The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-27
GORDON M'CABE IS
WEATHER SHARP
GLAD HE HAS No FINANCIAL RE
LATT0SsHEP WITH BASEBALL
THIS YEAR.
RAIN AND POLITICS
ALMANACs DECLARE THERE WILL
BE MORE RAIN THAN FOR
MANY XEARS--PREsI-
DENTAL CAMPAIGN.

with the refusal Of Suffolk 10 taks
the panyile franchise. il will be hard
to place thai club r the State league
decides 70 make o change. Manager
/ Gwynee said last week that he was
ready 10 let the franchise go. but he
is having trouble finding some place
TO put il.
one II the promoters OF baseball In
Suffolk said the other day before the
/ offer had been made by Danyile that
he would have no dealings with the
State league this year because OF the
raw d5al which ne said had been
handed him ard his associates when
they were In the ring and after
franchise
We went TO Richmond with ii sum
Of money 10 bind the bargain. and VIC
were given assurances that our propo-
sitiop would he acted upon faNorab big.
said the suffolk man. ''l5ut We were
turned duwu cold, Now We intend 20
remain down. 1t may De 8 different
tale next season,
Big suffolk Crowd,
Norfolk man who saw the game
ia Suffolk between Norfolk and Dan
vile said the attendance was as large
that day as upon any three days In
Norfolk
Attendant at Petersburg and Nav
port News appears to keep up. The
published reports place the attendance
about the sam. as that at Richmond
Eighteen hundred is "a pretty large
crowd Ia Petersburg IN Saturday.
But yet the mainstay Of the league
is the Saturday attendance In Rich~
mond, and II the weather Keeps going.
as Gordon McCabe said IL would. the
season viii not he profitable by any
urea TIE
Gordon McCabe's Forecast.
Gordon McCabe said the other day
IN Petersburg that he would not like
r*o ess.Fs. aGes- tEogees- II. ,lrs K rpss, this
yNnr for two reasons. One, that the
weather forecasts in the old reliable
alsnanacs carried more rainy days
than for may years. and the other
that this is a presidential year. When
much interest is centered in politics.
TO the disadvantage Of the great pa
tlonal pastime.
Jack Anthony had little to do Sat
HFday one time at bat and one run
is what history will relate concerning
him in that game. He also sacrificed
once.
Stanley Big-oie hit Ike q house atire
In. .Daneilie. He caught three hits
two Of them for brace each. And
he killed fourteen Danvillians. Must
have been pretty busy around the in
itial sack,
Twenty assists fell 10 the lot
of the panv.lle bunch in Saturdays
game
Herbert Wiley says this In the
Washington Star:
1t looks as though the Virginia
league is fast becoming a dumping
groGnd for the Southern league rather
than A recruiting field for the majors
and faster minors. for there are more
cX-Southern league players playing on
the eight teams in yirginia this year
than has usually haea-tha-ba se-peith
( all OF the teams From all other
I leagues, There are enough former
Southern players here now to man
two teams for a match game. with a
man or two to spare, and almost every
day sees player not quite fast enough
for the southern,~or slowed up a bit
too much. to keep up with the pace
there, VINO IL reporting to some team
in the Old Dominion.
In addition 10 Manager Stocksdale,
OF Lynehburg, Lou Castro. of Ports
mouth: Ste,@ Griffin. OF Richmond
ard Helne Busch. OF Petersburg, the
following players have at one time or
another been assets of the teams now
composing the Southern Sexton. Of
tyuchburg. MORRISON, OF Newport
Neys Becker. Britton, Watson. Doug
las. ReYeiie. Mayber and Garpin, of
Portsmouth, Gordon, of Danville;
Mullaney,lof Norfolk, and Newton,
T, l4afiiet, Green and Burleson. of Roam
uke.