The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-05
Visitors OutpIayed Portland Last
Night.
GAME WAS CLOSE AND En-
CITING.
The Score Tied Several Times and the
Crowd Found Plenty of oppor tunities
for Getting Excited.

Gardiner defeated Portland in City
hall last night by score of to 5. The
home team was simply out played. They
made good fight but the visitors were
too many man for them. They set gait
at the very start which the home team
found it impossible to keep pace with.
In Dawson and Turner the Gardiner
team has two very active, aggressive and
fast players. These two men gave Turn
bull and Mckay all they could attend to
last night and in fact completely tuokered
out these two Portland players. But it
was Hadley who played Gardeners game
last night. On the defense he was superb,
but when he came to rushing the ball he
showed the audience that he was no
slonch of rusher. He was everywhere
over the floor ana constantly coached his
team and kept them up to their work.
On the Portland team Mckay was not
up to his usual form and evidently found
the slippery floor too hard for him to
work upon. This man has not yet been
| hardened to his work, and until he has
several weeks more polo it is doubtful if
he shows much5improvement. Turnbull
was also very weak last night and Port
lands defense on the whole was not as
good as it has been in the past. Whipple
and Curtis rushed the ball for the first
two periods and then Lincoln took
could do. Whipple worked hard but it
was Curtis who showed up in the best
form last night. He followed the ball
we'll. made some very pretty drives for
the cage and excelled in juggling the
ball.
It started out to be slow game, but
towards the last end it Enlightened up
considerably and became more lively.
The floor of City hall is in miserable con-
dition for polo playing. Recently lacge
amount of kerosene has been placed upon
it and this makes the surface as slippery
as glass, and far more treacherous Both
teams found the floor too hard for them
to do much effective work upon and in
consequence the crowd did not see as good
polo as they might have under other con-
ditions. Portland at first played all
around Gardiner. Their passing was SUI
perior and the team work was all that
could be asked for Portland won the
first goal on fine drive by Whipple, and
a few minutes later Gardiner won one,
tieing the score Then Gardiner got an
other goal on q long drive by Perry, and
before the first period ended Mckay made
carom pass to Curtis who Gagged the ball
and tied the score again.
Gardiner began to play better in the
second period, and young Dawson was
after the ball all the time. Turner made
an elegant pass to Dawson and gave Gar.
diner the lead once more. Curtis drove
the sphere up near Gardiner s goal few
minutes later when Hackett was off the
floor with broken SIX ate and Hadley was
in the goal. Hadley got excited and in
trying to get the ball away from Gardi-
ners cage drove it in the netting. The
last part of the period Portland took
brace and led Gardiner by one score when
the gong sounded. In the last period
Hackett was kept busy stopping hard
drives by Lincoln and Curtis. Mckay
tried some of his famous tossing shots for
goal, but none of them fooled Hackett.
Finally the visitors got two straight goals
and won the game by one goal. The line
up and summary:
Portland-Whipple, Lincoln and Curtis.
rushers; Mckay, center; Turnbull, half
back; Allen, goal.
Gardiner-Turner and Dawson, rushers
Perry, center; Hadley, half back;
Hackett, goal.