Cur Skip

fro: the first time in history his Province this year is sending to the Macdonald Br-ier Bonspiel S ateam skipped by a curler who was also the skip of the first rink we ever’ sent to the School- boy ‘Curling _ Championships. The Guardian asked‘ the youth- ful skip alfew questions regard- ing his brief but colorful ‘career in the sport and the following are his answers: S low I happened to get inter- ested in Curl1ng—In the year 1947 llionspiel was held at the local Forum in Charlottetown and in the company of several other fel- lows my age we went to watch this new game to see what it was all about. We were intrigued with what we saw and decided we would have a go at it. Now School boy Curling at this date was re.- latively unheard of on the Isfand but we did manage to meet Dav- id “Tad” MacLeod who knew all about Schoolboy Curling activi- ties in other provinces, especial- lytheauwflstern provinces. 'I]'1111d a: we c im gave unceasi y o as time, effort and abilities at e Charlottetown Curling C-1 11 b andthput up with much criticism It e time to advance the cause of Schoolbo Curlin on Prince Edw dllyd It ‘gt th' at san. 1s 0 isman last we originals give our devo- , thanks for all that has been Zained through Schoolboy Curling. sfgtemember tossing the fir s t ne~—in a way, I can remem- her I was 14 at the time and it gas quite a struggle to fire ‘it e 130 feet to the other end. Most important game—well I'll Ill the final game last Satur- day. February 8th, 1953 for the British Consul’s Trophy which give our team the right to re- llifsatat this province in the Mc- .11 Brier play-offs at Vict- im. B.C. next month, the final gimekagainst the much respec- s in and team of Jiggs Mac- nflald. this provintzeis represen- alve at the McDonald Brier :;tb_3t{ear. This game fulfilled an I 11011 of George, Jim. Lock “Cl myself since our schoolboy gigs lol be a participant in the 91‘ P ay~offs. ~ . aglletmost exciting game—was ﬂlns Saskatchewan in the oolboy Curling Championships helﬁ ath Quebec City in 1950-51. 0118 we lost the game 7-5 ‘:3? nevertheless had the. chance Wmnillg this game to put our- “IVES in a tie for first place Th Ye}-ar. ‘ 8 ospitality received and In ﬂood times had at these curl- E championships and aquaint- a“¢es_ gained through the game w_ cur1mg,.has always been and Ill continue to be enjoyable ex- lt%1uenceg_ _

THIS YEAR'S,

Donfl

Walk or stand on the centre of the ice during play. Stay on the sides.

Obstruct the view of a man playing the game. He is most interested. ,

Cross the ice between a player and his skip. ‘

Interfere in any way with a player-while he is delivering.

Be away from the hack when your turn to play comes. ‘Be ready.‘ V

Enter the ring. Only skips or vice-skips may do this. Stay outside the hog line. ,

Move the stones at the end. of the play until the winner has been decided.

Measure stones until after play for that end has been completed.

Stand watching the stones of your side go by; he with them ready to sweep when the word isglven.

Sweep until you are told to.

Sweep lengthwise of the rink. Sweep in front of the stone, at right angles to its course.

Push stones with the blade or straws of the broom. It spoils the brooms. '

Leave the hack until you have played your stones. .

Sweep your opponent’s stone in front of the Tee.

Go on the ice except in rub- bers of rubber-soled shoes. ’

Cheer your’ opponent’s miss. It

is not good sportsmanship to say “Thank you’ when he guards your shot. ' ’ Criticize the play of any mem- ber of your rink. Everyone is doing the best he can, and feels badly enough when he plays a poor stone‘. , .

Throw stones down the ice be- fore the start of a game. All games should ‘be played on vir- gin ice with no player having previous knowledge of the ice.

Neglect to sign the scorecard

and turn it into the desk.

PIN coLLEcr1oN

One of the greatest collections of curling pins in the province is owned by L.H. Poole, a charter member of the Montague Curling Club who has over 200 of them.

Mr. Poole acquired his large collection of pleasant memories on innumerable curling trips in all 10 of Canada’s provinces and throughout many of the United States. He has them carefully mounted on plaques and they are among his most treasured sou- venirs.

MANY TONGUES

More than 2,800 languages are spoken throughout the world.

WELCOME

scHooLBoY

Summerside

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BRIE TEAM

In an interview with Clifford “Jiggs” MacDonald, on being asked what his most memorable game in his curling career was he replied that the game he remembers best was at the Brier last year at King- ston, Ontario. He was skip of the team representing the Is- land. This game was played against the Campbell Brothers, the so-called best curling team in the World. This was the first draw‘ for"‘Jiggs” and thatwas tough competition for the first game for the Island team. They matched rock for rock in the first 7 ends and the local curlers were leading at the end of the 7th with score 5-3 and with last rock in the 8th it looked as if they had a safe two for a four point lead. “Jiggs” Ma.cDonald’s second stone accidentally fouled .a rock and instead of the Island rink getting two the opposition got one.

The Island rink was trailing 7-6 on the 11th end. The skip tried to blaink the end but got too much of the rock to tie it up 7-all. The teams were tied com- ing into the 12th and final end with the Campbell. rink ,having advantage of last rock. The local team had shot on the four foot and partially guarded /which

Memory Trail

meant that‘ Garnet Campbell had to make a perfect draw in which he succeeded and won the game 8-7 and then went on to be runner-up in the Dominion Championships, losing only one game to the Championship rink skipped by Matt Baldwin. Last year in the “Brier” Competitions, held in Kingston, Ontario, the Island Curling Championship rink skipped by “Jig-gs” MacDonald was com- peting with a curling rink from Nova Scutia, and little did the Island skip, “Jiggs” know that at the conclusion of the game official scorers from Kingston Curling Club would announce that it was the first time in the history of the‘ ‘Brier” that any

skip had succeeded in making.»

good his 24 shots to curl a per

fect game. So the Island can ‘

boast, of having a local curler to be the only one to have curled a perfect game.

CAUTIOUS GROUP

TROWELL, England ‘(CP)— The Conservative party associa- tion at this Nottinghamshire 'Vil_- lage applied to parish council to hire just half of the village hall for a meeting, because attend- ances have been dwindling. The application was refused.

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Grafton Street East

GREETINGS ! andia. lwelcome to

the School Curlers I Nelson's Service 1 Station

M. J. (Buster) Ma.cMillan, Prop

Charlottetown

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The members of the R. C. A..F. W Station, Summerside Curling Club L . extend greetings and best wishes to all schoolboys partici- pating in the Dominion Champ-

ionships in Charlottetown -- -

February l7fl1 to 21st

u.c.u.r. CURLING CLUB

F-L. J. E. MARTIN.

President.

Montague ‘E958

group of citizens with the late George B. Clarkson, then mana- ger of the Bank of Nova Scotia, as its first president. There were 24_charter members of the club with provision made for an act- ive membership of 36.

The first curling rink was a one- ice sheet addition built on the side of the Community Skating Rink and members played there for 16 years whide producing many fine rinks for local and provincial competitions.

all the senior provincial titles and sent the first P.E.l. rink to compete in the 10th Macdonald Brier bonspiel at the Granite Club in Toronto. On the rink personnel were Atwood Younker, R.W. Beck, C.K. Wightman and James Mclntyre. A

One of the greatest supporters of the game was the late Fred McIntyre who was president of the Montague Club and later pres- ident of the P.E.I. Curling Associ- ation. It was under his direction the present curling club was con- structed in 1943 by the Commun- ity Welfare League. The new building housed two sheets of ice and modest club rooms and inter- est in the sport increased pro- ducing an upward swing in mem- bership to a total of 70 in 1953. The Ladies Curling Club had been formed two years earlier with a membership of 30 and pre-

- sence of the ladies. and mixed

curling did much to enhance the social atmosphere of the club.

At a combined general meet- ing and dinner, in the spring of 1954 it was decided to investigate the possibility of installing an artificial ice plant. The result was installation in that year of the first automatic diesel-power- ed refrigeration -unit in any rink in Canada with the first ice be- ing made in late January 1955. The new rink was officially open- ed by Lieutenant Governor.T.W.

The Mntague Curling (‘Hub was , formed in January 1927 by a‘

In the year 1936 the club won.

ing the broom-for the Governor to throw the first rock was Jos- eph H. MacGregor one of the charter members from 1927 and today the oldest curler in the province.

Since 1955 interest has been very keen and the latest addition has been the Schoolboy curling Club with the local entry this year being the runner-up to the champion foursome from Prince of Wales College.

Last year Montague ladies rink won the Provincial Ladies curl- ing Championship in Summer- side with members A. Pettit, E.

Clay, I-I. Inman and May Nichol- son.

L. Prowse on February 8. Hold-

Welcome

DOMlNlON scHoolB_oY it CURLERS‘ 1

BEST or Luck. , AND MAY THE BEST TEAM wm

w. G. BARBLOUR LTD.

of The ,

SUMMER

. . . and May The

officers and members

cuuuuo CLUB’

Toke pleasure in welcoming the Schoolboy '

Curlers to P. ‘E. I.

‘May Your Stay Be Pleasant

SIDE

Best Team Win"

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schoolboy curlers l

TOWN or MONTAGUEL

I Congratulal-ions to our own school- boy curlers on their splendid showing - - -

undo sincere welcome to the visiting

MayorCBruceCl=-l. Yeo and Town Councillors

.Legion Bonspiel ‘and last year

MONTAGUE LADIES WIN

In recent years the club has

won the Island’ Championship, in the Tyro Division, Physical Fitness Trophy twice, the first

reached the semi-final bracket

Montague Schoolboy Curlers

V extend a sincere

WELCOME

} To The

‘DOMINION SCHOOLBOY ' CURLERS!

Sponsored by The High School Student Council of Montague!

for the British Consols Trophy

before being eliminated by the eventual winners in an extra, end match.

The interest in _high calibre curling is increasing rapidly and the future looks - brighter than ever for the curlers of Montague.

W E L C O M E To the Visiting Schoolboy ' Curlers from every Province in Canada!

MONTAGUE LADIES’ SCURLING A CLUB

MONTAGUE MEN'S cuuuuc clus

extends the

~ Hand of Fellowship .

* To The Visiting Curlers!

’"May. Your Stay Here Be One Of Your Most Pleasant Memories"

5 Prince

T. M. Llewellyn

H. 'r. Jamil-eson

Poole & Thompson C Neil Hooleyf ‘ ‘H. L. MocGregor

The Bison

Montague Garage

Deluxe Dry Cleaners , B

Hil-chey & Vanldersfine Reid Farm Equipment

”Montague - .. The Beautiful"

Edwafd Island!

These Montague merchants take pleasure in ex- tending tbe, hand of fellowship to the visiting’ A

schoolboy curlers from every Province in Canada. May your stay here be pleasant . . . ' and

may you return home with fond memories of the

L place where Canada was born! .

l MacLeod 8r Greene

"Cecil Bell S ‘A. A. Fraser Imperial Oil Agent Wight-man Business A Vere Beck & Son Ltd. Doug's Service ‘Station Gilbert Clements Fred Virozzo Montague Dairy

McGowan Motors Limited

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