The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-01
SHAFTS FROM SP0RTI,A land
BY GUS MALBERT.

ierennial. pcs,iferous, pesslmis,ic pow.
M""WS.i , going somc-to tho contrary
Is plenty OF money with Which 10 get |; ball
team together.
The Virginia League was organized win a
salary limit Of 5000, J think, and there has
heNti been better baseball in Virginia than
me hiSt season Of the present league. 0
), \ \ pretty fair way 70 get line on what
price is 10 watch what the Richmond club
NH 10 at ne exhibition games against the
big fellows. Don't expect them TO win every
game, bui study the way the men act and
then see Il there aren't some young stcrs who
want TO take a chance at going higher. even
~ me pay envelope is not quite so fat for
one season. t.H III.
II The masnates want to raise the salary
limit 50 10 IL. ana may the best man win.
t{ut don, think that the public is going to
siye !on any sympathy when YOU cry wolf"
after seh season closes and star, turning
pockets inside out TO prove thai they arc
empty!
have tried and tried 10 prove that where
each OF he clubs start even. MS regards SAL
mry iim ,, easp SUB has a chance ana The
hi"rc Hohciaa me salary agree mcnt the
more abrasive vii! be The race.
pay 3",o9p month, or $1,000 month and
maybe much more. bu; since Richmond has
elected 70 ,s,ay in The league with The small
. cr ci,ies Richmond is willing 10 wear tho
same kind OF clothes.
rommnyrci. pnle. cant, space killing non
sense is al! 81 that talk abou, il being es
scntlal 10 pay more money 10 get BAH play.
crs. M
There is another class of fan who should
( be shown IN his true light. He is the fellow
wants 10 sec the home team win every game
! or lose every game IN either case he can
open MS carpenter thes, and bring forth his
nail driver
Hpt who IN the name OF The srca, sand
: all uf the time Z?
the game is its eest when Tie clubs are
! tr"aklhs .v.n winning one ana losing one
! iIhrn It's real sport The even break would
II lie Ideal baseball from every standpoint,
4 You can't Get lie ideal in baseball no more
I Than sou can in other things, and for that
reason every one Interested in The garl, is
striving 10 approach the ideal rs nearly as
possible.
( 50 wien the Visiting team scts away good
ard things are breaking Itist right the r,a
sport mot nc o. lie checked suit and the
ing biack clearb but the real friIow. whose
loed runs red and chascs itself ali OF the
TINS. meyer ireeziis. comes out and helps the
I lnme team turn the table on the lucky ones.
iiewe,er ne two- bil brigade viii probably
I be as potent as Il was next season.
/ Don know the iwo-blt brigade: shame on
/. you il IS composed OF tho fellows WHO meet
I III dark places aud gamble as much as .
cents hat tl!c home team vii! win and
wien The homo loses come downtown
aid iewriie baseball from manager to BAT
bog Now YOU know
a meeting viii IT, npld in FEBRUARY 81,
( March ana Then ihe ntagnatcs can do what
/ ~ raise anything else, wash my hands Of
/ inc whole matter from now on.
.tauc4 j corpett Is telling l,,e dner-
cut s,hty m washington about Tie Reno
! misunderstanding from that he told here III
+ HttlinSipn he is dccryns the talk about
Ame-ap ana aiding that johnson deserves
I NUS cifdii iot licking Jet as almost any
Iga ma" ,i3, A. 'he arena could have Trim
.iitd 'hc bOilcilnakcl that day.
every WORD ~ which IS true as gospel.
sAd nc nat- footgi Individual wonld have
! sad lit4 show When thc topiotchers we're
= concerned. Al Of ,hpsc who know, say
thai iie couidn't have q chance with tho
smoke in 4 limit light II would have 10 be
a hnlsh affair. o. another white hope would
bite tlc dust, II That IL tine. Kaufman Nil
neEo' srl ilnish hgltt WITH Johnson md
~ would be the rankcst KIND Of n sucker
q axe chance under any other conditions
il seems donb,fnl Wiener yrsinih wii
thNt- anybody % 20 againgt III it.iciay rae,
~ the George washing on meet 10 D.. Mold
Saturday Al Of tho ,eains againAt whitl
the orange and Blue was piticd ihvc dcctd.
% H9t % send relay teams coltlmhia is ~,
Arrest 1" refuse. ana the management OF tn.
\ meet VII not Put Virginia against any Of
;nc siatlicr colleges.
i.aadfraH WI n,ot be back Win Richmond
fhls season. The boy who started tilr scas0r
70 sell last year dons no, measure ,ip Il
some 81 iic material which sullivan mn q,
his .s'rins and 80 nc viii bc let 90 Thar,
hnnl.
: what i ply !, Was mat Mccu,dy dldn.