The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-16
HAD TO HUSTLE TO WIN.
Roeklands Gave the Home Team a
Lively Evening.
PORYLANDS WERE OUTPLAYED IN
FIRST Two PERIODS.

Then They Settled Down to Good Solid
Work and After This Happened All
Was Easy Sailing-Lincodn May Go To
RockIand and O'Malley Come Here.
Those who staid away from last nights
polo.igame because they thought it would
be an easy one for the home team, were
never more mistaken in their lives. 1t
was not AN easy one. Ut was about the
hardest looking show for the game at the
end of the second period of any which
has been seen here. At this time the
Roc91lands were oleegoal in the. lead and
the home team was not playing in it's
usual good FORM More than.t this the
Rocklands.. were hlustling for all they were
worth and John Smith in the Rockland
goal. was stopping every drive which
was made at the cage. Taking it all in
all it was a very interesting game to
witness and the crowd of 700 persons were
given theirssmoney V worth of fun.
When the game l,egan it was very evil
dent that the Portland team was not in
the best of shape. The weak point
seemed to be Curtis who,' since his injury
received some thine ago, has not been
playing polosand consequently could not
get down to good solid work. Campbell
worked like tiger, but alone and with
out much help from Curtis in the first
much. 1t was decided surprise to the
spectators last night when Rockland won
the first two goals. One of these was
made by Perry on a hot drive from the
middle OF the hall which caught John
Allen off his guard. The second goal was
made by Murphy on very clever pass
by Perry. During this first period Turn
bull and Mckay had their hands full and
Murphy and O,Ma5ley made things very
lively for them, The first period was
by all odds in favor of Rockiand. The
III stops made 3 by Allen and the eight
made by Smith shows about the way in
which the ball was travelling during the
firstlI5 minutes.
In the second period the Portland team
began to wake up. For. some six min
utes or more both teams were playing
good, clean, scientific polo with plenty Of
good passes on both sides and as fine de-
fensive work as any which has been seen
in recent games. Curtis was doing much
better in this period and seemed to be get
ting back into his old fashioned style.
| After some very hard work Tnrnbull
and O'Malley got into q lively scrimmage
| in the corner and both of them fell1down.
Mckay stole the bail and by one Of his
Bradley Martin" passes. put the ball
over to Curtis in front of the Rocgiand
cage. Curtis was on deck and with a
quick stroke drove 1t into the Rockland
cage, winning Portland's first goal.
This delighted the crowd and the old
Portland man was given a round of
cheers for his work. But after this Rock
land seemed to be outplaying us again.
Curtis is not used to the team work, and
during the remaiuder'of the period Camp
bell had to doBIabo,rt all the hustling
Mckay was getting his fighting blood up
and played savage game. Many inter
esting scrimmages occurred between
Murphy and Mckay in which the Port
land man usually came out on top. John
| Turnbull played his fine blocking game
throughout and many times prevented
the Rocklands from getting another goal
| by his prompt work with his stiolkra It
would be a funny game. indeed, in which
Turnbull did not work like fiend from
beginning to end ,s q
The second period was lively one for
l.John Smith and he made some of the
tprettiest stops seen here in good while,
The ease with which this veteran kicks
| the ball out of his cage is wonderful
sight to see. Smith had % stops in this
ueriod and Allen had 10.
In the last period it was do or die with
the Portland team. They saw defeat
staring them in the face and the way
they got down to good solid work was
worth going good ways to see.
| The Portlands kept up the fast gait
whilo tho Rocklands began to show the
effects of hard work. Campbell distin-
guished himself in this period by his hard
drives, rapid plays and fine juggling. He
won the second goal for Portland and tied
the score on an elegant shot from the
side of the hall. Then Curtis, who
stuck to the cage like leech, caught one
of Campbells hard drives and sent it
home into the Rockland cage like q shot
out of cannon. 1t was well done and
| once moro the crowd yelled its approval,
for Portland had taken the lead. Then
came John Turnbull's turn. Every one
on the Portland team has made goal
! this season excepting Turnbull. He has
played a crack-a- jack game throughout,
but has devoted himself more particular
" to the defense than to the aggressive
work. Last night he got his chance and
by long drive caught Smith off his
guard and landed his first goal. 1t was
the last one made in the game and it