Flash Back November 1988

We were in an over 35 division in the London tournament and we advanced to the final only to lose. Where were Stone, Jarman and Craig?...no idea...too long ago! and who is this Motley Crew?...starting top left is Rick Batty who moved to Ottawa, Tom Dowswell who quit the Gray Blades because he would only play Defence, Mike JW, ex marine now living near Kingston, Dr Dymon who still attends our Golf tournament,  and me, Claude Balls Turner who was our manager that weekend and still lives in London, starting left at the bottom is Dieter Stein who has the distinction of being the only Gray Blade of the 100  or so that ever played for us,  that was asked to leave the team!!, Dr Faulkner who left the team unexpectantly in the mid 90's and we never knew why, his son MacGregor, on his knee played for St Lawrence University and was their top scorer, our Goalie who quit after this tournament and I don't remember his name, Larry who passed away this year, and Murray who still occasionally plays for the Blades and Claudes's son  Bart 

Larry  59 years old and me, 38 years old and dad held his own playing defence and we only had 3 D. He won the oldest player at the tournament as usual. There were no over 50 teams back then...in the next few tournaments, Dad would refuse the oldest player trophy as he got tired of it. You can tell this pic was taken after the game....notice our Original gray sweaters and Larry, the only guy in Oldtimers Hockey at the time to wear #69!!