Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-16
ICE RACING.
Capital City Will Have Out
Some Fast Ones
During the Coming Season on Tracks
on the Kennebec.
Some Of Them Can Be Depended on
for Good Work.

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that has been seen for years. 1t is a
little early yet but just wait until snow
enough comes to slip along over, and
one will be surprised to find how many
candidates for prospective honors in
| the speed line there will be seen on
the city streets. getting down into
working condition.
| 1t seems to be all settled that the
races will be at HallOwell, and really
the Hallowell track is the best location
of any in the three cities. Augusta
has no speedway, and the ice track
above the dam, which has been used
from time to time in the past is too
much out of the way, even for local
attendance. And then, Gardiner is at
, the other end of the line, so taken all
in all, Hallowell is the real and only
place.
A Journal reporter ran into one of
these sweet by and by" gatherings
the other day, where three or four fire.
quenters of the half-mile track in the
good old summer time, We're sitting
around the stove, in which, by the way,
the fire had not yet been built, and all
We're talking "hoss," and specializing
upon what the available resources in
horsetlesh would be when the microbes
in Kennebec river water should be en-
closed in about Il foot of ice, and a
track should be scraped upon that ice
at Hallowell
one of the number, the urbane gem
tleman who presides over the sulky
seat for H. f. Cummings, and is pos
cnccad Of cix +; oh,
can land a ESQ horse under the wire in
2.3i, sat astride the seat of a harness.
makers clamp, engaged in taking some
stitches in a breeding, and as the
searcher after news opened the door,
the horse man was saying: "Of course
at this stage of the game it's a little
hard telling. We have sold some speed
and may sell others, but and as he
pulled the waved end through the
leather with a jerk he continued: 81
wouldn't be surprised if you found
Nellie BLY,, Lon Wilkes, Will Sidney
Helen Gould and L. J. B. shifting the
Wintry air in the vicinity of Hallowell
pretty often"
No one vouchsafed any comment on
the statement. and them when the
horse man had taken the last stitches,
he took the breeching out of the
clamps, hung it up on peg, and turn
ing around on the seat, continued
something in this wise:
$50 you want to know something
about the other Augusta horses that
are in line for the winters brush work?
Now, you understand that there's a.
good deal of speculation in this. just
as there is in betting when the ice will
go out. and I am just going to name
over the possibilities. You don't care
for the names of the horses, do you?
well, s'posin' we begin with Marley
Nichols. He has got Rosie N. and
Jim S.. and both of 'em can make the
best of EN- step lively on the ice track.
Jim S. has been bottling up energy
ever since he came home from the
races, and ought to do some lively foot
work in his class. Marley is using
Rossie N in his business. every day.
but the old mare can skate along some
when the call comes.
wv. S. Malcolm has two of what
ought to be as good brush horses as
there are in Maine. l mean Gwen p.
and Rosie Wilkes There is nothing
i'm the horse line that can go too fast
for Warren to drive, and if you don't
see him go up behind his horses at
Hallowell, with his mOney-refunding
smile beaming from under his sealskin
cap, I shall hand in my resignation as
a weather prophet.
"And there's Geo. Wadleigh. George
is putting a good deal of thought into
real estate up around Silver lake. late
ly, but he hasn't forgotten that he owns
some of the aristocratic horses Of the
city, by any means. For instance, there
is Lady Bayard. That mare has got a
mark of 14I. and ought to lead every
body. Say, if it wouldn't be considered
too wild an estimate it wouldn't sur
prise me if the mare could go the
length of the stretch, and. then have
time to sit down and watch the bunch
come up.
"Then there is the green mare, Mollie
Wilkes-she can go some. too. Henry
McCausland is wintering the horses
and ought to come out and see the boys,
occasionally.
Crank Hewtt's black mare Gusta-
main, should not be forgotten. She
came into the stable in the fall with
good record. and for an all-round.
catch-as-catch-c campaigner. she
has but few equals. Mr.. Hewitt never
misses an ice race, and you can bank
on his being there.
Il don't know what Peter Corron, up
in Sidney, has got to offer, but he
always has some of the best material.
and. to tell it just as it is, l think that
when the time comes I shouldn't be
surprised to see that gentleman come
down over Sand hill with something in
the boss line that will come terrible
near to trimming the bunch.
There are several good green horses
around town that I expect will be
worked out on the ice. this winter, and
some pretty good ones, too. Ellery
Cooks little sorrel Burr Oak is one of
EN-. Let me tell you, there is one of
the hottest problems in the green horse
class in the city. I understand that
Mr.. Cook is going to work Burr Oak
out twice a day during the winter.
Fred Bailey has nice green trotter
in the black mare Alpha. She won the
green horse race at Hallowell. last
winter. and understand she is show
ing up well, this fall Isaac Sabin has
LITTLE MAJOR nv Slick which is likely