The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-23
PORTLAND DEFEATED LEWISTON.
One Of the Hottest Polo Games of the
Season at City Hall.

last nights game with Lewiston was
oor,xer. From start to finish it was bif!
bang smashl regular heart quickening,
blood stirring, paralyzing contest. full OF eX-
citing scraps, magnificent playing and great
enthusiasm. Every man present yelled HIM
self hoarse and as over 500 men saw the
game some idea of the noise the crowd
made may be had. As usual the galleries Of
tbe hall were filled with ladies and many of
the best people in the city, including m any
Of the professional men were present with
their ladies. Polo has taken Portland by
storm. 1t is the fad, the correct caper to see
the polo games and the young swells of the
citv are becoming great s.rooters'' for the
home team.
Portland won last night by score of 9
from Lewiston. The latter team in reality
made four goals, but one of them was for
feited for three fouls. Such game for foul
ing has never been played here before. The
visitors cot into the contest with both feet
and played mighty fast, exhilirating game.
OF course this occasioned much fouling as in
their excitement it was the easiest thing in
the world for player to do little holding
or scrapping if he got a chance. Consequent
" the Lewiston men found many chances
Of these fouls, but those that he did see
were at once called. The result was the loss
of a hard earned score by the visitors
The Lewiston's uniforms are green, bright
verdant green. They look as refreshing and
sweet as May morning when the Lewistons
are practicing or waiting for the game to
begin. 1t is really restful to see the gentle
way these men hit the ball. Mamma's Lutte
Ia nj
The whistle blows, the Lewiston's green
turns to red. Such slashing, dashing, crash
ing. blood letting bit of fellows haven't been
seen here for long time. They have great
team work, put mp fast polo, but they will
foul This was costly to them last night.
The crowd groaned when G. Broadbent OF
the J.ewistons got the first goal in just So
seconds. 1t seemed prophetic for Portland
was playing new man and the conservative
Portlanders don't like new things. The fact
that Lewiston got goal on the send off was
accordingly blamed on the new man, whose
name is Jordan. They Kissed him a little,
yelled loudly for W.Dawson, who. was sitting
On the substitutes bench and murmured
discontendly In less than q minute they
were cheering the new man like mad.
Jordan is what is called an ankle skater,
train did the other day when it ran into the
ditch. He is a fine ssheady'' player and uses
eood judgement. He showed his usefulness
twice in succession by clever passes to J.
Dawson and Whipple, enabling Portland to
get two goals.
Portland got her third goa, in the first
,,ar;od in n funny way The LewiStons de-
llberately passed the ball TO Whipple, who
was standing in front Of the Lewiston cage.
VhinpIe lust smashed it towards the goal.
VI. BroadDent is good goal tend, but he
doesn't like to stop cannon balls, so he got
out of the way and Whipple scored goal.
In the second period Jordan made another
great play, cleverly passing the bali to J.
Dawson, who Gagged Portland's fourth goal.
This made the crowd wild with JOY, and
thev cheered the new man for all they were
worth
Piper made two fouls in this second period
and then lost Lewiston the goal they
captured In thirty seconds towards the end
of tho period.
Lewiston braced up in the last part of the
gsna and got two more goals in succession.
This made the score, Portland, 4; Lewistoii'
g. It was very exciting though. Whipple by
clever drives got two IN ore goals for Port
land and soon put an end to it. WhlDple' s
PLAYING was the feature of the evening, ana
as second rush his weight makes him a
great success. Joe Foster did the best work
he has yet done in stealing and carrying the
ball. He's the best man for this work on
tho team ). Dawson got the majority OF the
1uehes and played his usual line game
Jordan adds greatly to the strength OF the
team and makes an effective cover for Alien.
Che score:
l-ortland--J. Dawson, first rush., Wh1pple.,
second rush; Foster, centre; Jordan, half
Lack; Allen, goal.
LewisUon-C. Broadbent, first rush; Jon es.
second rush; Piper, centre; Fitzgerald, mar
pac&; ~. BroadDent, Gal.