Page 26 - Sports Energy News, Cornwall, Issue No 133
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Presents Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk
with Area Senior : Ken Ingram
Serving You Since 1937
( Margaret, Theresa, Marion, and Bill was eight years older followed
Beatrice) and things were tight,” Ken by Earl, who was two years older, and
recalled. “ Marion gave me an old Jerry, who was sixteen years younger.
pair of white figure skates that she Bill Sr. had been a boxer and had a
had grown out of, I filed the picks ring in the backyard where he taught
off the end of the blades and painted those skills to his sons. There were
By Jim Riddell the leather black. I was playing as a no arguments in the house, things got
forward by then and that’s what I wore settled in the ring. The Gagnon family
“Our family lived on Eighth Street for skates. If we broke a stick in those lived just down the street from us.
near Marlborough, and I started days, we would take a tin can, remove There were three boys in that family
playing hockey at the Eighth Street the top and bottom, cut it open, wrap and their father, Art, had been an
Park when I was about five years it around the broken part and screw Ontario Golden Glove Champion who
old. I was a goalie, and I had a pair it together.” Ken played hockey in coached amateur boxing in Cornwall
of bob skates and wore a regular high school, then for Courtaulds and at the Knights of Columbus, Moose
pair of gloves. My goalie pads were also for a Cornwall team in a Long Lodge, and the Canadian Legion. I
Canadian Tire catalogues, there Sault league. “My three brothers were was the same age as Maurice Gagnon,
were no elbow pads, chest protector, all natural athletes and were better and I matched up well with both him
helmet, or mask.” Kens first pair of hockey players than I was. They all and my brother Earl. I sparred many Ken Ingram. Photo Submitted
actual skates were handed down to played for the Royals; Bill and Jerry rounds with each of them, but I do getting pretty good and was maybe
him from his sister. “We had eight both went to play for a while in remember Earl knocking one of my a little bit cocky. I challenged my
kids in our family, four boys, (Bill, leagues in the USA. Ken was the third teeth out once. When I was around brother Bill; that was a bad mistake,
Earl, Ken, and Jerry) and four girls, oldest of the four Ingram brothers. seventeen, I was in great shape, was Continued on page 27
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