Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-21
LIMIT REACHED.
Entire WatervilIe Ball Team
Fired, Saturday Night.
New England Champion Lowell Team
Hired in Body.
Dissipation and Fake Games Not to Be
Tolerated.

Waterville, Me-, Sept. 2O-(SpeciaD.
| It has come at last, Waterville and
| Fairfield are playing fast New England
league ball At least Waterville will be
in the next game if all the promises
| and agreements made, Saturday even
| ing, are kept, for the champion Lowell
team will be wearing the suits. Twelve
men, including Manager Lake, are ex-
| pected at s o'clock, this evening, ready
| to play in the game, Tuesday. The
change came so suddenly that but few
| can hardly realize that it is so. 1t was
all caused by Il sort of mutiny that
broke out in the ranks of the players
who have been defending Watervile's
fair name during the season, thus far
and there was a pretty warm session.
The last two games played by the
team have been very unsatisfactory to
the management and all the supporters
of the team, not because it lost but be-
cause of the way it lost No one liked
the way the last inning of Thursdays
game was played and no one liked a
single inning of Saturdays games es-
pecially Manager Locke. If the team
had played the game the way it had
been playing and as it is capable of
playing, and lost, no one would have
felt like knocking" any but when it
has not been coming anywhere near it's
standard. there has been o good deal of
complaint.
Everything has been all right until
within Il week or 10 days and during
that time has been going from bad to
worse until it was believed that the
limit had been reached, Saturday night
so the whole team was released and the
Lowell team signed to finish out the
season.
Matters came to a climax, Friday
night, with the dance that was held at
Oakland for the benefit of the Oakland
team. The boys wanted to attend
pretty badly but as there was hard
game on for the next day Manager
Locke would not give his consent. He
was backed UP in this by written in
structions from Mayor Davis, the
heaviest hacker eff the team, and ex-
planned the situation to each player,
forbidding any one to 60. But Walsh
went, getting back to the city along
about , o'clock, Saturday morning.
When he took Walsh to task for it
just before the game, Saturday after
noon, he was still defiant and was
benched for the day. Britt had not
been showing his usual form for some
time past and was off color in this last
game. He has been having more or
less trouble with Umpire Carrigan and
has not been in the game the way he
was during the first part of the season.
SO Britt and Walsh were both given
their release. Saturday evening. The
other men decided to stand by them
and, with the exception of Klobedanz,
went to the office of Mayor Davis and
notified him that if Britt and Walsh
went the others would go with them.
The mayor told them that he was not
their manager and that such matters
would have to be settled with Messrs
Locke and Salisbury. The men evil
IDENTIFY thought that they were going di-
rectly to the power behind the throne
but found that the throne was still in
good working order. Mayor Davis was
very kind and courteous, telling the
men that he thought they We're making
a mistake but that they could do just as
they pleased, or words to that effect
The interview was not the success, per-
haps, that the men thought it would be.
At any rate they found themselves in
the same position when they got
through as when they commenced.
Manager Locke began to warm up the
wires as soon as the storm began to brew
in good shape and by the time. it was at
it's height he was in communication with
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