Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-20
IT STRIKES ME
BY TIM PATCH

inonu IN every respect, Il baseball team
IL considered II valuable asset. 1t IL
an advertisement I. that commute: :.
and its success il IL thing OF local
pride. Here, however. those who are
continually laudins the pruercssve
ness "t Richmonl will sit stil and
permit one of It's Invest going enter
prises to be lost. instead al trying -
keep pace with cites above it III sze.
Richmond is roin:; To slip back 10 The
ranks OF the cities tar below il in pop
ul,tiun and resources
Baseball is peculiar business :nt
II Is paying enter prise. ncvcrtn"i' -.
If not paying in money. in other re
spects. l.ast yca:, as mcmhct ,t
the international League. this city got
much valuable advertising Throughout
the country. and ii IL safe 10 wager
that thousands ri persons spok" it,
name who never ictor. gave il u
thought Thousands az others who
dimly remembered il as a place down
in Virginia." awoHc to the realization
that X WAS travelling with real class.
and apparently there must hc y req
son. W hen it irH"s back. however.
there Will be n ...stic smile Of pity
for the failurc-...ty for tho city fail-
cd to make good in spite Of its claims
to financial greatness.
There arc mon IL Richmond to-day
to whom. the amount needed to take
over the interests uf Jack Dunn world
be nothing more than cigar mon"y.
This is the class &C men who could and
shou!i do something to help u pub
lic-Spir:tcd enterprise. The Rich .loEl
Exhibition Company. or At least the
local end, is composed of hundreds Of
small stockholders who have put small
amounts into the club not in the hope
OF profits. but 10 help Richmond orcall
into fast company. These men stand
Il Ghancc 10 lose their small savings
because those more able to stand the
burd nn Of advertising the community
will not come to their rescue.
This seems the year for the In;er.
national League I, rchabilitatc itself
There arc plenty OF ball players avail.
able NJ rcaSonabl" prices. and with the
Fed INVASION a Ting OF the past, ana
n moro compact circuit. the PROPOSE
ton is. as William T. bradley points
out. Two 10 one better than il was last
year.
TIL. international League is going
to set = standard this season. and the
fans viii flock - the games Tho
slumbcrnG interest Of the fans ha:
been aroused and the season over tho
whole circuit is bound TO bc "a winner
The Richmond Amateur baseball
Commission will hold an important
meeting tomorrow afternoon At tho
National state and city Bank. when
officers for the year viii bc elected.
The question Of admitting BaItimor.
to the intercity series will be dispose /
Of
John s. Hawkins. tho local cuist. IL:
still lending stephenson. tho Pacific
Coast champ by "a small margin IL
their 600 point rocket billiard march
1t the Superior Billiard Academy. 'Tac
score now stands. csc TO 56a
Bill Carpenter. whose umpiring .as,
year in the International League was
all that could he desired, will again
act as arbiter for all exhibition games
played by the Cinsinnati Reds at home.
Bill Hart will assist Carpenter Tho
pair worked together In the exhibition
games last season and gave entire
SatiSfaC ton.
Mix" Gibbons, who is closing ~,
door Of aHctncc on his two sons Is
saying they can't fight professionally
when they grow NJ. might be inter
csted 10 learn tho following:
Jim coNey. who rever was u cham
pion- and. II now appears. never viii
be-s", sls..69 Cor being Knocked ,ui
twice by tho same man. within ;hrc"
months
! Coffey. despite lis first kayo, vas
still a good enough drawing card -
attract $4,000 10 the Madison Sa,ir.re
Garden after he had been stopped.