The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-05-09
Tomorrow the Brooms tackle real
baseball team. What will the harvest

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Tomorrow the Brooms tackle real
baseball team. What will the harvest
be?
Monk shaffer is u fine first base
man, but there arc othcrs:-Richmond
State. &
the Paris Midlands team or the Texas
League.
kid Fear one of Manager Smiths
Lynchburg team last year, hats been
released by Newark.
George Reed, with his Houston team.
is winning games handily. They are
leading the Texas league with eight
games won and three lost.
Tit for tat, wasn't it? We'd rather
see the Brooms win in Richmond than
from Richmond, on our own grounds.
Revenge is saccharinc, you know.
Harry Cote is playing real laundry
ball for Houston. Cote was always II
favortc here, and his friends will lie
glad to hear he is holding up his end.
Tom Gettinger, Of last years Grand
Rapids team, has been signed by Mana
ger Ellis, Of Newark. but refuses to
come to Newark for the salary offered
Gettinger is we'll known here, having
played with Richmond in 1894.
Secretary Dreyfuss, Of the Louisville
Club, follows the work or all young play
erS, and has been the means OF getting
the Colonies some clever men. He sent
4 man to the Virginia League last year
and the agent reported in favor of get
ting Pickering and Dolan-Sporting
Life.
Well, friend Cnrdoza, will you allow
me to refrain from cogitating? T don't
have to- The Brooms have vindcated
themselves handsomely before tho as
semb(cd concourse of Richmond fana-
ties. I really have never thought that
the Birds have any license to beat the
Erooms. Their pitchers are all right.
but the tean>-wcll it might be some
better.
This season Monk Shaner and Captain,
Smith furnish the side show attractions.
and their antics are very amusing to the
crowd. Not only are these two players
excellent understudies for Isarnum's Jo-
hanna but they can play ball. Scha fer
is an exceedingly quick player. and he
handles the stick with dcNterity, while
! Smith covers lots OF ground and Very
little escapes hiln.-Richmon,l Times.
Mcnamara is n poor umpire. That is
the opinion Of every person who SAW
yesterdays game. lie is not dishonest
but he demonstrated that he is inconpp-
tent He was entirely off on his balls
and strikes and all wrong on his ia Sc
decisions. On two occasions he changed
his decisions after he had made them Ii
is to be hoped that Il good man will
be sent here for next week. for Rich
mond is sick of Mcnamara He should
hn piNcp his. co li..bp n;c
patch.
Only two of last years Hartford
team are at iprcsent With that
| club. They are Cavelc and Thorn
! ton, and it is a matter Of note to men
ton that they both went to that club
as graduates from the Virginia League
Cavelle, | signed for President Freed
man after the end OF the season Of 1895
but he was shunted to the Metropolitans
OF the Atlantic League without trial
with the Giants, except the spring prac-
ticc at JackSonvlle
President Young says in regard to
earned runs: IF three-base hit is
made. and the next man goes out, the
runner scoring, it IS an earned run if the
next man UP hits safely" Again, IF
4 batsman makes a two-baSe hit and
steals to third, and a hit follows his run
is earned. because he would have scored
on the hit if the hit was clean enough to
advance the runner from second to
nome. or course, this point lies with
the Judgment OF the scorer" \ few
more calculations from President Young
with diagrams, rear and front clcva-
tons and profile View OF the earned
run puzzle would not be amiss.
Jake Morse says Of "Chck" Stahl in
Sporting Life: The sensation Of the sea
son was the replacing of Tucker on first
by Tenney, and bringing Stahl into right
field. Stahl brought his bat into play
from the word go and in tho winning
and tie games 1t is very probable they
would have gone against Boston but for
his work. He is a hitter all right, and
a sensational find Mr.. Wagner Of the
Washington Club, passed ten days
watching this lad last season, and would
have secured him for his club had not
|.Alanager SchmelZ said he did not want
him. Accordingly, Mr.. Wagner drafted
him for Boston. Both gentlemen must
have been decidedly of the opinion that
there was room for him after the man
ner matters have turned out this
spring. 1t Is an incontroVertible fact
that the Virginia League has put more
successful young players into the big
league than any minor league in the
country.
Talking about coaching this year, UNI
pirc Sheridan, of the big league, said the
other day in Cincinnati: "President
Young told all the llulI,ircS this sprin O.