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Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk


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                                                                                                Syd Garniner



                                            were hiring in Cornwall, and I ended                                       best, and that team went on to win
                                            up coming here for $107 per week,                                          two Regional Championships.”
                                            which was a lot of money in those
                                                                                                                          On  the nights that Syd  wasn’t
                                            days.”
                                                                                                                       coaching his teams, he volunteered
       By Jim Riddell                         Growing up in Maple  Grove,                                              as an umpire for other leagues,
                                            Syd played tennis and swam                                                 officiating  games  for  about  six
          yd Gardiner came  to Cornwall
                                            competitively, but he also spent                                           years.  In  1968,  Mayor  Nick  Kaneb
      Sin 1963, moving here  from           several  years pitching  baseball,
      Maple  Grove, QC, a  district  in the                                                                            presented  Syd  with  a  certificate
                                            which    ultimately   became     his                                       recognizing  him  for  five  years  of
      city  of  Beauharnois,  located  about   favourite sport. Soon after he arrived
      forty kilometers from Montreal on                                                                                volunteering  with Cornwall  Minor
                                            in  Cornwall,  Syd volunteered                                             Baseball.  During the  winters,  he
      the south shore of the St. Lawrence
                                            to coach in the Cornwall  Minor                                            coached  teams  in  the  Cornwall
      River.
                                            Baseball system. “Dan Begg was                                             Minor Hockey system, and he also
        “My dad (Len Gardiner) was an       the President, and my dad was the                                          refereed. “I’d been coaching bantam
      accountant  and was transferred to    CFO of Cornwall  Minor Baseball,                                           and midget teams when the coach of
      Domtar as Paymaster. I was working    and they got me involved,” recalled                                        a Jr. B team became sick. I was asked
      as a student at the mill in Beauharnois   Syd. “I was coaching three teams                     Photo Submitted   to take over a last place team and we
      and I had a band which I was the      at  different  age  levels,  Pee-wee,   quickly became disciplined. We had   ended up finishing in third place.”
      lead singer in, so I stayed behind for   Bantam, and Junior. The Junior team   two pitchers, Eric Peterson and Brian
      a while.  My dad told  me that  they   was a rag-tag bunch of guys that     Tremblay, that were the best of the                Continued on page 23









































                                                
        
	             
                
    
    
  
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