Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-01
Waterville Boys
Start with $3.50 to
See COburn Game

Brainard Hardy sand Hollis Wood
wanted to see the Coburn -Amesbury
football game at Amesbury on
thanksgiving Day. They had about
SS.60 In cash between them Wednes-
DAY morning 80 they started out to
Walk. leaving Waterville about 8.45.
Iney arrived in Amesbury at z
returned to Waterville yesterday
noon. or the $3.50 capital which they
started with, over a dollar remained,
which Is pretty good record as they
covered over 800 miles and were
actually on the road less than 20
hours. They got six rides going down
and eight or ten rides coming back,
Going down they met one autoist
VINO was going to New York City
and coming back Sunday to Sanford,
NE. He offered to take the boys
they declined thinking that the
game was worth more than a ride to
New York In a StutZ touring. car.
Inc two boys struck out from the
Coburn dormitory at 8.45 A. M. We'd
nesday morning just after the CO.
burn rooters had given the team
rousing send off. They walked to
Winslow and there Ford sedan
came along with a good natured
driver who took them as far as
Winthrop. They walked along a lit
tie ways and a kind hearted driver
in Bay State sedan took them to
Lewiston. They arrived about noon.
They walked across the twin cities
and went about a mile beyond Au-
burn on the Portland road before a
Ford picked them up and gave them
lift for a mile or so; another Ford
took them about the same distance,
and then. according to Mr.. Hardy.
they walked and walked but about
that time man came chugging down
the road in an ancient Overland tour
ing car. The boys hailed him and
he took them to Portland.
In Portland they had to do quite a
bit of walking as no one would stop
when they hailed but over in South
Portland they were finally successful
and a man driving big Marmon
proved to be kind hearted and when
they got out they were in Ports.
mouth, N. H., about S o'clock. So
far they had averaged about 20 miles
an hour, which seemed pretty good
speed to them.
They started out from Portsmouth
and after that everyone seemed to
be hardhearted, but finally a colored
gentleman came rolling over the
highway in a big Stutz touring car
and he offered them a ride clear
through to New Yorl. and back to
Sanford but the boys decided to get
off in Newburyport. 1t was Z o'clock
anGS dark so they took car to
Amesbury, spending the first money
of their trip. 5Gl
Here they inquired if there was
Y. M. c. A. building or a hotel and
received a negative answer but a
goodnatured native of the town told
them that the manager of the Ames-
bury team would probably look out
for them all right, so they went to
see him and he fixed them up in the
best house in town, and they man
aged to get free feeds while in the
town. The boys got passes to the
game the next day. one serving as
assistant linesman and the other as
water boy. ~
After the game they were invited
to stay for Thanksgiving dinner but
declined as they wanted to start
back. They caught the car to New
buryport and left there about 100
Thursday afternoon. A Ford picked
them up and took them for three
miles; then a Maxwell, closed car
came along and their next stop was
York, Maine. They met man going
through to Canada and he said he
might dS we'll sup All VdtcINuAS OSCA
night and would take them through.
They made their third expenditure
at Saco, buying supper for the three.
Then they started for Lewiston but
Is miles beyond the Spindle City the
car broke down. 1t was dark SO
they succeeded in getting back to
Lewiston, where they looked UP the
parents of one of the Coburn boys
and stayed over night.
80 ,@~<l
out again and got four rides to
Greene. A little ways beyond a
Velie touring car came along with a
Waterville plate on front. They hail
ed the driver, who happened to be
H. Ray Pooler, of the Sentinel, and
he brought them through to Water
Vile.