Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-05
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 Rough game, that.
 DUAeity shoalu have been removed from the floor by q police officer
 Young Lewis played well for Hart ord, and alter he has been in fast company fer few more days he ought to make good. He was well receis ed by the Waterbury spectators last night.
 Hipson has not yet signified his will ingness to come to Hartford. He has been in communication with Manager Cotter and the latter expects to hear a favorable reply from him in few days.
 Billy Parsons was right ill the game last night. and the three goals he made brought back recollections Of the old days when the goal tenders feared him more thar any ruSher in the league.
 Griffin showed the sand he is made of when he refused to be made toy of by Dohertv. The white-headed scrapper from Hartford found he was running up against q pretty hard prop osition.
 New Haven has heen here this week with 2 gang of fighters. and Hartford was here last night with another ag- era@ation of the SAmo sort. vet they were both sent home after being beat oll nt fheir own game.
 Billy Parsons says that his Law renee venture has netted him $500 thus far this season. Judging by recent events. Billy will have to transfer his team to Springfield. Holyoke. or some other place if he intends to retain that amount of money.-Hartfofd Post.
 According to the Lawrence Ameri- can New britain will be admitted to the major league this week. and the players will be: McGilvray and Hip- son, rushers; Murtagh, center; Con- way, haitback, and Burgess, goal. That team would surely cause some violent trouble around the circuit.
 It only needed Knobby Knowlton here last night to have good free fight If Barney Doherty went up against Knobby the way he did against the Waterbury players last night he would have found himself mixed up in as lively q scrap as was ever witnessed on the polo floor.
 Waterbury has reached the top after weeks of f1oundering at the rear and the town seems to have gone daft. Hartford Times. Ilounder, let us see that is some kind of q fish, isn't it? We'll of all the ''fishy" teams Hart ford wins the prize. tlounderlng, why the Hartford team couldn't play marbles.
 The New Haven Register called the Waterbury team "Billy Parsons Ruffians.'' That seems little strong, when New Haven has two of the toughest players in the league in Whipple and Bone. The Filipino had three fouls called on him in less than ten minutes in Hartford Tuesday ight.-Hartford Post.
 Tom Cotter was forced to leave the floor again last night because of bad leg. The big fellow says that he handicaps his team sometimes. He says that this leg which troubles him becomes cold and numb, and that is the reason he went to the floor so often last night. He is looking for q good center to take his place.
 Little Fox was again. star in the goal circle last night, and he kept the Hartford team in q crazy mood, so easily did he stop the drives made at him. He allowed none of the Hart lords to keep in front of him, either, for he pushed them around the cage, anu III 1SiIl iC pl.iS Nu tio s'i AiiiteiiS c' game as you would like to witness.
 The players of the Southeastern league who would be able to hold their own in major league company can be counted on ones fingers. Denny Bart lett, Murphy, Lincoln, Spot Hadley, Cashman, and Hughey Devlin about complete the list, although Hayes might be able to catch on somewhere if the major league circuit was in- reased.-Hartford Post.
 Whats the m3tter with the sporting writer of the Br dgeport Post? Win some one please tell him that Griffin is playing polo better than any second rush at present yielding the hockey, and that Waterbury is at the head of the league standing. Also inform him that Waterbury won from Meriden Thursday night in the Silver city, so that he can tell his readers about it. game in Meriden from the Meriden Journal: ..
 Johnny Russell was foolish enough to attempt to rough it with Gentle Willie Whiting. He soon got over tinei idea.
 Waterbury has great polo team in Fox. e-a.r-
 Fred Jeanis always dangerous when he has the ball in his wizards crook. If it had not been for the great work required Waterbury would have gone home full of holes.
 Besides being first class goal tend- CT Fox has more luck than Billy Mur- ray
 England and Ireland had clash when Holderness and Griffin came near punching each others heads off, because each thou@ht the other was Meriden player when they me.-to- gether. Ireland got over the shock first and laughed at the blunder but England hung it's head and looked doeged.
 Griffin played the best game last night he ever played in the Meriden rink.
 Open the Door of Your Heart. Open the door of yOur heart my lad