The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-08-21
SAINTS SHOULD
BE KEPT RIGHT
:THEREFANS SAY
Good Baseball Always Has Re-
ceived Good Support in
st. Paul.
LENNON HAS RETURNED.
(BV E., r. HOsking.)

ST. PAUL, Aug. 20.-George E.
Lennon returned to St. Paul yesterday
but was too busy to make any state
nent with regard to the St. Paul
team.
Prominent fans who have discussed
the situation from all angles are hope
Jul that the club will remain here,
whether Mr.. Lennon retains the prop
erty or not. They say that the other
magnates in the league know that the
city is not a barren baseball field, and
that the attendance here is as good
proportionately as in any other city in
the league, when the fans are given
my good reason for supporting the
club. The Cantillons of Minneapolis,
who know the situation as we'll as any
two men in the league, local fans say,
will strenuously oppose any move to
remove the club.
What is needed here and the only
thing needed is team that can play
American association baseball.
If Mr.. Lennon will provide baseball
of that grade he will have no reason
to complain of the returns. He has
had the club ever since the association
started, and his fat years have out
numbered the lean by more than two
to one.
No one in the world could expect
any city to support the kind Of base
ball that has been dished up here this
year, and the fact that the fans have
refused to turn out shows that they
know what they want, and particu-
larly what they don't want.
If Mr.. Lennon is tired of continuing
TO retain the local franchise and team
it. should not be difficult matter to
find local capitalists who will give him
a good price for his holdings.
But whether he sells or retains the
club there isn't the slightest reason
for moving the club to another city.
McGraw Guessed Wrong.
Dick Rudolph, the star finger of the
Boston Braves, who with James and
Tyler has pitched Boston to within
three games Of the top, was not good
enough when McGraw had him: Dick
was shipped off to the International
league and for two seasons he was one
of that leagues leading pitchers, play
ing with Toronto. Since the Braves
began their sensational squirt to the
top Rudolph has won ten straight
games, defeating Chicago, st. Louis,
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati twice each
and Brooklyn and New York orcc.
Boston is today within three k,4l..c, o.
New Rork, and unless Tyler, James or
Rudolph crack under the strain of
pitching every second day, the hopes
of the Boston fans for a pennant seem
lilro1xy r. ho 1i1o1
A Few Teutons Left.
There are still few noble Teutons
left in baseball despite the kaiser's
call for reservists. A few who figured
in yesterdays major league box
scores are Wagner, Leibold, Schang,
Berghammer, Mollwitz, Schneider,
Stengel, Neihoff, Getz, Daubert, Tim
norman, Schultz, Groh, Lobert and
Paskert. The French we're represent
ed by Lajoie, Meanwhile and Tesreau.
Where Brewers May Lose.
Of the forty games remaining to
be played this season the Brewers
have thirty-three scheduled on the
road and only fifteen at home. The
Nightriders have thirty-five games
to play on the home grounds. On the
dope, therefore, the Brewers have a
heavy task ahead of them to retain
their championship.
You can't blame Duluth for feeling
somewhat elated these days. Their
rowing club has made clean sweep
of Northwest and national honors, and
now R. S. Patrick has demonstrated
that Harry Legg of Minneapolis hasn't
got a perpetual lien on the state golf
championship.
There is at least one information
al trophy that the United States won't
lose this year and that is the Ameri-
cas- cup, competition for which has
been postponed for at least a year.
This hasn't been exactly your Uncle
Samuel's year in international sports.
Reports from Superior that Couture
and Salvatore were outpointed by
Doyle and Billings won't go uncontra-
dicted long. Mike McNulty, who has
Couture and Salvatore in charge, will
have few remarks to make when he
gets home.