Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-12
BAD ACTORS Z
BLACK EYE FOR
 CROSBY HIGH
Picked Up Tesm of Cridiron Players Takes Name of School
 and Abussd It.

A picked football team from this city went to New Haven Saturday morning and played tie game with the high school team of that city, the score standing 0 to 0 at the finish. The game was slugging match, judging from the comments of the New Haven papers.
 But 1t was not a Waterbury high school eleven. that played in the Elm city Saturday. for the Crosby high team disbanded some days ago be- cause of the death of Wilfred Bal thazar, one of the team. True, there might have been few players fronl the high school, but if the New Ha- ven high Jhad taken the trouble to learn they would have been aware that the local team had disbanded. If they got it rubbed into them by an outside team they have none but themselves to blame. There is no football team representing Water bury high on the. gridiron this sea- son and, high school teams in the state should make no squeal If some picked team makes them play the part of the goat. The Journal-Cou- rier has the following to say of Sat urday's game: t
 Tt was an entirely inexcusable of- fense on the part of the Waterbury high school officials to send or even permit such disgraceful team to represent their school. If complete team of clean, sportsmanlike stu dents could not have been secured the Waterbury manager should have explained the situation of affairs aud cancelled the game. Instead of being true sportsmen, however, they smuggled in few full grown men and with the aid of the rest of the team put up an outrageous exhibition of football.
 Immediate steps in the matter will probably be taken by the local high school students, as they have al- ready endured enough of the Water- bury high school teams poor school spirit, the affair Saturday about cap ping the climax. No sign of decency has showed itself in either the bas- ketball or football teams, their treat ment of the local high athletes al- ways bordering on muckerism. The students of the school, too, are up in arms and will not tolerate witnessing such, games in the future, only the immediate cessation of hostilities Sat urday keeping the frenzied spectators from attacking the visitors. Little surprise, therefore, will be created when the high school athletic asso- citation decides to blacklist Water bury high from its future schedules of sports.
 Too much time and space cannot be occupied in the relating of the mean, underhanded and cowardly attacks of that Waterbury high (2) eleven ill their game with the New Haven high school team Saturday. Only five ringers were used by the visitors and they jumped into the game with out the least bit of regard for thelr opponents or the large number of spectators present. After furnish ing a little sparring exhibition before the game, the aggregation of rowdies representing a Connecticut high school hurled themselves into every scrimmage and mix-up and resorted to dirty and shameful work at every turn. A malicions blow now and then, a snap of indecent language, rough work in tackling and other such tough and disgraceful playing manifested itself throughout and al- together marred the first local high school football contest of the season.
 This was by no means all. The Brass city high, not content with slugging, continually called time for imaginative and petty causes, when In reality they wanted periods of rest The ringers as we'll as the hign school players unanimously agreed upon one course of tactics, to smear the coming champions of Connecti- cut, whether it be by fair or foul means, preferably the latter. Sucn a display of cheap work on the part of a high school team has not been witnessed here in years. It was this same school that took its basketball defeat by the local high so badly that 1t all but mobbed the New Haven high school athletes on the visit of the latter to Waterbury"
 $. 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 it was simply a case of imposing on the New Haven team. As for New Haven high bas- ketball team getting 1t rubbed into them last season in this city, there is nothing to it. Visiting. players have always received courteous treat ment by the local basketball players and the fact is attested by the num- Der of teams that come to this city every season. The athletes of the local high are not nearly the rowdies of some other schools of the state and any team that is rightfully 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 are not responsible for ringers who use the Waterbury high name to get games. New Haven please take notice.