The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-05
THEY LIKE ST. PAUL.
CURIERS OF THE NORTHWEST
SELECT 1T FOR THE 1898
BONSPIEL,
WHICH OPENS JANUARY II.
uASPRERRY ISLAND Kinks WILL
WITNESS SOME MASTERLY
CONTESTS THEN.
THEIR PERMANENT HOME, MAY BE.
There Is Talk of Designating This
City for the Holding of Match
es HencefOrth.

The annual international bonspiel OF
the Northwestern Curling association
will be held in st. Paul during the
week commencing Jan. II. The first
draw will be made Monday morning
at 10 o'clock, and play will commence
at 2 o'clock of that day and continue
during the entire week. st. Paul is
the mecca towards which all curriers'
in the Northwest, both on this side
and over the line in Manitoba, are look
ing. Every rink throughout the coun-
try is already musical with the ''whirr"
of stones and the swish of brooms, and
soon the pilgrimage will commence
which will concentrate in st. Paul the
pick of the curriers' from the States and
from Canada. Our city has already
earned an enviable reputation among
the curriers' of the Northwest for hos
pitality. Milwaukee and Portage and
Duluth have entertained them splen-
didly, but ask a curler, wherever found,
where he likes best to go for bon
spiel, and the reply will ever be st.
Paul There are four reasons for this.
First, it's central location, st. Paul be-
ing about equidistant between Chicago
and Winnipeg. Secondly, the climate,
which nearly always insures good ice.
Thirdly, the facilities the st. Paul Curl
ing club can provide in the way Of
convenient location and plenty of ice,
and, fourthly, the amusement st. Paul
can furnish both on and off the ice.
So it comes about that the opinion is
almost universal among curriers' that it
would be a desirable thing if the
Northwestern Curling association
would designate st. Paul as the per-
manent place at which all bonspiels
should be held. the same as the Royal
Caledonian association has designated
Winnipeg as the permanent place Tor
its bonspiels. If the st. Paul Curling
club, under whose auspices the coming
bonspiel will be held, maintains this
season it's reputation as the most pop
ular host, which it has earned in the
past largely through the liberal1ty and
interest of our citizens generally, the
chances are that in the future st. Paul
will be honored as the curling center
of the continent. In any event 1t has,
in the coming bonspiel, the most i'm
portant curling event in the history of
the United States, and probably in
America This early Manitoba prom
ises to invade this city 100 strong, and
the stout lads from Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and both Dakotas will
muster sufficient to overwhelm the Ca
nadians in numbers, if not in skill. 1t
will be q battle royal for each year
the Yankees are getting more and more
proficient in the game, and they can
even now furnish fifty Kinks in the
Northwest, any one of which is more
than liable to win a game from any
possible opponent.
The report that Chicago will send
rink composed of ladies is current.
A warmly contested match at the Raspber-
~ island rink between sides, three Kinks
each, representing the eX-treasurer and eX-
secretary the loser to buy sack OF nour, 10
be presented to some charitable institution.
All five sheets OF ice are in splendid condl-
ton, and the games were thoroughly en-
joyed. -
w Stevenson. c. H. Taylor,
n Scott w. P. Langford Jr.,
g, II Harlow. A. B. Van Bergen,
NJ A Brecl,noan skin Dr. s. O. Arnold, skip
W. "a 1el IL.
]. B. Emerson, Goodbody,
P. H. Mead w. h stewart,
Thomas Cameron, George cunningham,
L. Deiel, skip-5. d. McMlllan' sklp-l''
B. E. Allen, G. Matteson,
II. Johnston, H. R. Martenden,
]. H Mcnamara, T. w. Griggs,
John Riheldaffer, skip w. w. Lorrimer, skip
10. IL.
Total, rs. Total, AZ.