Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-05

the team that beats Augusta IN her own
rink, and Providence pity Gardiner when
she goes there.-ROcklandT Tribune. What
have you got against us that you make
such talk as that?
The Lewiston Journal says, regarding
the Bath-Lewiston game of Jan. l.:
THE game of polo in Lewiston City
hall, Friday night, between Lewiston
and Bath had an unfortunate. albeit a
| sensational ending. The game, when
| lacking 80 seconds of completing the
| third goal, was forfeited to Lewiston
because of the conduct of the Bath
players and particularly of J. Mooney,
| the first rush. AS everybody knows
| there is little satisfaction of winning a
game by forfeiture. Still, under the
circumstances, a forfeiture was the
Nn1y thing in sight. Referee Gledhill,
kNfh the best Of grourids, ordered the
ftlhoval of Mr.. Mooney but he refused
to be removed. The teams manager
Endorsed the action and after waiting
two minutes Mr.. Gledhill declared the
game forfeited to lewiston"
| Bath Times, Jan. 2: After last
nights steal in Lewiston, it behooves
the members of the Maine Polo league
| to get together and inaugurate a new
and fair method Of refereeing the lea
que games. If some such step is not
taken the league cannot prosper. Polo
is the only really popular sport in
Maine and even that will lose it's hold
after few games like that in Lewis
ton last night and in Bath week ago
tonight. No man is capable of fair
| ly refereeing game of polo or any
thing else where the team of his own
town is concerned and especially when
the game is close. And even il he could
and did a visiting team is bound to
| feel that they are not being used fairly
| by a home referee. The quicker the
home referee system is abolished in
the Maine league the better it will be
for polo. All the members of the lea
que say they are in favor of change.
but why don't they get together and
make it,
| OF the Bath-Lewiston game at Lew
iston, Jan. /, the Bath Times has the
following capitals and all: MIR. GLED-
HILL is a plum. Manager Wheeler has
| never announced that he had signed
MIR. GLEDHILL, and therefore we may
be pardoned expressing our astonish-
ment at the Heasant little surprise he
had arranged for us last night. In MIR.
GLEDHILL,the Lewiston manager has
got a good inan-for him. He is a
wonder. His Work last evening eclipsed
everything we have ever seen or heard
Of We would respectfully suggest.
however, that he exchange his whistle
for some large calibre shooting irons,
a mask, dirk and few other like
! appliances. 1t was a straight steal,
that game in Lewiston last night. The
Alamedas played right around the
| Lewiston team as usual. The Lewis
ton Sun says so and Furthermore says
that Bath put up the best game that
was ever played in Lewiston. Every
man of the team played a brilliant
game. At the end of the second period
| the honest score stood toz3 in favor
of Bath, but MR.. GLEDHILL had con-
sidered it necessary to take one goal
away by calling fouls. In the third
period Jim Mooney was indiscreet
enough to win another goal. Lewis
ton got the next. In the next there
| was a scrimmage about the Bath
cage, during which Fitzgerald of the
| Lewistons had the ball in his hand
trying to throw it into the Bath cage.
Phelan took it away from him and
sent it behind the cage. MIR. GLED-
HILL ruled that Phelan had taken the
| ball out of the cage and he gave a
goal to Lewiston. Strange to say Jim
Mooney objected and, we believe, in
fringed on MIR. GLEDHILL'S dignity
by calling him pet name. Jim had
also got three of those goals on Lewis
ton; so MIR. GLEDHILL, having got
the score evened up ordered Jim off
the floor Jim refused and MIR. GLED-
HILL announced that the game was
Lewiston's. Hooray for MIR. GLED-
HILL