Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-30
Polo Notes

| Referee Brady of the National League
| takes good care that the goal circles are
plainly marked cut.
1t costs 5000 per week to conduct polo in
Providence. This amount has twice been
taken in this season in single night.
Salem News: If any club in the polo
league has hard luck, that club is Salem
Every game won by it is in the teeth of
ill-fortune. 1t has lost more games by one
goal than any other team in the business
and apparently through no fault of its
members.
Bath Times: The game. Saturday
night, in this city. between the Augustus
and the home team, resulted in favor of
the Baths after most desperate and
well-fought battle. in which the visitors
did not give up hope of winning until the
last second of playing time. On account
brought five men. and the game they nut
up was most creditable one There was
more hard hitting than in any game since
the season opened. and the Alamedas had
to play polo all the time to win out
The Northumberland game in Au-
gusta, Tuesday night, was productive of
an attendance given out as only 800. 1t
looks very much as if the rumOr that the
Augusta franchise would be sold to Chris
Toole Of Bangor. might materialize. The
holders of the Rockland franchise prob
ably know how to sympathize with Man
ager Smart. for with Il winning team in
the field they had not drawn Il single at
tendance OF over 600 up to the Thanks
giving day games.-ROckland Courier
Gazette. Oh. rats! Who has been jolly
ing you?
The Pawtucket Tribune says of John
Smiths last game in New Bedford:
Smith again proved that he is the star
goal tender of the league, and the way
he kicked out all kinds of shots brought
forth cheers and applause from the spec
fnfn 10 CT nnd lass hnSa
in the goal circle, besides stopping and
blocking as many as % shots out of the
goal circle that do not count in the rec
ord of stops At some stages he had six
or seven stops in succession. 'and after
kicking them all out he would rush out
of the goal and strike wildly at the ball,
and generally managed to send it away
from In front of the cage, only to have it
brought back moment later by the
hustling Tigers. and then another bonn
bardment would begin"
Bath Enterprise: Bath is a polo town.
there's no doubt of it. The claim has
always been put forth by theatrical peo-
pie that Bath audiences are cool and not
at all demonStrative. To those who think
SO, the Owl would say. go to polo game
and hear the outbursts of enthusiasm.
the cheers and applause that greet the
good plays made by the home team. or
even by their opponents. Polo truly has
a great hold on Bathites, women as. well
as IleH, IOT UaHy OI the incest women
and girls in Bath are regular attendants.
Nothing can draw the crowds from the
polo games and it is really interesting to
see how excited people get over this pop
ular sport. The Maine League is meeting
with great success all over the State but
in none of the cities is the interest great
er among all classes than it is in Bath.
Rockland Courier-GaZette: What may
we expect from polo when players ike
McGlvray, gifted with a Sunday school
countenance, prove themselves ScrapperS:
In Portland. Monday night he was re-
moved from the floor for smuggling Morton
with his fists. 1t now crops out that Nc
Gilvray, instead of being president of
Christian Endeavor Society, is an anna
teur pugilist of considerable ability.
There is no Disgusting the fact that he is
cracka jack polo player. and there are
four others on the Bath team.-We do
wish that the Portland Press wouldn't
refer to the first half second half or
third half of a polo game. Anything sell
dom has more than two halves, besides
the word period sounds much better We
presume that it was the same writer who
| told in the Press what "disasterous"
work the Portland team was doing.
A special to the Boston Herald from
Bangor, dated Nov. %, says:
1T is reported here that there is like
| ly to be break in the Maine Polo
League some time in December, and
that two CT the present clubs will be
transferred to other cities, one of them
being Bangor. This report comes d.
rect from Portland, and the reason of
| the proposed change, it is stated, is
that two of the cities now in the league
are losing money. Bangor applied
some time ago for franchise, but was
barred out by the adverse vote of
| Rockland and Bath
Someone must be well posted. Who
in the world do you suppose there can
4 be In Portland that would so jolly Ban
gor? n$
In regard to the same dispatch, the
Bath Times says: Manager Donnell
of this city was seen by the Times and
he did not know anything to cause
such a rumor, and Manager Burnham
who passed through here on the after
noon train for Rockland, was also sur
prised when he was shown the above