Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
POLO
TOOK THE LAST
 GAME THIS YEAR
Brilliant Finish to the Polo Seasor in This City-Benefit Game
 To-Morrow Night.

Everything grooYed nlceiy last evening down in Eagles hall and the consequence was a successful hnale to the polo season of 1903. In the first place the amateurs furnished plenty of excitement in their game as it required an overtime period to decide the winner. In the second place the local managers received from the west yesterday" q conslgn- ment of gold, right from the mines, and the said consignment, of $l50, is now being freely, circulated through the business channels of this city by the fortunate amateur teams. In the third place Waterbury downed the angry Tigers from Pawtucket, and this also was an overtime con test. There was only a small crowd present to enjoy the festive fare- wells, but the true and tried sports, who did stick until the last clang of the bell for the end of the polo sea son in this city, had barrel of fun and excitement and enjoyed each issue immensely.
 Prior to the big battle of the night, Manager McMahou led Secre- tary Malone and the four managers of the amateur teams on Q the play ing surface, and in one of those mag netie and winning speeches of his, thanked the boys for the good work they had done during the season, congratulating them on their un- broken list of victories with other t<, in, hn tnf awarded to them the bag of shining gold which, he said, had just ar rived from Nevada. Manager Bill Lawlor of the South End team and the vice-president of the league, was the other orator of the occasion. In the absence of President t:ohn Hay den, who, unfortunately, was nursing d severe cold which had suddenly af- flicted him while practicing the lines of his acceptance speech, Vice-Presl- dent Lawlor in language imbued with metaphors and synoI,yms, most pleasingly filled the role of the absentee and thanked the local man. agers for their very kind and ap- preeiative generosity. Secretary Ma lone then jingled the golden treas ure and all strutted into the dress ing room, where the division of the spells was made.
 Then followed the contest of the night, and it was one of ne hair raising kind, that kept the players on the jump throughout and made the fans wild with delight. There was only one being on the floor or in the house who was not dee-lighted and that was MT Cunningham of the Pawtuc<et team. He said and thought hard things about the timer because the later would ring the bell while Pawtucket was in the lead. There is no doubt he might have done some bodily injury to the aforesaid watch holder if he had met him after the contest was ended. But the timer was in no mood for slaughter and took the back alleys to go home. And at that Cunning ham was responsible for the loss of the game himself, for Eddie .'Jigger" Higgins did the Pauline" trick to him in that overtime period and copped the ball that won lle game. It happened like this. Cunningham had the ball down near his own cage juggling it out of danger. His back was turned to Higgins as the latter came down the floor. Suddenly a voice was heard to exclaim, ''Cunny, Cunny, pass it back to me-" Cunny did as he was told and Higgins took the pass and dropped the ball in side the netting. It was Higgins who called for the ball, but Cum ningham, believing it was one of his own men, without looking around, passed the ball between his feet to the waiting wizard, and Cunny tore holes through the ar with verbal adjectives, while Eddie smiled and advised Cunny to be q good boy and perhaps next season they might let him use a hockey again, if de- clining years did not prevent.
 Pawtucket led us in the first pe- riod by one goal, the score standing 2 to 1. They led us in the second, too. by the same margin, each team scoring three times in that session. Some of our players seemed to be weary and longing for the Clang of the bell which would end Possibilities. In the third we tied the visitors up after five minutes of play and when twelve minutes had elapsed Paw tueket again advanced to, 'he front and it looked like certain cefeat for the locals. With less than two min- utes to play. however. Higgins did the trick for our side and the period ended with the score a tie. Then came the overtime session when Hig- gins mesmerized Cunningham and caged the winning goal, and polo was over with a champion flourish for this season in Waterbury. The lineup and summary: