Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-26
Meriden here tn-night.


 It will seem natural to see Daily in sthis league again. He did. well to stay in the National league as long as he. t}id, with So many old-timers float ing around.-Brockton Times.
 Manager F. J. Sullivan of the Port | land club has severed his connection with the team in order to accept a pc sition with a New York dramatic at traction. Mr Sullivan was popular both with the players and the polo en- thusiastsin Portland. A new manager will be selected to-day.-Brockton Times.
 Who is the greatest polo player in the world, taking everything into con- sideration, in the defensive and of fensive line? Why NJ. Fred Jean, of Fall River, by a mile-Meriden Jour nal. We always supposed Meriden disliked Waterbury, but never to the above extent. Why not say Jean of Waterbury?
 Dicky Pierce. Silent Bill Curtiss, the Whiting brothers and big Bill Heffer- nan will be here tonight, and that means a red-hot contest. If Meriden wins tonight it will mean bringing Waterbury down to pretty close quar- ters with that team. Of course we SuoulI w III tilli We W III ludht big effort to make that statement good.
 There must be something wrong down New Haven way. There were less than 1 GOO paid admissions at the game yesterday afternoon, and with Waterbury. too. Certainly city as large as New Haven should turn out bigger crowd than that, particularly when the city has such a good team of players. Jimmy Canavan deserves better treatment than that at the hands of the sport-loving people of New Ha- ven.
 \ peculiarity of the standing which has caused some comment is the fact that every team has won more games than it has lost. a circumstance which is accounted for by the games of the disbanded Ieriden team. It has been suggested that it would be >fairer all around if the games of the defunct team were thrown out.-Boston Globe. Ring off and tend to business: both you Boston men are becoming very tireSomo.
 Fox, the Waterbury goal tender, is we'll named. He uses a pair of 10 cent wooden roll skates, so that when q Waterbury player has to leave the floor on account of q broken skate. he can knock the roll off his s'aates, thus compelling the game to stop until he is ready to go on, which is usually as soon as the other fellow is fixed up. He did this trick Saturday night when Jean broke his skates and it probably saved the game for Waterbury. for with Jean out of that team a big hole is made. Captain Pierce, of the Meri- dens, protested the game because Ref cree Leahy stopped for the broken skate. The rule is that unless it is before e game agreed to stop in case of accidelS the game must go on. As Referee Leahy was late in arriving. not getting on the floor until the second period no such agreement was made and Pierce has good ground for his protest It is only for use in just such games as Saturday nights game that Fox botherS with any kind of skates; that is the only use he has for them- He never stands on them, as do other goal tenders. He stands flat on hls feet. Then, too, he has his standards built out like the wash-board on a dam, so that when he stands on the palms of his feet in front of the cage he covers the entire opening. so that it is enly :when he is enticed- to one side that there is any hope of getting ball past him.-Meriden Journal.