BY JIM FORTIN
I want to thank the people who contacted me
regarding sports memorabilia they would like to lend or donate
for the Sudburians are Good Sports exhibit.
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Tom Zaitz, the captain of the
Sudbury High Institute of Technology football team in
1939, became a community leader and served on Sudbury
council for a decade. Learn about more local heroes
during the Sudburians are Good Sports weekend June
2-5. |
To answer the most common question, the age
of the item or photograph does not matter. We are celebrating
sports - period, plain and simple. The idea
is to show the community we have a long
history of being exceptional competitors, and that the current
crop of Sudbury's athletes are just as
enthusiastic and active and successful. The
more material we have, the better.
Bell Canada will be joining Northern Life as
a sponsor for the event, presenting the Bell Hockey Hall of
Fame, Legends of the Game exhibit, focused on
Greater Sudbury NHLers.
In preparing research for this event, I have
often turned to one of the community's best resources, the Inco
Triangle.
The Triangle, documents, in a way no other
publication does, life in our community. The company sponsored
sports activities along with other events that helped to build
communities. The company was and continues to be a community
builder.
The October 1956 issue of the Triangle
includes reports on the championship of the Copper Cliff shift
softball league; a badminton competition; the Creighton Indians
defeating the Copper Cliff Redmen in four straight games in the
championship of the Nickel Belt baseball league; the Sudbury
and Copper Cliff high schools junior football teams; the Nickel
Belt Pee Wee league, and Jan "Tarzan" Malik of the Polish White
Eagles, winner of the first Musico trophy in the Sudbury
District Senior Soccer Association.
Not bad eh? And not one mention of
hockey.
Mark June 2, 3, 4, 5 on your calender. The
City of Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums will be hosting
Sudburians are Good Sports: Our history and our future. All
exhibits will be in Copper Cliff.
If you know of any sport hero or group, in
any sport, or have material you would like to see exhibited,
contact me at 692-4448 or at
[email protected], or through the museum
website,
www.sudburymuseums.ca
Jim Fortin is curator of the City of Greater Sudbury
Heritage Museum.