The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-02-26
Boys From Bob Smiths Town Won All
the Curling Games.
Vernon Center Defeated BY Score Of
Eighteen to Five.
TayIor's Team Was vanquished, Four
teen to Five.
Mankato Didn'! Do Much in Game
With Napoleon.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
1t was indeed unfortunate that so
many of the Mankato Caledonian curl
ers were i'll on the very day on which
they had the other curriers' from Maple
ton, Vernon Center and st. Paul here
as their guests. For all that the visit
ors enjoyed glorious time and those
of the Mankato club that could be out
spared no pains to give their visitors a
good time.
Three Kinks of Mapleton, one of YER
non Center, one of st Paul and one of
Mankato, curled ON the Pike street rink
pretty much all day, morning, noon and
evening. st, Paul bore down all oppo~
sition, defeating Vernon Center in the.
morning by a score of Is to 5; vanquish-
ing Jim Taylor's rink in the afternoon
by IA to 5; and winning an easy vic
tory over Ben Taylor's Mapleton rink
in the evening. Mapleton, however, on.
the whole played very good and success
full game Vernon Center and Mankato
fell down badly Mankato played each
of Mapleton's three Kinks and was beaten
every time. ---.-fd
None of the curriers' of Mankato, Ma
pleton or Vernon Center had any idea
of standing a ghost OF show against
the veterans that came here from st.
Paul. Everybody expected that they
would make the clean sweep they did
on the rink against all opposition. In
deed those four players from the saint
ly city, are very old hands at the sport
and are in the habit of downing far
stronger and more experienced teams
than could be picked up in southern
Minnesota.
for members of the Nushka Curling and
Skating club of st. Paul last winter
won two trophies, the presidents cup"
and the "Ordway trophy" the latter a
beautiful, large silver vase. Nineteen
prizes.
Tom Cameron is also the winner of
many trophies and player of whom the
Nushka club has long been justly proud
He has played in almost every bonspiel
held at Winnipeg and various points in
the northwest during the past ten years
and is a veteran skip and curler.
DR.. w. D. Kelly, who has been identi-
fed with the st. Paul Curling club and
with the Nushka during the past fifteen
years, has also participated in several
bonspiels, always being in the rink that
brought home the trophy.
DR.. W. s. Fullerton is not member of
the Nushka Curling club but was MEM
Der of the old st. Paul Curling club. DIR.
Fullerton happened to be acquainted
with DR.. Dodds, who urged him to bring
down rink from st. Paul to help the
Mankato boys in their local spiel. DR..
Fullerton was the originator of the Win
nebago Curling club and was really the
means of introducing the genuine curl
ing stane into southern Minnesota, dis
placing the old time wooden blocks.
At the Northwestern bonspiel held in
Minneapolis last month, a club of "kids'
from the Nushka, ranging in age from
sixteen to nineteen years, defeated the
famous Bob Dunbar and won the flour
city, trophy, magnificent silver punch
bowl, of the size and shape of curling
stane, and tastefully ornamented with
costly gems.
The Nushka Curling and Skating club
was organized at st. Paul five years ago.
1t started with $50 members, the full
maximum limit This full limit has
always been Kept up and there is now
and always has been quite waiting
list of candidates for membership. The
club has four fine sheets of ice under
cover on Sibley avenue between Arundel
and Mackubin streets. There is also a
splendid skating and hockey rink. The
whole aggregation of Kinks occupies
space extending l60x200 feet. Only MEM
bers and their families are allowed to
skate upon or to use the ice in any man
ner. The general public is always well
come to come in and watch the curriers'
md skaters.
Late in the evening the curriers' crowd
ID into DR.. Dodds' office and had a gay
lime with Scottish songs and anec-
Totes. Hugh Smeaton of Mankato play
ID the Scotch bagpipe. William Nicol,
he wen known Highland fling dancer of
st. Peter, was present but unfortunate
y could not dance for the boys as
here was not the necessary room. Tom
Cameron sang some very pretty Scottish
lirs. Entertaining anecdotes were
elated by DR.. Dodds, Geo. B. Owen and
,thers.