Lake Placid News, August 22, 1947
Here and There
By E. S. Dyer
A SPAN OF THIRTY YEARS: Funny what thoughts come into a fellows mind as the years on life's scroll unwind, and the ones that are past wind up and disappear into that limbo whence things do not return. Without being moody at all—nothing is more foreign to my disposition—one can't help but think, with a bit of nostalgia, of the yester-years. Had a dip back into the past the other day when I passed on the street a stocky, rotund, and now pretty gray fellow whom I used to watch as coach of the Baseball Team from Kanuka Camp in 1917. I was then an "inmate" of the Villa Dorsey, now many years torn down, and a local Town team frequently played on the lot back of the Villa on what is the campus and cinder track of the High School. Many times the Kanuka Camp team played there, and I never missed a game. Then, on the same spot, Dan Sullivan's teams crossed bats with a lot of teams from around the North Country. Remember when "Sully" had Owen Keefe catching for him? He had about the quickest snap-wrist-throw to second base that I ever saw. He also hit a number of home runs out between those two red barns—surely you remember them; they were just about where the left wing of the High School is now. Then there was Manning, who always carried a whisk-broom in his back pocket, to dust off the plate, when the umpire was negligent in doing so. One Labor Day, Walter Trudeau, played in the outfield for us, and his brother was pitching for Tupper Lake. Biggest crowd I think, that ever saw a ball game in my time here—1,800! Game went into the 9th tied at 1-1. Walter Trudeau then smacked one 'way out, bringing in 2 men, from second and third, and the game, and the season, was over.
