The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-22
Accuse Manager Kittridge of Act
ing in Bad Faith in Transfer
ring Clinton Polo Team to WOr-
CeSter
APPEAL TO OFFICIALS
OF AMERICAN LEAGUE
But it is Not Likely They Can Do
Anything to Prevent the Change
-DeyIin and Bennon May Re-
fuse to Play in Worcester it is
So Said

Special to The Spy
Clinton, Dec. 2l.-Malachi J. Kttredge
is not as popular in this town as he used
to be- He is accused of bad faith in con-
nectton with the Clinton polo team, which
he proposes to take to Worcester if he
can get the men to go At this moment
neither Devlin nor Bannon have agreed to
make the change, and they make the
team.
Kittredge, it is claimed, received the
franchise by courtesy of John II. Cough
lin who formerly held it, and on condi-
ton that he would keep the franchise
right where he found it. The effort to
take the team out of Clinton is regarded
as a violation of agreement, and not a
few of the strong men of the town are In
arms about it.
This morning j. H. Coughln, Allie
Trout, w r. Hamilton and George S.
Richardson called on Jake Morse, score
tary of the league, in Boston, and made
Overtures to have the team remain in
Clinton. Morse was of the opinion that
the directors of the league could not in
terfere with Kittredge nor with the use
that he makes of his franchise. But the
directors will interfere if they can find
preteXt. Polo is a fact i'm Clinton. Tt has
a following and the town is a paying one.
There is nothing uncertain about the flu
ture of the game here.
It is different with Worcester Nobody
knows whether the game viii catch on
there or not. The large cities have not
been strong polo towns these many years
past. This is what the polo experts here
say. And they also say they have been
assured that the directors Of the league
do not look with approval upon the trans
fer proposed by Mr.. Kittredge, although
they may be powerless to prevent II.
The players are openly saying that if
!, to tor
they will make the game a frost All
statements TO the contrary not with
standing majority of the team want to
stay right in Clinton, where they have
friends admirers and pleasant society.
They object to the Worcester plan be-
cause. they say that if they We're ever so
anxious to do good work they could not
in Mechanics Hall one of he mem hers
of the team said to The Spy reporter
this morning: 1.-THE space between the
galleries in Mechanics Hall is not large
enough. The style Of polo the team viii
have to play on that floor will not be
scientific but a mere rough and tumble
( contest, with luck and brute strength for
arbitcrs The passing game IN WhiCh
the Clinton team has been pre-eminent.
will be impossible Personally ] would
rather stay in Clinton at s. less a week.
None of us want any Worcester in ours,
though some of US may have to take 1t.
Three or four good losses Will settle the
question, and they'll come soon enough. -
The people of Clinton have exhausted
every persuasion that might induce Kit
tredge to make good. and are willing to
pay him $500 to get out and let somebody
else take his place. 1t has been suggest
ed to those who are interested in polo
that Clinton can have the Brockton fran
chise This appears not to be wanted. It
would be fatal to the success Of the game
here il is said to take ON men who are
not known and in whom the public has