Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-25
ON STRIKE
Newport News Men Wanted
Their Salaries.
NEW MANAGER is SECURED
Matters Rearranged and Club Is on
Its Feet-0ther Gossip
of the League.


RICHMOND, Va. August @.-The Nir-
ginia League, ever ready to get IN tie
thickest of the limelight. bobbed up once
again with strike among the players of
the Newport News team because Jack
Grim is said to have been a bit slow in
coming across twice a month with tho
long green. The result was a forfeited
game and then the Newport News back
ers got busy. The next step was that
Manager Grim was ousted. Not like he
was treated in Lynchburg in 1908 when
he was given $40 for his holdings.
Newport News simply pitched him out.
lock. stock and barrel.
President Boatwright. whose admins
tration has not been a bed OF American
beauties, HE'D himself to Newport News
for a Sunday conference, and the result
was that William ("Buck'D Hooker was
chosen to pilot the Shipbuilders for the
rest of the season. or as long as life re-
mains Hooker. who was with Lynchz
burg in the beginning OF the season. u
not a novice in his new role. tor he work
ed as playermanager down In Wick
burg before he came TO the Virgin
League in 1907. He was with Lynchbui
in 1908 and 1909 under Grim, and he wi
traded to Danyille in 1910. In 1911
played in the T1dewater loutlawD circuitI
for a portion of the time being manager
of the Norfolk club. When that circuit
blew he Joined Lynchburg again. and his
sticking was something remarkable for
the remainder Of the season, for he hit
up to .431 in thirtythree games. leading
all batters in organized ball who par
ticipated in more than twenty-five games.
This year. however, Hooker has been a
failure with the stick, the last averages
showing his record to be .o32 in eighty
one games.
Hooker's work in charge Of the Ship
builders will be watched with interest
in Virginia, for il will be big surprise
il he is able to get more out OF the club
than Grim did. for ii seems to be very
sorry aggregation.
With double-headers scheduled regular
ly for Saturdays. Virginia League pitch
ers are having more chances to work IN
two games than has been the case here
tofore. but the double winning in a s.n-
gle afternoon has not been as frequent
as the double bills. Vance OF Peters
burg pitched the first doubie-header of
the season on May "A, when he walloped
Lynchburg by the scores Ii to and
to 2. In the eighteen innings he allowed
the Shoemakers fourteen hits. Finneran
worked twice against Petersburg on June
Is. but Norfolk won and lost. Mayer OF
Portsmouth pitched two games against
Norfolk June y and beat the Tars to
and IL to 2. allowing them eight hits
In the double session. Green tried the
stunt for Roanoke on June - against
Petersburg and he won and lost ON
July Doc Ayres pitched both sanes.
morning and afternoon. against Peters
burg. winning and losing. At Newport
News July IL Hedgepeth pitched Peters
burg to two wins in the afternoon over
the Shipbuilders by scores of = to and
6 to l, allowing Newport News eleven
safeties in the two games. Ehrd OF
Roanoke essayed to work a double bill
on July 81 against Richmond. winning
the first game and being hammered out
Of the box in the second.
The league record is probably held by
Walter Moser. who. with Lynchburg. on
July 20. 1909. pitched a double header
against Richmond. in which he did not
permit the Colts to score in eighteen
innings. These scores were to % and =
to O, Richmond getting six hits in the
first game and eight in the second.
Joe Finneran the mainstay of the Nor
folk box. has reported to the Philadelphia
Nationals. leaving the Virginia League
with a good record. for he won eighteen.
lost thirteen and tied one game i'm the
thirty five in which he worked. His rec
ord is .5S1. as compared with .G'2, the
standing OF the Norfolk team at the time
he quit Finneran was drafted BY
Charley Babb for Norfolk In the fall or
1910 from the Blue Grass League and he
pitched fine ball for the Tars last season.
II Is reported that Fred Graft third
baseman for Richmond. has been sold to
the st. Louis Americans for 81 100 Several
other major league clubs are said to
have been dickering for CRAFTS release.
Graft played last season with the Steu-
benyiIle team of the Ohio State League.
where he hit at .232 and fielded at ?es.
This year. up to July -, he had hit at
PSI and fielded at 1874 in nnety-one
games.
George kirchern. outfielder-catcher. 10
i'm charge of the Norfolk team during the
illness of Manager Charley Shaffer, who
has long been too sick to give the Tars
his personal attention.
An effort is being made 10 second .
series OF post season games i'm Richmond
between the Colts and Petersburg. pro-
yided these teams finish first and second
i'm the race.
Heine Busch. manager and short field
or for the Petersburg team, is generally
credited with being the best short fielder
I'm the Virginia League. I'm addition To
being one OF the most successful player
managers the league has ever had.
Busch is unusually popular with the
Petersburg fans, for whom he copied
a championship last year and now has
q fine chance to repeat, something that
has never been accomplished in the vir-
ginia League.