Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-10
VIRGINIA LEAGUERS
Season Ends With Petersburg
Winning the Pennant.
CHARGES AGAINST WINNER
Claim Filed That Petersburg Has
Been Over Salary Limit
All Year.

I,YNCHBURG, Va. September 9--Ine
e;xth season Of the present Virginia
Jaae,,e came to a close Wednesday Win
Petersburg the winner Of the champion
shin after one of the hottest races in the
h,.torv ~ the organization. The fight in
1907 was the only one that In any manner
paraIleled the one just closed. Despi'e
the close race, in which four clubs were
fighting up to a month ago. the attend
ance does not appear to have oeeh as
large as has formerly been the case. Not
a little of this is due, no DOUBT, 10 tue
knocking Of some of the scrioes arouho
the circuit over the reduction OF 'he
salary limit A few men on the CIRCUIT
knocked the limit and induced the 1ans
m believe the game would be slower than
haratofore This condition failed to ma
..,.,;,. hut the much ado about nothing
in the spring hurt the game to an appre-
ciable extent.
Another thing that hurt the attendance
was the umpire staff, for there wei
mighty few umpires who didn &c, IN
bad with the fans in MAJORITY VI ''e
cities. Here in Lynchburg the UMPIRE
knocking was the worst ever. ana tue
he's. neon,e Of the city Joined In 1t. Inc
star got IN bad and it required misny
HttIa Tor the fans to go after them Win
. rough line of talk. President Wnhanas
tried hard to give the fans soou sat- -.
hut he missed 1t badly. Sun. u was ~.
bic fault that his jumps fell down all over
the circuit -, a.r,y sea son
srnrt winning seven out of the nrst ten
games, but Mays the Nor1olk ia a., a lat
the lead, which was maintaIneu s, ,osi.
t;on Iuna 1 by defeating the Iars hour
stra;phts at Roanoke. The next seIies
Tho T;eers dropped down to Norfoik, anu ,i
after losing four to the Tars tne Noi MI IN 4.
aggregation regained tne ieau nv Peters
until Il was wrested from II py re.e ~ :
burg August rs, the Bronchos getting .ne
lead after winning nine straights. onSo
in the lead Petersburg was hese,
ed and the flag was won las' MoI he.
mornine when Richmond went down pc
fore the leaders, making 1t impossioie
for Norfolk to get ahead again.
The Iynchburg team was the marc.
l,cL team of the circuit. for Stocksuale
had as much bad luck. sickness ano ao-
na S ANY three other clubs COM
hired He lost at least twenty games ~
raa con Of the hoodoo that followed WIN
q red cross ambulance. I'D r,a-
The season was NOT ten uas bad
fore II was apparent that Norioik ma
the other clubs outclassed. and there VS.
a general hustle around the clrcus.
holster IN. This led to pretty H. IT,
and by July four clubs were ,;nt, u,tt =
5n0 or better. with Norfolk leading WI" ia1
,Ss In ten days five teams were -Gc
mr. higher. with Norfolk standing az 10 30
Here ROANOKE and Richmond sluiiip Pc,
while Lynchburg made pea tuentv
winning about seventeen OUT ~ he
games Early in August L!hura was
gan to drop back, ana lie .Oth
climbing almost daily. ana ps ,,am,d he
IL was patent that the nsH. and
between Petersburg ana MOI hather
fine best team won regardiess y.
# was in the salary limit or not
Here's a suggestion for the pest an
league team for the Virginia League
this wear. Catchers. Laughlin OF fe.eTs
hurp and Cooper of Roanoke pltchers'
Vance and Hamilton OF Peterspurs'
Rruck of Lynchburg. Finneran OF NOT
fn,I. ana Gardin of Roanoke; hrst base,
presslv of Roanoke: second base.
chtaIds If Roanoke; short, Martin OF
Edmond. third Morrison of Lynch
hn-a. outfield, Booze of Petersburg.
Wat1;s Of Richmond and Shaughnessy
In,anaper) of Roanoke; utility. Block
Of Norfolk.
The best selections for second team
would be: Catchers, Kircher OF Nor
foIk and Mace of Danville: pitchers,
BROOKS of Lynchburg. Efrd OF Roa-
noke. Poole Of Norfolk, Bruckmiller of
Petersburg and Hogue Of Richmond;
first base, Woolums OF Lynchburg;
second base, Dodge Of Norfolk short