The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-18
Curriers' ALL FEIL HAPPY.
COLD WEATHER MAKES THEM
LONG FOR KEEN
ICE
GAME WILL BOOM IN ST. PAUL
Both of the Local Clubs Are Making
Preparations for Busy Season
Many New Members
in Both.

Those queer-looking clubs with the I'M
prOnounceable names, which serve to
amuse lovers of Scotch sports during
the summer months, have all been put
away, and now it is the turn of the
curriers' to hold the floor for few
winter game Is as rich in dialect as the
summer, and the young enthusiast will
find plenty of intricate terms to assist
him in mastering the 'roarin game, .
as it has been fondly christened by the
''brtthers of the stane."
The outlook for curling was never
brighter in the SANITY City than it is
at the commencement of the present
season. Both the local clubs start with
all Of their old-time experts and host
of young players, who are about to be
initiated into the mysteries of the game
for the first time.
The ST. Paul Curling club will hold its
first meeting of the year tomorrow even
ing at $3.50, in Parlor B, Windsor hotel
at which officers will be elected and
plans for the coming season mapped
out.
This club is situated most favorably
as regards talent. Defiel will this year
have Dunbar, the eX-Winnipeg crack, to
help him corral the elusive trophies, and
in addition to having designs on the
splendid prizes offered at the bonspiel to
D6 u6ld 1T TIE SduduldH CITY Tic CID
skips will make strong effort to keep
in ST. Paul the prizes of the Northwest
ern bonspiel, at which curriers' from far
and wide are casting sleeps eyes.
rink composed of Dunbar, skip; De-
hel, third; Mccarthy, seQpnd, and a
lead to be selected, will take in the Win
nipeg bonspiel, and it is Mr.. Def1eFs In
tention to return, If not with the Grand
Challenge, with one at least of the prin-
civ Thta Cnja1 ie
largest annual fixture in the world, and
crack Kinks gather from all parts of
Canada and the United States to take
part in it. The winner of the Grand
Challenge is as much admired by the
curling fraternity as is the winner of
the heavyweight championship in hstie
circles. This year the Canadians are
genuinely afraid of the rink which will
go from st. Paul, and, if form is any
criterion, the Dunbar-Defiel combination
ought to just about land the coveted
prize.
w. McGaw, late of Winnipeg, is an
other crack lately acquired by this club.
Apart altogether from bonspiel con-
siderations, the seasons sport in club
circles promises to eclipse in interest
any previous year. Thirty young men
have applied to join, and not fewer
than seventy-five active members will
be on hand to throw the rocks" as
soon as the ice forms.
Of the older and better known skips
there are available: Lem Defiel, w. w.
Lorimer, S. F. Fullerton, w. e. Stewart
and Judge Cory. Dunbar will Of course
skin one of the club Kinks. and his ex
perience will be Invaluable in developing
the Younger talent The judge will this
wear skip his kids" to victory and with
an added years experience, the young
sters will prove formidable rivals for
any rink.
The Nushka Curling club also starts
the season with rosy prospects. The
active membership will not be far from
$50 Fifty applications for membership
have been received. and the president OF
the club is authority for the statement
that not all of them can be accommodate
ed. on account of lack of ice facilities.
The rink has been enlarged and there is
now room for four sheets, instead OF
two Already workmen have commenced
getting the rink in shape and they expect
to have Ice some time next week. The
St Paul clubs rink is also being fixed
UP and the more sanguine players expect
to be on the ice by Thursday week.
The annual bonspieI of the Northwestern
association will, there Is no doubt, this
year be held in St. Paul, some time in
January. With favorable weather it
promises to be the most successful in the
history of the association. The Winni-
peg curriers' have promised to bring down
ten or twelve of their best Kinks, and
will charter a special car for the players
and their stones Minneapolis will, as
usual, contribute large number of Kinks
and entries have also been received from
Milwaukee, Chicago, Duluth, Waupaca,
Barveau. Winona, Red Wing and Indian
Head, Manitoba. Altogether not less
than seventy-fve Kinks are expected and
this will be the banner record in the
history of the association.
Max Rochon, the famous PLAYER of Fort
William, has signified his intention of
coming If he can possibly spare the. time
and as ne and Def1el are old time rivals,
his presence at the st. Paul spiel will
add greatly to the interest of the sport
visit to one of the city Kinks, after
the season is we'll under way will prove
of more than ordinary interest to one