Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-09
VIRGINIA LEAGUERS
Talk of 0usting DanviIle and
Roanoke From Organization.
LOOKS LIKE WILD RUM0R
Both Clubs Have Net Obligations
and Have Rights of
Their Own.
LOOKS LIKE WILD RUM0R

Special Dispatch 10 The Star
LYNCHBURG. Va. June S-The vir~
GINA League can always be counted upon
for a story in season and ont OF season.
but the latest thing on the ball map OF
the Old Dominion appears to be an or
ganized effort TO Dust Danville and Roa-
noke from the league. At least. that ~
as far as the talk goes now, but II would
not be surprise TO see the effort. IL IL
really amounts TO anything. TO be eN-
tended to include Lynchburg as we'll Late
last week the report came from Norfolk
that a meeting of representatives OF the
majority of the league was to be held
Sunday afternoon at Ocean View. a sell
side resort a few miles from Norfolk. a
few miles farther from Portsmouth, am
just the width OF Hampton roads from
Newport News The first report had 4
that the league had been called for sun
day session, but President Boafwright &C.
MED that he had ever heard OF the call.
Then it cropped out that IL was 10 be a
meeting of club representatives, and when
the meeting was held representatives OF
Norfolk Portsmouth and Newport News
were the only noses that could be count
ed. Now what they did, IL IL was for
ANYTHING more than a hot Sunday after
noon toss in the surf. has not developed.
bit IL is quite certain that the western
franchise occupants are not suffering
from fright over the prospect of having
their franchises taken away from them.
Ii is stated that meager attendance IN
Danville and Roanoke is the cause or
this desired change, but at the same
time nothing comes from the coast over
the small drawing ability OF the NorioiA
team, which has been fighting around
the top all season, and playing TO crowds
much smaller than Lynchburg, the cellar
champions, is drawing on halt the popu-
lation.
The upstate teams are not worried
over these dark-eyed threats from the
tidewater teams, for they know Just as
long as they meet their obligations TO
the league there is no way to Dust thefh.
Danville and Roanoke know also tnat
Lynchburg will stand for nothing that
does not include those towns first, last
and all the time. With LynchDurg stick
ing to Danville and Roanoke, thfee-
fourths vote against them would be I'M
possible.
After losing eleven games In row.
and establishing a darker-hued record
than was made just a few days previous
by the Lynchburg Shoemakers, DahNils
woke up took a double-header from Roa-
noke and then walked straight INTO
general shake-up when the team got
back home. The association behind Inc
team appears to have been pioneering
over the troubles of the club Tor some
time, ana the " hIOp VI TIC a.
Arthur Wallace. the big centerneldet,
who was CLEANED I'm trade with Rich-
mond in the spring. Wallace is Boou
hitter and a good fielder, but there ms
ability stops, for he plays for wallace.
or. certainly. that is his reputation IN
Virginia. He came to the Virginia
League in 1900 in a trade by winch
Lynchburg sent Harry Stewart to Dat
las, Tex, but after he played coupe
of months here was traded TO hicninono
Ss,,sth hot
under suspension at the time OF the deal
Manser, a player farmed by Chatta-
nooga of the Southern League, aitnoush
the use of farmed players Is prohipitea
by the constitution. has been turned Dseh
to the Lookouts, who may now look TOT
another berth for this promising player
II is expected that additional changes
will be made among the Red Sox ere
long, and II is limited that IL MANAGER
CASTOR cannot make the team 90
he will soon find himself looking for
job, too.
"Dutch' Revelle. who had trial this
sprlng with the Atlanta team, has been
given a trial by Portsmouth. and he has
been found wanting. Revelle's record IN
the Virginia League for six years, taken
as a whole, was an enviaDle one anu me-
failure to go the route TINS Year either
with the Crackers or with Portsmouth Is
probably due to the fact that he has not
gotten over an attack of typhoid fever.
which held him dangerously III Tor d
month last fall. Revelle certainly knows
how to pitch. but he was not effective.
even after a long trial with the Truckers.
To get in the player limit the Lynch
burg team has released Pitchers sicKers
and Winges and Jack Law, the veteran
catcher-first baseman, who was with Nor
folk last season. Winges came from the
Cotton States League and Nickery.
Georgia product, has played in no less
than a dozen leagues I'm the past TWO sea-
sons. Vickery is good man ana with
team behind him he should have no troh-
BILE winning big percentage of his
games.
Local fans have been boosting Otis
Stocksdale. until recently manager or the
local team for job as umpire. Several
of the men on the staff are not creating
a furore with the fans these days and &c
would not be surprising to see President
Boatwright make a berth for Stocksdale
John yerbout who was pitching
mainstay of the Richmond Colts two sea-
sons ago, seems to have returned TO MS
old form and is now very formidable
moundman
Flynn, who umpired last season i'm tho
Virginia League. but who was not re-
tanned by President Boatwright after ITO
shake-Lp i'm the reorganization or the CIR
cLlt, is after a jon again.
The new ownership in Richmond has
engaged a brass band to enliyen the
games the Colts play at home. Here 10
Iynchburg the fans would be glad of an
orportunity to make bit of noise with
out the accompaniment of a horn band.
Wolfe. the Newport News first saciSer,is
ra mildly becoming one of the best men IN
the league In addition 10 putting mp
a good game around his cushion. he i
hitting the ball hard at all times and
harder i'm the pinches. His stick has won
a number of games for the Shipbuilders
recently.
In two games recently Vincent Roth.
the local southpaw, established a record
for wildness that may stand for the sea-
son hereabohts. In the first game le
walked nine and hit one batter, and in
the next nine more went down on -four
bad ones, and three by being hit by
pitched balls Thus. in eighteen innings,
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