The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-11-08
ODD sIGH1S AT TIE RIsKs.
The HTen and Women who Visit the Parl
Ilinlks.-P0I0 ut the Payonia.


The iTen and Women who Visit the Park
Rinks.-PoIo ut the Pavonia.
s''fhe back bone Of roller skating" said a
member of the Columbia Polo team at the
Park rink to one of the TATTLER's the other
evening, is virtually broken, and it GOES
seem that there is large grainlof truth in
the statement. Certain it is, that for ten
people. who frequented the Kinks last year
this time, not more than one attends now.
However, there are a great many people
to whom roller skating seems to have lost
none of its charms ALI the Kinks have
their oddities as we'll as their graceful
skaters. The former, rs every sensible
man knows, are found among pAople-men
particularly who have arrived at the age
OF maturity and should manage to en-
ploy their time to much better advantage:
the latter will be found generally among the
young ladies, s'Do you see that pretty girl
coming around toward us, dressed in
black" asked the TATTLER's companion.
'srhat's Hattie Soper; and she's one of the
most graceful skaters who frequent the
Park rink. And SO she was. Another
graceful skater is Emma Titus ST wonder
who that blunder-buss over there is p
queried the reporter, pointing to thirty
five year old six-footer clumisly wheeled
across the opposite side of the rink. ssThat!
that over there" was the reply. sob,
that's Joe the carpenter" If he didn't
know any more about handling planer OF
hammer than he knows about roller skat
! ing, he should shovel snow for o living in
winter and put in coal in the summer time
He'll probably come to it one of these days
if he doesn't quit spending SO much time
on wheels. sThere's worse chaps than him
here, continued the newspaper informant
ssThere's Dave Cathcart, over there, he is sc
awfully previous that the rink patrons
have dubbed him ssDayey Fresh" sWell,
who are the good skaters among the young
fellows?" s'There's Chuck Lyons; you
can't beat him much, and I don't think
young Barker of the Columbia team can be
discounted anywhere-certainly not in this
rink-for fancy skating.
g Get on to Pop Barker and Sam Eusol
and their waltze step. Did you ever see
anything to beat that? l never did and
they think they're graceful
They were just about as graceful as hogs
on ice. The music had ceased for some
minutes, and had just started up again
when woman, wearing glasses, appar
emily about thirty, of ordinary height, care
fully picked her way out on the floor il
company of a man fully head shorter
than herself. The reporter was anxious to
know who this queer-looking couple could
be, SO he put the question.
That's Pete Somers and his girl. PETE
thinks he can gkate, but he can't skate
any better than she can.
The reporter and his friend then strollet
over to the Pavonia Rink. This rink il
/ Il l.. Al. i
does not draw such nice class of people
it generally has larger attendance thar
the other The attraction at the Pavonii
Rink on Thursday was game of polo be
tween the Pavonia and the Lee avenue
Brooklyn, teams. The Lee avenue team
was a fine looking body of young men, an6
il is safe to say that they lost the game
simply because they had not counted Oh
the general character of their foe. II
ether words, they were not used to tbs
rough manner of their opponents. One Of
the Lee boys was actually bounded by {
Pavonia man, who, every time he got az
opportunity, pushed the latter down, trip
ping him up, or stopping him with the
hooked end of his stick.
"What do you allow that rooster tc
hound you so for" asked the father of the
Lee avenue man.
"Oh, they're hard crowd, was the re
ply. "They never would have got us here
had we known what they are."
A man in the audience, after the Lee
man had gone. turned to the reporter and
said, eff these Brooklyn boys resented
any treatment they receive here, they'd be
killed"
Tkis polo business is nothing more OF
less than plain, common hockey, and Ger.
tainly the name polo, as applied to it, is 6
misnomer. What's more, the Pavonias
might duo themselves champions" OF
anything else, there are only two scientific
players in the team they are the goa
guard and one man who nurses the ball as
long as he can. aad when ne can nurse il
no longer sends it clean across the rink
Outside of this mans playing, the only OBJ
jet of the men is to see who can send the
ball farthest and oftenest across the rink