The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-11
WHIPPLE'S FOUL
Cost the Portland Team a Victory
From Lewiston.
GAME LOST AND WON AND THEN
LOST AGAIN BY HOME TEAM.

One of the Most Exciting Polo Contests of
the Season Played in City Hall Last
Niyht-How the New Referees Decision
Cost Portland the Game.
Portland lost game to Lewiston last
night by the hardest kind of luck.
Having landed the game safely with one
goal to the good and with two fouls called
on the Portland team there was three
minutes to play. Lewiston was on the
run and completely tagged out. Portland
had not been playing in the best Of form,
but they had the game safe enough. At
this critical moment Whipple threw his
stick under the skates of Walton. Whether
or not it was accidental only Whipple can
tell. At any rate the new referee, f. W.
Kelley who appeared here last night for
tie first time, called foul on Whipple
and Portland lost their hard earned goal.
The Lewistons WOE the deciding goal
after over seven minutes Of over time. II
this cannot be called hard luck shen there
is no such thing as "luck" in the game
of polo.
4 There were thirteen hundred people in
City hall last night to see the Lewiston
team meet Portland. 1t was slated to be
one of the hottest games of the year, and
in this respect was not Disappointing. 1t
was red hot from the word go, and the
polo oranks got their moneys worth at
any rate if they didn't see the home team
win.
Lincoln was on the floor in the first
period for Portland in the place of
Whipple. The crowd was very en-
thusiastio one, and they amused them
selves before the commencement of the
game in jeering Big Dick Furbush and
Kissing him at every opportunity The
Kisses had the same effect on Furbush
that red flag is said, to have on a bull.
Tie was prepared to fight hard and Go all
manner of tricks. but his spirits were
lowered a little when the new referee ap-
peared on the floor.
This young man is named f. W. Kelley
and he halls from Maiden. He knows
polo from the ground up, and he is pre-
pared to enforce the rules of the game.
His decisions last night were impartial
and though by them the Portland team
lost the game there were few people in
the crowd who did not say, when all was
over, that Mr.. Kelley's work had been
the best of the kind ever seen in the
Maine league. Mr.. Kelley showed what
he was made of at the very beginning of
the contest. Big Dick Furbush has
prided himself on his ability to bulldoze
thu referees in this league, and he has al
ways SUI coeeded very we'll in these. at
tempts. Last night he ran up against a
different sort of man from any OF the
others he has encountered. 1t has always
been the practice for the referees to place
the ball on the spot in the center OF the
hall and then to take up their position at
one side of the of the hall and sound the
whistle for the rush. Mr.. Kelley preferred
to do theStrick little differently. He took
his station at the Lewiston end of the
hall where he gave the signal for the rush.
Big Dick didn't like this and the next
time the ball was spotted he determined
to make the referee do as he wanted him
to and incidentally he wanted to see if he
could bulldoze Mr.. Kelley. In threat
ening loud voiced manner entirely be-
coming in bully whose reputation is
well known in this state, Furbush walked
IN to the referee and tried to force him
into taking his place in the center OF the
hall. Mr.. Kelley ordered Furbush back
to his place near the Lewiston cage. The
bully didn't want to go but Mr.. Kelley
couldn't be bulldozed and he once more
ordered Furbush to his position. The big
man had to go and he did it with such
had grace that it delighted the crowd and
the new referee was applauded again and
AGAIN for his cool, business like manner
in treating tine would-be high muok-a-
muck of the polo surface of Maine.
The Lewiston team went into the game
for all they were worth while Portland
seemed disposed to play slow game at
first. Walton and Tarrant kept Mckay
and Turnpull on the run about all the
time, while Allen was given all he could
look after. Apparently everything was
poing in the way of the visitors. Lincoln
had an off night and couldn't seem to &C
complish much. Chance after chance to
score slipped by him. Campbell doesn t
hitch up very we'll with Lincoln, and SO
things went from bad to worse in the first
period until the visitors had scored four
straight goals. Two of these were made
by Walton by long drives from the very
end of the hall, the kind which Allen
does not seem to have any kind of luck
in stopping. The other two were made
by Tarrant by hard drives at close
quarters. and one of these found Allen
fighting outside the goal trying to knock
the ball out of the danger circle.
At the end of the first period the Lewis
tons had four goals and Portland none.
A Lewiston crowd would under reversed
conditions have shown itself to be after
the tin horn variety of sports and left the
hall and their team to fight it out alone.
The Portland crowd knows what its team
can dovand even with this big handi-