Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-21
P(ao SLOWLY DYING
To-Day May See the Last of the
 Game in Connecticut

The Rumors of Saturday Are Becom- ing Truths-Massachus Would Not Consolidate With Connecticut Were the Teams Will Locate Is Still Uncertain-Averages of the Teams and Players Up to Saturday Night The Democrat came pretty near the truth in it's report of the polo situa- ton in this state in the Saturday issue. ! In all probability polo is done in Con- / necticut for this season at least. The causes can be easily discovered. for there were but two cities in the league that were self-supportingand those two aided for weeks past the other teams In getting a few dollars together for the final crash. Waterbury and Hart ford have all season long been the sup porters of the league and while New Haven has had a great team of polo players and held the lead up to and including Saturday nights game, the people in that city failed to support the team as they should. They quit cold. Meriden was another dead fail ure and was the first and most serious drawback to the league. New Britain has not made good and consequently there Were only two teams in the league that were in condition to play out the season. The. efforts of the Connecticut managers to consolidate with the Southeastern league has also met with failure. as q telegram was received from Manager Parsons this morning stating that the Southeastern would not consolidate. as they did not like the jump to Waterbury. Manager Guest was still hopeful that the four teams now in the Connecticut end would stick together, but that is doubt ful. as New Haven will probably To- cate in East Weymouth. where it played an exhibition game Saturday night. New Britain wants the fran chise for Hobe Whiting, so report says. and even if Hobe gets if. it is not likely that he is going to play in a city that gives 900 attendance at the first game and less than 300 at the second game. That team will come pretty near locating in Salem. and this leaves Hartford and Waterbury to hustle for places in the Southeast ern league. Tom COtter denies that he is to remove to Fall River, but as the Southeastern league refuses to consolidate lie may change his mind
  fore this story goes to press the Con- necticut- teams may be located in Mas sachusettS. No doubt the players had much to do with the collapse of the league because of the big salaries but the principal cause was the lack of patronage for Meriden, New Haven and New Britain did not draw crowds big enough to pay even an ordinary salary. The players were right in get
 
 would not come out, to see the games, why the people will have to do with out pele.-- -
 The following are the scores and averages of the players and teams of the National league, as compiled from the official records by the Waterbury Democrat. They are probably the last records of the National league as 1t IS at present constituted, for the demlse of the league has come, although at the present writing some of the magnates are hopeful that four teams Will stlll remain intact. The Democrat has all season endeavored to keep a correct account of everything pertaining to the game and while it has been veFy arduous task we believe that the rec OrdS are correct. We return thanks to those who gave us the credit for the records, and wish all the others a very happy twentieth century. The records and averages follow:
 Team Scoring.
 Hartford has ended the season in this league with the lead in goal get ting, and has :S39 to her credit, New Haven. who is following her closely, has 334, New Britain 3O3, Waterbury 21l and NIeriden 124.
 Individual Scoring. On individual scoring Russell, who secured the lead last week, stills holds it. closely followed by Curtiss. Kus- sell has scored 1o6; CurtiSS 153, Jason 146 Wodtke HI, Bone l27, Pierce 11S, Lewis S4. Daily 72, Griffin n, Cotter 5:i. Schiller 49. Jean and Schoteld 40 each, Canavan 36, Whipple 23 H. Whiting and Parsons IT each, Mooney F, Doherty 3, Holderness s. w. Whit ing and Hausman 4 each, Hayes and Cusick each. Warner, Pentield and Williams l each.
 Rushes.
 Bone has passed the 300 mark and has almost double the number of rush. es of the next man. He has 53l to his credits Lewis has passed Curtiss and has 24S. Curtiss 24O, Daly l91, Russell HIS. SchiHer III, Schofele IS, Jason 42, Pierce 20, Wodtke H. Griffin 12. Warner 6, H. Whiting and Doherty , each, Canavan. Jean and Williams 3 each. W. Whiting and Whipple 7 each, Parsons and Mooney l each, tie 54.
 Stops.
 Fox and Starkie lead the league on the number of stops, with 1.644 each, 1,ations l .637, Heffernan 1,597. Cusick 91O. Chatfield 166. Main 46, Porter i2, Mooney 2o. Doherty and Whipple ? each, H. and w. Whiting l each.
 Fouls. Tommy Holderness has maintained his lead on fouls to the end and has 2S marked up against him, Doherty 25, Jean 1G. Russell 14, Cotter. Whsppie kapd Bone 13 each, Wodtke F, Lations and -11OonNV ts1E each Heffernan- ID.