The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-24
Local Amateur Baseball League Completes Its Organization
Sideline Remarks
on Sport Topics

Automobile men have decided that
1t Is about time to start an insurrec-
ton that in time may develop into a
! revolution. They claim that under
present conditions an autom obilist, or
| motorist, as the English cay. Is re-
/ garded with suspicion, mingled with
alarm. II not pariah he ia yet OF an
outlaw caste.
| To hear him complain the motorisi
shorter II uglier words up against
| the arch enemy OF progress. prejudice.
| He has TO go cap In hand to men who
own net autos to grant him rishts
prejudice would deny him. He has
to give time, money and brains, the
| latter the most important 10 edit
eating his pretudiced man and broth
er. He Ia q phiianthropist who IN
stoned by those whom he would aid.
He 10 taxed without scruple and fined
with delight by his fellows.
Now" saith the motorists. I'VE are
getting strong In numbers. We are
growing powerful by organization. We
are becoming mighty through money.
Let us do little debating. Let US
pass laws, have word to cay about
good roads. taxes and fines.
Let 1t. therefore. be enacted that
every farmer. every driver of vehicles
shall be taxed to build good roads
and to keep them in repair.
Let every man who drives a vehicle
with narrow steel shod wheels be tav-
ed higher than one who has broad
wheels. rubber tires These narrow
wheels cut into the highways doing
much damage.
Let drivers of horses be taxed
additionally. The iron shod hoofs of
horses cut into the highways. doing
much damage.
Let the man whose animals, be
they mules or horses, litter up the
street be taxed additionally that the
streets be kept clean.
Let II be enacted that sections of
the cities where model highways have
been constructed shall DO restricted to
the use of automobiles.
Let IL be enacted tina. drivers Of
horses or vehicles who venture into
these restricted districts shall be pun.
ished by a fine or imprisonment or
both.
Let is be enacted that the drivers
whose horses drop litter in the streets
Of 81 city shall he punished by fine.
or imprisonment. or both.
Tho health OF the community de-
! mands that this litter by abolished and
the health OF a community is para
mount.
! Let Is be enacted that any driver
OF horses, mules or other animals that
! have not been broken to disregard
horseless vehicles shall be punished by
Ii fine, or Imprisonment, or both
Animals not SO broken are a dan
| ger and menace to the community, TO
the lives or citizens and especially
motorists"
Looking at the question from the
! point of view the motorist has a
strong argument in his favor.
Prejudice exists against the auto.
| mobile. This prejudice ia extended to
| owners of cars. 1t Ia unfair that pre.
JUDGED persons shall enact prejudiced
laws against any class of citizens, no.
| should these laws he enforced by +,
prajudiced police and prejudicec
courts.
AS some person of a judicial turn
OF mind; Whats stuffing for tn,
turkey may serve for the goose"
No. gentlemen, the average Rich,
mond sportsman Ia not In the leas
wrought up over the fact that Samue
Langford whipped Austrial William
| ID
the report that Landlord and Jacl
Johnson will clash. But should som,
massive thewed. bullet headed strons
man give each of these persons a thor,
ough whipping. the aforesaid averag.
flchmond sportsman will secretly Il
not openly rejoice. Secretly, merel,
because contests OF this nature ar,
really not respectable and the averag,
rIchmond sportsman is eminentiy re
specta BILE.
/ To speak truth few here were eur
prised, at I4ang's defeat The Aus
traiian showed that he Is not 20 b.
rated above Jim Barry and other sec
ond raters, even IL he did stay twent,
rounds with Tommy Burns. Barr,
has done far better against Langford
the present crop of heavyw eigh
boxers Ia not to be compared 10 tn,
men in the days OF Corbett ana Fitz
simmons.
Sporting paper mentions the fac
that Bobby Matthews was one of tn.
old-hIne pitchers who was king i,
his DAY because ha used HIS head. Yes
and John Clarkson should not be for
gotten. Mccormick, OF Chicago. die
! not last as long as some others bu
| Hh was NAENStt an leo sullivan pointed
out.
Minor leagues and young ball play
ers VIII not lack champion while
Ted Sullivan lives.
! Capablanca. the young Cuban ches,
| master. shows up we'll at the Start O,
the International tournament in sar
| Sebastian. Spain. He has won one
game and drawn another. Marshal
/ has won and lost.
| Reginald Fincks 10 remarkably
! good racquet player and his name
seems most appropriate for q mas
ter OF that game.
ENGRAVERS DEFEAT
RAILROAD Y. M. c. A.
Poor rolling cost the Railroad Y. M.
| G. A. Its match with the Engravers'