St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-28
CAMBRIA CONQUERS
And Carries Off the Gordon
Medal in the Great Cur
ling BonSplel.
Seven Of the Thirty-Eight
Kinks Entered for the In
itial Contest.
St.Paul and Minneapolis Kinks
Easily Defeated in the Be-
ginning.
The Annual Bonspiel Gets a
Good Contest for the
Starter.
Bir,r-r-r! That's the sound that charms the

ear
o. callants fond o. curlin',
When DER the ice in full career
The channel stones are birlin'.
Cauld glowers the rosy southlin sun
And gilds the frosted trees,
The links are drawn, the spells begun,
The skips roar frae the tees.
"Haud up! baud up. Eth, mon, but
ye're eurler," roared a brawny High
lander yesterday afternoon as the stone
sent spinning along the CLASSY surface
of the rink by Fam o. Shanter covered
enthusiast played havoc with the
enemy's guard and went straight to
center.
The exclamation was one character
iStic Of the scene of its utterance. me
big Jeremy skating rink at the foot OF
Robert street, was covered with curriers'
from all over the Northwest III attend
ance at the first annual curling bonspiel
of the ST. Paul Curling club. At 10
o'clock yesterday morning the contest
for the Gordon medal was lnprogresS,
and the constant cries of the. SkIpS, as
they instructed their men, made the
game all the more intensely exciting.
The Kinks taking part III the contest
Paul, Waupaca, Wis; Chicago. Mime
apolis. Portage, Wis; Cambria, Wis.
and Milwaukee. The memberships of
the Kinks comprises the following gem
tlemen:
st. Paul-H. w. Cory, j. s. Hinkle. A. Nc
Culloch, William Rodger, skip.
Waupaca-H. NJ. Lea. 7. Pipe A. NJ. Chan
dler, 5. Chandlersskip.
Chicago-D. Mckay, j. McWhlster, George
WOnd T r Hill skin
Minneapolis-S. S. Hastings A. Patton, b.
Brooks Il. Hastings, skip.
Portage-B. C. Meaeher T. j. Wells, S. Il.
Graham. J. H. Wells. skip.
Cambria-E. w. Lloyd, j. SanderSon, A. T..
McCaull r. McConaehie, skip.
Milwaukee-S. Murray, j. Lawrie, r. Smith,
o. W. Robertson, skip.
ST. Paul won the bye on the first draw.
The game was called promptly at 10
o'clock, all Kinks competing. The posi-
tons were Waupaca vs.. Chicago, Min
neapoliS VS.. Portage and Cambria VS..
| Milwaukee.
Although the majority of the curriers'
| betrayed in their speech that they were
| of Scotch birth or extraction. there were
many Of the participate who had never
seen Scotland. Germans. Irish, and
even natives of Sweden to whom the
| sport proved no less interesting that
! they were not cnrlers by birth or inner
itance. The fact that the artificial ice
on the newly completed club rink
was not sufficiently hard for use, COM
| PEELED the players to accept the gen..
| erous offer of MIR. Jeremy, who donated
| the use of his magnificent rink on the
river. When the players, armed with
| brooms. and the spectators, Impelled by
| unbounded curiosity, filed down to the
battle ground and took their places the
| array was sufficiently imposing. The
PLAYERS wore no colors, the Tam O'Shan-
| tiers sported by the majority being, on
reliable Information, simply the inSig-
MIA of nationality.
The spectator who had thought curl
ing d dull game enough from the de
scriptions he had read and heard of it,
changed his mind quickly enough and
was very soon as deeply immersed in
the spiel as the most ardent devotee
present of the Scotch national game.
| 1t takes some time for the average un-
initiated mortal to get next to the deep
| depths of such EXPLANATIONS as sYe're
over sune monp "Haud up, baud up"
OF Chap an lie." "Guard me thot,"
Hes aft him." "Soop. Soop!" and so
forth. but they all mean great deal to
the players, and after awhile come to be
| looked for i'll their proper situations by
| even the outsider. One interested fol-
| lower of the fortunes Of Waupaca rink,
the champions of his native heath,
rem arked that so far as he could
| see the game was revised version
| of billiards, on ice instead of table,
with just dash Of the bowling alley
| thrown in. Waupaca was getting the
worst of it with the doughty ChicagOans,
and the Waupaca man who hated to see
them beaten, shrieked wildly at what
he regarded as a players error, why
in h-ll didn't you English the other
way" The wearers of the red and
white badges paused long enough in
| their sport to emit roar of laughter at
the Wisconsin mans query, and he com
| inc wisely to the conclusion that curling
wasn't billiards, lay low for the rest Of
| the draw. The time until the shadows
on the ice bespoke the hour of noon
seemed short enough to the players, but
it was time enough for Chicago to de-
! feat Waupaca by a score of 20 to 9,
| Cambria to down Milwaukee to the tune
of 16 to Is, and fof Portage to send Min
neapolis back to quarters beaten by just
one point, the score being 10 TO ID. The
| players then repaired to the club quar-
tiers, where dinner was served.
IL may not be OF interest to the public
to know how these curriers' ate, but the
voracity of the appetiteS they brought
with them from the ice proved pro-
| foundry surprising to non-curlers.
Speaking of the club house, it may be
we'll to give little description of the
latter as it stands completed. The rink
| proper is 90X165 feet, and as smooth as
French plate glass. The reception room,
with glass fronting on the rink in such
| a manner as to give unimpeded view of
the game in progress. occupies, with
l the dining room, the south end
of the building. A very noticeable
ornament of the reception room is
I a hand-painted black satin banner. pre-
scented by Mrs. William Rodger yester-
day. The design is blooming thistle
with crossed hrooms. Underneath the
the thistleiis well-executed representa-
ton of ''ehannel stone." and the sur
mounting inscription, eminently appro-
pirate, is ''Nemo me ImpunesLaceSsit"
-''No one wounds me with impunity."
The gift was accepted by the curriers' as
very pretty compliment, and it
occupies an honored place on
| the wall. The after dinner
| smoke having been discussed with
proper gravity, the curriers' prepared for
the second draw, which occupied the
whole of the afternoon. The contest
ants were st. Paul VS.. Chicago and Por-
tage VS.. Cambria. Although curling is
4 not betting game, and though, as far
as the curriers' themselves were con-
cerned, there were no bets made, yet
the spectators seemed to think there
was plenty of room for speculation, and
odds of 2 to on Chicago over all we're
taken SO freely that the parties
| offering the odds shortly drew
in their horns and determined
| to watch the game awhile before MAX
ing any fresh offers. Both afternoon
games were characterized by frst-class
play, and it was pretty hard to tell up
to- late stage Of the games whether
Chicago had any the best of it over st.
Paul or Cambria over Portage. AS the
afternoon drew on the crowds about the
rink became larger and the interest in
the fortunes of the home team more i'll
tense.
Skip Rodger, of the st. Paul four.
| jumped about and guided the game with
the agility of a twenty year-oId. John
| McCulloch. vice president of the Grand
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