The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-02-20
Notes Of Interest to Ball Players In Paitlcu-
lar and Cfanks In GeneraI.
Nh. MITCHELL, OF ROANOKE EXPLAINS
correspondence From Tint civ Tolls
All About Ii ana MINI, Ot.,cr
hss -Gossip OF National Lenguo
STARS nsd OF Those Nearer Homo
ana Retter known.

portsmouth had been frozen out or ihc
Virginia League. The facts are those.
Manager Mitchell. Of Roanoke. wrotn m
,I INelhi occasions to the Portsmouth peo-
PIG ABOUT the league, ana could get M
ueilhlte or satisfactory reply from any
one VINO could represent the bosehol1
iihtereSt, and SO, to be regretted now
nelds mad TO be sought, with the res,rlt
. .HAt the Tour towns cited form the Vir-
Slnla League. It had been rcnortcil tho
portsmouth would be in the VIRGINIA
league, but as 1t had every opportunity
70 nave done SO there is no one to blame
put themselves.
success has we'll attended the in
9 War energy and perseverance, Of
Manager Mitchell in his efforts N rnrn,
u TOUR club baseball league ana tho
,,oi'oWing towns are being looked after
~ these wcll-known baseball snori..
.lii'e Hodge takes Danvlle under his
mllchiul care; Paul Hines takes Lynch
helly. the nvincible arblter ana snort
ing genius. looks after the interest ar
Winston, n. c.
a word about limited salaries may
no, r be considered out OF place here.
from the fact that there is en- ,,,,,,,i,
being said about the subject unnii
Sa!ary limit i'll Il minor city or Town is
lhc only way In which it can ever b,;ild
up us record in baseball. Large snln-
req players in minor towns are TO n
Sreat eStent careless They seem to
want not 10 practice, or become IN
aliercnt as to the merits of the posi-
'ioh thcy hold, and instead of heinz
carheSt. careful and energetic as they
sno"id De- they are whvcring under the
~. IN OF changeability, which leads TO
men desire to be released
On the other hand, YOU rct no
young, ardent energetic player. desir-
GUS Oh making mark in the national
game He is DESTROYS Of joining q; len.
cue sue Il i small salary where his abilities
WI " recognized and he goes into the
1'ielh win the heart and courage of n
man about to conquer the enemy. rho
young blood is wanted. the young blood
| Is sprlnGinE forth, and ] am candil IN
SAVING that 1897 will bring forth some
ntIItllng games OF ball by young and
unknown Players
secretary l3roomc of tho Norfoll,
team. returned from Washington yos-
'erday morning. where he went 10 securc
srounds for his club to do It's spring
! l'r'1ctIce on. He succeeded in closing
i deal with the Columbia Athletic Chub
or the use Of its park, and the team
VII report in Washington on March
2Sth. 49, -
Pitcher KlobedanZ, or The Boston f,,,b
is Ill with measles =
Pitcher Kennedy, of the BROOKLYN
CiuD, was granted a divorce from his
wife Monday last 80
Manager Stallings. of the phila dclpbia
baseball Club, sold Hulcn and Meries
70 the Columbia team for $500
= =
ShoriS;op Jack Corcoran Of last years
Ioetroit Club, and with Norfolk in 1894
30, has entered suit against Vandcrbeck
lor $500, claimed to be due on his ,,si
summers salary.
The Roanoke Club has signed Catcher
f'an Lacy, late OF Carbondalc
Clements has heen playing with the
Ph!iadelphia Club for fourteen years.
Summing up the players who ara ,i,o-
~ 70 start The season with the Brook
iyn Grub, there are three bills" three
Georges. two "Jimmies," three Johns
one Chauncey, one Claude one Edward
one Harley, one Elder, one Mike" one
alexander and one Daniel Webster
The Toms that prcdominatcd last year
nave been wiped out altogether.
In the Atlantic League averages
Jerry Nons makes rather poor showing
US batter. being one hundred and
iirst on the list Of battrrs with =. ner
ccntnge of .1S5. Mr.. Ianlon, however.
thinks there is the making OF q good
batter IN Nops, with proper training.
Mr.. and Mrs. McGraw have returned
10 baltimore from their wedding tour
Ihey visited Washington and New York
clties and spent some time visiting re-
| latives of the groom in central New Yor,
State
The Baltimore players signed to date
are Robinson, Jennings, Kelley. Nc
Graw, kccler, CBrcn, Stencil. Doy}c
Corbett and Nops.
That Americas national game Is gain
ing ground in England, is a fact en-
phasized by the London Graphic. which
prints q page Of spirited diamond prc-
lures. International baseball is Ger
talnly more than Il possibility.
| They say that Pickering, Of the Louis
rllies, is as good shortstop as he is
| outiieldcr.
Fifteen of the twenty eight leaguers
| whose batting averages were over 800
nave played in the major organiZa lions.
The report that Ernie Hodge is to
nave charge Of the Danvilc team in the
| proposed Virginia State League has
been denied. Hodge belongs to Newark
or the Atlantic League. and it Is not
probable that he will be allowed TO sever
his connection with that club to go TO
Danville.
! Jack Gilroy has made ARRANGEMENTS
for quarters 1t the Regent in Washing