Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-19
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by TIM PATCH

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by TIM PATCH
Goodbye. Ints. Call again next
spring
Buffalo won the international League
pennant yesterday hands down While
the Bisons were cinching the game ne
cessury to give them the rag. Provi-
dcncc was throwing away it's only
chance by losing two games to Toronto.
Richmond finished in seventh place.
whereby wiseacres predict the down.
fail Of the Barrow circuit. They will
mad. however, that Jack Dunn is u
nard man to down. and that Jackie will
be on hand next spring with real
ball club.
the local players. Mullen and ODonnell.
hitting the PHI for the coveted 800.
Others. however. were mighty close 10
that mark.
Rocky Mounters yesterday. making the
be, be STAGED a. Asheyille. That is. II
three more are necessar! TO decide the
championship OF North Carolina.
Richmond fans viii sympa thize deep
~ with Ray Ryan in his bereavement
champion Tarheels. lost his small son
yesterday. AS token of sympathy,
each player in the Rocky Mount-Ashe-
Vile game wore black band on his
arm during the game yesterday.
There is going to be a real scramble
for the football championship Of tho
citation this season. None of the teams
can boast of many veterans. and there
will be many dark horses to loom on
tho horizon.
w Among the larger State institutions.
seem Unusually strong, on paper.
Dropping down into Carolina. both the
Tarheels and Aggies have strong ag
natcly. the schedules are again so ar
ranged that the South Atlantic cham
pionship cannot be settled except on
records, which is mighty unsatisfac-
tory in football.
Yale and Princeton rule as :avorites
lowering around Harvard this year is
not visible. The tint seems TO have
is now strictly up to Coach Percy
Haughton.
Boston yesterday squelched the PEN
nant hopes of the Tigers by winning
great ball game after twelve innings
OF play The Phiilies COPIED another
chances OF Brooklyn and the Boston
Braves to catch them.
Already fans have picked the Red
SoS and the Phillies as sure winners.
In expectation that the Quakcrs cop
the bunting. applications for worlds
series tickets are pouring into the Of
nee OF the club; All applications are
o ne MEG ei buhidders, too are Acquiring
one of the tentative plans is to erect
blcacher seats outside the grounds on
by the right and left field sides of the
park.
AS they have picked the league win
ners. so are the fans picking the fu-
turc champions. and seemingly the ma
jority favor the Red Sox.
Perhaps they are right and perhaps
they are wrong, but on paper the
than the National. but results on paper
don't always jbe with the results on
the bali field:
~, Baseball meets with many upsets
The Athletics went into the series last
vast maioeity as Of the the class arnsr team
them to win. but they not only lost the
series but lost four straight.
History may repeat itself this year.
The contending American League team
may go Into the worlds series seem.
ing to outclass the Phllies in every
department OF the. game. But that
doesn't mean that the Red Soy will
have a walkaway. 1t doesn't even
mean that they will win.
Jack Dunn has offered a youngster
named Forstbauer, OF Rochester " Y
contract for next season. The kid is
a pitcher, and Dunnie will guarantees
to hold him all season, as he is a good
prospect. He recently pitched for tho
Hustlers and did good.
Speaking OF the Hustlers lawn Can
Eel, former leader of the Moose seems
to have won a home in Brookfeds.
where he is managing the fortune OF
the Tip Tops. The Brookfeds are go
ing strong under his leadership.
Hans Wagner. shortstop of the Pitts
chicken fancier, dog breeder, Usher
man and in winter r basketball PLAYER.
II. as John McGraw says. the Gin
cinnati Reds are the worst tall-end
club the National League has had in
years, pray what characterization
justly describes the New York Giants?
Bill Morrisette. Dunn's second best
bet this season. pitched yesterday for
the Athletics-and the Mackmen won.
Bill was given poor support, but kent
his hits scattered. and must have also
kept his Its with him, which was
more than he did with the Climbers
this season.