The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-04
THE ROARIN' GAME New Haven Assured of a Curl ing Club Before Next
 Winter. i
HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED
How Dalgleish's Great Shot Won the Game at Pennington Last
 Friday.

when the North Pole is discovered. we will find there Scotehman and With him copy of the Bible and the poems of Robert Burns The same re- mark IS true of the roaring game of curling, for wherever you find ice and seotchmen, you will surely find the game of curling in progress. Like Golf, curling is fast becoming popular game with Americans. Country clubs In almost every part of the states are introducing the sport as one of the nec- essary winter amusements, and in New York and other large cities the game has gained a firm and lasting hold. So far New Haven has never made any attempt to form a club or take part in the game, and this in spite of the fact that We have quite a number of ardent devotees of the sport in our midst, as also many who are past adopts at throwing the stone. Not later than last Friday, Messrs. Dalgleish, Patter- son and the writer, members of the New Haven Caledonian club went to Pennington and played match with team of the Country club. The game resulted in win for the New Haven curriers' who played a brilliant game During one of the curls, the Farming ton club were lying one shot to the good. While the New Haven players had no less than five of their stones within the coveted circle Dalgleish. the ship, was last man to play, and 1t was up to him to pick the Pennington stone out in order that his side might win the curl. It was hard shot to get. The New Haven man took steady aim and off when the stone in the direction of the coveted mark, 'Weel put down man came from the other players as the granite stone careered on It's way towards the circle. On it came in almost a straight line for the only counter the local club had, and in less time than it takes to tell
 the story, the opposing stone was sent
 outside the circle, and amidst cries of | ''Weel done Man but you're the play
 CT" New Haveners were credited with
 six points. It is safe to predict that
 before next winter comes along the
 Scotchmen of this city will have
 curling club, and as one of them said
 the other day. Tt will be cracker
 jack. at that" An attempt will, in all likelihood be made to introduce the
 game at the Country club also. The credit of introducing the game in this state belongs to Mr. Charles Tender I son, the golf instructor at the Farm ington Country, club. Mr Henderson
 was q champion at the game in Scot
 land, and he is to-day, without ques- tion, the best exponent of the game In
 this state He has also been the
 means of introducing the sport at
 Hartford and other places. The stones
 with which the game is played are
 made of polished granite, and weigh
 on an average, forty pounds each. To
 send this some forty-two feet seems quite trick. Ii is trick but it is
 also one than can be mastered by the ordinary individual with practice. The
 best stones come from ''Isla Craig in
 Scotland and are closely followed by
 the black whin stone.
 The following gives the reader a faint
 idea how the game is played
 The leader of each rink is the skip
 and he is the great man of the game,
 and is generally a-cool,. sharp. season- ed veteran. He keeps keen eye on
 the faults of the opposing side while with pawky jokes and bits of dry ad vice" he directs the work of his own
 side.
 Although seemingly a bit puzzlng to
 1.-the general onlooker, the curling game
 is simple enough The regulation rink
 is 42 yards long. with tee or objec- tive point at each end, Around this tee,
 which is a circle IS inches in diameter, scratched on the ice, there are drawn, one outside the other, three other cir
 cles of ., and 14 feet in diameter. The largest or outside circle marks
 the boundary limit at which score l. can be effected. X hog score or straight | line is drawn across the rink one-sxth of it's length in front of the tee and the stones which fail to cross this hog n score are ordered out of the match. . In rink matches each man plays two . stones. and there are four men to a = side. The main object of each side is to get its stones as near the tee as ! possible, while at the same time mak- = ing an effort to drive away the stones = of the opponent. Each game consists > of seventeen heads. A head is when n all the stones are. played to one end F of the rink Then the players turn and n play down the other way and thus the r play heads ara disposed of.
 o As already pointed out. the game r like golf, is an out and out Scottish IS sport. but like golf it has became very II democratic and is now being played by It almost every nationality where ice can IS be found and it will without doubt, bt e found amongst New Haven's recogniz- n ed sports during the winter of 1eos-o9. y TO PAY COBB s5.00o. n.
 = Detroit. Mich, Feb. S.-Hugh Jen-