The Portland daily press., 1885-02-26
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ON THE ROLLERS.
ALAMEDAs 8, B1JoUs /.

ALAMEDAS 8, BIJOUS /.
The Bijons have evidently lost spirit in the league
contest, as their playing last night as whole was
about as stless as it possible to make it, orne
and Foster were both off again, and Winship and
Weeks filed their places. The Alamedas outplayed
them badly. 1t was most 'unsatisfactory game ,,
as even our friend of the Bath Times will have to
admit. There were numerous waits for broken
skates, ETC., and while it was 81 minutes from the
start to the finish, the playing time was only 10
minutes. The Bilious now drop another neg and
the Alamedas once more take the lead Interest
Will soon begin to drop off unless some steps are
taken to strengthen the Bilious. The Alamedas
have one Massachusetts player and one from his
city; the W. HI. T.'s came here and took awav two
good men, and the Granite Citys have made changes
ana strengthened weak points whenever necessary
But the Bijous have been allowed to drift aong on
the supposition that they could and would plsy a
4eIser game later on. But instead they are going
oown NIL fast. There is evidently great lacking
somewhere, and the other clubs see it and chuckle
over the pudding" they are having. The idea OF
sending the Bilious to Bath Tuesday night to plav on
boxwood when they were to play on rubber the next
night was absurd. But the Bilious themselves are
not to blame. They have played the best they
sent. DeeA
In the game last night Norway did the only plav.
ing WoIt1 mentioning, as far as the Bilious were
concerned. VI the others, some played an ordinary
game and some much worse than ordinary one
On the Alamedas, Roberts made as good showing as
any one, and did much for his club as any two of
the others. He is a splendid polo PLAYER and the
backbone or the Alamedas Roberts got the first
rush, and 1t was only few seconds before the ball
struck Dunning in the side of the head and caused
wait. After the be started again Roberts took
occasion to have little tumble ali by himself and
ne found the surface of the Bijou SO unyieldipg
that he had to rest few moments to collect his
thoughts. The goal was finally won for the Bilious
by Dunn in two minutes.
Dunning got the second rush, and after three and
one-haf minutes play the ball struck Orr's hand
and ne caught it and threw it into the cage. No
goaI was allowed although the Alamedas In their
rear cried baby, and starred to leave the floor One
1ou was allowed on Leydon during this innings for
strlKlng the ball, with his knee on the floor and
Dunnlng secured the goal for the Alamedas after
WE'VE minutes OF actual play. After the second
goal Leydon's skate broke, but Referee Barnes
wnlstled the men into position Just the same Rob
erts was inclined to be sulky and didn't want To
play with one man short. The referee told him NOT
to be so afra of getting cheated and he would qet
along all right and he took his place. Instead of
starting on the rush the clubs held their position
and Manager Whittier stepped forward and nre
sented DOW OF the Alamedas with floral goal caoa
IN Dehaif OF some of his friends in this city,
Dunnlng got the third rush. After one minuta's
play, weeks in his zeal to guard the home goal sent
the ball over the netting and out through the win
doW. In tAree and one-half minutes after ii was
found again. Dunning had the goal for the Aamedas
Time, "a minutes. Roberts got che last rush but
who got the goal is undecided. IL looked as if the
Dali struck Smiths skates and rolled in 1t got in
tnere anyway after one-half minutes play giving
the game TO the Alamedas.
THE RECORD
The following score shows how the clubs stand up
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