The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-21
BY JAY LEWIS.

rRichmond should be IN bigger
baseball league" remarked a fan.
To be sure Richmond should be.
some day probably 1t will c. especial
i IL II the wise men in the International.
late Eastern League, are able To real
lie their dream OF new Eastern cir
cult, which will include Providence.
III. IL: Baltimore, Duffalo.--~three cities
THAT ALREADY have been IN major
hague folds other towns not tui
Is determined upon but quite equal To
Supporting d real major league team.
The promoters II this neA league,
Ii IL said, Intend TO follow the plan
Of Ban johnson, who developed the
American League out of Western
organization oil the minor class.
Should this plan go through 1t VIII
9 afford "a chance for Richmond 10 get
into league with the cities that will
be cropped by the International
League. perhaps.
Ii may be that the persons who are
talking OF an outlaw league which In
clude Richmond. are taking into con-
alteration the proposed changes In the
International League. sort of taking
old Father Time by his psyche. II
ts said that outlaw clubs viii be placed
In Washington. Baltimore. Paterson.
Newark. Reading. Brooklyn. Rich
mond and another city. Which il
important, II true.
impairment Comment.
Now whether, it be pertinent or inn
pertinent TO say so the proposed out
law league IL going to have large
contract 10 I'LL, 1T takes money to
finance a baseball league and 1t takes
more money TO fight organized base
ball.
1t should be borne in mind that
baseball Is organized thoroughly from
coast to coast and from Canada to
Texas. Organized base ball Ia not GO
ing To sit idly by and watch an out
law league break into Eastern. Tri-
State and Virginia League territory.
Men with money. incidentally, are not
overload of supplying funds for out
law organizations. either.
Let's see? Didn't some fellow get
lot of publicity concerning u big
major league he was going to start.
about this time last year? Some
Fletcher. or Osey or Wiley or a SINH
lar pure-food or just ash good name
And didn't he sign UP Hal Chase and
Walter johnson and Christy Mathew
]. son and Ty Cobb, and Milan and Iris
Speaker, and Red DOOM and all the
Fest of the stars? And was the league
formed
Well, not So YOU can notice 1t, AL
Eernon.
Fletcher, or whatever his name Is
Or was, is forgotten
taking about starting outlaw
leagues is great stuff for gossip In the
winter time hut 1t usually goes with
the SHOWS. about the time the bows
begin sending in word to Headquarters
+ that they are in great trim, expect 10
pay better ball than ever next Year
ana can the boss spare a little coin AZ
they need 1t to pay the hired hands
VINO sowed' the winter wheat or wild
cats. for them.
Ghost of Old League.
Apparently weil-informed baseball,
men do not take this new outlaw
league very seriously. Jim Price says:
the gnost OF the outlaw Union
A.eag que. OF which AL Lawson was the
whole works and which had q brief
existence in 1908, Is stalking again
this time under the name of the At.
iantic League. Word was received
from Washington last night tina,
plans are being made to revive the
Union League by establishing club.
u Brooklyn, Newark, Paterson
Reading, Washington, Baltimore ant
Richmond. That's only seven clubs
- IA IA a ottstuwn, Pa, VIII b,
included in the circuit
No one In New York know
= whether Lawson Is identified with
She revival Of the Union League.
4 but Ii likely that he Is. Meanwhil
organized baseball Is trembling IN it
boots. fearful of the shock the Unio,
League Is preparing to deal to III,
grand old game"