The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-27
FOR THE CAGES.
How the Polo Players Chased the goupd-
ing Balls.

ing Balls.
Bath was too much for the Portland
polo team Saturday afternoon. About
1900 people watched the dashing nlavers
from the ship building city play horse
with the home team in City hall, and al
though the local players were not in the
contest for minute the game was well
worth seeing and abounded in many fine
pieces of work by both teams. For the
Portlands Whipple played by far the
steadiest game and kept right after the
ball all the time. Curtis did we'll during
the first period but in the other two was
not up to his usual mark, although he
evidently worked hard. Lincoln PLAYED
only two periods, the first and last. In
both Of these he was very weak and
missed many fine chances. Turnbull
played his usual steady game but some
how was not quite as effective in the
in the past. In the third period Lincoln
was doing SO poorly that Manager Burn.
ham took him out and gave the crowd a
chance to hope while they saw the new
man at work. His name is Stamford and
he showed himself to be an excellent
player in some ways and not so excellent
in others. He is cool, evidently has had
much experience, can juggle the ball
with any of the best players in the league
and is fine shot for the cage. Where he
seemed to lack was in quickness, in block
ing off on defense and in carelessness in
passing the ball in front of the cage and
in his knowledge of the team work of the
home team. OF course he has had no op-
portunity for showing what he can really
accomplish and this criticism is only
based on his work at the afternoon game.
When he was on the floor he played at
center and Whipple went in as first
rush, Despite his newness in this position
he played remarkably we'll and in one
thing in particular pleased the crowd
He is SO heavy that he made the Bath
rough players little more careful how
they tackled him in blocking off and this
resulted in many hot serimmages around
the Bath cage. When the crowd became
impatient and shouted for Lincoln to he
put back into the game mistake was
made in gratifying their wishes. Lincoln
was not in the game in the afternoon and
the new man was giving the Portland
team more chances of winning than they
had with Lincoln ON the floor.
For few minutes in the last period
Jordan was seen on the floor again in Che
place of Whipple, who smashed his skate.
Jordan did good work while he was on
the floor but tho star rushers of Bath
found him to be so light that they hustled
him about the floor as II he had BEEN
made of wood. For Bath McGilvary and
Burgess played exceedingly well. Muir
laugh as half back is on deokaall the time
but his playing is too rough and with a
referee disposed to notice such things
Murtaugh would frequently be called to
account for his fouls. Bath has a. fine
team and is we'll handled ON the floor In
McGiivary and Mooney they have two
tine men who play with much dash and
yigor. On the defensive the work is. also
very strong. Portland played its best
game in the first period but Bath succeed
ed in getting two goals after a little
work. In the second period Bath got two
more goals and Portland landed their
first one which gave the crowd chance
to yell little and grow enthusiastic. In
the third period Bath got two more goals
and by good luck only Portland Gagged the
ball second time. The final score was
Portland g. Bath 8.
The line up and summary:
Portland-Lincoln, Curtis and Whipple,
rushers; Stamford, Jordan and Whipple,
center; Turnbull, half back; Allen,
goal.
Bath-J Mooney and. McGilvary, rush
ers; E. Mooney, center; Murtaugh, half
back; Burgess, goal.
Goal. Won by. Rush by. Made by. T.