Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-08
A GREAT PoLe LxAauE.

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 A GREAT PoLe LEAGUE.
 \ Scheme for the Elaboration of Polo
 Into . Wide Oompass-The Star Players All in This Leaxue-New
 York, Philadelphia ana Boston in
 Leaxue-Fusure of The Game-Sport. ing News and Gossip.
 Already steps are being taken for the for- nation of new polo league for next season. The idea is to have new clubs brought in and l have them join the present league. Boston, New York and Philadelphis are spoken of as | new members. But the better way by far would be to place good teams in and around l New York and have strong league in shat section of the country. There is no reason why polo cannot be made to pay in that To: cality if the managers of the enterprise will only persevere until the people get interested in the game. A good league could be made of New York; Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark, Philadelphia and Poughksepsis. If good teams could be had in these cities polo The last attempt at playing polo around New York was . failure, but when it is taken into consideration that what enormous expense the league was under is Is no wonder that 1t was not success. The Palace rink in Brooklyn, whore polo was played in that city, was heavy expense. costing the management $115 night to rent 1t. The players in thst league were not as expensive as they are here, but they received league has been formed. They all received $15 week for their services, with the ex- ception of Wodtke, who was the highest sal- aried man, getting $2O week. Jersey City is just as good polo town as any in this league with perhaps the exception of Hart. ford, and the cranks in that city are more than anxious to see polo team es- tablished there. Anyone who says that the game of polo is decreasing hardly knows what he says for it would be played just as much in Massachusetts as in Connec- ticut to-day if they had the players. There are quite number of polo teams in Nassa- chusetts at present, but the players are hard ly good enough to mako 1t pay if large league was formed. Po:ton, Plymouth sa, there is . military polo league in Boston. But all the stars of the profession are in this league, and if it is expected that polo will grow the teams in this league will certainly have to loose some of their best players There are really but few good polo players outside of those in this league, and this alone demonstrates the fact that the managers must break in amateur players and give the people . chance to see what they can do. Practice makes perfect, and if these young players are given show they will, undoubtedly, put up just as good polo in time as is being played at present. The Water- bury team could be placed in some city in new league and rest assured they would make any polo team hustle. The team is at pres- ent on tour in Massachusetts and is having great success.
 At one time polo was played in every fair sized town along the Hudson from New York to Schenectady and those same towns would take up polo again in no time if there was some one to go there and boom it. Pough- keepsie had the best team at that time, Ley- don being of the players, but when he came into this league the team was without good captain, and the interest in the game dimin- ished so until finally polo went under in that city. The downfall of polo in that city was q deathblow to the others and they followed. There are good rinks in Rochester, Utica, Syracuse, Buffalo and Elmira, and were good polo teams put there it would surely be 0 paying investment from the start. There is also good polo team in Clean, N. Y., and they would join league in no time. Polo is really in its infancy and by judicious managing and keeping it free from crooked ness, there is no reason why 1t can not be. come national sport in the winter. It ia cheap and the most exciting of games and a person who has seen several games is pretty sure to follow it up. At any rate it is fondly hoped among the cranks in this city that polo has come to stay and they all look for ward to its advancement in the future.
 BEATEN BY THE CHAMPIONS. Bridgepor,,s Polo Players Beat ths Local Team In its own Rink-The Champions Play . Great Game - other Games Last Night-Sporsine News and Gossip.
 The home team was outplayed and de- feated by the champions at the rink las night by score of 2 to3. The visitors pn' up their usual stiff game and had no trouble in walking all over the home team. Th' feature of the game was the playing o
 Pierce. This player can without g doub play the best polo of any rusher in thi
 league. He worked like beaver last nigh
 and his work was often heartily appplaudet
 by the spectators. The whole Bridgeport
 team played polo as they only can. Pieros
 and Menard did great passing and their lonl drives from center were terrors for Reed
 Williams played good at times but he wa
 the weak spot on the team. The only thing
 he did worthy of notice was to swallow
 a piece of wood that he was chewing ani
 nearly turned himself inside out to get rit
 of it. Conway as usual played star poll
 hind the cage or in the corners. Smith dit
 good work in the cage and also played ac
 ceptably every position on the team. Flo
 the home team Cooke played the best gam'
 and was the only man on the team wht
 really played polo. Hill did not play witl
 the snap and vim that has characterized hi
 playing of late and he lost the ball time ant
 done the business. Newcombs worke,
 hard, but he was not in it
 Phelan's playing in. the frs
 half was very poor but he brace'
 up near the end. Reeds work was far beloV
 his average and he was no match for th pokes of Pierce. Two stops were all he mad
 in the first half. The trouble with the hom
 team is that they do not block their men sn'
 they seem afraid to get in and hustle all tn
 too much in front of the cage. Two goal
 were lost In this way last night. Ther
 seems to be no special reason for doing it
 The boys were not in 1t from the beginninl
 of the game to It's end, but they cannot b
 charged with not working hard for the game
 Pierce and Nenard are too much for any op
 posing team and they are without doub | tho king rushers of the league. But the tean
 should not get discouraged by last night
 defeat. They should brace up and finish tn
 week above last place by downing the Meri
 dens to o-night.
 | NKw HAvkx. YosIxIoHs. AhID9ponY | Hill ....., ....,. Rusher. ............ .Menar | Newcombe. Rusher. ....P1erc Cooke. Center. William
 Phelan.. ....... Half back ............ .Conwa! Reed ............. Goal ................ .Enlu | Rush Goal Caged
 | Goals Won by Won by by Nm
 1.... Hill. Bridgeport. .Menard .... so
 B.. Pierce. Bridgeport. Pierce. 2:2 | 3.....Hill. New Haven. Cooke ...... g
 4.... Hill. Bridgeport e. Pierce S:2 | 5.... .Newcombe Bridgeport Menard. ..... 2:4 | Hill. ......Eew Haven. Hill. 2:4
 2. Hill Bridgeport. Pierce. 8:2
 B.. Pierce. New Haven. Hill. ..... 6:5 | o.. .Newcombe Bridgeport. .Mennrd.. 2:1 l 10.. Pierce. Bridgeport .Menard... g