The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-28
Basketball Magnates Meet With
Difficulties in Completing an
Eight or Even a Six Club Cir
cult
SENTIMENT IN SPENCER
WILL BE SOUNDED
A Settled Fact That WhitinsviIIe
viii Not be Represented in the
League-CIinton Looked Upon
as Fruitful Ground For a Good
Paving Team

Massachusetts Central Basketball
League will begin its season within
two weeks. At a meeting at the Sher-
wood House yesterday, five teams, the
Father Mathews, G.. Y. M. Lyceums,
Websters, Millburys and Woonsockets
were represented, and it is assured
that this number of teams will be ready
for the opening of the league season.
All chances of getting Whitinsville
into the circuit have been abandoned,
and it is now up to the league to get
a sixth team Clinton is named as a
town in which interest in the sport
could be raised to a pitch that would
insure financial success for the pro-
moters. John H. Thompson, manager
of the Father Mathew team was In
structed to visit Clinton and sound
sentiment.
Lyceum and Webster basketball
teams will play in Spencer within a
short time. The attendance at the
game will have much to do with de-
termining the policy Of promoters of
the sport in that town. There is a
feeling among Spencer lovers of the
game that basketball can be made to
pay in that town and the attendance
figures at the exhibition game may re-
suit in the selection of sixth town
for the Massachusetts Central circuit
At yesterdays meeting six candidates
for positions on the league staff of ref
erees were present. The men were P
w. Hehir, G. d. Morse, 7. F. Foley, f,
E. Burgoyne, T. J. Reilly of Webster
j. A. Casey. Four men will be picked
from this sextet, all other candidates
losing any chance Of appointment by
not attending yesterdays meeting. The
six men were subjected to rigid cross
examination, President M. A. o. Rourke
conducting the questioning. President
| O'Rourke showed wide acquaintance
with basketball rulings and he KEEP
the candidates worried, several of then
being dazed by his questions. c. P
! Davis, considered by many the peer o.
/ any basketball referee, viii not be {
member Of the Massachusetts Contra
| staff this season having been weaneC
away by f. H. Sawyer of Hudson, wh(
I is at the head of new league.
It was voted yesterday to have
/ backboards on all baskets except thos'
! in the hall at Webster. Capt. ConloI
/ of Webster claimed that attendance
| figures would suffer if the game wa
+ played in that town with backboards
and, by vote of the other managers, /
was decided to allow Webster to con
tinue without backboards.
An exhibition game will be played il
! Father Mathew Hall tonight with tn
Lyceum and Millbury team as contes
tants The Lyceums will have Quinn
of the Emmets at centre. The for
wards will be Keegan and Sheehan an
the backs, Smith of the Father Math
ews and Holmes.
Nov. IL a game for the benefit of Z
F. Connolly, former captain of the Ly
ceums will be played in Father Math
ew Hall An all star league team com
posed of Henry Martens, Cullen, Horal
4 Horne and Conlon will oppose the Ly
ceum team Connolly has been a suffer
er from rheumatism for about sil
months.
At the meeting of the league Sun
( day, a schedule will be adopted
/ Should there be no decision reached
regarding the sixth member of the
league, a schedule for FIVE teams viii
be adopted.