The Portland daily press., 1898-11-07
POLO ON TUESDAY.
Bangor win Open the ason Here IN IL,
auditorium.

The first polo game of the season Will
be .playeds in Portland tomorrow
night at the auditorium. This building
has been superbly fitted up for the game.
| The pen which is about in the centre of
the big floor surface, Is as large as the
playing space in City hall, and the floor
is in elegant shape for fast polo.
The Portland team Is all here and have
been practioing for their game with Ban
eor on Tuesday night. The visiting team
will be very strong aggregation and
will doubtless be welcomed here by a big
crowd. Mr.. Conley, the National league
base ball umpire, who has been elected a
polo referee, will referee Tuesdays game.
On Wednesday the Portlands Will play the
Rocklands in the Auditorium. This will
be the only two game on successive nights
for the season. Seats for Tuesdays game
are on sale at Chambers music store.
The Auditorium will not be used for polo
many weeks, but while it Is used it will
afford every one an elegant chance to see
the game without providing or discom.
fort.
The games will begin at 8 80 O'Clock
preceded by an amateur game at 7.3o
O'Clock.
POLO NOTES.
Manager Burnham has signed Charlie
Spear of last years South Portland team
for substitute.
The Bath Times thinks that the action
IN. = 10
referee in the Maine Polo League. twill
go a. great ways in promoting the success
of polo in Bangor, as he 10 favorite In
that city.
Captain Smith, according to the
Courier Gazette, intends to form an
amateur league to take in Rockland and
some of the other Knox county towns.
Suitable prizes will be off BRED as induce
ments for strong teams
The Spring street rink in Rockland is
being put in condition for the opening
and cages have been hauled to the rink
and pntting them in place is all that
needs to be done.
John Phelan of Salem has been secured
as half back for the Rockland team, and
Captain Smith claims he will be the best
in this position of any in the league after
week or two warming up. Phelan IS
an a0id timer and was considered the
best half back in the National League.
manager Dougherty of the Bath polo
team, has crew of men at work putting
| up the fences and netting at the Alameda
and the members of the team commenced
knocking the ball Wednesday morning.
Messrs. Murtaugh, Wood, Smith and
Hackett are on deck, and the other MEM
bers of the team will arrive this week.
The Times expects they will put up a
lively battle at the opening game in
Rockland, next Monday night.
The payrolls of the various clubs of the
National Polo League will be heavy this
year, and If the managers are to 1nish
the season with good sized profit to
their credit. the patronage must be con-
stantly large. Some of the players Will
get as high as $55 week and others as
low as S16 The average will be about
$685. The weekly. payroll of at least three
of the teams will be over 81 O. and the
total weekly expenses over $500 inclusive
| 1900 to $500 week to merely pay ex-
penses. Last season very few OF the
southern Now England teams averaged
600 spectators game.
Rockland Courier-G Gazette: Hadley.
Tobin, Gray and Houghton have signed
| with Augusta. insuring that town the
best team it ever had, II not one OF the
best in the league, We had hoped to see
| Hadley in Rockland this season wearing
the gray and black uniform, but the fats
appear to have willed otherwise. Iobie
| is the eccentric youth with the blond
hair, who created sensation in the
Maine League the latter part of last sea-
son by his amazing pluck and aggressive
ness. He will be a drawing card as usual
and everybody will want to see Augusta
play here. Gay and Houghton played In
Gardiner and Augusta last season and
make one of the best pony teams in the
business.