St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-20
DULUTH'S SAD HAND
CURRIERS' GET 1T WHERE THEY
EXPECTED TO GRASP A GLAD
ONE.
WHEREAT THEY ARE VEXED.
MUCH DISPLEASURE EXPRESSED
WITH THE CONDUCT OF CURL
ERS IN DULUTH.
TALKED OF FEEDING THE TOWN
a Winnipeg Man Wanted to Pay for
q Banquet and Invite the Du-
Iuthans.

'"There will not be another bonspiel
IN Duluth for the next twenty-five
years" This startling remark was
made in the Windsor hotel yesterday
afternoon by one of group of st. Paul
and Winnipeg curriers' who had a few
hours before come to town from Du-
luth, and will serve in a mild way to
express the intense disappointment ex-
perienced by the visitors to the Zenith
City at the unsportsmanlike treatment
accorded them during the bonspiel,
which, as they put it, 'is still going
on
The Winnipeggers have always We'd
with St Paul curriers' in their efforts to
extend the most cordial hospitality to
visiting curriers', and they expressed
much wonderment yesterday at the
boorish treatment they received at Du-
1uth because, as they argued, Duluth
must be SO near st. Paul that the curl
ers in each place must have been guests
of the other
The st. Paul men, while deferred by
delicacy from expressing regret at the
outcome of the bonspiel, nevertheless
agree with their Canadian brothers
that the sport at the head of the lakes
was not what it should have been
Said st. Paul man yesterday:
Il cannot tell you how bad the affair was in
duluth. The Duluth curriers' never came near
thelr visitors at any time except on the ice
and even then there was not the good feeling
which we have always had in other places
This was especially embarrassing for st. Paul
men, for they felt like hosts, in a sense, and
did what little was done for the other curriers'
do not know what was the matter. TIE few
good executive men in the Duluth Curling
club seem to have been Disguised themselves
at the way the bonSpiel was being managed
Tor they, to all appearances, pulled out and
left the affair to incompetent men. We had
excellent weather all the time, yet the Kinks
were never in anything but Indifferent shape"
The club house, an excellent establishment
IN itself, is several miles out of the city, and
the club sold the dining privileges to some
people who charged more for meals than the
people down town, and the Duluthians did
nothing to remedy it. One Rat Portage man,
an excellent sportsman, asked me if the club
was not being run a moneymaking scheme.
OF course / know it is not, but. | have no
doubt that several of the visitors had that
view. No entertainment, matter how in
formal was given or provided for the visiting
curriers', and no Duluth man ever came to any
of the hotels where we were stopping
FRIDAY evening number of the outside
curriers' got up little dinner for ourselves,
each man paying his own share of the ex-
pense. and there was TO Duluth man present.
One skip from Winnipeg said to me Saturday
night, If you will stay here tonight and get
your rink to stay, l will give banquet for
the Duluth club and he was wealthy enough
to afford it too.
The Winnipeg men seemed Disguised
and declared that it was the worst at
tempt at management they ever ex-
perienced. They claim that with any
sort of system the bonspiel could have
been finished according to schedule, but
that many of the visiting Kinks had
given up in disgust waiting their turns
to play when they saw how things were
being conducted.
Several men duly entered, and good
curriers' too, never lifted a stone after
they reached the rink. Duluth has re-
ceived a black eye, and has hurt her
reputation to no slight extent among
the devotees of the roarin' game.
Many Of the Kinks entered in the bon
spiel have left Duluth, and q small
party of Cana dams came to st. Paul
to spend the carnival days here. There
are quartered a the different hotels
At the Windsor are Messrs. NJ Nc
Manus, Alex w. Law, Thomas McCaf-
fiery. John A Girwin, of Winnipeg; s.
r. Marlatt and Thomas Forsythe of
Rat Portage.
Several of the st. Paul curriers' have
returned while the balance are eX-
pected home today.