The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-25
IlV J'EIE WAKE OF THE GAME
BY Gus Malbart.


losing only one is record which even
the most rabid partisan can fnd little
fault with That's the sum total OF
what the Colts have accomplished dur
ing tho week which has gone Just
ono thing mars the performance and
that lis something over which tho colts
have no control While Richmond wac
winning. SO was Potcrshurg steve
Griffin has a club which should win the
pennant. but Heinie Busch also mas a
club which is bound to win Tho re-
suit of all this conjecture is that tho
pounant is going to Doe decided by the
four games between Richmond and
Petersburg at the very tail end OF the
season.
Talking from a dollars and cents
standpoint the race touid not have
been arranged on more profitable
basis. The human element is going to
play great pnrt in this present race
just because the light is between Rich
mond and Petersburg. Tho Petsrsburg
adherent VIII argue. should the flag
again fly from the masthead in the
Hoober ward that lichmond with ali
It's 10000 souls couldn't muster enough
strength to beat out Pctersburs. a
much smaller community There is al
ways source OF qualification in the
weaker winning from the stronger and
insiihablY so. But the trouble in base
ball affairs is that no matter how
large or how prosperous or now
wealthy tho city. where salary limit
obtains. the larger city is hommcd iu
by the same limitations of tho smaller
city. In other words PETERSBURG. IN
the Virginia -eaEuc can pay Just as
'nuch money FOR players AS Richmond
Therefore the god OF chance takes a
hand. and a Petersburg Victory over
Richmond means only that for "A stip-
niatod sum Petersburg has obtained
better bah players than Richmond. pre-
Stunning. of course. that PETERSBURG
has observed tho salary limit ana so
far as We are concerned. we would be
the last To even suspect that this IS
not true With regard to Goobervllle.
chaTles T. Bland. whose speeches
before the several meetings Of the
masnates Of the Virginia League arc
about 10 be issued in a hound volume.
so 1t is said. has caused trouble again.
He charges directly. without the aid
or ameliorating Influence of ".rs.''
and s" or butts that Lou Castro
and tho mon working under him have
deliberately laid down and refuse to
give their best services to win ball
games Captain Bland is about tho
most loQuacious individual In the viz
ginia League. When 1t comes to words
he has rapid fire gun looking like a
crippled tortoise. Some times tho
captain says wise things some times
he say Things which arc not only not
wise but which give the person or
persons toward whom they are d.
toctod chance for a comeback
Captain BLAND IS wcllmoanlng ordin-
nrly Ia fact Captain Bland means
wen at almost all stages OF the game.
Il there are amy skcp,ics IA this re-
gard ask Captain ,land. As tho
head or his Portsmouth club he en-
gagged a MANAGER That manager is
at least he was a the time This is
written-the manager Of that BAN
club. As manager Castro has the say
SO over the ball players The ban
PLAYERS ,a!uk pretty woll OF Castro.
hoth ass manager and nar CAPTAIN
/ Bland doesn't think quite so wen OF
/ him Therefore, Captain Bland has
made charges II Is an indlsputAble
irn1h mat when money IS going out al
tine box oti!ce. words of condemnation