The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-18
P. T. Pow
Witness, C. F. Rice.

Whatever claim Charles f. Rice max
nave upon the local territory was alb
rosated by paper, signed by him after
the committee meeting in which he re-
ilnquished for share of the money to
De paid for territorial rights here all
elaln TO, Worces ter. In addition Mr.
I Rice has been assured by President
Murnane of the New England league
tnat he will be given free of expense
/ the cambridge franchise in the Nor
| thern league when that organization is
formed IN the course of a few weeks.
! When seen after the meeting BY a
representative of The Spy, Mr. Mars
Ton, the new owner of the Worcester
franchise, said he was more than
pIeaSed TO think that he was to have
control Of club IN Worcester. He had
always believed that Worcester was a
good base ball city and now he had the
| opportunity to see if his belief was
founded upon fact or fancy. He intend
ed removing at once to Worcester. and
sa1d that all business in the league so
tar as the Worcester team was con-
oerned would be transacted from Wor-
cester He had no desire to make If a
IoTelgn organization with local name.
The people in Worcester" Mr.. Mars
ton continued, want good base hall
and that is the Kind ! propose to give
them Just as soon as they find out
that the games win have to be PLAYED
on the oval or there is no Worcester
base ball, they will accept the sjtus-
tion with good grace and go down to
the oval just as willingly as thew do
70 any OF the other parks in the league
Slrcult. There are going to be no has
pSeiiS upon my team. i propose to have
team Of gentlemanly players. clean
Fellows and good base ball players and
as 1ast as the men are signed I thinL,
the people Will see that do not intend
10 railroad in second-rate base ball nm
ger the cover of the f1rst-class article.
am alone interested in the team. and
even though had the inclination to try
d cheap team. you can readily sac that
It would not be policy on my part so to
90 II is early yet to be making any
predictions, but Worcester will he ~,
the nrst division and perhaps at the ton
OF the league list"
Although not the successful applicant
FOR the franchise, Mr. Rice does mot
CONSIDER that he was really beaten in
his candidacy 81 could have had that
franchise had I been willing to com
ply With the terms the committee i'm
posed. But l was not There ia NOT
the slightest bit of hard feeling between
myself and Mr., Marston. Mr. Marston
very Considerably stepped aside SO
long as my case was being considered
anu lhen When he saw that I could not
reach terms that were satisfactory to
the committee, stepped in himself and
secures the franchise. Any story that
there is the slightest hard feeling be-
tween myself and Marston is without
foundation. am glad to see Mr.. Mars
ton getting the Worcester franchise, 7
have known him for some time. and I
know what he will give Worcester peo-
PIE IN the line of base ball. He will
give them the sort they desire"
Mr.. Marston, accompanied by Man
ager F. S. Selee of the Boston Club and
n. J. Finn. left on the SIS o'clock train
for Boston. President Powers, Direct
or Draper and few others remained
IN town and entertained the local news
paper men at dinner at the Bay State
n returning to New York on the
1880 o'clock train. Before leavineS
President Powers said he was more
than satisfied with the results of his
trip to Worcester, and predicted a
great future for Eastern League base
ball here