Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-15
DAILY KENNEBEc JoURNATs TUESDAY. NOVEMBER Is

At tackles stockbrfdge and Albee. the
two Bowdoin men. are the superiors,
on both offensive and defensive. OF
their only. rivals. Call and Sturgis OF
Bates Thayer. the Colby tackle. Is q
lively player and will be a star another
year. At ends are A. w. Clarke Of
Bowdoin. who has played like f1end
in dozen games without a fiuke or
failure, and Putnam OF Bates. who Is
rather better than Richardson Of the
same team. Eastman and Be'aCty Of
Bowdoin. are both better ends than the
average college team possesses, and
are good for an All-Maine team later.
Veazie of Bowdoin, has played IL but
three games this year. otherwise he
would doubtless make the All-Maine
team as he has the past two years dis
placing Putnam Of Bates. Behind the
line 1t Is no small job to select a quarter
back. Hadlock of Bowdoin, has done
steady work of a high order in twice
as many games as Purinton of Bates,
has played, and has no superior in the
State in handling punts and in inter-
ference. On defensive work, ilow ever,
and in putting spirit and snap TITO
team Purinton is his superior. 1. Is
practically toss up between these two
players. At half back are Hunt Of
Bowdoin. and Pulsifer of Bates, at
right and left respectively. Some
might select Cloudman or Gregson,
both of Bowdoin, in place Of Hunt, bu.
the former is too apt to tumble ana
lose his nerve, while Gregson is little
Clnw aud haft <3a tc hill ~,
work. Cloudman and Gregson would
make good tackles. but for an all round
half back. Hunt, the brilliant sprinter,
is more to be relied on in a game.
Pulsifer would be the man for the
other half and for the captaincy Of the
team. At full back w. B. Clarke of
Bowdoin. has no equal in Maine. He
is the best line bucker and has out
punted his Maine rivals. His inter-
ference and his defensive work are
alike ahead of anything done by any
other Maine back this year. Harvard
will not soon forget the way he
smashed its line almost the length Of
the field for touchdown. AS a cap
tain he has not so many strong points
as Pulsifer.
So much for our theoretical ALL
Maine eleven. Perhaps the II men se-
lected are not the best in every case,
but they would certainly make a team
invincible in Maine. Perhaps too much
credit is given the Bates players. They
played only one game with a team of
equal or greater strength. and all the
elements of luck We're with them in
that contest. Bowdoin. on the other
hand, has played twice as many
games, including hard struggles with
Harvard, Dartmouth and Tufts. and in
some of these contests it did much be.
ter work than at Lewiston where 1t
disappointed general expectations by
failing to roll up a good score against
Bates. 1t has one, more game to play
with the Portland Athletic Club ut
Portland, Thanksgiving day. At Colby
there are some lively youngster on the
team, sophomores and freshmen, who
will make the rest hustle. next fail, and
U. of NJ. doesn't propose to be always
at the bottom of the list.
Boston Globe: Maine has packed
about 100000 cases of sardines this
season. Possibly a few small herring
may have got in among them here and
there. -
When Co. X of the list Maine, was
mustered out at Brunswick, last week.
a canvas of the 30 men present showed
that 60 were ready to re-enlist. 1t
takes more than a camp of fever and
flies to crush the grit and patriotism
out of Maine boys.
Bath has peculiar attractions for
paupers. The city is not paying for
the support of single person outside
the city, while it is aiding the poor of
II cities and towns nov located there.
The Auburn young man who left his
girl in the wee sma' hours, and in get
ting out of the door yard fell into
tank of mortar, will take dark Ian.
tern with him, next time.
Having read some good stories of
large apple trees in various parts of the
State, Albert Ham, leading farmer of
West Dresden, writes the Journal
about an old giant in his possession. 1t
measures 3 feet, 10 inches in circum-
ference foot from the ground, and
at the height of six feet the trunk
branches into four limbs almost as
large. Its great limbs are full of
crooks and angles but the whole makes
a most shapely tree. 1t is over a CEN
fury old, and has borne well for each
year of the AZ it has been in Mr. Hams
possession. One year it gave him 43
bushels of good apples. It's fruit is of
good size, light colored. and very acid.
making a fine cider apple. After
weathering the storms of a century the
old giant shows no marks of decay.
The Bucksport murder investigation
has reached the anonymous letter
stage. And the Bangor Wing remarks
that unless something happens soon to
stem the tide of investigation the town
will need to appropriate money for !,