Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-19
VIRGINIA tEAGUERS
Magnates to Hold Love Feast
in Richmond Tomorrow.
HARMONY WILL PREVAIL
Salary Limit Not to Be Disturbed
and Schedule About the Same as
Last Year Adopted.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
LYNCHBURG, Va, March rS.-The
meeting Of the magnates of the vir-
ginia League in Richmond Monday
promises to resolve itself into a love
feast, for If there is any trouble brew
ing the fans generally are not con-
versant with it. Harmony will prevail,
and the work of the session promises
to be brief. The salary limit will not
be disturbed, because all of the teams
have been signed under the twelve
hundred-dollar arrangement made last
September. The schedule will be adopt
ed, and no trouble is expected from
this. The committee named last fall
to check over the affairs of the ad-
mfnistration last season will have it's
report, and the teams will cough UP an
assessment to pay for the Indebtedness
caused by the financial troubles of the
Portsmouth team last season, which
resulted in the club being transferred
to Petersburg, where it will play this
season.
It is more than likely that the
schedule this year will be about the
opening April 20 and providing for
about 1870 games. Richmond, In all
probability, will get all of the week.
end series at home. as we'll as the holi-
days. The opening games will probably
be: Lynchburg at Roanoke, Danville at
Richmond and Petersburg at Norfolk.
The 4th Of July games will be at
Richmond, Lynchburg and Norfolk, with
the Labor day games at Richmond,
Norfolk and Roanoke. Norfolk Will
In, 20 0fp1n In,
making Of the schedule, for that city
will need all the help possible in this
line to fight the proposed outlaw league,
il it ever reaches the stage Of playing
ball.
The outlook for the 1911 season could
hardly be more suspicious. and generally
the fans are expecting a lively article OF
ball, despite the reduced limit, for 1t has
sent all Of the managers to the semi pro-
fessional teams for material, rather than
to take older men who are drifting back
to slower company and who generally
play on their regulations made In raster
company. All of the managers have had
plenty Of material to select from. Dan
q bunch OF twenty or more to report Tor
trials Manager Stocksdale Of the Shoe
makers declared this week that he has
had from four to ten applications from
amateurs and semi-professional men
have had the same experience and there
is no lack Of good material, anxious for
a chance to show it's proweas on the
diamond.
The interest in the game in the Old
Dominion seems to be greater now than
at any time since the first season OF the
present league. More base ball talk Is
heard now than at any time during the
of seasons Of the past five years, show
Al fnv q n
run for their money this year. and that
they expect to see the teams evenly
divided, something that they have not
seen in Virginia since 1907, for the races
since then have been confined to two
teams all of the others being clearly
outclassed.
Roanoke, with Manager Shaughnessy.
Rressly, Holland, Short and jenkins OF
last years Tigers. will start the season
other teams. Norfolk will have only Mar
tin Walsh, an erra.tfc pitcher, who has
had trials with both of the Chicago
teams, and who Is a brother of big Ed
Walsh of the White Sox. Richmond will
have Cowan, verbout, Dobson and Ba-
ker: Danville, Manager Laughlin. Smith,
Mullinux and probably Buck Hooker. Pc
tersburg will have Kelliher. a clever first
haseman, who played several games with
the Coolers last year: Booze. a mighty
er Hannifalr and Hamilton. For Lynch
burg, only Catcher Lucia, Shortfielder
Howedcll and Outfielder Morrison have
signed. Pitcher Brooks is expected to
come into the fold, while Griffin and Bart
Woolums the latter Of Denver, Col. will
be sold IL they do not want to report
here.
Charley Babb, the ex-Memphis man
ager, who is to handle the Norfolk Tars
this year, where opposition is expected
from the Tidewater League. is starting
after the best patronage of the seaside
city. One of the first things Babb did
upon reaching Norfolk last week was to
give out the following statement: eve
are going to cater to the very best pat
ronage and expect to win the favor OF
the fans with a clean base ball club We
are not going in for a base ball warm
fact. the thought of such "a thing never
once entered my head. The Tidewater
League will mean the training ground
for many a likely player for the bigger
why it should be fought. All can
say is that / am going to do my best to
give Norfolk a winning team and bunch
of clean ball players which she will be
proud Of"
and Richmond southpaw, has signed
with Augusta, in the Sally League and
unless Rube shows better form than he
showed the last season he. worked in this
circuit. he Is going to have hard time
with Stouch's Tourists II his arm comes
back to it's old form he ought to be
winner for Stouch.
Stanley Bigbie, the old New, England
Pacific CoastVirginia star, who played
last year with Norfolk. has signed to
manage the Charleston CIV. Va team Of
the Mountain League, which was known
last year as the Virginia Valley League.
Bigbie played first for Lynchburg in 1909,
and that season and last year he had a
batting slump on account Of sickness.
Even with this he was a valuable man
and as manager should be a strong man
for Charleston. Bigbie has been winter
ing in Richmond and he went to Charles
ton to deal with the owners Of the fran
chise before, signing to manage the club.
Joe Rickert, who played in the cham
pion Danville team last year and who
was sold this winter to Albany of the
Sally League, has baked on the salary
offered him by Manager Mathews. 1t is
that there is a deal on to send
him to Saginaw, Mich.