The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-24
Plot Is Brewing Relative to
the High School Boat.
MEMBERS OF THE CREW
Charged With Intentions of Disposing of
the Boat and Dividing the Money At
ter Paying Bills Now Due.

to injury. If Ten Eyck should receive
call two weeks before an important
race Of the high school crew, it would
be in a bad way.
1t has also been suggested that the
crew might not pan out as well as
could be wished for, and Ten Eyck
m q t desire to sever his connection
win d crew which gave no promise of
winning.
The housing of the shell in the Wa
chusett boat house Is mentioned as one
of the things in which the high school
boys displayed no business ability.
Whether the Wachusetts intend to al
low the use of their house without cost
or whether they will charge for rent is
unknown to the advisers of the crew.
1t is said the Wachus tits have offer
ed the high school boys he use of their
house, and everybody connected with
boating knows the Wachusetts would
do anything in their power to assist the
boys. But that does not prevent some
of the persons interested from thinking
there should be some definite under
standing with the Wachusetts as to
whether the high school boys will be
charged for rent or not.
The question of ownership of the boat
will probably be settled at once to head
off any attempt of the crew to dispose
of 1t. At least some of the men who
collected the first money think the shell
belongs to them. They say the sub
scription papers which they circulated
stated the money was given to the eight
boys named in the heading for the pur-
pose of buying boat.
This claim has been given some at
tention by authorities of the athletic
association and of the school because
the avowal of the crew men that the
boat would be sold is known to both
the athletic association and the school
authorities. They believe the claim may
be technically correct, but that the
shell Is the property of the athletic as
sociation, and they will certainly take
measures to prevent its sale by any of
the crew.
The school authorities say that the
men who gave SO per cent of the money
with which the shell was bought did
so with the understanding that the boat
was for the high school, and not for
eight members of that institution. They
say, too, the men who subscribed the
money surely thought the boat would
remain in possession of the high school
athletic association for all time If the
clique attempts to sell the boat as it has
threatened, legal measures Will be re-
sorted to in order to prevent them.
Money for the support of the crew
lliS SedsOil has not Deen coming as
rapidly as in other years There will
be no trip to Philadelphia to race any
crews there. The boys want $500, and
claim they can't get along with less.
The contract for the coach calls for
$3.50.
There are now against the associa-
ton $3.50 in back bills; $105 to the Star
foundry for castings for the rowing
machines, and $45 to f. j. Kerns for
his supplies. The Harvard race will
cost over $500. New suits must be
obtained, and the boat must be var
nished. With various incidental ex-
penses, the crew can hardly get along
with much less.
Manager Lancaster said yesterday he
would require that amount, but
thought, If hard pressed. he might
get along on $3.50. Subscription pa
pers were started yesterday as the
pledges sent out did not meet with as
ready a response as the boys hoped
for
The contract with Ten Eyck as coach
has not been sigend. The board of
directors refuse to sign the contract
until the money is in sight If the
contract is signed, the athletic associa
ton is responsible, The latter board
voted last year not to be responsible
for the large debts of the crew. The
board paid one debt of almost 800. the
last cent owned on the shell. to James
$. Aborn. last year, and the receipt was
made out to the athletic association.
on That ground, the ownership of the
boat is claimed for this association as
wen as on several others.