Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-29
POLO PLAYERS ARRIVE TO-DAY.
The Members of Waterbury's Team Will Report at Once.

Parsons Still Hustling For Half back-All Kinds of Stories Are Be ing Told Up In Massachusetts and Down In Maine-Starkie Will Be Wonder If He Plays In All The Teams He is Scheduled For-Notes on the Game From All Sources.
 After to-day polo will begin to boom once more in this city for the members of the team will report to the management some time during the day and will at once begin practice. The following players will report or are expected to-day. Daily, Jean, War her and Starkie. The halfback has not yet been secured but he will be before another week has passed by Manager Parsons is leaving nothing undone to make the Waterbury team one of the best in the league and when the fans attend the first game they will be well satisfied that the team has not been miSrepreSented. All the teams in the league are pretty well matched and the fight from the nrst sound of the whistle should be hot one.
 w. A. Parsons went to Hartford yesterday afternoon and attended meeting ofthe National polo league dl- rectors. The meeting was mainly Tor the purpose of assigning and adjust ing players for the coming season. A reporter had d talk with MT Parsons at the station "Some people say you are not going to be in Waterbury thls year, Mir Parsons.
 II wish 1 was as sure of making S5,0OO this season as l am of manag- ing the Brass City team,' was his re ply Speaking about where different people are going to De. you can put it down that Fred Doe is not going to have anything to do with the man agement of a National league team this year. The polo world is getting next to Freddie. and he must prepare to move on. MT Jacques and myself have decided upon the following team for the Brass city: nOlderness, half back:Jean, center:FoX, goal; Daly ana Russell, or some orc whom RuSSell will be swapped for. at rush. Rus sell prefers to play in Meriden, so that he can live in New Britain, and we will transfer him for Frank Warner Daily conss from Taunton and his play is much like Russell and he would be more effective with burly running mate llkc " dIueI lh'ih "l'ii a crack shot like himself. Fox is a good goal tender and I count on Wa terbury being among the leaders,
 ''How about Meriden?'
 s.Meriden will be as strong as ever. Jason and Russell will rush, Hobe Whiting will be at center, and Hayes at halfback. I don't know about goal yet "
 "The players There will be three leagues under way, and the managers must keep humping. However,, l eX- pect to come out all right l have arranged with Steve FIannagan, a well known Lawrence man. to man. age my team in that city. ., l. will have Spot Hadley and, Pink. Turner at rush, Cameron at center, Deylin at halfback and Tibbets at goal. This is as strong a formation as any. of them. I will make my headquarters in Waterbury myself. The reason I am staying down here in this league myself during the year is to keep the game from going to pieces. If there was no polo here this season these players would flock into the other leagues and upset ali calculations. The season in each of the leagues will ODer November 5.''-New Britain Herald.
 The Rockland. Me. team claims Tar rant Walton, Wiley, FurbuSh and Cashman.
 i Mckay, Campbell and Farrell have deserted the Salem team and fled to Portland, of the Maine league.
 Tom Cotter is said to be looking af- ter Heffernan with view to signing him to tend goal for the Hartford team.
 When the various polo teams in New England appear on the surface, ther' may be some use trying to tell Wht are to members of them.
 According to the ILennebec Journa Gardner has signed four Nationa league players. This looks like stretched story.-Pawtucket Times.
 Norwich is after franchise in tn, Connecticut State league, and anon, players claimed is Way, who is ,als, claimed in the Southeastern league.
 It appears from the signing of Grif fin by Hartford that Wodtke is not tC be depended upon as a member of tha team. Fall River claims to have signed Wodtke.
 Jimmy Carroll's play to, land Dal. won't work after all, apparently. Il order to secure this man he became party to deal to take away clu franchise, and now the player assert that he will go to Maine.
 "Nobby' Knowlton of Salem is stil at liberty Here's a team tn Maine league can have and welcome Charlie Farrell, Dick Furbush. Day. Tarrant, Paddy Moran and Kid Hough ton.-Lawrence American.
 It seems to be the universal opinion that with only four clubs in the Ma tional league the life of that organiza ton is short, and that there will b plenty of good timber left for tn Southeastern league.-Salem News.
 Manager Aufort says that all tn stories about getting players froI \ New Haven is hot air. He may loa either Whipple or Bill Whiting to on Of the other National clubs, but won sell either.-Pawtucket Times. Agai do you stand corrected. for the chang has already been made.