Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-23
VERY INDIGNANT.
VET TTVOINTVNTV
Bowdoin Says Dartmouth Lies
About Foot Ball Controversy.
Claims No Game Was Scheduled With
Dartmouth For Wednesday.
Bowdoin Prefers TO Play With Exeter Rather
Than With Dartmouth.

Brunswick, Oct. 2.-(5peciaD. There
is much Indignation among Bowdoin stn-
dents over an Associated Press dispatch
from Hanover, n H., which appeared in
che newspapers, today. 1t stated that
Bowdoin had broken an agreement to
meet Dartmouth again at foot ball, by
canc ling game agreed upon for Oct
30, at Hanover, and that the Dartmouth
athletic committee would forbid all
athletic contests hereafter with Bowdoin.
Now the facts of the case are thes' and
the BuwdOin boys are anxious to have
them known, as they show that the Dart
mouth foot ball men, and not those of
Bowdoin, have been guilty of very I'M
sportsmanlike conduct Oct 5, BowdOin
and Dartmouth played foot ball in Port
land, the result being "A tie, 10 to TO- The
second game was arranged to take piece
in Hanover, Oct IS. On Oct IA, the
Dartmouth manager telegraphed Bowhoin
not to come. as he wished TO play Yale,
Oct. IS THIS deliberate breaking of an
agreement to play BowdOin for the sake
OF Il chance to play another team with
the prospect of making more money, was
an act of unsportsmanlike treachery, and
greatly Inconvenience Bowdoin.
Nevertheless, Bowdoin was willing and
anxious to arrange later date with Dart
mouth. and Dartmouth photographed that
Oct. 23 would be n satisfactory date
But Bowdoin had game arranged for
that date with Exeter, and telegraphed
Dartmouth to that effect Dartmouth at
once wired that Bowdoin must play Dart
mouth on Oct. % or not at ALL and that it
must cancel lis game with Exeter for the
sake of doing this, or there would be no
future contests between the two colleges
in either foot ball or base ball.
But Bowdoin's standard of honor
seems to be rather higher than that
of Dartmouth, and Manager Ordway
Indignantly refused to comply with
the very "nervy' demand of the New
Hampshire collegians. Because Dart
mouth had broken an agreement with
Bowdoin for the sake of playing Yale, was
no reason that Bowdoin should break an
agreement with sExeter for the sake of
playing Dartmouth.
A mass meeting Of the students
was held and the honorable stand
taken by Manager Ordway was unai-
tn usiasm, and the very unsportsmanlike
aud dishonorable course of the Dartmouth
management was strongly condemned
Thus the matter stands, and IT Dasses
comprehension here how DartmC nth had
the nerve to claim in the papers that
Bowdoin had broken an agreement. 1t is
suspected that since their experience OF
Oc5. 5, the Dartmouth team is not very
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dom is ready and eager to play them on
any open date
Tomorrow, Bowdoin will play Exeter at
Exeter, and, Saturday, will probably play
Colby, here. Next week, Buwdon will
play Amherst at Amherst, Oct 30, and a
b )ston team here, Nov. 2. Games with
Is. C. and Brown University will come
later, and probably with B. A. A. and
Boston University The team has been
practicing hard lately ana hopes for an
9th n victory over Exeter, tomorrow. 1t
will be made up as follows: Stone centre;
Bates and Eastman, guards; Spear and
Murphy, tackles; Libby and St"arns, ends;
Moulton, quarter back; Mcmillan and
S-anwood half backs; Warren, full back.
Other sdvices say
Manager Ordway has the following
statement to make: In the first place
there was no game scheduled with Dart
mouth the 23d, because, as can be shown
by letters at hand, Bowdoin had game
arranged, on April l, with Exeter for the
date. Oct. 90 Bowdoin's games with
Dartmouth were arranged, Feb. IA, and
were to have been at Portland, Oct. .,
and at Hanover, Oct. 49,
Under date of Sept. IL, the manager
Of the Dartmouth team writes: 1 VIII
olay Won as arranged on the 10th of Octo-
her On the nth. the manager of Dart
mouth wired, cancelling the game. on the
pretext that they could get big money
from Yale.
"Then Dartmouth requested Bowdoin
AS a favor to cancel the Exeter game of
Oct. %. or to play them In Manchester
the 17th.( This Bowdoin was unwilling
to do.
"IInder date Of Oct. Is, the Dartmouth
manager writes: Il will acknowledge that
Bowdoin has good right to maintain her
stand. and 90 not intend to dictate. but
only state what we will do In the future,
as have no other open date. l will al
WAYS look upon it us personal favor II
Won will play Dartmouth on next Wednes-
day (Oct 23).
80 it will be seen that the only griev-
ance Dartmouth has is that Bowdoin
would not cancel game with Exeter, ar
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