On Wednesday 1 June 1904 the prospectus for the acquisition of the Cyclorama building on 89 Hindley Street, Adelaide was issued. The following day in an interview, H. Newman Reid discussed the dimensions of the building, internal layout, seating capacity and ice surface dimensions and how the present Cyclorama building is well adapted for the purposes of the proposed Glaciariam project. A common newspaper to find regular advertisements for events was
The Advertiser. Advertisements would always be under the "Amusements" section, as would game and event reports. The "Amusements" section was shared with the
Theatre Royal, art exhibitions, and the
roller skating rink, who had very similar events to the Glaciarium, such as fancy dress carnivals. The regularly-played hockey on the ice matches were never placed in the "Sports" section of this newspaper. After closing down for the summer season, the Glaciarium re opened on 2 March 1905, featuring a skating exhibition by Professor Brewer. The 1905 ice skating season closed down for the summer on 14 October 1905.
Pricing and session times There were 3 sessions available during the day: •
Morning Session 10:00am to 12:00noon •
Afternoon Session 3:00pm to 5:00pm •
Evening Session 7:30pm to 10:00pm Pricing for sessions depended on time of day:
Carnivals Fancy Dress carnivals were held often and attracted many people, awards were held for a variety of categories such as Best Costume, Most Original Costume, Best Poster Costume, Most Sustained Character and Most Grotesque Costume.
Skating Very regularly, exhibitions of various forms of skating were held by Professor James Brewer, such as fast skating, international skating and fancy skating. Sporting events were held at the carnivals in the following categories: • Quarter-mile Hurdle Race • Half-mile Scratch Race
Hockey on the ice Hockey on the ice, in the early 1900s in
Adelaide was the popular sport of
roller polo adapted to an ice surface and using ice skates, also known elsewhere around the world as "ice polo". Each team had 6 players. In the 10 October 1904 edition of
The Advertiser, the first match to be played at the month old Adelaide Glaciarium was advertised for the first time as a match. The following day, it was advertised as a match and the term continued to be used from that point onward.
The first game The first match for this adapted form of
roller polo, hockey on the ice, was played during a carnival in the Glaciarium at 9:00pm on 12 October 1904. A match was organised between a
Rink team and a
Scratch team, picked from the visitors to the rink. It was described by a reporter as being like football on ice skates. The match itself was part of a range of sports and carnival activities for the evening where those attending were dressed in costume and fancy dress. The game was played in 4 quarters and Dr. Harrold scored 2 goals for the
Scratch Team in the first quarter. In the last quarter the
Rink team scored 2 goals to tie up the game and the game ended in a 2–2 draw. The Teams were as follows: Before bandy was codified,
ice hockey first had its rules published on 27 February 1877 in the Montreal newspaper,
The Gazette. It was likened to
field hockey and even continued to use the word within the set of rules. Ice hockey would spread across Canada and the northern part of the United States of America but bandy would spread across Northern European countries. The score for each team involved a tally of both goals and points and was an adaptation of the already popular activity of roller polo, on ice. The first hockey on the ice match between employees representing local businesses was on 15 May 1905. The match was between G. & R. Wills & Co. and D. & W. Murray, Limited which was assembled from a group of novices.
Early hockey on the ice match dates and results Warehouseman's Association On Wednesday 24 May 1905, the first match of the series of matches held under the auspices '''Warehouseman's Association''' was played between a team representing G. & R. Wills & Co. and a team representing James Marshall & Co. This game was played in front of 800 people. The first announcement of this Association was on 19 May 1905. The teams playing under the endorsement Warehouseman's Association were groups of men (Messrs.) who were employees of the following local companies: •
G. & R. Wills & Co. •
James Marshall & Company •
Harris Scarfe • Clutterbuck Brothers •
D&W Murray •
Goode, Durrant & Co. On Wednesday 5 July 1905, teams representing Australia and England played a Hockey on the Ice match at the Adelaide Glaciarium. The players on each team were as follows:
Australia – Parker, Clutterbuck, Hosking, Nightingale, Butler, Part
England – Swanson, Barker, Poole, Knight, Watts, Osendale In the evening of 5 August 1905, the teams D&W Murray's would play a match of hockey on the ice against team Harris, Scarfe & Co as part of the Warehouseman's Hockey Association. The winning team of the match would play the Clutterbucks for the premiership and gold medal.
Warehouseman's Association hockey on the ice dates and results == Subsequent uses of the building ==