The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-06
VANCENOW NUMBERED
IN ROSTER OF COLTS
Signs Contract and May Pitch To-Day's Game.
Smallwood Goes to Winston-Salem-E berts, LUIS
key and Steve Griffin Suspended-Team
Now Within Thirteen PLAYER Limit

league rule. At present the suspen-
sion idea is popular; tomorrow it may
be something entirely different. But
whatever the policy pursued 1t must
be at variance with the law of the
and fast regulation that means some-
thing than to let the present policy
prevail. AS 1t is now. Richmond the
richest city in the league. and Peters
burg, tho next from a standpoint OF
prosperity, might easily keep eighteen
or twenty men on the pay roll, all save
the legal number being suspended.
while the cities less hefty in purse.
must suffer. because they can i'll afford
to enter into such competition II
some magnate will get up in meeting
and declare for fair and equitable
plan by which each club can carry
the number of men needed in the cam
paign for n pennant--say fourteen
and then the president be instructed
10 see that the provision is lived up
TO in both letter and spirit. the big
city with the big patronage and the
little city with the smaller Income, Will
be moro nearly on an even basis
Billy Murray, now working for the
Pittsburgh club but formerly one of
the best backstops in the game, was
at the park yesterday looking 'em
over He expressed no opinion as to
the individuals In whom he was IN
terested, but he did say that the V!r-
glnia League WAS playing better base
ball than could be seen in over half
of the class circuits throughout tho
country. While having great respect
for Billy Murray's opinion 1t doesn't
really take an expert 10 come to su n
conclusion.
Moro letters are coming to this desk
each day regarding the earlier starting
hour and OF them all just one says
something In favor of the 40 o'clock
curtain raising He signs himself
Rosy" and here is what he hits:
Sporting Editor, Times-Dspatch,
Richmond, Va.
Dear Sir,--I note your agitation re-
gardinE earlier baseball
! cannot see the logic of man loos-
ing more time from business by calling
game earlier. I see the necessity in
n large city, whore one has to go n |
long distance and take long time
getting home but hero in Richmond
few men can't get home within fifteen
minutes after the game is called, so
per cent will do this. The game is
usually over a little after 6. Calling
cally looses an hour and n half from
his business, and 7 believe voice the
sentiment of q very large majority.
who will not talk in public, because
they arc too mild and modest to get
into print
Truly yours.
ROSY"
Rosy" is evidently good fellow
and patron of the game. and his opn-
ION is worthy consideration. Wherein
he falls is that he assumes so per cent
OF the people to be within fifteen min
utes ride Of the park, and further in
his assumption that the game IS usually
over few minutes after six. We do
not know how often he goes to the
park, but If he is a regular attendant
day In and day out, he will find that
$50 o'clock will come more nearly +,
proving an average Also If he is |
married. he must have a most kindly |
wife or an abnormally late mealing |
time. Eighty per cent of the people |
attending live beyond the fifteen-nin- |
ute schedule, and only the favored few |
who reside in the West End can, by /
sprintinG, arrive home at the normal
hour. At least. that is the opinion of I
nearly 100 men who have been willing /
TO see their names in print as opposed !
TO the suppertime starting hour Here's !
one from II. II. Wallis a druggist:
Sporting Editor. The Dispatch:
am pleased to note the agitation |
Tor starting baseball games earlier. l /
favor o'clock
Respectfully yours
tSigned) II II. WALLIS,
334 South Pine Street