The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-21
ABOUT PLAYERS
Of ALL teams
President Wells May Agree to
Remain President and Man
ager Be Elected.
.B0YER'S NAME MENTIONED
B0YER's NAME MENTIONED
Rowdyism Must End in the Be
ginning, Says Mr.. Wells.
Schedule Not Changed

ginning, Says Mr.. Wells.
Schedule Not Changed.
| While the Virginia League may decline
| to accept the resignation Of MIR. Jake
| Wells as president, 1t Is believed that a
general manager will be elected to take
care Of all the work Of the league, to
listen to the numerous protests, and TO-
keep MI eye nm the players. managers
an umpires Charles W. Boyer, presi-
dent of the South Atlantic League, has
been mentioned for the position. Mr..
Boyer was in Richmond Saturday and
| witnessed the game at Broad Street Park
He Is a thorough baseball man and prac-
tically made the South-Atlantic League
Another man whose name has been
thought Of for general manager, is Mr..
Lucas, president Of the northwestern
League.
81 would like to see the manager Of
every club send any man to the bench
who INDUCES in rowdyism," said Presi-
dent Jake Wells Saturday night And
If the manager of the team doesn't 40
this, then the owner of the club ought
to have the man arrested and taken out
of the park. Nothing will ln1ure base
ball so much as the use of profanity or
rowdylsm. This ought to be drilled into
the players heads at the offsct.""5 III this
statement MIR. Wells has the support Of
all Of Richmond. The people here Will
not tolerate rowdyism nor will they have
unfair hall playing,
Eckstone or Laval will work in the box
for Richmond, In, Portsmouth to-day
Eckstone's arm is now In fine shape and
he has better speed than he ever had.
More homer runs have been on the
Lynchburg diamond. than have been
made on any diamond In the league, or
in fact, more than have been all together
on the other diamonds.
The schedule adopted at the beginning
of the Virginia League will remain In
force until the season ends, the club own
ers deciding at the meeting Saturday
night not to change any Of the dates.
All Of the tie games or TIE postponed
Richmond, although this is. not definitely
known as vet. The teams Will arrange
such matters rs these. ,,,7gA. st-,r7t1ft
On next Saturday the league will have
been playing for one month. Never IN
the history Of any league In the State
has there been such good patronage. The
more suspicious circumstances than the
old Atlantic League did
Tho wind storm and threatened rain
Saturday afternoon kept several hum
bred people away from the ball park yet
there were more than four thousand
present. Richmond Is doing her part to-
wards keeping the league IN existence.
.aa
Richmond fans will have an opportun-
ity to look at Danvil)e's crowd Of ball
players next Thursday. Friday and lat
urday Benny has very fast aggrega-
ton, and he will come here with the
avowed intention of taking two of ..,c
three games. He says that with Morris
Moore helping him; he can beat Rich
monc to standstill. This Uill be shown
on the ball field and not at the hotel.
'"rhc man on tha.icoachlng line is not
entirely responsible for the runners safe
IT," said President Jake Wells, of the
Virginia League, at tho meeting Saturday
night IT always took 1t for granted that
a runr~- would take care Of himself, and
I always sent tho men on the coaching
line who could make the most noise
and would rattle the pitcher
The Lawmakers will leave this morning
at o'clock for Portsmouth, to be there
for three days. Mr.. Hoffner will be the
umpire Charlie Bland. owner of the
Portsmouth team, says he VIII win AZ
least two out OF the Dhree games, Charlie
Shaffcr has another idea about the mat
ter saea
lack C;rIm's aggregation of Shoemakers
will tackle Benny's bunch of Tobacconists
in I)anvillc to-day, Tomorrow and
Wednesday. The Iynchburg nine Is fors-
Ing to the front In great snape ana
Benny Is said to have remarked mat ne
would take them down few pegs on
his home grounds Umpire, Hishop WIZ
call tho balls and strikes IN this series
Of games
Umpire WIngard will be in Norfolk
for the first three games ms week,
when the Roanoke crowd plays the Grew
of the Mary Jane
Roanoke in Norfolk and Richmond In
| Portsmouth Is tho schedule for this week,
and there will be great competition IN
the seaport towns. As result poth
| clubs may have small crowds out 10 see
| the games.
Benny. of Danvilc appears 70 DC WorH-
| Ing Richards overtime SATURDAY Inv
| Il;.,cr was at first base and me a'S
| bcSore he caught Thursday he was
| in Ne box, and pitched good game,
| Richards is perhaps the only pitcher "
| the league who can chanse los'Ho,''
with the catcher, or who can 30 mo INC
field
willis, of Roanoke. has me RECORD
thus far this season for handing the!l'
over the plate, He puts them accutnts
| every time, but they take such pecHllhr
! twists and bounds that the butlers ~
/ to land safely sixteen men hl'llel ~
a game last week after he had tufneu
| the ball loose.
Southern League.
a, Shreveport; Shreveport, 3; Mont,
| gomery, 2,
| Al Nemphjs, Rirmjnphatn, 4 McnlIJ1ls,