Curling
a game of Scotch origin, played on ice with various shaped stones, fitted with handles or grips. Wherever Scotchmen wander they take their "channel-stanes" with them, and at the first CURRAN opportunity institute the "roarin' game," as it has been very appropriately called.
The game does not require much apparatus. Given a smooth sheet of ice not less than 60 yards in length, a set of stones, eight keen players each armed with a broom, and nothing more is needed.
Simple as it may seem at first sight, the game is one demanding great dexterity and skill, not to mention strength and strength endurance, on the part of those who aspire to be first-class players. Four players, two on each side, stand at either end, having two stones apiece, and the game consists in trying which can lay their stones nearest to the "tee," i. e., the center of the concentric circles marked out on the ice at the far end of the rink.
The stones used are made of granite or whin, and must not exceed 50 pounds in weight nor be more than 36 inches in circumference. Iron "stones" are also much in vogue, because of it being possible to make much more scientific play with them.
CURLEW