WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

January 25, 1895

 

WAUPACA TO THE FRONT

CHANDLER’S RINK WINS THE PFISTER TROPHY VALUED AT $500

Met by the Band and the Broom Batallion Saturday Afternoon

 

            Waupaca has covered herself over with the luster of another event to advertise the powers of her sandy boys and bring yet another honor to the glorious name of WAU-PA-CA!  This time it was brought about by magnificent work with “stane and besom” in the bonny Scotch game of curling by the Waupaca Curling Club.  To Chandler’s rink, composed of Sam Chandler, skip, A.M. Chandler, A.W. Hollenbeck and H.M. Lea, falls the honor of winning, over all competitors, the Pfister trophy, valued at $500.  Each member of the rink was besides presented with a gold medal valued at $25.  The trophy they hold for one year, and if they should win it four times in succession it will become the property of the Waupaca Curling club.  The medals were presented by citizens of Milwaukee to the winners as souvenirs of their victory in winning the valuable Pfister trophy the first time.

            When the train came in Saturday afternoon our returning curlers and others who were on the train were surprised to find a large crowd at the depot and over one hundred men in line, curlers and citizens generally, armed with brooms and headed by the Waupaca band, who had assembled there to welcome them with music and cheers and escort them uptown.  It was cheering to the victors to receive such a hearty demonstration from their fellow townsmen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE PFISTER TROPHY

 

            The trophy is a silver curling stone on a gold and ebony base with silver brooms arranged around the base.  On one of the sides is being engraved the names of the first winners and it will soon be on exhibition where all can see it. 

            Aside from the trophy and four medals won by Chandler’s rink Mr. Sturtevant who was at the club with Milwaukee says in the POST this week:

            The same rink secured the special prize of four silver flasks for making the greatest number of points in any game in the Pfister contest, having defeated James Morgan’s rink, 35 to 2.

            H.W. Williams’ rink – T. Cook, M.B. Scott, J.H. McCullough and H.W. Williams, skip, also made a remarkable showing, though they didn’t win the first prize.  They won the first nine games they played, a record never before equaled by any rink at any bonspiel of the Northwestern Association, and won the third prize in both the Pfister and Jobbers Union trophies.  They played twelve games, and with one exception the clubs they played were either in finals or semi-finals of the prize events.  The prizes they won were gold scarf pins.

            The Whipple and Knudsen rinks didn’t make the showing that was expected of them.  Each played six games and lost five, neither taking any prizes.  Each played George Hill’s rink, which won the Jobbers Union trophy, a very close game, Knudsen being beaten by two points and Whipple by one.  However, the boys needn’t feel badly, as of the forty-two rinks that were contesting for prizes, only fifteen rinks were successful.  All of them couldn’t win and the fact that members of the Waupaca Curling club brought home four of the eighteen prizes is glory enough for all.

            The victory of the Chandler rink is the more glorious because of the fact that to win the prize it was not only necessary to defeat the Smith, Morgan and other weak rinks, but also the Williams’ rink, and in the final game the Nettleton rink of St. Paul, which won the Johnson trophy and usually wins from three to four prizes at every bonspiel it attends.  The Nettleton rink is one of the strongest in the United States, and yet Chandler’s boys laid them out 20 to 8.  Hurrah for the Chandler rink.

            The Waupaca curlers stopped at the Republican house, C.F. Kletzsch Co., proprietors of Milwaukee, and were most hospitably treated, everything possible being done to make their stay pleasant.

            The Milwaukee papers feel sore at Waupaca’s winning the Pfister prize, for not a word of commendation has appeared in any of them, except the Evening Wisconsin, for the Waupaca curlers.  This city sent more rinks than any other city outside of St. Paul and Chicago, and was a great help in making the bonspiel a success, but the Milwaukee papers are too jealous to admit the fact.