The Portland daily press., 1897-10-08
FOOT BALL AND POLO NOTES.
Items of Interest on These Two Popular
Sports.

The Kent's Hill correspondent of the
hennebec journal says that that team
is far stronger than 1t was last season
and that 1t will quickly wipe out the
record of 1895. The list of the candidates
Tor the team are:
r. Gleason, Union, weight 1853, full
back, (played on second eleven last year, ;
M. Smith, Bridgeport, weight 175, full
back; W. Farwell, Thorndike, weight 157,
full back; "Gus'' Mederas, Cuba, weight,
1874, half back; F. Woodman, Livermore
Falls, weight 1874, half back; o. Vickery,
Morrill,, weight 141, quarter back; Scrib-
ner, Augusta, weight 14i, half back; A.
Palmer, Livermore Falls, weight 1876,
quarter back; G. Roberts, West Milan,
n H., weight lat, right end; II. East
man, Portland, eight 146, right end; A.
Perry, Madison, weight 147, left end; L.
Riond, New York city, weight 147 IL,
left end; II. French, Chesterville, weight
151, right tackle; S.. Lufkin, Rumford.
weight 1856, left tackle; r. Randall,
Madison, weight 161, right guard; Sip
prell, Mattawamkeag, weight 5,sleft
guard; G. o. Austin, South Norridge-
wock, weight 1853, center; Charles Graves,
weight 145, end.
Charles Garter of Auburn, who entered
Brown this fall, is making good show
ing at guard He is only II years old,
but is feet inches tall and weighs 236
pounds. Wheeler, another guard on the
taa,,, aIc, x,aiuha pOundc
The arrival of Coach Wurtemburg at
Dartmouth has impaired increased en-
thusiasm into the foot ball practice and
from now on great improvement in team
work is anticipated. Mr.. Wurtem burg
thinks the prosp unusually bright.
He is especially impressed with the un-
usual amount Of beef in the line, coupled
with remarkable agility. AS Dartmouth
backs have long been regarded as supe-
rior, the general sire myth of the eleven
must be conceded.
What with the Jefferson, two polo
leagues, a bowling tournament and sew
eral other attractions scheduled for the
coming winter Portland will have a
lively season. If two polo league teams
are placed in this city it will mean that
every lover of the game here will become
dissatisfied with the sport and polo will
die as suddenly as it sprang into life. With
two leagues in Maine it will mean eth
or the survival of the fittest or it may
mean the death of them both.
The winters polo commences in Lewis
ton on Nov 6. The Lewiston club will
be made up as 1t was last winter with the
exception that White, crack player who
comes highly recommended from Salem,
will be goal tender. Tarrant and Walton
are the rushes, Fitzgerald will be center,
Furbush half back, White goal and Con-
ley substitute An agreement has been
reached among the clubs to the effect
that no Maine club shall play National
League player under penalty of $25 for
the first offense, and expulsion from the
league for the second offense. 1t is
claimed that had not some of the others
) teams played National League men, Lew
iston would easily have won the pennant
last year. This year Lewiston hopes to
do it. Rockland had the greatest enthusi-
asm last winter, but Lewiston turned out
the best crowds. Portland came next.
They used to say that If team beat
Rockland in it's own town the players had
to walk carefully till they were out Of
the city to prevent being mobbed, SO
great was tho home feeling and enthusi-
asm.-Lewiston Journal.
1t is likely that Bangor, although re-
fused admission to the Maine State Polo
\ League, will have season of the slam
bang game after all, for movement is
"on foot" as the wayback papers say, to
establish an independent State league.
Polo f1ourished in Bangor ten years or
more ago, when there were fierce battles
: in The Norombega and afterwards in
Union hall. between the famous f. o..
BIS and other teams, and now there
seems to be sufficient revival of interest
to make the game pay here. Chris Toole
stands ready to put team in for Bangor
in fact he has the team already picked
out, and he Is In correspondence with
Elmer Woodbury. of Portland, concerning
the forming of an independent team in
that city which is likely to be done. M.
H. McDer1nott of Fall River, may also
come into the new league, anS take
charge Of d team in some city-possibly
Biddeford. Waterville, Belfast and Old
town are mentioned AS the other cities,
and the projectors of the scheme have
faith that there is money in it. At any
rate, they propose to try it, and there
seems to be good prospect OF two polo
leagues in Maine this winter. bangor
News.