The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-15
In the Wake of the Game
BY Gus Malbert

BY Gus
Plenty of baseball to-day .provid-
1t doesn't rain and the weather Is
good.
Double-headcrs scheduled for both
Lee ana Broad Street Park.
The first contest will begin In each
case at 2:3o o'clock
Deacon Phillip has not decided just
who Will offer as tho sacrifice. but
Newman Jas chosen Mcllwainc TO
win the first. while II IL not improb-
able that Taylor will go the route. in
second. Lathrop is still suffering from
tho effects Of that siXiccn-inning en-
counter in Pittsburgh.
The Business Mems Club as the
Ecbs arc now known. will probably
draw one of those old-time crowds
which flood the field end make the
game more interesting from any view
Point.
Latest reports are to the effect that
the league Will begin it's new lease
on life on July /. with Richmond,
Baltimore. Cincinnati. ST. Louis. Chi
c;iEo and Pittsburgh as the circuit
Lynchburg is getting together a
war fund with 'Shich to tight the mag
mates OF the Virginia League. The Hnli
city doesn't want to be thrown out,
and will take the case TO the Ma
tional Board for final settlement.
still IT was a question of the life,
Cf hp tpa gu mr. tlc rtt1 I,,-
burg.
The virginia League has not had the
most rosy season. The money has not
been coming in quite as fast as it was,
going out, and this isn's calculated to
make the magnates feel any too
happy.
It's been bad year for baseball all
over the country. The weather has
had much to do with 1t, but contri-
huting causes. many OF which were
foresecn. helped.
The United States League has had
It's roubles. Let's hope they are now
over. From the local standpoint they
are. How about the others:
Ono thing is certain. Tho United
States League has put Richmond on
the baseball map. II has demonstrate
co that this is not a small town. but
Is willing and able to support anything
" hich the real men of the city want.
And there are real men interested In
the United States League here. Mem
with money and brains and energy
You can't beat that combination in
any game.
bad ones had been wceded out They
are starting out with n clean slate and
clean sports. not seekers for fortunes
which VIII grow with the CELEBRITY Of
Jacks beanatslk.
Says Morgan Mills: Richmond is
he best known city In the baseball
those people in Pittsburgh what the
business men here had done, they
realized Richmond was n regular place
and wanted II to remain in the
league"
And every nickie invested by these
same business men WIFI be returned
makes a dime. It's Advertising which
pays. and the United States League
advertises Richmond where adverils-
Ing Will do the most good. That's the
business Of H. aside from the sporting
feature.
Bill Taylor Justly popular. and a
good pitcher. all things considered, is
also something Of naturalist. In
the winter he raises aud tames Mus
telidae MephIticae. which isn't quite
as bad AS II sounds. being In unvar-
nlshed English, Just "skunks" Bill
Hllows-hc Is from the northern
reaches OF COMMUNICATIVE the
mustelidae are exceedingly in demand,
and that their farming is muchly re-
murerative.
Petersburg is up in arms against
the schedule adopted by the Virginia
League. Gooberville. regarded asl
probably the most prosperous city in
the league, says emphatically that she
VIII withdraw unless this schedule Is
revised and revised quickly.
1t develops that Petersburg had no
hand in making the schedule, Secre-
tary Prichard arriving after II had
been framed up. BY this schedule
Petersburg is made TO so TO Roanoke |
five times. though IL Is understood |
that none OF the other clubs goes |
more than once.
position of the Danville players Nor
folk gets Schrader and CASTOR, Rich