Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-25
A Communication.

do not think that the village of Fair
field contains the normal percentage of
'kicllers; therefore could not be called
kicking town. especially in baseball.
Last spring, by mutual agreement. we
decided to have no baseball. but the fever
was stirred up by Oakland having a
strong local team.
Several citizens of Waterville and Fair
field met and agreed to get teams and
play Oakland jim triangular league. Fair
field kept heF' part of the agreement to the
letter. as anyone who will look back to.
the three games played with Oakland can,
see by the scores, , to / and to 0 in Fair
fields favor. and to in Oakand's fayor.!
Watervile, for her part, got the best
that money could buy at that time in the
Alerts, Immediately outclassing Fairfield
and Oakland. There was an opportunity
for Fairfield to kick because it was not
as had been agreed; but Fairfield said,
go on and we will try and catch up
Fairfield was struggling, trying to get
men TO fill up the weak spots with alter-,
nate success and failure.
When the challenge series commenced,l
Watarville won the first Fairfield the next
two, and Waterville the next five straight
Fairfield, in the meantime. hired three
New England League players, one to fiji
the place of buchanan, the left fielder.
who had accepted position elsewhere
and was obliged to leave. Joyce taking
his place; Allen to fill second base. Fair
field having been weak all the season and
Waterville strong: the third man. Joss
elyn to hold down the old veteran Kobe
danZ. trying to give the public good games
and Fairfield an even show for the bal
ance of .he games of the series. With
this addition Fairfield won two games
] to and ; to .. Up TO this point Water
Vile and won seven and Fairfield five
games of the series. '''
Here Waterville has trouble With one
game out of three to win, Waterville had
trouble with her ball team. discharging
two men. the rest going on a strike, and
they hired the entire Lowell New England
League team to take their place. All ini
one evening. Fast work. In any sports
manlike manner, Fairfield had n perfect
right to refuse to play the Lowell team |
in the Lowell uniform managed by the
Lowell manager-a team not in any sense
a Waterville team.
Al
old team played three men ION the !
bench" in Waterville uniform, one of
whom was reinstated for no other purpose
than for fear that Fairfield might hire
him, and claim that the three men on the
bench peppered the Lowell team so that
it might be called a Watervile team.
The fact, as it appears from Fairfeld's
side, is that Waterville is to be compared
to horse in race that breaks and goes
into the air the moment any other horse
puts nose up to his saddle. They want |
a baseball race, but they must have a |
2.20 horse against a 2.i0 horse or they
won't playa statement that can be
proved many times by the history of past |
years. 1t is proved in yesterdays Jour
nar' when a challenge is published chal-
longing Fairfield for $500 to play Water !
vile a series of three games.
That plainly shows their sporting blood. |
Having in their town team that is the
champion of the New England Leaguel
they have courage and lots of it: but they |
did not have courage enough when they |
had a three to one shot. to finish the sea |
son with the old team. The season will |
close as it commenced. with Fairfield out |
classed. with cost. not like the Boer
war, that would stagger humanity" but |
at a cost that would stagger many a |
would-be sport in the Waterville bunch |
But the cost has proved one thing: That |
they have got a few people in that city
who would not count anything only to |
win, no matter how.
tSigneO A FAIRFIELD CITIZEN,