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Gordon Hughes, one of Char- lottetown’s better known curlers on being asked what curling event brought back the most memories answer that the most memor- able moments of his curling ca- reer were when he crossed the Atlantic in 1950 with a group of some 64 curlers -e‘presenting ev- ery province in Canada to com- pete with Scottish teams and some of the‘ best rinks in Swit- zerland; He was the sole mem- ber representing the Island on this tour.
The most memorable games he ever participated in were one in Scotland and one in Switzerland.
In Glasgow as mate of a team skipped by A.R. Sterling, of Wolf- ville, N.S. they defeated a Scot- tish rink who were the Holders
of the R.C.C. Club Championship for Scotland in the men’s com- ‘petitions and also the Scottish Open Curling Championships. Both these events had been won in 1949. The skip of the Scottish rink was John Smith and the quartet represented the Glendo-
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the final end. The other two mem- bers of the Canadian team were
N.S. 2nd, stone and W.B. Spen-
cer of Halifax, lead.
On this tour the teams played in different cities in Switzerland. The same team played the Swiss champions in an open air rink 6,000 feet above sea level. There was about 3 degrees of frost and the players could skip in their shirt sleeves, but some of the members participating got an awful sunburn.
The Canadian team scored an eight-ender in this ghme and won an impressive victory over the Swiss team. They also ‘won the Bonspiel. “
On returning to Halifax, the Maritime foursome were met at the Ship by the Premier who was Angus MacDonald at the time, and other dignitaries of Nova Scotia and presentedwith crests of the Nova Scotia flag and also a crest of the event. They were also made members
Wallace W. Smith of Lunenburg,l
cick Curling Club. .-
In the first game the Canadian team played to a draw thus forc- ing an extra game. In the after- noon session the Canadian quar- tet defeated the Glasgow rink in
of the Order of Good Time, an organization that was formed in 1606, with the first grand mas- ter being Samuel de Champlain. The Grand Master then was His
Excellency Viscount Alexander.
The Island Entry
The _Island Schoolboy Curling Championship was won this year by a rink composed of four stud- ents from Prince of Wales Col- lege in Charlottetown. They prov- ed themselves to be a very strong team and came through the play- downs without a loss. The mem- bers of the team are Lead (1st stone) Alan Smith, 2no ‘stone, Douglas Bell; mate, Allison Sat .1- ders; and skip Arthur Burke.
Alan Smith, lststone, is 17 years of age and a first year student at Prince of Wales Col- Iege. He curled in competition Igainst P.W.C. last year while at- tending Queen Charlotte High School. This is his first year of curling at Prince of Wales and he will. be eligible to play for two more seasons in the Schoolboy competitions.
Second Stone Douglas Bell, is Ilso a frist year student at P.
g W.C. and will be eligible for two more seasons. He attended Queen Square School before Prince of Wales College and learned curl- ing like some hockey greats lear- ned hockey, here, there and wher- ever there were ice'and stones available.
The mate of the team, Allison Saunders, or “Joe” as he is com- 1-npnly called is a second year student at P.W.C and this is also his second year on the P.W.C. team. _.He went to Winnipeg in 1957 as a member of the ‘Island Championship team but pulled a muscle and was out for a day.
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He is in fine shape for forthcom- ing competitions. This is his last year in Schoolboy curling as he will not be eligible next season due to age.
The skip, Arthur Burke, is a Grade Twelve student at Prince of Wales and it is also his sec- ond year as skip of P.W.C. He will be lost to Prince of Wales in 1958-59 due to age also. From Queen Square School Art picked up his curling finesse from the catch-as-catch can system, throw- ing stones whenever possible, watching games on every occas- ion, picking up p 'inters from “post mortems” the locker room and from t e armchair “skips” in the observation room. He is cool under pressure and is able to match wits with many an older strategist.
The type of play used by the P.W.C. squad is a combination of draw and take-out and their crisp take-out technique _’is worth at- tention. ‘
All members of the team are residents of Charlottetown and their coach is Professor “Bob” Leclair of Prince of Wales Col- lege.
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Commandments
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Charlie Gerrard, for many years now the guiding spirit behind the lfamous Duddingston Curling Club, , contributed these Commandments ‘which originated on the fa side of the Atlantic.
1. Thou shalt have ho other game before me, for I am the roaring game which was in the beginning (even in the stone age) is now and ever shall be.
2. Come not upon the ice with the oldhouse broom.
3. Thou shalt learn thy turns’, both the out and the in, for the skip will not hold him guiltless that throweth the wrong turn.
4-. Play not_a running shot when thou art asked for a guard, lest thou raise thine own shot, so sending thy skip in the air; such play getteth his -goat, queereth his game, causeth him to swallow his cud, and to revile thee openly.
5. Thou shalt‘ hearken diligen- tly to the defeated skip when his voice is lifted up in lamentation against thepunk ice, and thou shalt not turn thy face from him when he blameth his third man. Even so shalt thou secure a lis- tener against the day of thine own defeat. ’ '
6. Thou shalt not strew straws from thy broom in the path of thine own or thine. adversary’: rock: neither shalt thou spit in front of them for a hog is an abomination in the sight of the skip.
7. Thou shalt have no discourse with thine adversary while his foot is in the hack and his hand is on the. rock, but if’ thou wilt thou canst pray for him.
8. Thou shalt,not push or kick a rock into the house from be- hind stealthily, for the opposite skip will be kindled against thee and he will.rise up in righteous indignation over the edge of the broom handle and thrust thee hence from the sight of curlers and the days of the curling will be ended, for this is an unpardon- able sin. ‘ '
9,. Thou shalt not cover thy op- position’s rock nor his lead play- er, neither shalt thou filch‘ from him his third man who is his mainstay and a wall of defence in the day of battle.
10. Thou shall honor thy op- posing skip by substituting only players of the same ability as, those ‘absent, causing him to proise thy name for thy fair- ness and sportsmanship, for many there are who destroy their Igpod names by such conduct, causing their opposing team much bitter-
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P. E. I. Curiing
(By Finley)
The Prince Edward Island Curling Association
The Provincial Association was organized in 1934. in affiliation with the Dominion Curling As- sociation and, through it with the Royal Caledonia Curling Club of
Play-Offs were suspended the Provincial Association was repre- sented by a provincial rink in the Dominion Playdbwns. In each of these years the Charlottetown Curling Club with the exception of 1936 when the province was represented by a Montague Rink, and in 1948 when a Summerside Rink skipped‘by T.D. Morrison won the Provincial Champion- ships. With the present availabil- ity of artificial ice in all curling clubs in‘ the province it is con- fidently hoped that stronger teams will be developed and that Island curlers will soon be in a position to put up stronger opposition in the Dominion Play-Downs for the MacDonald’s Brier Tankard.
The Alberton
"Curling Rink
Curling was first introduced in Alberton through the effort of the late W.P. Keenan, formerly a resident of Fredericton, N.B. Dur- ing the fall ‘of 1936 Mr. Keenan interested some seven or eight men to the extent that eight sets of stones were purchased, and during the winter of 1936-37 these men played in the skating rink during the afternoons.
The Club progressed slowly un- til the winter of; 1946-47 when the membership grew to 40 members in a one sheet ice rink. In 1956 a new building was constructed
ties. ' The R.C.A.F. Curling Club, St. Eleanors \
During the fall of 1955 a new Curling Club was organized at the R.C.A.F. Station St. Eleanors and accepted as amember club inlthe Provincial Association. For the first year this club arranged for curling space for its mem- bers with the Summerside Curl-
ing with two sheets of Artificial ice was constructed the follow- ing year. The R.C.A.F'. Curling Club is a going concern today and entry rinks to provincial curling contests are of a high rating.
AKITA, Japan (A-P)-—A Japan- ese team Wednesday launched a plastic rocket, believed to be the world's first. The inventor said it cost about one-fifth less than a metal rocket and should give more accurate observations of
shaped rocket was nine feet long, 51 inches in diameter, weighed 78 pounds and carried a radio trans- mitter.
with two sheets of ice, observa- tion room and club room facili-
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——-~'.o s\-...-cl) or not to s\\’ccp4st.ill ilooms I£1l'§§€ as a question in the minds of spectators. lt is odd that the controversy usu:—~.lly begins ;with non curlers. They can abide the ‘stane’-but doubt the ‘bosom’. ‘The curlers sweep by choice. ‘ And yet with all the thousands gof words that have been written land spoken on the subject little real effort has ever been made gto determine scientifically ju st
5C°tla“d- 1“ 193:6 and each Sl‘°':wliat effect sweeping has on carame way average 39 01 Inc”-es or cesswe year with the. excemlonirylng the Stone “W0 ‘W thl'°ugh'12 metres more than the unswept of a couple years during the re-«he h0uSe_ cent. World War when Dominionl
, In trying to decide this one of ‘.the problems would be obtaining la mechanism which would propel :the stone at exactly the same lspeed each time. Then it would jalso involve having the stone curl. ‘or revolve, at the same rate each time it was propelled. Another factor would ‘be whether or not first stones tossed should be swept or not. In any event two lanes would have to be used with the order of the swept and unswept stones reversed.
“An analysis of the Art of Curl- ing” published by H.E. We-“Lian gives results of some sweeping tests made in Switzerland in 1924. Mr. Weyman’s own comments are more than interesting. He states, “sweeping is an essential part of curling and fully recog- ,nized by all curlers west of Que’- bec Province and the art of sweeping has been highly devel- oped in Western Canada, where it. has become graceful and attractive to spectators. It is amusing, but also pitiful‘, to watch Easterners sweep beside the Western sweepers”.
The test in Switzerland was made on outdoor ice at St. Mor- itz with the use of a sloping tres- tle with one end three feet above the level of the ice and so grad- ed as to permit the rock to take the level ic_e smoothly. ,
- ‘down the slope.
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,§front oi the .<',onc and Ihc_\' re—; ..{. diculc the idea that it creates a‘ . — ~ , "9 cl tain- pounds. was used llll' x.:;n the If “a1 “‘uUm'_E‘” 1‘? y _ 0 .1,‘ , tests and the uiidcrsiiila::c c2‘.re- lain that sweeping (a.‘s'.‘.s.l11Cll0n fully clcancd bet’:-re each run. It and this \\'31'rns uptthc lt‘9 sur- wals held m pmmoll at a mfed face and the nearer the ice the tpomt and ‘released without ‘rm-;Sm,j.aL_e is to me ,nCm,,g p0m1,~ ‘pews to Shde by I'lS\°wn “fight the more effect sweeping will A A ‘ ‘have on the stone. . 3 In six trial runs down the same ‘ Concluding. the Sufiject M-an track the average d‘5ta"Ce U-aV'lBaldwin, s‘;-zip of the champion gelled ““5“’.°P‘ ‘F38 277 metres’ Edmonton rink, says this: “:1how‘ §fA‘meti'e is slightly more thanime the Stone that Wm gu five’ -39 inches). Two stones swept alljfeet over the hogpline and 1'11 ‘take it well into the house ‘with. swe€DiI1g'- _ , d. On that note the defense rests. lwlth W111 1“ 193
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‘stones. Then two more stones were sent over this same swept track, but were not themselves __ '“
tors.
The Scmcliniaii's love for his scholars st” ancient game of curling is given pl-Dyed a b ' added proof in the story of antlar classroom old Scot wliose \\‘lf€ look sick In-first te the midtllc of the curling season. sThe enthusiast expressed l1lS ear- ‘ nest hope that his wife “wadne pmted ‘an. (ice till there come a thaw foricent of those o‘.licr\\'lse l wadna be able to at—lexam after 1;.’
SAFETY DEVICE London Transport. with ahfleetlof the 142 ' ‘of 8,000 buses. plans to equip alllenrolled gag
sqept. They averaged 39.14 met- res. Then another stone wassent, down the same track and swept; all the way. It travelled 45.26 metres. » '
Two days later another series. of tests was made on very keen_ ice. Six stones not swept travel- led 25.63 metres while two stones swept all the way averaged 30.28 metres. ‘
Last year a gr’oup of curlers inl Quebec City also did some re-' search work on the subject. While they reached no definite conclus- ions they did reveal the differ- ence in distance tr a v e l l e d_ caused by very slight differen- ces in the velocity of the stones. Photo electric cells were used‘ to determine the speed of the; various stones. The sweeping in-; volved was only between the sec- ond hog-line into the house.
Such results as they announ-, ced showed a stone moving at 4.6 feet per second went 26 feet past the hog-line. Another stone travelling 4.5 feet per second: went 29 feet past the hog-line, while a third stone moving at a‘
31 feet. . . : Their view of the matter isl that sweeping has nothing to do‘
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