The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19

curiosity has been aroused as to what
the polo players do in the summer time.
when the game, which is the greatest in
door sport In the world, is not played.
With one or two exceptions all the men
playing polo today came from the New
England states, where polo has been in
vogue for the past twenty years originally
The players in the game today originally
started as amateurs, and there is but one
man in the West who was on the first
professional team ever organized, and that
is Pop" Mckay, OF Lafayette, who was
on the Gloucester (Mass.) team twenty
years ago when IL won the pennant in
the first Eastern league.
Cannavan a star
OF all the polo players in the business
there Is none more respected or better
loved than Jimmie" Cannavan. captain
manager and center of the Fort Wayne
team. Cannavan' is the real polo star of
today. He knows all the tricks of the
game; knows how to manage players, and
how to direct them on the floor. He has
played polo for twenty years. and many
or the best players of today owe their
start TO Cannavan, and still he is the
shining light of all of them.
The Fort Wayne team is made I'D of
athletes. The mighty Jason, first rush,
Is blacksmith by trade, and while work
ing at this he formed the muscles which
stand him in such good play at present
He Is the champion lightweight boxer OF
Maine; is a baseball player of ability.
and plays ball during the summer months.
he nails from New Brunswick and has
been playing roller polo for nine years,
prior TO which he played ice polo
Leydon. the dapper little second rush
nails from Maine and is owner OF a sum-
mer hotel in that state, to which he de-
votes his time in the summer months. He
was formerly in the bicycle and automo-
ole business. Though he looks like a
youngster in the twenties. he is thirty
eight years old. and has played polo for
Cannayan has been a baseball and polo
player from his boyhoOd days. He was
at at one time a star baseball player. hav
brooklyn. indianapolis and Omaha, when
the respective teams won the pennant
HIS polo teams won the pennant in the
Central league last season, and his base
ball team i'm New Haven Conn., won the
pennant in the Connecticut state league
Greatest Halfback
McGrath, the big halfback. who is un-
doubtedly the premier i'm his position to-
day, has only played polo for three years.
lie Is a youngster and lives in Biddeford.
ME-, where he runs a yacht in the summer
time. CannaYan discovered him in the
Maine woods and made him what he is
Sutton. the goal tend, lives in Water
bury, Conn, and is a contractor by trade
He, He has been playing polo for three years.
Whipple, the utility man. contracts for
building sewer conduits, and lives in Paw
tucket
The Lafayette team is composed of six
good men. Warner is an Fastener
polisher by trade. Gavitt. the second
rush, has played polo for ten years. and
is considered one of the greatest cover
point players i'm the business He lives I'm
Westerly, r. l.. and is a painter and pa
perhanger. Wiley, the center has played
polo for fourteen years. He is a baseball
player also, his position being catcher.
His trade is that of a macffinist, and his
home Is in Cambridge. Mass. Devlin the
halfback, is a wood turner and boxer He
mas played polo for eight years. and comes
goal tend, is an expert sign painter. but
for the past several years had clerked i'm
hotel on Block island, an Eastern sum-
mer resort, during the off season months.
he halls from Pawtucket. r. /. Corrigan
the utility man, is from Lewiston, Me-.
ana has played polo only a couple of years.
He is an all around athlete and plays
baseball in the summer.
Has Played Fifteen Years
Smith. first rush of the Kokomo team.
has played polo for fifteen years He is
from Racine, Wis, and is an iron molder
by trade. John Roberts, the veteran rush
er for Kokomo, started with Cannavan
twenty years ago, and played with him
Tor eight years; Fitzgerald. the center,
IS an expert shoemaker, lives at Lynn,
Mass, and has played polo sixteen years
Tim Hays. halfback, is a hotel clerk,
tnough last season he acted as a park
policeman in Kokomo. He has played polo
ten years.
Cusick.. the Kokomo goal tend, is
horse trainer, and follows the ponies dur
adopted by band OF gypsies. and with
them he gathered his knowledge of horse
training. He has been playing polo eight
years. OMalley and Loxon, of the Ko-
komo team, are both youngsters in the
game and came from the East
OF the Logansport team, Fred Lincoln
the new first rush. has played polo for
eight years and is painter by trade
hailing from Pawtucket. r. 1. Spencer
has been In the game for ten years, is
machlnist by trade. and lives in New
expert brass worker and machinist He
has been playing polo for fifteen years
His home is in. Waterbury, Me. Griffith,
the halfback, lives in Racine, Wis, and
played amateur polo until he came East
He has been in the professional ranks
for three years. John Berry, goal tend,
has has played polo for ten years. He now
summer resort in the East during the
summer months, and was formerly a tray-
ellng man. Ole, the utility man. lives in
Racine. WIS, and has played polo for two
years, beginning i'm this part of the coun-
Sional team.
The Danville team. which is conceded tn
be one OF the best in the league is COM
posed OF men of various trades Large
Willie" Hefferman, who resigned from
ten years. BY trade he is a shoecutter
but is now deputy sheriff of the county
In Massachusetts of which Salem is coun-
" seat. Hardy, the sturdy young half
back, halls from Woburn. Mass. and has
played polo three years. Murtagh, CEN
ter, has been in the game eight wears and
is a draughtsman in the Bath 1Me) shin
works. which builds a number of the
torpedo boats and battleships for ITncIe
sam. Campbell is butcher. He Comes
from Peaks Island, and has been playin.
polo twelve years. e
Daley is one of the best all around atb-
IeteS playing polo today. He holds the
record and is also a champion sprinter
He has played polo eight years Menard
utility man. is one of the oldest men ",
point OF experience playing polo having
been in the game for twenty years. He
lives in Bridgeport, Conn, and Is manager
of graphophone company there Mensrd
is an eX-newspaper man and was sporting
time.
indianapolis has a team not to ha
ashamed of. McGilvray comes from Wo
burn. Mass, has played polo twelve years
ana during the summer months is trav-
cling agent for the American Tobacco
company. Houghton was reared in Clin-
ton, Mass, and has played polo for twelve
years. .Coggshail. center. is a machinist
by trade his home being in Hartford.
Conn. He has been playing the game
for five years O'Hara. the half hack
usually works in the summer months as
street car conductor in Fail River Mass
He has been playing polo for six wears
three years. He is a fancy pastry cook
and his home Is in Lowell, Mass He was
never signed with professional team
with any degree of permanency until last
season. when he played part of the sea
son with Terre Haute. Dalton. utility