ants, champions such as Owen Carney, Brian Herlihey and Ron Hartell and
they told me that the Mission organization ran a top notch show.....Frank Grey is an old timer in the Sooke area and it was Frank and a group of his friends who, back in the early thirties organized the now famed All Sooke Day celebrations. Loggers Sports owes a lot to men like Frank Grey and Hugh McKenzie of the Victoria.
....These fellows were always around when a show needed setting up and their leisure came last when it meant pleasure for the crowds. The Wickheim men, Jube and Andy, are household words to the followers of logger sports. The thrills these men of the birling logs have given to thousands of people will never be forgotten. And like so many others of our champion loggers, these fellows are like true athletes, always in shape, and always ready to pitch in and help some new community set up their logger sports.
....It’s been interesting to watch the growth of the sports events over the past 6 years – and I’ve met some pretty fine men along the way. There’s a family of Herlings in Sooke, Dick is the father and he and his wife have four of the Berlingest Herlings you’d ever want to watch on a pond. These young labs can wet most adult opponents now and as the years go on you are going the hear a lot about them – Dick, like the other men I have mentioned here, takes great
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Loggers’ sports now official
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....There area lot of pretty happy people
in our number one industry just now. .I refer to the various groups of
people who will organize and direct loggers’ sports day in their
communities. For while the axes have been flying at targets and the birlers
have been dumping each other all over B.C. this summer, the government
of this province has seen fit to proclaim loggers sports as the “Provincial
Industrial Sport of B.C.”
....This was done by the Premier in his Order
In Council Number 712 recently in Victoria. Well, Mr. Premier, and gentlemen
of the Orderly Council, we thank you. To have this type of recognition
gives a great boost to loggers committees and contestants all over the
province.
....This summer 10 Canlog (Can-adian Loggers
Sports Federation) sponsored shows will be handled in communities from
Port Hardy to Prince George.
....Local committee’s work throu-ghout
the winter in Vancouver to set up dates, revise the rule book, and compare
notes with each other.
....The big shows such as the PNE Festival
of Forestry and the Squamish and Sooke Loggers Sports groups discussed
with the newer shows of Prince George, Woss Lake, Gold River, Hope, Mission,
Terrace and Port Hardy the problems most often encoun-tered and overcome
by those who are responsible for putting the shows together.
....And no mean task it is. Take Gold River
for instance. Here’s a new community that is determined
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to show off its feelings for the logger and under the guiding hand of
Jim Messer and his committee have built find grounds, raised two excellent
100 foot spars, organized their contestants and will for the first time
this year have an official Loggers Sports Day on July 17. The Canadian
Horizontal Chopping trophy goes on the block there and the best of choppers
from BC and the U.S. will compete for the honor.
....Or take Mission – now here is
a wonderful example of a beautifully packaged show, neat and tidy, well
org-anized and under the capable hands off Perry Cleven – a lady
logger sports enthusiast. I visited the show on July 1 it is held at
the Mission Park in
