The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-08
|SHAFEER' 5 MEN
TO- TOWN
stal, Wallace and Fry Landed
Last Night Ready for
aS Practice.
|BRAWNY LOOKING CHAPS
players Already Here Sturdy
|BRAWNY LOOKING CHA
Players Already Here Sturdy
Youngsters Likely Be Hard TO
ss5s Choose Among Them.

Prank Still, Allen Wallace and VIII
linn Fry, all pitchers who hold con-
TRAITS with Manager Charlie Shancr or
. tlns Richmond baseball nine, arrived IN
tlc city yesterday and are quartered ut
the Ford's Hotel where the entire team
iwili stop during the season.
Practice work in earnest VIII begin to-
morrow and from then on to the OPEN
| INK game of the season, on TIE 18th or
Isthee month, the men will be put through
1SRlf 4of the diamond stunts. The best or
| TIM players will be retained; those VINO
failhto deliver the goods will be allowed
Ito return TO their homes. But none or
them will be sent to the brush until
after they have been given a good trial
|1and II looks now rs though there will
be some difficulty in selecting. from the
|!1isis of fast players that Manager Slhhtter
litS huddled together.
asl Drank Still, who Is from Kentucky, ana
|S,ytl,o put n few twists into the sphere Tor
the NJ ennphis bunch OF Southern League
champions, Is expected to be one OF the
sta,. slab artists for the Law Makers. lie
Al handsomely built, erect, broad should-
|Eered and has 4 wing that can stand the
|ystrain Of extra innings. Likewise has ne
va Ehead that works when the bases are
s9Ai. ~
|$asS SAIL pushed very busy pencil across
icuqiy paper for Il newspaper III Kentucky
and after leaving the Woodworking re-
#po1'torial field buttcd into the cinch OF
Lefty editorism Tho only wonder that IS
5still a wonder is that he left such a
happy berth to to real hard work on
&theS diamond. But he loves the game
and lie puts his whole soul into the
3wprls.
MS i.Billy" Fry is a:mess for any Eaters
8dillner. He came from the Quaker City,
where Bender and Waddcll tauEht him
n to put different kinks into the Eorsehide
sIIe is there with the goods as u twirlcr.
Wallace Virginian.
G8S Allen Wallace is yirginian,, CratEhend
owns him. but he doesn't feel bad about
the ownership. Several years ago he
&vsrnoosed from this place and landed out
SIN illinois, where he made good IN the
#hdx. And say, he is one OF tho bggef
Fellows to tackle that has shown up yet
Ills shoulders kind o stick out on sides
and his Jaw resembles that proverbial
&hiInl. He is good all right
iEf But what has become of Reddy Foster?
n Three days ago this Richmond player,
f1yllo knows Justice Crutchfeld and all
tile other politicians of the. city, left
4 Greenesville. Miss, for Virginia's capital
85Iits hasn't landed yet. Not a word has
been hard: from. him. as;
NO one who knows Rcddys would think
forS Il Moment that lie had gotten lost
@ins.tho busy whirl on Broad Street, but
There is, 81 nevertheless a. littlc&anxiety
Mtelt,as to his whereabouts.
Tha.other players will report day or
Monday. BY Tuesday the entire aggrc-
II Eation will be here. Every one of them
v IS anxious to get on tho diamond and
u chase around a bit.
Sydney Eckstone, twirlcr who made
" good In the Cotton States League last
g season, and who was with Memphis for
sastime this season, will be brought TO
81 Richmond. Charlie Shafrer sent him a
4 contract last night, and he will sign at
once Eclstone is a man who has
record long as your arm. and held
boys of the yellow fever country down
4 without hits last year.
1.-Two dozen Louisville Sluggers" bats
have been received by Manager Charlie
II s,hafferi from the firm of j. F. IIillarch
and Company, of Louisville. Ky The
bats arc to be the ones with which tho
X 'Lawmakers" will send the sphere TO
\ free country this summer.