The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-11
THE POLO OUTLOOK.
some Gossip Concerning the Popula,
Winter Game.

Inc outlook for polo in Portland
the coming season is most f1attering
one. All the Maine teams have been
strengthened and as nearly as can be told
at this early date they are better equal
lzed than they were last year 1t will be
remembered that last season some of the
CLUBS in Maine were very strong while
otners were very weak. Towards the end
Oh the season the weak clubs strengthened
SO much that the clubs which had been
strongest at the beginning were no
match for them and this made
the games generally one sided and
towards the last end Of the year
decidedly uninteresting. This season they
will all be well matched SO that the
games from the very start will be inter-
esting. Portland has every good team
to begin with and will probably have
much better one than Is now on paper
after the season is we'll under way, as
Manager Burnham is determined to head
the procession with his aggregation. The
only old men on the team are Whipple
and Jordan. Farrell, the new goal tend,
business, while the rushers, Curtis and
Lincoln, have played together a great deal
and can put up good game together.
Lincoln may play first rush and Curtis
second. j. M. Morton, the new center,
is an old league player, and with this
team it looks as if Manager Burnham
could hold his own for time aU any
rate.
No one who knows the polo situation
in Maine expects duplicate league, or
any other league than the one now Or
gained, and including Lewiston, Angus
ia, Rockland, Bath, Gardiner and Port
land. "The reason we did not admit
Bangor to the league" said Henry Cody
of Lewiston, today, twas because we
figured that 1t would cost too much to
jump to Lewiston, Gardiner. Augusta
and Portland, to Bangor. We found that
the season would cost the league $1,000
extra to include the down east city, and
of course Bangor, while it is sporting
town, couldn't afford to make this trip
to us. do not believe Chris Toole will
be caught in any such trap as putting O
team into Bangor. We all remember the
slam bang dangs of the F. o. B. sin
Union and Norombega hall, but there
isn't the money or the interest in the
game in Bangor that there was them
Lewiston people do not think that Wat
erville, Belfast or Oldtown could support
crack teams and make any money, too
Portland will have all the polo it wants
with the Maine league without an inter-
state leauge. The Lewiston team will get
itself together before the season opens and
have few weeks of hard training SO that
SO far as this city is concerned, the game
will open with a rush.-Lewiston journal.
Instead of December 6, Gardiner at
Portland and December I, Portland at
Gardiner. the schedule now reads Deem
Der z, Gardiner at Portland, and Deem
b er s, Portland at Gardiner.
The National polo league will open its
season November 6, and close March 10,
Is weeks precisely the same as will be
the Maine league.
Manager Burnham closed yesterday
with Fred Jean of Fall River, to play
with Portland. Jean Is 20 years old,
| weighs 100 pounds, and stands feet, II
inches high. He has played at centre
and half back.
While the schedule of the Maine league
as adopted runs to January LIST only, the
date of closing will be March 18th, which
will make IS weeks. The clubs Will play
| about 40 games at home and 40 away.