Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-10

nip, and Gardiner was credited with
five more yards. Here was the critical
point, for Gardiner once upon time
lost hope when near her opponents
goal, but this time twas different
Lawton took the ball and while the
center men opened UP whole big
enough for an electric car. he went
over the fatal line for touchdown.
He missed difficult goal
AS the two teams took their positions
to prepare for the KICKOFF one could
read on the countenances of all the
story of the game. the sweet story of
victory and the sad story of defeat
The Gardiner boys Wore the happy ex-
preston of a boy who when he has
been thrown from his sled finds that ne
is setting in a snow bank instead of the
big boulder he expected to hit. Gard
ner knew that it would come out all
right, but she didn't think that the
supposed hard job would turn out to be
such an easy thing The expression of
the Augusta boys was a study.
Twas just like a confident man who
has been UP against the hard cold world
and has found that alas it's not so
sweet as they tell about. Cony knew
then and there that she was beaten.
She had read the moment that Hunt
had carried the ball down the field on
a guards back play. She knew that
she had underestimate her down-river
rivals and that grim defeat was to take
the place of the honey-like sweetness
of the anticipated victory.
But to follow the pigskin. Cony
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diner advanced the ball to Augustus
15-yard line. BY mistake in the sig
nails the quarterback did not pass the
ball and Cony was given the ball by
the referee. The first time Cony made
her five yards. On the second attempt
she was forced to punt.
Again Gardiner has the ball and i'm
mediately starts on walk towards
Conys goal. Then she fumbles and a
Cony man falls on the ball like child
on Christmas present. Again Cony
was unable to make her requisite five
yards and she was forced to punt but
the Gardiner team had their eyes open
and their muscles on the alert The
kick was blocked and poor Cony was
just five yards further away from the
tempting goal Then the ball goes to
Gardiner and time is called when she is
steadily advancing the ball.
In the second half Lawton kicked off,
Russell caught the ball and was down
ed by Babb. Cony used her POI pound
fullback to good advantage and hit
Gardeners line hard. The old very old
criss cross was successfully used and
cony had the sphere in the middle of
the field. The Gardiner boys drew an
imaginary line and they vowed that
the ball should not cross it and it didn't
for they held their opponents for
downs. Again Hunt is called back. and
again he makes one of his famous
plays. The hole was opened UP in good
style and he dashed into the aperture.
tossing Cony men right and left, while
the crowd shouted for Gardiner. for
Hunt and for the Pennsylvania trick
Babb then bucked left tackle for five
yards Pierce took the ball around
right end and after the ball was sup
posed to be down by the Gardiner men
an Augusta man falls on it, This
aroused the anger of the home team
and so stone wall-like is their defence
that again Cony is forced to punt.
LaWton takes the ball and assisted bv
the great interference of Munroe tears
down the field for Is yards. The Gar
diner boys easily advance the ball to
the 5-yard line and with only 80 seconds
to play. Pierce goes around the end for
a touchdown. Lawton kicks an easy
goal.