Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-02
Sporting Gossip OF the Day
"What Is the Matter With
Cony?" Asks Gardiner High And
Cony Answers the Question
THE GARDINER QUESTION.

The following article comes from the
Reporter Journal:
1t looks as if Gardiner High and
Cony High would not meet on the
baseball diamond this spring. This
fact is source of great grief to Gar
diner High and it's supporters for the
reason that the games are the CHIEF
source of income of the Gardiner team
and it is y matter of considerable
pleasure to behold the spectacle of the
larger neighbor humbled in defeat. To
be sure it isn't always that way, but
that is just the difference between the
two--Gardiner High is willing to take
its chances on that. .-
Cony claims that it has no open
dates. Shortly after this claim was
made the Cony schedule which ap-
peared in the kennebec Journal show
cd several open dates. The letter which
manager Frank Libby finally received
from the cony manager who left all
epistles unanswered until the principal
of the school was applied too, states
that there are no open dates and ex-
presses great grief therefor and the
hope for better luck in the future.
The first thing a manager usually
the date for its rival team, the other
dates being built around those. 1t is
impossible for US to think that the
Cony manager went ahead and forgot
that his school had been accustomed to
having an occasional contest with
Gardiner On the other hand it is
equally impossible for US to believe
that Cony has decided on terminating
athletic relations with Gardiner with
out saying something about the matter
The expressions of grief and the hope
for the future expressed by the young
manager would imply that athletic re-
iations had not been severed. 1t would
almost back up the statement of the
over-ardent students They're scared
of us" Which statement we of course
take with a grain of salt. 1t all Sits
down to that old familiar question of
What ails Cony now?'
The following bit of history may be
the explanation:
Two years ago Gardiner lost an i'm
rortant football game on Quimby Field
because of decision and the refusal of
Cony to live up TO an agreement. Car
diner protested and Cony came out
strong with the abide by the umpire"
stuff. Such was not the case when
Gardiner High won game by de-
cision at Augusta last fall
In the contest two years ago dark
ness came down rapidly on the field
and when several spectators started to
go home Gardiner demanded the game
be called on account of darkness. Cony
refused and made an agreement to play
10 minutes more. cit was during the
next three minutes of semi darkness
that sCony scored the winning points.
Then the game was called without
Gardiner having mad the advantage of
the darkness which made it possible
for Cony to score.
In the game last fall Gardiner High
was carrying the ball by good gains
straight for the Cony goal line. Gardi-
ner was almost in the shadow of the
goal post when the referee called for
time out" The timers did not hear
him and neglected to take out time
and directly afterwards called time
up" when one good plunge meant
touch down and u victory for Gardi-
ner. The referee instructed the
timers to take out the time and called
for play to be resumed. But Cony
refused.
If this is the only way Cony can
wrest a victory from Gardiner High or
stave off defeat it is not at all surpris
ing that she desires to have nothing
more to do with us.
We believe that there was board of
arbitration agreed upon last year to
pass upon just such cases as the foot
ball game of last fall. Why was the
matter not brought before the board
then? Is it too late to do so now?
Let us have games of both baseball
and football between these two schools,
as usual.