The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
THE DAYS SPORT.
Three Interesting Foot Ball Matches
Are on the Card.

nree interesting root ball Watches
Are on the Card.
Foot ball will be the great outdoor
attraction today for lovers of athletic
sports of this city. Although all school
teams except Holy Cross have dis
banded for this season, there will be
enough foot ball in Worcester today to
satisfy anybody. There will be three
games, two this morning and one this
afternoon, any of which will be well
worth taking in, for the young men
have shown a mastery of the art.
The great game in this section of the
country today is that between Holy
Cross and Boston college, which takes
place at Boston,
The contests in this city which will
excite considerable rivalry are those
between the Byrons and Washburn &
Moons and the Worcester Athletic club
and Bradfords. The former will be
played this morning at the Grove street
grounds and the w. A C.-Bradford
game will be at the Sutton lane
grounds in the afternoon.
The Washburn & Moen and Byron
teams have hung up the championship
of the county in their game. The By
rons have not been defeated this sea-
son, in fact, they have not been scored
against, while the Washburn & Moen
team has met defeat but once. That
was by Barre, and the wireworkers had
but three of their regulars in the con-
test. The Washburn & Moen team, al
though once defeated, has a better
claim on the championship than the
Byrons, for they have played stronger
teams. The Byrons, however, think to-
days match with the wiremen will be
a cinch. odds of to l were given last
evening that the Washburn & Moen
team would not score. They were too
quickly snapped up to suit the Byrons,
and the latter finally gave the same
odds that they would defeat their rivals
by at least one touchdown.
The rivalry between the teams is
great Each thinks it is the best team
in that section of the city. Although
odds were offered against them, the
Washburn & Moen team thinks it will
surely win.
Another morning game will be played
at the oval. F. H. Bigelow and other
graduates of Harvard have formed an
eleven TO play against an eleven com
posed of Tech students. There are sew
eral among the players of each team
who know the game of foot ball well,
and good contest is looked for
The most important game of the day
will be at the Sutton lane grounds at
o'clock in the afternoon, when the
Worcester Athletic club and Bradford
Athletic club teams line up against
each other. The Worcester Athletic
club team exists in name only. 1t was
made u9-for the occasion, and took the
name to add prestige to the team. But
there's nothing in a name, and the
team would give a good account of it
self under any other name. In its
makeup are some of the best men of
the high school team and several other
players of strong independent teams of
the city
The Bradfords won the independent
championship of the county for the last
two years. They are a fast, scrappy
team and have played together for sew
eral seasons, so that they have devel
eped team work to a considerable eX
tent.
The game will be hot one and well
worth seeing. There will be lively foot
ball before the second half is ended.