The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-22
LyNCHBURG WANTS
REAL REVISION
Predicts that Owner Bradley is
Going to Have Difficulty With
His Schedule.

inc Following from the LynchburR
Advance will give fans. a few points
ON the matter OF the schedule for the
Virginia League, which is now the
chief issue among the magnates:
president Bradley Is going to have a
flard road to travel before he gets
that proposed schedule OF his adopted
by the league. The Lynchb burg team
Will hardly support the proposition be-
cause 1t Is not to the liking of the
team. Too many unnecessary jumps
In IL. and unless they are taken out
President Mclaughlin will hardly cast
his vote for it.
Roanoke viii not vote for Il because
1t Is understood. the Tigers want an
opening date AT home, and it would
seem that Roanoke Is entitled to this,
III Norfolk and Portsmouth vote for
the schedule 1t will he very popular.
!. g., IT the schedule winds up as il
GAO last year. Think or six straight
games on the sides of the Elizabeth.
wnlie the other teams are making a
shift or two during the week
Norfolk and Portsmouth may desire
continuous ball, but those teams will
hardly want II at the expense OF play
ing each other half the season. Last
year Norfoik had seventeen games In
Portsmouth and nine in Richmond.
The Truckers had about the same
number of games In Norfolk, and only
went to Danville for three series OF
three games each.
Norfolk is also putting up a howl
for weekend games. and this sche-
dule making Is going to be "a PROPOSE
ton this year.
Suppose Lvnchburg puts up n howl
for weekend series, and then what I?
Lynchburg will draw 80 per cent.
more people on Thursday, Friday and
saturday than during the inst three
days OF the week. Then why not give
the Shoemakers the Weekend series +?
The fact of the whole business Is,
the league should disregard the past
arrangement in Richmond and make
a baseball schedule FOR the best of
the six teams of the league without
regard to Richmond or Norfolk. True,
the best towns ought To have the
best end of the schedule when It
comes to Saturdays and holidays, but
II has never been so that the sche-
dulles that have been adopted in this
league were necessary or for the best
interest of the league.
Make Il schedule that will put the
IL
and at home for week. and, IL pos
sible. give Richmond few more
Saturdays at home than away, but
make a schedule that looks Ike IA
baseball schedule TO baseball men who
might look at II on paper out in the
Pacific Coast League or down on the
Texas circuit.
The Richmond team should win the
pennant each season when IL Is given
about fifteen games more at home
than on the road.
IL that fair to the other teams on
the circuit?
The magnates want 10 get together
at the impending meeting and work
for the best interests of the league
and not for this or that team, and If
Norfolk and Richmond stick out for
games. then why cannot
Lynchburg. Roanoke. Danville and
Portsmouth stand together and make
a schedule that VIII do away with
the fool arrangements that have
characterized the arrangers during the
first four years OF the league.
For the benefit OF the Richmond
papers let 1t he understood that no one
with the Lynchburg Base |
ball Association knows aught of this
or will know anything OF II until
they see II in print,--Lynchburg
Advance.