Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-29
OTHER SPORT WILL
REPLACE BASEBALL
Plans Already Being Made for
Football and Track
Teams.
FEDERATION HAS SCHEME
Will Send Picked Stars to Indoor
Meets-Start Gridiron
Practice Soon.

With baseball being gracefully
shunted out of the way. local ath-
letes are letting their thoughts TURF
to the fall and winter sports. and
some pretentious plans are being
quietly Matched. From all Indications,
1t Ia more than probable that tho
coming football and track seasons
will be banner ones, even exceeding
last year.
Football dates have already been
announced, and while big" games are
scarce. there will be some mighty in
teresting conflicts staged at Broad
Street Park. While these are in prog
ress. more than q dozen amateur
teams will be battling in various
parts of tho city, and on the organi-
cation of these aggregations much
time Is now being devoted. Tho Blues
will be in the field with another of
It's strong combinations and has ar
ranged hard schedule. which calls
for several games with college elev-
ems. The Howitzers will again be
represented on sthe gridtron, and 1t
is probable that tho Signal Corps will
be third party to n military series,
IL one can be arranged to conform
with other schedules. Besides the
four prep schools. number OF lesser
teams Will be seen in action.
Track. too. will come In for more
attention than in the past. Last year
was the best known locally. and it is
expected that the coming season will
be even better. Many "unknowns"
were uncovered last year. and keen
rivalry Is expected among the various
organizations.
Tho Richmond Amateur Athletic
Federation has devised scheme
whereby track athletics will receive
an added impetus. 1t has practically
decided to send q team Of picked stars
to all OF the big indoor meets In this
section during the winter. Natural
ly the selection of this team would be
by the process OF elimination. and
this would add much Interest to To-
cal meets. Besides the honor OF rep
resenting Richmond. a trip occasion
ally would be some incentive to hard
work and would be reward for
steady training.
MAY HAVE INVITATION
MEET AGAIN THIS YEAR
Il suitable quarters can BIO secured,
IT Is probable that the Richmond COL
lege-Blues open meet will be revived.
Facilities for such an event In one
OF the armories Is inadequate. and tho
Horse Show Building was too remote,
and has now been RACED. Arrange
ments, however may be made for the
affair in another place.
Hasketball Will come in for a big
share of attention this season. For
several years this heretofore neglected
game mas heen growing in popularity,
and 1t now has big band of fol-
lowers. Thcrc is talk of the revival
OF the strong Young Mems Christian
Association team. and even II this
should fall through, the military and
athletic organizati tons will put good
argregations on the floor. Richmond
College Will against have a team, and
Will play number of college games
here.
Training for football will begin here
curing the next few weeks, when the
Spiders start preliminary work. Coach
Frank Dobson will return to the city
some time next week, and a call for
early candidates Will be made. 1t is
hoped to have the men practicng by
September 10. as a practice game with
the Blues will be played the latter
part OF the month The local prep
schools Will start practice about Sen
tember 81. The amateur teama will
start about the same time.