Sports

CRANBROOK SPORT. –

                Since the coming of the Crow the residents of South East Kootenay have been more or less interested in amateur sports of all kinds, and in this field, as in all others, Cranbrook has ever been to the front, and as a result numberless medals and trophies attest to the prowess of her adherents.  Since 1899, when the first athletic organizations were completed, she has forged steadily ahead until during the past year public interest has been aroused to a high pitch, and the different teams were liberally supported by sport loving citizens.  While the hockey and lacrosse teams did not succeed in capturing the trophies played for, they put up games that no town need be ashamed of, and which, indeed, were a credit to the individuals composing the same, when it is considered that the most of the members were trainmen and unable to attend practice as the should.

            But the crowning glory of Cranbrook’s athletic successes was her 1902 baseball team.  While it has always been a hard matter for the admirers of this game  to induce our citizens to furnish the necessary finances to support a team, the fact remains that since the organization of the first nine in 1899 the Cranbrooks have never been defeated on their home grounds, and the past year we had what was undoubtedly the best baseball team ever seen in British Columbia or the Northwest Territories.

            The football team was probably as strong an aggregation of Association players as was ever got together in South East Kootenay, and were not defeated during the season, and in the game with Fernie, July 1, recaptured the Beattie cup, which was lost last year.