The Leader-Post from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada • 73

The Leader-Post, Regina, Saturday, March 6, 11176 1 7 Tickets I ft Vl one i Tiii vMf 4 ft 0t X. dinner Wednesday honoring the curling Camphelis of Avonlea, winners of the 1955 Brier. Ticket demand from outside Regina has been, as was expected, most pronounced in provincial champion Roger Anholt's stomping grounds, Moose Jaw. And the same trend developed in ticket requests from other provinces most of the demand came from the home towns of the various provincial winners. Artiss said Clare DeBlonde's win in Manitoba proved especially popular with members of the Heather Curling Club.

The club apparently hasn't- had a major winner before. centres having their own special day and the like the Brier would not receive the same degree of rural support. But according to Laurie Ar-tiss, general chairman of the Brier, the interest shown outside Regina as measured by ticket sales has been just as great as in 1973. "We knew we would be sold out," Artiss said. "We were just concerned with getting as many people as possible from all over the province into the rink.

And it seems we've got that good distribution." The only event scheduled for outside Regina has already taken place. That was a special Hi STAN PETRUIC Avonlea committee By ARME TIEFENBACH L-P Sports Writer Ticket sales would seem to provide as good an indication as any as to the interest in a particular event. And if such is In indeed the case, then the Canadian Brier has certainly caught the fancy of a good number of folk. It is, in effect, a sell-out. A total of 4,365 tickets were put up for sale, and that's exactly how many tickets have been sold.

Of course, selling tickets to a curling event in Regina has never really been a problem. The trend was established In 1955 when a Brier attendance record was set. In 1973, tickets to the Silver Broom in Regina disappeared faster than bread in a depression. Some fear was expressed that since the Silver Broom in 1973 was more obviously a provincial undertaking with 10 different The Best In Country Pop Music Yellow Grass rink If The Ozzie Barkwell rink of Yellnw Grass, which represented Saskatchewan, in the first Macdonald Brier in Toronto in 1927. did not win the Canadian championship but made its presence felt as innovators of curling.

The first Brier involved games of 14 ends, but, after a suggestion by the Barkwell foursome, the length of all games have been 12 ends. Barkwell had Pete Wilkin at third, Mec Hay at second and Alt' at lead. Of SP kl JB MM Eu IrX Itl Hal Wl Jlk. A II- II II II 13 BCf HT -T 5 UU 12a Usa ls ii iw Eight in first Brier CAXQLL BAKER Gaiety Recording Artist "Ten Little Fingers "Little Boy "Never Been This Far TO THE 1976 MACDONALD BRIER mm ped by the veteran Murray Macneill, emerged first Canadian curling champion with six wins and one loss. The only loss Halifax suffered was in the second draw when the Saint John rink, skipped by another great veteran E.

P. MacKay, won by a oint in a 15-14 match. All games were 14 ends. Following the 1927 matches, on a suggestion by the Ozzie Bankwell rink of Yellow Grass, the trustees decided that for all futures playdowns, games would be 12 ends. Following completion of the matches, the prizes were presented at the Granite Club by Sir William Mullock, Chief Justice of Ontario.

Professor Macneill made a gracious acceptance, on behalf of the Halifax Curling Club, on receiving Macdonald's Brier Tankard. The winners also received silver tea services and solid gold replicas of the heart shaped badge, bearing the dale 1927 in relief. The Saint John rink, which finished second with five wins and one loss, received silver water pitchers. The Holiday Inn expresses their best wishes to all of Canada's Ftef Curlers. Lets bring the Silver Broom back to Canada.

On March 1, 1927 the first Canadian curling championship was held at the Granite Club, Toronto, with eight rinks competing, on artificial ice. These eight rinks wrote new pages in curling history as it was the first Inter-provincial playdown ever attempted in Canada. Those associated with the origination of this playdown were so happy over the results in bringing East and West rinks together that it was decided to continue as an annual event. There was a general Dominion-wide interest in the competition. The eight rinks were Halifax, representing Nova Scotia; Saint John, representing New Brunswick; Toronto, High Park, winners of Canada Life trophy; Sarnia, winners of the Ontario Tankard; Yellowgrass, representing Western Canada; Haileybury, representing Northern Ontario; Montreal, representing the Granite Association and Quebec, winners of the Quebec bonspiel.

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