Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-06
POLO
BANG WENT THE
 HAMMER ON ANVIL
Routed We Were and We'll Whipped in the Bargain
 Beat Springfield.

polo enacted on the local rink floor 1 last evening, in fact, there was very little polo played on the part of the | Waterbury team, if we except Hlg- gins and Cusick Many of the fans threw it into Cusick, as they saw
 New Haven running away with the
 game, but he could not play half back and goal too. Neither could he
 break up plays in the center, which
 seemed to have Jack Fahey up a
 tree all night long. Jason, too, was
 be flag of dope floating over all the
 local players with the exception, as
 was said before, of Higgins and Cusick. Higgins showed many fine
 flashes of polo and took the ball down the floor frequently, but he
 was left all by his lonesome to fight off at least three and sometimes four of the opposing players. Bone was issuing his commands early in the
 game to take care of Higgins. He
 discovered as we'll as the fans that
 Higgins seemed to be the only one in front of the goal, who needed to be watched. The others were get ting in their own way and it was nothing surprising then to see the little digger surrounded by three and
 four players, all pounding at him
 with their hockeys, to take the ball away from him. It was one of the , worst exhibitions of polo put up by the locals on the home floor this
 season and the hope is that the de- feat and the existing conditions will not be repeated. We had won twelve home victories up to last
 night, and as this was the thir-
 teenth perhaps part of the hoodoo can be traced to that fact.
 Some of the scenes that took place on the floor that could not be classed in the science of polo, were partici- pated in by Jack Fahey and Paul
 Gardner, the new halfback of the New Haven team. Bad blood be- tween the two was evident from the first clang of the bell, but it was not until the third period that anything sensational happened. Shortly after this period opened there was a col lision between the two down in the corner of the rink near the grand
 balcony. Both players were going at each other hammer and tongs, when all the other players on each side jumped in to separate them. Referee Mike Doherty finally pried them apart and the game went on with a foul on each. It had not been in progress over a minute when down the floor like a streak of light ming came Gardner. He went up against Fahey and gave him his el- bow under the chin. Back came Fahey with two clips that landed glancing blows on Gardner's head and face. Gardner retaliated in like measure and again did the players and the referee jump into the fracas and separate them. Then Referee Doherty sent both from the floor. and they left with the intention of doing things to each other when they reached the dressing room. There was nothing doing after that and the game went peacably to a con clusion.
 uS to Aht Dul New Haven at any stage. They caged three goals in the first period before we awoke to the fact that we were in a polo game. Then Eddie Higgins put one in for our side, but New Haven followed with two more in quick fashion and the first period ended with the score , to 1 against us. In the second we played lit- tie better defensive work, but New Haven managed to get the only goal of the period after little over seven minutes of play. We dropped in an- other in the last and so did the vis- itors. But in the meantime the fight had taken place and with three fouls on Fahey, two on Gardner and one on FaTrel, each side lost a goal and New Haven won, 6 to |. The line up and summary: Waterbury. New Haven.