Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-26
WITH THE PoLo1sTs.
Western League Cutting Holes in the
 Eastern Ranks


 Eastern Ranks.
 Good old Bill Bannon the Worces- ter goaltend lost his head completely Tuesday night when Devlin was or dered off the floor. Kittredge was seated on the stage and Ramon shout ed to him that the American league is not the only polo organization in existence.-Lowell Mail.
 Malachi Jebediah Kittredge, mana ger of the Worcester team, is herald ed all over the circuit as the kicking manager. Every place his team goes. he imagines the timekeeper is trying to put up job on him. At Provi- dence the other night he raised ruc- tions with the timekeeper.
 Goaltender Mullen of the Lowell polo team has listened to the entreat- ies of the western polo magnates and has Joined the Anderson, Ind, club of the Western league. Mullen quit Lowell without a word of warning other than to make application to Manager Fox yesterday morning for his salary, saying that he had decided to follow the advice of Horace Greeley and Ego west.''
 Denny Bartlett who was loaned to " management for last week, to take the place of Coggeshall, Lawrence's Jumping center, has made decided hit with the people of that town. all of whom are anxious that he shall be permitted to finish out the season there. Manager Kittredge said last night that he had no intention of permanent ly disposing of Bartlett's services WOrcpStpp TeIapram
 Speaking of players breaking their contracts to go with the Western league. Tom Cotter says: .There players vii induce people to get places to play in and then listen to the first offer by some one else. We will have all the players we want, as this is the country for polo players anI they will soon tire of the scattered towns of the west" "Good Old Tom' and all the others are a little annoy ed by the west, just the same. Under a three column cartoon which pictures the eastern player as a type of "second-story' worker the Nun cie, Ind, Star says: "The wholesale inroads made into the ranks of eastern polo ployerS by the western league managers has resulted in a distracting furry throughout the American league. The eastern players have allowed no conscientious scruples to interfere when a good, fat salary was offered. Manager Parsonsof Providence, k. l., and others can attest to the ability of their players to jump contracts. All the players that jumped for western berth have been getting some gentle knocks since their departure from the eastern papers. Many mean things are being said of the wild and wooly west and pirate Western league Nevertheless, the situation is to be enjoyed" Fred zKlebedanz as a polo official is having his troubles. As a baseball pitcher, Klobedanz has scored dis tinct success, at times, but in polo Klobedanz has hardly maintained his reputation acquired on the diamond. i Connolly and Cornell are regular um- pires, and are at work almost every night When, however, there are three scheduled games, Klobedanz is assigned to the third game and usual i 1y manages to get into trouble with somebody before he gets through. ! Nearly every manager in the league ] has protested KIobedanz and it looks as though it would not be long before he retired to the quiet of winter quar- ters once more, to await the opening of the baseball season. Portland. Chelsea and Lowell clubs to sSy noth- ing of Worcester, have all had their troubles with him and would much prefer either of the other men. An effort is being made to get Billy Lush, the Boston National league outfelder, to break into the league as an official to work with the other two. Lush has been identified with polo for years and knows the game from A to Z.-Wor cester Telegram.