The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-14
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One of the first amateur champions
was Callie Curtis, who beat Frank
Swift, Jan 81, 1871, at Rochester,
winning championship and a diamond
medal. Feb. 2, 1875, E. Willard beat
Freeze, SO miles, in hours 81 min
utes seconds. Jan. 5, 1865, Canada
beat the United States, % Kinks for
the international championship at
curling in Buffalo.
During the Civil War, hundreds
enjoyed the skating on the Connect
cut river. Colts Band gave concerts
and big bonf1res lit up the merry
scene. Speed races were popular and
horse races were part of the fun.
Jan. 25, 1882, John Ennis won
$1,000 and the 10O-mile skating
championship from E. Goetz; time,
10 hours SO minutes 4215 seconds.
s. J. Montgomery set a new 50-mile
amateur record of 4 hours 10 minutes
Sc seconds. Feb. 6, the 10-mile ice
boat race for the championship of
America was won by Avalanche, time
81 minutes Haze won the 1884
championship in 1 hour 514 minutes.
Alex Paulson won the following
amateur championship, setting new
records for 10 miles at 80 minutes
2-5 seconds; rs miles, hour 3S
minutes % 2-5 seconds, breaking all
records from 500 yards up, Feb. 2,
1884. This fast skater won four
races at the international skating
tournament at Hamburg, Germany,
Feb. Is and 10, 1885. Feb. 26, Paul
son beat B. Van der Zee, champion of
Norway, for $500 over a three-mile
course in II minutes 8 Il seconds.
Jan. IT, at Van Courtland Lake, G. D.
Phillips, amateur, skated 100 yards
in 10 7-8 seconds; 220 yards in 81 "a
seconds, and 800 yards in 20 3-S sec
onds, beating records.
Canada was the home Of curling in
1885 Matches were held every
where The Thistle Club won the
Quebec challenge cup, beating the
Montreal Club, IS to 72. J. G. Ross
won the snowshoeing steeplechase for
the Watson cup. F. Dowd won the
mile Canadian championship in 3
minutes 277k seconds.
The National Skating Association
was formed in 1887. Tim Donoghue,
Jr., made the following records at
their first tournament: One-half
mile, 1 minute rs seconds; mile, 3
minutes IA 1-5 seconds. J. F. Dom
oghue broke this mile record in 1891
with 8 minutes 2 3-5 seconds. Young
Donoghue skated a mile straightaway,
with wind, in 2 minutes II 3-5 sec
onds, Feb. 1 at Newburgh, a worlds
record. Fish Smart and Isaac See,
leading English skaters, met at the
professional championship, IL
miles, with three turns. Smart won
in minutes SO is seconds. At the
international skating races Jan. 16
and IT; held in Holland, See and
Smart finished first and second In the
3100-meter race and 1609-meter race,
/ beating the champion skaters of the
world.
Jan. Is, 1889, at Harburg, Ger
many, Joe Donoghue put America in
front by winning the Hamburg cup
at $3.50 yards and the International
championship and women's gold cup
at 5 miles: These were the blue rib
bon events and we'll worth winning
At the ice yacht regatta, the cham
pionship of America, held at Roose-
NC4L L OA1II1 W. LO 1CLIlS WOu,
81 minutes Al seconds.
Hugh Mccormick was the profess
sional champion of 1890. He beat
Alex Paulson for $500 for five miles,
II minutes Sd As seconds; 10 miles,
! $500, At minutes As seconds; Is miles,
$1,000, 1 hour 1 minute 81 seconds.
Feb. % Joe Donoghue beat Jim
( Donoghue in a 10-ni1e race at New
burgh in 81 minutes % As seconds
Joe Donoghue, champion amateur
of America, went abroad in Deem
| Der and beat Oscar Frederiksen,
champion of Norway, n five miles, 16
minutes % 3-5 seconds; at hristiania,
Norway, At Friesland he won the
mile championship in 8 minutes As
| seconds, three-mile championship, 9
! minutes, IT seconds, a new record.
Dec. "a, at Linquay Fen, England,
Donoughue won the international Y
| miles, 8 turns, minutes 46 seconds.
Fish Smart won the professional
championship of Great Britain, IL
miles, minutes, So seconds; / mile,
minutes, 8 seconds.
Feb. 10, the United States beat
Canada, 1s1 to II, in international
at MOuIT0dl,
Canada The Victorias beat the Mon
! treals, hockey championship of Can
ada, March at Montreal.
Joe Donoughue proved himself a
world-beater in 1891. by winning the
| $50 yards in 1 minute rs 3-5 seconds;
mile, minutes 2-5 seconds; 2 miles,
minutes, 10 As seconds, Jan. 6 and
7, at Amsterdam, Holland These
were international championships
and made him amateur world cham
pion.
| The winter of '92 was a busy time
for curling in Canada and this corr
| try. Never in the history of this
! sport were so many championship
games played. Harold Hagen of Nor
way, became the professional cham
! pion of the world by beating Fish"
! Smart, champion of England, 1 mile.
! in 2 minutes 40 seconds; 8 miles, 8
minutes 46 seconds; miles, Is min
| les II seconds. Hagen won the
worlds championship from McCor-
mick, champion of America, in 1891.
| at Norway. Howard Mosher beat
| Donoughue 1 mile for gold medal
! F. Breen won the mile professional
championship and $1,000 from Nc
Cormick
! Hagen came to America in 1893
and beat Mccormick Jan. / at Mir