Dear Editor:
I was pleased to see a Hyack Festival insert in the May 17 edition of the Royal City Record; pleased until I saw a major omission from the schedule of events. For the last 49 years, evidently longer than the 42year-old Hyack Festival itself, New Westminster Baseball has run a baseball tournament for 11-to 12year-old teams on the second weekend of the Hyack festivities, i.e. the Memorial Day weekend.
The tournament starts on the Friday and features 16 teams in game action on four diamonds at Moody Park, including the stadium diamond and Justin Morneau Field. Games continue all day Saturday, starting at 10 a.m. with a home run contest after the morning game. The tournament ends on Sunday with two round robin games at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. followed by the medal round games at 4 p.m. at the stadium and Justin Morneau Field. Teams come from across the Lower Mainland and even from afar, as last year a team came from Edmonton, Alta.
Ken Armstrong, New Westminster
