Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05
''0utIaW" Organization Has
Stirred Up Magnates.
PRESS ON TIDEWATER SIDE
Five New Managers This Season.
Frank Shaughnessy Only
Old Timer.
Special DiSnatch to The Star.

coming season. Is d question IHdC Is
uppermost today in the minds OF the fans
over this circuit, and it is question
that the magnates will have to give some
consideration during the coming gather
ing in Richmond. The Tidewater, or
.'Jerkwater Outlaws as they have been
called over the circuit. seem to be get
ting under way, and, although they DO
not expect to begin their schedule until
May, there Is little doubt, if the season
is started by the outlaws, that they will
divide the patronage with the Virginia
League teams. one of the best evil
,ences of this fact is that some OF the
scribes on the Norfolk papers are g.v-
ing more space to the outlaw league than
they are to the Virginia League. In
deed, one or two of them are boosting
the outlaw organization.
With respect to base ball in the tide
water section it looAs as though the
Virginia League has made two MISTAKES
and this is not intended as criticism
for the powers that be in this ieaeue.
There has been too nuch secrecy COZ
corning the purchasers of the NoriJik
franchise. and Manager Babb has been
slow in feeding the ar fans win dope
concerning the prospective team ne
other is that Newport News ana HortS-
mouth have not been taken into the
league 1T was mentioned N this cor
respondenCe Week ago that the prop
able cause for the organization OF tne
outlaw circuit was TO lofce the virginia
League to admit both Portsmouth aiid
Newport News, thus increasing the CIR
cult to eight CLUBS. If the maSnates can
see their way clear 70 enlarge II is al
most certain that the Newport News ana
Portsmouth hackers will desert the out
laws and come mo The orsanizod game.
This would Certainly eliminate any loI-
midapIe opposition IN Norfolk and pc
vent a fight that might prove cosby
one to all of the teams on the circuit.
Norfolk has never been the base bali
city for its size that it should be, ana the
Norfolk team will have hard tlfne
weatnering a season with anything IKE
good team playing against it in the Tide
water. Norfolk, of course, draws We'll
but il is not as good a town as Ports-
mouth. when the population or the TWO
cities is compared, but there is little DOUBT
but il would draw better with Ports
mouth and Newport News on the circuit.
An eight-team circuit ought TO appear 10
the maSnates. and IL may be that they
will make a mistake if they fail TO take
advantage of the opportunity that lies
before them at the spring meeting.
The Lynchburs Association did the right
thing by former Manager DICK smith, VINO
has been turned loose in order that he
may sign to manage the Greenville Is. CO
team in the Carolina Association smith
was put on the market, but when no
sale was found for him he was turned
loose after having accepted the terms of
the Greenville team, and 1t is presumed
that he will now perfect his arrangements
to step into the shoes OF Tommy Stouch,
who ran away with the race in that
league last year Smith is a good ball
player despite the fact that he had a bad
year here last season, and with anything
like a good run of luck should make the
Spinners a good man.
When the bell rings for work in the
Virginia League April 20 and the teams
start on their sixth championship race
Frank Shaughnessy, who begins his third
year as pilot Of the Roanoke Tigers.
will be the only old manager on the job
again. While there will be five new man.
ayers, there will be only three new faces
in the role of pilot. for Joe Laughin. who
caught for Danville last year, has been
made manager, and Heine Busch, who
played short for Norfolk last season, will
pilot the Petersburg Coolers. Here In
Iynchbure Otis Stocksdale will be in
CHARGE of affairs In Norfolk Charley
Dabb, late of Mennhis, will be in charge
while in Richmond James Sullivan comes
from Lincoln. Neb.. to try to give the
Capital city a winner once again.
Strange faces will not only All the man.
ageria1 shoes on the circuit this year. for
because of the seven hundred dollar cut
IN the salary limit. which means an aver
age reduction of 81 900 a month, for few.
II any, of the teams stuck to the limis
last season Richmond will have Cowan
behind the bat. Verbout In the box. Dob
son at first and Frank Baker at short
Danville expects to use Manager Laugh
lin as first catcher Mulllnux Of Balti::
CASTOR will probably hold his old place at
second, with a chance of Buck Hooker
being in center again. Roanoke will have
Manager Shaughnessy. First Baseman
Pitchers
and 0rtfelder Joe Holland will move Into
third base. but all OF the other veterans
W II scatter from coast to COAST Lynch
burg will have Catcher Lucia. Maybe
Pitchers Brooks and Griffin will come
back and maybe Short1elder Howedell.
and maybe not. 1t just depends upon
whether they viii accept the big cuts
made necessary by cheaper teams. The
status OF First Baseman Woolums Of
Denver Is with the PLAYER. who can come
IL he wants to. Down in Petersburg Man
pitcher or two back. with Keliher at first,
Booze in right and Chunk in left to de-
pend upon, but the major portion Of the
new men will come from semi profess
sional ranks. as Is to be the case with
al Of the clubs.
The local team has Just booked exhibi-
ton games with the Toronto Canucks
for April IL and "a and the outlook for
the local exhibition season Is better than
for FIVE years. Already twelve games
nave been secured, and these. with the
addition OF two more strong prospects
with Greensboro and a game or two with
the Virginia Christian College. q local
institution. will give the Shoemakers
about all the work they will care for be-
fore the beginning of the real battle.
The games here include the Philadelphia
Nationals Philadelphia Americans, Brook
1yn Nationals, Boston Nationals and Buff
falo and Toronto Of the Eastern. The
Fork Union Military Academy will also
try the Shoemakers and Harry Griffin,
property OF the locals. who is teaching
there this winter, may pitch for the
young cadets.
On Easter Monday the Virginia Mill
mic Institute Will meet In Roanoke, and
the winner of this annual game will re-
main over in Roanoke to tackle the
league team there. Last year the winner of
this game played a second game that
afternoon. the Roanoke Tigers being the
opponents. These games will draw large
crowds in the Maeis city.
Manager Sullivan Is spending his time
every warm day, for the weather in
Richmond has been fine for several
weeks. looking over bunch OF likely
local amateurs who are to have trial
with the Colts this spring. BY the time
the men begin to report. along about
March 10. Sullivan will know whether
there is anything to this bunch. and II
there isn't he will have them off his
hands when his time will be full with
other things. Practicing when the
weather permits along with this bunch