Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-31
Neriden here tomorrow night.

referee, Leahy; attendance, 1900.
 Merden here tomorrow night
 There should be another big crowd in attendance tomorrow night, when the MelidenS come here. That aggfe- gation has made it interesting for the local players, and there will be con test worth witnessing.
 That game in New Haven tonight should be a hard fought one. Should New Haven lose Waterbury will take the lead by d very few points. It is good betting that Waterbury, if de- featpd, will not be Worsted as badly as was Meriden the other night.
 If we are to have another team in this league, where do the teams start! Of course, a new schedule will have to be made up, and all the teams wi very likely start on an even footing. If New Britain should come in and she gets the pick of the best players in the Maine league it will make one of the closest fights ever seen in the polo world between the five teams.
 Two juvenile polo teams. one rep reSenting Bishop street and the other calling themselves the lVys played a game yesterday on Hawkins street and a hot game it was. It melted the ice on the street and some of the players therefore had to forego their skates. The contest resulted in a great vic tory for the Bishop street team, the score being three to one in their favor. Now the visitors are ready for more teams to conquer. Johnny Riordan captained the Bishop streets and Willie Cahill the Ivys.
 N-o ! startled a few days ago by q query propoundcd hy Manager Cotter, of the Hartfords. It was this: Would you object to granting q franchise for New Britain to IT. II. Jennings, formerly of the Hartford club? He says that he can get Burgess and McGilvray of the Bath club. Maine league, and other StarS." It is needless to say that the managers instantly and without the l slightest reserve answered that they would welcome Jennings to the league ! and might have a brass band to help him on his opening night. Since Man i a@er Cotter sprung the question nOth- ing further has been heard about the matter. What sort of a dream it was | that Jennings had, or what kind of a ! play he was trying to perpetrate is not | known.-New Haven Register.
 One of the most interesting players of this league to watch is Russell, of i the Waterburys. His presence on that 1 team is worth more ill the matter of goal getting than any combination | Manager Parsons could have worked | out With Griffin and Russell on the ! rush line. the Waterburys are easily 1 the hest balanced team in the league. i Griffin is q tireleSs, indcfatigable floor | worker. but not an accurate driver. ! With Russell at cover point however. | Griffin has only to hand the ball over and it is whipped into the cage in q | twinkling. No other team in the league has two such rushers. Bone, of this city, is a lightning driver at cover l point, but his floor work is of such s,l- | perior quality that bc has no equal:
 hence he can not play the position. Pierce and WOdtlEe are similarly sit uated. and all three teams have young clever ruShers to support them who,
 while clever in their work, are not up | tc t3e RL. andard. With the .aIua1>nn Jean at center and -, O Dlocky. stock Holder ness at halfbank, the Waterbury team 1 has indeed become a most formidable ! aggregation.-Ncw Haven Register.
 1 Speaking of accidents which hap- l pen to q player. says Charley Lations 1 in the Register, history does not etve single one which has permanently | disabled him. The marks of the | game. however, can be found on the face of almost every player who has | played any length of time. Probably 1 the worst accident was that to Jim | Seeley of the HartfOrds. who was | struck in the eye. which resulted ill 1 it's loss. Among some of the worst | in jJIliAc 1nanf
 of the old Peabodys. right arm broken 1 in Woburn: Baker. goal tend, collar 1 bone broken in Boston: Valiant col
 lar bone broken in Meriden during q | holiday game: Griffin. n0w-Of the Wa f telbtUyS, leg hroken at Lynn. Mass l Jollnnx@ Phalen, formerly of the old | New Haven team. jaw broken in Sa- lem; Mills, jaw broken. goal tend fol 1 Fall. River team; Hobe Whiting. jaw
 broken in Pawtuckot:- Canayan. two
 ribs cracked in pawtucket These are the most serious that have evel
 happened. although most every player 1 has broken noses. fingers. bad cuts
 and painful bruises at all times dur
 ing tie season. They do not consider
 them anything so long as they are
 able to play the game.
 The matter of referees rulings upor
 the delays in games occasioned by tho
 breaking of a players skate is to re
 ceiye the attention of the league direc
 tors through the formal protest filet
 by Manager Aufort of the Meridens | On Saturday night a week ago the E Waterhurys played at Meriden. Fret
 Jean broke his skate and under tht
 rules a substitute should have beeI
 put on while he laid up for repairs
 But the team had only five men, SC
 that was out of the question. Goal
 tender Fox then displayed all tht
 craft that his name suggests. H,
 wears the composition rolls upon hi
 skates, so he gave one of the rolls
 crack with his hockey and shattered it to smithereens. This changed th,
 rule altogethen. for the game mus
 wait for a goal tenders repairs or in Il iuries. Manager Aufort's claim i
 that the referee should not have de I layed the game in the first instance
 and that the composition rolls are il
 direct violation of the leagues rules
 and had their use been prohibited
 Fox's trick would not have been pos sible The Meridens lost that game
 Tn q game in this city a few week ago when the same team was Dlayin.