
T. Kent Morgan
Memories of Sport
Memories of Sport appears every second week in the Canstar Community News weeklies. Kent Morgan can be contacted at 204-489-6641 or email: sportsmemories@canstarnews.com
Recent articles by T. Kent Morgan
Sports ‘Halls of Dreams’
3 minute read Preview Yesterday at 2:01 AM CDTPro baseball’s rich Winnipeg history
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, May. 17, 2023’Tis the season to honour our own
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, May. 3, 2023When Orr and Gretzky graced the ice together
4 minute read Preview Monday, Apr. 17, 2023Toilers tragedy shocked Winnipeg in 1933
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Apr. 5, 2023It was 71 years ago this week…
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Mar. 22, 2023Road warrior just keeps clicking along
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2023Celebrating Manitoba’s best Black athletes
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023Snubbed by O-Pee-Chee?
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023Remembering those we lost, part 2
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023Remembering those we lost in 2022
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023High school bonspiel once ruled holiday sports
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022Hockey the focus of this year’s sports books
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022A breezy history of pro basketball in Winnipeg
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022Newest members of Manitoba’s baseball HOF
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Nov. 16, 202290 years of Big Blue memories on display
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022Sporting halls catching up with inductions
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022Nearly 50 years since WHA Jets first home game
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Oct. 5, 20221962 Bisons honoured at U of M homecoming
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2022When the Summit Series came to town
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2022Manitoba’s hall of fame swimmers, divers
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022Winnipegger was youngest to swim English Channel
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2022CUAC Blues were the ‘best of the best’
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2022Hockey, football greats inducted into halls of fame
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jun. 29, 2022Tragedy struck after Black Hawks first cup win
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jun. 15, 2022Manitoba’s rich junior hockey legacy
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, May. 4, 2022Remembering more great Ukrainian-Canadian athletes
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Apr. 20, 2022Manitoba’s best Ukrainian athletes
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2022Bombers ruled the field and the court
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Mar. 9, 202260th MCA bonspiel featured 454 teams
3 minute read Preview Monday, Feb. 21, 2022When the Winnipegs won Olympic hockey gold
4 minute read Preview Monday, Feb. 7, 2022Final farewell to sports people we lost in 2021
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 24, 2022Remembering those we lost in 2021…
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 10, 2022Walsh won Arena’s first curling championship
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021Sports books that will go nicely under the tree
4 minute read Preview Monday, Dec. 13, 2021The first days of Winnipeg’s ‘old barn’
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021WHSFL has produced nearly 100 pros
3 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 15, 2021Best in west shot it out at McCain SuperSpiel
4 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 1, 2021Women instrumental to building sport in Manitoba
4 minute read Preview Monday, Oct. 18, 2021Honouring strong sportswomen
3 minute read Preview Monday, Oct. 4, 2021More memorable St. James sports figures
3 minute read Preview Monday, Sep. 20, 2021A look back at local water-skiing legends
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Sep. 15, 2021Manitoba’s many baseball pros
4 minute read Preview Monday, May. 3, 2021Flying out of the North End
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2021When Manitoba teams ruled the court
4 minute read Preview Monday, Apr. 5, 2021Spring training memories are made of this
5 minute read Preview Monday, Mar. 22, 2021Duguid done darned good in 1970 and ’71
4 minute read Preview Monday, Mar. 8, 2021This flat prairie town was once a skiing hub
4 minute read Preview Monday, Feb. 22, 2021Ah, the dog days of … the Trappers’ Festival
4 minute read Preview Monday, Feb. 8, 2021Robertson was the last Monarch standing
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 25, 2021Remembering sports people we lost in 2020
6 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 11, 2021Remembering those we lost in 2020
5 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 4, 2021Local sports books to put under the tree
4 minute read Preview Monday, Dec. 14, 2020Remembering the long-lost Hockey Spectator
4 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 30, 2020Local halls of fame delay induction ceremonies
4 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 16, 2020CUAC athletes were among the city’s best
4 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 2, 2020Brushes with greatness in the great outdoors
4 minute read Preview Monday, Sep. 21, 2020Winnipeg’s history on the diamond
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2020Winnipeg hosted softball worlds 20 years ago
7 minute read Preview Monday, Aug. 24, 2020First person to swim Lake Winnipeg still going strong
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020‘How did you miss that one, ref?’
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 27, 2020Cricket enjoying new life in Manitoba
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 13, 2020Sports news from Canada Days past
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jul. 1, 2020Manitobans also starred in the ManDak League
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jun. 15, 2020ManDak League was a home away from home
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jun. 1, 2020Look to books for local sporting action
5 minute read Preview Tuesday, May. 19, 2020When Knudson nearly won the Masters
7 minute read Preview Monday, Apr. 6, 2020AED effort was led by hockey hall
5 minute read Preview Friday, Mar. 20, 2020The next time you’re in a hockey arena, a curling club or a community centre, see if you can spot the automated external defibrillator (AED) machine that should be in plain sight. The importance of AED machines was in the news after NHL defenseman Jay Bouwmeester of the St. Louis Blues collapsed on the bench during a game with the Anaheim Ducks on Feb. 11. An AED machine that is kept close to the bench during NHL games was used to save his life. A couple of days later, the Winnipeg Free Press ran a story about Manitoba Moose goaltending coach Rick St. Croix going into full cardiac arrest in the Winnipeg International Airport on Dec. 10. As part of the effort to save his life, an AED machine was employed.The Manitoba government’s Defibrillator Public Access Act legislated that AEDs must installed in designated public premises by Jan. 31, 2014. Several years earlier, the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame, headed at the time by president Gary Cribbs, took a leadership role in getting AEDs into Manitoba rinks. While the HOF is best known for its biannual induction of individuals and teams into its shrine, which is located in the MTS Iceplex, the organization takes on a number of other projects in support of the community, such as scholarships, awards and grants. In the spring of 2008, the HOF directors approved a program to increase awareness of the need to have AEDs in rinks. The HOF purchased machines for the Billy Mosienko and Terry Sawchuk rinks in Winnipeg, as both players were in the first group of HOF inductees in 1985. Recognizing the importance to the public of seeing the project stretch beyond the Perimeter Highway, a third unit was donated to the Whitney Forum in Flin Flon, where many HOF-inducted individuals or team members had played.The HOF committee met with the City of Winnipeg and lobbied for AEDs to be placed in all city rinks. At the beginning there was reluctance from city officials but the hockey team won the battle and machines were installed in all city-operated rinks. Next up were discussions with the General Council of Winnipeg Community Centres to get machines into the facilities falling under its umbrella. Funding from the Pan-Am Clinic Foundation paid half the cost, which was about $1,250 per unit. That led to an AED being installed in the Gateway, Notre Dame, River Heights and Transcona East End arenas.The committee also worked with recreation groups across the province to encourage them to purchase AEDs for their local facilities. In November and December 2008, an AED Challenge initiative developed by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba, which offered a special purchase price and training, resulted in more than two dozen rural communities obtaining units. Memories of Sport appears every second week in the Canstar Community News weeklies. Kent Morgan can be contacted at 204-489-6641 or email: sportsmemories@canstarnews.com
The next time you’re in a hockey arena, a curling club or a community centre, see if you can spot the automated external defibrillator (AED) machine that should be in plain sight.
The importance of AED machines was in the news after NHL defenseman Jay Bouwmeester of the St. Louis Blues collapsed on the bench during a game with the Anaheim Ducks on Feb. 11. An AED machine that is kept close to the bench during NHL games was used to save his life.
A couple of days later, the Winnipeg Free Press ran a story about Manitoba Moose goaltending coach Rick St. Croix going into full cardiac arrest in the Winnipeg International Airport on Dec. 10. As part of the effort to save his life, an AED machine was employed.
When the Kopper Kweens ruled the court
6 minute read Preview Monday, Mar. 9, 2020Celebrating 50 years of the MMJHL
7 minute read Preview Monday, Feb. 24, 2020Celebrating 50 years of the MMJHL
7 minute read Preview Monday, Feb. 24, 2020‘Got any doubles to trade?’
7 minute read Preview Friday, Feb. 7, 2020‘Got any doubles to trade?’
4 minute read Preview Friday, Feb. 7, 2020Ah, the roaring days of the MCA bonspiel
7 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 27, 2020Ah, the roaring days of the MCA bonspiel
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 27, 2020Manitoba’s women are leading the way
4 minute read Preview Monday, Dec. 30, 2019Wesley skating rink remembered in new book
4 minute read Preview Monday, Dec. 2, 2019A look at the Blue Bombers’ Grey Cup history
3 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 18, 2019Rugby Manitoba inducts hall-of-fame class
7 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 4, 2019Accessible sports figures honoured with HOF
3 minute read Preview Monday, Oct. 21, 2019100 years since the Black Sox scandal
4 minute read Preview Monday, Oct. 7, 2019How Black Knights became Winnipeg Colonels
4 minute read Preview Monday, Sep. 23, 2019Manitoba’s most memorable paddlers
3 minute read Preview Monday, Sep. 9, 2019Death on the diamond
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019In the history of organized baseball, only 12 players have died after being hit by a pitch.
Bob Gorman, the co-author of a book titled Death at the Ballpark, confirmed that Winnipeg is the only city where two deaths of this type happened. Both took place at Sherburn Park, the home of the Winnipeg Maroons of the Class D Northern League. The long-gone park was located just north of Portage Avenue near Sherburn Street. Home plate was in the northwest corner. In the winter, Sherburn was a popular place for outdoor hockey and skating.
On Aug. 27, 1936, George Tkach, a second baseman for the Superior Blues, was hit in the face by Maroons pitcher Alex Uffelman. At first, recovery seemed likely, but on Sept. 2, he died in the Winnipeg General Hospital after an emergency operation to remove a blood clot in his brain. Bruno Haas, who ran the Maroons, was the playing manager that season and Winnipeg’s great all-around athlete Hugh Gustafson was the team’s first baseman.
Two summers later the pair witnessed the second fatal beaning at Sherburn Park. On July 16, 1938, the home team’s second baseman, Linus (Skeeter) Ebnet, was hit during the first inning of the second game of a doubleheader against Grand Forks Chiefs. The game had started at twilight and to put that in perspective, three days later a game at Sherburn Park was called due to darkness after just 65 minutes. With his first two pitches called balls, Grand Forks pitcher Vince Clawson said he was trying to throw the ball over the plate, but the pitch broke inside and Ebnet ducked into it. The infielder was taken to Grace Hospital where he died on July 21. Ebnet, 23, who was in his fifth year of pro ball, had a batting average of .280 after joining the Maroons partway into the season. He had been teaching school and serving as a college baseball coach in Minnesota. In 1937, Ebnet had hit .316 for the Maroons.
Examining Manitoba’s basketball history
3 minute read Preview Monday, Aug. 12, 2019Remembering the 1999 Pan Am Games
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 29, 2019What were the sports headlines 50 years ago?
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 15, 2019Sports hall of fame honours veteran athletes
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2019Sports hall honours boys of summers past
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jun. 3, 2019Falcons were the first world hockey champions
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, May. 21, 2019Finally getting their due
4 minute read Preview Monday, May. 6, 2019When the Bombers battled the Jets
4 minute read Preview Monday, Apr. 22, 2019Sports scene’s luminaries to be honoured
8 minute read Preview Monday, Apr. 8, 2019Provincial hockey battles revisited
4 minute read Preview Monday, Mar. 25, 2019When Wesmen women ruled the courts
3 minute read Preview Monday, Mar. 11, 2019When Pappy Wood won a hometown Brier
4 minute read Preview Monday, Feb. 25, 2019When snowshoeing was a popular sport
4 minute read Preview Monday, Feb. 11, 2019Curling, softball announce HOF inductees
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 28, 2019Remembering those we lost…
5 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 14, 2019When the rowers hit the ice
4 minute read Preview Monday, Dec. 17, 2018The origins of Red River College athletics
4 minute read Preview Monday, Dec. 3, 2018Golden years of the Blue and Gold
4 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 19, 2018The Golden Boy’s big bout
4 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 5, 2018Sports Hall of Fame exhibit honours veterans
3 minute read Preview Monday, Oct. 22, 2018News and updates from the notebook…
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018Goldeyes won title in inaugural season
3 minute read Preview Monday, Sep. 24, 2018Ukrainian-Manitoban athletes to be honoured
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Sep. 11, 2018Do you remember the Argonaughts lacrosse team?
4 minute read Preview Monday, Aug. 27, 2018Will this year’s Can-Am Games be the last?
8 minute read Preview Monday, Aug. 13, 2018Winnipeg’s long junior football history
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 30, 2018Get a summer hockey fix at Manitoba Museum
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 16, 2018Manitoban stars of the AAGPBL
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jul. 3, 2018Hall of Fame class led by Stoughton, Daley
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jun. 18, 201840 years of Manitoba Marathons
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jun. 4, 2018Sports Hall of Fame remembers the Great War
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, May. 22, 2018Recalling the children’s games of our youth
4 minute read Preview Monday, May. 7, 2018Western Canada wasn’t kind to Scotty Bowman
3 minute read Preview Monday, Apr. 23, 2018Hall of fame season for the sports community
4 minute read Preview Monday, Apr. 9, 2018The tragic Toilers plane crash of 1933
3 minute read Preview Monday, Mar. 26, 2018The early days of the GWMHA
4 minute read Preview Monday, Feb. 26, 2018The glory days of playground hockey
4 minute read Preview Monday, Feb. 12, 2018Manitobans starred at 1932 Winter Olympics
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018Fabro was a giant on the local sports scene
1 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018Sports greats we lost in 2017
6 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018Books for the sports fans in your family
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017The history of Manitoba figure skating
4 minute read Preview Monday, Dec. 4, 2017Choosing 50 best players not an easy task
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017Goldeyes GM Collier leads hall of fame class
3 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 6, 2017Collectors bring local trophy home
3 minute read Preview Monday, Sep. 25, 2017When the Buffaloes roamed the outfield
3 minute read Preview Monday, Sep. 11, 2017When softball became an indoor sport
3 minute read Preview Monday, Aug. 28, 2017The days of Michigan Ike and High-Ball Kelly
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017Women lead the way to Sports Hall of Fame
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 3, 2017Learning the provenance of an old trophy
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jun. 19, 2017Charlie Krupp was a Winnipeg sports legend
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jun. 5, 2017The origins of slo-pitch softball in Winnipeg
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, May. 23, 2017When Flin Flon won the Memorial Cup
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, May. 10, 2017Botterill leads the way into Manitoba hockey hall
3 minute read Preview Monday, Apr. 24, 2017Curl Manitoba to honour hall of famers on May 7
3 minute read Preview Monday, Apr. 10, 2017Lacrosse teams to enter sports hall of fame
3 minute read Preview Monday, Mar. 27, 2017When “car spiels” ruled the bonspiel circuit
3 minute read Preview Monday, Mar. 13, 2017The dog sled racing fame of Emile St. Godard
3 minute read Preview Monday, Feb. 27, 2017It’s been 40 years since Monarchs won Quebec tourney
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017So, what was going on in sport 50 years ago?
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017Sports figures gone but not forgotten
5 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 2, 2017The night the Pistons and Lakers came to play
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016This year’s Manitoba sports books shine
4 minute read Preview Monday, Dec. 5, 2016Wesmen volleyball teams honoured by HOF
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016Remembering Winnipeg’s old outdoor rinks
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016Mixed curling was initially a social sport
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016Lacrosse honourees to be inducted Oct. 2
3 minute read Preview Monday, Sep. 26, 2016Remembering Winnipeg’s Industrial softball league
3 minute read Preview Monday, Sep. 12, 2016The day the Cardinals came to town
3 minute read Preview Monday, Aug. 29, 2016Manitoba’s Olympians through the ages
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016Hard to believe it was 50 summers ago…
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016Remembering the AAGPBL’s greats
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jul. 19, 20162016 Sports Hall of Fame inductees named
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 4, 2016Who’s Ray Fennell and why is a field named after him?
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2016Flood of 1950 nearly swamped first Little League
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jun. 6, 2016Manitoba Dream Team to be honoured by HOF
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, May. 24, 2016When the Warriors won the nation
3 minute read Preview Monday, May. 9, 2016Ukrainian Sportsman’s Dinner a longstanding tradition
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2016Vying for senior amateur hockey supremacy
3 minute read Preview Monday, Apr. 11, 2016Winnipeg’s own basketball heroines
3 minute read Preview Monday, Mar. 28, 2016Women’s hockey was big long before the modern era
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2016Jets, Moose take part in I Love to Read Month
7 minute read Preview Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016Chawla joins select company in badminton hall
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016Manitoba’s top athletes to be honoured
3 minute read Preview Monday, Jan. 18, 2016Those we lost in 2015
5 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016Sports book choices are many this season
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015Let’s bring home a Manitoba sporting treasure
3 minute read Preview Monday, Nov. 23, 2015Halls of Fame fill up with worthy inductees
3 minute read Preview Monday, Oct. 26, 2015Tales of high school football heroics
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Sep. 29, 2015Lacrosse upsets, made in Manitoba
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Sep. 15, 2015McDonald amazed many with his skills
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Sep. 1, 2015Breezy Bend takes 2015 Mundie Putter title
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015’65 Bisons headed to hall of fame
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jul. 21, 2015Football hall announces Class of 2015
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jul. 8, 2015Manitoba loses three great sports people
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2015Joan Whalley will not be a familiar name to the sports community but, in the realm of Manitoba sports history, Whalley, who died June 5 at age 96, will always have a distinct honour.
When she was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1981, she was the first female to be honoured as a builder. The first class of inductees, in 1980, featured one female athlete, Judy Moss, who won a gold medal in springboard diving at the 1934 British Empire Games.
Whalley was recognized for her contributions to curling. She had competed in track, basketball and volleyball at St. John’s High School but didn’t take up curling until she was 30. Her executive career included serving as president of the Deer Lodge Ladies Curling Club in 1959-60 and the Manitoba Ladies Curling Association in 1966-67.
In 1975, Whalley was elected president of the Canadian Ladies Curling Association. While on the national board, she chaired a committee that studied how to promote female curling and led to the development of the Curl Canada instructional program. Whalley is an honoured member of both the Canadian Curling and Manitoba Curling Halls of Fame.
Rosedales players were great athletes
3 minute read Preview Thursday, Jun. 11, 2015Speed skaters invited to reunion evening
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, May. 12, 2015Sports halls of fame name inductees
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2015Schmockey Night was a blast for charity
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2015Gary Ross: the best skip who never won
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Mar. 3, 2015Ice Club carnival was a big draw in Winnipeg
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015Oldtimers league going strong 40 years on
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015Remembering curling’s roaring days
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015Remembering those who left us in 2014
6 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015Before War Amps, Chadderton was hockey star
3 minute read Preview Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014Rosedales team members sought
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014Heather Newsham joins sister in Hall
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014Lacrosse community honours its own Oct. 5
3 minute read Preview Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014Century-old club remembers its past
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Sep. 3, 2014City boasted a sports-only tabloid in the ’60s
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014Smitty’s chases senior softball title at home
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jul. 22, 2014Pistol Pete’s legacy will remain
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jul. 9, 2014It’s time for end-of-season sports awards…
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jun. 25, 2014Father’s Day Field of Dreams memories
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jun. 11, 2014Raiders celebrate in style at MMJHL awards
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2014Boom Boom Benson was a pure all-rounder
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, May. 14, 2014Notes and notables from the world of sport
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2014Remember when the Maroons won the Cup?
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2014Shaftesbury centre shines at tourney
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2014Pro baseball player Doris Shero dies
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2014Gould to join exclusive club in curling hall
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2014Gould to join exclusive club in curling hall
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2014Before the WHA and NHL, we had ‘the Nats’
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014Bouchard induction makes it a family affair
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014Taking a look back at the year that was
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014’Tis the season for lots of sports books
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013Celebrating 50 years of ringette in Canada
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013Hall of Famers credit family, coaches
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013Remembering the old Strathcona C.C.
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013Sam Fabro was Mr. Everything in local sports
3 minute read Preview Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013Our halls of fame runneth over
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013Recalling the Western Major Fastball League
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Sep. 18, 2013Best in billiards coming to city
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013Deserving inductees to enter football hall
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013Living the dream: Winnipeg’s Scott Oake
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jul. 24, 2013Living the dream with Winnipeg’s Scott Oake
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jul. 24, 2013Recalling a soggy trip to the British Open
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jul. 10, 2013How will we remember Winnipeg Stadium?
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2013Harris romps to repeat as MSSA’s top male athlete
5 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013Curler’s 50th MCA Bonspiel brings back memories
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013Province’s lacrosse history remembered in Hall
5 minute read Preview Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012Toast & Coffee
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012Out & About
5 minute read Preview Wednesday, May. 30, 2012High school hockey’s best get their due
5 minute read Preview Wednesday, May. 23, 2012Out & About
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, May. 16, 2012Speed skating official logs major air miles
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2012Harris named province’s outstanding male athlete
5 minute read Preview Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012Out & About
2 minute read Preview Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012Harris named province’s outstanding male athlete
5 minute read Preview Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012Out & About
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012Raiders prevail in battle of MMJHL’s best
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012No clear-cut winners for top MB athletes of 2011
5 minute read Preview Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011Toast & Coffee
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011Manitoba’s top table tennis player, Terry Zhang, lost in the finals of an Olympic pre-qualifier tournament played at the Winakwa Community Centre on Dec. 10 and 11.
Zhang led Lucas Wang from Alberta after five sets, but lost the final two sets by the score of 11-9. Saskatchewan’s Alayna Chan won the women’s pre-qualifier.
The winners earned entry into the next qualifying tournament that will be played in Markham, Ont., Feb. 17 to 19.
The Red River Open that attracted 50 local players and another two dozen from Western Canada also was played at Winakwa. In men’s play, Wang took the A singles, Kihyun Kim beat Cam Chang in B singles and Xiang Guo defeated Victor Yu in C play.
Out & About
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jul. 6, 2011Out & About
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jun. 22, 2011Rower and cyclist Theo Dubois, who died on June 10 not long after his 100th birthday, was one of our province’s greatest athletes.
In 1980, when the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame had to select the members of its first induction class, the list of candidates came from more than a century of sport. While Dubois didn’t make the final list, he was inducted the second year, which shows how highly he was rated.
In 1941, Dubois was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s outstanding athlete after he won both the U.S. and Canadian singles rowing championship. His resume includes singles and pairs victories at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta.
Dubois took up bicycle racing in the mid-1930s and won a race from Winnipeg to Winnipeg Beach three times. In those days they raced over a road that was 12 miles of pavement and 38 miles of gravel. A member of the Winnipeg Rowing Club since he was 14, Dubois was still rowing on the Red River in his nineties.
Out & About
3 minute read Preview Thursday, May. 26, 2011Softball star set to take sweet swing south
2 minute read Preview Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011Young stars show off their skills
2 minute read Preview Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011Out & About
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010Out & About
2 minute read Preview Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010One more year (again) for coach Holenski
3 minute read Preview Thursday, May. 6, 2010Out & About
3 minute read Preview Thursday, May. 6, 2010Toast & Coffee: Mooseplex tour a real eye-opener
4 minute read Preview Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010Out & About
3 minute read Preview Thursday, Mar. 4, 2010River Heights Community Centre depended on the work of the late Ray Crosby to record its history.
The centre's carnival, held Feb. 9-14, featured the usual pancake breakfast, sleigh rides, silent auction, a bonfire and hockey games featuring five to eightyear- old players. Former Charleswood Hawks Dean Court and Jeff Van Norman, U of M basketball player Dave Filmon and onetime IHL linesman Paul Krestanowich were among the coaches.
On Saturday morning, Feb.13, a group paused in the club hallway to mark the opening of the Ray Crosby Archives. Crosby was assembling the material at the time of his sudden passing in February 2007. Shirley Crosby called her late husband's toil for the Community Centre "a matter of passion and desire."
Former board member Dale Swirsky said the club's volunteer of the year award will be renamed the Ray Crosby Volunteer of the Year Award in recognition of the man who spent countless hours over a 20-year period working for the community.