The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-22
|NEWSY COMMENT
ON ALL SPORTS
Baseball Is Now on in Earnest,
With Bright Prospects for
Locals.
AMATEUR ATHLETIC GOSSIP
City League Opened Yesterday
and Public Schools Start
To-Day.
AMATEUR ATHLETIC GOSSIP

The past week has been rcplete with
Interest In many branches OF sports. with
perhaps the great national pastime hold
ing the centre OF the stage, Richmond.
as all good fans know, IL now the renl
leader OF the Virginia state Baseball
League, having won that enviable posi-
ton through superior all around work
winch enabled 1t to capture the first
three games OF the season from Dnnvillo
team that was forecasted Ms having n
squad that would push the best OF them
to the limit. Roanoke shows itself to
pc well prepared to set the pace for a
time Mt least. by having defeated tho
i'yncnburg champions in the first and
last or the three games, and Portsmouth
and Norfolk. the two most intense rivals
IN the league. SPLIT even on tho series.
the second contest being called or be-
cause OF inclement weather
Az has been stated before In .be.o
colnmns Richmond has good team
or course. simply because tho Law.
makers took those three games does non
mean that they will literally swcen
everything before them. Tho yictorv
over Danville has little to do with thu
! subject.
1t was the demonstration of theI-
capabilities in those games that should
cause no little amount OF satisfaction
10 lhe owners OF the club and TO
manager Smaller. The men know the
gamo and have in the short time they
have been before the public deserved
by their efforts, much conndence from
that same tickle public, which at the
nrst slump of the team, or, in fact.
IRON any one individual on the team.
VIII begin to grow pessimistic. and
say: We'll. thought 1t would come.
AS any ono. who has followed the
game closely. knows. every player can
not always feel in tip-top condition.
even IL club carried trainer for
each man. and 1t is but natural and
inevitable. that slumps will come. In
these times of adversely for the man.
ager. 1t is well to bo charitable. and
player that has any self-respect VIII,
realize the generosity Of the fans, and
When he returns to form. work all the
harder. II he does not, or II the team
shows an inclination to shirk what
they owe to the public which indi-
rectiy supports them and the owners
or the club. and 1t Is apparent that
they are Laying down on their Jobs
then liz the time to slip them a timely
hint, and this paper will do It,
Not only has the professional made
his bow during the past seven days.
Tho small boy In all his glory has
started out in earnest. The Amateur
League opened on Saturday with vic
tory for the Journal team over the
Autos by the large score of 81 to 0.
Games Will be In order now until the
close Of the season some time in May
To-day will see the opening Of still
another amateur baseball league This
afternoon the Public School League
Will play the opening games.
One item that Is of vital interest
to amateur field and track sports in
this city and throughout the State. was
the manner In which the University
OF Virginia's Intercollegiate field and
track meet was conducted on Saturday
evening, when several Richmond Col
| lege boys. who had had little or no OPP
| portunity to practice. went to Char
| lottesville and carried off prizes in a
| number of events. With less than half
| a dozen entries. the Spiders finished
| third in the total number of points
won. with II. Virginia was first. with
| SO, and George Washington. second,
with IS. Miller. Robinson, Gooch and
| Louthun were the men who won points
| for Richmond.
In the interscholastic events. Epis-
| copal High School, of Alexandra. was
| barely beaten out for the champion
| ship banner by points by the strong
! Central High School team, Of Wash
| ington, d. c. Woodberry Forest also
| showed up we'll in the interscholastics
| by finishing third to Episcopal
At this same meet on Saturday four
! A. A. U. records for the South At
lantic District were broken. Rector. a
| boy, who entered Virginia from Law
renceville School. near Princeton. did
| the remarkable time of AS seconds
| In the 100-yard dash. II this Is rccoY-
nized by the Amateur Athletic Union
| it VIII make the fifth time in the his
| tory of amateur field and track sports
| that an athlete has gone 100 yards in
| this time. Duffy's record OF 0 3-5 sec
| onds is, of course, excluded, as Is also
| that made by Kelly, of the Pacific
Coast. who did tho distance ms as
| also. Rector's performance Is even
more remarkable in view of the fact
that shortly after running the hundred.
he made a mark OF % seconds flat in
the 22O-yard dash. Captain Steve Lor-
team, set a new South Atlantic mark
| in the half mile when he defeated
| Bosher of Virginia. in two minutes
/ and one second. Archie Randolph was
the other to attain honors by setting
<the time of % AS seconds in tho low
220-yard hurdles.
| Organized bowling ended last week
with first honors going to the Olym-
| pias after a close contest. The Crystals
deserve mention for the showing made
in tying the crack Olympias and COM
polling play Off atlthe close or the
schedule Tonight members OF the
league will hold BANQUET, ang untll
the season again opens will discuss
for Richmond to enter the American
Bowling Congress.
The shooting experts arc now BUSY
with the arrangements to entertain
| the American League of Sportsmen,
which meets at Jamestown next
Month Preparations are also on foot
for tho big Southern Handicap shoot.
| whichsis to be held IN THIS city on
| MAY Sth, 9th and 10th.
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