K of C Free Throw Memories Come In Contests With A #3

It was FT III, on Saturday, December 22nd, 1979, and Saturday, February 5th, 1980. This was St Sylvester Council #6194, running the show, with the Council Contest, being run at Blessed Sacrament-Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. It was a Contest laced with Controversy, as it was moved away from the base, at St Sylvester School at 396 Grant Avenue, in City Line-Brooklyn, infuriating that base. That Base was not cooperative, so the Contest was moved. It also marked the end of Sylvestrian Exclusivity, as they were NOT the ONLY GAME in town:

Three Kings County Champions and One Western LI Champions were crowned. It infuriated The Council, unto the point of not giving recognition to these Champs. The Western LI Winner, became Downstate Champion, in March, 1980. There was a problem-they were NOT from St Sylvester Parish, as that Council was too-localized and Crassly-Parochial;

Council 5103 gave recognition to these Winners, in 1994, in commemoration of the 15th Anniversary Year. In 1994, was also FT III, held at St.Pancras, from which 3 Queens County Champions were crowned. One of those Winners from 1994, Jamie Jones, is the Blood Niece of 1980 Downstate Champion, Karen Fleming. Jamie's Mom is Karen's Older Sister;

For Msgr Sherman #5103, a joint venture with Long Island Council #197, in LI 197's FT XVIII and 5103's FT XIII, saw Keandra Leong eventually win the NY State Championship. The Council Contest, like 6194's FT III, took place at Blessed Sacrament Hall, on Pine Street-Cypress Hills. Keandra Leong came from Our Lady Of Mercy Recreation and Our Lady Of Mercy School, in Forest Hills, a parish serviced by 5103;

For Sherman 5103, like St Sylvester 6194, their Greatest Contests, both took place on Pine Street in Brooklyn, in a Gym, now named for a Mr Anthony Iadanza, known around the globe as Tony Danza;

Good Things often come in Threes;

Later!