The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-11-29
THE Pig SKINS DAY.
Portland Defeats the Much Nooted
ThOrntOns
BY A SCORE OF 6 TO O IN A
RATTLING GAME.

observation-disclosures Defeats Sanford
Badly-South Berwick Defeats Philips
Exeter-U. p. Triumphs-Other Games
1t was Manhattan field game in
miniature which the big crowd at the
ball grounds saw when the P. III. s..
eleven played the Thornton Academy
team yesterday afternoon. The people
filled the stands; they stood many ranks
deep along the ropes; the big tree which
stands close to the fence afforded roasting
places for a dozen adventurous youngsters
and on the top of the high fence perched
"a long line of spectators. The mud was
about foot deep. 1t adhered in heavy
yellow layers to the boots of the on
lockers and as to the players, they were
plaStared with it, 1t was in their hair
and on their faces and the original colors
OF their clothing were soon obliterated
At intervals some ropy-haired youngster
would require some assistance in digging
Deering soil out of his eyes. In front of
the ropes here and there stood a police
man, the Deering contingent being rein
forced by detail of Portland officers.
The police were prompt and efficient but
the crowd in the main showed little dis
position to wade out into that sea.of mud
in the midst of which the 20 soil-be-
spattered athletes were diving and swim
ming about.
Of course it was Portland crowd and
it naturally improved all of the many
opportunities it found, to applaud the
good wo k of the Portland players. The
girl friends of the players were re-
,splendenJ with their long streamers of
blue ribbon hanging from big bows of
the same material pinned to their jackets.
And the fellows who didn't play showed
where their sympathies were by wearing
similar favors en- their overcoats. How
they cheered One young man who
wandered about in front of the seats was
in great demand as leader. He was
Familiarity addressed by the boys as
Brick" The young man in question
could make fortune as an auctioneer.
He has lungs aud throat which would,
like Trilby's, have excited the admira-
ton of Svengali could that judge of vocal
power have heard the young man known
as Brick" when he led the chorus,
keeping time with his cane:
Zone, two, three, four. five, six, seven
All good children go to Heaven
When they get there they will yell
| Portland POytlp wall vQt1 wall ~
Over and over again the ditty was re-
peated, varied by a cry made up largely
of the word Gloom, Z" and which conveyed
the information that the Portlands were
all right. When Portland made the
touchdown in the second half the cheers
were long and loud, and when moment
later the goal was kicked, the crow d
stood up and yelled.
But all the cheering was not done by
Portland people by any means nor was
the blue the only color worn. Here and
there in the throng of pretty girls was a
group who wore favors of yellow and red,
the Thornton Academy colors, and away
down at the corner of the field was a
collection of long haired youngsters from
the city by the Saco. They had red and
yellow umbrellas; red and yellow fish
horns and they yelled until they were red
in the face and the air, as under the
circumstances, it couldn't be blue in
their vicinity was yellow, too. So it
went, cheer answering yell, and yell re-
plying to cheer until the close of the
game, when with the score six to nothing
in favor of the home eleven, the crowd
waded through the mud to the street and
went home to dream of Thanksgiving
turkeys, kicking foot balls over the bed.