The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-16
SCHEDULE TO Be
ADOPTED MONDAY
Indiana-Ohio League Men to
Meet for This Purpose
At Huntington.
VAN VERT Is STRON 6
INDICATIONS ARE THAT THIS
TEAM WILL BE UP AND DOING
THE ENTIRE SEASON-JESSUP
HOPEFULS ARE CHALLENGED.

There will be a league meeting held
AT Huntington Monday, President Gam
be. of the 10. having issued his call
Yesterday. At this meeting sched-
Tile prepared by Secretary Pound
stone. together with the league rules,
will be submitted to the managers for
approval. The schedule calls for
four club circuit, composing the follow
ing cities, Richmond, Van Vert, Lo-
fansport and Huntington.
Louie Hunt has begun to weed out
his class Of candidates for the van
Vert team He has released Pitcher
domaine, Second Baseman Steadtelt
and OutfleIder Cahill to the Logans-
mort team. These players will be val
liable to LoganspOrt. but they will not
be missed at Van Vert, as Hunt has
inst as good men to fill their places.
The locals practice was interfered
With yesterday by the unseemly con-
duct Of the weather man. Just when
the warm sun he has been handing out
llr the past few days was beginning to
get in it's good work the Weather Man
stabbed it and turned on the faucet,
Jessup tried hard to secure the Ter
r. Haute team for some practice
qames here. but nothing had been
heard from Manager Lew Drill. The
Tots went to Greencastle for four
same series with the Depauw varsity.
but after the first game they jumped
the town with the excuse that the
grounds were too rough.
Have Lame Wings.
Mason and Fleming. the two veter-
an members of the pitching staff are
still suffering with lame wings. Il al
WAYS have trouble with my arm in the
spring, but little more hot weather
and the soreness will quickly disap-
near" stated Mason. Same here, y
Chimed in Fleming.
The Van Vert outfit looks powerful
good. Last Saturday and Sunday
they collided with the Lima, Ohio
state league team at Lima and put the
Ohio leaguers into the discard both
times. Saturday Van Vert won to
s and Sunday they rasped the Oil work
ers IL to >. Harry Hay debuted in
both games for Lima and his eXteam
mates drove him to cover each time.
The total paid attendance for the two
games was COL This shows, as the
Van Vert Bulletin states, that Lima
is no better town in this respect than
Van Vert and not near so good as
Richmond"
Manager Clark. of the Lima club,
made a raid on the Van Vert team and
secured Catcher Hardin, but President
Gamble of the 10. league had heart
to heart confab with the jumping back
stock and induced him to return to the
Van Vert fold. This experience shows
that the quicker the 10. league gets
III der national protection the better of
the league will be.
The Huntington team showed class
Sunday when they defeated the Marion
Owls to the tune of 9 to Q. Fans II
tile 10. circuit will see as fast bast
hall as the Ohio State league fans.
MANAGE Baird of the Loganspor
team, has Il big squad at work a
Spencer park and the Logansport bug
are taking the keenest interest in tn
proceedings.
Manager Jessup has received a lette
from George Bone. the polo star. stat
ing that of the eleven players compoS
ing the two all-star polo teams whic|
will play here next week under tn
auspices of the Elks, eight are prOfes
eional base ball players. Bone fur
Their states that these eight men hav
a bunch that they can do things t
Jcssup's hopefuls on the diamond an
that a challenge is extended. A
Rome asks is that Manager Jessu
catch for the polo base ball outfit an
that he loan this team one of hi
pitchers This challenge will be az
cepted and the game should prove
great drawing card