Evening star., 1912-10-06
NOT TO HAVE TEAM HAS A NEW HOME
Lynchburg Doesn't Want Vir-
ginia League Franchise.
WILL WAGE CONTESTS
Carolina and Virginia Leagues Due
to Fight Over Forma-
tion of Circuit.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
RICHMOND. Va, October 5.-Despite
reports to the contrary, Lynchburg is
not and will not be an applicant for a
berth in the Virginia League next season,
and if an effort is made to land a fran
chise for the Hill city at the annual
meeting of the Virginia League IT Will be
made by Jack Grim upon his own initia-
tive and not for the fans OF the city.
Lynchburg fans, of course, want base
ball for 1912, but as fans they are not
going to ask favors of the circuit after
having been bounced from 1t last
June, although a member of the league
until 1916, while Newport News and
according to the express
terms of the constitution. are only in un-
til the impending meeting. Lynchburg
fans feel that they We're handed an un-
commonly raw deal-a deal that ought
not to be permitted in the game-when
that team was dumped to get down to
six teams after Danville threw its fran
chise on the league.
Lynchburg has never fallen down on a
base ball organization yet, although the
association which backed the team re-
ooNA
franchise was taken away from the Hill
city. The league had to assume the Dam
vile liabilities to the players, but when
Lynchburg was pitched out headlong the
hackers took the view that the league
was more bound. morally, at least. for
back pay of the Shoemakers than they
were for the DanvilIe salaries; hence
they have never been settled.
After the franchise was taken away
from Lynchburg the old association set
tied all of it's accounts save the salaries,
even to the redeeminG of season tickets,
which were less than half used up for
the season.
Lynchburg wants base ball, but not in
the Virginia League. Yet If Jack Grim
has the grit to try for franchise and
can get it the fans will patrortze him If
he gets a One-two-three aggregation.
They could do this without seeking
favors from the men, who served them, as
Lynchburg claims. SO badly and dis
reputably last June. An amalgamation
with North Carolina towns would be the
objective of the Hilltown bugs, but the
Tar Heel cities do not appear to look
with favor on this. preferring an all
state circuit. Therefore, it looks as
though Lynchburg will do without pro-
fessional base ball, unless Grim can
land franchise for himself
Two lively contests may be expected to
be waged this fall in this part of the
base ball map, for the Carolina Associa-
ton is going to scrap over the organiZa-
tion for next season, and 1t Is not to be
expected that the Virginia League will
get by its annual session in November
without a ripple on the water. Down in
Carolina they did the remarkable thing
of pulling Il D class circuit through a
five-year agreement without break, but
that agreement is a thing of the past.
The North Carolina towns say they are
going to have a game of their own
next year, while the Palmetto fans Seem
to be endeavoIing to coax them back
into another Carolina Association Cir
cult for another agreement. This Will be
up for consideration at meeting to be
held at Charlotte next Tuesday. when the
teams will gather to wind up the affairs
Of the past season and talk circuit build
ing for 1915.
In the Virginia League things are tri-
he different When the clubs meet in
Portsmouth next month the membership
of Portsmouth and Newport News will
have expired and it will be up to Norfolk,
Richmond. Petersburg and Roanoke to say
what shall be the makeup OF the league
for the next season. Three OF these must
be agreed and two of them can block.
Norfolk will, of course. vote for Newport
News and Portsmouth, but it remains to
be seen what the others will do. 1t is
generally known that Newport News was
a tiZzle as q base ball town last summer.
The people did not patronize the club
when it was going good and had a good
standing in the race, and after that the
crowds were smaller than they We're in
Roanoke. There can be no doubt about
the statement that at the meeting Ports
mouth and Newport News lose their
membership in the league and that they
come up for readmissions exactly as any
other town would.
The general impression seems to be
that the circuit next year will be exactly
as 1t was made up at the close of the
last season.
AS far as has been made public the Vir-
sinia League has done nothing with the
request for an investigation of the
charges made against Count Lou Castro
and his band of Portsmouth Pirates by
former President Bland. who charged the
Pirates with not playing the ball they
We're capable of. Castro declared through
the press at the time of the incident that
he would demand a complete investiga-
ton at the hands of the league, but if
como out In the press Of the circuit. IN
deed, it is expected that nothing more
will be heard of the matter, for President
Bland quit the directorate of the club
and the new regime retained Castro to
manage Portsmouth again next season if
that team is in the circuit. Castro made
many friends around the circuit last sea-
Son and with chance to get together a
team such as he would have for next sea-
son he will, no doubt, give much better
account of himself than he gave this
year. Having about IL month to get his
team, the showing he made was remark
able and Castro is an idol Of the Ports
mouth fans.
Red Munson. who is about as we'll
known on the Virginia, South Atlantic
and Southern circuits as Billy Smith is in
the Southern, and who piloted Bristol to
a pennant this Year in the Appalachian
League after hard fight with Knoxville,
has decided to hibernate In Bristol. He
has taken d place in swell haberda sh-
cry and has blossomed into a real cloth
ing salesman. The first report from
Munson is that he squats and signals
when he takes down box of cuffs or
collars. A lady failed to get a collar to
tit her coming hopeful "Ah, l see.' re-
marked the one of the rudy countenance,
1T is foul Another customer. man.
dropped in to buy a shirt Red found the
stock short in the number and he de-
clared: I'VE are out at first on the play"
a lady, buying for her husband per-
chance, inquired for a shirt. which Red
= = 14f1 T.,