The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-22
MAGNATES MEET
DURING FEBRUARY
FIGHT EXPECTED OVER SCHEDULE
AND RICHMOND's
CHEAP GATE,

The annual meeting Of the Eirgi MIA
league magnates viii be held during
the latter part of February and at
that meeting the schedule for the com
ing baseball season will be adopted
and the various other matters TO be
considered before the teams take the
field will be decided
1t is expected that the meeting this
year will be lively one. but that the
majority of the teams in the circuit
win have completed their local arrange
ments for the summer by that time,
and that matters of purely league will
be the only ones to come before the
gathering of magnates. Several OF the
clubs are in difficulties of more or less
Importance just at the present time. but
IL il thought that they will have sue
ceeded in strengthening these out By
next month. and that everything viii
be ready for the session which Is re-
garded as being highly important
Each of the clubs will present sche-
dulles. one or two of which, il is ru-
mored win call for the Richmond team
spending an entire week on the road
at certain portions OF the season. This
rumor is not seriously considered by
any of the local fans. nor by the local
owners, for it is too we'll known that
the receipts OF the Saturday games
here are of the greatest Importance in
maintaining the league on a paying
basis.
Eliminate Cheap Gate.
Several annual contests are to come
before the meeting, however. which re-
late directly to the Richmond club
One OF these is the elimination OF the
ten-eent gate. This is always a mat
ter of controversy and 1t is understood
will be more strenuously pushed this
year than ever before. 1t Is held by
the owners of the local club that many
OF those who occupy seats on the east
side of the field at ten cents per head
would be lost to the attendance II the
admittance price was raised and that
in the course of a season the loss would
be martial one as many OF them are
regular attendants. coming to the park
and occupying the same seats every
day.
Heretofore the argument OF the sec
retary Of the Richmond club has car
ried with II sufficient weight to in
fiuence the league against taking any
action against the gate, and the matter
OF admission prices has been left to
the management of the home clubs
This resulted in Richmond raising the
price of the seats on the east side Of
the field to fifteen cents, an arrange
ment which at that was satisfactory
to the other clubs, and which was
made chiefly to stop further contro-
versy.
This year the owners Of clubs in
cities other than Richmond are again
insistent that the lowest admission
prices be placed at twenty-five cents.
It Ia believed by the local manage
ment that such an arrangement here
would mean almost the entire elimi-
nation of the negro rooters and a great
portion Of those who prefer the seats
on the east end OF the field The fight
will be waged to finish by the Rich
mond magnates,
The matter OF new schedule is not
expected to give the magnates a great
amount OF trouble. for 1t is thought that
one very similar TO that used last sea-
son will be adopted, Some Of the clubs
did more travelling than did others
and some few were on the road for
greater lengths OF time than others. but
an equalization of these things Ia al
most impossible. and ii is thought that
the schedule followed in 1913 is as
near perfection az can be attained.