Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-08
POLO
WAS VERY
 CLOSE SQUEEZE Locals Defeated Wallingford With a Very Small Margin
 Bridgeport Won.

There was plenty of excitement down in the Eagles hall last night while Waterbury was endeavoring to defeat the tailenders and the excite ment was caused by the splendid game that the visitors put up, game so we'll played, that the locals won out only after the most desperate battle in the last period. There were a whole lot of incidents that added to the interest of the contest and kept the spectators on the anxious seat until the gong had sounded for the last time. Rorty was in charge of the proceedings and he came in for his share of jeers and hoots be- cause he did not see everything that was taking place on the floor. Foxy John Allen, who played as usual a star game caught the red topped ref cree mapping on one occasion and kicked the ball out of the cage after 1t had been driven in. Then there was whole lot of holding and wrestling that also escaped his mo- tice. On another occasion when the whistle sounded just as the ball struck the netting Rorty would not allow the goal and a gr0an went up from the reserved seat contingent. while the Carson City bunch shouted for vengeance on the blower of the whistle. Then too Tommy Holder ness was taken sick and had to retire in the midst of the game while John- ny Griffin took the center position and Mooney went to halfback. This change seemed to bring good luck with it for us for we forged to the front when it looked as though we were beaten. On top of all those incidents the Wallingford players were juggling and passing the ball around the floor like lot of demons and the hearts of the fans were given many hard twinges. Barney Doher- ty too, you all know Barney, and those of you who did not, knew him last night, for he was there with the visitors, trying to beat his old friends and he came near doing 1t at that. The light haired halfback was in the game every minute and the way he played made the fans wonder if a polo player never loses his speed even with many years piled on to his age, since last we saw him.
 Wallingford set the pace when the game started and the first scare was thrown into the locals when Mc- Carthy scooted one behind Sutton after playing little over one minute. The locals tried hard to do the same thing but Allen was there with the eagle eye and kicked them out. The period ended with that one goal. When the second period started Mur- ray was off like flash and before Allen had fairly set himself the ball was behind him and the score was tied.
 WallingfOrd was not to be denied
 however and the way she sent in the next two goals made everybody except the visitors real weary.
 Doherty worked one of his old time tricks by banging the ball against the bank and as it rebounded he
 caught it cleverly with mighty bang and behind Sutton it went like a
 shot. Mccarthy quickly followed
 with another and the score was three
 to one. Loxson in the meantime had
 started to do some work himself and
 with Murray's aid he soon sent an-
 other one in for the homers and the
 period ended with Wallingford still
 in the lead. That last period set the
 fans wild however for Loxson went
 through the visitors like hot knife
 through butter. He twisted, lodged
 and juggled. and played so fast you
 could scarcely follow him and in a little over seven minutes he had tied
 the score. Loxson still kept up his
 speedy work and in less than two
 minutes he had scored what proved
 to be the winning goal. The line up and summary: