ha'f of worldly witch.. Like Eve, itlhls ©astronomical counterpart had its origiai in evil A oerta'n guy who lived 1718- 92 _t Sandwich, a then, unfamous ham-let in merrie (?) England was- a hit of a bounder end alf that, so they duly made h'm an eaitt (hew con-mstag to have to call so many Ear1!), •i-his honorable Hanoverian was a truo> son of emp:ipe. He eamjeld and sj'imWed overtime. He contrived to dispense with sleep trot (Rage EIGHTEEN pieasleO AMBER MAKES CLEANSWEEP It Used to Be Honors; Now It's Officers; Laura In As Shamus Out, Cheer, MEW BROOMS sweep clean and " the new Amber has swept itself out again. For twenty years the only change was" that Pop was serving the 19th year of his life sentence instead of his 18th. Then Pop as inevitable finally offended himself and quit and the young progressives took over under J- Moses Fitzailin, swept everything but the traditional monopoly of honors, arid finally themselves. Jim fell in love with a wench, Jake with a wrench, Denny with a gob-stick and Colin with himself .leaving Laura and Flaura, who don't love nobody, to carry on. Annual meeting hung out a whole .wash, including shemale- Monsieur Davies, in his new passion, insists his tenancy in the treasury is pro tempore, but if that means till he masters the middle register he'll make Pop look like a rookie. President—George Kassa. Vice-President;—Tommy M'Her Secretary—Laura Allin/,.,! Treasurer—Dennv Davies. j Executive — Colin Cameron, Eric Jacobsen, Jimmy Allin, Andy Kassa, Mrs. J. E. Ray. * LIKE KING LOUISE THE FOURTEETH THE FALL OF THE P0USE OF SHAMES AMBER GALLERY OF SKI SPORT STARS—Plus Ray [AMBER WILL WUMPT0IT Sinfunny in A Flat With Accompaniment by DLLULLANELLY XZKQZLLY DAVIES; Doctor of Musick Tune—St. Dennis ' Plctographs by Jake —• DR. DAVIS T_E new order in Amber just 1 wasn't new enough. For 20 years Pop was president and pooh bah and Po(o)p and poten late and never lost his amateur standing in diplomacy- Last year Pop hauled up the anchor and retired to the Poop deck to grumble indepedently and the-new odor in Amber was hatched. With Shamus Fitz Allin as Pilate and a brains trust of bright young boys on the bridge. Amber went progressive, even unto incorporation, and a long heirarchy of Emperor Allin appeared to have set in. With advantage of higher education, he knew nastier words than Pop, and soon had the C-AS.C. as docile as Pop's beloved bottom- ups. With cousin Joey he worked, out a five year plan for the improvement of the big hill and the beautfication of the little shi- belles, with which latter his pal m'gillicuddle was in entire accord KING JAMES THE SICK He then (a) annihilated the Helks to make way for the Hea- gles (b) banished Squire Mathe- son (c) lost his memory by drop ping a truck on it and (d) bartered his clarinet for a wench. Dimpled Denny Davis transferred his infections to the gob- ess of bubble and squeak;m' gil- licuddle gave bed and board to the black sister witch Fitz Allin •had deserted and together they essayed a suet. I Love You Schulli in 57 variations, none of-'em in tune. Down came the walls of Jim&Co. It was the end oi Emperor Allin and darn near oi Amber. Jake promptly hit J1»_J up for the. five bucks he had for gotten to remember and Colin M'Co'ic. that Campbell in the <iamp o' the Camerons, thought Killiecrankie was reversed and scooted to the Sassenachs, leaving only Princeses Flora and Laura, plus Denny and his Welch rarebit, which if you will eliminate the latter and substitute the dowager empress Ethel, suits "'this courting chronicler well enough. AH in A''in? THE KINK IS DOWN! ALLAN WANTS RECORD BACK A LLAN RINES, 18 year old local ** youngster, who helfl the big h 11 record until internationally famed Arnfin Bergman bettered it, means to get it back again. Allan was the b>g disappoint-, ment last season. He has a heart as big as his chest when on the scaffold, but just must put in more solid work. And now the big chested boy who breaks records—and sk's— has a /whole forest of 'em—he has gone to work in a log camp. Streamlined Tourney Plan; But Hard Work Needed In Comeback Climb w Laura Brings Light —s,—^^^ J'm on His Hi Horse LONG LIVE THE PRINCEXX Now Billy Is His Own Boss * BILLY IRWIN is running his own ski resort outside Fort William, doing a lot of ski-ing (*) That's what ou think. Bill is married now. Vancouverites Find Ours A Ski Bargain it yANCOUVER ski-ers have * started trekking up to Prinae ton for their Sunday sport. Th's was the prediction when the highway opened and our skre- sources got bruited about. Vancouer ski grounds are some what inaccessible and the weather prospects uncertain and there has been a steady trek to the reliable Washington h'Us. Top of the Parade, our pal Laura, only thing we have agin her is Jimmy, which calls for more pity f'han anger. La.ura went like a shUfire early season, came down with hay fever and missed boat to Olympics. Now another woman has took pity, on Jim, Laura will mother the gajig as secretary Roughneck alongide >s our pal Allan TJ- Rines- possessor of of two chests and two swell sisters, including my darling . Isobei, Turn, Allan | to ttoe wajl till he . jumps like he ought ] to was The two mugs ' .witch admits to the maps of Yorkshire and Pudding is John (Junior) Flea Ray and Dandy Andy Kassa-Andy is a nice bloke, just too nice to w'n the easv way amongst this bunch of owlhoots. Johnny can qualify all right. He swept 0ut of the juniors as the boy wonder and made | the Olympic short I list. Wonder what he ' could do if he ever gets serious? Quite a promoter, too, but careless of his dates. Now we come to a 'trio of old-timers, I Bertie and BUHe Ir. I win and Noe (no 1) Paul. In the tandem j *intvpe Bertie is the j dark one. So is Billy Irwiri boys went to j t>e '48 Olympics and Noel was spare AU I three tried a great comeback and just failed. Looking four vears hence, their illustrious histories may as well be considered closed. Missing: my darlings Ethel and Flaura. SKINONDRUM Why is Bertie like the Prime Minister? —He has a cabinet full of mugs it k it WHOLE HOG IMPORTS . Most every year Norwegian skiers put on an exhibition in London. They bring a boat load of skiers, and, in refrigerated holds, their own snow. The first Vancouver pilgrims came early in December. Verdict: "more ski-ing in two hours than we would get in a week- i end at home." > FOR PRINCETON PRINCETON'S high Olympic * ski hopes have fallen flat. Last time this little ski nursery led the world with, two on—the Irwin brothers — and a spare; and this time we had five probables. Johnny Ray and Noel Paul led off w-th somewhat surprise placings on the jump squad. Bertie Irw p made a great comeback bid in the glides.,Andy Kassa was more than eligible' and Laura Allin seemed a cinch. They were all picked for top training and w th two weeks among the stars should have been at their peak. They weren't IH luck and illness But the operative point is they were beaten- Not one Westerner made the team- The East looked good- Billv Irwin, now at Fort Wil- fanned out too. The meet was run off in a blizzard and the 'luck of the draw meant more than skill under abomnable con dions. Amberites had no luck. It is therefor now pretty certain that Princeton will have no Olympic representatives. Johnny Rav and Noel Paul were nominated for the jumps but as pointed out here it was by W means final. It <s now understood they can go if thev nay their way— and are not thinking of it. No western skier will go as a regular. exnens»s pain. It is an eastern monopoly, and, this time at least ihe easterners are ad- mittjed'jE superior. Noel missed the tr'p last time because funds did not allow taking a spare. Though his record since is hot. so good, he deserves h's second chance. Just tfp from the juniors, where he showed inconsistent brilliance, Johnny Ray has this year been cons;st- ently brilliant and If he works can be an Olympic star. In 1948 Princeton scored a shock by sending two (plus Noel as spare) to the top show. Now five have an inside track. * More Improvements Still For Fie Hill THERE'S still plenty to do on * Princeton's Big hill. A lot has been done—and the hill reel ord has c'"mbefl to 242 feet, and Olympic trials are' another reward. The hill has now beeni developed to its distance limit, say the planners but for safe long jumps the landing wUl have to be doubled to a standard 60 ft. A judging stand is needed, wail ed with mirrors, so Jimmy will know what he is doing. ITH the retirement of the new bloods who hoped to usher in "a new" aura of glory, Amber rings down the curtain "oal-T-isappointing—but far from defeatist— season. It was about tne leanest year ever for honors won. CrowiiSng disappointment, .was failure to break into the Olympic team, where once we looked good for four places. But it was-^not aH failure. It was a turj-iriy/'bit the ways. Amber and Irwin couid not be synonymous forever. The new bloods had a plan; it should be. minded that it was a long-tefjn plan. TBey are estab lishing respected relations with the ski fraternity. They got a pre-Olympic trial and a clinic. They attracted a few more outside skiers. Their publicity and relations programs will pay off increasingly. They improved the hill. A new record resulted. PRESCRIPTION-WORK From having too much done for them, they rallied well, considering. But the so'ution Is to rally better yet—work for it. Most disturbing is the lack of young stars coming up—and in- Aftermath of a fading era, it should revive, but will have to be given drive. Equally, spectator interest. The new leaders plan radical stream-lining. They may abandon the traditional tournament. Nobody watches the first three days. Consistently this analyst has urged that jump thrills win the spectators. Now Amber plans to go whole hog—scrap the old i-o_mey for ah invitation jump —without official bumbledom. They would combine it with an instructional clinic. The first one was very successful. They mustn't forget the other sides of ski-ing, but their emphasis is wise. It was too bad the invitation Jump of the Stars fell through because too hurriedly conoeived. No such reason in future. "^Disappointments of '51 were Allan Rines and Andy Kassa; get out and fight. Top honors to Johnny Ray; get serious, fellow. And a bow to Bertie Irwin for a grand comeback try. ************************ ************************ WENTY years ago a couple of kids who wanted to sk; went out and built .hemsevles a hill—abet- ^^^ ted by 'Mom' and *Pop'. _-„_, aU the kids in the community were ski-ing. abetted by 'Mom' and 'Pop'—(who soothed their bumps and patched their planks with old tobacco tins; and so AMBER was born- Twenty years later this uplands town of 2,500 reached the heights of ski fame by placing two members on Canada's Olym pic team. They were MAn's and Pop's kids; another Amber original was spare. And in the meantime . , . Amber home-brews had won almost every available honor— from - National Senior to Junior International Now one of Canada's finest —busiest and most, scenic—highways leads to .one of Canada's top ski hills,* where Amber grooms more champions and prepares to entertain Western Canada Olympic trials. Situated in picturesque hill country on the sheltered slope of the Hope range, the Amber igloo is blessed w'th ample, powdery snow, with ideal ski-sport assured almost continuously from December to March. - The roiling terrain offers ideal atmosphere, invit'ng ski trails, a ski-ers' paradise 180 miles from Vancouver, over all- weather top grade highway. Amber has in recent vears concentrated on developing these resources, now offers facil'tles for comnetit'Ve ski-sport up to C.AS.A/"standards. along with graduated courses for all skills. (Page Eighteen) k THOUGH he wears no wooC below his neck, sgt miaj|oc Fa'r- ley is chamip on slhi-er of Simil- kamc.'n—-.fter school. ■k Incidentally, the world record is around 400 feet. Last listed record is Sigmund Rriud's 324 ft ^^^^^^^^ ***i********************************************* * L ' 'STAR M ************************************************* ..iW-^isft^^^ '•• " ■ PAGE EIGHT— M_uiLE_rr • THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, RC. FRIDAY, Ilth MAY, 19S1 BABY CHICKS ORDER NOW/7 FOR CONVENIENT DELIVERY. GRANGER'S FEED & STORAGE — PRINCETON Amber Iglpo - (From Page Seven) Down its. slick 250 ftTslope the BIG HILL challenges ANY jump lover to r-e-a-c-h. It is Canada's second longest hill and relatively the safest. Alongside are GRADUATED HILLS for all skills, from beginner. The DOWNHILL was chosen CLEAN UP 11 GET RID OF THAT GARBAGE — Prompt Service — AL. HILL TRANSFER • PHONE Princeton 109Y IBB _ BUCKERFIELD'S Better •FEEDS • FERTILIZERS O SEEp {GRAINS • FARM MACHINERY • DAIRY SUPPLIES • POULTRY SUPPLIES DISTRICT AGENTS: GRANGER'S FEED & STORAGE OFFICE BRIDGE ST.. PHONE 145 ■ i m\ m '■ B _ ■ a' a H a, ■ i INSECTIDES DAIRY HELPS ETC. Buckeri'ields' Famous Lines GRANGER FEED & STORAGE BRIDBE ST., PRINCETON — PHONE 145 — Prize, Celebrated SEED POTATOES for its TOUGHNESS; challenges top skill. INTERESTING describes the I slalom run; smooth side for the less adept. 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Packing & Crating Fireproof — Mothproof OFFICE: BRIDGE ST., PHONE 145 WAREHOUSE: HOFE ROAD, NEAR TUNNEL O. B. GRANGER, Proprietor READY FOR SPRING PLANTING PLEASE ORDER EARLY PRINCETON NURSERIES ALLISON FLATS PHONE 127-K !-_ _M- rr^TZTTirz_:== — . . : -, ********************** i CAPITOL THEATRE i FOB THE LATEST % CAPITAL PICTURES i Eevery Week Night * THE SIMILKMEEN STAR ********************** I CAMERON'S GROCERY % k m k The Modem store * $ SEE OUa AD J F ft -Firs Year; No, 10— PRINCETON, B.C. FRIDAY, 11th MAY, 1951 5c per Copy; $2.00 per Y*«r • A HALF CENTURY OF SIMILKAMEEN SPORT BASEBALL FLY BALLS AND HIGHBALLS IN SIMILKAMEEN ROUND THE © HOT STOVE eh******* k Draw up and let's talk old times, hot times, in sport. . . -T BASEBALL, of course, was invented by Abner Stal.'ni, and we don't even claim that Colonel Joey Doubleday was an air marshal I in the Copper Mtn. navy. But they were playing1 ball here way back when. Actually f tba' had the jump. In the first recorded Dominion Day celebratron—at Keremeos— Similkameen out-barked Fair- view. Such ine Mentals as screes didna' fash the early scribes, who had one style for f tba', fall fairs and funerals. But baseball soon made its appearance. There were some and V;c Kyder. but a prospector could always patrol the picket line: ^t -i, Podunk pursued, a fly ball But caught it, in the eyeball And sw'Ued it with a highball. Infant prodigy of the times was Pop Erwin (so spelt.) He never started nothin' alwavs was p:cked from the crowd to fill up. and proceeded to pull a Horatio Alger. A big name challenged all comers. Pop took off boots anld socks and maybe pants too and left him in the hundred yards by half a m'le. But with or with out skis he really could run. Odd that Mom caught him. Mostly the opponents were American teams, and they could always slip in an import from .Glasgow Rangers. This tfme we wuz playing at Nighthawk. The p'tcher was awful good. I think it was Matty Christ:anson.* Pop was took out of the bleachers in the riinth and pinch-hii seven runs on a fairish bunt. * •* But baseball for all time was the fruit of the golden age of the late 20's. Up at Copper Mtn. was Jack M'LaugbUn, who liked his sport in large Moses. And the rest of the boys A buck a month club—off every statement. At that time Vancouver had no pro ball, but the city loop was a farm for the coast league and many a player wound up in the majors. Jack just hijacked the best of the lot and on a cabbage patch where you couldn't see second from the plate we had the best ball in BC.r for Princeton replied in kind. They beat the Asa.h's at their peak 1st July '29 12-1. Cec. Kimberley, Buck Buchanan, Ahie Cross, O^Grady, Schofield, Maxwell, Marsiers, Duckwitz. Ferko, Callahan. Jack Wilson, Dusty Miller, Heximer, Sleepy Williams, Jack Cole and so on. Of course the depression fanned it out. • Cross. The, pay- dollar a man a witz anM Abie roll provided a „,._ . month, and the betting-made " •for the betting k'nd. In the hub town. Doc Smith and Joe Brown didnt take It lying down and the P.A.A. levied a "voluntary" assessment of ten dollars a head and imported oo They went to the Kootenays for hockey stars. At 'he time the Kootenays were importing from Alberta, and the Kootenay stars who came here were local bush leaguers not so good as our own. But the point is there was sport—and sport enterprise. For the celebrations teams like the Asahis came up—and got licked. And there was no Hope road and it was strictly small town. Merritt had a hefty bunch of home brews like Meg Teit and the Hallinans. Revelstoke with Nels Nelson ruled the ski roost anM Kelowna was tops tn basketball. Penticton was strictly , second rate. it k * ^V OF COURSE they could beat that yet in the real old days I when the kloochmen raced their cayuses between the tall timbers , on the trail that Is now Vermil- ' Ion Avenue.. The Indians used to ,' gather from aU round for the white man's potJatches and their campfires circled the basin with enchantment on the eye. Far more partisan were the rock drilling contests which had place opposite the court house, with intense rivalry between the various camps. Brawny champions dripped rhythmic sweat and blows in their unnershirts and if they struck a niggerhead their perfervid backers were minus even that all-woolen all- weather ih'dispensible. Once a brawny Adonis swaggered in to the Jackson House to make his in the other fashion of the times—the side stake. He was a big city star making the rounds. The locals were never swere to make a buck—or to lose one if >'t meant a "sporting attraction." Many were, from Phoenix and the West Kootenay camps where they played hockey games for stakes of thousands, with special trains — which the resourceful Patricks moulded into the orginal professional tea rue. 195USchedvde Okanogan Internal. HOME Score SENIOR A • AWAY APRIL 29— __ Omak — Brewster Penticton \- Tonasktat Mansfield Coulee Dam Summerland PRINCETON MAY 4— PRINCETON Omak Tonasket Mansfie'd Coulee Dam Summerland Brewster penticton MAY 13— Penticton Summerland Mansfield Omak Brewster Coifee Dam Tonasket PRINCETON MAY 20— Cou'ee Dam - Penticton Omak Tonasket PRINCETON Mansifed Summer and -- Brewster Mr. (Thank You-) m'gillicudMJe, Dear (thank you) Sir (Oh my;) I being the wife of Ike Mullin wish to inform you that he is not 83 and believe me I'm the one that should know. (MRS.) IKE MULLIN. Dear Ikerene—Gee, you scared us. we thought it wuza bred and bored notix. Sincere aprt'ogies, i misremember now it should be 86. i should know too on accoun- tabecause Ike took my place when i retired as shortbread of the Brookmere Codgers, i fergit now, did you pick him up as a foul tip or a waste ba'l? you see i stn . make errors, this wuza tripeogastrical-one. Sorry to hear Ike is also a bad husbanM. The sympathies of the community are extended to you. ' WHO'S WHO SEN'OR * New Westminster Tops In Lacrosse MAY 27— Mansfield _ Summerland | *• —____^_ Tonasket .... Coulee Dam . THE Maiw\,Cup, symbol'c of Brewster PRINCETON I the dominion (amateur) Penticton Omak | —___ virtually tihe vorld-r-chajn- pioniship at laicrosse, Canada's GEORGE SAMUWELL STEN- GUN SCHISLER, mange. Mr- baseball here and master of / wurry (see how thin he is!) Recovered from the mothballs some folk ca' curlin' stanes fer tae fash wi' base ba's. Since this henpecked husband appears by perdition, the real credit should go to Madame Sammy. —HENRY ARCHIBALD KNIGHTON} Secretary. A very serious bloke. No cracks about him; it's no joke to be Hal; unemployed —IKE MULLIN, first base, also plays second bazooka. A Tunnel | SummerlTd Rat and a veteran. Plays basket PRINCETON BATS BLAST FARMERS Summerland 2, Princeton 8 MOVE over, Stengel, you got a ™ rival. A couple of weeks ago Princeton bar club had no man. ager. A couple of days ago the manager had no I'neup. He dld'nt know who was going to play which. He had lost, some of the oM reliables of a master-minded club which in a lower league cou^d hardly win a game 'ast rear. But Stengel Schisler. expert at worry, came out of the moth balls on the express stipulation that win. lose or draw and quarter, they wouldn't worrv HIM to tummy ulcers. So he just sent them in to sort themselves out, in the league opener, against Summerland, an old Princeton jinx, and at Summerland. And what did thev do. They just belted out 15 hits, played a t:ght field, and nothing-ball Guerin soafUltered six hits as Princeton wajtzefl to aj classic 8-2 win. There were two big factors— ihe rookie jun'ors and plenty of base hits. That's crude, but yon know Eow crude Stengel's bums can be. Now to be typically Stengel, Sammy should pull Waynie Aune, who had four for five, and shove in some . bum which ain't h>'t all last year; so how can the bum miss to hit five for four. Me. I got too much brains to win ball games. Omak on Sunday. Box score PRINCETON L.Curre, 3b . Anderson, If . Aune, 2b Nishihara, lb A.Thomas cf.. Gee. c Kovich, ss ... K-Thomas.rf .. Crawford, rf . AB R H PO A 0 1 8 6 1 10 e o l 45 8 15 27 8 1 Summerland 36 2 6 27 14 3 Battery, Jomow and Weitzel. Short score Princeton — 100 400 201-4 15 1 000 \020 000—2 e 3 Summary ball and bojvls and supports his ' Guerin fanned 10, -walked 3, brother Tear .hit one; Jumow fanned 4, walk- —TONY KOVICH. Blood brother eA z> hif one> baIk 01**- Extr* of Ike anM a Tunnel vet. A long *>ase h ts not given. shortstop of long standing. & .************************> team captain- Hoopster too. I JUNE 3— 'Coulee Dam PRINCETON Penticton Mansfie'd Brewster ..._ Tonasket Omak Summerland -BIE CROSS.** VV TWENTY YEARS AGO at this season Roy Carringlon and Billy Muir were cocking a collective snook at Bobby Mc Kinnon because Jack McLaughlin's gold plated "copper miners" had been beaten at last—somewhere near the provincial intermediate hockey finals. In those days there were the Big Three- Copper Mtn., Allenby and Prince ton. With a spor's-minded super in Ja/Jk McLaughlin and plenty of good jobs up the hill, Princeton could count it a moral vie. tory if the score missed double figures. In fact Copper Mtn. im ported Bobby McKinnon—a terrier of all sports — all the way from Princeton. But Bobby and Fesuts were class and the imports included the Huttons and Drakes and the Ferkos and Mol isky's, and on an infield where you almost had to have a periscope to see second base you had virtually the Fraser M:lls semi- pro ball club, including Duck- a->*--*-._* *i-**.*.******•»■*******.«■ More Yarns Page 11 So any rounder could count on local pride and the yen to bet a buck. But the Jackson visitor 'should have seen a glint in the accepting eye. For a broth of a kid had Just blown in to work at the drug store. It was said he could run and the effervescence of the little fellow was proof of pedigree in them frontier times- And of course Horatio Alger Johnny Campbell beat the city slicker in front of the hotel, where one of our invisible monuments dots the majestic sweep of Bridge Street. Another is to Bobby Carmichael, of the same ilk, who also graduated to Keremeos with Johnny. This sort of thing has a golden twilight and in a tavern still as the hour grows late in con- tury In ten flat. tentious reminiscence you will see exasperated octogenarians swing their crutches—and their challenges to come out and prove they can sprint the cen- Back in our favorite early 30's Charlie Armstrong, a Keremeos countryman of Bobby's—of opposite dimensions but the same spirit didn't say much. Nobody else had a chance. Till at last JUNE 10— Summerland Tonasket PRINCETON Fenlticton Omak Coulee Dam Mansfield Brewster iRNE 17— TJonasket penticton Brewster Omak Cou'ee Dam Mansfe'd PRINCETON Summerland ,TUNE 24—~ Omak PRINCETON Mansf'eld Tonasket Summerland Coulee Dam Penticton Brewster JULY 1—Open JULY 8— Summerland Penticton Omak - Mansfield PRINCETON Tonasket Coulee Dam Brewster JULY 15- Penticton Coulee Dam Mansfield :.. Princeton Tonasket Omak Brewster Summerland JULY 22— Summerland Mansfield Coulee Dam Tonasket PRINCETON Brewster Omak — Penticton the strong man from Keremeos I „.. ' -1.-J j- a.:- «.«.. tr.\A .'-—•- smashed down his flagon, tolfl Mr. Brag what he thought of his brand or versimilirade and though he was no runner and 15 years older, undertook for the applauding assemblage to answer brag in the honored Shnil-. kameen tradition. * • * Now Charlie was trucking ( considerable cargo, under due seal, of the spirit of empire to vendor at Keremeos, and it came as a sizeable shock Jo the less sporting of us to discover that he had deserted so precious a cargo — parked through the night—for the small beer of pa- lavar. Nonetheless Charlie was in the mood to be a generous and somewhat reckless host to the honor of Similkameen, and a seal is surprisingly more sentimental than- real when you try Altogether It was an expensive evening for . Charles but Cand) there were extenuating circumstances. Charlie sprawled, lost honor, stake and a considerable, yardage of skin, not to mention the value of the paper seals. cup, prize qf memorable struggles starring Newsy Lalonide, Joe Lal- ly, the Giffords and Feeniey'g The profesiiotaa- game fell away, revived for a few years', and .tihen dr'ed out. Someiw_at as to out* naltional winter sport of h/_c_ey, amateuK'sm compromised amd in the case of lacrosse Hue Minto cup died out, toeing replaced as a W1' national trophj by the Mann cup. Tims, first as. bona fide Amateur, the Maim cup has been played for every year sinloe 1910. In 1933 box-lacrosse, a sevem- main indoor game officially d>_- pliaced tihe olid 12-mian fiedd version wfhi ich is mow oniy pto/yed by a few Engisii and American collages. Boxla v/as &—successful— bd to atreaimline the spo^. and recapture pubic interest to one of .the world's moat 'tor lling sports — lake hookey, in!heriJed from the native Ind'ain_. Efteld lacrosse was planned in S'miilk-meen for _iwne years in the early part of tbe century, and the New Westminster dham- piani., masquerading as "Hcpe" cleHined up against Princeton and _ —^,-g:$. Brewster i Kererheos at a Pomindon Day TonaskeJ ..- raawoir ' tounjanueinft M Princeton about 1^16. Boxla wa_ introduced in —LAURIE CURRIE. 3rd base. A youngs'er from ChiUiwack, he looked good when he came up. —RALPH ANDERSON, right field and clean up hitter. Proof we can raise 'em. For relaxation helps Shot Hot Sammy- —KEN THOMAS- outfield. Brother of Art, but no credit to him. Last bit in 1492, but if he ever does .hit, she'll travtel A big .'un and a Meat Ball —ART THOMAS, outfield. Brother of Ken but doesn't admit it- hi +v,,„v «_: .ui. ^ , , i Home grown fleet of foot, also At that tine tihe pmtrfeissional, shows nromise as pitcher and game was to ts heyday and the1 shouM be persevered with there, Maran trophy wiais the simon-pure j counterpart ctf tihe monied Mint© natonai, -but too little homoTieH, sport, bias hcnveired evenly be- Br-iish Columtoia .and Grata/1'?©. I .One of the most bdautiiful of I tnoplh'ies—it is a solid gold bowl and coat $5000—it was doroaltied in 1910 by pioneer maMiroai-eap Sir Domlaid Mann 29- IPRINCETON Coulee Dam Mansfield Penticton Tonasket Brewster Summerland Omak /VUGUST 5— , Tonasket Summerland Penticton -- PRINCETON Coulee Dam 0ma? Brewster [Mansfield PLAYOFFS (A) 1st team vs. 4th (B) 2nd team vs. 3rd. Final—Winner A vs Winner B WORLD SERIOUS Kozak vs. Mansfield; Osmak vs. Coolies by a Damsite. School Athletes In Active Program SIMILKAMEEN school athletes are sprouting for a busy track and field season. Princeton Olympians were working out as soon as the snow went They intend to take n Okanagan meets before the valley sports, which this year are at Keremeos. 1935 but _Ka_g>h there are sKi: a flew sticks around O'K younger fry seem to be mudh rmore ' n- teraafe- in breaking itihings itlie obvious way. MANN CUP WINNERS 1910—Young Torontos Toronto. 1911—St. C_tfaartoes, Onto.' 1912-3-4—Vairacouver V.A.C. 1915-6-7—New We-tirninistiec S'bel 191J5—C_ugtola__, Vancouver. 1919—-Foundf-tlons, Victoria. 1920-5—<New Wetffr SataoaabeXfi-'- 1926—Weston, Ont. 1927—New Westm-aster ST>e_s. 1928—OWiawa Em_ietts. 1929^—Oshiawa, Ont. —OTTO GUERIN, pitcher. A conquest from Copper Mtn- A little man with a big ball- Can hit too. —DON GRAY pitcher. Showed promise as a junior and now he is at 'Varsi'y the arm should be ediv<ated lo a degree. —KEN NISHIHARA, pitcher. The veteran ex-Asahi is still mighty good anywhere, anytime, anything on a. ballfield. WAYNE AUNE, 2nd base — This kM breathes baseball and spouts fire. Most likely ever produced here to go up to big time. He has the temperament. —FRED GEE, catcher or 1st. Up from the juniors. Could be good if he would. Can hit. —CHA'RLIE HARMAN, pitcher: a youngster who is hard to figure. Has a good arm but lacks experience, —BCD WH1TEHOUSE — This young feller from AUenby promises to be a young Feller. His dad, an old catcher, has been bringing him on. Has a blazing ball that loops the loop. Needs savvy. —BILL CRAWFORD—PE, teach and k-o. keen. Utility. —BUTCH BOSNICH — catcher. A trier. Good insurance. 1930-1—Bnamptiom, Ont. 1932—Mimiico, On*. 1933—Hamilton, *Ont. 1934-6 aPio, Ont. 1937—New Wtest'r S.^monbeMies. 1938-St. Oaitiha-inie<!.. Ont. 1939—New West'r Adantact. 1940-1—St. Caittarines, Onfc. If 42—.spmdeo Brampton, Ont. 1943—New West'r SatononbeU'e*. 1944—St. Cdjthiairtaes, Ont. 1945—^vam/couves: Burrards. 1946—St. CA'.ha-ines Onft. 1947—New Wesnrntaster A<Ia_B_e 1948—St. O-'tuafSmesi On*. 1949—Viainicoiver Burnarito SISTER ETHEL Irwin has chucked her job and ^^^^^^^ _^^^^^^^^_ --____ ^ 00m'nff for some vitamin Me. ************************************************************************** This Week's Star k WAYNE AUNE, rookie keystone sacker. Hit four for f've including two doubles; drove in four runs, fielded 11 chances without error. ************************ More Improvements Stai For Big Hill THERE- still plenty to do on * Princeton's big hill. A lot has been done—and the hill record has c';mbekl to 242 feet, and Olympic trials are another reward. —The hill has now been developed to its distance limit, say the planners but for safe long jumps the landing will have to be doubled to a Standard 60 ft. A judging stand is needed, wall ed with mirrors, so Jimmy will know what he is doing. it But Bertie Won The Potato Race IN the jump Bill Irwin took ■ first, outdistancing big brother Bert, who obviously wont amount to much- Bertie however got consolation by winning- the potato race from Bill, bump distances—18 and 14 feet. By the way, this was ;n the 1-9-3-0 tournament. Both went to the last Olympics. * SKINONDRUM Why is Bertie like the Prime Minister? —He has a cabinet full of mugs mm **************************************************************************'■ Hm mm mmmmmmm iiSl WW i_lv»w- -tflttiffrnlBti. PAGE TEN— • THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C FRIDAY, 11th MAY, 19S1 t vou whow *«- =33 I ' I i 111 ^ M t_ m a ps » B M JOIN THE GAME CLUB NOW«or1951.. The Membership Dues are still only $1' 1 and if you have the lucky ticket You May Win $25, $10, $5 Draw will be made when all the stubs 1 are in m Get your membership card from anv of the following — Mrs. „. GIN, Mrs. C. V. 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At his death widely honored, a man of great power and influence. SST Unusual? Yes, in a degree, though in essence a career that can be duplicated in the ranks of thousands of Canada's leading business and professional men. In lesser degree it can be duplicated in hundreds of thousands of instances. Why tell it here? Because it illustrates one fact highly important to every young man, and every father and mother of a young man, in the Dominion. This is our opportunity system. The way is still open to every man to climb as fast and as far as he wants to go, if he has the native ability and the ambition and the will to work. There is room at the top, in our system of free enterprise. There is not_ a single large corporation in Canada that is not scanning the ranks of its younger men every day looking for the men with the drive and ambition and ability to cope with its problems. With our expanding economy there never is enough of them. For th#7young, and the parents of the young,. it is a mighty good system to cling to. B.C. FEDERATION OF TRADE & INDUSTRY Thriving Keremeos Keremeos Boaia of Trade now >oasts of 52 members. The board s active and alert and is doing good work for its community. \ Keremeos is srowlnf stead I y| ■k r. Better.... Quicker... Cheaper... STAR PRINTERS * **************** wfc- TULAMEEN CAFE ! 'UNDER NEW (MANAGEMENT' A Trial WIU Convince ■ I I -ES, this light, keen Ale from Princeton is available at last in Vancouver and at ell vendors on the lower mainland! As invigorating as it's refreshing, !'OLD DUBLIN" Is more than equal to any imported Ale. For quality ... body... and flavor, ask for—and see that you get— ••OLD DUBLIN" ALEI * m ■ Pasture Fresh MILK PICK-UP or DELIVERED ' \ j FRESH daily I Princeton Meat ! Market S^ffj? I -USE STAR CLASSIFIED ADS Photo Finishing 24-Hour Service * Enlargements k Jumbo Prints 6-8 Exposure, 35c THE STUDIO M. -. 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FRIDAY, 11th MAY, 1951 5c per Copy; $2.00 per Y*ar • A HALF CENTURY OF SIMILKAMEEN SPORT THE LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE IN THE CONFESSIONS OF THE GREAT m'gillicuddle •—- f1 When John and Katy Were The Big Pushes k NOW in the good old days we had teachers as was teachers and track meets where Greek met Greek anld didn't talk alpha beata granma. Or maybe we are just getting old and chest thumps take a glamor in the hot stove. C_'s bodkin, it's a strang- revolution that finds a naturally rebellious other ranker glorifying school master or sergeant- major, anld it must be understood that the worthiness of the old enemy is only relat've over the current ed tion of the eternal enemy. Just the same, in ro- mantids'ng a by gone glory, we find the g It (with a u) spilling on the Affleck's and the Lucases the Pi Campbells, the Gurney_ and the Stcvie Langs and Fern Floyds, which latter takes a fell p!ckle o' gilt, as they were quite b:g babes Even so, somewhere you have to squeeze in Dave ln- nis and Madge East. it k * Life Begins . . . k WHEN most of us arrived the track meat tod tafceoi aooU It was a vagrant weed, wft but luandy. We like tc think we gave it classic culture of a Ronnam rose, p'ne that It has. run to florid pamsy-inielss, witihi only a nostalgic Oiynip&c atffcctatlono of Alfie beata gnamima. .This _> go: ng farther hack than When and where, but when Jdhn J*_kfa_> wient to school there was a swamntp in wW ch willows grew. Just like in The Lady Eats Shla- lotts. Game this t'me of year the smart kadis ictf Nanaimo who sel1- dom wewe in high school over 25 used to go to She iswamp and cut wlRowis land bind them with stout ittoonigs, just Jake the Ju*e- iamd Angles did (Sccoridlng to Manzer's liistottiy.) pened there we d'd not see; we only heart-. But it wasn't exactly an idle rumor. Some of the more lawless and more leal were for going to Arthur's ad, but that wasn't really necessary. Two Immortal Milerz P SIMILKAMEEN SPORT SAGA KEREMEOS' FOUR HORSEMEN HIGHLIGHT TRACK' MEET LORE 1—• And A Famous Feud With A Happy Ending By th- timie a new crop of freshiie. (prielirn- in those dark ages) came _p to September an old crop of willow whips was waiting in tfaa siwamp. together with the old crap of smart young 25-ye&f-old-. A51 you had tlo do to toe duly intiated was to be duly initialed in black and blue >n the comlbtaed gauntlet of oak hiead- and willow whips. In the old Pavilion you played a oamibtoation of "basket-all, rag- fey anld mayhem, tocludng she- rnale, and a fair bunt might rolafce Jardine's fsh gtoe fiacitoiry OftE ©omuox Road, wMcih was invariably an occasion for yellow sox amd polka dot fees to cUss, -nroch to the etmtarra'ssm'enit ctf the prtim and cuKlured Miss Ca- dow. Happy Valley ^wtoo was as dumlb as he chcste to be, had dtf- ficiufty conjugating the arrtable verb "do". He go* ido-das-da*. in iraimirod Roman, then-paused and gulped "damus" — and '-vas ex- ■ oueed to the Sburiiv room. Th«re. were other Lai'ltotems en which one could work certain sound effects tout this is a respectable fam ly oewspaper. You ask Jack (Another 'highly respected cat. izeri. innocent save of bustoess acumen, worked up a floiurilstoing booieig trade among the students it k i> Tale of a Cat • THERE WAS (at times) a nice fraternal sm between teacher and student. The student's were invariably b'gger (and sometimes • older) than the teachers, who sportingly got ;nto the games. Les Johnson thus threw a beaut of a block into (Prof.) R'chards sliding into third (I hope we are not putting any naughty not'ons into the heads of you Tarzansies) It was a matter of great regret to Mr. Arthur Peak that Herr , . - ... , ., , Manzer was too academe (also j ?°nt*n* *!* * J*to^^J, ^"J 1 Soon after they built a new school " k * Oirty Celtic! k THIS of course was in the cultured, metropol s. Out in the barbarous sticks, with the Bucket of Blood and Katie Peron:, George Pollock and Bob (the junior pansy) Bond we were not so elegant. We were to play Extension at f tba'. The whole school hiked through the woods past Mush- town, where Bond was occasionally an unwelcome guest at Auch tcrmuchty estate. Here also lived May and Wullie F.nnie. The teacher picked the team and put tha names on the black board. At. centre-hauf was "Fin- nie". An' wuz oor May no hauf mad when she fun' it wasna' her Willie once was to get the strap It disappeared. The "teacher at once suspected oor May, for though May and Wullie wuz aye yammerin' at ilkither. they wuz leal agin' a' ither body. So there was no more school till May returned the strap. "Strangely, tjie teacher found that didn't work out so well. Another time there was just pretty nearly no more school. There was a hole in the foundation siding and one n'ght a f "re started there. That school was too ornery to burn. May and Willie, by pure co'nicidence. quit soon after. k THE SCHOOL TRACK MEET largely hald its origin in a. parent's pride. Dave Innis planted , his hopes in Keremeos when the i Valley was young. He had the pioneer's healthy pride in local sport, transferred, as. with Pop Irwin, to his sons as they grew up. There were fhe usual jun'or sports at the traditional celebrations and from these Prineeton- Keremeos rivalry developed, for the hub town had counterparts to Dave and Co. in such fans as Doc Smith, Joe Brown and Rev. Ashford. The first meet, on modest lines, was held at Princeton in June 1926. It caught fire and by the .time it had completed the Keremeos-Hedley cycle, the 1929 return at Princeton was big time At first it was pretty much the effort, even to the training of the athletes, of outsiders. Tnen, largely because of interest thus ' -^S2P .,,,_ tniTur «<-*a? simulated in the schools, just STANLEY WOODERSON JACK LOV!i^*!T ,_„ about, the finest crop of teach- ****l^*)^*****!^***************************]f**,,"****^ ers the Valley has known. The best of both lots creamed to the top and the track meet became easily the finest bit of organ z- afon the Valley has seen. How much work went into it few realized, but public spir'tedness did not mean personal vanity in our golden thirties. Mind, it wasn't Polyanna. Never rivalry s0 keen. Keremeos started with a great triumvera.te of the Innis boys — Frank and Ross — and Frank R:chter and While they lasted they ruled the meets. But Princeton coaching soon turned the tide and the doughty apple pickers d'dn't relish it a bit. Animal Films Marl- Wild Life Week -it- VALUE of pur heritage of wild life—forests, flowers, game, birds, fish — was entertai njly emphasized with a free show ng of nature films in the Prnceton school lunchroom Friday, 20<h April, as the Princeton and Dist rict Fish and Game Club's observance of Canadian Wild L fe Week. Many attended. The movies- some in color, gave a representative cross-section of our national scenic and w'ld l'fe resources and were as enjoyable as educational. Wild Life Week was also observ ed at Nickel- Plate and Copper Mtn. where clubs are active. • : * First Aid Field Day At Princeton 9 th June Grand Golf Bargain Is Going Begging Here But not without a final fl ng. There were .many feuds, but none such as that between the sons and daughters) of St. George and St. Aildrew. Scorned Frances (whose family had immigrated a year earlier), "Ybu Scotch- ies had to come out here to get c'vilized-" Retorted May, "Ach, we ha'd to come out here to civilize youse!" Two po'nts for Scotland. it kit Innocents at Play k OUR POOR PARISH of course had no Pavil on. We had a very creditable swamp, but, our un- c'vii' engineering did not equip us to move it over the bluff and for a playground we had to be too angular) to be more than a critic. Arthur was a broth of a boy, well muskled, right above the ears. One day after Jack's brother Roy had dressed' a w'n- dow where he worked after school with an illustrious bedroom commod'ty, Herr Manzer was giving us Macaulay and some budding literarist decided to g ve us the cat. "What sa'th the brave Hora- tius?" "Meow!" Without a question, Mr. Manzer (you see, we. had to call him MR. Manzer) bellowed: "Peake. I'll g've you five minutes to lose that, cat in the Ravine." Whereat our gentle Arthur suddenly developed a beaut, ful sympathy for dumb animals feline and prelim. He returned to the ident cal setting five minutes later—plus one week. He was promptly directed to the principal's off ce and the principal followed. What hap- ite slab of sold beldrock at a pitch of 25 degrees. Indeed, we wouldn't swap, for you could lose more skin than you could get wet in any swamp. Just before pte. m'gillicuddle went up _or his. doctor of devilment he landed on one eye (he still in- s'sts Katy tripped him) and for a while really did shine at college There were no such clvilrzefl amenities as track meets, but we CIMILKAMEEN'S annual mine ** rescue and first aid field _av wjll be at. Princeton on Saturday, 9th June. The first aid events will move 'ndoers tn the school auditorium—an excellent Idea. Mine rescue contest will be at Princeton Memorial Park. did have a swell sw'mming pool. It was in the river, across the mine Dinkey Bridge, only three mles away. When the teacher felt Indulgent (or the aroma of m'eHHcu'ddle's big toe) he would herd us all there for-a hike. One dav we were all on the D'nkey Bridge when toot toot and so was the dinkey. Ed Hamilton nlease note. History repeats, but all she ever says to me is toot. k WE ONLY played one ball game a year. It started on the f'rst day of the term anld-ended on the last. That made it worth While learning to count un to a. million. Second base was beh'nd a big boulder and the Big Room fort' was behind Second base. That "s where Katy spiked m'g, also behind- Baseball was insufficient, to satisfy the feud that baseball engendered. So we bu'lt forts. Every now and then one side would raM the other's. We were all accomplished duck-on-the-rock artists and just occasionally you could find ammunition and spear and sword in that forest rock- pile. So it did not pay to' show too much of your head when th'ngs were hot. Well, they were, when the bell rang. A hurried council decide), that a licking was better than a br ck ing, and anyway he couldn't lick the whole school. Let the Big Room make the f'rst move. Look! They hadf A head over the parapet! A yeomanly p ke did it mete honor. Our teacher had a lovely set of teeth. We said he had. At this po'nt the reminiscences become too painful to continue. Florence, do you st II want to be a school marm? AN Princeton not find enough golfers to make a quorum at the best bargain this side of heaven Well, they could n't; the annual meeting of the golf dub was a washout. There is no play yet and the season is actually in doubt. In most places golf is a luxury game. Here they have a splendid little course—n"ne intriguing holes in a bonny setting. It was virtually a g ft, costs only a modest, upkeep, and the fees are ridiculously low By any comparison. Te^thoughTpSBWlhe only golf course in the populous and since April 28 undoubtedly progress sive) upper valley, and open to all, thr ving when Princeton was half the size, membership has been dwindling year by year and now it, has come to ths. Blort. Pepper and Andy Fer- ence, I command you to put oh Once some forgotten trvial ^echn'caiity nearly went to the high courts. Keremeos claimed they had not had proper notice of a meeting (at Hedley), boycotted it, and >ts decisions. A renewal of the meeting was called. By constitution it had to be at Hedley, but Keremeos wou'd your tights and 30m the goli not come even fo that The nor dub. Satan Wilson is gong round in angwish swinging at menag- er'e divots and that red one might be davit's nose. Golf Course Log PAR . ARDS Men Lad) es Sunrise 177 3 5 Glory : 350 4 5 Better 340 4 4 Fox ...- 371 4 4 Gopher 519 5 6 Swimmin' 449 5 6 Fishin' 119 3 3 Deep 400 4 5 Sunset 295 4 4 3026 36 40 NO NAME New Floor But They Need The Old Spirit DRINCETON'S new deal bid * - for basketball laurels lasted one round. They were e'mfaiated j front the Senior B playoffs by 50 points in the home-and-home series with Penticton. It was a disappointing start for the fine new gym. So long its lack was insurmountable handicap and Princeton had to be content with a Senior C pro- incial title in '37. Tony Kovich. played on that team. The old Orange Hall was jammed. With playing floor and ac commodation among the best in B.C. a scant crowd saw the rout. Time for a revival. I The team—Kovich, Mullin, L. Currie, A. Thomas, Olsen, Nilsen Mathewson,. Huev. The Dream Milq thern L'ncolns. knew what to do. With District Inspector Carter— a memorable man—in tow, they simply drove on to Keremeos, enforced by delegations on the way. Good angels had been at work ?>.nd the fertile Mahomeds were aft assembled at Dave Innis' but sitting very much on their ample dignities, the southern gentlemfn (and dames) refused —thousrh it was all arranged — to recognize their erstwh le buddies, the barbarians of the moun tains. Dave's good Irish mug was a study. He was as Keremeos as they come but just too nice a guy to nlay it ornerv. The mr'versally respected Mr. Carter broke the Ice; the traditional Innis hospitality came to bat, a.nd once we were.'ns'de the rest was easy, for parochial intensity was overwhelmed and the constitut'on and the union were saved. We could do with some of that "artisan dourness in this apathet'c asre. I -A- it This Was Spirit k IT MUST BE a matter of keen regret with men like Dave that the track meet—like many other Valley institutions — has faded with the Morrissey's, the McKen- zie's and the Murray's. In those days every local celebration was a Valley one. Keremeos had Empire Day, Princeton Dom nion Day, Hedley Labor Day: and you went to them all as to lodge or kirk. The track meet rivalled any drawing thousands from all Valley points. And they d'dn't come from sense of duty. It had all drama and efficiency of an TRACK MEET AT KEREMEOS 25th ANNUAL Similkameen School *» track and field meet will be held at Keremeos on Friday 25th May. withT>oy and g^rl a _ letes from all valley schools com- eting for team and individual trophies in some 25 events, for which they are now in eager training Traditional rivalry is between Keremeos and Princeton. Princeton are defending champions. First valley meet was in 1926. Princeton Sports Won By Princeton it pRINCETON school athletes ac. * hieved a notable feat on Wednesday. That was the day of their intra-mural track meet — for Princeton athletes only. And believe "it or not ?t was won by Princeton athletes. That is fact, but not quite fair. You see, for competitive purposes they divide the upper grades into three teams or "bouses." That is excellent. But they call them Alpha, Beta and Gamma, and that, brethren, is Greek. j On account of H <s Greek to us, and being most community -minded (also on account, of we don't have no alphabeta alpha > beta, we beg to .translate it into home brew Shemdkameugh chin ook, which was good enough for Pop when he ran for (or after) eta hunka pi sorority in his campusing days at Olalla academy, thus (accent 1st syllabus)' Having thus cleared the track, the story, for what it convoys to you, is as swallows: 1. Grandma 271 points. 2. Betty 264" points. 3. Alfie 237 poihts. - Florence 557 curves Florence and Jimmy Bush were the starx of the show. Their per formances for A and B made it a cinch for C. Best effort was that of Bill White In winning the 880. Prof. Steele finished in four flats, key of sergeant major. \ANDERSS0N-43\ \uar,r,'42\ \/M»i.MOaaSOfif-«L fyySS-^'-v.'..' J" I FRANK WYKOFF :************************ Olympiad, with home town stars Super event was the sen'or boys' 440 relay, carrying the Mc Kenzle cup To hold this meant as much as the championship shield -and many a thr Ming race it produced. For some 20 years it was the lodestar.' FuU track records are preserved from 1926 to the end of the old regime and why such an institut'on—and its interest was allowed to lapse Ss incomprehensible. The roads and geography were aga'nst Cca'mont and Copper Mtn. It was held up the hill in 1931 but Keremeos complained that the aU tude did not give their jaded blossoms a chance. (Nor did Vic and Cora Long, Bob Lans'ng, Lil Mitchell, Ken Garrison and Tuffy Burr, who cculd clear 13 feet In the pole vault. And we have kids now . who could d:m thoes names — with far better facilit'es. it k * Two Classic Races k KEREMEOS never replaced her b g three, . but did produce one ot the finest stylists we shall ever .see. Ronnie Campbell d sappointed for he looked like Olympic fodder in the Percy Williams days. He was a beaut ful sprinter; may be just too nice a kid. Keremeos haBed h'm with char acteristic extravagance. In a Princeton bank at the t'me was that superlative screwball of all sports and all sub- (Page Ten please) ~~^-T~- j--j^-u_: --' ?-■-',,-■,-■-■jJiA'W".-- - tt i!^..rikj^j.m^:.i>',. i'.., PAGE TEN- • THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C. FRIDAY, 11th MAY, 1851 |fo—»i«Ma^w—'«»al^«» »«a_<V»» <»_W—»«a_Vall.»»a_fVa»,«»4<W|^ WOW W e Can Sfupp-j/ PEAT MOSS For Gardens and Poultry IN BALES :: ANY QUANTITY ■ □ ■ GRANGERS FEED & STORAGE OFFICE BRIDGE ST. :: PRINCETON 145 %g»"Vlf ~»Wfr** 'W^fraM <Wl>"<»^,'<»^,"*,^,"'Wt j * [pp-gas-mai-a-m^'^^ FOR YOUR I ^.-sy SAUSAGE - Fresh Daily QUALITY MEATS ONLY Broilers—Chicken—Fowl QUALITY MEAT MARKET PRINCETON 100— A. E. BLOOM, Prop. a._-,i?_r?Aa_afi___a_fl_fl^ TRACK MEET-. (From Page Nine) jects, the Hon. Algernon Schole- field. He had as much Grecian graee as he had tim'dty, but he had a powerful body and a powerful ego. He ran the way he did everything else, and roused no lack of interest. Soon Keremeos was after his scalp. Their Ronnie could beat him. Ronnie was too young for a match race, but there was no denying h s backers. It was held at the old race track (airport) j ground in Princeton in 1932 and Ronnie—and h's enthusiasts — took a drubbing. But the result totally belied the attraction. Algie's success was in no little due to his trainer, Wee Welth W Hie Thomas, whose energy and expertness are too little availed of In passive Princeton. it -k s An Olympic Ace k ONE OTHER special race deserves place in these annals. In the 1932 Olymp'cs wavy-haired Frank Wykoff flashed to a double sprint crown. He was a California boy and came up to Van- | couver for the Exhibition sports. I We learned that he was a ne- 'phew of our own Mrs. Sam Gibson and Frank, a thoroughly un spoilt lad, was easily induced to come up here. Ronnie and Algie and the best inv'ted local stars were no competition for his 12-foot stride-but Sim lkameen did see an all-time star at the height of his glory. O for a resurgence of our own! LLOYD'S JANITOR SERVICE Windows, Chimneys Cleaned Floors washed, waxes, polished L. A. HOFFMAN - PHONE 70x Men! Want pep, vim normal vitality? Thousands Regain -Vigor, Easy Way .Quit foeUnf weak, vsjAtm, worn-out, rundown, older than your yeart. Try a Mtie "pepping up" with stimulating, Invigorating, revltallilng, Mood- regenerating Ostrex. Especially advised for men I women or 40, 60 or 60. Costs little. New acquainted" size only Wo. Try Ostrex Tonio Tablets to renew pep, vigor, vitality and feel year* vounger, tbli very day. At all druggists. __ fl^a»>» ^Vow^o me4fa*>***jy^*****4ys*'*i »^»Hfc*S <? ANNOUNCEMENT... 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Sometimes they went afield —and cleaned up- And this is to note that in Algie Seholefield OR BE FOREVER... * • i> THIS essays to be a permanent chronicle, in your behall by your responible organ. If errors or omissions are suspected this is invitation — iip.v, obligation — to submit them (in wirting, p.ease. tus; no dub has utle. The original golf course was out the One Mile Road, the first ski jump near the DeMuth mill. Copper Mtn., Allenby, Hedley sport liel'ds have always been where they are, it would .seem, and we confess a sentimental attachment to Hedley's and the old Hedley crowds,- though we _ .1 gathered (and doubtless deserv- and Ron Campbell we had in by e_) some nice bumps there. Blake gone nether times sprinters who | uurn always played at Coalmont, with proper facilities might have j That was an ordeal for any vis- done just as well. We had hockey , iting) team. Keremeos used lio teams that got into more than I stage some contests in the bonny one provincial final. When we I park by the river and doubtless ' will revive it as the Victory Hall site builds up. Victory Hall was the first au- ditorum-gymnasium in the Valley, a World War I memorial. j Johnny Campbells Fleet Feet Recouped Jim s Gambling Loss *—sM Famed Salmonbellies Played Here Masquerading as Band of Hope, But Keremeos Still Had Hopes — Byplays of Yesteryear Recalled by Old Sodljers of Sport • m f\N a Baramer day in 1904 a couple of city slickers cl'imb- ed down from the stage coach at Jim Wallace's Rrndlceton Hotel, sluiced down the dust, picked up their carpet bags, and settled down for the night. ilkA-^b bred r_ce horses, Luke Gibson had a near-champion. And once we played the world 'Champion lacrosse Salmonbellies — though mostly under false pretenses. We had in Jack Coles an Interior i Copper Mtn. and Allenby got golf champion at 17. And once, theirs from the company in the —believe it or not — we had a ' provincial basketball title. Hookey was first p'ayed on tbe river near the Garrison place, with a pint-sized rink la'er in the Garrison barn. Billy McLean and the Freeman boys loom large on the first photo (look at it when you pay your subscription (!!) From obscure beginnings grew a school sports meet which | stands as a challenge to this richly endowed era. And we had Frank Wykoff running here fresh from his Olympic triumph W. A. McKenzie. Similkameen M.L.A., put up a cup for a 440- relay between Keremeos and Princeton boys, and out of that grew a track meet that for organization can never be beaten. The Battlefields From the earliest times the Bunch Grass Field has been a favorite spot with trail travellers to make camp and graze their horses. Early in the century a group of Princeton men formed the Princeton Racing and Ath- letic Association, acquiring title to the Airport Flat. It was a private joint stock company, in which subscribers held shares, but in the early days was substantially a public sports organization, sponsoring the Dominion Day celebration, "In which horse racing was the main item. As baseball, soccer and other organizations emerged independently, they paid rent for use of the grounds and this also applied in later years to the celebrations. In 1931 a federal landing fielfl was started here, largely as an unemloyed project. They bought the field. A4 first they used only part, of it—the end nearest town, where the playing field was. A new sports field emerged at the north end, where the buildings now are. In the lean but memorable depression days the Airport, crew was an element in local sport, replacing the dormant mining town teams. With World War n the airport was extended and the whole flat occupied, leaving! Princeton without _ playground. Baseball enthusiasts hewed out Wallace Field on the Allenby Road. In 1947 Memorial public park was grandiosely launched and limp- jngly became a ball park. it k * In the late 20's Princeton Athletic Assocation was formeid as a public organization. It proposed to foster all sports, but actually only hockey and baseball,' though soccer, basketball and some other sports co-operated with It. as a sort of co-ordiating council. It acquired the curling rink flat and a skating rink was built — with a disastrous •history of cable bridges. Hundreds of dollars were collected In subscriptions but it fell away and ap» parehtly aU the assets were given away by the trustees. The rinjk was rebuilt- on the school, but demolished after a couple of years. From the 30's Allison Subdivision grew as a thriving town- Site and from 1948, making eager use of cramped park space 1937 re-opentag, and Hedley's was the product of the revival at the same time under the new Nickel Plate operators) In Princeton the first home of indoor sport was the Harris Hall (over Nick Bush's cafe), then . the Thomas Hall (over Al White) The Orange (Elks') Hall was used Ifrom 11926 until the modern school gymnasium was opened 1950. Tennis and similar fads are not sports but old maids' afflictions, anfl no chronicler could hope to satisfy .imperious Prosser and his cohorts of dub and longbow. Anyway, they (and he) are upstart chechakows and we have not yet the pleasure of enduing his obituary. Most wi?i agree that evolution would be much better served if the deer had pot-shots at the Prossers.. The "suckers are hooked as tt is. Hobbles and Hoops _V DOC NAISMITH wasn't dry behind! the ears when Doc Lee Smith and Preacher Ashf ord and the butcher boys were hacking basketball carcasses in <he Thomas Hall. Then the sport (?) moved to the Orange (Elks — Bloom's) Hall where the tin s'oves were somewhat of an ein- barassment in the days of the heavy body check. But back in '30 we had a-city league with 20 teams, and without any imports we found ourselves by the Princeton was a lively^ little town in those days, just four years old, and progressive, if not incorporated. Oddly enoug|h, there wais a black jack game In the hotel that might and.—you guessed It —the visitors f.vom Ch Mwack made quite a killing. Mine host Jim Wallace was taken for $400 which was a considerable acreage of potatoes in those days. Mareveover, they, ruibhed it in. for owe of the swashbucklers waved lush greenbacks and taunt ed that there, was $500 there to say he could beat any man In Princeton' at a foot race. Princeton was, as ever, loyal, and the atmosphere was gloom and resentment. Moved by that, no doubt, eftsoons a stranger sidled up to the dejected J on. ourselves oy ui« tt > Vmir Mnn sheer process of arrivals, with, xlx: B x uul 1,ia" a team that lost a heartbreaker "I see you've got a young fel- to a Revelstoke of KenwaM and, low called Campbell here," he Parkinson and McKenzie and Henderson in the Interior Senior B final. Walt Gin was our man mountain cop; Meurer was accountant at the Lynden mine. Bill Lucas, a kid out of Normal, came to teach at Jura. Kelly Callahan and Jack Wilson were Tanks who came to play baseball and played basketball just as well. Then next year MKenzie and Henderson, aces of the Revelstoke BC. championship team, satdi. Jim mechanically agreed. A J. R. Campbell had just arrived to open a drug store. He was a model young man, quiet and diffident, and wore the ilm- m'aculate celluloid collar that stamps him to-day. He was small, if self-possessed, and the I sort of chap who told you no- I thing, but you could believe I anything 'good of. He had been | in bed for houre. "Well, if you'd like to get that I money back, he's your man," i said the knowing stranger. "I coached him in Nelson, and if there is anyone here who can < beat him, he must be pretty good." The effect was eleciric. The j s: uct for yourself the' scene of grim tension as rough men and coy women lined the stump- bordered main stieet of Princeton less than 12 hours later. De-feet But they had little need to fear. Their unknown chaimpioini was one of the best sprinters of his day in B.C., and could; do the century in ten seconds flat. The unsuspecting bralggart had, in Princeton's embryo half acre, ■taken ini ashttj.e. too much territory, trappea by coincidence. The race was obviously not timed, but J. R. won easifty, as he would have aga oust a much better map. So Jim Wallace retrieved his $400, and, if there are no 0;|ym- pic officials looking, J. R. made his first hundred in Princeton fior ten seconds' effort. ************************ mift ■ irrrr i ^fiff » Princeton Publicity In Black and Amber A MBER presents—Princeton for " skisport. A two-color brochure in black and amber now sureads the winter sport gospel to all corners, with pictures and descriptions. Produced by The it He of business as formerly of sport over to J.R- Jr., thankfully known as Ronnie. A propos, we have a story to tell about Ronnie, but first one even more a propos. This came much later, about 1932. A big fellow came to keep books for Charl e Hunter's Tulameen mine. He was very big in more ways than one, amd very Engish. His name was Bloor, and he was really pretty good. In those days Chart te Armstrong, one of the Keremeos old . guard who run through and- all 1 over this story, used1 to truck I fruit to Princeton and cairy ! general oaingo back. This was one of those noted Princeton Saturdays, and after Charlie . Wad changed loads, he ran into a few of the boys Inhuman Race It was at this time that Ronnie, who had been sweeping a.l before him in the school sports wiais -due to run a challenge race, of wh ch more im turn. NBtu_- I al y this was a dominant topic, [and.Mr. Bloor was no blushing 1 violet, and, good though he was, was best of a/1 at being provocative. Charlie was one of those slow-quick men, and. Mr. Bloor) s blah exasperated him in the f irst round. So it was a hundred do.lars that Charlie could beat Hamy then and there Well, Harry had' said boo much to back down without Jeaving town and he still had1 a pretty good opinion, of himself. So it was ont SOFTBALL GIRLS PLAN BIG YEAR .MARSHALLED by mother bird *** Jrim Primy D'Angelo, nest, ling Bluebird softbalasses are tinting callow quills with fireball hues and bursting forth as unsuspected Amazons. They plan a rousing local league, in addition to which the Allison F'atbush diamond may see attractive vis:ters from as far afield as Vancouver and O'alla. One thing, they will have no lack of curves and screwballs, and some of them don't have to touch a ball to be an attraction. Johnny Stalker Is the lucky .coach. Miss Georeje Schisler, .with a cunning eye to bolstering his sagging seniors (and some-of our babes are amply upholstered) will be spying as a buxom left fielder for the Cow Belles, always provMmg the hen' pecked hubby can get permission of Mrs. Sammy. Softbald Fairley is advocating night games, with a dirty plot to turn out the lights. Impressario M'Erskine is planning a rival Dumpground loop featuring Pepper's Squaws and m'gUlicudddle's Craws. blew in on their own. And Pi j drooping, miners amid cattle men Campbell came to taAit■ Im pel_e(j up like flowers in a sum. with Bill Lucas moving up to "f , * , ., Allenby; and Ralph Thomas mer shower, and no nerves could was teaching at Hedley. | rest that n'ght until their chaim- So with no design, we had the. pi0n had accepted. ace Revelstoke defence united ^ ^- eXhilirated posse w:th the dazzling Normal attack I „ §&_ ; . . _f And we never won a game. We , marched up to ha room. It was took the floor only once—+o be -4 aan- knocked out. You just ©ouMn't j. r. roused courteously, al- get the boys together to prac- beit not wlthout a touch of re_ tice. Pi walked in through snow „_*„_,,. „„t , , , from Jura and bedded down in "^t^l ", „up m Vamaculate the print shop till the 4 a.m. nightshirt, listened dut-ully to train, and two or three of us their excited plea. Weighed it threw the ball around; then judfflcioesly, said, "Yes, gentle- gave up trying. A couple of years n^ T wm run.. amJ went b k later Pi was the star of Varsity's I +_ Jeen Canadian champions. • i ,slee*'- ir k it We must leave you to recon- REV. H. E. D. ASHFORD <**-K**-K*-K*-K-M<**-fc*-fc ****** ; "Johnny" Caimpbel', one of I Silm_kameen's model citizens, had quite a spel.. in Princeton before mov ng' to the big city of Keremeos, where he comitinuied ; to nurse his yen for spoit, and f gures prominently in these re- ' miniscenoes. Though he has .now J retired utterly, tucning the man- launched playground, rink and eict, with a summer mansion »t community hall. | M'ssezula Lake: Rev. H. E. D. Ash The golf course and ski hill ford is back in this country after were granted by the government ; long service as a missionary in as public park areas about 1929 ! Indiq; George Benzies is with and that is their continuing sta- ' {Page Fov.rtf' **.*********************************************** _A=* BUT BILL came back from r^y^^^^^^^^^^-^p^^^^^^^ ™ -varsity a determined young j Champions of Yesteryear man. Attitude was reversed. We I worked hard and built our own I teams from kids who really wnt I ed to play. In due course the' juniors came up and in 1937 won | the B-C. Sen'or C titH — only! ^mmm^,wmgy,,m^me "major team honor 'hat has ever j [__L_S^Alfe* fm, it come to Simi'Uame^n. _HH_SM__s__is8___«_» Tonv Kov'-h Sonnv Mathcw- .•.on, Ike Mul"n and Ted Prinlge sen'or veterans now- are Bill's pro+esres. But these fellows a^e me-e checakows. Of the real n'on»"rs Dr. Lee Smith is in Vancouver and still interested in the dis*- You'll naive to reconstruct that picture, too P.inceton by then i was qu te grown up. This time | there was no fanfare, and no i ga lery—except the small knot —and none wanted. It was iln i the nature otf a duel, fought out grimly, silently, on the main street at 1:30 on a Sabbath. morning, g Of the '.esuit, we had best say nowt, as it is still too lecent not to rankle. All thjs time Charlie's laden truck had stood aside, a dumb witness. Until 11 its sealed cargo was sacrosanct, but thereafter Charlie made oheeifur of necessity . . Cold Fury It was about the same time thialt or* of P'inceton/s most fanitast;c contests took place at high noon, on a Saturday, out- sde that same main hotel. It was .no sudden b.aiwl, but sbow dead reckoning duelling. A line crew was nere stringing the provincial telephone wires. Two or the men fell out One was a burly youmg giant, the other sixty-ish, but upstanding as a forest king. By pre-anrangement the foes squared uo at the busiest hour, at the busies" place SeocesOook- ed on; no one .'interfered. It looked a pitifu match But who could giuess what that old onan could take—and give out? For nearly an hour they stood toe to toe; then the young man's strength wore out, amid that man of iron cut him to ribbons before he shock hands and gave in. Dreadful, but grand. But back to the Campbells: Ronnie, a str'plinig, was something of a schorxlhoy sensation. To these parts came a bank clerk, one G. H I. etc. Sahole- field. His father was the noted historian. "Algie" was a private Right to left—Jack Lancaster, I war; Tonv Kovch, still at it; address unknown; Joe Gibson, R Jack Merrick, married Arnott's C.A.F. back East; BUI Lancasier sister; Bob Mitchell, now an 'm- address unknown; Arnott Ur- ressario; G'b Mclntyre, address quhart, Vancouver, lost leg in J unknown; cyclone m'gillicuddle, , now w'th Haldes A-C. junevfles; Mr. W'Hie Lucas, chief school ' main. Tra?l district. Loan of old sports photos for reproduction gratefully welcomed sohoo"i boy, and by choice a bit of a screwball, but no pansy He'd turn a handspring in church if it occurred to him. He went over the big jump the first time he was on ska. But he wiais good, and he was game, and a stagger. 'Planted' Fish He was a good runner too. He iwas yeairs older than Ronnie, and al the speculation was on who would, win' if they met So why not try it and see? It was about the same t me that we had imveSg) ed Frank WykoSf, ' the Olympic sensation, into tmmniing here. Well, Ronnie tried hard, but JH'Igle was good, and that time jKe_em_eo_ had to take it. You have bo go 'way back for the next sport ng sensation. Ware you aware that Kere- ) meos once beat the world cham- Jpiion Salmonbei ies—for one pe- ,iiiod? That was back in 1913. For Pn nceton's Dominion Day celebration a $200 prize was put up fior .lacrosse. They hoped that roligihit bring an outs der, and were rewarded when Hope filed an enitry. That, of course, was before the Kettle Valey Railway, and •the Hope boys would come in by horse over the Dewdney trail \ The locals natural ly gathered to greet them. They looked young and happy enough, astride their pintos. Then K. C. Brown, the lawyer, who had come up from the Coast and introduced the Indian gajme, suddenly exploded- "Hell, that ain't Hope. There's young Stoddart—" The lawyer was right It was the Salmointoei lies, lock, stock and barrel. , It was this way. Bob Springer, |the Hope manager, was an old Coast payer, and he figured he could swing it, and he did. The 'Bellies, then in their hey-day, were holders of the Mlainn Cup. Princeton, of course, never hicped to beat them, but wel- leomed the attraction. Keremeos, who never figured on leaving their orchards for the ride, had other ideas. Ini the morning game, at tne Race Trelck, the champs beat Princeton graciously, 6-3. They would probably have been as easy on Keremeos. But the Kerem-eas tradition 9s win. and flhiev had mane of Princeton's coyness. They were going to liven t up a bit. Princeton, (Page Fourteen) m'gillicuddle's appendix Some anonymous and malignant nitwit sends a marked copy of the Nanaimo Free Press which should have arrived in time to go into the Dumbsday Rook of m'gillicuddle on Page 9, but, like Wm, (or he, she or it) m>s- s Id the boat—quoat; 25 YEARS HENCE—David Allan Brown (Ulysses Xerxes Sophocles m'gillicuddle, private) at 17 has graduated with honors from university, specializing n English and History. Pork shoulder has advanced to 20c a poun'.l. m'gillicuddle is suns because they fail to note post-graduate research in the culture of the OlaJla and N ngpo dialects. Dis- paches frcm the front say the porker is sueying too "My name is Ozymandius, k'nk of kinks; look on my woiks ye bligfiters and despair" — and send the bright young brat hlown the pit like he wants Nanaimo CWer Press pis copy) j-'-- -.' -■■ — .. ................. , - ■ . ' PAGE TWELVE— • THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C. 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