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34          February 2018 Issue #63                                                         www.sportsenergynews.com



                                A Little Western Nostalgia…














        By Thom Racine


            ince  I have  been  scouring the
        Ssports pages for history shorts in
        preparation for Hometown Hockey,
        I have always wondered about that
        great Cornwall Flyers team of 1937-
        38; the team that surprised everyone
        in the east and represented Cornwall
        in the Allan Cup final in Saskatoon
        and Calgary.
          What is widely known, the Flyers
        lost the best of five series to the Trail
        Smoke Eaters three games to one.
          As I  often  do, I  looked  for the
        minutiae, the tiny bits of information
        that put more “meat on the bones” of   Back row, left to right: F. McAteer, J. Utmann, F. Gardner, A. MacDonald, W. Landymore, Don Penniston
                                              (coach), V. Godin, R. McClelland, M. McMahon, C. Markell (manager).
        any story.
                                              Front row, left to right: Floyd Perras, C. Brown, F. Gillie, W. Meloche, D. Proulx, T. Donnihee, K. McCann.
          The  first  mystery  solved  comes                                                                                                  Photo Submitted
        from the Flyers’ team picture.  If you   Then,  the  obvious  stares  back  at  wall.                               The team rode the rails to Saskatoon
        look quick, why wouldn’t you think    you, like the faces of the players; the   So, does anyone but me care where  for the first game of the Allan Cup on
        it was a picture taken many years ago   old  community  arena  never  had  a  the famous picture of our Flyers was
        in Cornwall.                          bank of thirteen windows in its north  taken?                                              Continued on page 35

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