Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01
: STRIKES ME
BY TIM PATCH

me expected has happened. The
Virginia League circuit has at last been
broken, but fortunately for the future
OF baseball in this State, the league
Will not disband. but will limp through
the season with five home clubs and
one wanderer. Petersburg has not SUD-
ported its team this season, and lost
Its franchise. Wilmington will prob
ably get into the league next year, and
II should be a success
what has happened in Petersburg
is liable to take place right here and
unless the fans do better when the
Climbers get back. Richmond may be
lett In the lurch. 1t is true that the
Dunnites are going bad-awful bad
right now, but even the Interna tional
League worst is preferable to the Vir-
GINA League best. in addition to the
prestige that this city would suffer
from being ousted from the Int circuit
Two, games lost yesterday brought
an enc to the second disastrous week
Northern Invasion. Since Sunday. the
Climbers have won two games and
,1st seven. This record is even worse
than that of Jersey City, which dur
five. N 'os'
>, Only one change in standing &C.
CURED during the week. and that was
the jump of Toronto into sixth pIa CO
and the consequent shove OF the Climb
e srs into seventh place Providence.
four out of six. while the Bisons Vent
through the week with six straight
wins. Harrisburg and Montreal each
won more than they lost. but the other
n In,
The rise of the Bisons is partly the
result OF hitting, and partly due to
, Eooa h wiring. Gilhooley is again lead
an average of $50. Richmond, how
eyer, ranks third in hitting. and ha.
ahree regulars and one pitcher hitting
above the 800 mark. Pick is leading
the locals with 1924 for seventeenth
games Jordan follows with 800, mid
Johnny Bates is cracking them out for
ana an exact HaS 200; 800. Arragon is improving.
nIteen games. leads the league with an
average of .S57 GA
weeks; Picks injury is not as bad as 1 IT.
was thought Mt first. Dunn has sent
nm nm to his home in Terre Haute, Ind.
Tor rest He will probably be seen
IN ACTION on the return of the Climbers
to their adopted heath
Dunn is not entirely satisfied with
harrington, and Is going to-day to
Philadelphia to try to persuade Connie
Mack TO loan him a receiver He teie-
Graphed last night that TwombIev
would certainly be in the Iine-un
against Buffalo on Monday.
Davenport. of the st. Louis Feds, did
the iron man. stunt yesterday He
won his first game, but lost the sec
ond He allowed only FIVE hits in
eighteen innings. The winning run
for the Terriers was a clean steal OF
home.
Young Healy, the infielder loaned to
Dunn by Connie Mack during the alb
sence or sammy Crane. acored the only
run In the Athletic Brownie game
yesterday. He made two Of the tive
hits credited to his team and PLAYED
an errorless game.
a manicurist has sued Jim Scott the
White Sox pitcher. for $4,000 She
alleges breach OF promise. The moral
In that is that ball players shouldn't
use a penknifc and toothpicks, thus
avoiding the law.
John McGraw is deaf. II you don't
believe 1t here are Johns own words
to bear out this statement:
The popular belief that ball PLAYERS
use profanity to a large degree la
wrong. Little Is ever said on n ball
field. even In the stress of n hard game
that would not be 1T for minister
TO hear"