Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-10

ment for its failure to play the last two
games scheduled in that city. IL is simply
to be said, that the management Was
unable TO do so. 1t is to be regretted that
the Waterville people did not turn out to
these. games; but the fact remains that
they did not. The games Were rms
ferrcd only when the point was reached
where the team was absolutely unable to
go further with them. The management
OF the Kennebecs WAS urged by leading
people OF Waterville, those who had done
the most for the team, TO play no more
games there. Bu5 in the face Of the loyal
support given the team, by the small
coterie Of Wateryille gentlemen who were
actively aud earnestly interested in Its
SUCCESS, the schedule was played in that
city up to the first of September. The
last game there saw an attendance Of
lezs than thTes hundred people. One hun
dred and seven of these came from Au
eusta, and with the attendance from
Skowhegan, and other out Of town
places it left but little more than 100
people from the city Of Waterville 1t
was evident that correspondinRiy large
out-of- town attendance could not be ex
pected at the last two games. The Kenne
bee management was not ungratefnl for the
generous support of its Watcrville friends.
1t would have been only too glad to
have completed the schedule there, but it
was absolutely powcrless to do so. The
friends of the team in Waterville under
stood this perfectly. They knew full well
what it meant to continue to play in that
city under the existing circumstances.
Up to that point the Kennebcc manage
mont Kent itG faith with tho rpnnln Cf
Waterville. More than that it could not
do, and its WsterviIle friends. with
characteristic generosity, never asked it
to do. The people of Waterville have bad
a chance to see,ten of the finest games OF
ball ever played in the State Of Maine,
eight of which were won by the kenne-
bees. Under the circumstances we be
lievc that the people of that city are too
tair-mindcd to blame the Kennebcc man
ageinent for not playing the last two
games there. Gardiner people were to
have fifteen games; but when they found
that the playing Of them involved loss
of 500 game they united in urging the
management to transfer them to Augusta
and continued to give the team their loyal
and cordial support In the same way
leading citizens of Waterville advised the
fIlitUtrtlneub Vi bUc htDutDeCo lob w pay
at Waterville any of the last four games
that were played in that city. New Eng
land league ball was an experiment in
the Kennebec valley this season. In Au-
gusta it has been a pronounced success.
InWaterville and Gardiner it was a fail
ure. II all tho games had been played at
Augusta the club would have had a hand
some balance in its treasury AS it was
the team bias been enabled to complete the
season in good shape, only by securing
the profits of the last weeks games in
Augusta, and by the generous and timely
assistance of the people of this city. With
this statement Of facts we believe that the
people of Waterville will feel that the
Kennebec management which was not
responsible for the small attendance in
that city, and which was poweriess to
control circumstances, did all that it was
in its power to do, and, there fore, all that
it could reasonably be expected to do