St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-17
BEAT TIE CANADIANS.
The Royal Caledonian Tank
ard Landed by the st.
n Paul Kinks.
Four Gold Medals, Valued at
500, Also Go to the Net
tleton Rink.
The Latter Still in the Con-
test for the Grand Chal-
lenge Trophy.
It Also Has a Chance to Pull
Off the WalkervilIe
Tankard.
Special to the Globe

SPSSldi W tut
WINNIPEG, Feb 16.-The st. Paul
rinks tonight won the Royal Caledonian
tankard. valued at $3.50. presented by
Sir Donald A. Smith, K. c. M. g., with
| four gold medals, also by the donor, val
ued at 800, for members of the winning
| rink. The contest occurred tonight be-
tween McCulloch against j. Shaw. of
Winnipeg, and Nettleton against
Thompson, of Portage la Prairie. The
game was magnificent battle through
out, and was watched by an immense
crowd with breathless interest. Nc
Culloch and Shaw had an exceedingly
hot contest, the score never being more
than one or two 'up" or down." Now
McCulloch had one to the good, only to
drop one "down" on the succeeding
head. The next head he would lead
again; and SO the game vacillated from
start to finish, McCulloch's final score
being one down." the narrow margin
of Shaw's score over McCulloch being
due almost entirely to Alex
McCuloch's Brilliant Work.
With very few exceptions, every head
was against McCulloch when he put his
foot in the ''hack." and by his masterful
play changed the aspect of the head,
driving the opposing stones or drawing
to the tee to ''cut out the shot" The
score was Is to IL in favor of Shaw. Net
tleton's men had the redoubtable Ike
Thompson, of Portage. to fight with.
and it was a battle royal. Nearly every
stone delivered "found its road" and
lay where the beSom indicated the shot
required. Nettleton started in by max
ing two on the first head. In the sue
ceeding three heads Thompson made
six. Then the Nettleton boys showed
the stuff that was in them and caught
up, and from that time until the
finish never allowed Thompson to
secure the lead. At no time, how
ever, was the game out of doubt, the
biggest lead secured by the ST. Paul
boys being five in the head before the
last. The boys all played like heroes,
Mcmillan excellIDg particularly in some
splendid running shots. NettIeton also
played some beautiful draws" The
final score was Is to II in favor of Net
Teton, thus making the aggregate score
27 for st. Paul as against "a for Canada.
According to the conditions of the con-
test this beautiful trophy goes to the
club having the highest aggregate score,
and then the respective rinks winning
for their club play off among themselves
for the trophy. Last night the st. Paul
boys lost the international event, just
reversing matters, as McCulloch won
and Nettleton lost This is Nettleton's
first defeat. He is still
I'm the Grand Challenge
and the Walkerville events. The work
cut out for the ST. Paul boys last night
w as rather severe. They went on to
play at 1880, and Immediately upon the
conclusion of that game were put on
again. having to play continuously from
after dinner till O'Clock in the morn
ing. The Kelly-Nettleton match was
center of considerable interest until it
was seen that the Canadian was lead
ing too far to be overtaken, Nettleton
seemingly being in hard luck. Then
the crowd around the rink where
Patton and McCullOch were carry
ing the warfare became larger and
the interest was maintained until the
very last stone was played. In order to
save time, as the game was somewhat
late in starting, both ripks scored one
for the first two ends without playing.
From that time until the seventeenth
end the score was tied no less than tour
times. On the fourteenth end Patton
Oh ant nNr laId
three on the next end. thus making a
tie and the largest scores on any single
end. On the sixteenth end the st. Paul
rink scored one point, but Patton tied
again on the next end. The last end was
anybody's till the last stone was
played. McCulloeh then lay two to win,
and had failed to put OH guard, leav-
ing chance for Patton to get in draw.
Patton's last stone was little heavy,
and left the ends as before, giving the
game to McCulloch by score of Is to