The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-01-18

Hall this evening and another scorching
game will be the result. While we SYM
pathize with the Grays In their crippled
condition, we are out for the pennant, and
sympathy cuts no figure with US. We
want the game tonight.
1t begins to look as II 1t were as difficult
for the referee to give satisfaction In roller
polo as the umpire In baseball. IL any
thing, the task is the more difficult In polo,
which Is a game of contact. 1t Us easy
enough to preach, but difficult to practice.
The referees are conscientious, and do their
best by everybody, but 1t is simply impos-
sible to satisfy; consequently, no matter
how good the official Is, there will be q
roast ready all the time.
The benefit game rendered the family Of
Dunning, the polo player who died re-
Gently, will take place this evening at New
Bedford, and indications point to large
attendance. John l.. Sullivan, the cele-
brated pugilist, will referee the game,
which will be attended by league officials
from Boston and other prominent sporting
men from the Hub. The sale OF seats has
been large one. The New Bedfords play
picked team In charge of Tom Cotter.
Speaking of last Friday nights game In
Fall River, the Fall River Globe has the
follows: ''The most exciting and critical
crank In the community of polo enthusi-
asts could not pick flaw in the work of
Capt. Cotter's men at last nights game,
where they played all around the cham
pion striped jackets from up beyond Provi-
dence. It is but tame and feeble man
ner of description to say that the home
team won by superior team work and
phenomenal goal driving. Such efforts as
the Reds put forth would defeat two ordi-
nary clubs"
Says the Fall River Globe: Close students
Of the game have long since discovered
that Pawtucket lines up the strongest
kind of a defense. Victory often perches
on the banner of the Tigers, not because
of their aggressiveness, but because Of
their able support of Lations. A favorite
play of these men Is to block and tackle
the opposition through its centre, and
make the work more effective by sending
the rush line up to the net to strengthen
Lations. This requires rapid skating and
good management, but they do it, and
usually with the best kind of results.
General Sporting Notes.
The Providence Athletic Association
gives steady employment, under it's own
roof, to nearly one hundred men and
women.
The Pittsburg club has "a men under
contract for next season, and the job of
feeding them at the several hotels will be
let out by contract.
The official call for the spring meeting
of the National League has been sent out
by President Young. 1t is to be held in
Baltimore on the 18th of February.
There is a strong movement on foot to
have the big annual football game between
Yale and Princeton played hereafter on
the college grounds at New Haven or
Princeton, and there Is reason to believe
that the movement will acquire 80 much
impetus that 1t will be successful.
The prospects are exceedingly promising
for q baseball league which will embrace
the states of Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island and replace the late New England
combination. This Is something the
friends Of the game hereabouts can con-
gratulate themselves upon, since 1t has
been obvious for two seasons back that
the clubs couldn't survive another year
under the old arrangement.