The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-13
PORTLAND WINS A GAME.
The Polo Team From Augusta Was
the Victim.
AN EXCITING GAME IN CITY HALL
LAST NIGHT.

Two Styles of Polo PIaying-Morton
Shows What He Can Do-Rough
Work by Augusta Players.
The Augusta polo team made its
initial bow to a Portland audience last
evening. They lost the game, after 10
minutes and II seconds of overtime had
| been played, by score of 4 to 8. The
game WAS an exciting one to witness
as Augusta tied the score twice and the
result was in doubt up to the last
second of play.
On Thursday night when Portland
played Rockland it was plainly evident
to Manager Burnham as we'll as to others
who saw the contest that the local team
was decidedly weak in the goal. Young
Farrell who had acted IS goal tend for
Portland in the three previous games was
not at his accustomed post last night but
the man who guarded the Portland Gage
was by no means a stranger to the Port
lani crowd. When John Allen skated
out on to the floor last night dressed In
one of last seasons uniforms and looking
as natural as life he got an ovation that
might have swelled the head of less
modest man than he is. The crowd
simply went wild over him and he was
cheered for some five minutes contin-
uously. This was the moro remarkable
on account of the manner in which AL
len retired from the game at the close of
last season. He was then under a cloud
| but whether it was one which was OF
| his own making or not there is much
argument. At any rate John Allen is
looked upon by the polo enthusiasts of
this city as one OF the best goal tends in
the league and just atsthis time the pa
irons of polo here were delighted to see
man on the floor who could be counted
upon to make all manner of sensational
stops
The Augusta team has some new men,
| but most of them are not strangers here.
Those who are known here were we'll re-
ceived, but it is doubtful If they ever are
as handsomely treated here again, for
If ever polo team team played a rough
game the Augustus certainly did last
night.
When the game commenced the slash
ing of the ball began at once and for six
minutes and over it was flying from one
end of the hall to the other, now being
in close proximity to the Portland goal,
but more often flying around within the
danger circle of the Augusta cage. John
Allen had an opportunity of showing
what he could do at the beginning Of the
contest and after he had made three or
four elegant stops and by his GOODNESS and
presence of mind on two occasions at
least, had prevented the visitors from
scoring the crowd forgot all about the
cloud which has been mentioned as hav-
ing darkened Aliens sun of glory last
season, and he was cheered and cheered
until it seemed as if the cranks would
never get over cheering.
Portland got only one goal in the first
period and this was made by Curtis on
a pass from Lincoln. Toward the last
end Of the period the dirty work of Ma
lone and Perry began to be noticed and
from that time out the audience amused
itself in kissing these men every time
they got a chance to do SO.
/ In the first period, Curtis. Lincoln,
the Portland team, with Morton on the
floor only for few minutes. In the Sec
ond period Morton was on the floor again
for little while to relieve Whipple, but
the playing was the same old slap bang
style which prevented either team from
scoring.
When the ball was put into play in
the beginning of the third period Morton
was in the game and the best kind of
team work was developed by Portland,
the result being two hard won goals by
Morton and the tieing of the score by
Augusta by one goal taken in good style
and the other two by luck pure and sim
Pile. Augusta got its first goal after IS
minutes of play. This was Gagged by
Turner. Allen stopped the ball once on
Turner's attempt to get it into the cage,
but having to contend against two Angus
ia men with no aid from Jean or the other
| Portland men the ball was finally Gagged
| Now Morton began to show what he
could do and the way that ball was
passed about the hall by this clever man
was delight to the crowd which was
getting little weary of the "slash- bang"
method of playing. Morton simply took
the audience by storm and the universal
verdict last night after the game was
that in Morton Portland has got man
nearly as good If not quite as good as
Campbell of the champion Rocklands.
Morton won his first and Portland's sec
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