Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-07
BARROW DOWNED FEDERALs
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUERS
BORE BRUNT OF BIG FIGHT
"nEnnfes Wcrc Krpt unttIInr Inv
Frcsfdcnf--FcdcrnI Nnidrrs Found
irt IntS Were Obdurntc

=" Clamp a wreath OF laurel for bravery
u S'nichcsS upon The brow OF Ed
ward . Barrow. tile Man Who
Wouldn't Quit. the greatest little bal
Her of them all.
,.lt was Field Marshal Barrow and
ms Iltii" army 81 International
LeaEucrs VIII" had 20 bear The hrun, OF
battle in the great baseball war No
wing Of tho Organized Nrnly MAS OK
poec0 TO such a 'ncrCilcss attack by
the Feds a. were tho lutcrua;iouaiS
and aga" by tho Fedora raiders. and
they were driven from Two Of their
ought trenches. while a third EUmalo-
was rendered almost useless
's- 1t seemed certain death a Year ago
Tor the Int"ruaiiouais TO keep up the
fight. Thcy were forced TO battle alone
against tho huge portion ~ tho Fed
'eral army They sent repeated calls
those folks wcro TOO busy defending
their own interests 20 rush rc-cmforce-
mcnts 10 tn" holcacucrcd Iuteruaiiou-
ais
r,.Frcqucn,Iy. during INC da>s who's
the 1rtcruatiouais S>~wtucly were na!
ing crushed by their Federal foes some
of Earr"w's licutcuarts were willing
70 surrender rather THAN risk uttcr
annihjlation. Eut Barrow sCorncd such
thought
49, Vel win out yet" u" roared
70 roVisv '' he. bsscba, var i. 70
realize moro and more the wonderful
Hcht that Barrow and his associates
F're,E 1n %s. wo vc eS2sf ho %df a 'T
thor backs 7Gains, the wall fought
when II seemed there was not the
whining on, They Tough, samely.
coura Ecously ana in a way that has
Won Won f9r them the admiration OF the
The most terrific OF The Federal on
.sls,nghts Nero delivered a. tn" Inter
.aa,tionais The outlaws" drove tho
.yAast N.N, Loo -
.StronEh"ids baltimore and Newark.
.rtcy uv.dcd buffalo. competed with
-NIlilc nearly KILLED tho international
:: Nnothcr blow Was dealt ny the En-
..Irprcan Wa It affected ,attondancH
sr.nnto and Moutrcal-two Of TN" best
Mites in the barrow circui, the ":ate
.reccip;S Shrunk 20 almost nothing. The
tp think about baseball.
The Federal raiders LOO many Of the
International stars. Those who 70
faithful" had 20 he paid huge.
;. almost ruinous. salaries. With tn" sal
:ariT liSt 'oEn.h"aNE and The sai@ re
~-thc Tntcrnationals finished The 1914
= season i'm a bad way
- When II came time ia open the 1915
= Season. and tn" Feds, s,ill were amonG
sthosc present. breathing newer threats
.tof raids and invasion. BARROW found
~ihat he was Amos, alo0c I'm his anx-
.1ctv to keep uN the tight. Some of THO
s~t1arnatcs who had suffered hug" losses
I'm 1919. didn't fancy renewing tn" bat
sstlc and enduring mare financial lOlts.
=. But Earrow rallied his mon.
-. ,"rou't quit nov. boys" he ordered.
~'tSouvc suffered during 1914, and Won
.. -lnay do q iitfl" NOV" of II i'm 1915 Eut
.thcrc'S an cld :" al thjngS-aUd !
~>Cucss 1915 viii mark tn. "nd Of thc
@fcds, Then prosperous times will h"
and you'll win out i'm the end
~ Harrow'> enthusiasm. his optimism
oand his fighting Spiri; again dlcd those
,JInternatIouai magnat.s. ana when he
,,sEaNe the order t" ""harG". they fol-
flowed him into that 1915 ncht.
80 Tho war is overland the iutcrua-
-4ricnals stil live Thcy exist to-day
:, Ordinarily because OF The stout hearted
Tess. u.vcr-S at-3ic spirit OF their lead
ser and because thor. We're I'm tho
ssSanks men who ar" sport swcu-yho
,>took chaua" on going bankrupt ir
~thcir efforts 20 win an honest HGh'.
:bslcu Who Tough, gallant ha,,lc and