Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-22
I GREAT Pllo CAME.
Waterbury Proves Her Super
 ii iopity Over New Haven. si

Witnessed in the Local Rink-The !
 Crowd Went Wild Over the Play
 ing of the Home Team-Nip and Tuck Went the Battle Until the Bell
 Sounded-AIeriden Goes Dowh Be
 for springfeld-Notes of the Game.
 It was polo, and polo of the old. ex- citing kind, that was witnessed by the 1000 people at the Auditorium last night. There was not a dull moment throughout the whole forty-fve min utes of play, and players and specta- tors were kept very busy. There have
 been no games played in any rinks
 This season and but few in any rinks during any season. that have created
 tlc enthusiasm and have been so fierce
 ly contested as the one of last night
 It was a fight from the first sound of the whistle, and Jimmy Canavan and
 his cohorts from New Haven found
 that the easy thing that they expected
 was the most difficult problem they ever started in to solve. The local
 players have met and put to rout both
 Hartford and Springfield. and last
 njg'tt saw the leaders of tue league Tlayed to a atandstill and beaten in as
 great q battle as the most aggressive
 crank could wish. It was a bitter
 fight, too, for New Haven wished to
 prove that it is a better team than
 Hartford or Springfield. and if Water
 bury was trounGed nicely the Blues
 would he able to lay further claim to
 the right to he called the champion.
 All the tricks of the New Haven team
 were discovered and exploded long h,,-
 fore the game was over and every line
 of defense or Offonse was broken and
 shattered by the beautiful work of the
 Waterbury players, Jean and Holder
 ness. without a doubt the two best men
 in tue position of center and halfback
 in this or any other league were all
 over the surface last pight. and whcr-
 ever a New Haven player attemrtp1
 to work any of his little points. thc~,
 he found either one of those gentlemen ready aud willing to interfere with his plans. Bone and Jason were fast. and they were angry. too. for, with all their speed the ball was taken awIv from them time and time again. Can avan and WhipplG, came tc their rush rlS assistance at, times when the Oc- cGsion looked ripe for q goal but they were all bowled over just as easy as would be 9 team of amateurs. It can not be said that the New Haven team played poor polo however. but the Waterbury team played better. and to that fact can be attributed the vic tory. .-. ssift .'. .',
 Johnny Griffin. the wizard of the rol- Ter skates never attained more popu- larity in a polo game than he did last night, and he deserved all the cheers that he got. He dartod in and out
 among the New Haven rushers. took the ball away from them. passed it down the rink and eventually to young Eaiy, who seldom failed to land i in the netting. Griffin played a fast and heGdy game. and several times during the night,Aid he have the whole New Haven team Bucking him at the cage, as he tried one of his old tricks
 of bringing the ball around from the rear of the cage and showing it into the netting. In fact the fiercest battles of all were fought around the, New Ia- ven cage and at one time no less than five men were on the floor in heap,
 while the ball looked on at the scclio from some corner of the rink.
 Young Daily missed one or tive
 chances last night. but the balls he sent behind the clever goal tendrr of the New Haven ta2m made the crankS
 20 wild. and it is safe to say that Daily jumped into the favor of the cranks with a vengeance last night. He has been designated "Sneak" Daly in the Maine league. and that title was aptly applied. if his work of last night can be taken as criterion. He was con tinuallv sneallinearound that New Ha- ven cage and it tlwaS only toward the last Of the game that the New Haven players discovered that they should l. nav some attention to this young chap. Daily showed that he possesses lots of piuck and nerve, too for when Jason Iattempted to throw down the plucEy little rusher. Dalv buckled into him and Dushed him down the rink Of course they were both fculed. hut it shows that the spirit of aggressiveDess is in the lad and he will fight for his
 rights.
 Fox was a card last night. and if there is any goal tender that is doing better work than this same lad from ! ssachusetts. let us have his picture. It made no difference to Fox last night wheYe the balls came from, nor how many players were coming at him az once He watched the ball. and when he was not kicking it away from him he was away from the cage and taking it away from one of the rushers, He played q brilliant game. and made Jim my Iations look like thirty cents.
 Dalv scored the first goal for Wa terhury after little over two min
 utes of play. and tho crowd cheered and yelled Canavan, who had grown angry at the failure of bis rushers to land the sphere. ma e the next one for New Haven in less than two minutes. Jason thu gave the cranks an -ttack Of heart disease by p ttil 2 another one in the noting n .eSS than four
 minutes of play. Tn about eight sec
 ends later Daily had sco,, .nPd another
 one into the cage, and the cranks were again busy trying to use up, their voices Then there wa fierce bat tle. and both teams fought like fiends, i Dalv finally caught the ball on q pass
 and hammered it behind the Lations 1 boy foi. the close of that period. New
 Haven was desperate when the sec ond neriod started and Bone finally tied the score again after playing about tsix minutes. Jean, in order to keep 1 I'D the good work, and make the fans ' fool hapnv carried 1notn her ono down