Talk:Red McCarthy

McCarthy, early ringette development

In case there are conflicting accounts, the following content quotes McCarthy's account of his early involvement in the development of ringette:

"The Recreation Directors of Northern Ontario used to meet periodically to discuss recreation programs in general. At meetings on Sept. 15 and 16, 1963 at the Royal Canadian Air Force base in North Bay, Sam Jacks, director of recreation in North Bay, said there should be a winter team game for females.

Jacks had a drawing with diagonal lines on an ice surface and said the game should be feminine and not rough. He even suggested a three-foot line around the boards which could be a buffer zone, where no body contact would take place.

"I then volunteered to go back to Espanola and experiment with the idea." says McCarthy. "I was also the arena manager back then and had acess to ice time. "Upon returning to Espanola, I contacted some girls who had played some hockey during physical education classes. I asked them if they could come over at noon hours and try some ideas for a new girls game."

They agreed, and each day the group would get an idea, try it, discuss it and then make some changes."

- Mayer, Norm (1989). "The origins of ringette, Espanola's McCarthy developed the game". The Sudbury Star. CheckersBoard (talk) 23:29, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Please read the article paragraph: McCarthy, a member of the Northern Ontario Recreation Directors Association (NORDA), set up the first on-ice activity, or "game", of ringette in the fall of 1963, after volunteering to experiment with a basic set of rules created by Sam Jacks, the President of the Society of Directors for Municipal Recreation of Ontario (SDMRO).[6] The game was to be a new team ice skating game for girls though it had initially been thought of as a potential court game in its very early stage. With help of some of the local girls, McCarthy became instrumental in helping transform the early idea of the sport into a game that could function appropriately on an ice rink.

The first "game", of ringette then took place under his direction at the Espanola Arena in the fall of 1963 between Espanola high school girls, some of whom were high-school ice hockey players. He then created the first set of rules for the sport of ringette and presented them at the NORDA meeting at Moose Lake Lodge in Onaping, Ontario, on January 19–20, 1964.[5]: 4  CheckersBoard (talk) 21:56, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT: The first basic idea/rules for ringette were drafted by Sam Jacks. At a meeting Jacks stated that there needed to be a game just for girls. McCarthy acquired Jacks's basic rules and drawings then experimented with them in Espanola. It was only after this that McCarthy was able to create the formal rules, it was Jacks's idea and he even had a drawing. This is chronological development. CheckersBoard (talk) 22:02, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Book

"Ken Collins Collins, Kenneth S. (2004). The Ring Starts Here: An Illustrated History of Ringette. Cobalt, Ontario: Highway Book Shop. . ISBN 0-88954-438-7" If editors look this up, they will find that this book is out of print and has been for sometime. It can no longer be purchased. The veracity of my sources still stand. CheckersBoard (talk) 14:25, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Just added it to "Further reading" CheckersBoard (talk) 11:32, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Two Red McCarthy's from Canada?

We may have a problem, there seems to be two different Red McCarthy's from Canada who were born at different times and are being mixed up. CheckersBoard (talk) 00:07, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

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