The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-19
TIE TAIL ENDERS NOW.
Lewiston Pushes Our Polo Team
Down to Last Round.

A Few Players Who Understand Some
thing About the Game Wanted Here
Alleged Efforts to Strengthen.
Portland lost last night to Lewiston
and the team now representing this city
STANDS on the bottom rung of the ladder
ana the polo season is only two week
oid. The score of last nights game was
elght TO two in favor of Lewiston. Having
peeh defeated by the team from the
| ophole City, which is acknowledged tc
Dc tne poorest team of the league, the CUP
Oh humiliation and bitterness has been
uranK TO the v.ry dregs by the lovers OF
tne game in this city.
There is little TO say about last nights
contest beyond the fact that the home
Team was outplayed from the start and
though like the embers of dying fire the
aggregation representing this city was oc-
casionally famed into blaze it was a
short lived blaze at the best and soon
dckered and died away again. Lewiston
has little to brag of in last nights game.
They ought to have done better than they
I'D, for when professional players meet
semi-professionals the playing OF the pro
fessionals should at least shine In an
illumination of glory whom compared
with the work of their opponents.
But Lewiston did not shine and at any
one time there were not more than four
of the players from that city in the con-
test. Tarrant may be capable of good
playing, but he did not show it last
night. His weakness in making shots for
the Portland goal was too apparent and
after the first period it was very evident
that this man did not care to exert him
self further. White, the Lewiston goal
tend may be all right but he had little
opportunity Of showing what he could do
Furbush played his usual brutal and I'M
fair game, and received from the crowd
the reception he deserved. The other
Lewiston men seemed disposed to roll I'M
big score but Tarrant prevented them
from doing it.
At intervals all of the Portland men
harmony in their play which resulted
disasterously. Allen in the goal made
forty. four stops and was kept very busy
Some of his stops were remarkable and he
was occasionally loudly applauded. The
game was not without it's interesting
moments or incidents. At times indeed
it was exciting, but these times were too
few and far between to keep up the in
terest of the spectators. The attendance
was about six hundred and the crowd did
| its best to give the team encouragement
by liberal applause. No fair minded per-
son who witnessed last nights game can
truthfully say that q Portland crowd loses
| bard, for if ever an audience hacked up a
| local team, the one in City hall last night
| certainly did.
| Manager Burnham, SO it is understood,
| is using every endeavor to strengthen his
team and is now in correspondence with
some men who may add that little pinch
of salt'' which is necessary to give polo
contests the required favor. 1t is the
earnest hope of every lover of polo in
Portland. that Manager Burnham's efforts
may meet with success.
Line up and summary:
Portland-Curtis, Whipple and Lincoln,
rushers; Morton, center; Jordan, halt
| back; Allen, goal.
| Lewiston--larranta and Walton, rushers
| Fitzgerald, center; Furbush. half back
White, goal.