Mr. Speaker, on September 13 the Ottawa Lynx Triple A baseball team won the Governor's Cup of the international league. Thanks to their great team effort the Lynx beat the Norfolk Tides four to nothing, thus winning the best of five series three games to one. Norfolk with the
best record during the regular season was the favourite team coming into post-season play; however, the Montreal Expos farm team peaked at the right time and took the championship.
Since its creation the prospects for the Lynx have been rather encouraging. In the first year the team set a new Attendance record for the league.
The September 13 game which brought the championship to Canada stretched over four hours and twenty-seven minutes, including two rain delays, yet the 9,000 plus fans gathered at the Ottawa stadium never lost faith in their team.
On behalf of all the baseball fans in Ottawa-Vanier and in Ottawa-Carleton, I offer my most sincere congratulations to the Ottawa Lynx, to their manager, their president and owner, Mr. Howard Darwin and Jim Durrell, the former mayor of Ottawa.