Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-21
make his first appearance. together
with Mark Day of Hallowell, with the
Augustus, Wednesday evening

with Mark Day of Halloween, with ths
Augustus, "wednesday evening.
Manager Smart will hereafter. com
I mencing wednesday evening, reserve
the first two rows around the gallery
one row on the sides of the floor, and
the seats on the stage, numbering the
same and issuing checks. Tickets VIII
be on sale at Mr.. Smarts drug store
and can be obtained in advance for any
date. This will insure good seats fol
the ladies and children, by doing away
with being obliged to go TO the hall sc
early in the evening to Secure seat
and will be a convenience greatly APP
preciated by the regular patrons.
| Bath Times: The Augustus and Rock
| lands played league game or poio az
| the Alameda last night, before an audi
ence of nearly 400. The game was trans
/ ferred to this city on account of the hall
| in Augusta being occupied by the Gran
gers convention, and Manager smart dlti
not want to have another game in the
| Coliseum in Gardiner and take chances
| of the players catching cold, as the build
7 ing is not heated. Manager ponnell kind
4 ~ allowed him the use of the Alameda
and had the game been advertised prop
erly the audience would have been much
| larger The audience was ready and
willing to applaud either side, but had
no chances to encourage in this way the
Augustus except that given them by the
goal tending of Hacl<ett and the playing
of O'Melia. These two players PLAY ed
the whole game for their side. liackett s
exhibition was a brilliant one and many
of his stops were wonderful. During the
game he made A. stops, which was a
record breaker in this city for this sea-
son. Augusta was tremendously weak
cned by the absence Of Jason. who was
hurt in the Portland game. Maynard
had several sCufflcS with O'Mclia, last
rl,t III, ton
of them.
Rockland Opinion: IT was not great
game, Saturday evening, when the re-
organized Augustus came here and. after
a game strnggie' met their usual defeat.
But ii had one great feature. and 1t had
indirect results that are important. Tho
work of Hackett. Augustus new goal
tender. was immense. and worth the en-
tire price of admission And Campbell
the brightest gem in RoCkiand's crown
OF polo jewels. was injured SO badly that
he could not appear in Mondays game
with Portland, which was the cause. ~e
have good reason to believe, of our detc Il I
then. Rockland had this game in hanc
all the time. The Augusta players arr
quick skaters and hard hitterS, but they
are not up to the fine work of the game.
The Rocklands took the ball whenever
they wanted to. and did whatever they
pleased with il, except one thinS-they
couldn't put it into the Augusta goal
when they chose. by any means. a
fathom of chain lightning flashed up and
down before 1t, repelllng the pest OF
drives. That man dackett is great
goal tender. He is graceful and active
as a panther and his brain is as active
as his limbs. He seemed to know by m
stinct just where the ball was comins:
and he generally got there before the ball
did. Hackett is a good match for y Nal
ley. and neither has anything to learn
from any of EN-. 1t is solely owing 10
Hackett's superior work that Roc k;aild :
score was held down where 1t was. He
made A. stops and many OF them wore
very brilliant, including some of Camp
bells best drives. a rather queer thing
about it is that two of Rockland's goals
We're made by Maynard. who has not
usually been successful in this direction,
when the goal was defended less etfec;
lively. OMalley made y stops and for
the greater part of the time was watch
ing the game at the other end OF the hall.
Phll Jason came with the Augustus 20
visit his home; he has been promoted to
first rush, and is the best man on the
team bar Hackett. He received a gener
Gus hand from his old friends in the au
dience. on his first appearance and when
he made good plays, but he never recog
nized the compliment by so much as Il
smile. He made the only two goals Au-
gusta got, the fifth and seventh.