Page 34 - Sports Energy News, Cornwall, Issue No 63

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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