The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-24
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The namo OF the writer is withheld BY
request:
A Letter Of Protest.
Sporting Editor of Times isputch:
Dear Sir,-I have noticed from time
to time various newspaper articles in
all of ou3 papers i'll reference to the
outlaw league" 1 think there Is more
III this move than appears on the sur
face. am now ut liberty 10 say 10
you. that VIC have been in negotiation
with parties representing the new
baseball league ever since last August,
which eliminated very recently in their
securing an option TO either lease or
to buy II very desirable location for
their proposed new Baseball park and
Ii looks like this deal might be closed
in few days. am in hopes by lam
uary to authoritativcly announce
such. You are at liberty 10 use these
facts without mentioning my name,
which is sufficient guarantee OF At
least our end Of tho line.
/ want to say further that we have
no financial interest in tho new move
ment. but believe the Inauguration Of
this new lcusue, Including the cities
referred TO in your paper OF Friday last
from your New York correspondent,
wit, New York, Brooklyn. Washing
ton. Heading, Cincinnati, Newark and
possibly Buffalo. will be a good thing
for Richmond
People Disguised.
Some Of your contemporaries seem
10 be making light of this move. but
there are hundreds OF people III Rich
mond who, like the writer have be-
come utterly Disguised with baseball
as conducted in Richmond the last few
years and the continual wrangling and
uncertainty Of the Virginia League
At one time the writer was one of the
most enthusiastic .'cranks' and one of
the best patrons the baseball people
had; but he got SO disguised with the
"scrappinG matches" and the way the
game was conducted that lie lost all
interest. and has not patronzcd base
ball for the past two seasons; and
there arc Others" like him. 4 change
all around, | think. would do good
II IS not much credit for Il ball club
OF big Richmond" to be continually
whipped and beaten by little clubs from
the minor cities. 1t is no advertise
mcnt Of our city to carry q club to
Petersburg. Danviilc, Portsmouth or
Roanoke, but il the flag of Richmond is
flown in these Northern and Western
cities it will Enthusiastically be IL good
advertisement for Richmond
Good Advertising.
Looking at 1t therefore purely from
an advertisement business standpoint.
this new league would certainly be
more crcditablc and OF greater add
vantage than the way the Virginia
League has been conducted in tho past
two years. II VIII bring us into con
tact with people We do not now touch
and put us in tho class 10 which We
! belong, and financially of more value
! to the city of Iticnmond from an adj
vcrtisns standpoint than the little
league which now exists, and seems
to be distorted and torn by internal
| dissensions.
T, !, for one, hope 10 see the new
league IL fact, ..outlaw or no outlaw
and was very much pleased at the cor
] serralvc article appearing in Your
+: paper of last Friday. which seems to
have been devoid of the CENSORSHIP"
which mas existed in previous articles
in your evening contemporaries