World of Wings winner 2007
1st San Diego Triple Crown & Breeders
cup Champion 2007
cup Champion 2007
Eq. 1st, San Diego Triple Crown
2006
2006
Eq. 1st, 2005, San Diego Triple Crown
BREEDERS CUP
BREEDERS CUP
Eq. 1st. Vegas Classic 2007
EQ. 1ST. California State Convention
300 mi. race
300 mi. race
I had misplaced this photo back in 2001 and just recently found it. I was
going crazy thinking that it got tossed somehow when I moved locations.
Well, suffice to say that its a happy day that I can post the ONLY known
photo around of the Late Great Roy Hunter with the equally Great Jim
Lewis. Jim who lived into his 90s and whom I had known since I was 10
yrs. old from the San Francisco Club then eventually the Marin county
TAM club dug very deep when he said that Roy Hunter "was the best pigeon
racer/flyer he had ever seen"....... Roys career was short in the Pigeon
Sport but in those few short years he was the best in the USA winning
Big Grand All American several times. Aside from those accolades, I was
friends with the real Roy Hunter and knew him differently than what most
flyers in the Bay Cities Combine knew of him.
On the other hand, Jim Lewis was also one of my heroes in the sport. Not
so much for his racing prowess, but for the years of dedicated unselfish
service he provided to the California State Racing Pigeon Organization.
The work he provided to State Pigeon sport was exhausting and goes
unappreciated by most who remember this great man. In the end we all
form our opinions about these personalities, but reality prevails that their
Legacy cannot be erased since their presence in the sport had such a
positive IMPACT.
RIP Roy and Jim
going crazy thinking that it got tossed somehow when I moved locations.
Well, suffice to say that its a happy day that I can post the ONLY known
photo around of the Late Great Roy Hunter with the equally Great Jim
Lewis. Jim who lived into his 90s and whom I had known since I was 10
yrs. old from the San Francisco Club then eventually the Marin county
TAM club dug very deep when he said that Roy Hunter "was the best pigeon
racer/flyer he had ever seen"....... Roys career was short in the Pigeon
Sport but in those few short years he was the best in the USA winning
Big Grand All American several times. Aside from those accolades, I was
friends with the real Roy Hunter and knew him differently than what most
flyers in the Bay Cities Combine knew of him.
On the other hand, Jim Lewis was also one of my heroes in the sport. Not
so much for his racing prowess, but for the years of dedicated unselfish
service he provided to the California State Racing Pigeon Organization.
The work he provided to State Pigeon sport was exhausting and goes
unappreciated by most who remember this great man. In the end we all
form our opinions about these personalities, but reality prevails that their
Legacy cannot be erased since their presence in the sport had such a
positive IMPACT.
RIP Roy and Jim