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Show "skips," or captains, oi the opposing sides have charge of the sweeping departments, de-partments, and the sweepers have the . . right to use their brooms after the I stone has got beyond the line which i marks 'the' middle of the rink. The .sweeping is always to a side or across the rink and not-forward or backward, where the sweepings might obstruct v the passage of a limning stone. Match games, called a bonspicl, aro played bytopposing teamB of four each, and when it is at home curling.ise- . sentially democratic. It "has been said that the lord of the manor, the clergyman clergy-man and the village blacksmith may be seen on the same rink with the smith as "skip," shouting to the clergyman ; to "Soop, soop!" when he thinks a ! "soop," or sweep, in front of the moving ! stone wiil help it along, . i The enthusiastic curler sees and hears ; nothing but the speeding stones and the . applause,- the shouts of "Weel curled, ' mon !" and the boyish shouts which rise on the wintr' air show that a youthful 'spirit may live in a mature body, par-, , tseularly if it be that of a Scotch j curler. N. Y. Tribune. CURLING .:. ,M f ftlCA. A Scotch Game t. r. :,- Cultivated by Sfr, i. ; .... - . The game of curijii,, i.:; secured a firm place among lh-i . ., orts in all parts of the cr.iiM i ncm there is heavy ice and v.n.- . there are Scotchmen to teach 'J,-- ;vv;:.e to their American neighbor t.. . .v are about 0 curling clubs in tl. . iicd States! and the Lrand aiioi.u'; v ailing club of America has a memo. in-hip of many lrundrcds' in all parts o. u.v. north and northwest; but still th? is spoken of as "Scotland's ain .a.. I .The game is ahvayu j . d on ice-covered ice-covered lakes or river s, v ;.t in England, Eng-land, where it is frtqueiu.y played under un-der glass roofs Ly men whose white I waistcoats, straw hats, floral decorations decora-tions and general lack of Scotch style cause the real curlers to regard them with scorn. - The curlers who a- members of the New York clubs l.uvc their contests cn Van Cortlandt lake, and there is probably no c'ass of sportsmen who go about a game so seriously as they. The object of the game is to plant the curling-stone, which has a tea-kettle shape and weighs from 32 to 44 pounds, near the "tee," or center of a circle at a distance of 40 yards, and to guard it there. Next to the stone, the broom plays the most important part in the game of curling, because, in the hands of a nwceper who is anxious to see the stone advance to the circle where it will count, it is wielded dexterously, so that every article of snow or ice may be re- |