Word: bonspiel
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Harvard's College Bowl team crushed Yale and seven other schools en route to sweeping the MIT Beaver Bonspiel tournament this past Saturday...
...Glasgow bonspiel, one U.S. "rink" (team), skipped by Frank Van Epps of Portage, Wis., salvaged U.S. prestige by winning, 24-12. Van Epps produced the shot of the day. Two Scots stones, placed about a foot apart, guarded the scoring circle. While Van Epps lined up his shot, Detroit Lawyer John Ritter McKinlay acted as temporary skip to give Van Epps the proper strategy...
...Swift Current. Most women hurried to stores, just missed the first nylon sale. They bought clothes for the family, tidbits for the table. Men & women blew themselves to a restaurant dinner, went to a hockey game, or to a movie. Some men watched a few "ends" of a curling bonspiel, took friends to the washroom for a snort or two (with a sharp lookout for the law), got tight...
...Royal Curling Club of Edmonton, Alberta: the Dominion Championship Bonspiel; in Toronto...
There were 768 curlers in the Winnipeg bonspiel; one woman, a Mrs. Snell, got into the men's bonspiel somehow, but indignant curlers said this would never happen again. This time spectacled old Malcolm Cambell, who has been in every spiel since 1889, did not win anything. Richard Waugh, Liquor Commissioner, Life Member of the Manitoba Curling Association watched many matches. Howard Wood's team from the Granite Club won twelve times, was beaten only once, finishing first in the bonspiel and earning the right to represent Manitoba in the world's curling championship...