Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-11
POLO
THEY WILL NOT
 SOON FORGET US
New Britain Trounced and Fred Jean Worsted New Haven
 in the Dumps.

rough as any other this season, Wa
 terbury defeated New Britain at
 Eagles hall last evening by the one
 sided score of 9 to 3. But the figures | fail to tell what a slam bang contest | 1t was and one not present cannot | realize the side issues which made the game so interesting to the spectators.
 Last nights win for Waterbury
 makes the third successive game that it has taken from the "Wallopers'' and it showed that in a half decent
 rink the local team is the equal, at
 least, of the New Britain bunch. As
 usual when New Britain plays here Jean last night was the one who at
 any moment was ready to occupy q
 cosy corner with trouble. He first
 mixed it up with Fahey, and the big
 fellow came out second best, as Tom
 mic Leahy interfered after Jack had
 bingoed the Big Un" on the jaw.
 Later Jason and Jean came together.
 but neither did any damage to speak
 of. The big center seemed to be in
 an ugly mood and during the second
 period was certainly in the air. Time
 after time Higgins, Jason and Fahey
 would take the spheroid from bim as
 he was about to larrup it, and his
 stick would connect with the floor or
 the air. Several times he swung in
 such a terrific manner that when he
 failed to connect, Ee went to the
 floor. And how the crowd did enjoy
 it! When he got on his feet again he
 would go after the ball in way that would make even Wild Charlie Far Tell blush with shame.
 Waterbury got going right at the start and three minutes and forty sec onds after the opening gong, Higgins buried the ball in the netting behind Bill Ramon. For the next seven min utes the play was fast. with neither side having much advantage. The visitors were sending streamers against Cusick but the Kid" was kicking them out in royal fashion. After seven minutes and twenty sec onds Higgins again found a vulner- able spot ill Bannons defense and No ? was credited for the home team There was no more scoring during the l of the period.
 The second period was one of the ] most exciting seen at the Auditorium | this season. Jean was certainly the | goat, and in trying to butt others he hurt his own horns more than any thing else. Higgins. Jason and Fahey | had the bunch from the Hardware Town tied in all kinds of knots. When New Britain saw that it was having very poor success taking the ball town the rink, or rather, trying to take it down the rink, they started to lriye from the center of the floor They sent the pellet up against the boards like cannon balls. One of the beard breakers that Mercer was re- ,ponsible for, connected with Gu ticks leg above the knee. The play ITS intermingled while Cusick was be- ng fixed up. It was an awful wal op. But their drives did not bring esults and they simply made a single core. credit of that going to liar tins
 Although Waterbury had not been
 oing much winging, they were in- , reasing their score and when this erlod ended it was found they had naked up five big ones to the lone ( mark for the visitors. Consequently he score at the end of this period { ias : to I and New Britain looked as { hough she had good chance of ,sing that as Jean had committed ! wo fouls. l
 In view of the pyrotechnical wind D of the second period, the spectators I bought that the last period would be le star act of the night. But the ! 'st had cooled everybody off. and the ! nal session was a pink tea compared } what preceded. The players seem < | to he tired out New Britain agged couple during this period. hile Waterbury scored an equal Imber The lineup and summary: New Britain. .