Evening star., 1912-11-24
WILL Be PRESIDENT
BoatWright Again to Head vir-
ginia League.
HAS FIVE SUPPORTERS
Meeting Will Be Held Next Tues
day-General Gossip Of
the Circuit.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va. November 23.-Presf-
dent ]. o. Boatwright has called the an
! nual meeting of the Virginia League for
| next Tuesday, the session to be held at
Portsmouth. according to an agreement
made at the Roanoke meeting in Septem-
ber, at which the pennant for 1912 was
awarded to the Roanoke Tigers.
This meeting is primarily for the pur-
pose Of electing officers and for laying
preliminary plans for the coming season.
The question of salary limit will hardly
be touched at the session, for the National
Association has already fixed the maxi
mum, and it Is not likely that an effort
will be made to cut the limit this year,
for the arrangement in the Virginia
League is 1,4OO a month, and that is the
maximum provided by the Milwaukee
meeting last week.
President Boatwright will be elected to
succeed himself, for already five of the
teams have pledged themselves to his
candidacy. and it Is not known that the
sixth will oppose his candidacy. Presi-
dent Boatwright, while he had some
trouble with his umpire staff, made good
generally in the office, and next year his
experience should stand him well in hand
for better administration of the leagues 8
affairs.
r. B. Wilkinson of Lynchburg was vice
president of the circuit, and, inasmuch as
he is no longer connected with the game
a successor will be chosen for that office.
The circuit question will be quickly dis
posed of, and the league will start out
next season with the clubs that ended up
last year, viz: Richmond, Roanoke.
Petersburg, Norfolk, Portsmouth and
Newport News. The last two clubs will
have to be admitted into membership, for
! their affiliation with the league ends with
the annual meeting.
The directors appear to be working IN
harmony, all of them endeavoring to pre-
vent a row, for they hold that the V1r-
ginia League has already been in the
limelight too long and too much
The action of the National Association
In turning down the application of Ashe-
vile for a release from the Appalachian
circuit and sending 1t back as an internal
matter, seems to be causing some trouble
and concern to the promoters of the pro-
posed North Carolina circuit, which Is
planned to take the place of portion
of the old Carolina Association. With
Asheville told to go home and ask the
brother clubs to give up that territory
was jolt for Charlotte, Greensboro and
Winston-Salem as well as Asheville, for
it practically means there is nothing for
Asheville next year, but the Appalachian.
Carolina League are up in the air. for
without Asheville it Is not going to be an
easy thing to pull off the circuit desired.
The towns talked Of for the new league
Immediately after the Milwaukee pow
WOW, but with Asheville still up In the
air, this was deferred and it is not stated
when the meeting will be held.
Lynchburg, not much further from the
circuit than Asheville, may yet appeal to
the Carolina towns, for such league
would be welcomed in the Hill City and
with grounds closer in would be dandy
town for that circuit.
The new salary limit regulations will
work to give the Carolina towns a bit
cheaper ball next year, for the old limit
was $780, whereas it must now be cut
to 81 200 and at the same time include
part of the playing-managers salary.
John Dodge the infelder sold last sum-
mer by Norfolk to the Philadelphia Ma
tionals, has turned to vaudeville good
precaution If he does not care to go back
to the minors next spring. Dodge hit 1903
in 122 games last season, but is far from
being finished enough to stick, unless he
shows great Improvement.
Maurice Rath, who cut quite a swath
in the White Sox infield last season,
having gone west from the Baltimore
club by draft in 1911, is a protege of
Smiling Az Orth, for it was Orth who
found the player and gave him a shove
to faster company. 1t was in 1908 that
Rath was playing in the Eastern Caro-
lima League, and after the close of that
season, late In August, Orth. then in
charge of the Lynchburg team. picked
Rath up by purchase from Wilmington.
Rath figured with Lynchburg in about
ten games and Orth counted upon him
as some factor the next spring. The
majors and class A minors missed Rath
in the 1908 drafts and Orth began to feel
secure, but Rath was picked up by
Reading Of the Tri-State, where he
played in 1909, and from that team he
went to the Athletics, who swapped