The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-07
THEY'RE TOO FAST FOR US
Gardeners Team Can Play ali Kinds
Of Polo.
PORTLAND WAS A VICTIM LAST
NIGHT IN, A GOOD GAME.
The Playing of the Gardiner Team on De-
tense LIS All That 1t Should Be-Port-
land Has Yet Few Things to Learn.

land Has Yet Few Things to Learn.
The Portland polo team was defeated
in City hall last evening by the GARDENERS
by score of 10 to Z. The Portlands were
outplayed. The passing and quick work
Of Gardiner was too much for them. At
times the game WAS interesting and ex-
citing. AT other times it was decidedly
slow and neither team seemed ablo TO ao-
complish much. Billy Long was the
referee. No doubt he tried to be impartial,
but he made one or two mistakes. One
of these was when he called foul on
Turnbull and Hadley at the same time.
In Hadley's case he was right, but when
he called the foul on Turnbull he showed
himself to be trimmer of the real old
fashioned sort. Gardiner is evidently very
friendly to Mr. Long. If it isn't it
should be, for he is decidedly friendly to
the polo team Of that city.
Gardiner got two goals the first thing
in the first period. The Portlands got
two, tieing the score. This set the crowd
to roofing" in great shape, but unfortu-
nately it didn't last. At one time Gardi-
ner had lead of five goals and then
Portland had little better luck and sue
ceeded in pulling up until the Gardiner s
were only three goals in the lead.
A lot of easy ones got by John Allen
last night, but he also succeeded in
making some remarkable stops. Turn
bull was right in the game from the start.
He is great defensive player, and if
Whipple would only back him up a little
better in blocking one man off while
Turnbun took care of the other, tho de-
fensiye playing would be all that one
could ask for. But Whipple is too
ambitious to get q goal. He works very
hard and last night he played a fine game
excepting IN this one particular. f4
| One Of the goals which was scored
against Allen was made when he was
away from the cage, trying to force the
ball beyond the danger point. 1t was
hard luck, but Allen in taking the
chance to smash the ball to the other end
of the hall was to blame for the loss OF
| this one point.
| Lincoln was full of fight and did we'll,
| but with the excellent defensive work OF
| Doherty and Smith and with eastman
behind them to stop all that got by these
two players there was little chance for
Lincoln's drives. Curtis did not appear
to be in good form, at any rate he did not
succeed in making any of those famous
passes which have made his playing with
Lincoln so effective in recent. games.
| Gardiner was evidently shy one
player last night, and at one point n the
game when Houghton S skate was broken
Referee Billy Long obligingly sounded
| his whistle and the game was delayed
while Houghton sat down on the floor
and mended the skate. 1t was very ex.
asperating to the crowd but was an ex,
ceedingly good thing for Gardiner.
! Hadley and Turnbull had many lively
setto in the corners, but whenever thest
two men got together Turnbull usually
came out In the lead. The play was de
cidedIy "scrappy' at intervals and wher
| Smith got in corner and threatened Il
strike Lincoln with his fists the GROVE
grew wild with anger and amused them
selves Tor the resi- Vi 1Ao gains III Aisslhs
the Gardiner man.
The GARDENERS are very warm People
and can play all kinds of polo. Consider
ing the game they put up last night il
was no disgrace for the Portland team tc
meet with defeat, but it was an unfortu
nate result nevertheless.
| Line I'D and summary:
Por5land-Lincoln and Curtis, rushers
WhippIe, center; Turnbull, half back
A Hen. goal; Jordan, substitute.
Gardiner-Houghton and Hadley, rush
ers; Smith, center; Dogherty, half back
eastman, goal.
Goal Won by. Rush by. Gagged by. Time
| l-Gardiner, Lincoln, Houghton, GA.
2-Gardiner, Houghton, Hadley' y
3-Portland, Lincoln, Lincoln, III
Portland, Hough5onr Lincoln, Il
Gardiner, Lincoln, Hadiey, l