The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-01
Sporting NelUs
GREENFIELD ALSO
AGAINST HOLYOKE
Takes Slam at Northampton for Nurs-
ing Grouch-For-Club League Not
Popular, Says Gazette.

If the Greenfield Gazette is correct in |
expressing the sentiments of the base
ball fans of that town, Holvoke would
be AN, unwelcome addition to the Twin
State league But Greenfield is not in
sympathy with the four-team league
plan, which has some favor in Brattle-
boro and in seine Of the other towns of
the league. The Gazette authority says
that the feeling in Greenfield is that
the Holyoi1e people are" cutters -. and
will not back up their team. The Ga
zette dopes this wrong, providing Hol-
yoke was to have q winning team. Al
winning team would get enough back
ing in that town to make the venture
mighty fine paying proposition.
The statement attributed to DR. J. S.
Lyon, managing director of the Holy
oke chamber of commerce, in which he
said that Holyoke did not wish to play
ball with villages, is commented upon
by the same writer who remembers
when Holyoke through the same cham
Der of commerce, was anxious to get
the trade from the Villages
The desire to get Hclyoke in is
attributed mostly 70 northampton,
says the Gazette. Northampton is re-
garded as the one disturbing element in
! the league. northampton was sore be-
| cause it was fined $50 for not playing a
| game with Newport the last of the sea-
! son. Northampton declined to paw the
| fine, and when the Newport team came
! down they attached the gate receipts.
which were probably not enough to pay
the fine. northampton does not seem
to he able to get over this Incl lent
which is now ancient history and should
bc dropped.
" All the other teams but Northamp-
! ton are working harmeniousIy for the
new season of the league. Northamp-
ton should either fish, cut bait or 90
ashore. ..-r 49,.
THE idea of a four club league is
not popular here. / t is thought that
there would not be variety enough in it
The public would like to have more
teams playing.
eff Northampton will not stay il
the league. several alternatives are con
sidered. Fitchbugg could he taken in
although this would make a good dea
OF travelling. Fitchburg, Newport ant
Bellows Falls could travel directly owe
the Ashburnham branch, however. Ath
Oh and Orange, it is thought, would fee
disposed to run q team together a
. Brookside park. This would be a goo,
! arrangement if the two towns could ge
along without quarelng, and finish tn
season. Also NorthAdams might pu
: team in. but it would want Sunda,
/ ball. which would not be likely to z
! in the other towns.
Directors Harris and Bement O
, Northampton were in town last Satul
, day to discuss the situation. 1t
hoped here that Northampton will ge
over its gFouches. IF Greenfield pee
pie wished to nurse their grievance
e they too can recall how Northampto
e probably captured the 1913 penant b
: playing Parker in the Labor day gam
r But Northampton should forget it
grouches, as the other teams have don
, for the league as it has been const
= tuted is more compact and practict
: than it would be on any other basis.
u There is a good deal of feeling
y the other towns that the game h;
grown too expensive, and that the "
rious boards of directors have consi
Is cred too much the interest of their ov
70 teams, and too little of the interest
" the league as a whole. Some kind of
Il guarantee is asked for that the team
:, shall keep within fixed limits of e
: pense.