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MEMORIES OF YESTER YEAR
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 8 February 1923]
“Yes, I remember when the piece of property you referred to in the last issue, in connection with Moses Betts, was nothing more than a vacant commons,” stated John H. Crow to the Tribune and Telegraph yesterday.
“Way back in ’72 when I was a boy my home was at Fenwick,” stated Mr. Crow. “I remember coming all the way to Welland to attend a circus on that property between North Main street and the High School, West Main and the creek. VanAmburghs Golden Menagerie was the name of the show and I remember it quite well. That would have taken place just this side of the high school.
But circuses were not the only events that occupied the commons in those days as now Welland had a cracker-jack baseball team and it was there where their big games were played. Some of the players were Cyrus Handcock, C.B. Crow, and Frank Rounds. Some of the players were heavy hitters and the ball on various occasions nearly went into the creek.
There was also another ball park on the east side of Hellems Avenue, south of where the new packing plant has been erected. It was there where all the grand cricket-matches were staged.
I also remember A.G. Hill quite well. He must have been about 35 when an exciting hitch-and-kick contest was staged on the cricket grounds, and to which Mr. Hill was an interesting spectator. After watching the contest for some little while Mr. Hill decided to try his hand, or rather his kick, and in a valiant attempt beat out his contestants.”
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