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Category: Club News
Who Are/Were the Toories?
by Maureen Kind Today, the Toories are the women who curl in the Toories League on Mondays at 4:30pm. They have their own fine china dinner plates with the name Madison Toories imprinted in gold. The name, …
The Fowler
By Anne Pryor The Chester A. Fowler Memorial Trophy is one of several historic trophies on our club’s shelves. It marks the winners of the Fowler Event from 1950 through 1982, with later winning teams noted on a wall plaque hanging near the men’s locker room. Knowing some …
Eight-Enders
Eight-Enders Anne Pryor, Emily Bartels, Maureen Kind Arguably rarer than golf’s hole-in-one, baseball’s perfect game, or darts’ nine-dart finish, eight-enders are curling’s perfect end. Digging in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s archives, wefound this record of an …
The Madison Curling Club Sign
by Anne Pryor As you walk from the parking lot into the clubhouse, have you ever paused to admire the dark blue metal sign that announces our club? Look carefully and count – eight stones are up there …
Winning Women’s World’s – 2003
Anne Pryor This week we turn to the second impressive white banner adorning the rampway into the icehouse by Sheet 6. A companion to the 2002 Senior Men’s World Championship banner, this one is from …
Winning Senior Men’s Worlds – 2002
What are those beautiful white banners in frames built by Tim Ebert that we see when we exit the icehouse by Sheet 6? To find out, I asked the two current MCC curlers whose names …