Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-08
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We play in Hartford tonight.

If Eddie Hipson gets to Hartford To- day. he will take great pleasure Ill at- tempting to down the representatives of the town he played with last season. in the game at Hartford tonight
 Taunton is having it's regular losing axDerience and seems doomed. A loser won't 90 there any more than at Salem.-Roston Herald. That's rtght. Always kick the under dog. US Il way the league ma gs have, too.- PawtuclSet Times.
 Manager Cotter had a letter from Heffernan Saturday. Hipson would like to come to Hartford. but names conditions which Mir .Cotter hesltates to grant. Satisfactory arrangements may be made in a-day or two, now ever.-Hartford Times.
 At d meeting of the Maine polo league in Brunswick yesterday all the teams except Gardiner reported good business. The Gardiner franchise was awarded to Walter w. Burnham, who guaranteed to finish the season. The rest of the league is ill splendid con dition-Portland Press.
 Manager Parsons was in Boston Sat urtlay and looked over several public buildings with an idea of giving polo tournament there at the close Of the regular season. about the middle of March. Parsons has his plans well mapped out, and proposes to bring to- gether the star players of the three pro- fessional lea eagueS.-Brockton Times
 You cannot lose Willie Parsons as q mana Since Billy has been in the game as q magnate, he has always had q team that made the other fellows hustle He would not object to hang ing two more championship Scalps to his managerial belt this season. Ii he does not he will at least have say in the race in both leagues when his teams play polo. It was too bad for Bridgeport that Billy could not connect here If lie had the fans would have seen a team that would have been in the hunt for the fiag.-Bridgeport Post
 Manager Parsons, of the Waterbury polo team, had something definite to offer Saturday on the subject of locat- ing q team i'll New Britain. He says that in the first place there is no need of such team in the National circuit and that if there was New Britain would not supJort it. MT Parsons knows much efSout the nnanclal Slde of the polo business in New Britain.
 
 consecutive seasons. He made mon- ey and built up a good team and had the good sense to land q franchise else where when he saw the game dying out here He might manage a State league base ball team here next sea- son. but this is doubtful.-New Britain Correspondent Hartford Times.
 X message from Bath Saturday said: "A report to the effect that the Gardiner team was out of the Maine league, and that the league had gone to the wall, is pronounced by Secretary Webber to be absolutely untrue. The Gardiner team tonight passes into the hands of Walter " Burnham of Portland, who lias sufficient financial backing to car " the club through the balance of the season. said Secretary Webber. ..The Gardiner club is today stronger than ever before, and the Lewiston fran chise is still held by Fred Doe, who will continue to hold it throughout the season. The Maine league has never been so strong as it is tonight, in spite of false reports which have been started to injure "-Brockton Times.
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