Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-03
VIRGINIA LEAGUERS
Petersburg's Salary List Is
Questioned.
ABOUT S4OO OVER LIMIT
Players of Ability Have Turned
Down Good Offers to Go With
the Leaders.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star =
LYNCHBURG. Va. September This
general disposition around the Virginia
League is to discredit the Petersburg
team in its pretty fight for the 1911 cham
pionship. because the feeling is general
that the Bronchos have not observed
the salary limit agreed upon in the meet
ing of the directors here in the spring.
One Richmond paper recently declared:
Petersburg Will not get the credit for
winning the flag they deserve unless they
can explain how they get PLAYERS that re-
luse 10 play for other clubs a less than
-" month on one-hundred- and fifty-
, dollar salary limit Another thing that
does not exactly conform To the salary
limit proposition in Petersburg is the Of
fering of cash bonuses TO players for get
ting extra base hits, not by the fans. but
by the club owners"
One instance is cited which the club,
no doubt, would have a hard time TO ex-
plain. LauSh!in. who managed Danville,
went to the Petersburg team without A
whmper. He got 500 or more a month
in Danville. He is hardly playing in Pc
tersburg for less: certainly not the one
hundred and fifty dollar limit unless
in his estimate of the value OF his serv-
ices.
When Guiheen lost his job at Elizabeth
CITY by the blowing of the Tidewater
League ii was understood that Peters
burg and Richmond were bidding for his
services 1t was stated at the time that
Richmond wanted Guiheen fer manager
whether this was correct or not is not
known Yet, but II is certain that he went
| TO the Petersburg team and has helnad
70 Put II IN the running. II certainly
looks like Guiheen is drawing more money
than the maximum payer limit
Few, If any. fans who keen in close
touch with the league will believe that
Jack Anthony is playing for $50 They
tnink the salary is nearer $50 There is
Pitcher Vance, who came recently from
the Tri-State League and il would he
hard TO think this man would come from
that circuit to this for less than 500 a
month. II Is doubtful If he is getting
On the whole. it seems impossible 70
| hgure the Petersburg list down lower
than Sl.So a month, or $40 above the
limit. If the association backing the
team can show oonclusiveiy TO the Vir-
ginia League fans that the team Is in
the salary limit, then they have been able
to turn some high financial stunts that
would do credit to Wall street
If the Petersburg association has gone
out Tor pennant winner regardless of
the salary limit, and il is certain thar the
premises nave that appearance, if moth
ing more. Petersburg will suffer for this
year folly when the game gets a tribe
older In the Cockade city The team was
annexed TO the ball map a wear ago
When portsmouth fiGnked. The game was
new. for ii was the first the fans there
have had for more than a decade They
patronized the game just as IL was pa
tronized here the first two years They
VIII not keep up the pace set this year
! and when they begin to tire Of the game
as they do all over the minor. the assoc
citation VIII be the victim of its own
folly.
1t took the magnates of the Virginia
League five years to learn that "A sane
salary limit was its only salvation and
petersburg has not been in the circuit
long enough to realize this. II is GER
tainly to be hoped that the Petersburg
Association can show the scribes and fans
that they are wrong and that the team is
and has always been in the fourteen
hundred-dollar limit
The report has crawled out of Peters,
burg that the fans there are expecting
the Richmond team to stall for the
Petersburg Bronchos in the final series
next week. President Bradley is out in a
statement in which he says the Colts
are going to work hard for the last
games. and that Petersburg will have to
work hard for every game they get.
The very fact that Richmond VIII have
to win some OF the Petersburg games 10
land In fourth place ahead Of the locals
ought to be enough evidence that the
Colts are not going to try to help Peters
burg to win the rag over Norfolk
Norfolk has the best of the schedule
for the last four days. for Petersburg will
be playing Richmond. while the Tars will
have Danyille for a curtain and the Red
SoX ought to be easy for the Tars for
four straight. Ii may be that the last
series VIII be required to settle the cham
p:onShip.
The father of Dave Robertson. who
lives in Portsmouth. has stated this week
that his son has not signed with the
New York Giants. and that he will con-
slider no offers TO go into organized ball
until after he will have completed his
course at the A. and NJ. College of North
Carolina. 1t was reported that Robertson
had been induced TO sign a Giant con-
tract and that he would report for work
this season. Robertson Is said to have
ever seen in Virginia, and men who know
the game declare he will he 2 go I'm the
majors when he finally lands there, for IL
is expected that he VIII engage in ball as
a profession when he finishes his college
work next year.
Stocksdale gave up trying to get a
man to take Zanelli's place at short, and
he sent Jack Morrison from right to
third, switching Heating to short. This
gives a job to a pitcher in right each
day but the combination is the best that
could be patched up this late in the sea-
son.