Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-10
VIRGINIA LEAGUERS|
Four Ex-Southern Association
Men Managers This Year.
EVERY LEADER LOOKS GOOD
Norfolk Club Will Open Coming
Season With Over Thirty
Players.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBCRG. Va, March 9.-When
the Virginia League gets down to the
| real work of playing ball April % four
ex-Southern Association men will be at
| work on the circuit as managers. OF
the others two have seen former serv-
ice in the South Atlantic. one as a player
and the other as bench manager. The
four ex-southern pilots will be Col. Otis
Stocksdale of Lynchburg, who played on
| number OF teams around that circuit;
Dave CASTOR, who was with Atlanta for
| a time several years ago: Steve Griffin.
who was on the Little Rock team year
| to Mobile. and Count Lou Castro, the
former shOrtflelder Of the Atlanta team.
CASTOR has also played in the Sally
League, having been with Columbus last
season. The same is true of Heine Busch,
who came to the Virginia League from
the South Atlantic League, playing with
Norfolk two seasons before landing the
Petersburg management. Jack Grim, who
will develop the Newport News franchise,
was one Of the organizers of the South
Atlantic League, and at one time ran one
of the franchises in that league.
AL 1IcSSly Will 10 Ills lHSt WOIh DIS d
manager this year after playing three
seasons with Roanoke. He came from
Greenville,, Carolina Association), where
he played in 1908. Charley Shaffer of
Norfolk has managed the Richmond and
Roanoke teams in this league, but outside
OF Virginia Is better known In the west.
Last season he was with the st. Joseph
club in the Western League.
Although the season is seven weeks off
the several clubs look to be better off
this year than ever before for managers
and it is thought all Of them will be
able to go through the season without
being dumped
The Norfolk papers have been for
months announcing that Manager Shat
fer is busy signing players" the cor
rectness of which statement can be seen
when 1t is known that Shaffer now has
thirty-two men on his roster and under
contract. In the list are ten pitchers,
five catchers, six outfielders and eleven
infielders, not including Shaffer, who will
probably cover first. The men will be
ordered to report about March %. The
old men in the camp will be: Pitchers
Pool. Finneran and Vail. Outfielders
Staub and kircher and Inf1elders Dodge
and Foiles.
The complete roster is as follows:
Pitchers = Harry Joyce of ST. Marys,
Ohio; Lewis Woods. Harrah, Okla; James
Brooklyn, N. Y: Harry Fleming, Phila-
delphia; Warren Wright, Lauraville. Md.
Theodore Elliott. Baltimore, Md: Frank
O'Hara, Mount Carmel. Pa; Robert Vail,
BridgeWater. Me.
Neb.; Charles NJ Luskey, Lyons. N. y;
Alvie A. lie Brun, Norristown, Pa.
James Dillon, Chicago, H., and N. c.
Mayo. Athol, Mass.
Outfielders-George Kircher, Louisville,
rfh yorly
n. MOreland, Washington; William Nc
Gill. East Orange, and A. Randnow OF
Philadelphia.
1nfielders-George $. Bigbie, Richmond
James S. Morisey, Brooklyn. N. Y: John
Dodge. Memphis. Tenn: Charles Curtis,
Cincinnati; Frank NJ. Bryne, Philadel-
phia; Sam Wycoff, West Paterson, n. j.;
Barclay Grove. Chambersburg. Pa: Ar
thur Benton, Baltimore, and Henry
Foiles, Portsmouth, Va.
The Newport News club, one of the
| babies of the circuit, is going to be up
against q. stiff proposition this year on
account of the fact that the club will
have a bench manager in Jack Grim. and
| this means that the Shipbuilders will go
through the season with twelve play
The league provision is that the limit
shall be twelve players aside from the
manager. OF course, Newport News will
have the right to have a bench manager,
but if an effort is made to carry thirteen
| men a howl can be expected from the
other clubs.
| Heretofore it has been the custom in
this league to permit all of the teams
to carry an unlimited number of play
ers during the first month of the playing
season, but this cannot be extended this
year on account of the new agreement.
which limits the players to fourteen soon
after the playing season opens. This
may work a hardship on some of the
| teams, and there will be some real hus-
| Ting this year to select the combination
| to go through the season with.
Gus Boyne, utility man with Danville
at the close of the season, is In Lynch
| burg to spend the time between now and
| reporting time. when he goes to Dam
vile in an effort to make the Red Sox.
Boyne. who halls from Shippensburg.
Pa, lost out here, last season because
Woolums decided at the last moment to
sign. This spring he will have hard
time making first over Gus Schrader,
the Baltimore player, who will certainly
make it if he returns. Boyne, however,
stands a chance to get garden berth,
which he would be sure of IL he stings
the ball as he did in the Cumberland
| valley before he broke into the profess
SiOnal ranks.
The signing of Count Lou Castro as
| manager for Portsmouth and Dave Gas
| ton to pilot the Danville Red Sox, COM
pletes the list of managers for the Vir-
GINA League for the 1912 season, the full
| list being as follows:
Richmond-Steye Griffin.
| Norfolk-Charles A. Shaffer.
LynchburgAOtis III. Stocksdale.
Portsmouth-Lou Castro.
| Newport News-John j. Grim.
| Danville-David CASTOR.
| Petersburg-Henry Busch.
Roanoke-W. L. Pressly.
| The late hour Portsmouth and Newport
| News were admitted to the league puts
| the managers for those teams at some
what of a handicap, for the other teams
are all practically completed for the CON-
| ing season, though Managers Grim and
Castro say they will have no trouble
| rounding up team by March 10.
l. CASTOR, who is to be in charge of the
Danville end Of the circuit. was a men,
| Der of the champion Danville club two
seasons ago. but he played last year with
| 8. A. L., where he hit at .318 in 11S
games and fielded at 1851 In 1O5 games at
second base. He stood No. in the list
| of batters and No. 6 in the second base
| men. CASTOR Is we'll balanced and eX-
perienced player, and should make good
/ in his new role, despite his lack Of eX-
| perience.
| Castro has had some experience as man
ager In 1910 he just missed landing the
Dick Smith. He worked that year. or a
portion Of it, at least, in the South At
| Iantic. but since that his record is hard
| to trace.
CASTOR was recommended to Capt.
| Bland by Jake Wells, the theatrica.
| magnate who was president of the
league for five years.