Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-09
Capital City Agitated Over the
Winters Sport.
Augusta Will Have Good Team in
Maine State League.
cony Nigh Boys Will Get Up Club Notes
Of Game.
Now for polo.


ters sport. which when it is too late for
foot ball will be played in this city in
the new city hall across the brook.
This town is represented in the Maine
Polo League which is composed of
Portland. Lewiston. Rockland, Bath
and Augusta. f. p. Smart. the we'll
known druggist, owns the franchise
and will manage and have charge of
the team. He is negotiating with play
ers and already has almost signed such
men as Charley Flack. Jack O'Melia
and Dick Phillips.
Flack halls from Cambridge. Mass,
| and is every inch an athlete. He will
be remembered as one of the players
of the Augusta base ball team of the
New England league this season and
Charley has been in the game for some
| time and is said to be a star goal ten
| der.
O'Melia and Phillips are known as
two of the speediest roller skaters in
the New England states. Phillips is a
resident of Augusta. and is known by
the people here as a speedy man on the
rollers. These two men will act as
| rushers.
| Manager Smart has received a per-
| feet deluge of letters from polo play
ers all over the country. There seems
to be an over production and lots of
| them are good men, so it will be no diff
ficult matter to pick out team that
can play the game with vim and
dash.
Mr.. Smart has the lines out for two
good men who have had experience in
| the game and know all the fine points.
We have not had polo in the city for
| number of years but perhaps some of
the old-timers might get into the
game" and put up as fine an article of
the sport as they did in the days of
yore.
The season will begin Nov. 81, and
continue till March. Each team will
play four games a week. two away and
two at home, and each club will pay
its own travelling expenses. A salary
limit has been decided upon and a
strict reserve list.
The boys of Cony High school will
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men at the North end. Plans have al
ready been made Dy the Blood Corner"
aggregation to put team on the floor.
point now being discussed is the
ACCESSIBILITY of having city league of
four clubs and play for the champion
ship of the city. There are enough
polo players in the city to make the
thing a go" Mr.. Smart says he is
willing to let the amateurs have the
so any one will be able to see two
games of the sport for one admission.
On Thanksgiving afternoon, league
game will be played at City hall, fol-
lowed by sunlight hop.
Let all put their shoulders to the
wheel to make polo a surety here.
The death of Holman c. Dunning,
rusher on the New Bedford polo team,
at New Bedford, Friday. removes one of
the best known poloplayers in the coun-
try. He will be remembered in the base
ball circles here as a member Of the
Bath team. He played behind the bat,
John Brown. the wellknown club
swinger, doing the pitching.
There is every prospect of success
full season for polo in this state. All of
the cities will have strong teams and
polo is an exciting game it is thought
that it's revival will create greater ri
valry than base ball. All the clubs
will have neat uniforms and everything
possible done for the comfort of the pa
irons of the game. Manager Leader
said, last night, that he will have his
team complete in a few days and he
thinks it will be as strong as any in the
league. 1t is hoped that the league will
be a success for polo is fascinating
winter sport and will be enjoyed by all
who like sport.-Lewiston Sun, Nov. T.
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