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Old school “Getting the Score”
to say only “score please,” and hang Ethan Vachon and Gavan McDerby.
up once they had been informed. The Falcons Drew Anderson scored
We have come a long way since late, making the final score 5-3.
then and those simple times still St. Joe’s outshot HT 41-25. Dairy
By Thom Racine resonate as a wonderful piece of Queen Game MVP’s were Warner
nostalgia and Canadiana. By the of SJ and Sauve from HT. The Play
way, several hundred fans gathered it Again Sports Hardest working
While searching for some
information on the Cornwall Flyers on Second Street to listen to the wire players were AJ Alejandrino, SJ, and
Allan Cup team last month, I found reports, and the SF logged close to Chase Varin, HT.
hen many of us think back a story that brought a smile to my 5200 calls during the game between The Falcon’s first goal of the game
Wto battery powered transistor face. The history is a wonderful 8:30p.m. and 11:45p.m. that night. at the :53 second mark was their
radios hidden under our pillows reminder of bygone days—when Harvey McClelland, Connie fastest ever goal in the seventeen
at night, listening to our favourite sports junkies abound from 1938, Brown, and Al MacDonald each year history of the game. St. Joe’s
sports broadcasts, it really is a had to scratch the same itch I had scored twice, as the Flyers whipped holds the record for that stat, scoring
special memory of our youth. had in the mid 80s. Hull 10-2 to win in six games and :41 seconds into the 2016 game.
Today, we get up to the minute On March 13,1938 Standard- advanced against Prescott in the The second ever penalty shot was
play-by-play from websites that Freeholder sports reporters, John next series. awarded to the Falcons early in the
Bishop Cup goes to St. Joseph’s third period. Both teams have now
record game summaries in real time. B. McKay, and Jack Park, traveled
They played the 17th annual received a penalty shot (SJ 2015),
Yet it was this discovery that tweaked to Ottawa (Hull played in Ottawa as
Bishop Cup on March 6th, and the and both times the shot has been
a special memory for me. During the they did not have an arena to hold
Holy Trinity Falcons sat poised to saved. The last four games have
mid eighties, my brother was playing the crowds expected for the title
at Northeastern University. games), for the sixth game of the capture the Bishop’s Holy Grail. been decided by two goals, and three
Some of the games were on the best of seven between the Volant’s Leading 2-1 with ten minutes of those ended 5-3 in favour of SJs.
New England Sports Network and Flyers. Using the direct wire remaining the Falcons were HT won 6-4 in 2022.
(NESN TV) but most are not. What from the press box at the game, they under siege when Wyatt Warner An estimated 1200 watched the
I would do was call the arenas and sent back a running play-by-play to tipped a point shot past Falcons game continuing to make the event a
hope someone answered. I told them the SF office in Cornwall. Using goalie, Parker Sauve, and the game city schoolboy hockey tradition that
I was calling from out of town and a loudspeaker set up outside the was tied. HT had scored twice in brings out the best in the two schools
ask them for the score, then asked building, a reporter then announced the first seven minutes on goals by spirit. The big winner after the game
if they minded the calls every half the score and exciting plays to fans Stanton Antoine and Chase Varin, was St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank.
hour or so, and continued making gathered on the street in front of the then rode their goaltender until the Every year the money raised, from the
these short, long distance calls. original SF offices on Second street. Panthers scored four times in the final gate and a special BC school ‘dress
Back then, it was expensive to But it is what the paper also offered ten minutes of the game to seal their down’ day, goes to the food bank.
make a half dozen, hopefully well- that stirred my memory. Nine extra 14th Bishop Cup. Warner scored Numerous school dignitaries were
timed, calls for brief updates. I don’t phone lines hooked into the regular two more after his redirect, making on hand and Father Theo Nnorom
regret doing it as it scratched my SF number 1700 would be available him the first player in Bishop Cup from St. Peter Catholic Church stood
itch, and I didn’t have to wait until and answered. Callers would hear an history to record a natural hat trick. in for Bishop Damphousse handling
the next morning for the score. operator, at which they were asked Also scoring for the Panthers were the opening ceremonial puck drop.
