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n-?oinTUCKER BACKSa2CCURLING SPORTFOR MADISONPlans for§5,000 Rink House to be Laid at Tuesday MeetingCurling plans for Madison sportsmen will take definite shape when L. 1 J. Tucker, formerly president of the Wisconsin Curling association, takes the-floor in support of a movement for the building of a $5,000 rink hcuae at a meeting of all .those interested in curling at the Association of Commerce offioe, Tuesday right* at S. 'Provides Healthy Sport A sheet of ice, 15 by 140 feet is required for the.gam^. Four players comprise one team. A skip on each team directs the throwing of granite stones weighing 18 pounds by the members, of his team- The srorrs are rolled over, the ice at tees at each end of the rink the aim being to * stop, the stone as hear the teea as possible and' knock an opponent's stone away.Pure. outdoor-air with plenty of exercise. makes the sport an idea] onc,.^ Mr. Tucker was skip of a Columbia county Ting that won the international- cup at Duluth in 1917-Portage to Help J. R. Hastie, Poyn'ette*. a. veteran curler, of Columbia .county, -remembers when curling • .with wooden' blocks .was played on Lake Monona about sixty years •• ago between, a team from- Caledonia.. and Dekorra and one from Rock county.John A. Ramp of Portage Curling dub’ is ready- to* assist in' local plans for the establishment of1 the good old Scotch Bpoit. • \ .iEr
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Madison Capital Times
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Mar 17, 1919
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