The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-21
SEASON OPENING.
Webster Basket Ball
Players Have Be
gun Practice,
WILL NOT USE MUSIC HALL.
The Rental Asked Is Con-
sidered Too High By
the Players.
WILL NOT USE MUSIC HALL.

Webster, Sept. 20.-Basket ball will be
played in st. Jean Baptiste Hall this
season. instead of Music Hail. The
Webster correspondent of The Spy was
SO informed this morning by prominent
promoters of the game that took the
town by storm last year. Interest and
enthusiasm in the game have not died
out in the least, but are increasing.
The Webster team, which is COM
posed OF players from the c. T. A. So
ciety, practiced in Music Hall last
night The management has secured
bookings for eight Saturday nights with
out-of-town teams.
Manager Hickey has run against a
snag, however, at the very start. 1t
is asserted that Manager Arthur G..
Pattison of Music Han wants $40 a
game for the use of the hall, but that
price is considered too high and the
management of the team refuses to
pay it. Instead of giving Manager
PattisQn his price, the basket ball man
agement has hired st. Jean Baptiste
Hall. How long they will continue to
>. play in that hall is not known, but it
is evident that they will stay there as
long as the management of Music Hall
sticks to It's price of $40 a game. Man
ager Hickey and his team are out for
the stuff as well as the glory of win
ming, and they can not see how they
can afford to pay 500 a game when they
can get other places much cheaper.
They can secure st. Jean Saptiste Hall
for 81 game.
Music Hall is the only place in town
where game Of basket ball can be
seen and appreciated from spectators
point of view. 1t is constructed admir-
ably in every detail for the game St
Mt CT IJol lie coll
The followers of the game hope that
the management of the hall and the
basket ball team will come to salts
FACTORY agreement before the season
commences.
Members of the reading room, which
/, had,a basket ball team last year, were
out in full force tonight and began
pract ice in Music Hall. 1t is not known
+ whether they will continue in that hall
or not but as nothing has yet been
said. 1t Is supposed that they will con-
t1nue practicfng there. 1t is not prob
able, however, that they will pay Mr..
Pattison $40 a game. They can not af-
ford it so well as the other team. judg-
ing from the crowds that attended the
. games last year
Henry. j. anderson is in temporary
charge of the team at present The
team will be made up of Henry Ander-
son, Eugene Ide, Sidney K Bartlett
. - y eAAiN IlC4lI9 IJEdlA, JOHn scott.
Harry Hayman and David TONNES. Al
the practice tonight a crowd turned out
TO watch the work. Jack Cronin of
MilIbury, who opened the game here
last winter, was on hand and coached
the boys.
Webster basket ball players and col
lowers of the game would like To know
the reason why the K. S. r. basket ball
team of Southbridge did not include
Webster in the list of teams with whom,
games are wanted When the seaso,
gets advanced somewhat a series of
games will be arranged between the
two Webster teams for a purse and the
championship of the town. DR.. Thomas
]. Cronin, who was the promoter of tho
game here last year, win have nothing
TO do with the management of either
team this year.
John>and Henry Quinn, Joseph Mas
sicotte, Mathew Boyne and Mathew
Ryan left town last night to begin their
studies in Montreal.
The heavy rain early this morning
did considerable damage in this neigh
borhood. The meat market of William
Dee was found flooded when it was
{ opened, and it required several hours
of labor to make it presentable for Gus
toners.
Blue Jeans" will be played in Music
hall Wednesday night.
WIN vas InlS morning
on the erection of large boat house
at Edgard S. Hilrs pleasure resort.
Beacon park. The new structure will
be so by 80, and will be used exclusively
for storing steamers George Aldricir
has the contract, and he has got small
force at work on the job, which will
cost about $4,000
DR.. g. s. Sargent, specialist on the
infirmities of the eye, throat and ear.
has addeda valuable machine to his Of
flee furniture. 1t is nebulizer. run by
hydraulic power and automatic in its
workings.
Hon. Chester c. Corbin and wife ar
rived in town last night, and will re-
main here for few days.
John S. Miller of Chicago, who has
been spending the summer here. left
town today for the University of Penn
sylvania, where he enters upon his
studies Friday.
DR. Fred A. Brown returned from
Swampscott this morning with his wife
and family, who have been spending the
summer months there.