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Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk with Area Seniors

Bill Murphy – Over 70 Years in Hockey

“The Kingston Penitentiary was into the wind full out for the 3
ill Murphy was born in
B1936 on a small dairy farm on one side and the psychiatric 1/2 mile distance to Wolfe Island,
hospital on the other side and then unzipping their coats for
at Brewers Mills, just outside
we were right on the bay”. Bill the skate home with the wind at
of Kingston, towards Chaffey’s
Lock. A few years later the stated that “it was a great place their backs. Bill believes that was
Murphys sold the farm, buying to grow up, but it was rough in the reason that the Portsmouth
a house in Portsmouth, a village those days and you had to be teams were able to outskate the
tough to survive. It was hockey competition. Several players went
that would be annexed in 1952 to
become part of Kingston. in the winter and baseball in the on to the pros, including Bill’s
summer. Gus Marker, who had longtime defence partner Jack
spent several seasons in the NHL Hendrickson, who eventually
playing for the Maple Leafs and played for the Detroit Red Wings.
the Red Wings, owned a cement “Years later when I taught power
plant in Portsmouth and he set a skating I realized that pushing off
room aside where the village kids with the toe and all of the other
could learn how to box. dynamics of power skating were
being used on that skate to Wolfe
The great depression had just
ended and there was very little Island.
money anywhere, Bill recalls that Bill attended Regiopolis High
parents would buy their children School in Kingston; a boys’
Photo Submitted
second hand skates that were a school that was run by Jesuit
couple of sizes too big so that they fit. There was a hockey rink on priests. The school only had
would last more than one winter the bay, but the local players about 280 students, but had a very
and then give them three pair of found a different way to hone their strong sports program, often being
Photo Submitted socks at Christmas to make them skating skills. They would skate Continued on page 5

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