The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-11
A Dual FIELD DAY.
Spencer and North
Brookfeld Arrang-
ing a Program.
FOR NE MORTAL DAY.
Old Time Rivalry VIII Run
Rampant When the
Gladiators Meet,
FOR NE MORTAL DAY.
Old Time Rivalry Will Run

North Brookfeld, April 1O.-The joint
committee from the Holy Rosary, C.
F. A, of Spencer, and the St. Joseph's
I. A. S. of North Brookfield, met at the
st. Joseph's society rooms last night,
and made preliminary arrangements
for a dual field day at Myrick park,
Spencer, May 80
The Spencer committee consisted of
John F. Dillon, Erick Richards, Martin
Egleton and Henry Neehan, and the st.
Joseph's T. A. S. committee was Daniel
j. Murphy, James H Ivory, jeremiah
Maloney, George McQueeney and John
f. Sullivan. The joint committee or
ganized with John F. Sullivan chairman
and John F. Dillon secretary.
The following list of events was de-
cided upon: $40 yards dash, 100 yards
dash, 220 yards dash, 440 yards run, $50
yards run, 12O yards hurdle race, run
ming broad jump, running high jump,
running hop, step and jump, and relay
race for one mile, each man to run 44O
yards.
The teams will compete for a silver
cup to be offered as trophy to the So
ciety winning the most points. In each
event first place will count five points,
second place three points and third
place one point. In the relay race the
whole sum of nine points will go to the
credit of the winning team.
The games will be purely amateur
and run under the rules of the Amateur
Athletic union. While the matter could
not be definitely settled last night, there
| will undoubtedly be a base ball game
as a special attraction between the old
time rivals, North Brookfield and Spen-
Ger. 1t being the first time that either So
ciety has undertaken to run an ath-
| letic meet, every effort will be put forth
| to make this big success with view
| toward making it an annual affair.
That it will be exciting there is no
doubt, as Spencer and North Brookfield
! have never yet met on an athletic ar
ena when each did not put forth extra
effort to defeat the other. There IS a
feeling of intense but honest rivalry be-
| tween the two teams that BODIES well for
the success of the affair.
Both committees recognize the fact
| that there is a lot of hard work ahead
and are going at it with will. The
next meeting will be at Spencer April
20, when arrangements will be com
pleted.
News came to the village today of
an accident Saturday in which Ed
ward. son of A. c. Bliss, was painfully
| injured by the unexpected discharge
If a gun. The boy, who is about IA
years of age, in some way manipulated
the trigger so that the gun was dis
charged, its contents tearing the, whole
I palm off his hand, and then striking
the shoulder with considerable force.
DR.. Albert H Prouty was called and
dressed the wounds, but it will be a
long time before the boy can use the
arm at all.
A large crowd of North Brookfeld
sports went to Ware yesterday to at
tend a cock fight. Some of them have
not returned yet. Those who have feel
sore, very sore, and not without good
reason. A big gamecock known as the
Gould fowl went back on them. He
has been owned in North Brookfeld
over a year. and was the hero of nine
straight battles, all of which had put
rolls of the long green with yellow
edges in the pockets of North Brook
field men who celebrate Sunday by
cock fighting
But the Gould fowl lost yesterday,
and it was only his previous record that
saved him from having his neck twist
ed into the bargain. The bird was
raised in Ware, and this made their
victory all the more pleasant for the
Ware men.
The funeral of Mrs. Lucy Benoit took
place from st. Joseph's church this
morning at $50 O'Clock, and the ser
vices were attended by a large num-
Der of friends and relatives. Rev. Jas.
p. lutte celebrated a requiem mass
and delivered a touching eulogy. The
pall-bearers were John Lavigne of
North Brookfield, DOlor Laramy and
Arthur Cakes of Southbridge, and Ar
! thur Gauthier of Holyoke Among the
| other people from out of town who at
tended were Henry Laramy of Holyoke,
| Mr. Sansouci and son of Pittsfield Eu-
gene b. Tatrault and wife of Springfield
and Arthur LaVigne of Boston.
The annual meeting of the stoclhold-
ers of the North Brookfeld bank,
scheduled for today, was adjourned to
next Monday, as the attendance was
small.
Rev E. c. Heath of Spencer enter
tanned a large audience at the Meth
odist church tonight with an illustrat-
ed lecture on Cuba.
The committee on entertainment of
the st. Joseph's r. A. S. has decided to
present the play, kathleen Mauvou-
reen,' May 4 instead of Byron's, "Our
Boys" as was originally intended.
Miss Mary Joyce of Sherburne is the
guest of Miss Eta LaWlor of North
Main street.
Tbore's = raasoo for r.