The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-19
Team BeIitt|ed" Says Crane No.
Manager Objects to Report that Locomobile Players Laid Down Last Sat-
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(By Ira Hall.)

(By Ira Hall.)
 Manager E. J. Lyddy of the Crane No. 1 team of the industrial league takes exception to an article which appeared in Mondays Farmer as re- gards the Loco-Crane No. 1 game played on Saturday. Here is his com munication to the sporting editor:
 Dear Sir:-An item appeared in your paper Monday evening regard ing the game played last Saturday between the Locomobile and Crane No. teams in the Industrial league.
 The writer of your article claimed that the Locomobile team laid down to the Crane team. This state ment seems intended to belittle the Crane organization in the eyes of the public, instead of giving it the credit due for winning a hard fought game.
 Evidently. your writer was not present at the game in question but was indebted to some unreliable source for the information on which he based his opinion. Had he wit messed the game, justice and fair ness would have called for a differ ent expression of opinion as to the merits of the players who won the contest.
 It is intimated that the Locomobile players failed to support Pitcher game was such condition of affairs apparent to any onlooker, and the game was one which a true sport lov- ing public enjoy.
 If the writer in your paper will refer to the records of the game, he will find the Locomobile team had but three errors two of which were errors on thrown balls. Again, if the -Locomobile team "laid down" on &C., count of Pitcher Klawberg, how does your writer account for their not be- ing able to touch Mullen for more than four safe hits, while the Crane boys were able to find Kiawberg for ten clean hits?
 Quoting from the article in the "F'armer''-"Crane No. 1 is a first class amateur club" Of course. it is. It is an amateur club playing as amateurs in an amateur organization. The members of it's team are all bona fide employees of Crane Valve Go. No. 1 Plant, and claim to be purely anna teurs. Otherwise, they would not be eligible to membership in the Indus trial league.
 Thanking you for the courtesy of space in your paper, and confident that this letter will be given as much prominence as was the criticism of our team in Mondays issue, I re- main,
 Yours in sport,
 E. J. LYDDY, Manager Crane Valve Go. Team No. 1
 Here is reproduced the Farmers alleged criticism of the Crane No. 1 team:
 Loco machine Saturday when a cog slipped and they lost to Crane No. 1, 8:3. Crane No. is a first class anna teur club but they are below the standard of the Loco players. There are wild rumors about that the Loco players will not support Pitcher Klaw- berg who worked Saturday. Manager Lundberg would do well to look into this~ condition of affairs. With all due credit to Hurler Matty Mullins of the Crane crowd, he held the Locos to four hits. On the other hand Klaw- berg was touched for 10 hits, but some of these safeties should never have been."
 The head to the above article reads, Did Locomobile Team Throw Klaw- berg Down." "Rumor That Game Was Lost to Crane No. i Because Loco Players Quit"
 '''This statement seems intended to belittle the Crane organization" says Manager Lyddy. Evidently the writ CT and Manager Lyddy look at the article through different lenses. Does Manager Lyddy take exception to the statement, There are wild rumors about that the Loco players will not support Pitcher Klawberg?" Is the Crane club belittled by such a remark? The writer does not think so. The writer did not witness the game and was given his impression through diff ferent sources, one coming through a man who participated in the contest. He did give Pitcher Mullins credit for the game.
 Had he (the writer) witnessed the game. justice and fairness would have called for different expression of opinion as to the merits of the play CTS who won the contest says Man. ager Lyddy. Here the writer gave his own opinion which is shared by the majority of the Industrial league followers of the city, many of them Crane No. 1 plant employees, that the Crane Mo-. team is a first class out fit, but not in the class with the Locos. The Crane No. 1 players might have performed better, and evidently did, than the Locos on Saturday, but that does not make of them the better team. The writer has stated that the Loco team is the best in the Industrial league, and still says so. Only a glance through it's makeup will con vince any one in doubt.
 Of course Crane No. 1 is a first class anna teur club" So are the Locos. The writer knows they are amateurs and playing in an amateur organization, also bona fide employees of the Crane plant, and that if they were not they would not be eligible to membership in the Industrial league. That's old stuff and was i'm pressed on the league followers about this time two years back
 Has Manager Lyddy a kick coming? The writer does not think his club has been criticised
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