The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-06
A Baseball Talk
With a Moral.
BY GUS MALBERT

The baseball situation still remain.
cloudy. despite the best efforts oil
those who would bolster up the stu.
ton. If one is to believe the stories
being circulated, neither Danville MOI
Lynchburg is in the league, II one
of the two should make plans to va.
truthfally not in the league may get
into the fold.
There is Just as much merit in such
an argument as there would be In the
assertion that the only thing for
Petersburg to do, in view of the fact
city, is to give it UP and transfer 1t
back to Portsmouth, from which 1t
originally sprung.
Naturally, when sporting items are
a little shy, we writer's must get copy.
Baseball is always of interest, there
fore 1t is always to baseball that we
turn. But, on the level. who in the
name of any old u~nprintable thing can
can think of is interested in what
the other teams are doing about man
ayers. 1t is of SO little interest that
We regular fans don't care whether
they have a manager or not.
Richmond bugs want a winning
team in Richmond. Therefore. we
mond. We may believe that the owner
of the Richmond team is doing all in
his power to get the best man posi-
BILE, and we may believe that he
is taking his time in looking over
the many hig class men who have
volunteered for the position. but this
fact does not lessen our interest. We
want to know; we have wanted to
know for a long time, and we are
going TO keep on wanting to know
until the name of the man is an
nounced. That's lust huran nature.
Now another thing of interest. Mr..
Bradley is signing good men right
along. He may be. and. in the opinion
of some. is a good Judge OF baseball
material. But is there one man who
will hold that he could not judge
better if he had the assistance of a
man who actually plays the game and
gets on the very inside of the inside?
For some reason or other every just
criticism made of the local team is
regarded as a personal affront by some
people. What interest they have Is
unknown. but there can be nothing
wrong with the management of the
not even Mr.. Bradley himself Will deny
the fact that mistakes have been made.
And the fact that criticism of the
mistakes is made should be of vast
delight to him. Without such criticism
the game would not be the game 1t is:
! just because the people who attend
take q. personal interest in the game
and in the men who play the game.
ing the team, and in the man who
! owns the team, is the reason that the
game and the men and the team
and the owner make money
Take away this personal interest n
You take away the gate receipts.
FRANKLY, when talk is heard among
the fans which does not exactly IT
in with the scheme of Things as out.
by the management, this tax
Will be reported in this Column. with
a few additional comments by the
man who is doing the writing; Ana
mind you. not a bit of this will pc IN
a spirit of antagonism, but rather
a spirit of ~helpfulness. This one-"ay
talk becomes nauseating. There ls
no supporter of the national
nar ma than the fellow turning out THIS
stnff for YOU to read. | am so en-.
thustastic at times that 1 forget tnat
T am working. and can out-fan n
fan in the grandstand. But never am
l SO enthusfastic that forget the ms
takes o rthe errors. nor am l paio 70
The one and> only ray 10 speak o.
the local team. and, IN fact: OF any
team. is fairly. That viii be the poiey
OF This paper. Mistakes viii mol pc
Overlooked. Boosting the game ~ one
thing. but there is also a duty 70 the
neopIe VIII make the game "hat y y.
and this viii not be forgotten, nor
Il believed that the management want
anything more