The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-27
THE MEET
Of Worcester County
South.
AND
Spencer Will Join Issues
for Spring Gathering.

( Spencer, Jan. 26.--At last a move
ment is on foot to make arrangements
/ for the annual meet of the Worcester
County South Athletic Association,
composed of the high schools of South
bridge, Spencer, North Brookfeld, War
rem and Leicester Academy. Word was
+ received by the captain of the Spencer
i high school track team this morning
track team on the matter of holding
meeting in the near future for the
purpose Of electing officers
! The constitution states that five del
/ egates OF the executive committee have
! the power to call a meeting of the
/ whole committee. The Southbridge cap
/ tain and delegates ara in favor of hold
/ ing the meeting in the near future, and
wrote ito the Spencer boys last eve
/ ming to get them to join with the del
egates from Southbridge, and thus
cause meeting to be Immediately
called. AS the Spencer athletes are of
the same opinion as their Southbridge
4 friends, they will kindly cooperate
with them and thus undoubtedly call
| meeting some day during the next
4
i The meeting will probably be held a.
week from next Saturday The dele
gates from Spencer are Fred e. Ames.
Carlton D. Green and Principal Edwin
5. Tirrell. All the officers Of the as
| soclatlon have graduated from their
| respective schools and consequently a
new board will have to be elected at
the next meeting. The date of the
spring meet has already beed decided
M
thanlel Myrick Park, Spencer, Satur-
day, May 27.
The meet of '99 will be the fifth Of
the association, and bids fair to be
the most holly contested of any in its
history.
The cup which will be contested for
! py the rival schools for seven years,
! mas already been won twice by South
!. bridge, and the same number of times
! py the David Prouty high school of
Spencer. Therefore this years meet
means very important one for the
! school, which wishes to land the Gun
AT the present time honors with Spen-
Ger and Southbridge seem to be about
even there being very little choice be-
VI tween them.
Southbridge, however, has lost four
OF her very best athletes, Chamberlain,
who won all the dashes last season;
Rose, who won third in the 100 and 40
yard dashes, second in the 220 and 44O
yard dashes; c. Hall, who won the high
jump, in which event he broke the rec
ord, and third in the 120 yard hurdles,
and f. Hall, who won places in other
events. On the other hand, Spencer
only lopses three point winners-Pierce,
who won second in the broad jump;
Coffey, who won third in the high
jump, and Griffin, who tied for third in
the 440 yard dash. To sum up, the
| men which both schools lose, and take
into consideration the point winners
left in the schools, it looks as if Spen-
Ger has little the best of the bargain
/ Nothing can be counted on by this,
however, as new men may be devel-
j oped who will surprise the community
| After receiving the letter this morning
i from Captain Taylor of Southbridge,
the Spencer boys smiled up their
sleeves at the idea of being dropped
4 from the association as North Brook
i field has predicted. Ever since the
foot ball season of SO the North Brook
!, field athletes have been death on the
Spencer boys and have made every kind
of threat against them, the worst of
which was dropping them from the
4 association.
, They have recently began setting
about their task and have written to
: Southbridge and Leicester, asking
. these schools to assist them in their
object. Much to the North Brookfield
boys surprise and disappointment
l however, both schools refused to have
anything to do with it, stating that
t they had nothing against Spencer and
{ wished her to remain in the associa-
ton.
( Spencer people seem to have a GER
: tain weakness which entices them to
: Podunk every time that an entertain
Y ment and supper is held in her chapel.
: Formerly, however, only four or five
Y couples have attended these good times,
but tonight the number has spread and
i about 80 couples left town for THAT
e place. Among those who went were:
: Lewis w. Dunton, Gertie Wallace,
: Mullins Prouty, Ethel Hewlett, Adel-
bert Hobbs, Emma Bemis, James Har-
: rington, Martha Page, Frank Jones,
Ruth Sibey, Fred Sorrell, Hattie
woodbury., Frank slayton, Edith Bel
= lows, Elton Mullett, Florence Hewlett,
e Foster Wheeler and Maud Sibley. All
f of the above named people were trans
ported to their destination in two
buses both owned by Erastus j. Starr
Aaron Woodbury. also took another bus
o load, composed of A. J. Warren and
h wife, DIR. A. e. Snow and wife. 7. r
: Kane and wife, DR.. F. ]. sanborn and
S wife, Mrs George J.. Faxon, Misses
: Mary Woodbury., Estella and A. J.
4 Ward, Emma Grout and Amos Moore.
l The funeral of the late David Bemis
/ took place at 2 O'clock this Afternoon
e from his late residence, 243 Main street
! Rev. Sherman W. Brown of the First
Congregational Church, of which Mr.
Bemis was an attendant, officiated Mr.
Brown was assisted in the services by
q quartet consisting of John and vii.
liam Hoskin, tenors, George D. MuzzS
/, and Albert Emerson, BASES. The
bearers were A. W. Curtis, C. H. AL
len, George Dunn, Harland p. Morse
George Davis and Charles Green. The
interment took place in the family lo
at the old cemetery.
Prayers were said at 10 o'clock thi.
morning at the home of Eugene Car,
penter, in the southern part of the
town. over the remains of Mrs. Charlie.
Bailey. After the services, the body
, was conveyed to the Bailey residenc,
in Smithville.
, The Spencer bowling team feels some
what sore over the drubbing it received
last night at the hands of the Casino
!, team in Worcester. All the member.
of the team can say for themselves i.
:; to wait until we get them UP here.
At the meeting last evening of thu
q committee on arrangements for the
e fourth anniversary of the Knights o.
Columbus, it was decided to hold the
event in Odd Fellows Hall, Dec. z
a Dancing and refreshments will con
n stitute the principal part of the pro
= gram.
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