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TWO STRINGS TO YOUR BOW—Continued
When the Kurverein and Palace rinks are full of
Curlers and when the skaters have been banished
to Wengernalp or Lauterbrunnen more ice will
be made. Modern methods of moving earth and
T
HE Cup was given as long ago
as March 1898, by Mr. N. L.
Jackson to be competed for
annually by curling clubs in
Switzerland.
In those far-off days curling was
in its infancy and was chiefly confined
to the British, having been
exported from Scotland, together
with whiskey, (God bless the
Scots for both) some years earlier.
Curling as a winter sport in
Switzerland, has now become
second only to skiing. It has now
thousands of devotees in the civilised
world, where it is played both
outdoors on natural ice and indoors
on artificial ice and always "a good time is
had by all".
Curlers are a friendly and jolly race and should
one of their team become distressed, over exhausted,
or lacking in courage during a strenuous
contest, there is generally a convenient bar where
a corrective can be obtained. This does not apply
only to the sick and walking wounded, if any,
but chiefly to the eight players who have had a
very enjoyable match and feel in need of a little
refreshment.
The Jackson Cup has now become the Blue
Ribband of Curling and the names of most of the
great players appear on it in the teams that they
have represented in winning the trophy.
For the 1955 competition the Trustees of the
Cup asked the Jungfrau Curling Club which is
the Swiss Club in Wengen to organise the event.
This was held on the Wengen Curling Rinks and
they made a very great success of it.
Amongst the sixteen entries, the cream of
curling in Switzerland, were the Wengen Curling
Club, (the British Curling Club in Wengen),
represented by W. K. Robertson, Skip, E.
Buhlmann (4), J. Dewar (3) and L. W. Strong (2).
During the course of the competition, which
was held on January 19th and 20th, the
Wengen Curling Club defeated Thun and Bern
THE JACKSON CUP
By P.M.H.
The "Winning Team
rock make it not impossible for the Brunner
slopes to be made flat for delectation of Paul and
to the distress of Ros. By the way, Ros, will you
be curling next winter?
Wirte and then Kandersteg in the
final; a thrilling match, watched
by a large and enthusiastic gallery.
Of course everybody in Wengen
was delighted by the result,
which was a great triumph for the
Wengen Curling Club and for Mr.
W. K. Robertson the skip who,
playing Number One, was an
inspiration to his team.
One of the features of the final
was the very sporting way in
which the match was played, and
the charming way in which the
losers took a beating with a smile
on their faces.
It is interesting to recall that the Wengen
Curling Club has only once before been in
the final, when the competition was held at
Gstaad in 1938. The club was then represented
by George Paxton, skip, who was one of the most
enthusiastic spectators in the 1955 final, W. K.
Robertson the 1955 skip, Gilbert Carmichael and
A. Rowell. They were defeated by Engelberg
after a very close match. The skip of the Engelberg
team was the late Sir John Jarvis whose son,
Sir Adrian Jarvis, is the President of the D.H.O.
and a prominent member of the W.C.C.
At the presentation of the cup, Mr. Peter
Lehmann, the vice-president of the Jungfrau
Curling Club, made a very charming speech and
asked Mr. J. N. Lamont, the President of the
Wengen Curling Club, to accept the trophy on
behalf of the Club. Mr. Lamont, having made
a very suitable reply, asked Miss Sybil Kerrison,
a very well known member of the Wengen
Curling Club to present the individual prizes to
the winners and the runners-up.
A very jolly dinner was held at the Regina
Hotel, thanks to the Jungfrau Curling Club and
to Herr and Frau Reinert. Everyone agreed
that the holding of the Jackson Cup meeting for
1955 in Wengen, quite apart from the victory of
the Wengen Curling Club, had been a great
success.
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