The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-09
To-NIGHT's POLO GAME.
Waterbury the Blues Opponents at
 Bowling Hall.

Few of the teams in the league hay l improved so much as Waterbury O
 late. Roberts, Hipson, Menard an,
 Starkle certainly make strong aggre
 gation and one that is hard to beat
 The Tigers will be at Bowling hall to night and a good game ought to be tn | outcome of the meeting. Like Hart 1 ford, Waterbury has still to win its frs
 game at the local rink This should 1 help to make matters hum little bit l There is no great change in the stand l ing of the polo teams at the end O | the past week. Hartford and New | Britain still head the list, but the form | CT has stronger lead than it had las
 week. This was mainly brought abou by Cotter's men capturing five out o1 the six games played. The see-saW performance between Providence ano
 New Haven still continues. At one time
 during the week it looked as if Mana
 ger Aufort's men were to break loose
 from the Greys and make a bold bid tC capture New Britain's warriors in the
 
 red. Bone was taken suddenly i'll on Friday afternoon and was unable to take his place in the team with the re- suit that the Reds won out by s goals to nil Journeying to Meriden on Sat urday night the shut out performance was also repeated by Billy Leydon and his men. Mooney scored the only sol itary goal of the game and thus saved the Blues the Humiliation of a second shu. out.
 It seems hardly creditable that the loss of one man from team would have such a dire result on their playing. Canavan is reported as having said a few days ago that it took whole team to win a game, and also whole team to loose it. In other words the genial captain meant that if game was won the credit of the victory belonged to the team as unit and if it lost no one man was to blame for the defeat. The last two games played without Bone hardly back up the first part of Captain Canavan's statement. For without Bone the were helpless and it is gen. erally concede by the knowing ones that had he been able to play both Friday and Saturday the games would have resulted in victory for the Blues.
 Bone has been scored time and time again for his failure to play team game Some of the cranks now think that Georges individual play counts for more than it gets credit for. On this point there may be diversity of opin- ion. But one thing all are united in their opinion on, an dthat is that for good, honest, hard all round play and a desire to win games Bone is without a peer among the rushes.
 Manager Aufort expects that he will be able to take his place In the team tonight and ifshe does he may rely on getting a hearty reception when he makes his appearance on the surface. The other members of the team work ed hard in order to avert defeat, but their efforts did not avail much as the result shows
 The Blues have several hard nuts to crack during the present week. Water bury has to be opposed both at home and abroad, Hartford has yet to win it's first game in New Haven, has to be faced on Friday evening, and on Satur- day the Blues journey to Providence and cross sticks with the club of that city. Let us hope the team will have no mishaps and that they will find themselves credited with at least three wins for the week.
 The attendance at the games is very to the management and has succeeded their most sanguine expec- -ations, especially is this the case i'll he attendance of ladies who are pres mt in large numbers at all the games. The attendance of the fair sex would | be larger of the manage nent could see their way to reserve 8 ,ertain portion for the ladies' section at | 5c seat. Many complaints are made | m this score and the management | would do well to at least give the mat CT their consideration.
 Starkie seems to be a strong card at | ,oal for Waterbury. He has already hown the dust on his heels to both Burgess and Lations, who have been within point of one another during the -reater part of the season. Standing f the clubs.