The Worcester spy., 1899-04-16
LOOKS DOUBTFUL.
No. Brookfield Ath.
letes May Not At
tend Meet.
CHILDISH ATHLETES
General Disagreement Will
Prove Disastrous to
Local Sports.

North Brookfeld, April 15.-Whether
the North Brookfeld high school will
send an athletic team to compete at
the annual field day of the Worcester
County South A. A at Myrick Park,
Spencer, June 8, there is grave reason
to doubt. In fact, it can hardly be
said with any certainty that there is
any athletic association in the North
Brookfield high school, now in such
chaotic state are athletic matters.
Appearances at present go far to in
dicate that no team will represent the
school at the annual interscholastic
field day. Interest in athletics among
the high school boys is at a decidedly
low ebb, or rather it is divided so
strongly that no order or good results
can be expected from it. Some dozen
or so of the school boys are strongly
in favor of giving up the idea of
track team and putting their time into
base ball as there happens at present
to be two or three members of the
school who are good ball players.
The rank and file of the students
while not openly opposing track
team practically do so by their neu-
trality, refusing to lend it active or fl
nancial support Even in the years
that it has taken but low rank at the
annual meet, North Brookfeld high
school has been a strong factor because
of the rivalry between it and Spencer,
and because il generally had a few
men who would go in and by captur
ing some event scheduled for one or
heother schools, upset all calculations.
But now petty jealousies and an Il
don't want to play in your yard child
ishness are in a good way to break up
the old healthy athletic spirit which
was prevalent in the school a few years
ago.
There are cliques in the school. the
members of which go as far as to re-
fuse to play on a team if a man to
whom they have taken a PERSONAL dis
like is captain While this is not the
case at present, it was during the past
fail when some Of the students
who might have been valuable ac-
quisitions to the foot ball team, refus-
ed to play because of personal dislikes
throwing all school and town spirit
aside.
The result was that men from out
side the school were called upon TO I'LL
out the team and it made the same
amount of trouble that such a move
forsake track athletics for base ball
/ this season, a repetition Of the same
thing is almost certainty.
There is a great scarcity Of available
material for a good team in the school
this year as far as runners and jump
/ ers 60. There is not a sprinter in
sight of ordinary ability as Herbert
{ Sargent, who was relied upon to do
{ good work in the dashes, refuses to
compete Matthew Sullivan, captain
of the track team, told the Spy report
er that il is impossible to tell whether
! the school will have team or not, al
though he is greatly in favor of 1t ana
would have the boys train to do their
best even though there seems no show
of capturing any of the honors.
A meeting of the students interest
/ ed is expected next week. when it will
be decided whether or not the school
will withdraw from the association. II
/ it is decided that no team be sent this
year. it will very likely mean that the
/ school will leave the parent associatioA
( permanently rather than to ask per
/ mission to be a nOn-contestant for
/ year.
| Horsemen are busy making plans for
/ the colt show which is to be resus-
citated this year after lying dormant
/ for several years and of which The
/ Spy made exclusive announcement
! some weeks ago. Fred Hill, who IS
working hard for the success of the
! exhibition, says he anticipates a much
! larger list of entries than the SHOWS
/ were accustomed to have in the ola
days. SO much interest was taken IN
| the brushes on the Grove street course
! the past winter that the horsemen are
already talking up the plan of endea-
voring to have the road made maca-
/ dam before another winter comes
/ around. If such plan could be push
/ ed To success, it would doubtless De
| we'll received for the interest IN TINS
snort increases each winter and the
! owners of fast horses go looking for
| faster ones. .,-
| RrookfeId high school has completed
| long list of subjects from which the pu-
! nils are choosing to compete for the
! cash prizes offered by Hon. Theodore
/ c. Bates. The list as prepared by Mr..
/ Judkins offers great variety and com
i prises every line on which the pupils
a OOssess or can acquire information.
/ The members Of the senior class have
i for the most part selected their sub
II iects, and some of them already have
4 their ESSAYS completed, but do not wish
/ to have the titles made known lust
vet. The prizes for the senior class are
Si0 for first and Sc for second, both
AtllNtIA
i count in the judgment on its merits.
/ The Judges will be principals of some of
the leading schools in the state, and the
| decisions will be made on the night of
! graduation for the senior class, when
| an the essays will be read.
The juniors will have their test before
| the end of the school term. The prizes
| for the other classes will be awarded
on the merits of the essays only and
! +bay- will NOT he called uDOn to deliver
/ them. The subjects chosen by some of
| the pupils will necessitate trips to Bos-
| ton. anC Mr.. Judkins hopes to com
! bine business with pleasure by having
! the proposed journey for the school to
| Boston as soon as possible, perhaps
| next Saturday.
Lovers of basket ball will get enough
/ to satisfy them if plans for the present
week hold out. Wednesday night the
/ Union Guards and Only teams will
/ play 1T the town hall. The Only
! team stin believes it can defeat the
! Union leGgUers. despite last nights s
/ crushing defeat and it was this evening
| decided that the teams shall come to-
! gether again some time during the
/ week A same at Sullivan's East
/ BrCokhed hail, Saturday night Is a
/ probability. though it is unlikely tfat
! the hook and ladder company will hold
| a dance as was intended, as the chemi-
| cal company intends to entertain the
} department that evening.
| The field day committee Of the St.
/ JCsephs T. A. S. are endeavOring TO
! make arrangements to have the joint
/ meeting of the committee at Spencer
/ Tuesday night, instead of Thursday as
/ was Tanned.
! J. W. u. Fiheld and wife, and Mrs.
! Samuel A Clark. who have been spend
~Iae Ia "a MIL