The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-13
POLO.
To-night's Game-Providence vs. New Haven

Tonight the league leaders from Providence will be at Bowling hall to play their regular scheduled game with the Blues. Judging from the present a treat in store for them and should witness one of the cleanest and swiftest games that has taken place this season. It will or ought to be thoroughly sci entific game and void of rough play, which has been altogether too common among the majority of the teams dur ing the past week. Whatever excuse there may be for some of the other teams in the league resorting to rough tactics there can be none for such teams as Providence and New Haven, as both are composed of men who know and can play the game as it ought to be played. Manager Peckham says the demand for seats is unusually large for tonight.
 The home team is to be congratulated on the result of last weeks work. It was indeed pleasant contrast from the previous three weeks results and the devotees of the game were not slow to appreciate it after Tuesdays contest against Waterbury. As at present con- stituted the team is all right and ought to give a good account of itself before the year is out.
 Bone has worked like a beaver in all of the games played during the past week. It is generally thought that Whiting will make a very good partner for the swift rusher after little prac- tice. Whiting showed up to good ad- vantage in Tuesdays game. But on Friday he proved a little weak. Ley don has more than upheld his old repu- tation as the star center of the league, while ''Hobe" Whiting has delighted the spectators with his fine passing and stubborn blockades. Lations has had his tiger eye on the alert all week, with the result that nothing of an easy na- lure passed him.
 The games this week will be with Springfield, Providence and Meriden. Of the four games the Blues should win at least three.
 The New York reporters don't seem 10 catch on to polo as quick as one would expect The Heralds man Tn Sundays paper speaks of the New York team having lost two games by one run. Who ever heard of runs In 9 nolo game? He must have been thinking of cricket or baseball.
 Frank Warner and Billy Leydon got Into fight in Meriden Saturday night and Warner, picking Leydon up In ms arms. threw him heavily to the floor. Several people in the audience jumped over the railing, and for time 1t look- cd as though Warner would receive bodily harm The police, however, lntsr- fered. and after a short delay the game nroceeded without any more encount- CTS on the part of these players. Ley don formerly played in Meriden, and judeing by the action of the crowd saturday, is far more popular than Warner whose home is in the Silver city.
 Secretary Olin of the National asso- citation is planning to secure stop watches for the entire circuit Of the same nattern as the one used at the Providence games. While there last Tuesday Secretary Olin was shown the watch and expressed himself as highly oleased with it. The watch is a stop watch without the fy-back movement, stopping and starting without losing time as in the ordinary stop watch Ihe watch registers it's own time, showing the actual time of goals, periods and the whole game without recourse to hg- ures. Timers on the circuit will lind this a great convenience if the watches can be obtained.
 The disposition of the referees to put down rough play with a strong hand IS B step in the right direction. What the spectators want for their money IS polo played as it ought to be played, and