The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-01-11
RICHMOND KNOWS
BIC Ed bARR0WS
EASTERN LEAGUE PRESIDENT RE-
CALLED IN CONNECTION WITH
DEWEY CELEBRATION.
FIREWORKS SPECIALITY
VIRGINIA CAPITAL CITY WILL NOT
LOOK FOR MONTREAL FRAN
cHIsE DURING ms
NCUMBENCY.
FIREWORKS SPECIALITY

Now that it has been settled that
Norfolk will remain In the Virginia
State League, 1t is about. time to re-
viye tie rumor that Richmond Will
enter the Eastern League.
That good oid-time announcement
certainly is due again. especially since
Big Ed" Barrows Has been elected
president of that organization.
Barrows. He was quite figure in
All Richmond remembers Big Ed"
local baseball. With Jake Wells he
put one over on the fans and gem
eral public they never will forget.
Certainly quite number at least
VIII remember 1898 and the famous
fireworks celebration in honor of
Dewey's victory in Manila Bay.
Barrows was a prime mover in
that bit OF brilliant work. Fans who
paid their good money" to see the
exhibition in Broad Street Park are
still waiting for the rockets to go UP.
Also they are waiting to get their
money back.
or course that Is long time ago,
but the fact that Barrows has come
into the iimelight through the Eastern
League liz the excuse for bringing IL
up. Richmond is interested in that
league.
Not that the Virginia capital ever
expects TO be represented in that ter
ritory as long AZ Norfolk stays in
the Old Dominion circuit. but just
because Baltimore newspapers are al
ways ready and willing to grant this
city % franchise In the bigger league.
X is very generous on the part of
the city of CLAIMS, Gains ard cata-
cllsms. this giving away of franchises
at about twice their value, hut Rich
naond folks say anything can be, ex-
nected in the Eastern League. now
hat Ed Barrows has been elected its
president.
Speaking OF Baltimore and the
Eastern League recalls the fact that
''Oid Joe" McGinnity, OF the Newark
Club, is still some pitcher. He
won thirty games for his club last
season. He was always the emergency
man for the club and took part in
nearly one hundred games.
Says Umpire Billy Evans.
The hardest lesson for any athlete
to learn is when to retire.
1T is next to impossible to convince
some broken-down wrestler that his
days as a grappler are over
IT'S almost worth your life to ar
cue Win IL once great BEnteT tfiat ne
is all in and should retire on his
lanrels.
ITS just as foolhardy to try and i'm
press on some bali player or umpire
that his best days are over and that
he liz rapidly going hack,
For some reason or either every
athlete in every branch ~ sport can
seldom be made To realize that he Is
hitting the toboggau and should make
room for the younger generation.
They all insist in ciinging to the be
lief that they were news better
that next year they will come back
stronger than ever. that they never
were more valuable 10 tho respec-
tive teams"
That genial gentleman. the Hon.
Mr. Statissician, has got busy again.
This time he Is refnting the state
rnent that athletes die young. Fol-
'f<ywimg If by the assaye mentioned eel
ebrated author who has been writing
recently for the Yale Daily News
He has been considering the cases OF
s61 athletes since the year 1855, and
declares.
"of these 7si athletes 81 have died
since graduation. The causes We're:
Consumption, IL: pneumonia, 4.
drowning, g.: heart disease, 2 war
and accident. q; died from unknown
causes or disappeared. 10: from vari-
ons diseases. such. rs fever cancer.
paresis. dissipation. etc, II.
+'Out of these 81 men, is rowed
on the crew, is played football. II
were track athletes and played base
tall.
Turning to the 10 living athletes,
those who have passed 40 may he
grouped thus:
Zone hundred and thirteen men
are between 40 and 40 years; So men
are between so and SO years; 20 men
are between so and 50 years
1T Is a widespread opinion that
athletes are liable to heart trouble
but only two Yale men OF these ath-
ietes considered have died from this
cause. 1t would seem more signki-
cant that of the 81 deaths. 1e were
due to lung affections. the sports en-
gagged in being football, 6 rowing. 4 :
baseball, 2, and track athletics