The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-15
LAWMAKERS ARE
FORGING AHEAD.
Reeves Management Is, Perhaps,
the Responsible Factor for
Improvement.
BOWEN IS SIGNED
New First-Baseman to Join the
Team i'll Ports
mouth.

Saturday was q great day for Rich-
mond in the baseball line and the Law
makers are being held now way above
par by the enthusiastic fans. Tile locals
IRE displaying much better team work
than they have exhibited for some time.
and the Individual work Is also Of IL
higher order than has been witnessed
lately With the encouragement the
team has lately received from the
rooters and with the encouragement
they have accorded themselves with
their late victories, tho team has been
given an impetus which will help them
greatly in the remainder of the race
yet to run.
Ralph Reeve is proving himself an
able and popular manager. and 1t is,
perhaps, owing largely to his efforts
that the team has shown such improve
ment. Reeve has good head, thinks
quickly and knows the game from be-
ginning to end. He is popular with
the players, and that Is q great asset
In his favor, for no baseball player
can work as we'll under a man he does
not like as well as he can work under a
man whom he does like. Reeves man
agement is meeting also with the APP
prevail of the owners of the team, and
1t seems likely that he will be kept at
the head of the team to steer 1t on to
victory and the pennant.
New First-Basen nun.
Jack Bowen. who played first base
for Danville during the early part OF
the season, Will be the ncM first base
man for Richmond, and will join the
| locals to-day In Portsmouth for try
out. Manager Reeve stated last night
| that whether Bowen remains perma-
nently with the team depends entirely
| upon his work. II he makes good, he
/ fg frf n \, ir,l,
order, hetwill be forced to try another
4 berth. 1t is safe to say that Bowen
will do his best. and that good reports
| will be heard of him.
! The man Manager Reeve was trying
to land is T. j. conroy, of the East
Liverpool team, p @. Nj. League. Con-
| roy would have been a valuable man,
ns he is a. fine fielder and a good hitter
| hitting now over the 300 mark. But
] CouroN could not be secured. and Man
aser Reeve then turned his attention
to Bowen.
Duke Carter was easily the star in
4 the second game played here Saturday.
he virtually Won the game himself,
! Though he was touched up pretty free
1 ~. he managed to keep the hits we'll
j enough scattered to prevent them from
counting too heavily in. the totals at
the end OF the game. Then in the last
!. half of tho eighth. with two men down
and Two strikes on him. he lined out a
clean single and scored cowan, win
ming the game.
81 "A rather timely suggestion. in view
,E|of the tremendous crowd 1T the ball
/, park on. Saturday, has. been made that
IL the grandstand sifohld' e@extended for
7 some distance along the east side of
: the field for the accommodation of
!, the overflow witnesseds$eve Stature
i day. The present agrandstand is not
1Iqf sufficient size to seat the great
crowds. and people who would pur-.
chase grandstand tickets are forced
Ito sit on the rather uncomfortable
81 bleachers. Such an extension would
rebound to the benefit of both the
y owners of the park. who would in
81 crease their receipts through the In
: decreased number of grandstand tickets
: sold, and to the heneft3of the people.
Z who would be more Comfortably seat.
z cd and would he sheltered from the
weather.
i Another timely suggestion is that
1.-THE grass in the outleld be cut. The.
grass has grown ssneaTly knee high.i
3 and the result isStilta aghall Is easily
II lost in the tangled Growth. enab ms,
, perhaps, the runnap to go further
: round the bases than otherwise swould
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