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FATSSaturday SpecialCanton Will Enter No-' ■ ■ H - 4 lt;i ' * ¥2- f » _ •More Athletic Contests1 Oc Cigar for 5cWith Massillon.Wm give IfidependentlCigarWHAT AN OFFICIAL SAYSStore's Coupons.lt;»f those privilege*. The organizationThe annoum em»nt that the management of the Canton Athletic club would in the future refuse to have any °f the Canton foot hall team of lStu6,contests with Massillon, was not received with much kindness by Manager Stewart, of Massillon. In a long lirt.inJe in the sporting column of the Cleaner ,of which he is editor, Stewart »(fialt;k- the officials of the C. A. C. and charges that the Canton basketball management was showing the white feather. It was also (barged that the people of Canton do not apis fresh ir. the minds of the people, and needs no rehearsal, other than to refute the attacks made by Stewart of Massillon that certain officials of the C. A. C, do not represent the opinions of the majority of the sports in Canton when they refuse to have any more to do with Massillon in sport-1Iing contests. When the alleged sellout of “Blondy” Wallace was printed In a Massillon paper, a great, manypredate the efforts of the Tiger man-sgeinent. In their efforts to assist the'P®°Ple *n Canton were inclined to be-sMfc.nded Canton football team i»y giv-lieve the truthfulness of tneJfag thlt; ,crvi-ei of the Mas lllon play-the Result was that on Thanksgiv-ers gratis at the benefit game played I***}', barely 12*M people passedthrough the gates of Athletic park,when a crowd of no less than 6000when theat Meyers lake last Sunday, wart says that Massillon has learnedlove snort for snort's sake, and persons was anticipated,/ toIHir**■ If gamc.3 can be arranged with Canton, the Tigers will endeavoi* In a thoroughly gentlemanly manner to prove to the spectators, that the Tigers constitute the better teain. IfI kthey are defeated fairly and squarely, there will never be a whimper from the Massllloulans. Stewart further says that it is to lw* regretted that those in ••barge of affairs at Canton, have not yet learned this lesion,Ac;In the first place says one of the officials of the C. A. C. last night, ifter being shown the article above referred to, ‘’Massillon has always hadthe reputation of being a verv unfaircity in sports. Kverytime the teams representing that city have been defeated in the past, a cry has come from the majority of the people that some fraud had been conunlfted. The people of Canton were sick and tired of the outcome of lust year's contestcontract for the game was signed up at I strobe. This caused a loss of no(not be envied even by a prisoner in the OTVI6' penitentiary, but since the facts and motives of the conspirators against Canton are being ferreted out, the peope of Canton, are tinning out that they have been duped by the Massillon management and many of them have gone to Mr. Waoace per-t( sonally and apologized for their actions, and It is confidently believed, that after the courts and the grand jury gets through with certain people, there may be some deVwipiH^its that will even surprise some persons in Massillon. In the light ot these facts the people of Canton, will positively not stand for any more athletic contests between Canton and Massillon. It is known however, that the action of the management of this year’s Tigerlt;(lespecially after hearing'team in spoiling the Canton and Tain Massillon.the reports that^ two members of the Canton team had sold out partyof Cleveland gamblers. Whether any fHT«on» jn Massillon had anything to do with the affair. I do not care , to say, but it was plainly evident, that there was plenty of money to lover every dollar offered on flu* Canton team the day the game was play-*td, while previous to this It was hard to find bettors who would stake their money on the Tigers. The entire Question was brought before the boardof directors of the C. A. C. at one of their meetings, and It was the unanl-Uious opinion of these gentlemen, that of their affairs.home gross wrong had been committed ! 1 snd In the future there would be no Next Week's Polo Schedule,more football contest* between Can- The schedule for the seventh weekand referee assignment follows. The V was concerned. The members or a [Niles Canton game scheduled for Can-certain club In Cleveland, who were 10,1 Tuesday night may 1»h postponed •tipposed to have engineered the deal wwin* U, » convention at'•he Auditors'hereby the two Canton plavers were|iuin ,n Canton-Vir,„i »iirnva.'ii .» MONDAY. DECE!ii eg«»lt;i to nave thrown the trame en-trobe contest, does not meet the ap- t proval of many people in that city.So long as Jake Wise had charge of Massillon’s Interest in sport, every statement made Ty him was always made good and when he stepped down and out. In Massillon sporting cl»*-1 cles, the people of that city lost theservices of one of ttie cleanest and j t truest sports niton that ever headed any |'J organization. In th* future, the management of the C. A. C. will le confined to baseball and Iiasketball contents only, but no games with Massillon with the present crowd at theI Nton and Massillon so far as fhn C. A.1i.game, enloyed the- gambling privileges at the Canton race track the year previous, hut this season when those prlvil-igea were sold the Cleveland parties sere politely told by the Canton racetrack management, that no bids fromthem would be received under any Circumstances. The result was that In entire new set of men had charge.MREU 10. Iteaver Falls at Akron- L it ham. Sharon at New Castle—Evans. TUESDAY, 6 EC EM BK It II.New Castle at Youngstown - K\ans. Niles at Canton—I^afham.East Liverpool at Heaver Falls —Hart.WEDNESDAY. DEC EM 11KK 12. Akron at New Castle l-atham. Iteaver Falls at Sharon- Evans.aIL1/I1.1iCo01s I'
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Canton Morning News
Canton, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 08, 1906
Page 14
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Gregg F.
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