The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-04

ting his pay in orders on the corner
grocery or the shoe store.
That is certainly fine suggestion.
Guys who cant come forward with
the cash ia support the home team
might contribute supplies"
Exactly and the local bonifaee sup
ply the eats. Nothing like doing things
in big league style.
What are you talking about?-big
league styleH
Sure! don't they offer shoes, hats.
suits and boxes of cigars for home
runs? Why not for scoring any old
run? They all count
"aw, consult an aiienist!'
Well, this salary limit business
certainly gets on my mamie. I'll bet
none of em lives up to 1t, anyway
They Will this year. sonny. They
might not in years gone by, but this
year
Huh, that's what they all say"
Il hear they are so sore In Norfolk
they are going to drop baseball alto
gether and play water golf
Not exactly. They are going in
for field sports, with a special prize
for tossing the hammer"
. Who's this Heine Busch they have
in Petersburg
/ Comes from st Louis. Probably
some relation to old man Anheuser.'
! Wonder what sort of team they
are going To have in Roanoke
Just about the same as they will
/ have in Lynchburg and Norfolk and
! Danville and Petersburg and Rich
mond.'
Well"
"On April L."
"Betchoo We have better ball on
$1,000 basis than II we try to run a
ncar-big league"
Maybe you're right. We couldn't
have much worse than some near-big
league work
Don't knock
! "Aw, every knock is a boost
Depends upon who's knocking,
Teddy might hurt Taft and Lorimer
couldn't boost slandered oil"
Cut that out. We're talking base
ball"
Well isn't politics game and a
profession"
Say. ] hear Clarke Griffith has
picked the Cincinnati Reds to win the
National League pennant."
Yep; and John McGraw has pick
ed the Joints; Fred Clarke has picked
the Pirates; Frank Chance has picked
the Cubs, and
Where do YOU think the Washing
ton Nationals viii finish ?"
"Oh. one-two--three."
Easy, boz
Counting from the bottom"
Connie Mack will grab the pennant
again"
Yes: II Bender remains good. or
liz Coombs doesn't fall down. or if
Collins doesn't break leg. or Harry
Davis doesn't go in the discard. or
"Aw, you're always croaking"
We'll I'm a Yale man
Say, he said he was a Yale man
What's that got to do with croaking ?"
"sh sonny they are always blue
iup there So. -
That was sprung by the Babylon
black face minstrels.'
And has been revived every year
since"
yale plays Virginia this year.
doesn't She"
Yes. at Norfolk. Richmond didn't
want the game
You're jealous .,..-'--... .,-.,t.-... =
Certainly, for believe me. Yale and
Virginia would draw a record break
ing erowd-if the admission was free
and car fare furnished
| II don't know about that. College
games are mighty popular
With Collegians,"
II hear that instead OF giving an
auto to the champion batsman they
are going to give two TO the two most
valuable players.
Yes: and committee of these
newspaper men, who think they know
| II ALL is to decide the question"
| That's easy. They'll give one auto
to the fellow who won most games for
the home team and the other to the
fellow who presented the home team
with the most games
Quit your kidding. One goes to
the most valuable player in either
/ league. or rather in both leagues. How
are they going to decide that
| why, it's just another way of
handing an auto to Ty Cobb and Hans
Wagner"
How about Matty?"
| And Johnson"
And Chance"
| "Aand Hal Chase"
| And"
"Oh. II 1t comes to that, how about
Dode Criss, Hyatt and the other pinch
hitters?"
Well. I'm glad I'm not serving
on the committee"
What's this-baseball hall Of fame
anyhow"
''Oh. something like that thing they
talked about so much: about electing
| Edgar Allan Poe to, in the literary
! league"
| We'll. II that's so. King Kelley will
never get his name there"