The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-13
Manager Dunn Will Not Arrive Until Tuesday
DUNN HAS
NOT SIGNED UIHLER

The report to the effect that Morris
Uhler, an outfieider of the Cincinnati
Reds, had been signed by Manage
John Dunn. proved to be a false alarm.
According to a letter received yester-
day from the Richmond leader, Uhler
has not been signed. and, further
more, is not wanted by the local man
ager. An extract frSn the letter fol-
| lows:
| Il don't know anything about Nor
I ris Uhier. Of Cincinnati. l have not
I signed him and win not do so. My
! outfield will be Bates, Berger and
! Mitchell. unless some OF the young
i sters ! have secured show that they
3 are the best. Everything Is looking
| good and ! am sure we will have a
good club. as no money will be spared
| to put the best l can get on the field
1t is to be regretted that Gleichman
| will not be here. l tried every way
| to keep him. but he insisted that he
! would quit baseball rather than come
; East. There was nothing else for me
/ to do but to sell him. He was great
! fielder but was a poor hitter. ] expect
all OF the players to be out by next
! Tuesday"
| AS shown in the list of players on
! the roster printed in The Virginian
| yesterday morning, Manager Dunn has
| aggregated A bunch of halltossers that
will make a high bid Cor the 1nterna-
| tional League gonfalon this year,
While some of those who will COM
| prise the team Will be youngsters. he
! has good bunch OF veterans az a
! nucleus around whom to build the
team. As was stated In the letter,
Manager Dunn IL not sparng any
money to bring TO Richmond a bunch
Of players that will furnish local base
hall enthusiasts lust the article Of
! baseball they have been longing for
! these many wears.
| II is safe bet that Richmond is
! going to he represented IN the Glass
| "A organization with a top~notcher
Pressing business matters will de-
tain Manager Dunn in Baltimore un-
| I'll Monday night, at which time he
will leave for Richmond When the
players report Monday they Will he
placed in the. HANDS Of Secretary
Wicks and Captain Neal Ball. The
two will accompany the players out 10
| Broad Street Park no later than Mon
day afternoon to begin their TIMBER
ing up.
While most OF the players are ex-
pected to be on hand for roll call
Monday morning at the Richmond
/ Hotel. some will not arrive until later
/ in the day. However, every man n
the roster, save Meadows, will be
ready for practice Tuesday morning.
Secretary billy" Wicks. who has
been in Baltimore for the past two
days closing up some business per-
tanning to the old Baltimore Orioie
Club. will take up his duties here
again this morning. His sr1iiing face
has been missed around these paris
( ,,Nl hn .Efn tau ~ rob "a,
! when ne returns. He has been and
ing out all about everything and is
/ expected to be overburdened with
/ news when he arrives.
Charles Sweet" Piez, who played
! the left garden TWO years ago for the
! Richmond Colts, and performed SO
well that Manager McGraw, Of the
| New j os4< Giants purchased him from
the local club. may be seen in a kicn
mond uniform this season. There is
! some talk around Marlin. Texas, to
. the effect that he is destined to be-
! come the property of Miller Huggins,
( of the st. Louis Cardinals. However.
! he is making protest against this
/ transfer, declaring that he would pre-
| fer becoming a member of some In
/ ternational League club. preferably
Richmond He says that he would
rather play regular in the Class IA
circuit than to warm the bench for
some major league team being tend
cred an opportunity occasionally to
run for some other player.
In the event that he is sem to Rich
! inond the pleasure will be all ours.
/ Russell Leibs, alias "Cheesie' is a
I worried Individual these days. Around
/ Thanksgiving time he was sought out
by Manager Carl Carnes. of the New
port News Shipbuilders, and n con-
ference resulted In the aforesaid
"Cheese" placing his cognomen to "A
contract TO wear the windpads for
/ that club. Recently he has heard moth
! ing from the Burners pilot with ref
erence to reporting. and he doesn't
| know whether he Is going to play
/ there or not. Carl. write to Cheesie."
I.eihs Is recognized az one OF the
! best catchers turned out from the To-
cal sandlots and last season made "a
good record with thu Roanoke club.
( He would make the ShipbuiIders q
J Talua BILE man.
The Montreal team will probably
do it's spring training at Hamilton,
F., bermuda. This squad is expected to
remain in the city from April / TO
II Dan Howley says he will give
the Canadian city a good team this
season,
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