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The Indignant Brants |
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LACROSSE THE BRANTS INDIGNANT The Toronto Globe Friday July 19, 1889 PARIS July 17 - The Brants are very much incensed at an article which appears in a St. Catharines paper entitled "Beggars on Horseback." The article states that the Saints Club are surprised at the visitors putting up at the Welland House, on the occasion of the late championship match, instead of some hotel more on a par with the style of their home hostelries; and it is hinted that when the bill (the Athletics pay for the entertainment of the visiting team) comes in, the Brants will likely find a portion of it charged back to them. The Secretary of the Brants authorizes The Globe that the club fully appreciated the rich hospitality of their Saintly antagonists, as manifested in this newspaper article, and will endeavor to reciprocate at some future time. The Brants, he goes on to say, have on each previous visit to St. Catharines stayed at the Stephenson, paying their own bill. This time they proposed to put up at the same house, but they were advised by telegram from the Athletics that the Stephenson was full. Inquiry when they reached St. Kitts proved this to be untrue. There was ample room, but the Athletics didn't want to foot so big a bill. However, the Brants were not proud - they took the next best quarters. Even the reflection that their entertainers would have been pleased to quarter them at some canal boarding house did not mar the enjoyment of their more pretentious surroundings. They gave the best the Town of Paris affords to their visitors and they expected the same when they themselves went abroad; but they never anticipated that the hospitality extended to them in St. Catharines would be coupled with the ungracious, not to say indecent, criticisms, comparisons and intimations embodied in the newspaper article under the caption, "Beggars on Horseback." |