Just as we are about to go to press I am informed that the Connecticut
Interscholastic Association has decided not to divide up the $400
surplus remaining in the treasury after the football season. The
officers of that Association are to be congratulated upon this action.
They will no doubt eventually realize that they have done much for the
good of amateur sport in Connecticut by keeping the money question as
far away as possible from athletic competition.
The Interscholastic skating-races held at the St. Nicholas Rink last
week were contested at too late a day to allow of proper comment in this
issue of the ROUND TABLE. Mention of them, therefore, will be reserved
until next week.
Ice polo has begun to be played among the Boston schools, the first game
of the season having been held in the last week of December. There were
several matches on the 21st of that month, Stoneham High defeating
Wakefield High, 1-0, English High First defeating English High Second,
2-1, and Somerville High defeating Medford High, 5-0.
A few days later Arlington High met Cambridge High and Latin, and took
them into camp, 2-1. Arlington's team-work was far superior to that of
the Cambridge men, and although the latter tried all sorts of changes in
their team, they were unable to withstand the fierce rushes of their
opponents. The same afternoon, on Spy Pond, Arlington met Winchester
High, and scored another victory, 3-0.
This Arlington H.-S. team is undoubtedly a very strong one, and is
putting up good polo this winter. On January 3 they met Cambridge Latin,
and defeated them, 6-0. Arlington's especially strong point is in
passing.
A very unsportsmanlike dispute has arisen between two schools of the
Worcester County South Football Association. Both the North Brookfield
H.-S. and the Southbridge H.-S. claim the championship of the League in
football, and so eager is each to write the word "championship" upon its
school banner that each seems to have lost its head in the discussion.
As to which school is entitled to this rather empty honor I am not
prepared to determine, although both parties have laid rather lengthy
arguments before me, but it would seem that North Brookfield has the
better claim.
A game was played early in the season between these two schools, in
which a member of Southbridge H.-S. acted as referee. His decisions
proved unsatisfactory to the North Brookfield players, and a squabble
ensued. As I understand it, the game was left undecided, with the score
favoring Southbridge. Later it was arranged that a second game should be
played by these two schools. It was played, and North Brookfield won,
4-0.
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