The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-02-18

the harness again and is now playing as
good polo as any one could ask. Last
night the home team took the GARDENERS
| into camp with the score Of I to g. and 1t
was not very much work for them to do 1t
either. While the game was not at any
time very CLOSE both teams played well
| together and many excellent plays
were made OH both sides. Before
the professional contest an amateur game
took place which was quite exciting. The
South Portlands defeated the Portland
Juniors by score of to s and the crowd
of 800 was Kept interested until the pro-
fessionals took the floor.
With all of their old time dash and
spirit Gardiner got into the game at the
very send off and for the first few
minutes made things very lively about
the Portland's cage. Houghton the
Gardiner jumping Jack, who is all over
the hall and every where at once, sue
ceeded in getting the first goal through
piece of bad judgment on the part OF
Jordan. The latter in attempting to
make a ourom shot 30 that the ball would
reach Dawson sent it directly in front OF
the Portland goal and Houghton by q
quick stroke scored for Gardiner. For a
few minutes after this the home team
played in hard luck and only Allen
mastery work in goal prevented the
visitors from scoring another goal. DAVIS
son who seemed to be playing unusually
well, broke his skate and was obliged to
retire. Murphy, a new man took his
place, and considering the fact that he
was new to the floor and the team, did
good work. After some hot skirmishing
bout Gardeners cage Whipple scored
Portland's first goal after banging away
at the ball several times. This closed the
first period.
At the beginning of the second period
Sohofleld, who was at one time Port
lands substitute, got into the game for
Gardiner. He played in half hearted
kind CT a way until the last part of the
game, when he finally woke up and did
pretty fair work. But Sohofeld missed q
good many chances for Gardiner, and 1t
was the general opinion that Manager
Burnham had made no mistake when he
released Sohofield. Dawson shortly after
this period opened scored Poraland's
second goal by pretty drive from the
end of the hall which took eastman,
Gardeners goal tend by surprise. Port
and won two more goals in this period
and Gardiner got another one by Hough-
toms fast playing, John Allen bad many
hard drives to stop, several times dis
tinguishing himself by taking the ball
out of the danger limit and rushing 1T
down the hall. M urphy who had taken
Whipple's place Gagged the ball once for
Portland. but it bounded out Oh to the
floor again and there was a suspicion
that eastman, Gardeners goal tend,
ing tho goal after it had been fairly
Gagged. But Jack Leighton, who refereed
the game, didn't see eastman pull the
ball out, if he did, SO Murphy's goal did
not count. The score at the end of the
second period was, Portland, 4; Gardiner,
q.
In the beginning Of tine third period
Dawson got PortlaLd's fifth goal on
pass from Murphy. Then Gardiner got
another by Houghton's winning the rush
and caglng the ball on the first drive.
eastman tried his foxy trick OF pulling
the ball out of the cage after Dawson had
sent it in. Both Whipple and Hadley
played we'll in this period and though
Gardiner played hard in the last few
minutes Portland's lead was too much
for them and the final score stood, Port
land, Z; Gardiner, 8.
The line up and summary:
PORTLAND. GARDINER.
I Daweon first rush Houghton