Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-20
RIXEY WINS HIS BONUS
FORMER UNIVERSITY
PITCHER WINS PRIZE
h,umut Throughout state GInd That
Big Southpnw Tx Making Good
This season.

CHARLOTTESVILLE. VA. August 10
--Eppn RiAcy's victory over Cincinnati
yesterday. his fifteenth OF the present
season. means an additional $500 in
his next pay envelope. Baseball fans
viii recall that the big southpaw was
little slow in signing up last spring
being among the last to afix his name
to contract. He had hoped for an
increase in salary this year. and was
somewhat piQued when il was not
forthcoming. Everything was salts
factory, however. when Manager Moran
consented To give RiXcy a $500 bonus
If he should win Il total of fifteen
games
this season has been very gratifying
/" his many friends here in his home
town. as we'll ms to hundreds OF alumni
OF the University of Virginia through
ont tho country who have watched his
career in major league bali with in
tense interest. His record To date Is
iiiteen victories and six dcf"atS--his
pest year since entering the National
League three seasons ago. lie stands
high up tho list Of National League
twiriers. and If he keeps up his pres
cnt gait it would not he surprising TO
see nm ring up close to twenty
five victories by the end OF the season
Eppa Rixey. Sr.. now resident OF
charlottesville. recently said that there
never was any opposition on his part
10 his son entering professional base
ball He stated that from the first he
was confident that ED. had the goods"
out, Win other members OF the fam
i!y. h" wanted him L. finish his course
ia college and tit himself for pro
fcssionai career in case he did not make
good in baseball
From all accounts. young Rixey Ia
not wasting any of tho money he has
earned on the diamond in the past two
o. three years. T1o has just had erected
for his parents "A handsome homo cost
ing $1,000. located on ono %: tho prot
test streets near the University Of Nir-
Eln;a. One apartment Is 10 be occu-
pied by tho family--fathcr. mother
son and daughtcr--whiic tho others are
To he rented to students the coming
session.
Rixey,s scores Of friends here nre
especially pleased over the fact that
h" seems to have resaincd his control
While at the University OF Virginia he
showed little OF the Witness h" dis
played in his first two years in the
big show. In his last year AT tho Uni
N"rSity Of Virginia h" worked In nine
contests and allowed but eleven bases
on balls or this number eight were
punched in three games played carly in
! the season In the first game against
Fordham but twcnty-sovcn men faced
him. and ten OF these were retired on
strikes
Again. Rixcy seems To be rcgaInlng
his batting eye In his final year a,
/ virginia h" led the team at ba, with
! "a grand average Of .a67 Five Of the
| htn"les chaikcd next 20 his name were
| good for extra bases. In tho final game
against Georgetown. played on Lam
h"th Field, he hit safcly IN three sue
/ coSsiNc trips TO the plate and IN the
( ninth inning cleared the bases WITH a
! clean three Stacker To deep left,
! RiXcy, il IS now believed IS in the
! best OF condition He tips the beam
At about lSo pounds and is six feet
| tw" inches tall He has m arm that