The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-03
GRAND TRUNK CLERKS WON.
The Second Annual Hockey Match With
the Steamship Clerks.

A Game of Real Canadian Hockey Which
was Witnessed BY a Large Crowd
steamship Clerks Put Up a Plucky
Fight.
The people of Portland had an oppor-
tunity last night of witnessing game
which cur Canadian cousins deilgho Al
and over which they grow enthusiastic
Tt was "hockey" which is great oeai
like our polo, only it is played on the Ice
and is a much cleaner sport. In oanaoa
where every man, woman and chlio can
skate the game is played In those pig Ice
rinks which are rooted over and very
comfortable even in the coolest weather.
Hare in Portland hockey has to be played
in the omen air and this fact deters many
neople from witnessing sport which is
a~oitino and full Of opportunities for
brilliant work.
For an hour last night the Canadians,
whose coming here heralds the approach
of winter and whose flight takes place
with the beginning of spring, enjoyed
themselves in true Canadian style by
turning out in large numbers to see the
seoond annual hockey match between the
Grand Trunk clerks and the steamship
clerks. Three-fourths of all those who
gathered at the Portland ice rink at the
foot of Pearl street last night were people
connected with the English steamship
business, for this hockey match has been
the talk of the clerks of both the Grand
Trunk and the steamship offices ever
since the first of the season. large per-
oentage of the crowd wore the Grand
Trunk colors, red and white, while here
and there a knot of blue and white ribbon
worn in the buttonhole or pinned to the
Jacket of some lady showed where the
steamship admirers were. The ice was in
t,ne shape for the game, the heavy fall of
SNOW having been cleared away, and the
rink was brilliantly illuminated by cleo
trio lights making the surface as bright
sc day. The spectators were grouped
about the edge of the ice and they Wed
with one another in cheering the line
plays which were made by both teams.
Instead of polo ball, fiat rubber disc
was used and the object of the game was
to carry this disc with the hockey stick
towards the opponents goal and push 1t
between two sticks which serve in this
game in lieu of polo cage. The costumes
OF the players were very picturesque and
as all of these gentlemen aresexperts on
skates their movements were full OF grace
and decidedly interesting to watch.
There is really very little to say about
the game because it was very one sided.
The steamship clerks we're not in the race
for a minute, but although they were
playing against hope of winning they put
I'D plucky fight, and did not let up one
iot in their efforts until the game was at
an end.
The steamship clerks went into the
game with big handicap to begin with
Mr.. Bowen whom they relied upon as
their star player. and who was member
of the champion hockey team of Quebec
a few years ago, did not play, SO that at
the very beginning the steamship boys
realized that they had hard battle to
win. The Grand Trunk team, on the
contrary, was very strong. Mr.. Scanlon
who did some very effective work during
The game was member of the Junior
Shamrocks of Montreal, one of the best
teams of that city of hockey players. An
other thing which gave the Grand Trunk
team an advantage over their opponents
was tho magnificent work of Messrs.
Baldrick and Bolger about their goal
These players prevented the steamship