Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-22
\ IEN Potg COMMENTS. 5
Thera is vsrysLittlo That is New
 in the Polo Situation.

Sources-Bridgeport Lacks Sand or
 She Might Have a Team-The Best
 Players in the Business Will sBe i'll E This .League-The Makeup of the
 Teams Will Be Announced in d Few
 Days. .,-. .,.- .-.. .s..-.-. | The New Haven Register of ycster- day contributes. the IoAoWinS poo news:'. ,f.s 20.
 The National Polo league is now in. the stage where it exists chiefly by fu- mors. lhe last mectins has been held preIffiiuafyt itU the ; seuson's opening, the schedule adopted, and all plans laid for the beginnlng'o of operations OH Monday eveiliIlg, November ;, when Hartford will play in this city ana '" a. terbury in Springfield It can De sala that the managers of the clubs are p1etty, well settled as to the makeup | of their teams. but as few minor chuiiges are yet probdbie, they arc not all ready t5 make their announce mcnts. Ru1nors colne from every direction of this player and that descrting the. biz league for one Of tAe minor or gapiZations The crop of ru-nors mas been unusually promising this season. blt-the best Judges of the sport declitTe that when the. season opens all 1he old-timers will be, anxious to get upon the .deor with their former team mates It is appafent that the f11or ,fehs sues are making q aespefate effort t6 9'eViVe the sport and are holding out promises of fabulous salaries to players and hogsheads Of Iucre for managers. The. players who compose the National ho all hnp0 through this mill before and if they are caught with that kind of chan again they will hayesifo one but themselves to blame. Gre of tine reports is that Pierce. Gun r,nrffaan and Conway have applied for thes Pawtueket 7fraHShise: another that Ueffernhtt hast5 sSnbfhitted terms to Rrscftan:: still asotlieri that Nrrtagh Is faA join teamssin both, the Massachu- sets and Maine leagues 9hese1 pl'N CTS all belong to the Providence club to be located at Springfied and theif assertion ,wonld completely break. UP that club. But Manager Murray be Iieses; he holds the aggregation intact for thc season. ~ I :s'tztt < ,I.!ts"
 The Massaehusefts lea que has adoDt- cd salary limit of S25 per week. while the National league mas no limit. but pays from ,S25kto S9Q spers tweek. It doesn't seem probable that such vet erans as the members. of the Provi- frnce team olhd throw away SIS to S25 per week and, run the chance be- sides of getting their salaries. ~
 sOne of observation-disclosures of weakness in 5the Massachusetts, league is the haste that Billy Parsons has displayed in getting under cover ip this .league. Pafsens4 was--at sIlawreTfce last year and was figured in the makeup of th:, learue this season. He suddenly dis covered that he would. be unable to continue his team there and is now slated to ,lnanare-tfe Wa tefbgft rss-ft "A league that makes up it's schedule eoxry tSaturdaE HfgAt<is nots stable enopu M for, rFaas5nnsa rIPest Eas quick to disff9 tratle signs, zibd dnaehS there.
 Fredt Doe fnIEI minor loague?L Well. Fred Will be sorry '.''- AS-c ja~'
 waterbury's new manarpr Tommy Guest. seems to know tu thing or tW 0 ahnrt nolo .noIitics.. too.
 .. Charlie Latfons. wlio is on q tonr thrnnqh the west. writes that he is workirr night and day in order to cover his toi.ritorv in tim" +o report hern for practice on October Hh. ..'-
 r.. The Nov. FaNeusa are. scheduled to r'av at Fartfo'ad and Neri1en every alternate Saturday night $ throughout thu. searnn. + - 7e@ .s=" -st
 Null Smith Is otd 70 he slated for gonl tender with tho P"wtucke+ tenn, -Rrocktor claims to have re""ivcd e~6rtnres f"nrl Tim Hayes, ha4fbacE of the sararidens. T.. ~ ;.sz.,, =, ...
 Accdrdirr to +ha ,schednJ~ adontef # the National leaepe raaetinr, Mori don has1sna gan92t"r.. .e,ss2 Ghristmas a'' ar,~e-eafn~ .l Neither !. is Snrir all, scheduled fn"e H game on New Years day or evening. ?t
 If some of the interested ones down ill Bridgeport could only be induced to get a rink down there what an ad dition that would make to the league The sporting writers should take uI the matter and boom it. Springfield could be dropped then if any funny game was being played and we would have a much better circuit. It would not cost verS AEancH to put Cup a rinl building ands it could be done 'Heasil5 blythe latter part of Noyefnbef-Wa terbufy Democrat. zSst fz 2 : The situation in Bridgeport from [ distance does look -nice..-PeFhaps tht Democrat writer can furnish figure: of what it would cost to place a rinl in Bridgeport. If he cannot let hin ask Thomas Guest Manager ". A Parsons, Billy Murray, H. H. Jen nings and Fred Doe. All of these polo men have looked over the Bridgepor field, and found that $1O,000 wouldn' any more than.do State poloswriter. who imag there is any likelihoot of the game being played here art dreaming. The state arInory is tn, only available place. and until tha can be rented, we are not likely t, enter any league. .FN'ith the situation ts it now is in the National league there isn't any sane man going t. make an investment of $10.O00 or hal that sum. The polo managers hardl, know what is Ngoifie sto hTppen. Thei players are deserting, and if the. star continue to go toward sNassachusett and Maine there won't be much left It Is not certain. yet that ], Manage Murray will place as team in Spring fieid-BridSepert Farmer.
 If you have no enterprisin~t mel down in your citv who care to risl Sl000O for a good rink building thel we pity. you. If Waterbury can clea from $6.OOO to SS GOO in one season el polo. could not Bridgeport do as wei or even better. One season would al