Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
VIRGINIA LEAGUERS
Games Faster Than Ever Un-
der Reduced Salary Limit.
PRESIDENT WILLIAMS FIRM
Fines Danville 500 for FORGETTING
Game and Insists That It Stands.
Notes About the Players.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG. Va, April 29.-The Vir-
ginia League season for 1911, while only
nine days old, despite the fact that the
teams experienced the worst spring for
training in the history Of the circuit. has
already demonstrated that the game is
going to be faster this year under a
81 100 salary limit than II was last sea-
son with a disregarded limit Of 81, roo
under which some of the teams cost
nearly $500 a month. This improved
condition is the result OF the infusion OF
fessional ranks, rather than depending
upon men who are drifting back from the
higher class circuits. The fans went into
the season with the idea that the games
would be lacking in interest and inside
ball. but 1t did not take more than few
games to show the error of such q belief,
and that the directors made no mistake
last fall when they decided to cut the
limit and to provide for an ironclad afi-
davit system for its enforcement.
The promptness Of President Williams
in assessing a fine against the Danville
team of 500 and another agaist Man
ager Laughlin for permitting the game
last Saturday In Richmond to be forfeited
has put the fans on notice that President
Williams is ready to carry out his prom
Use to run the league this year on q bust
ness plane The DanviIle team, it is an
nounced. will appeal the fine to the
league. and this will be threshed out at
the. next meeting, but 1t is dollars TO
doughnuts that the executive will be
sustained In the premises. The president
has also given notice that rowdyism will
not be tolerated, and that offending play
ers will be promptly punished. The play
ers have taken note Of this, and the in
dications are that the games in this
league are going to be free from such
practices this year, something that could
not be said Of it last year, though the
Virginia League was not the worst in the
world by any means.
The report from Norfolk that a syndi-
cate in Richmond is ready to back a
tfdewater (outlaw) team in the capital
city is being treated as a huge joke over
the circuit. for everybody knows that if
mond with good financial backing that
President Hannah would jump at the
chance, though there is q good sentiment
there behind President Bradley and his
Colts, with all four Of the Richmond pa
pers pulling hard for the team, and CIV
ing it all the support that could be ex-
pected from them.
1t is evident that the Virginia League
magnates do not expect the outlaw Or
ganization to be on its feet long. or they
would be doing something to harass them,
something that has not been done as yet,
because there is no need for such tactics
now. 1t is whispered around that the
Norfolk team pays a per diem for the
use of Lafayette Field in that city, and in
the deepest sort OF a whisper, that each
installment is required to be paid In ad-
vance. Think of a ball club having to go
down into its jeans for rent before the
Jump can put on his pad and take his in
dicator out of his pocket. 1t may be that
the league is solid and that II will go the
season through as 1t was formed, but this
does not look like it.
The Petersburg fans demonstrated Mon
day at the opening at home with Rich