The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-03
AFTER MANY WEEKS.
Portland Wins a Polo Game at
Home.
DEFEATS LEWISTON AFTER AN
EXCITING CONTEST.

The Play Was Fast and Furious-Furbush
Met His Match at Last--How the
Crowd Yelled the Portlands Onto
Victory.
4 Eureka
We are coming!
Portland has at last won a game at
home.
And the contest was seen by eight hun
dred cranks who were wild with excite
ment, crazy with enthusiasm and who
made up for weeks of silence on the
benches by yelling themselves hoarse.
Lewiston played a snappy game and
their work was gilt edged but Portland
last night was too fast for them. In the
second period Lewiston tied the score.
but could not get lead. The final score
was Portland, 4 Lewiston, 8.
When the Portland men came out to
face the crowd they were not given a
great ovation. Their unfortunate finishes
In the last two games had taken the heart
out OF the cranks and they were not pre-
pared to commit themselves to I'M
bounded admiration. Referee Wakefield
got warm greeting, but it was not alto
gether fiattering one. His weak kneed
work in the Morton McGilvary affair a
week or SO ago was not forgotten and
Wakefield was rcundly Kissed Furbush
who prides himself on his unpopularity
here was also given the Villains ovs.
ton" Before the evening was over Fur
bush was sorry he was in it and when he
ran against Turnbnll and Whipple in the
corner few times his desire to pose as a
scrappy player cooled down considerably
The audience was expecting hot work
and they were not disappointed. From
the minute Lincoln uncovered the spot
and sent the ball in the direction of the
Lewiston goal the play went fast and
furious. When Curtis juggled the ball
past Furbush and sent it across to Lincoln
on fine pass and the latter popped 1t in
TO Lewiston's cage the crowd went crazy
with excitement and cheered and yelled
and yelled and cheered until the noiss be-
came deafening. Lewiston woke up to
the fact that they had some hard work
ahead of them. Furhush determined to
try some Of his brutal bullying on Lincoln
and got all he wanted of rough play in q
few minutes, but when the heefy Lewis
ton half back encountered Turnbull he
wilted perceptibly and thereafter took
good care to keep out of his way. The
cheering was constant and continued
the entire period without Interrupt
ton. At times when Lincoln and Curtis
were smashing the ball at Lewiston IS
cage and making things interesting for
White and Furbush the men and boys on
the benches could hardly contain them
selves and the noise of their exultant yells
must have been heard q block away.
The second goal was due to shot of
Whippls's, which sent the ball over the
cage, whence it bounded back directly in
front of Curtis and the goal. Curtis was
quick to seize the opportunity and popped
the ball into the goal before White knew
what had happened. Curtis got one
more goal before the period ended,
making the score, Portland, 3; Lewiston,
10.
| sLewis.on got three goals in succession
at the beginning Of the second period,
tieing the score, but that was all they
could get. For few minutes the sus-
pense was terrific and several times 1t
seemed as if the visitors would get their
fourth goal and take the lead. John
Aliens stops were marvellous. Turnbull
aff +b1 I,oII
time and their work ON the defensive was
magnificent. Again and again they came
to Aliens relief just in the nick Of time
and every time they took the ball back to
Lewiston S end of the hall 1t was q signal
for tremendous outburst OF applause.
Lincoln played the game of his life last
night, as did Curtis. They worked to-
gether finely and when the former Gagged
the ball for the fourth goal and gave
| P ortland the lead the excitement reached
such pitch that even the ladies in the
galleries joined in the wild applause of
the crowd. Curtis got the next goal in q
very clever manner. Furbush made three
attempts to block him in his shot for the
goal but Curtis kept his head and the ball
and finally out-generalled Furbush and
popped the ball into the cage an instant
later. Whipple won the rush and at the
same time got Portland's sixth goal. The
period ended with Portland three goals
in the lead.
Furbush had, by this time, got all the
scrapping he wanted and retired from the
game, his place being taken by Jason,
who played the much better game of the
two.
In the third period the play was faster
than it was in either of the other two
parts of the game. Lewiston worked hard
but owing to Aliens superb work in the
goal with the blocking of Turnbull and
Whipple, neither Tarrant nor his second
rush Walton could get within shooting
distance Of the goal.
After seven minutes of play Lincoln
made pass to Curtis who was waiting
for it on the other side of the goal. Jason
was blocking Curtis and Fitzgerald was