Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-01
POLO LEAGUE COMPLETED.
Six Teams will Constitute the
 National Roller Polo League.

National Roller Polo League. An Enthusiastic Meeting Held in New
 Haven Last Night Players Named
 by Each ger-Color of the Suits
 to be Worn-Over Fifty Applications
 Received by the Officers Game Will
 Start November 19-Notes About the
 Game.
 Polo is now an assured sport in Connecticut and at the meeting when was held in the Hotel Garde in New Haven last night there was more gen. uine enthusiasm shown than at any polo meeting which has been held ln this state in many years. When Pfes- ident E. l.. Maloney of Waterbury called the meeting to order at half-past eight last night there were present Sec retary John Rieger of New Haven, James Canavan, George Bone and Billy Aufort of the New Haven team; Charles Hilton who was representing George Gardner of the Wallingfofd team; J. F. Russell, familiarly known as Bob Russell, representing New Brit ain: Billy Lush, who surrendered the Wallingford franchise to Wallingford parties and George D. Harrington of the Waterbury team. It was half- past ten o'clock when the meeting con- cluded it's business and after it was all over it was generally conceded that polo in this state this season would be better than ever before. On the desk of the secretary last night were piled many letters from polo players, and some of the letters would astonish the managers in the American league.
 Hartford and Meriden were not rep resented last night at the meeting, but Messrs Reilly and Miller of Meriden sent word that they would stand by any action taken by the league. A telegram was received from D. F. Con nor, who is interested in the Hartford team, saying to go ahead and do bus mess and they would be ready when the rest were. It is understood that Bill Crowley will be interested in the Hartford team. The franchise for Wallingford was awarded to George Gardner, the franchise of the New Britain team to F. Beloin and ]. k. Russell and the Hartford franchise to D. r. Connor. The other franchises are held by Jimmy Canayan, George Bone and Billy Aufort for New Ha- ven, George Harrington for Waterbury, and. T. l.. Reilly and Con Miller for Meriden.
 The Victor ball was adopted by the meeting and the fibre roll was also se- lected. This roll will prevent any | damage to the floors of the rnks, and in fact it is not the roll that causes the damage as much as the spindles where the player runs on his ankles. The season will open on Thursday evening. November IA and as told be- fore the same method of assigning dates will be used as is in vogue i'll the state baseball league.
 The colors that will be used by each team are as follows: Waterbury. orange and black; New Haven, blue: Meriden, grey; New Britain. black: | Wallingford. maroon. Hartford will | select her color later
 The managers had the following players on their lists and had many more applications. In fact. there | " NOAV oO AlA6lAf IudL they could fit out six more teams. New Haven will have Canayan, Bone. George Cunningham (not the original l George), Paul Gardner, Hausman To- bin, Chatfield and John Allen: New Britain will have Jason, Russell, Lin coin, Turner, Maynes, Hayes and Star kie; Meriden will have Warner Schif- fer, Hart, Fitzgerald. Cogshall and Cusick; Hartford will have Pierce. Roberts, Hadley, Moran, w. Dawson and Cashman; Wallingford will have Spencer, Whipple, Charley Farrell, Cuftiss, J. Dawson and Lations: Wa | terbury will have Hipson, Schofield. ] Griffin, Conway, Ienard and Kid Lee. These are. the players that are pretty sure to play here and the league may decide to take in some more of the stars from the American league who are writing every day for positions in the National league
 The question of referees was left over until the next meeting which will l be held next Thursday evening in New Haven. There are many applications for the positions, among them being Billy Lush and Joe Connor. The rules will also be looked over before the next meeting and if there are any changes necessary they will be made.