The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-11-22
Providence, With Crippled Team, De-
feated by Portland Team Last Night.
Woonsocket Wins Third Place in Inter-
scholastic League by Beating Hope.

John wiley's sore thumb was still TOO
bad for him to get into the game at In
fantry hall ,last night and at the last
moment Manager Parsons himself was
forced to don a uniform and take the
big fellows place.
Bill, as he must be called when he
plays. was greeted royalty when he Jump
cd over the fence. and while he was pretly
rusty on his skates, not having had q
pair on In more than year. displayed
all his old powers as q driver: holding
John Roberts quite an argument In this
respect
Between the two old-tirners. both noted
for their skill I'm driving. there vas a
greSd race for the honors. and be-
tween them put a great exhibition OF hard
shooting for the cage.
The absence OF Wiley weakened the
team In two ways. by taking out It's big
gest defense player and shifting the men
around, thus breaking up team play and
handcappfng the men out OF position.
Portland came down sore over the de-
feat at Worcester on "wednesday night
when Captain McGilvray claims he was
robbed OF the game by being played over
t.me; but be that as IL may the visitors
were out for the game and got II.
John Roberts started In like whirlwfnd
and for a bout four minutes and a half
nothing could he seen but the big man IN
black and his shiny. In this time Jonn
secured four goals. on as many grnno
drives. Mallory apparently being power
less to stop the ball
The FIRST one was whisked by the Provi-
dence goal tend I'm a minute and a quarter
on a hard drive from the front. the next
one followed a minuate and half la,er
on a back-hander while close 90 the cage,
and a third one on one OF Johns ia
nous drives from the side. from an angle
so acute as to appear as though the ball
was behind the cage when struck. TINS
was followed UP by goal from the spot
on the rush ia three seconds
Here was a bunch OF four goals pumped
into the Providence cage by one man In
exactly four minutes and 80 seconds. The
Brownies were dazed, the damage being
done almost before they knew the game
had started, but after that. despite the
crippled condition OF the team, there was
very little difference In the work OF the
two teams, the home players holding the
visitors goal for goal. each club scoring
seven during the remainder OF the game.
the four gathered In by Roberts at the
start being the winning goals.
Then Rill got into the game and there
was little doing on The other side.
Three times he drove for the Portland
citadel and each time the ball agitated
the Portland curtains. They were all
great drives ana fully as strenuous OF
those OF his rival.
The crowd, although rather smaller than
usual was the most enthusiastic OF the
season and the hall rang with the ciIws
OF approval as the manager shot the ball
past big, good natured Burgess, and cheer
upon cheer filled the place.
SO II went on to the finish. both teams
fighting hard for goals with honors' even.
and when II is considered the crippled
condition OF the home team the score
was a most creditable one.
Hayes work at half back. .whle not
so scientific. was OF the kind that countS
He was after his man all the time and
for the greater part OF the game kept
Parsons so well covered that he could do
little. Fitzgerald attended TO Curtis IN
the same way. and II was difficult mat
ter for either Providence rusher 10 set
q clean shot at the cage The score;