Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-14
VIRGINIA LEAGUERS
Schedule to Be Amended on
Account of impossible Jumps.
IN HANDS OF PRESIDENT
News and Gossip Of the Teams in
the Tight Little
League.

Special Dispatch to The star.
sinia league schedule for the coming
season Will have to be amended because
OF an oversight by its trainers at the re.
cent Richmond meeting. and President
boatwright Is at work on this. New
drafts will be In the hands of the ..v.
erai teams soon and a mail vote will be
| taken.
When the season was heightened II h.
came necessary to draft an entirely nav
schedule. which was built around several
drafts that were offered for the shorter
season. The committee worked five or six
hours on the arrangement and II was
adopted as recommended. Since that
President Boatwright discovered that Il
would be impossible for the clubs COM
pleting series in Newport News to
jump to Danville. Lynchburg or Roanoke
| In time to play the following day and.
owing to the fact that there were a num-
Der of such jumps 1t was imperative that
these jumps be eliminated. To accom-
plish this was no little work, but It Is
eeiieved that President Boatwright will
DO It in q manner satisfactory to nearly
! all, II not all. Of the teams.
n is understood that the opening games
will not be disturbed by the new schedule
and that the only holiday games changed
win be that Lynchburg will lose the
| memorial day games, something the local
team cares nothing about, for that holi-
day is not observed here, the local me-
moriai day coming in June.
The seventh season OF the Virginia
league VIII open next Thursday. with the
teams probably worse prepared for the
grin than has ever been the case since
the organization of the circuit There are
TWO reasons for this. the cold and unset
tied condition of the weather since April
! and the fact that only q few DAYS be-
| fore reporting time the magnates decided
to open on the 18th instead of the 9th,
| thus clipping seven days of the rehearsal
period. Or course, what's sauce for the
gander Is sauce for the goose, but the
| teams who ordered the men to report q
I week or ten days later than last spring
slipped up properly, as will almost cer-
tainly be seen when the championship
race Is on.
The teams to report early were Rich
mond. Norfolk and Petersburg, who got
as much as q weeks practice before the
Lynchburg. Portsmouth. Newport News
and Roanoke teams put i'm their appear
ance, with Danville almost a whole week
behind them ALL
Unless the first three days of the coming
week prove to be good ones for hard work
the season will get a bad start as far az
playing form Is concerned for a majority
of the teams. but the late advent Of spring
ana the tenacious way cold weather has
hung on ought to insure good weather
after the bell rings
All Of the clubs still have a large mum.
Der OF men on their rosters. and most Of
them will butt right into the season be-
fore the final wedding comes. SO 1t will
be impossible to give a line on the per-
sonnet of the clubs until after the game
Is on. The clubs appear to be well forth
ned Tor managers this year, though
Roanoke and Danville are starting out
with men experienced only in playing
and not in plotting club. CASTOR has
been successful player, but II remains
to be seen what he win do In charge OF
the Danvilie. Red Sox. The same can be
said Of DR.. Pressly. who succeeds Frank
Shaughnessy at Roanoke. Both OF these
men know the game, and II they can
make their men play they will have no
trouble. Count Castro. while not an
Of experience, SO his career At Ports
mouth will be an interesting one to
watch. The remainder OF the pilots are
all men old in the business and who are
wei known to fans all over the south.
At Lynchburg. Otis Stocksdale. who play
ed number OF years around the South
ern Association, starts his second year
At Richmond, Steve Grimm. who landed
the pennant in 1910 for Danville. win
try to duplicate his work for the big
town OF the league. Charley Shaffer. ex-
manager at Richmond and Roanoke, after
year or two In the west, will try IL
again. this time in charge OF the Tars
at Norfolk. But the oldest salt Of them
all Is the veteran Jack Grim, who owned
the Lynchburg Shoemakers during the
first two and a half seasons Of the league.
but Is now at the belm OF affairs down at
Newport News. one Of the baby members
Of the league.
There will be more new material in the
league this season than at any time
since the first year Of the circuit Most
of the teams will be made up Of young
sters. fresh from the sand lots and cross
roads, and the indications now are that
some OF them are going to give mighty
good accounts of themselves.
The umpire staff will consist Of Hem
dersOn, held over from last season; Nc
Tague Newark, IN. j. newspaper man
who has gone wrong: Donohue. who went
through the season last year in the APP
palachian circuit; Bob Black, we'll known
here, but who worked last season in me
New York State. and Al Ortiz. Smiling
AL IL you please who will take up the
indicator May I, when he lays down his
toga as coach at Washington and Lee.
Charlie Strain. a Richmond amateur.
thorough try-out with the Richmond
Colts. Grimm has a lot Of confidence in
the youngsters ability.
Pitcher Dreaming. the Baltimore pitcher
who blew into camp and offered to pay
his expenses during the training season,
went to Richmond before coming here
The lad Is no mean pitcher, and 1t would
not be surprise II he makes the team.
Newton, who refused recently to sign a
Roanoke contract or to report to that
team because of the restriction by the
leagues salary limit, has turned up. and
he will be seen in the Tiger infield after
q years absence. during which he played
In four or i've leagues.
OF the first eighteen men to report to
Jack Grim In Newport News for trials
for the Shipbuilders. seventeen Of them
are right-hand hitters.