VICTOR "VIC" ELLIS

A lifetime of competition in many branches of sport, especially in golf and curling, has filled his home with so many cups and trophies that it now appears he has a corner on the silver market.
Born in Kimberly, Ont., Vic starred on baseball and soccer team before baseball and soccer teams in 1911, winners of the Grey county Soccer Cup.

Vic played on Collingwood baseball and softball teams for 30 years and was a member of the Collingwood Senior baseball team of 1922, O.A.B.A. finalists and champions of the Georgian Bay League.
A school teacher in Collingwood for twenty years, Vic was the driving force behind the organization of the one-hundred member Tuxis Boys and Trail Rangers in the 1920's.

Vic joined the old Collingwood Golf and Country Club and the Blue Mountain Golf Club in 1928 and was a perennial member of the Men’ Golf team. In 1968, he won the Blue Mountain Handicap Trophy. In July 1943, he shot a hole in one for the first and last time in his golfing career.

However, this versatile athlete gained most of his fame as a expert exponent of the game of curling. A past president of the Collingwood Curling Club, Vic has dominated the "roaring game" for sixty years. Just two years ago he skipped the winning rink in the Markdale Mixed Curling tournament and in 1979 led a Creemore rink to the Quebec International Bonspiel Championship and the Marc-Hellaire Trophy. This is a major curling feat at any time, but at eighty-seven, it was nothing short of a phenomenon. Back in 1936 he skipped a rink in the Ontario Tankard competition and during his lifetime of curling won at least thirty trophies, including the Norman Rule Cup, the Currie Cup, the C.S.L. Trophy, the Enterprise-Bulletin Shield and the Chamber of Commerce Cup.

In 1956 he skipped the first Collingwood rink to ever score an eight end. It was a mixed team with Mary Colling, Evelyn McKean and Johnny Walker.