The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-27
RACE is ASSURED.
No Time Lost In the
Acceptance of Spen-
GERS Def.
NORTH BROOKFIELD READY.
Will Meet Committee Any
Time Announced Through
The Spy.
NORTH BROOKFIELD READY.

North Brookfield, July 26-North
Brookfield will accept the proposition
from Spencer, in The Spy this morning,
and win choose a committee to confer
with committee from Spencer, to ar
range for hub-and hub hose race.
The Spencer men now have a SPLEEN
did opportunity to make good their
boasted superiority over North Brook
field runners, and unless they back
down now, there is every prospect that
there will be one of those real old
fashioned battles between the repre-
sentatives of the two towns, who are
always the most intense rivals in an
athletic arena of any kind.
The sport has always been warm, in
fact, red hot, when teams from the
two shoe towns struggled for supre-
macy, and in hose races this has been
particularly true. This feeling has by
no means died out and that is one rea-
son why, if Spencer does not back out,
there is going to be an interesting hub
and-hub race.
AS The Spy stated before the North
Brookfield team will be an Independent
team, but will contain some Of the
speediest runners of the town. The
North Brookfield committee will meet
Spencer any evening next week, in
either of the two towns, as Spencer
may state, for the purpose of arranging
a hub-and-hub hose race, and the
place, time and conditions for the race.
The North Brookfield young men who
are promoting the race believe they
have the material to beat Spencer, and
as several of the local runners will be
the same men who showed their heels
to Spencer runners on May 80, there
seems to be good ground for this be-
lief
All that Spencer has to say now is
where its committee will meet a North
Brookfield committee, some evening
next week., and the race will be ar
ranged. The local men would ask to
have the meeting this week but for
the fact that one of the members of
the committee is visiting out of town
and will not be back for few days.
So II Spencer states through The Spy
on what evening they wish to meet the
local committee, they will find North
brookfield ready for the fray.
The annual reunion of the Worcester
county Forty-second Regiment Assoc
citation wig be at Odd Fellows Hall.
PeaH street. Worcester, tomorrow, and
Company F of this town will be well
represented. The local members are
freeman r. poane who is member of
the executive committee; Summer
Holmes, Emerson Stoddard, Hiram
Eaton, Hubbard S. Doane, Charles
Parkman, Henry L. Parkman, T. M.
duncan Frank A Smith and George
Tucker. Dea. James Miller, whose
death occurred few days ago, was
also member.
Manager Mortimer E. Howard az the
North Brookfield base ball team TODAY
arranged with T. ]. Cannon, manager
Oh the Columbias of Worcester. for a
game here Saturday. The North Brook
held team will be the aggregation that
so easily defeated Ware Saturday. and
the Worcester battery will be Door
man and Duckworth.
Inc Holmes Steamer company at a
meeting last night voted to attend the
muster at Webster, Sept 1. The com
pany Will take the steamer and enter
the competition. From the showing
made at the Southbridge muster, when
North Brookfleld took six points out of
a possible ten, the boys should make
a good bid to capture prize Foreman
viii French is especially anxious to see
spencer there as his boys want a shy
at them. The company has not yet de-
cided how they will go, bet think of
special train is not run from Worces-
ter.
True to his word, Martin Bergen left
today to join the Boston team at Louis
vile. After his departure a telegram
was received from Manager Selee ask
ing him to hasten as the club needs him
at once.
For the first time in many months
this town is entirely free from infec-
tious diseases. Since early spring, diph-
liberia has ragged rampant here but To-
day Dr. George r. Spooner, clerk of the
board of health, fumigated the premis-
es of George Foote, whose child was the
last diphtheria patient.
The sole leather department of the
Batcheller shop today accepted the
challenge of the trimming room to a
game of ball. The challenge was issued
In The Spy few days since The man
ager of the trimmers, Thomas Grady,
refused to let his team play for less
than $25 but Manager John Rooney
of the sole leather room would not play
for more than $40, SO the game could
not be arranged.
John Splanie, who is operating a min
tature railroad at Whalom park, Fitch
burg, visited at his home here today.