Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-26
VIRGINIA LEAGUERS
Youngsters Anxious to Get
Trials in the Old Dominion.
TRY ALL SORTS OF PLANS
Organizations Success the Result Of
Sticking to Salary
Limit.
TRY ALL SORTS OF PLANS
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCEBBURG, Va. February 26.-Find
an embryo base ball star, a youngster
who believes all that is needed to demon
strate that he would soon be able to show
Ty Cobb how to clout the pill or how
to make Pop Anson's glorious record
look like thirty cents. and there you have
a young fellow who win go to the ends
Of the world for q try-out In the minor
leagues. Any such youngster would give a
digit II he could play ball without 1t, for
q boost with q team by Manager Connie
Mack, such as young Nixon OF Atlantic
City recently got when the head Of the
Athletics wrote the Lynchburg team to
give the young Atlantic City man a trial
But all ball players do not come under
the cunning eye Of Manager Mack. and
even those who do do not all get boosts
from such q man. Therefore, 1t be-
hooves some youngsters to get a trial.
even If 1t has to be by hook or crook.
They believe they have the goods. and
nothing could ever convince them that
they have not, and never will have, until
they have been thrown down by q mana
ger or two, and even then they did not
get q fair chance
Manager Mack, If he but knew it, would
not have to go to Atlantic City to boost
a coming Cobb or Jackson, for there 10
one living in the City of Brotherly Love
who believes he has the goods, and who
seems to have taken q unique crook to
get trial under the tutorshtp of Col.
Otis StocksdaIe. who will handle the
Lynchburg team during the coming sea-
son.
Let the production Of the fertile brain
Of the lad speak for itself. Here it<is.
having been written on g. letter head of
Sh.be Park, and under q Philadelphia
date short time ago:
Manager. Lynchburg Club.
Lynchburg, Va.
youngster who plays all around on one
Of the fastest semi-professi0nal teams in
this city. He has the goods. and as you
are in need of q few young players, I
him would write you. SO he will expect
an answer In a few days. SO please ad-
dress the answer to him. His name Is
Henry Hunt, $50 North Orianna street.
Philadelphia.
II hope that you will do me thi. favor
and give him a try-out and beg to
fe'na "(sisneO very AL MAUI"
It happened that Manager Stocksdale
wanted some youngsters at the time the
Of jumping at conclusions he decided he
would write to the Athletic scout to get
some additional data about the player. SO
he might know whether he could place
came "a reply from Maui. who declared
the letter 'frame-up." saying he had
never heard Of the player. The letter
was neatly typewriter and the signature
IL not unlike Mr.. Maul's. but it seems
almost needless to say. this prospective
star will not get q chance to sign
Lynchburg contract. even II Lynchburg
runs the chance Of missing a much
touted youth who should bloom In one
season into q Baker, or q McInnis, or.
perchance, q Bender.
The Virginia League seems to have
been the pioneer In the rush to clip OF
q few hundred dollars q month In minor
league salary limits, and 1t IL to be hoped
that the good example set by this circuit
may be followed by all the circuits whose
population is not large enough to spell B
class. The trouble in the Virginia League
OF them. The circuit started; OF In 1905
With q limit Of $500, and Jack Grim won
the championship with q team which he
always claimed was inside the maximum.
they jumped the limit 500 q month. In
1907 that was tho limit. and the league
saw its best ball. The next year It was
Jumped again to Loo. and some Of the
clubs were paying $500. The next sea-
SON It was q. 800. and 1t was claimed,
that at least one OF the teams was 800
over that. Then came the reaction and
the limit was cut to 81 ,20O,-s but was
jumped to 81, 400, where It was for last
season and where 1t will be this season.
Last year. with bad weather and an out
law league to buck, together with the
best drawing towns at the bottom Of the
race, nothing saved the circuit but this
sensible limit.
Hare In virginla Richmond 81 the only
town that oan stand higher priced bah.
for the qhher teams WIN make . nttle one