The Portland daily press., 1896-12-25
PORTLAND DOWNS BATH.
In the Hottest Polo Game Oh the
Season.

Score Was a Tie at the End of the First TWO
Periods but After Great Battle the
Home Team Won by Two Goals-To-
days Game With Rockland.
Portland won last nights game from
Bath, but only after most excluing'
hair raising contest in which so many
fine plays were made by both teams
| that it Is almost folly to attempt TO
describe any of them. For nearly two
hours 800 of the craziest kind Of cranks
were kept on yell ell thu time. First
it was the visitors and then the home
team in the lead ana this see saving
was kept up until the very last min
utes of the play.
The result of the game was In doubt
until the very last minute of playing
and the excitement at times was OF the
heart disease kind. At the end OF the
first period the sco1e stood Portland, 2;
Bath. 2, and at the end of the second
period the score was Portland, q;
Bath, 6. The third period WAS even
more exciting than the first two aud it
is doubtful If old City hall ever held a
more enthusiastic audience than that OF
last night when Portland won out the
game by two goals. Bath sent up
good delegation with its team last night
and the men from Arthur Sewall's city
by the noble Kennebec, gave the Portland
audience a specimen of the way Bath
cheers her team on to victory when at
home. From what was seen OF this
" the Kind that Portland audiences ap-
prove Of, but as many of Baths sporty
young men had wagered all Of thoir hard
earned money on the result and were
hard losers, their enthusiastic yelling
may be overlooked. AS usual there were
many ladies present and all OF them
seemed to enjoy the contest as much as
did their escorts. Polo is the latest fad
among portland's pretty girls, and every
night the gallery il filled with fair
femininity.
The team that Bath played here last
night is the strongest that has yet been
seen in City hall. Every man plays the
game for all ne is worth and their team
work was Of the finest SORT
When Whippls skated out on to the
floor last night, his popularity with the
polo cranks was shown by the great oya-
ton that was given him. J. Dawson
and Foster and the new man, Jordan,
also received hearty applause. The Bath
contingent gave their boys an equally
hearty send-off. The game was opened
in slashing, smashing style, which
showed that 1t was to be hot one, and
in just two minute j. Dawson was
obliged to retire temporarily from
the contest on account of bad cut on
the head. This sailed the substitute W.
Dawson on TO the floor, and as he didn't
seem to be able to get into the game last
night, the Portlands were considerably
weakened by j. Dawson's loss. The
slugging and scrapping went merTily
on, however, and In 1t the Portland men
seam to come in for great deal Of
glory. Whipple and Jordan in pnrticu-
lar distinguished themselves by their
ability to block plays and form up an
elective interference.
Bath q dashing second rush Gagged the
first ball after five minutes of playing
and was given hearty applause for his
clever playing. J. Mooney got the second
goal for Bath by high drive which
Allen wasn't quick enough to stop. 1t
fell to tho lot of old Joe Foster to get
Portland's first goal, and he did it af-
ter nursing the ball from one end of the
hall to the other, lodging Baths play
ers all the way and tossing the ball into
the cage as if Scanlon, Baths crack
goal tie nder, hadn't bean in existence.
For this feat Foster got a great sond
off. Immediately afterwards Foster dis
tinguished himself again by making
clever pass TO Whipple wno.scored Port
lands second goal and tied Baths score.
Of the widest kind Of playing around
both goals and narrow escapes from
scoring on both sides.
In the second period Whipple, who
played like a fiend all the evening, got
the first goal for Portland, and then
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goal after some hot work. Tarrant, af-
ter having foul called on him, made
two goals in succession, and then j.
Dawson came back into the game, hav-
ing recovered from his injury. Bath got
the fifth goal on the rush, and few
minutes later Mooney got the sixth goal.
But in the interim Whippls had got an
other goal for Portland, and then ].
Dawson evened up the score by caging
the ball by some very clever work. The
period ended after i've minutes of the
hottest kind Of work in which both
Allen and Mooney at the goals made
some wonderful stops.
The third period WAS corker. Whipple
got the Portlnnds seventh goal On an
elegant pass from Dawson, and then fol-
lowed the most exciting moment Of the
game when the Bath boys fairly shed
tLeir blood to keep Portland from scor-
ing again. First around Baths and then