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Identifier: outing15newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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38 OUTING FOR OCTOBER. of players whose judgment may be faultyand whose nerve will desert them at acritical moment. But they are fortunatein having a number, both of skips andsubordinate players, who possess tact inhandling and encouraging their own play-ers while they present the dauntless andcheery front which in a close match is tables, with a checker-worked ice cloth,as one visitor phrased it. But, addedanother, a Cleveland man I think, wholooked as if he meant it, We are justhaving a high old time here, thanks toyou fellows. As the number of members increasedit became necessary to enlarge the list of
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TORONTO GRANITE CLUB—CURLING CLUB. apt to tell upon the morale of an adversary.At the International Match, Thursday,January 13, 1887, the Granite Club alone,on its own grounds, played the wholeState of New York, twenty rinks, eightyplayers a side, and the Canadian playersbeat their opponents 312 to 224, only fiveAmerican rinks out of the twenty com-ing out ahead on the occasion. Onereason for this disparity was that theUnited States players were not accus-tomed to the very smooth indoor ice. We aint used to playing on billiard skips, as captains of four are called.In 1886 there were twenty-four, in 1887there were thirty-two, and now there areforty skips, with from six to eight menon each rink. The managing committeeof the curlers for 1889 is as follows :James Hedley, president; R. H. Bethune,vice-president; Edward E. Hargreaves,secretary-treasurer; Wm. B-adenach andDr. Carlyle. Representative members : C.C. Dalton, D. R. Wilkie, Walter Taylor,T. G. Williamson, W. O. Thornton, W. H.B

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