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Wednesday, September 9, 1981

THE REVIEW

Geronimo Canoe Club paddles

to string of victories

This has been Geronimo’s year. .

In the season just finished the Geronimo
Canoe Club from Tsartlip (South Saanich)
Reserve has won virtually everything there
is to win in Indian war canoe racing.

Competing against canoe pullers from a
dozen other bands from the Island, the
Lower Mainland and Washington, both
women’s and men’s crews won every
trophy available for the 11-paddle war

canoes.

They also won the races for six-paddle
canoes and most of the doubles and singles.
When there were races for ‘‘buckskins’’
(under 15) mixed crews (six women, five
men) or old timers (over 40) they generally

won those too.

The women’s crew.
has dominated the
opposition for several
years, and was un-.
defeated last year, but
this is the first year
that the men have
outclassed . everyone
else. The. women are
so good that they won
a race in which they

were still at the beach ~
when their opponents —

left. the ‘starting line,
and another in which
they were one crew
‘member short...
. There-is no formal

schedule: -for = war.
canoe races, but there:
is .some .form’ of.
festivity. involving

‘races both Saturday’
‘and. Sunday being
held by one or another

of the bands. in the. :

“area. almost every
__ weekend from May to
_ the end of August. ~

Even. © the

the trophy.

“war: canoes. competing
- in the men’s races,’

“women’ S Crews:

canoes
miles:

are’

-long, © often

“its advantages because
there’ are. no
collision. —.
/ = and. if several: 50-
go around in:a bunch
result.
made by. ‘hollowing

logs. They. are very

light but fragile, Even -
the six-man canoes are.

40 feet long.

They ship water in-
and.
“although = bailers” are

rough ©. weather

used’ they sometimes
“swamp. ‘They can also

be dumped if one of

“the: pullers: misses his
timing | when ‘they.

switch paddles” from:
_one Aare to the thet. ue
“Hard

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; “At the start: of: this
season ‘there: were. 27%:

~ three’-of ‘them. from: :
“ Tsartlip. ‘Teserve, and=
> there:. were ae dozen.

-Courses for the big:
“several:
taking half an hour or
more. :A long distance +
to the first. mark has |

rules:

foot-plus canoes try to |
alot of damage | can
The canoes are all

out and shaping cedar.

vital:
“crew,:
reason.”

training — is’

“which:
owhy..
number.”

season.

“of.

In a.

Bay ferry.

‘This summer they.
~ had’ only

two . free
weekends, and those
resulted from ..can-

~cellations. They raced »
at.

Saanichton

Spit,
Cowichan..>

wid IRN atak,

» newer

for a. winning .
“iS. -one ~.
the:
of entrants: :
dwindles: considerably:
in the latter part.of the:
: Te The (
Geronimo: crews don’t
start. training cuntil. a
“couple.”
before the. first. race, ®
“but: from ‘then on they.:
“practice ‘daily on the.
bay. infront: of the:
* reserve.
‘they can: pass the Mill

weeks”

Ba y.

(twice), ‘Nanaimo,
Mill Bay, Seabird: Is-
land (near Agassiz),
Lummi (near Belling--

ham), Cultus . Lake
(near  Chiliwack),
Chemainus (twice)

and. Neah Bay. Their
own. Saanich Indian
Water Festival was
held August 15 and
16.

The club is named

after its canoe.. The
six-man. canoe. is
called ‘*Little

Geronimo’', and two
Tsartlip “clubs

_Wayne ‘Moris, skipper of the men’s and
women’s: A T-paddle
weekend races are not”
a series. ~The winner. Of:
the: Sunday Tace: Bets 7

and” six-paddle war :

‘are the: ‘No: 9 Catioe

‘Club: and. the -Str.”
; Christopher. “Canoe.”
“Club,. also tamed: :

: after their canoes
ity ‘T. h eo.

: ‘purchased last season: He
At is lighter than the «=
_ Geronimo,
battered >
but»

“Original:
which.
into:
“may

was
-retirement:
“eventually. be

~ refurbished. The new
sprint ..

canoe .may © have
contributed to.
men’s crew’s sudden
rise to dominance, but
there | were

“personnel. changes,

both in the Geronimo
crew and in the crews:

of —the

Queen . and

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‘Rainbow

the:

-also-

Cowichan
“the

(Chemain-
us), their main rivals.
The ‘skipper, who
does the steering, is
always .a man, so
Wayne Morris: is a
part of all the winning
Il and_-six-paddle
crews. He and_ his
brother Leonard, who
has the stroke (bow)
position in the big
canoe, form the
winning two-man
team, and they divide
the honours in the-
individual races, with
Wayne winning. most

canoe crews, with some of the prep hies won =

away rivalry that in-

George Harris. Harris
is

from the
Beach reserve,
Ladysmith.

In the women’s
crew Carolyn Morris
is the stroke, and
teams. with Sylvia
Horn to win most of
the two-paddle races.
She usually wins the
singles as well, but
there is a keen four-

Shell
near

cludes Rita and Ivy
Morris, who -also
provide the main
challenge in the two-

by. the Geronimo: Canoe Club.

“of the time.
~ Other

Rick. _Sam,~

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Howard Morris, : anid _filliams
me _ Fire put out ~
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firemen, responding -Corvette » which’ was

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Thursday ‘afternoon,

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extinguished
everything
control,
“Reason for the alert.
Was an engine. fire i ina.

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