St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-15
A ONE-SIDED GAME.
The Nettleton Rink Easily
Wins the Caledonian
Tankard,
Defeating the HiDkel Contin-
gent by a Score Of
20 to II.
Yesterdays Round = UP OF
Sporting Events Of Local
Interest.
Winter Horse Racing and
Sporting Notes Of the
Country.
"It's q profession ~

tits prOfeSSlOn!"
About 10 O'clock last night some one
telephoned to the curling rink to inquire
how the game stood and the above was
the lacOnic answer. 1t very terSelv eX-
pressed the game and was applauded
by the crowd of listeners. The game
was match to determine the final OWL
ership of the ROYAL Caledonian Tank
ard, won by the combined rlnks at the
Winnipeg bonspiel, and the result was
awaited with great interest by all of the
local curriers'. The Kinks engaged were
those skipped respectively by George 0.
Nettleton and John q. Hinkel. Some
days ago, the game was played off, but
Hinkel was absent and claimed that his
rink could not play the game in his alb
sence; accordingly it was played Overland
resulted in an easy victory for the Net
Teton rink, the score standing 20 to II.
Quite crowd of curriers' had assembled
to see the sport, and found the ice in
splendid condition, the cold snap of the
past two days having hardened it up
and given it the requisite keenneSS. 1t
was noticed that in playing from the
house there was very slight falling off
against the in-turn. while IN playing
from the other direction there was All
equally slight falling off against the 0ut-
turn. This somewhat affected some
stones. but not enough to have any
great bearing upon the game. The
Kinks lined up in the following order:
Fairehild, Myron,
Lorimer, j. McCulloch,
Mcmillan. Hinkel-skip,
Relationship. A. McCullOch.
Hinkel skipped his rink, though Nc
CullOch threw the last stone. 1t was by
no means all exciting game, as it was
too one-sided from beginning to end;
but it was a well played game and de-
veloped many crack shots. NettletOn
started off with one in the first head,
added fOur in the second and another in
the third. thus securing a long lead.
He then inGugurated a "plugging
game" TO prevent any great count in a
head. and never was thereafter headed.
Both riukS played a strong game. but,
as stated in the beginning. it was merely
procession. An interesting feature
was the keeping of system OF marking
of each player. 1t was an experiment
anu quite cfuue, put Will soon O6
brought down to more perfect basis.
when it will serve to show the relative
work of the players in game. The
system was to mark for perfect shot,
for fair one and for bad play.
The objections are that men will differ
in their views or what is perfect shot,
and no scorer can tell exactly what are
the instructions of the skip. There was
also difference of opinion how to mark
a scratch" where player clearly
made bad shot, but by pure luck pro-
duced good results. 1t might be said,
too, that the system is against the third
player and skip and in favor of the lead
and second shot, as most of the difficult
shots fall to the former. However, this
was an experiment, and the curriers' are
quite intereste in it. Separate scores
were kept by Messrs. Murray and Har-
vey, and both are appended: