The Portland daily press., 1897-02-11
WE'LL well WE'LL


three weeks. They are not to be foHnu
this morning, and the oolors OF the For1-
land polo team are flying from the main
royal mast and are nailed there at that.
Yes, Portland's polo team won laso
night by score of six to five by playing
over time for fourteen seconds, ana II
was anybody's game until the very last
second.
Intuition drew many of the people VINO
attended last nights game to City hali'
and admiration for the leaders OF the
Maine league induced the others to secure
seats in advance.
At half past eight o'clock every seat III
the hall was occupied, and fully looo
people were present. When the amateur
game was finished the crowd settled it,
self comfortably in the reserved chairs or
on the bleachers and prepared for solid
hour of enjoyment None of them were
disappointed by the sport they witnessed
unless it was few unfortunate 1ndivld-
uals who had wagered their hard earned
money on Rockland. Even These losers
we're iubilant over the result of the con-
test, and SO far forgot their money at
tiIues to yell with delight at Portland s
playing.
The crowd was very gracious at tne be-
ginning of the evening, and gave each
one of the Portland players a hearty well
come as they skated on to the floor. But
the enthusiasm cooled bit before the
first period was ended, for Portland
seemed to meet With all kinds of hard
luck at the beginning of the game.
Hardly had the ball been in play q
minute before Maynard. Rockland's half
back. was stretched out senseless on the
floor by blow in the stomach from
Dawson IS stick. 1t took some minutes to
revive the plucky fellow. but when he re-
fused to leave the floor, and got on his
feet to play again he was cheered Justify
A mighty cheer went up from the multi
tude few minutes later when Portland
scored the first goal by Jimmie Dawson S
lucky stroke. Then Rookland got goal
on Gays long drive from the centre of
the hail. Fortland's stock was low in the
market when Whipple was Obliged to re-
tire with broken skate and McAndrews
took his place. The latter could not seem
to get into the game, and the first period
ended by Rockland getting their second
goal on Gays clever pass to Campbell.
Score-Rockland, 2; Portland, 1.
Portland opened the second period in
hard luck. Hadley, who had more than
once stopped hard drives for Portland s
gonf ana Keen right in this thickest of
the fight from the start, was obliged to
retired with broken skate, and Nc
Andrews took his place. Things went
from bad to worse, and the Portland
team seemed to be utterly demoralized.
Hadley returned to the floor in time to
see Rockland get their third goal on
Gays fine stroke, and tbs hopes of the
crowd were at low ebb when the ball
was passed to Whipple for try at Rock
lands goal. He missed his chance and
the crowd groansd. But quickly Whipple
recovered himself and made clever pass
Dawson who popped the ball into
Rockland's cage. Talk about cheering
Nothing ever approached the ovation
that Dawson and Whippls received for
this piece of work and straightway the
local team began to play rafting good
polo. They got the Kockland on the run
in the last half of this second period, and
only hard luck prevented the Portlands
from leading by one goal at the end of
the period. Whipple made magnificent
pass to Dawson and tho latter very de-
liberately placed the ball for stroke
while the crowd held it's breath. When
he hit the sphere is bounded into Rock
lands goal and the crowd cheored itself
hoarsa. Then came another excellent
piece of team work. Jordan passed the
ball to Whipple, and he sent it to Daw-
son who scored the goal. 1t was maguif-
cent ana as it put Portland one point
ahead OF the visitors the crowd become
crazy with delight But Gay tried the
scored for RocEland by interrupting a
pass from Hadley to Jordan and scoring
"a goal and the period ended. Score,
Roukland, 4; Portland, 4.
In the third period the excitement be-
cams SO great that the ys]ls of tho crowd
were almost continuous. Rockland got
the lead in the beginning of the third
period by Gays back handed drive into
Portland's goal after Portland had failed
at many chances, much to the disgust OF
the audience, who thought they saw the
game sliding away from the home team.
Then followed two minutes Of heart
disease playing, during which the excits'
ment became SD intense that the crowd
hardly uttered sound. Finally Dawson
tied the score again On pass from Had
ley. Nine minutes OF hot playing followed
during which lucky stroke on either
side would have won the game. Allen
male many great stops and the period
ended with the score Portland, 8; Rock
land, s.
The game would ordinarily have been
ended now, but with the score tie it
was necessary to play ON until one team,
or the other got goal. Jimmie Dawson
won tie rush and sent the ball into