The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-13

Hote!, New York. Landgraf expects
TO be back Saturday
Contractor White. who is TO build
IN stands at Lee Park, announces
ihot he has secured most OF the lum-
Der needed for the construction work,
% dns, mat nc is ready TO begin work
give MIN chance. Ii had been en-
pccted to start hauling lumber yes
terday, but the continued rain pre-
LnandSraf spent most of the time in his
once answering communications from
pan players and advising Alfred Newn
h , ,o, what a. progress had been made.
was received from President Whitman
IN which he announced that the affairs
or the other cities OF the circuit were
IN Just as good shape as in Richmond.
An amendment TO the charter o. the
Baseball Corporation of Richmond,
which controls the franchise for this
cry in the United States League, was
poration Commission. The amendment
creates preferred stock OF $4,000 par
Vault and allows the corporation to
1neruasa the par value OF the common
STOCK from $40 share to 500 share.
senator Gallagher's resolution. in
troduced in the United States Senate,
may sound like i joke TO some people
IL may never am%1nt to anything. An
investigation may never be held. But
other trusts. not quite SO strongly in
trenched as the baseball trust il is
true. laughed off impending inyesti-
5asiUohs IN lust the same manner, until
iihallL they were brought to taw.
AS 10 organized baseball, there arc
many OF It's features which arc excel
tent tent bundoubtedly organization has
like most organizations, once they
taste the sweets of power, the mon
In control of the affairs OF organized
baseball have assumed an arbitrary
attitude which !a dstasteful not only
10 a large number OF men who arc
not within the organized ranks. but TO
many who are within, but who are
suppressed in anything they might de-
sire TO do by the powers t:sher up.
Learned scribcs, learned Ioca,
scribes. come forth with the argument
that no baseball player can be found
s @no W., %iii Say say anything against the
OF tho men in the major leagues are
commanding great salaries. But that
Is not the salient feature. Many of
the men In the tobacco trust In the
steel combination. in the sugar trnst'
and other combinations, receive vast
~ higher salaries than do the men
IN the government employ. The ques-
zion of salaries received doesn't enter
INTO the argument at all. II there
IS a baseball writer in the world who
hasn't heard complaints from bail
payers because of existing conditions
n the organized ranks. he is deaf and
dumb. .t' ~
But the reason for Senator Gala
Sher'S resolution Is to determine nv
~hat right the baseball authorities
occupying territory In which teams
are already playing. In other words,
noyS can any set of mon say to an
timer set of men. You shall not enter
Am already here? If an attempt Is
made TO enter that given city. dcspite
the edict issued, every bit Of power
"hich the Organization possesses Is
she Invaders. IF the baseball organi-
cation Is not a combination in re-
straint of trade. sitting, competition.
.nen ~ none ION mas eyer existed There
baseball openly does things In def
hnce of the law. The reserve clause
contract is. as every player Will state.
without the semblance of standing in
law, yet so strong is this orsanizatio
that unless a ball player respects this
illegal contract he is prevented from
playing the game.
salary limit Of the Virginia League su;,Uo
and says that s1,4oo can buy Just as
good baseball as Lynchburs wants.
Very probably true, but It will not
mond wants or which Richmond do
serves. Nor. for the sake Of the
Lynchburg scribe. will this writer eve.
repine for the things he has said of
the United States League. even should
1t never play a game OF baseball nc
will keep. up the fight for better base
ball for Richmond Just rs long as he
Is able 10 write. lie is looking for
Through st,ht ~
He Is willing to sink or swim along
the lines he has set for i,imself--bet1
ter baseball for bigger Richmond
Say They Stole Skirt.
James Bryan and Celeste Bryan,
colorcd, were arrested last night on
warrant sworn out by tho Baylor
Yorborough Company charging them