The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-13
BLACK EYE FOR
 CROSBY HIGH Picked Up Team of Gridiron Players Took Name of School
 and Abused It.
so SAYS THE DEMOCRAT
Team Came, However, as High school Eleven and Kept Manager Ken
 nedy Ignorant of Situation.

The Waterbury Democrat prints the following
 A picked football team from this city went to New Haven Saturday morn ing and played a tie game with the high school team of that city, the score standing to at the finish. The game was slugging match, judging from the comments of the New Haven pa- pers.
 But 1t was not a Waterbury high school eleven that played In he Elm City Saturday, for the Crosby high team disbanded some days ago because of the death of Wilfred Balthazar, one of the team. True, there might have been a few players from the high school, but if the New Haven high had taken the trouble to learn they would have been aware that the local team had disbanded. If they got 1t rub bed Into them by an outside team they have none but themselves to blame. There Is no football team representing Watrbury high on the gridlron thls season and high school teams In the Slult klluulu IIldhC pdhNdA it hN''1 picked team makes them play the part of the goat The Journal Courier has the following to say of Saturdays game:
 The Democrat then prints the full ac- count of Saturdays game which was printed In yesterdays Journal-Courier.
 s. w. Wilby, principal of Crosby high school, said this morning there was no football team at the high school and that if any team took the name high school 1t was simply case or imposing on the New Haven team. As for New Haven high basketball team getting it rubbed into them last season i in this city, there is nothing to it. Wis itng players have always received ! courteous treatment by the local bas- ketball players and the fact Is attest cd by the number of teams that come ,to this city every season. The athletes of the local high are not nearly the row dies of some other schools of the state and any team that Is rightfnlly play ing under the name of Crosby high will compare favorably as athletes and gentlemen with the young men of any other school in the state. But they arc not responsible for ringers who use ahe Waterbury high name to get games. New Haven please take notice.
 The Journal Courier in printing the story of the game and referring to the basketball game in Waterbury as an example of the unsportsmanlike treat ment of the Brass City high to the local high athletes printed that which it was absolutely sure of Its special high school reporter witnessed the game at the Brass City and along with the local quintet had a most unfavor- able report to render regarding the treatment received at the hands of the Waterbury basketball team.
 When asked about the arrangement of Saturdays game before the print ing of yesterdays articles, Harold Ken nedy, manager of the local high eleven, stated as was repeated In tho story, that he had been kept in absolute ig- norance regarding the true state of af- fairs at Waterbury. He was notified by the Waterbury high manager that the up- town school wolud have a team on the field in their out of town games only, and that they would be on hand to meet the local high.