Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-13
WITH THE POLOIsTs.
Eastern Players Still Tempted By
 Western Bait.

Western ba1I.
 It is said that the Indianapolis team is loser financially and that slicing of salaries may soon be in order.-LaW- renee American.
 An attempt has also been made to buy off Bob Hart, ,LoWeils second rush. CT. Hart is said to have been offered $75 week to jump.-Lowell Mail.
 Long. John Wiley received his GUS tomary greeting last night. Lowell people can't forget the night when the polo villain threw the ball into the ler.-LoWell Citizen.
 Wodtke and Whipple are Whacling the ball to the counting spot quite ire quently for Chelsea. They make a strong team. Doherty of rough house fame also is strong factor in the going.
 Manager Dave Durbin of ElWood is doing the eastern circuit. Dave hasn't been so anxious to flash his roll as some of the other western managers who have invaded the east, and is not inclined to pay any fancy salaries.- Lawrence American.
 What is Tibbetts if he is not q con tract jumper? The only trouble was that he jumped the wrong way. There will be no contract jumping after this season as the two leagues will get to- gether and have some sort of an un- derstanding.-R Item.
 Jessup was every bit as good as Null len last night. He was left alone to protect the Richmond goal much of the time and he did so i'll great shape. Jessup has not let more than four balls past him in any one game this season, which is better record than any other goal tender in the league can show.-Richmond Item
 Western newspapers are finding fault with eastern writers who class CusicIS as below all the goal .tends ill the American league. When the western critics can get into a real polo section, see real polo players and note their movements, they can plainly see why Mallory, Ramon, Burgess, Lations, Cashman and several others are classed ahead of Cusick. Against the foregoing players Cusick looks like a nag left at the post.-Proyidence Tele- gram. ,,ss
 The determination of the western agents when they come east is worthy of praise even if the object of their mission from a standpoint of an Amer lcan league enthusiast is not. It is reported that an effort has even been. made to kidnap Manager Fox of the Lowell team and transfer the cham pions to Chicago. There was some thing said about the payment of $1O,- OOO as consideration. Manager Dur bin, who is alleged to have made this offer, is 8 brother Of the governor of Indiana and he is said to know where gold dollars grow.-Iowel1 Mail.
 Charles Fitzgerald of this city and John Roberts, the veteran, are to go at once to Elwood, Ind, and join the team there. Fitzgerald will be the manager of the team while it is on the road. Both men have done well in Port land, but the attendance there is not of the best, and they decided it would be as well to take something sure in the way of a job in the west. Most of the team wanted to take an offer earlier in the season to. go to Anderson, Ind. but they waited for time because of the fact that McGilvray preferred to stay in Portland. Fitzgerald and Rob- erts have been offered good salaries and transportation to the west.-Brock- ton Enterprise.
 Polo has got so nowadays that one regular man out of any team puts 1t at the mercy of any opposing team and liable to get beat nine out of every ten games, as no man can be had to replace him who can play up to the regular'S standard. Hipson joined q secret order in the west, then sent an unsophisticated man out to take a col lection to get him watch charm. but Tibbetts blocked his game and put the people wise, as they should be. Hippy l has three trunks he expects to bring back full of presents at the end of the 1 season. Chelsea seems to be the home | of old time polo players. There at I game you see all the old time stars. Billy Rogers of the old Bay state team. Baker of the famous Paris team of East Boston, Pop Hallet of Somerville | team. Joe Riley of the old Springfield team, all old time rivals who have re- | tired from the game and hold lucrative l positions in and about Boston. Old | Horse" Whippie can compose or sing l a song and do buck dance that would make some professionals turn green with envy.--Lawrence Telegram. The American league has many of 1 the Connecticut league players as 2 glance over the following list will l show:
 Indianapolis--C Charles Flick. Wi Ii n Fox. Coulter. Kihm, O'Brien. David Flick, Hamilton. Merriam, Killen, De Armand. Kellum. Caffryn, Heydon, Jones' Kennedy, Berry.
 St Paul-Voiz. Stewart, Wheeler, Pierce. Skopec, Davis, Pearson, Cor bett, Cheeh.
 Columbus Turner, Bailey. Cling man. Ward, George Fox, Woodlock, Hople, Meyers, AIcFarlan. Bridge well, Mellor, Crabill Winham. Toft, Wolfe. J. Bannon, Cristall, Roach. I Toledo-Owens, Flannigan, Reis- ling, A1tizer, Connors, Larkin, Linder- man, Burns, Klienow, Mitchell Hoff- man, Mock, Bernard, Brennan, O'Hara, Quick Mcclellan, Carrick, Ripplemeyer, Blackinsley.
 Kansas City-Nance, Rothfuss. Gan- non, Morton, Ganzel, McAndrews, Vanderbilt, Ward, Gates, Miner, Dur lV 7Sl<ts s1.. YTz