Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-03
Standing of the Clubs.
Polo Pointers.

Meriden tonight.
 The Woodchoppers will play in Springfield tonight.
 Poor New Britain! When will they win q game againa
 Wonder if Conway's gold d-headed cane will be Jonah to the champions. kss
 Only two games have been played over time in Bridgeport this season.
 When Curley is himself it would take two men like Mccarthy to equal his work.
 Games tomorrow night: Hartford at Bridgeport and New Britain at Meriden.
 Hill and Newcombe drive more balls over the cage than any other rushers in the league. :. Taking everything into consideration, Fred Doe can play about as mean polo as any man in the business.
 If "Mull" Smith would give his goal tender more show there would be less goals made by the opposing teams.
 Sword, with his four-leaf clover, has been a godsend to the Kangaroos. He is more of 8 favorite in Hartford than either Ootter or Sealy.
 r Bridgeport has good cause to fear Hart ford more than Springfield. It will probably be the first two named clubs who will have to fight it out for first place.
 The local team will have an easy time this week as they do not play again after tonight until Friday, when the champions will try conclusions with them in the local rink.
 Dunning is not the favorite in Meriden that he was once, but just the same "Ho- mic" knows a thing or two about polo that other polo players in the league have yet to learn.
 No one can deny the fsct that the Kanga- roos are playing great polo. They are play ing their old time game, and every man on ko huu hoou iufuood vuffh new life.
 Newcombe's wind has held out better this season than it ever has before. He goes into the corners all the time and has made several goals by getting the ball away from the opposing defense.
 Allen, the goal tender on the "Flyers," guarded the cage for New Britain Saturday night. The Hartford papers credit him with thirty six stops. Few goal tenders in the league could do better work.
 John Roberts is not playing the polo at would not find 50 much fault with other men in the team and play his own game right along he would be thought more of.
 Sullivan was fined $100 by the Hartford management on Saturday for getting intoxi- cated. It was pretty hard on "Sully," but he will probably squeal out of 1t. He is not tho only player who could be fined cold "century" either.
 The ''Scientists" will do no more practice ing. The management have done all they can to make them win and it now rests with the players whether they play winning polo or not. It is all very we'll, but little prac. harm.
 Kelley's "Kids" will cross sticks with the local team at the rink to night, and . Iattling game may be expected. The Scientists want the game and they are going to have 1t and Meriden will have to hustle every minute of the game if they expect to come anywhere near the top.
 The Meriden cranks do not relish the change in goal tenders as much as some peo- pie imagine. After the game Saturday night one of the critics expressed himself thus: '.Be chese, If Archie drew de ball de way he kin he wud hev filled de cage. Mack was plumb full of luck"
 Meriden played lightning polo Saturday night, and If they play poor polo in their own rink there is one sure thing, and that is that they never put up poor game when New Haven plays there. Reed has never had less than thirty stops in any game in Meriden this season, and that shows what | kind of a game the Kids are putting up l against the Scientists.
 The Bridgeport Post seems to think there l is crooked work among the Meriden players. It is pretty hard thing to mention, and un- less there are good grounds for this insinua- ton it would have been just as well to have remained quiet. If there Is anything of this kind going on at present Manager Kelley would know it as quick as anyone and Jimmie would be the last man to tolerate such thing.
 l The Meriden management are not satisied l with the present polo team and intend to | otrenpthAn it deal fa now on bv which Mark Frazier of the Bridgeports will be loaned by Manager Harris. Smith will be played at center, Frazier at half back and McCsrthy goal. Should the arrangement not work, Frazier will be played in the cage and Leydon put back at center. But if the Meriden management think that they can improve the team any by taking off Leydon they are greatly mistaken, for there is no center in the league that can cover as much ground as Leydon ,and no center in the league | can turn around and catch man after he has passed him as quick as Leydon does.