Missed photo op
Dang. Six Bellies in the penalty box and I forget my camera!
What a crazy game last night at the Barn, where the Bellies played host to the Nanaimo Timberman ("host" being a rather overly generous term, considering all the violence involved).
In all, the game saw 142 minutes in penalties handed out--from goofy "delay of game" calls for minor roughing to match penalties for spearing (Mike Morrison) and attempt to injure (Rory Smith). In the third period especially, it was like a little bit of lacrosse interspersed between penalties.
Tomorrow night the two teams meet again, this time in Nanaimo. I hope the players make it through relatively unscathed.
Labels: Nanaimo Timbermen, New Westminster Salmonbellies, WLA lacrosse
On Vennum's Lacrosse Legends of the first Americans
American Indian lacrosse: Little brother of war by Thomas Vennum, Jr., is one of the finest books on the history of lacrosse that I've encountered to date.
His more
recent book on lacrosse, however, while an interesting read, has quite a few factual errors, more noticeable to me, a Canadian, than they would perhaps be to an American reader.
Take, for example, this comment on page 40: "In a Dominion Day 1874 game, the Brampton Excelsiors, a British Columbia team, won over the Native Six Nations team..." Um, wrong. The
Brampton Excelsiors are based in Brampton, Ontario, a couple of time zones east of British Columbia.
And of course, when he refers to "Nemeimo" on page 144, he must certainly mean Nanaimo, home of the
Timbermen.
Careless errors like the above can blow a book's credibility. I hate when publishers cut back on fact-checking.
Labels: Brampton Excelsiors, lacrosse, Nanaimo Timbermen, Thomas Vennum
