Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-15
MERlDEH'S KICK
Has Finally Decided to Protest
 Saturdays Game.
SOME FUNNY DEFECTIVE WORK

MeEiden Police Officer Here Looking
 For Dgers-Meriden School Off,
 ciaIs Expressed Themselves as Sat
 isfed After the Game-Who Inspired
 the Protest?
 The management of the Meriden High school football team, says the Meriden Journal, has filed a protest against Waterbury High school being awarded the championship of the Con nccticut Interscholastic league this season, and has sent a written request to the 1ale advisory board of athletics that Waterbury he refused possession of the cup the coming season.
 The grounds flied by Meriden on the protest are inefficient officials and that Waterbury did not live up to the rules"
 When Principal Prouty of the High school was seen today he said:
 The Meiiden team makes the pro- rest not with the idea that they will be awarded the game, but for the pur- pose of restraining Waterbury from securing possession Of the cup. While Waterbury may have lived up to the letter Of the law in playing the men they did, they certainly did not live up to the spirit of the law.
 If Waterbury and New Britain con- tlnue their tactics next year, Meriden, HlllhouSe and Bridgeport will drop out Of tho league and let the two fight it cut"
 Mir Outy says he has talked with the principals of the Rillhouse and Bridgeport High schools and they are united with Meriden in the purpose to Withdraw from the league unless Wa torbury and New Britain dron their present methods.
 From a reliable source word has been received from Waterbury that four of the players who took part in last Saturdays game have already or are preparing to leave school this week. One Of the players is working in a factory and secured the job only on promising to go to school after Oc- tohcr l and play on the Waterbury eleven until the final game
 After the final game in New Haven between the Meriden and Waterbury teams. NIT Hackett, the principal of the HllihOuSe High school was asked ilT Waterbury representatives concern ing the treatment of his eleven by Wa tcrbury. he said that it was all right. hat the team was a strictly Hizh school one and had no ringers on it. Principal Prouty of Meriden. when questioned on the subject. said be was in no way responsible for the state m"nts which had appeared in the Mcri- den papers i'll regard to alleged ringers on the Waterbury eleven. But per hapS people would like more evidence oI Naterhury's strictly High school eleven. Last week Captain-of- Police Landrigan of Meriden. came to Wa terbury tu investigate the standing of the Waterbury players. First he call cd School Clerk Fitzgerald up on the telephone and asked him for Thomp- sons address. MT Fitzgerald not knowing anything about Thompson. summoned Manager Murray to the telephone. Then Mir Landrigan repre- senring himself as City Clerk Ryan. asked him for the names and resi- Gcnces: of ail his players, Manager Murray. falling to recognize any re- semhlancc 10 the genial city clerks voice in the voice which he heard, told him he wouldn't give them. Later, as an agent for the SpaIding sporting goods. he went to the High school and succeeded in getting the names and addresses of the players. Then he went 10 ThOmpsOnS house. alleged ringer. and inquired concerning him. Now it is plain that if he had gained ally eF FItltiltt dSdIlISi uOiHpSOu. MefI- den would have furnished it against him in the game last Saturday, but MeriGen didn't. -ts to inefficient officials, let, us hear some Merden testimony. The Meri- den Journal said Of the game: ''The game was quite free from roughness and was won by the best team" Pri- prietor Thomas l.. Reilly of the Ieri- den Journal. said that only for the 1 ,l Meriden seven downs from Water burys five yard line to Waterbury,s goal line that Meriden would never have scored. This statement was made at Yale field in the presence of Profes- sor Joseph Kennedy of the local High school and he is ready to substantiate it.