It’s Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty!
Dressed in the typical curling attire of the 1940s, curling sweaters and Scottish tams, with corn broom and the old-style rocks, from left: Pat Brothers, Pete Braund, George Callacot and Harold Thompson. In 1948, the rink scored the first “Eight-Ender” in the Huntsville Curling Club’s history. (Photo: Huntsville Curling Club).
In the game of curling, each team throws eight rocks down the ice toward the “house” where the rocks either stop short, stop in the house, or go right through. The centre of the house, surrounded by “rings,” is the “button.” If one team can “score” all eight rocks, in the “rings” closer to the “button,” than their opponents’ eight rocks, that is an “eight-ender.” Scoring an eight-ender is an extremely rare event. In fact, there are only ten known eight-enders scored in the history of the Huntsville Curling Club.
The skip in the picture, Pat Brothers, was an extraordinary member of the Huntsville Curling Club from 1940 to 1992. During those 52 years, he was on the curling club’s board of directors from 1940 to the 1980s. Brothers was also very “hands-on,” being the club’s icemaker for many years and never turning down a chance to help at the club’s many events.
In 1986, Pat Brothers was the first and only member of the club to be honoured with a lifetime membership. It was the club’s recognition of his lifetime of curling club volunteerism and decades as club executive. Along with former Mayor and club President Don Lough, he was a staunch champion of ladies’ curling in Huntsville.
In 1994, Brothers received the highest honour of his life when he was inducted into the Huntsville Sports Hall of Fame for his 60 years of Athletic Achievement in the sports of curling & baseball.
If any Doppler reader has stories or old pictures of curling in Huntsville, please contact Dennis Rolland, Huntsville Curling Club via email at [email protected].
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