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The Salmon Arm Cricket Club was organized in 1911. The team members included R.H. Fortune, John Harragin, George Holmes, H. Verity, Eric Bivar, A.D. Meek, W. Meek, Hugh and Norman Bowden, a bank clerk, Ashton and Claude Barlow. Team members played at the Fall Fair in Armstrong, travelling by democrat buggies, switching horses in Enderby.
Mrs. A. McGuire donated four acres to the west ofa the wharf for a playing field. The club members cleared and levelled the grounds. The north end was developed into tennis courts. A pavilion was made out of a shed donated by Mrs. McGuire.
In 1914 the club was disbanded with news of the Great War. It reconvened in the 1920s with the help of the Doe family.
1936 members consist of: Guy Elphinston, Art Smith, Don Campbell, Vic Nancollas, J. Nancollas, R. Harvey, Alex Cragg, Constable Hodgkin, Max Ladner, N.H. Bowden, M. Pottie, T. Prescott, Jack Milling, Major F. Bivar, N.C. Dawson.
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