Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-12
POLO NEWS.
The Season opens Next monday.-Wha1
 Is Being Bone.


 Election being over, all eyes are now turned to the opening of the polo season on Monday next. None of the New Haven players are here yet. The managers, or di- rectors, have not yet got the team although they have one picked out. The question is, will they get the men they wanta Some of the directors don't want to pay former prices for players, while others desire as good a team as money will buy. It looks now as if Newcomb and Halliant will be the only ones of last years team to return, although Ley- don may be ordered to report. That depends on what the directors do as regards getting ths men they were after. It is known that they have in view Lations of the New Bedfords, or, as they will hereafter be called, the Spri1 gfelds. Then there is Mckay, half back of the Bostons, and Hill, who rushed for Salems last season, whom they want. It seems quite likely that these men can be secured, for the Massachusetts league is 8 thing of the past. The only trouble is that the two Bay State managers who are left may extend the opening of their alleged season to December and thus hold their men and be able to ask good round price for their re- lease The New Haven management will peremptorily refuse to pay big prices. It is also understood the directors are after Turn bull, center of the Bostons.
 Manager Clark of the Bostons is talking of < transferring his team to Bridgeport. The regimental board of the First regi- ment has refused to let the Hartford man. l agement have the army, but this will not \ prevent that city from having polo, as the | directors some time ago decided to build a rink It is quite likely that Theodore Mac donald will be manager of the New Ravens. | The two referees of the Massachusetts
 league, Charles O'Malley and Frank Stumoke, | have been appointed as the official referees of ! the league and will be paid $20 per week and ! expenses by the league instead of receiving $5 game from individual managers, as has heretofore been the rule. Donnelly of New ! Haven and Daniels of Hartford have been ap-
 pointed substitute referees. By the appoint ment of O'Malley and Stumcke the polo | players can be assured of seeing the game2 conducted in fair manner. Under theiI \ eyes their will be no violation of rules. O'Malley has been 8 referee ever since polo ! waf started and is said to know the tricks oi I every player on the surface.
 ! Hartford wanted ey-Manager Clough oi Hartford appointed referee From the in. dications of the makeup of the league, they will need 8 referee of their own before they walk away with the championship. .-Merider { Journal.
 The clubs will play home games on the | following days: New Ravens on Mondays \ and Fridays, Hartfords on Wednesdays and
 
 days, Springfelds on Mondays and Thurs days and Bridgeports on Tuesdays and Thurs days.
 The season will open one week from to-day with the Bridgeports at New Haven and the fl Hartfords at Springfield. Tuesday night Meriden will play the first game with New I Haven in Meriden, and most exciting con-
 test may be expected between the old rivals | New Ravens have announced that they will retain only Newcombe and Valiant of their last years team, and that in all probability
 Mckay of the Bostons will be half-back, Hill | of the Salems rusher and Lations of the New Bedfords goal, while an effort will be made ! to get TurnbuH of Boston as center in place } of Valiant. The chances are, however, that New Haven is hanging out bluff, as the | chances are ten to one in favor of some oi these men goiug elsewhere. -Meriden Jour N