St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-18
JIM Dryden, OF MILWAUKEE, WRITES TO THE CURL
ERS TO USE THE METHOD HERE ILLUSTRATED.

hands, good many of the curriers' went
over to Minneapolis yesterday aud
! painted the town mildly; but they will
/ begin work this morning in earnest.
/ The Waupaca boys have gone home,
| as they found that their respective oc-
! equations could not do any longer with
! out their attention. But the general
| feeling among the Winnipeggers is that
! they will stay and see the thing
| through. Talking about crack rinks,
! the Winnipeg Tribune, in recent arti-
Gle on curling, gave a little sketch of
| the famous Fortune" rink that is we'll
worth reprinting here:
Probably the strongest-certalnly the
most successful rink-the curling world
ever saw-(the champions of this year.
lis composed of a Canadian. an Irish
| man, Scotchman and an Englishman.
This rink consists of Thomas johnson,
lead: William Georgeson, second; |;
Thomas Kelly, third: and Mark Fort
une. skip. and have made record never
before eqnaled in the history of curling.
Organized late in the season of lSSS-9,
they Jumped right out and won the Sir
Donald Smith cup, two members of the
ring winning first and second prizes in
the point competition at the big bon
spiel, while the skip won Mayor Pear
sons prize for best tsingle-handed curler.
The following season they won the Nc
Donald cup and followed this up by
winning the Walkerville tankard and
lockets.
This year their record is simply phe-
nomenal. Starting with club competi-
tions, they won first place--with j. Pat
terSon's rink Second-the two Kinks to
represent the club i'll the bonspiel for
the Tuckett trophy, winning seven
games out of eight played. the one game
lost being their only defeat in a club
game this year. In capturing the $3.50
Sir Donald Smith trophy with four gold
medals valued at 800. they won ten sue
cessive games. They then went to ST.
Paul to represent the GRANTEES at the
bonspiel being held there. They not
! only won the big prize of the bonspiel-
the st. Paul JobberS' union trophy,
valued at $500, with four gold medals,
beating the crack Cambria" rink, which
had the day previous beaten the Portage
wisconsin, rink, skipped by J. B. Wells,
holder of the Gordon medal, emblematic
of the championship of America-but
also won the first and second prize in
the open point competition, beating all
the American crack curriers'.
Coming back to Winnipeg to partici-
pate in the big bonspiel, they carried off
not only the Champion Grand Challenge
trophy (3l2 competitors, but with Pat-
terson's rink-where the aggregate
scores of the two rinks from each dis
trict were counted-beat all competitors
for the Tuckett trophy. They were
then with Flavelle's famous rink from
Lindsay, Ont, selected by the Royal
Caledonian Curling club to represent
Canada against America in the interna-
tlOnal competition, and again won.
They, however, then dropped out of
further competition in this contest,
which was finally won by Flayelle's
rink. They then played to the last eight
(out of seventy-Tour rinks competing) in
the Walkervilie competition, and retired
undefeated to give their less fortunate
rivals chance. AT the conclusion Of
the bonspiei they had twenty-three sue
ceSsive victories to their credit and
thirty-eight wins out of the last thirty
nine games they had played. having
played right through both the st. Paul
and Winnipeg bonsplels without once
being defeated