The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-17
END is NOT YET.
cambridge Will Com
pete in Spencer
Meet.
UNDER TIE BAN.
Webster and Southbridge
Restrained From Bas-
ket Bali.

There is loads of excitement in sport
ing circles in the towns of Southbridge
Webster and Spencer over the an
nouncement of the N. E. A. A. U. which
was issued today as follows:
1.-THE registration committee of the
N. E. A. A. U. has announced the sus.
pension of the Southbridge basket bal
team, including Manager Brown ant
players Jaskowviah, Rose, Wilson
Hamlin and cambridge; and the Web
ster team consisting of Moore, Reilly
Thompson, Henry and Brenniff, also
Manager James McGeary."
The facts leading up to this an
nouncement have been printed in The
Spy from time to time. When the ar
engagements were being made for the
annual field day of the w. c. S. A. A. A.
the rivalry between Spencer and
| Southbridge was at fever heat. About
this time Spencer and Webster played
a match game of basket ball on neutral
boards (Millbury) for 500 side.
This gave Spencer an opportunity tC
protest the playing of cambridge who
was member of the Southbridge bas-
ket ball team, and was also a formld-
able opponent of Billiard of Spencer
high school in the hurdles for the COM
| ing field day, cambridge being the fast
man for Southbridge high school.
AS result copy of The Spy con-
tanning a report of the Southbridge-
Webster game at Millbury, April 10
was sent by the Spencer sports to Kill
bourn Adams, secretary of the N. p. A,
A. u. The above announcement is
the direct outcome of this action on the
part of Spencer sports.
The basket ball end of the three-cor-
nered row sinks into insignificance as
compared with the feelings between
friends of Nelson A. cambridge of
Southbridge and Raymond A. Billiard
of Spencer 1t is settled that no more
basket ball games shall be played as
teams or individuals of either Webster
or Southbridge. A mild and perfectly
natural kick is INDUCED by the man
ager and it is thought that the end is
not yet. Both teams claim they have
a winning card up their sleeves which
they will play, and aver that they will
not die without a struggle.
Word comes from Webster from Man
ager McGeary that the action of the N.
e. A. A. u. was somewhat of a surprise
to him, though not wholly unexpected.
He admitted that he had received a
letter asking for the names of the play
ers on his basket ball team. He made
no reply to this letter.
The intelligence from Spencer indi-
Gates extreme exultation, but the dis
patch from Southbridge is enough in It
self to send cold shivers chasing them
selves up and down the spines of the
shoe town sports.
In substance, it is this: cambridge
will compete in the Spencer meet, UNI
der protest, of course and that he will
try with might and main to down the
great hurdler Billiard, in the Myrick
park meet. Public dispatches and pri-
vate letters, say the Souhtbridge friends
of Nelson cambridge, are two different
things and when they stated emphati-
cally that cambridge would compete
they patted their letter pockets with a
degree of complacency which BODIED nc
good for the trainers of the protest
lodged with the secretary of the N. E
A. A. u.