The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-04
UP TO BRADFOROS.
The Clermonts Want
to Play Foot Ball
for $25 a Side.
BYRONS WILL PLAY WINNERS.
Manager Kane's Statement
Regarding Question of
Championship.
BYRONS WILL PLAY WINNERS.

Championship honors among indie
pendent foot ball teams Of this city are
evidently much sought for. The Cler-
| monts want whaek at the Bradfords,
recognizing the latter as the strongest
independent team OF the city. Members
Of the Clermont team yesterday au-
| thorized The Spy to publish a chal
I lenge to the Bradfords to play a match
! for money. An attempt to arrange
match with the Bradfords wasn't sue
! cessful, the latter team claiming a
game would not draw a sufficiently
| large crowd. The Clermonts want to
| play for $25 a side, so that the Brad
fords will not have to rely on the gate
| to meet expenses If they think they
can win Representatives of the Cler-
monts will be at The Spy office this
evening at 1880 o'clock to meet repre-
sentatives Of the Bradfords.
! The Byrons are disturbed over the
| fun the Clermonts have made concern
| ing the claim of the Byrons that they
| are champions. After trying in vain
for several weeks to get on a match
with the Byrons, the Clermonts showed
! through The Spy their reasons for rid
| iculing the claim of the Byrons to
championship honors.
The Ryrons think the statements of
| the Clermonts unwarranted by facts.
| The following communication from the
| manager of the Byrons was yesterday
sent The Spy with a request for pub
| lication:
In reply to the various statements
which have been made in The Spy,
| deem 1t my duty to correct a wrong
| impression which has undoubtedly
been given by them In reference to
| the inability of the Clermonts to ar
range a contest, 1 will state that after
| numerous challenges, we met in The
| Spy office for discussion, but after re-
peated attempts, finally concluded that
| we could not arrange game. How
| ever, no blame can be attached to us,
as we did everything within the
| bounds of reason to agree. 1 still
maintain nevertheless that we have
| some claim on the championship as the
| Washburn & Moen team played last
| years champions to tie. But in or
der to settle beyond all dispute and
with fairness to all teams concerned,
we will play the winners of a Clermont-
| Bradford contest, or If the suggestion
which we offer proves impossible to full
fill, we will play the Bradfords, which
should settle all dispute and entitle the
winner to all the credit that is due. In
justice to the Byrons, 1 think it is de-
ments that we refused to arrange a
game with the Clermonts.
w. E. Kane
Manager Of the Byrons.
The offer of Manager Kane is, as he
says, a fair one and will settle the
| quqestIcn of championship The Brad
fords are certainly more entitled to the
title than any other team, having held
it from last year and having gone
| n
feated. AS the Clermonts are trying to
| arrange game with the Bradfords
and have expressed an anxiety to play
! the Byrons, a match should be easy
of arrangement if the Clermonts defeat
the Bradfords. If they don't, it will be
up to the Byrons to play the Bradfords
for the championship.
| The Clermonts didn't claim the
| championship, but simply said the
Byrons had no right to the title. When
| Manager Burke of the Clermonts met
| Manager Kane of the Byrons to ar
range a game, he informed Manager
Kane that he had repeatedly told a
| Byron player named Deignan the Cler-
monts would be ready for game with
| the Byrons on Thanksgiving day. He
also said his team had defeated the
| Byrons badly last year, the score be-
| ing something like IS to o. and In view
| Of that defeat, it was the duty of the
Byrons to retrieve their loss before
making any kind'of claim for cham
| pionship honors.
| Manager Kane of the Byrons said he
had arranged a game with Washburn
| & Moen team for the morning of
! Thanksgiving day and with Hopedale
high school at Hopedale for the after
noon. As the Byrons had defeated this
latter team by score of over 40 to
0, Manager Burke said playing a re-
turn match with such q weak team
was not consistent with claim for
championship honors, and since then
has ridiculed such claim on the part
| of the RYrnnS