Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-17
POLO
OLD GAME TO
 BE REVIVED
Will Start Last Day of Month
 Griffin Will Again Tackle The Sport.

Meriden, Dec 17.-The Connecti- cut Roller Polo league was organ ized here yesterday afternoon at a
 meeting held in the armory. There
 was good deal of enthusiasm
 shown by the magnates, who believe 1 that the time Is ripe to revive the
 great game and had the sport-loving
 public by the ears several years ago
 in this state.
 The officers were elected and a
 constitution and bylaws was adopt ed. The officers consist of president and secretary and James Pyne of
 Hartford and William Peet of New
 Haven were elected. to the offices re-
 spectively.
 The following franchises were
 granted: Hartford, Harry Starkie;
 New Haven, George D. Bone; Water-
 bury, P. F. McMahon and Richard
 Halliwell; New Britain, w. w. Han na; Wallingford, Heinman Brothers.
 Most of the managers have selected their players and the season will
 start with every club fully equipped with the right material. A number of old stars will be seen in the line- ups. such as Bone, Starkie, Griffin, Warner, Williams. Shiffer and Smith. The colors of the several teams were adopted as follows: New Ha- ven black; New Britain. light blue or brown; Wallingford, maroon; Hartford, red trunk and grey sweat CTS; Waterbury will take the regu- lar colors of the All Waterbury team, blue and white.
 The schedule of games for the first week, which will begin two weeks from tomorrow, will be as follows: Monday. Dec 31-Hartford at New
 Haven; Waterbury at New Britain. Tuesday, Jan 1 (afternoon )-New
 Haven at Waterbury; New Britain at Hartford. (Evening) Walling-
 ford at New Haven; Hartford at New
 Britain.
 Thursday, Jan 3-New Britain at Waterbury.
 Friday, Jan Waterbury at New
 Haven; Wallingford at New Britain. Saturday. Jan 5-Waterbury at
 Hartford; New Haven at Walling-
 ford.
 All of the cities except Waterbury
 had it's list of players ready to be submitted but 1t is understood that
 the Waterbury list will be completed
 before next Sunday. when the next league meeting is held here. The lists that were presented yesterday
 were as follows:
 New Haven--Bone, Warner, Dews, Porter and Messerole. New Britain-Shaffer, Johnson,
 Smith, Post and Anderson. Hartford--Starkie, Trehy. Savara,
 Rhodes and Wright. Wallingford-F. Warner, Kings
 man, Dougherty, c. Warner, How
 ard. Waterbury-Grifin. Allen, Schroe-
 der and Hackett.
 It Is agreed that each team shall
 have a resident referee so that 1t will not be necessary to carry an
 extra man on any trips and there
 will always be an official on hand
 for each game. The matter of
 skates was discussed to a gfeat ex- tent and 1t was decided that the
 skates that are to be used in the games are to have paper rollers with
 short axles. This will prevent dam
 age to the floors on which the games
 are played.
 The next meeting will be held here
 next Sunday afternoon. It is ex- pected that Bridgeport and possibly another city or so will be represented
 at this meeting and will join the league.
 Manager Starkie of Hartford said last night that he would probably
 secure hall tomorrow for the games ir. that city. The Waterbury
 managers have leased the Audi
 torium New Haven has a rink in
 West Haven. New Britain has Ham
 mas armory and wallingford has a good rink.