WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

January 20, 1888

 

The Curling Match

 

            This week the curlers of the Northwest are having a grand bonspiel at Portage.  The match for the Morgan Medal took place Wednesday.  The side winning the prize three times is entitled to bear the medal permanently.  It has been won twice by Chicago and Milwaukee and once by Columbia county.  Should it be won by the former side it will terminate the match.  Should it be won by Columbia county and her allies, the final game will be played next year.

            H.W. Williams, E. Coolidge, Frank Whipple and Asa Holly went down from the Waupaca curling club of the Match for the Morgan medal Wednesday.  The Pioneer Press says:  The great curling bonspiel for the Morgan medal took place on the Silver Lake curling rink today and proved to be a close and spirited contest, resulting in a victory for Columbia county and her Northwestern allies by a score of 227 against 200 for Chicago and Milwaukee, H.P. Jamieson’s rink of Poynette taking the honors, having scored the largest majority over its opponents.  The drawing for ice and contestants took place at 11 a.m., and matched as follows, the score made by each rink also being given.

 

Columbia County, etc.                15                     Chicago and Milwaukee

Robertson, Arlington                  15                     Adams, Milwaukee                    16

Lormer, St. Paul                        8                     Hill, Chicago                             25

Bushnell, Wyocenal                   16                     McWhirter, Chicago                  21

Jager, Portage                           24                     Johnston, Milwaukee                 12

Wells, Portage                           27                     Middlemass, Milwaukee             13

Jamison, Poynette                      27                     Dingwall, Milwaukee                 7

M’Canochie, C’mbr’a                21                     West, Milwaukee                      15

Freeland, Poynette                     14                     Currie, Milwaukee                     16

Hastle, Dekoria                         13                     Bryden, Milwaukee                   33

Williams, Waupaca                    16                     Wood, Chicago                          12

McCulloch, St. Paul                   21                     Ruffer, Chicago                         16

James, Portage                          25                     Nelson, Chicago                        14

                        Total               227                                            Total               200

            Majority, 27.

            The Minneapolis and Lodi rinks and one from Lincoln Park of Chicago were the only absentees.  Arrangements for tomorrow’s games are being made at headquarters tonight.  The visiting curlers were banqueted by the Columbia county curlers at the armory Wednesday evening.