Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24

Magnates to Meet Shortly
After the First Of the Year.
ORDER OF NATIONAL BOARD
Prophecies on Outcome Wide Apart
and Cans" Are in
the Air.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
| LYNCHBURG, Va, December 23.-Nat-
| urally, there is much speculation around
the circuit as to when the meeting Or
dered by the national board will be held,
and 1t is generally expected that it will be
| called some time during the early part of
January. From what can be heard on
the side the developments of that meeting
promise to be Of interest. The fans and
| most OF the Scribes are up in the air, and
some Of the prophecies are wide apart.
| One Of the most significant things that
have happened since the national board
said the two elections held by the solemn
magnates, one November 6 and the other
| a month later. were not elections was the
statement made by Owner Bradley upon
his return from New York. Although the
decision left Mr.. Williams at the wheel.
Mr.. Bradley said he was satisfied. But
that was not all.zsHe said q president
would be elected at the next meeting, If
| it can be termed next" who will be &C
ceptable to all the teams. Now, figure
that out, If you can. Bradley says there
is going to be peace. That's the deduc-
ton. More you figure that more you will
need to figure. unless there's something
under cover that hasn't been permitted to
peek as yet.
Course the scrfbes are hammering at 1t.
| cause it fills so much space when 1t is
something of problem to appease the
appetite of a minor league fan. But,
somebody Is going to miss his predictions
mighty bad.
Walter Doane and Charley Seitz, two
ex-Virginia leaguers in the Southern AS
ISOLATION, make mighty good illustrations
to show the difference between class A
above 800. but last season Doane clouted
at .276 with New Orleans and Seitz at .25O
with Mobile.
That new outlaw league, with teams in
Brooklyn. Paterson. Newark. Baltimore,
Washington and Richmond, might be
| corker If the promoters did not have four
organized leagues to fight. With plain
sailing 1t ought to be satisfactory TO
those interests who wanted an Eastern
League franchise for Richmond Why
not go up and take in a Tri-State team
and then one from the New York State
Scranton, for instance-and make it a
regular league breaker? Fans down this
way imagine they can hear the hearts of
Jack Dunn and Clark Griffith beating
over the prospect of such a>momentous
| fight, and the James river has stopped
running by Richmond, just waiting Tor
a chance to see some Of that ball next
summer.
The grounds of the Norfolk team have
| been sold from under the feet OF the
owners, but a provision in the lease
makes it possible for President Allen and
| his associates to hold on to the property
| for two years more if they care to do so.
/ 1t is reported that the property mas been
] sold to the street car interests in Norfolk.
but it is quite certain that the traction peo-
PIE cannot get control until the lease ex-
pires unless they can show the owners
of the team another location for ball
yard. They will probably have to walt
on the operation of the lease.
| The move of the directors of the South
Atlantic League prohibiting no more than
/ four players who have played in ball of q
! class higher than c class to be gathered
/ together on one team is a good idea. FIX
| perts high up in the game have little idea
| of what a nuisance old players On the
| other side Of their careers are when they
| get down as far as the c class They
may be all right in A or II. but when
| they drop to G they either don't care OF
| couldn't If they would. There is no place
| in the lower classes for a whole covey OF
them. They slow the game up and play
| as If they don't care If they do. OF course
| a couple of old heads to steady the new
| ones and bring out the material Is not a
| bad combination, but when a team Is
| made up of a majority of men who have
| records in the majors or class A minors
| well, they hold their jobs on those records
! rather than by what they do the two
| weeks preceding the time the pay en-
| velOpe walks. The Sally has set the pace
| in this, and the Virginia League would
| not make a mistake in following 1T.
Right in the teeth of this proposition
| CTS oh N