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A. BRAZEAU SON 4‘"Cedar St., _ Timmins Classes free. _ Conducted by Dr. W. L. Goodwin, late Director of the School of Mining, Kingson. Thos. W. Gibson, Deputy Minister of Mines. Toronto, 28th October, 1924, Jur heating plans will imâ€" prove your temper\ and comfort and save your coal. There‘s the authorâ€" ity of accomplishment in our heating knowledge. We do our work well and our charges are eminently fair. â€" Repairs that stay fixed. Practice _ classes in _ spotting minerals and rocks will be carried on in places visited in former years. .. ... Feb 17thâ€"Feb. 25th Cochrane .... Feb. 27thâ€"Mar. 8th .:. .. .. Mar. 10thâ€"Mar. 18th Sioux Lookout Mar. 20thâ€"Mar. 28th Port Arthur ..Mar. 31stâ€"Apr. 8th Mine Centre ..Apr. 10thâ€"Apr. 18th Chapleau .... Apr. 21stâ€"Apr. 29th Instruction will be given in the practical identification of minerals and rocks, and in elementary geology and mineralogy. 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NJ S W}‘f«% [ we Put 12 [ \ .$ D. MACKIE, Reed Bldg. Timmins, Ont Phone 114 J. M. Belanger, Manager 4 Colborne St. â€" Toronto Reliability, Efficiency, Promptness MA RK ET SUM M ARY ON REQUEST Second Section Wholesale Steam and Anthracite Coal s a#B President. Members Toronto Stock Eazhange Cars Always in Transit Nov. Nov. Nov. Dec. . Jan. 17thâ€"Nov. 27thâ€"Dec. 9thâ€"Dec. dthâ€"Jan. 13th 20th 5th 17th 13th (Since 1896 ) P. LARMER, (50) â€"45â€"52. Secretary TIHE _ PORCUPINE ADVANCE on. there has been advancement in the 300 years. Some writers trace the origin of the game to the Netherâ€" lands and add that the German * kurzâ€" weil‘ (a game) gives us the word ‘eurl‘ while ‘tee‘ comes from the ‘tighen‘ to point out: ‘bonspiel‘ a district curling competiâ€" tion from the Flemish ‘tbonne‘ a disâ€" triect and ‘spel‘ play. One who has travelled in the north of England and in Flanders will have been struck with a similarity of words that are used in Northern English dialect and in the language of Flanders. What Canadian soldier is not familiar with such names as Steenbeceque, Morheeâ€" que, Esquelbecque and many others? In the Lake country of the north of England you will hear the creeks spoken of as *thees‘.. But this is not an article on phlology with the readâ€" {m' studying the art of interpreting a dlanguage by its aflinities and analoâ€" gies to another langnage. . l"‘Im\;e\'er. if to Curling is assignâ€". ed a continental origin, this is done: without any records in the literature, of the Netherlands. It is pmhapg possible that Flemish merchants who| came to Seotland towards the close of the 16th »century brought the | game with them. The Neotch people' recognized a good thing and kept it â€"like the Sabbath and everything else, that they can get their hands| Just where curling originated i: not _ exactly knownâ€"maybe _ like Topsy ‘it jest growed up‘â€"but Scotâ€" land has played the game for over tario, aissued used only for in the U.S.A unknown.‘‘ Just where not â€" exactly ment â€"to the land of the oat cakes and Scotchâ€"the O.T.A. forbids us tfrom advertising anything but acâ€" cent, people and history, so the readâ€" er accustomed to the daily crossâ€" word puzzle will supply his own word somewhat from the following inforâ€" mation :â€"**Horizontal _ andâ€" vertical and zmezag., In Seotland OOA In this article we shall offer tle of the history of the ga ecuriing in â€" Sceotland. It mss have been indigenous to Seotl: lacrosse and ice hockey have to Canada but it owes its de ment â€"to «the. landâ€"of â€"theâ€" oat Hockey is a game for the swift and the strong. It is essentially a young man‘s game. In making these comparisons it is not with intention of proving that curling is either an old man‘s game, or even an old woman‘s game, but oneâ€" which is suited to young and oldâ€"yes, men or women. Its playing depends more on a skull, deft of hand and accurate of eye. ‘The noise which gives to it the name, ‘"‘the roarin‘ game,‘‘ is the result of enthusiasm when the skip or captain is calling for certain shots or for vigorous sweeping and is added to by the sounds of the curling stones as they bump into another. how nearly every school boy had to find and trim his own shinny stick. If memory serves us right, ice hockey received its first real impetâ€" us back around 1880 when the game was started in Paris, Ontario, and Montreal, _ Quebec. From _ humble beginnings when *‘‘Shinny on your own side‘‘ was the slogan of the day, truant or otherwise, Canada has in the sporting world monovnolized the hockey honours as our Libertyâ€" loving cousins to the south monoâ€" polize the greatness of baseball and umpireâ€"baiting. Some Side Lights on Curling There are two games which may be said to be indigenous to Canada, lacrosse and ice hockey, in that they have been _ produced . naturally by our country and our climate. Laâ€" ecrosse has a longer and perhaps more picturesque history than ice hockey. ~In its beginnings it was the ied Man‘s game though its great development in Canada came when the White Man added to it rules for its playing and science in its playâ€" ing. As for ice hockey there are many, even in this day and generâ€" ation, who _ remember how _ shinny was the school boy‘s pastime and Below is given the second of the series of articles on *‘ writâ€" ten specially. for The Advance by an enthusiast at the game. Further articles will follow in the coming weeks and will undoubtedly add to the great interest now felt in the ‘‘‘Roarin‘ (Game.‘! Second of the Series of Articles on the " Roarin‘ Game " Just Commencing in Timmins and South Porcupine. Comments and Comparisons with Other Games. Don‘t Miss Reading This. It‘s Good! Some Sidelights on Curling And Some Scraps of Its History m :â€"** Horizontal _ and mezag,. In Sceotland in Quebec an intoxicant some writers trace the the game to the Netherâ€" ridd that the German * kurzâ€" rame) gives us the word e ‘tee‘ comes from the ghen to ~point out district curling competi 1 _ a Dbeverâ€" _an intoxicant; in Onâ€" on presceriptions _ and medical purposes; and metaphorically (only) h merehants who owards the close iry â€" brought the he Seotch people ; â€"LT. alnay no is to Sceotland a ockey have bee owes its develop ame of TIMMINS, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3RD, 1924 )een lopâ€" tkes <C It is perhaps' the enthusiasm for the race shown by the people of Quebec that is responsible for the conâ€" tinuance of the Eastern International Dogâ€"Sled Derby, Even with the advent of the rounded stone made on scientific prineiples in the early part of the nineteenth century, the use of handles was optional; the stones were of all shapes and sizes and some times the ‘stones‘ were wood. Lake all the equipment used in games One has only to attend a trotting meet in Quebec to know just how much of the true sporting spirit is inherent in the Frenchâ€"Canadian. â€" It is not always the one who has placed most money that is the most voci. ferous as the trotting nags near the post. . Racing is in their blood. They excitedly shout their favourites name, and wave their arms for its encouragement, and if it wins,â€"all right. If not,â€"all right, it‘s a darn good horse, anyway. the stones and the distance for slidâ€" ing much shorter than it is today. player inserted into the hole much in the same way,as the ball is held in playing at ten pins on an alley. The weights were reduced to 70 to 80 pounds and handles were fitted to ganized and kept going by the wea‘lthy officers of the British crack regiments stationed there on garrison duty, and that the organization of the! Quebec Turf Club dates back to 1789. Horse racing is still a seaâ€" sonal attraction to the Ancient City. The Fall meet brings horses and racing enthusiasts from practically all over the continent, and has done for years, but the native Quebecer is inclined to enthuse more over the trotting races that take place when the snow is packed hard on the course. Then there are horses he knows and really belong to him. Horses from "way back", perhaps. The earliest stones were light in weight probably 5 to 25 pounds and probably were thrown much after the manner _ ofs quoits. Channel stones, those â€"rounded out by the action of the water in riverâ€"beds, were favourites, the shape being left to the individual taste so that obâ€" long and triangular stones became common. The soles were artificially flattened. On these stones there were no handles hut notches were cut in the stone for finger and thumb. If these stones were thrown (and Cornelia Kiliaan in his Tenâ€" tonic dictionary gives the term ‘khuyten‘ as meaning a pastime in which large globes of stone like the quoit are thrown on the ice), it 18. quite likely that when stones weighâ€" ing 115 pounds were used that they were slid along the ice rather than thrown. In the next stage of the evolution the heavy stones were bored into and the thumb of the player inserted into the hole much n a suide io "The City of Quebec" one reads that among other things Quebec is celebrated for its hoxse xacps, “hxch fox more than a century were orâ€" During the first half of the 16th century several authors referred to enrling as being played in Scotland. In 1607 William Camden, the Engâ€" lish antiquary and historian, in de- seribing the Orkneys tells that *‘ one of the islands supplies plenty of exâ€" cellent stones for the game called curling.‘* The stones used in the early history of the game were priâ€" mitive eranite houlder international Dogâ€"Sled Derby For F ebruary In 1838 the Grand Caledonian Curlâ€" ing Club began its existence on Noâ€" vember 15th, a day akin to holy in the curler‘s calendar. In 1842 the ‘Grand‘ gave place to ‘"Royal‘ folâ€" What with its development and popularity in Seotland it is passing strange that curling has received but scant notice from such famous men as Burns and Scott. Possibly the game had not enough of romance in it for Seott while Burns spent his metrical moments in adding to fame such characters as took their Seotch neat or without a chaser of curling. _ In 1834 curling got a start in an organized way in Scotland when the Amateur Curling Club of Seotland was formed. This being a mutual admiration amateur society it soon died as the words ‘amateur‘ and ‘mutual admiration‘ have no place in a curling organization. No one ever has to take an affidavit that he has resided 60% or 90% days, as the ecase may be, in any community beâ€" fore taking part in curling matches. Even when he does get on to the ice no one accuses him of having money slipped into his mackinaw for playâ€" ing services, | made by Andrew Haugh, Mauchlin« Perfecta Curling James T. Keanie, land. surfaces designed for keen or heavy ice and supplied with convenient and graceful handles, As evidences of that artistic and accurate design and symmetrical ~perfection the â€" reader can see that himself by examining a set of Exeelsior Curling stones as made by Andrew Kay and Co., of have given way to the tubes? What a change?) Curling stones of today are quarâ€" ried and never blasted, as the shock of the explosion is apt to strain and split the stone. The rough whinâ€" stone or granite block has given way to a symmetrical stone usually of granite, beautifully rounded, brilâ€" liantly polished, with true running surfaces desioned for kaan‘ nr hagavy price twenty cents if pur Or the first hockey skates have given way to the tubes art of making curling stones es n( rememnber Munsev This season‘s Fastern International Dog.Sled Derby has been definitely scheduled to take place February 19, 20 and 21st. As in former years the distance to be covered will be 120 miles, at the rate of 40 miles more or less each day. Earl Brydges, winner of last year‘s Derby with the Ontario Paper Company‘s team, will defend his honors in the face of much competition. An American team won the gold trophy in 1922, and it is expected that several teams will try to regain it for the United States. Possibly fifteen or more teams will try to keep it from going across the border, i:â€" cluding one of five Alaskan huskies which is being entered by two McGill students. This is headed by "Dan Jo" which led three teams to victory in three sweepstakes in the Yukon district last year. held annually in that city. The Derby is supported by winter sportsmen from all over the continent, and entries are made from all parts of the continent upon which snow falls to stay for the season: but without the support of the people of Quebec the eveni could not be the great success it is. On the three days for which the Derby is scheduled, everyone who can deâ€" clares a holiday and gets as close to the stamers‘ stand as is possible for the crowd, and ‘when the doss come panting home, it is not so much the visitor at the Chateau as it is Jean Baptiste of Quebec who cheer;3 them in. ‘, Scotland, or the stones as make by of Johnstone, Sceotâ€" the fir stones. _ (Who )‘ first hockey magazines, purchased ? skates, which Canada has been playing the game of eurling for elose on to 75 years and in another article we may ‘be able to trace out something of the history of the gcame in Canada. ‘Club and on his death the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, beâ€" came patron. Today the Royal Caledonian Curlâ€" ing Club still operates and is regardâ€" ed as the mother elub and legisla< tive body in all. parts of the eurling world. The Club‘s main duties are to further interest in the game, to ;n'v\'iso the laws governing the game and to arrange the important matchâ€" es, especially the grand match beâ€" ‘tween the Scotch clubs north of the |Forth and Clyde Canal and those to |the south. The first match was played in 1847 when twelve rinks were represented. In 1903 these inâ€" |creased to 286. As evidence of the Fact that the game of curling has had a splendid growth it is pointed out that in 1838 there were 28 elubs alfiliated with the Royal Caledonian Curling Club and that in 1880 this had increased to 500 clubs and in 1903 to 720 elubs. It was under the auspices of the Royal Caledonian that the Scottish curlers made their first trip to Canada and the United States in 1903, and several trips have been made since that time, one as late as 1923. ‘These trips have done much to bring together the lovers of the game on both sides of the Atlantic and each trip brings a Fund of Sceotch stories to ‘Canada as these Sceotch eurlers know their country, its people and its products. Anyone who thinks that the Scotch are entirely devoid of humour should make it a point to get an invitation to one of the banquets when wvisiting Scotch eurlers are in Canada. Hearâ€" ing will put away from the mind all such erroneous ideas. M ce lowing the initiation of Queen Vicâ€" toria and the Prince Consort into the mysteries of the game at Place of Scone where on the polished floor of one of the rooms of the palace the game was shown to her Majesty and the Prince. The latter became patâ€" ron of the Royal Caledonian Curline Ayanâ€"Murray Drug Co. 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