20. Sir John Stirling Maxwell Tankard - Closing Bonspiel
The history of the Tankard stems from around 1707(read on!) and the Tankard was originally competed for each year outdoors on the Club’s Pond until the absence of Jack Frost and the advent of the Ice Rink at Crossmyloof drove the Competition indoors.
Keir, Dunblane, October 12th 1887
Dear Sir,
I shall be very glad to become a Member of the Eastwood Curling Club. Being so closely connected with the Parish it will be a great pleasure to me to give a cup to be curled for. I do not quite gather from your letter whether you are anxious to get some gentleman to present a cup every year or whether you wish for a cup which might be curled for annually and held by the winner for a year only. If the former is the case shall be very glad to give a cup to be curled for this winter. If the latter is the case (and this seems to be the best plan) I shall be glad to give a cup that could be curled for every year and held over the Season by the winner. Please let me know your wishes, as, if the cup is the one that is to be curled for annually, I shall take more trouble about getting it than I should do if it was only to be curled for once.
I am Yours Truly
John Stirling Maxwell
Following receipt of this letter a Meeting of the Club was convened for the 17th October 1887 where it was agreed to accept the latter part of Sir John Stirling Maxwell’s kind offer of a Cup confined to the Club to be played for every year consecutively by the several rinks and held by the winning rink for one year from the date of the competition, the Secretary being instructed to reply accordingly.
Also at this Meeting it was suggested that the Club provide a stove for the Curling House for cooking purposes whereupon Mr John Dalglish kindly offered to give the Club one. Messrs Hamilton and Smith magnanimously volunteered to furnish the House with goblet and frying pan. Further a member present agreed to gratuitously paint and varnish the House.
Towns Cross, Pollokshaws, 18th October 1887
To Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bart, of Nether Pollok
Dear Sir,
On receipt of your kind letter dated 12th inst. I at once convened a full Meeting of the Club for last evening the 17th for further instructions regarding the cup when it was found that the Meeting was unanimously in favour of having only one cup confined to the Club and played for every year consecutively by the several rinks, the winning rink to hold it over a year from the date of winning it or until such a date the following season as the Club may agree to contest for it. It was decided that the names of the winning rink should be inscribed upon it every year that it was won. I was desired to express to you the thanks of the Meeting for your kindness in so spontaneously becoming an Honorary Member of, and the donor of that which they doubt not will make the Club as Curlers not only feared but respected in the County, and if at any time you may be at Pollok House while there is ice on you will be most heartily welcome to a game at Cowglen Pond.
I Remain Yours Respectfully,
Wm. McGregor Adam
Keir, Dunblane, Nov. 6 1887
Dear Sir,
I am glad to hear that you have decided to have one cup to be curled for annually – it is a plan which always answers well. I have obtained a cup and have directed them, Messrs Hamilton & Inches to send it to you – it is an old tankard, dating, I think from Queen Anne’s Reign (1702 to 1707 – ed.) – I shall look forward to having a game with the Club some day.
Yours Truly
John Stirling Maxwell
Town Cross, Pollokshaws, November 16th, 1887
Dear Sir,
At a Meeting of the Eastwood Curling Club held last Monday evening the 14th inst., I was desired to express to you the thanks of the Meeting for the very handsome gift which you gave to the Eastwood Curling Club. It is but meet to inform you that the Tankard was filled by the President Mr John Dalglish Sr and a bumper drank to your health and prosperity. Other toasts followed and theoretically speaking many a game was lost and won that evening minus the ice.
I am, Yours truly,
Wm, McG Adam
Extract from the local newspaper (unknown and undated)
Curling Tankard
“The silver tankard which Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bart., of Pollok, presented to the local curlers when he came of age in 1887 has now no space left on it for the names of further winners.
To remedy this, Sir John has presented a pedestal on which will be placed small silver plates with the names of the winning rinks engraved.”
Among the names of the winning skips engraved on the tankard is that of Sir John’s forester, John Boyd, a 3rd Lanark rifle shot, who tied with a Canadian for the Queen’s Prize at Bisley. Boyd was afterwards, until his death, Crown Forester in Argyllshire.”
“The tankard bears the name of the Eastwood Club, which had a pond on Hart’s Muir, Giffnock. Completely drained, the pond became part of the first fairway of (the original) Eastwood Golf Club.
Extract from a newspaper cutting -date unknown: “…The Eastwood Club became defunct, and the tankard passed into the possession of the Pollok Club” (same entity, Ed!)
4th September 1958: Minute of Committee Meeting – “…The subject of two rinks finishing the same number of shots up in the Tankard was brought up, and it was decided to award it to the rink winning the most number of ends.”
“Noo sauny scott a want a shot
To guard ye on the pole
Whaur sooth and east and west
And night and day at best
And human clay without the brae are nill”
“Odds man lauchie bruin
If a dinn daet twull be oor ruin
Ye see its biased like a rainboo
Wae granrauch groan I’ll shaklet
On to gist ower the hugg
And mack it siccar”
Given to the Eastwood Curling Club by Sir John Stirling Maxwell 1887:
The history of the Tankard stems from around 1707(read on!) and the Tankard was originally competed for each year outdoors on the Club’s Pond until the absence of Jack Frost and the advent of the Ice Rink at Crossmyloof drove the Competition indoors.
Keir, Dunblane, October 12th 1887
Dear Sir,
I shall be very glad to become a Member of the Eastwood Curling Club. Being so closely connected with the Parish it will be a great pleasure to me to give a cup to be curled for. I do not quite gather from your letter whether you are anxious to get some gentleman to present a cup every year or whether you wish for a cup which might be curled for annually and held by the winner for a year only. If the former is the case shall be very glad to give a cup to be curled for this winter. If the latter is the case (and this seems to be the best plan) I shall be glad to give a cup that could be curled for every year and held over the Season by the winner. Please let me know your wishes, as, if the cup is the one that is to be curled for annually, I shall take more trouble about getting it than I should do if it was only to be curled for once.
I am Yours Truly
John Stirling Maxwell
Following receipt of this letter a Meeting of the Club was convened for the 17th October 1887 where it was agreed to accept the latter part of Sir John Stirling Maxwell’s kind offer of a Cup confined to the Club to be played for every year consecutively by the several rinks and held by the winning rink for one year from the date of the competition, the Secretary being instructed to reply accordingly.
Also at this Meeting it was suggested that the Club provide a stove for the Curling House for cooking purposes whereupon Mr John Dalglish kindly offered to give the Club one. Messrs Hamilton and Smith magnanimously volunteered to furnish the House with goblet and frying pan. Further a member present agreed to gratuitously paint and varnish the House.
Towns Cross, Pollokshaws, 18th October 1887
To Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bart, of Nether Pollok
Dear Sir,
On receipt of your kind letter dated 12th inst. I at once convened a full Meeting of the Club for last evening the 17th for further instructions regarding the cup when it was found that the Meeting was unanimously in favour of having only one cup confined to the Club and played for every year consecutively by the several rinks, the winning rink to hold it over a year from the date of winning it or until such a date the following season as the Club may agree to contest for it. It was decided that the names of the winning rink should be inscribed upon it every year that it was won. I was desired to express to you the thanks of the Meeting for your kindness in so spontaneously becoming an Honorary Member of, and the donor of that which they doubt not will make the Club as Curlers not only feared but respected in the County, and if at any time you may be at Pollok House while there is ice on you will be most heartily welcome to a game at Cowglen Pond.
I Remain Yours Respectfully,
Wm. McGregor Adam
Keir, Dunblane, Nov. 6 1887
Dear Sir,
I am glad to hear that you have decided to have one cup to be curled for annually – it is a plan which always answers well. I have obtained a cup and have directed them, Messrs Hamilton & Inches to send it to you – it is an old tankard, dating, I think from Queen Anne’s Reign (1702 to 1707 – ed.) – I shall look forward to having a game with the Club some day.
Yours Truly
John Stirling Maxwell
Town Cross, Pollokshaws, November 16th, 1887
Dear Sir,
At a Meeting of the Eastwood Curling Club held last Monday evening the 14th inst., I was desired to express to you the thanks of the Meeting for the very handsome gift which you gave to the Eastwood Curling Club. It is but meet to inform you that the Tankard was filled by the President Mr John Dalglish Sr and a bumper drank to your health and prosperity. Other toasts followed and theoretically speaking many a game was lost and won that evening minus the ice.
I am, Yours truly,
Wm, McG Adam
Extract from the local newspaper (unknown and undated)
Curling Tankard
“The silver tankard which Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bart., of Pollok, presented to the local curlers when he came of age in 1887 has now no space left on it for the names of further winners.
To remedy this, Sir John has presented a pedestal on which will be placed small silver plates with the names of the winning rinks engraved.”
Among the names of the winning skips engraved on the tankard is that of Sir John’s forester, John Boyd, a 3rd Lanark rifle shot, who tied with a Canadian for the Queen’s Prize at Bisley. Boyd was afterwards, until his death, Crown Forester in Argyllshire.”
“The tankard bears the name of the Eastwood Club, which had a pond on Hart’s Muir, Giffnock. Completely drained, the pond became part of the first fairway of (the original) Eastwood Golf Club.
Extract from a newspaper cutting -date unknown: “…The Eastwood Club became defunct, and the tankard passed into the possession of the Pollok Club” (same entity, Ed!)
4th September 1958: Minute of Committee Meeting – “…The subject of two rinks finishing the same number of shots up in the Tankard was brought up, and it was decided to award it to the rink winning the most number of ends.”
“Noo sauny scott a want a shot
To guard ye on the pole
Whaur sooth and east and west
And night and day at best
And human clay without the brae are nill”
“Odds man lauchie bruin
If a dinn daet twull be oor ruin
Ye see its biased like a rainboo
Wae granrauch groan I’ll shaklet
On to gist ower the hugg
And mack it siccar”
Given to the Eastwood Curling Club by Sir John Stirling Maxwell 1887:
President Maurice Paterson presents the Sir John Stirling Maxwell Tankard to Ian Taylor, George Leslie and Alastair Robertson as winners of the Closing Bonspiel 2017
|
Winners of the Closing Bonspiel 2022 being presented with the Sir John Stirling Maxwell Tankard by President Lindsay Dempster. L to r Douglas Harvie, Lindsay Dempster, Gordon Mcintosh, Gavin Smith, George Leslie
|
Previous Winners:
1887/88
Robert Smith Wm. McGregor Adam Wm. Napier Samuels John Urie 1888/89 &1889/90 Not recorded 1890/91 John Dalglish George Smith Edward Dick Andrew Dalgleish 1891/92 Not recorded 1892/93 Bailie Wm. McG Adam Duncan Cameron Wm. Napier Samuels Donald McFarlane 1893/94 Not recorded 1894/95 Bailie Wm. McG Adam John Boyd Andrew Dalgleish John Robertson 1895/96 Not recorded 1896/97 Bailie A Whyte James Douglas David Gibson Gavin A McCallum 1897/98 Not recorded 1898/99 Duncan Cameron Hector McKinnon A B Stevenson Robert Ferguson 1899/1900 John Boyd William Cowan James Macdougall David Russell 1900/01 James Heron Wm. McGregor Adam William Fleming J C McFarlane 1901/02 A B Stevenson W J W Morton A McLellan Wm. Forrest 1902/03, 1903/04, 1904/05, 1905/06, 1906/07, 1907/08, & 1908/09 Not recorded 1909/10 A B Stevenson William Cowan Wm. Raeside J Campbell Murray 1910/11 & 1911/12 Not recorded 1912/13 William Cowan Andrew Mitchell John Baird G R McCallum 1913/14 James Heron Rob Anderson James K Macbratney Hugh Miller 1914/15 Not recorded 1915/16 James Heron John Fairley Wm. Seller Wm. Graham 1916/17 Wm. Cowan John Fairley James Heron Wm. Seller W R Bell 1917/18 James Stark John Fairley Jas K Macbratney N McKinley 1918/19 N McKinley (Skip) 1919/20 till 1945/46 Not recorded 1946/47 J Pickwell George McBride David Munro James Barclay 1947/48 till 1950/51 Not recorded 1951/52 J W Pickwell ((Skip) 1952/53 G A Garside C Poulter A P Muir E Grant 1953/54 J W Pickwell (Skip) 1954/55 P McPherson R W Gardner G Dodds R L McPherson 1955/56 J W Pickwell (Skip) 1956/57 & 1957/58 Not recorded 1958/59 J Pickwell A Dyce H Talbot A Mason 1959/60 F L Levick (Skip) 1960/61 F L Levick (Skip) 1961/62 F L Levick (Skip) 1962/63 E L Sprenger (Skip) 1963/64 E L Sprenger J Finlay R Park J W Wintersgill 1964/65 A Wilson R B McPhee H V Noble 1965/66 P Smeal J M Dodd H V Noble N McDonald |
1966/67 W S Jack F Wilson R Ross Dr D Murray Lyon 1967/68 T L Morrison A N Kirk I C Young W C Collins 1968/69 R W Gardner D N Griffiths R Ross A M Loudon 1969/70 F L Levick G Polson R Ross W R Bell 1970/71 W Skeoch J A Cartwright H V Noble R Phillips 1971/72 J T Johnston D N Griffiths A M Loudon R McVicar 1972/73 Jack Pickwell Russell Carson Ian Ritchie 1973/74 M K Dickie A G Pollok R F Phillips D P McNaughton 1974/75 H L Levick D N Griffiths W I Ritchie K Shaw 1975/76 W Skeoch W K Carson A Campbell N T Johnston 1976/77 D N Griffiths A N Kirk A Campbell T Armstrong 1977/78 W Watson R Carson D H Reid N T Johnston 1978/79 Harry Levick Ian Ritchie Ian McDermid Robert Watt 1979/80 Harry Noble Arthurs Cartwright Ian Ritchie David Muir 1980/81 John Wintersgill David Wallace Peter Murray Sandy Finlayson 1981/82 Harry Levick Gilmour Pollok Rob Crerar Arthur Watt 1982/83 Bill Skeoch Bob Gardner Maurice Vincent Noel Griffiths 1983/84 Bill Skeoch Ian Dunsmore Melville Grindlay Arrol Crerar 1984/85 Ian Young Bobby Ross Robert Watt 1985/86 Harry Levick John Wintersgill Sandy Finlayson Ewan Cunningham 1986/87 Alistair Cockburn Ian Addison Bert Addison Alan Dickson 1987/88 Alan Thomson Bob Gardiner Sandy Campbell 1988/89 Harry Levick Bert Addison John Bell Douglas Edward 1989/90 Graham Wintersgill David Reid Harry Noble William Hunter 1990/91 Graham Wintersgill Ian Dunsmore Donald Thomson 1991/92 Bill Skeoch David Reid Bert Addison David McLaren 1992/93 Harry Levick David Boyd (guest) Donald Thomson Gourlay Fairman 1993/94 Ian Addison Graeme Sutherland John Steven (guest) Alistair Fowler 1994/95 Bill Skeoch George Leslie Ken Minto Alistair Fowler 1995/96 Harry Levick John Boyle Ian Morris David Sutherland 1996/97 Ewen Cunningham Graeme Sutherland Gordon Anderson Sandy Campbell |
1997/98 Ian McDermid John Steven (guest) Gray Mickel Gourlay Fairman 1998/99 Sandy Finlayson Alan Stewart Sandy Campbell Arrol Crerar 1999/2000 Sandy Finlayson George Leslie Russell Linn Alan Stewart 2000/01 Ian Addison Ewen Cunningham Bruce Mitchell Sandy Campbell 2001/02 Bill Skeoch Gordon Wishart Gourlay Fairman Russell Linn 2002/03 Ian Addison George Leslie John Boyle Peter Rodger 2003/04 Ewen Cunningham Gordon Anderson Nigel McMillan 2004/05 Ian Addison Graeme Sutherland Mike Morris Brian Anderson 2005/06 Gordon Deakin Tommy Nimmo Russell Linn Douglas Mack 2006/07 Graham Wintersgill Ian Taylor Douglas Mack Jack Pickwell 2007/08 Graham Wintersgill Ian Taylor Stuart Orr Alasdair Graham 2008/09 Grant MacGregor Alistair Cockburn Ian Taylor Brown McMaster 2009/10 Gordon Wishart Ian Taylor Richard Morris Bev Abel 2010/11 Alan Sloan Richard Morris Lindsay Dempster 2011/12 Gib Steele Ian Taylor Brown McMaster Jim McCall 2012/13 Graham Wintersgill George Leslie Alastair Robertson Maurice Paterson 2013/14 Nigel McMillan David Black Brown McMaster 2014/15 Gordon Deakin Lindsay Dempster Roy Muir 2015/16 George Leslie Ian Taylor Alastair Robertson 2016/17 George Leslie Gib Steele Lindsay Dempster 2017/18 Nigel McMillan Gordon McQuilkin Andy Whyte Keith Spowart 2018/19 Douglas Mack Gordon McIntosh Alastair Robertson 2019/20 Not played - Pandemic 2020/21 Not played - Pandemic 2021/22 Gavin Smith Douglas Harvie George Leslie Gordon McIntosh 2022/23 John Henderson Douglas Harvie Gordon McQuilkin David McLaren |