Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-03
SOME POLO TALk
Meriden Managers Called Down
 by the League.

Strengthen the Team or Take the Con-
 sequences, Is the Command of the
 Directors-The Boston Officers Were
 Not Present-Talk of Ending Their
 Connection With the League-Scores
 and Averages of the Players and
 Teams. .,...
 The New Haven Palladium tell this story of the polo meeting there yester day:
 The unsatisfactory condition of polo in Meriden was brought to a head yes terday i'll a meeting of the directors of the National Polo league held at the Garde hotel. Other engagements prevented President Murnane and Sec retary Morse from attending and in the absence of President Mur- nane. Tom COtter of Hartford acted as chairman. All of the clubs were rep resented with the exception of Wa terbury. Messrs Miller and Murphy appeared for Meriden. The. meeting was held with the special object of dis cuSSing the Meriden situation and see ing if there could not be something done to improve matters in that town. The showing of the team so far this season has been eXecrable. their record being three games won out of eighteen games played. The result has been that the team has been anything but a draw wing card either at home or abroad. The other team managers concluded that forbearance had ceased to be q virtue and yesterdays meeting was the result. The explanation by Messrs Miller and Murphy was that the fault was not altogether the team T unsudSessfully, to strengthen the team, the principal reason for this having been that about all the players who might have added strength to the team were playing in other clubs and could not be secured. In discussing the chances for improvement the re- cent diSbandment of the Pawfucket team was brought up. Among the good players thought to have been thrown on the market by this disband- ment are George Cunningham. the rusher. and Kid Conway. the halfback D1cky Pierce, who was also with PaWtucket, was secured by Spring ! field. The outcome of the meeting was that Messrs Miller and Murphy prom iSed to at once strengthen their team if that were possible. To that end NIr Miller started last night for a trip through Massachusetts. He will 20 as far as Maine if necessary. The Meriden team will be given a reasons able length of time in which to effect improvement. but improvement the rest of the league are decided must 1 be effected The meeting voted that l there should be no change in the pres ent playing schedule. The receipts for the holiday games were divided ac- cording to the pooling arrangement agreed on at the opening of the sea 1 Scn.
 There are but few changes in the standing of the players this week and Curtiss still leads the goal getters with Nodtke pushing him closely. The fol i lowing are the records: Team Scoring.
 Hartford has the lead on team SCOT ing and now has 12S goals to her credit, New Haven 125, Springfield 115, Waterbury 96 and Meriden 79
 Individual Scoring. Curtiss maintains his lead on goal making and has the same lead on | Wodtke that he had last week. It is | a pretty race between those two ! players. The scores are as follows l Curtiss 69, Wodtke GG, Jason 54, Bone 1 AS. Daily and Russell 46 each, Schofeld 3S. Pierce 33, Lewis 26. Jean and Cot ter 22 each. Griffin and Whipple 13 each, fl. Whiting $, Canavan [, | Mooney and Doherty each, Schiffer and Holderness 3 each. Hayes ,. War her. Penfield, w. Whiting and Haus- man ] each.
 Bushes.
 Bone still has the lead and probably | will not be overtaken unless he is in- | jured and has to retire from the game. | He now has 199 to his credit, Daily 112. Lewis SS, Curtiss A, Schofeld 10, Russell 34, Pierce 15, Jason 12, Wodtke 9. Warner and Griffin 6 each, II. Whit ing. Canavan. Jeans, and w. Whiting ? each, Schiffer, Parsons, Whipple, | Doherty 1 each. Tie 23.
 Stops.
 Cusick has jumped away in the lead on the number of stops. He has 62l to his credit. Heffernan 596, Starkie 595. Lations 562, Fox 494, Doherty 7, WhipDle ,.
 Fouls.
 In fouls Tommy Holderness. and l Barney Doherty are tied lor first place with 13 each, Hayes !, Cotter. hefer- nan. Griffin $ each, w. Whipple, Mooney. Bone 5 each. Cusick. l4ations 4 each. Russell, Jean 3 each, Daly, W. Whiting. Canavan, Wodtke each. Il. Whiting. Jason, Lewis. Schoheld, foH' Main. Coggeshall 1 each.