The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-25
TO OPEN THE NEW POLO RINK.

Opening Game Tonight VIII be Be-
tween the Leaders and Runners up in
the Championship Race--Other Polo
Items of Interest.
The new polo rink on Chapel street
will be opened in blaze of glory to-
morrow night, as has already been stat
ed. The leaders of the league, who
have been playing their games in the
Quinnipiac rink will be transferred to
the new polo quarters at the old Lincoln
rink on Chapel street on Tuesday
night. The rink has undergone very
extensive alterations during the past
week, so much so that on Saturday
night when a regular devotee of the
bowling contest went in he stood aghast
and stared in beWilderment at the COM
plete transformation that had taken
place since his last visit, only few
days previous. The bowling alleys have
been raised to the height of the walls
and the entire floor will be devoted to
the polo sport. Surface tiers of seats
capable of holding over 1900 people
have been placed along each side of the
hall, while a grand stand occupies the
further end. The management has
also wisely resolved to reserve a GER
tain portion of the house for ladies. Mr..
Peckman, the manager Of the rink,
stated last night that everything would
positively be ready for Tuesday even
ing's contest and that the directors
would do everything within their power
to make the popular winter pastime of
polo a success in New Haven. Manager
Hilton will retain his hold on the team,
| the personnel of which will be the
same as has been playing during the
season, with the exception of Tibbits,
who has been signed and will greatly
| strengthen the team when change is
| necessary. At the opening of the rink
Bunnelps orchestra will be present and
play selections before and during the
| first and second periods of the game.
| The New Haven Polo team concluded
another good weeks work by defeating
the newly organized Wallingford team
on Saturday night by the score of 5 to
3, and still retain their position at
| the head of the league table.
To win three games out Of four is
good enough record for any team,
but the cranks were far from satisfied
with the manner in which that Hart
| ford game was lost on Friday night.
"a dead give away" one crank was
heard to say. But then he was only
one of the many.
! Manager Hilton might take a leaf out
of the Hartford managers book by
placing a fresh man on the floor in the
last period of the game, more especial
| ly when a fast game is being played
| from the start, such as was the case on
Friday night.
The following polo conundrum has
been handed in: If New Haven can
beat every team in the league but Hart
ford and every one of these teams can
beat Hartford, why is 1t the New Ha-
vens get downed every time by the
Capitol city boys? The solving of this
will be left to some Of the cranks.
According to the official score of the
Wallingford-New Haven game Spencer
scored goal in the Incredibly short
time of eleven seconds. If this is cor
rect then Spencer has broken the
| record for fast caging for the second
/ time this season. Strange to say this
occurred against Wallingford on both
occasions. The New Haven captain
also won all the rushes but one on
Saturday night.
Mallory made 5S stops while goal ten
der against the New Britain team last
week. Kerwin made the same amount
4 of stops while tending goal for Wall
ingford at New Haven Christmas day.
This is the largest number of stops
made by any goal tender this season.
A hot game is looked for at the OPEN
ing of the new rink tomorrow night.
The New Britains come here smarting
from defeat sustained at the hands of
the New Haven aggregation in their
own rink at New Britain last week and
will only be consoled by defeating New
Haven Tuesday night. New Haven on
the other hand wants Tuesday nights
game in the worst way in order par
italy to make up for Fridays defeat
A battle royal between the teams may
be looked for.