The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-30
LOSES POLO TEAM Manager Starkie to Transfer His Hartford Club to
 Boston. GOES TO HUB JANUARY 6 Managers Unanimous in Granting the Priyilegd at Special Meeting
 Held in Capital City.


 polo team, now leaders in the National league race, is to be transferred to Bos- ton after January A. This decision was reached at special meeting of the National league directors held at the Allyn house in this city late yesterday afternoon. The league granted permis- sion to Manager Stakie, owner of the Hartford franchise and manager of the team, to transfer his club intact, the team to retain Its present standing in the league
 This announcement will come as a great surprise to the thousands of polo enthusiastsin in Hartford but owing to To- cal conditions being unfaVorable, es- peclally in the matter of securing a desirable building where the game could be played in the center of the city, there was no other course opea to Manager Starkie, who has given Hartford one of the fastest polo quin- tets it ever had.
 The meeting was attended by ma 1ority of the managers. Mir Cunning ham of Pawtucket holding the voting proxy of Mr. McKenna of Providence, who was unable to be present George D. Bone, jr., manager of the New Ha- ven team, was on the way to ProVi- dence with his club and could not at- tend. He was notified of the proposi- tion by telephone, and voted in favor of it. This made the vote unanimous.
 Manager Starkie, who returned from a visit to Boston yesterday morning, Informed the managers that he had made arrangements with the powers of the Park square rink in Boston to play polo in that mammoth building, which has seating capacity of between 4,000 and 5,000. Boston was ready for the game, the Park square management contended and had been since the open ing of the season. when 1t was original lly intended to place club in the Hub, It was impossible to secure a team from the western league, however, and Boston was left out for the time be- ing, Now the Hub will get the fastest team in the National league, and Hart ford will lose it.
 Hartford will finish it's schedule in this city, this week, meeting New Britain here Wednesday night and Pawtucket on Saturday night. That will be the last of professional polo | for the present season. The vote pass cd by the league at its meeting last night protected MT. Starkie in the given the privilege iof locating here next season if suitable building can be secured by the fall.
 The members of the Hartford team, Messrs Hart, Lincoln, Wiley, Cogge- shall and Sutherland, are willing and anxious to go to Boston, although all regret that local conditions make the fmove imperative. They have realized for many days, however, that Manager Starkie could not continue here with the small crowds that were being at tracted to contests played at Capitol park rink, and they, promised to stick by him and make the move to Boston if the league sanctioned the deal. Individually and collectivey, the the team is an immensely popular one in Hartford both as players and men, and they would much prefer to finish l 4 l,. .,k fNe e.I Manager Starkie could secure new
 The only solace left for the bond of faithful polo fans in this city Is the fact that New Britain, which Is but ten miles distant. remains in the league and the Hartford team can be seen a,, In In games in New Britain, In fact, will un- duobtedly draw several hundred people from Hartford regularly each week.
 Manager Starkie said last night that he wanted to express his thanks to the faithful supporters who had put up with the inconvenience of attending games at Capitol park rink. He said he had tried hard to retain the team here, but it was imperative that change be made, if he was to continue in business as polo r.agnate. He said he would get building up town for next year, when it is probable that the present strong team will return to Hartford, and represent the city in the league,
 At the special meeting the receipts for Christmas games were pooled and divided according to the custom this season because there is an off number of clubs in the organization. Robert w. Eadle of Bridgeport acted as chair man of the meeting, which was ad tourned at 5:40.4 All. the managers wished Harry Starkie much success in his new field, and they expressed them selves as confident that Boston would be a winner and enable him to retrieve his losses sustained here.
 At the meeting Manager Hanna of New Britain announced that he had signed ''Soxy" Lyons, the crack half- back of the Akron, O., team of the h. terstate league. He said that Lyons telegraphed that he would leave the west last Saturday night and be in the game at New Britain Monday night. Lyons will laprove of great strength to the New Britain team which has play ed local man In the position of half back during the first two months of the