The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-22
Members of C Company viii Put
All Their Athletic Efforts Into
the Indoor Baseball Team This
Winter
OTHER COMPANIES WANT
WRANGLING ELIMINATED
Unless a Guarantee Is Given That
the League Season viii Not
End in a Dispute the City
Guards and Emmets viii Not
Organize Teams

Worcester Light Infantry will not en-
ter a team in the Armory basketball
league and chances are that the City
Guards and the Emmett Guards will not
enter teams all because the command
ing officers of the companies will not
allow their commands to berepresented
in league If some iron clad agree
ment is not reached to guarantee
against the season ending in a wrangle.
The decision not to enter a team
from the Light Infantry was reached
last night. The reason is not gener-
ally known but the members as a
whole feel that an indoor baseball
team will be enough for the company
to support this winter.
The indoor team will play the regular
series with the team from the Hart
ford City Guards and this is about all
the athletics the company members will
indulge in. Capt. ]. ]. Moynihan of
the Emmets is not at all anxious for
his company to enter a basketball
league if the season is to end in a
wrangle, for he feels that such argu
ments do no good and only tend to do
| harm to all concerned. Capt. Barrett
while he has not said anything on the
committee is out from every company
and all will attend the meeting of the
athletic committee at the Armory Sun
| day afternoon. The fact that the
Light Infantry will not be represented
| is not known to members.
Capt Barrett's company is represent
ed by a committee, but the committee
has not full power to act. The com
pany will first have to hear a report,
and If thfnCC n mr. or
factorily, there will be no basketball
for the City Guuards. Capt. Moynihan
is willing to have a basketball team
formed from members Of his company
and allow the men to play outside
games. The whole life of the basket
ball league now depends upon action
by the athletic committee, and If the
members can arrange to insure no
trouble. the success of the league is
assured. Capt. Barrett says that a
league would be a good thing among
the militiamen of the city, as it would
provoke much interest in the COM
panies.
At the meeting of the City Guards
at the Armory last night the athletic
committee made a report and it was
accepted as progressive. At the meet
ing Sunday the committee will at
tend. Lieut.. F, IT. Lucke, chairman
of the committee appointed to extend
to Mrss William Mckinley the sorrow
of the City Guards at the death of her
husband, received a reply from Can
ton yesterday. 1t reads:
Mrs. Mckinley acknowledges
with grateful appreciation the
tender sympathy extended to her
in her sorrow.
Canton, Nov. 49,"
The letter was read to the company
at the meeting last night. The COM
pany had an hour and a half drill be-
fore the meeting and began a regular
routine laid out for the winters work.
Every section of drill and the manual
will be taken up by the company, and
by spring Capt. Barrett expects to
have given his men a thorough school
ing in all duties of a soldier.
Two men made application for MEM
bership and their names will be re-
ferred to the standing committee. The
company will not accept the invita-
ton of the Light Infantry to take part
in a competitive shoot Thanksgiving
Day, as arrangements have already
been made for a team shoot between
members OF the company.
At the officers meeting held in
Guards were awarded fourth place in
the recent regimental shoot, which
resulted in a tie for that place between
the Worcester and Northampton COM
panies of the Second Regiment The
decision was made because of the even
score Of the City Guards.