Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-29
MAINE POLO LEAGUE.
POLO NOTES.

game for base ball.
The Salem Providence polo game at
Salem. Thursday, was postponed, till
Friday.
The New Bedford Fall River polo
game. Thursday. was postponed on ac-
count of the storm.
Rockland Courier Gazette: 1t is said
that Portland is after Hipson, and
yet it was Manager Burnham
who told a Boston Globe reporter that
expenses would have to be cut down
in order to make polo pay in Maine.
Rockiand Courier-GaZette: Hackett
got mad and quit the game at Augusta
the other night. The only fault the
&C. has ever been able to discover in
him is that he was released from the
maternal apron strings too soon; and
its a serious fault.
In Il brief interview with a Portland
Advertiser reporter. Wednesday. Man
ager Burnham said: Jordan got a bad
cut over the eye last night and several
stitches We're necessary. The wound
is badly swollen today and he will
probably not he able to play tonight.
recognize that our team is weak in
certain points but ii is not easy to
secure good players. even when / am
willing to pay good prices for them.
There will be no new men on the team
tonight. but there is a prospect that
one or two new faces may be seen on
the Portlands tomorrow evening"
Courier Gazette: The statement we
made some weeks ago that Furbush
would be more of an injury than a
help to the Portlands is proving true.
The Portlands are losing quite regu-
larly now. Defeats by Lewiston and
Bath in one week should open Burn
hams eyes. Furbush may be a good
player all right but there has got to
be team work to win games and Port
land has lost all semblance of team
work since Dick Joined them. Even the
Portland papers have had to call him
down. Perhaps this may be some
more senility. friend Argus. but how
DO you account for it? We have moth
ing but the friendliest of feelings for
every team in the Maine league and
have striven to give every player in il
4 good word when deserved but there
are some players who have to be called
down.
Walter Burnham, the weil-known
base ball and polo manager, was in
town one day last week ana tried to
make arrangements for the placing of
polo team here for the balance of the
winter to fill out vacancy in the
Maine State League. He made a
proposition to a local sporting man and
Will come here again in a few days to
get an answer. "-Portsmouth Post
There must be some mistake in this
item. In the first place Portsmouth is
not in this State if we studied our
geography correctly. Then again we
know of no city that intends to drop
out unless it is Portland. for this is
the first information we learned of
such a DEAL Then again there are
cities enough in Maine anxious to take
hold of team if one Of the present
cities drop out. This must be a fake.
Let Maine run her own league.-Rock-
land Courier-Gazette.
Courrier-Gazette: Furbush is no.
walking on path of roses even in
Portland. He got a call down from
Referee Orr. Tuesday night. besides
receiving liberal Kisses from the
crowd. 1t seems the poor fellow took
nap after supper and over slept AS
Dick does just about as he pleases no
one called him and when he did ar
rive at the rink the game had been in
progress some time. AS Dick thinks
he knows more about the game than
the referees or any one else he glided
on to the floor and entered into the
game Notwithstanding the fact that he
made the sixth man. Schofield retired
as quickly as possible but the crowd
Kissed and Referee Orr was obliged to
call foul. Just think of it! A Port
land referee being compelled to call a
foul on the gentle and lamblike Dick
f'urbush of national reputation. Even
the Portland papers had to refer to it,
although laughingly.
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