WAUPCA REPUBLICAN

February 6, 1891

 

The Curlers.

 

EDITOR REPUBLICAN:

            Thinking that an account of the curlers trip to St. Paul might be of interest to your readers, I will give you a short outline of it.  We left Waupaca Monday night and arrived in St. Paul the next morning after an all night’s ride, pretty well tired out.  After breakfast we repaired to Raspberry Island, where the St. Paul club have a curling rink, (which was recently built at a cost of $9,000) to play for the Gordon medal.  It was our fortune or misfortune to draw J. Hill’s famous rink of Chicago, and we were defeated by a score of 29 to 9.  There were many curlers there who were acquainted with Waupaca boys and among them was Mr. Campbell of St. Paul, an old Scotch curler, who challenged us to play a social game against his rink in the afternoon, which we did, and got away wit them to the tune of 22 to 14.  Wednesday forenoon was played the games for the Jobber’s Union and Dalrymple medals.  We drew as our opponents in this match “Fortune’s rink” - the crack team of Winnepeg.  Fortune smiled upon Fortune and his men and we were defeated 17 to 12. Although we were beaten Mr. Fortune told us we held him closer than any rink he had played against this year.  He has a record of forty-five victories this winter and not one defeat.  The St. Paul curlers did everything possible to make it pleasant for their guests, and all enjoyed themselves.  We did as well, if not better than we expected, considering the small amount of practice we did, and trust that next year we will be able to make a record for ourselves.

                                                                        ONE OF THE CURLERS.