Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-23

w men tue icdl Is ctCScu WIN datk
Dunn tomorrow, the Richmond Ints
VIII ne several weeks in advance Of
last season. and tina, extra time viii
signed ana III making; a iirst-class field
a, Broad Street Park.
Players are not scarce. and il viii he
chi.i!! i question Of wedding them out.
Already ii dozen you.---;crs have been
enrolled and VIII Get tryout under
the new manager. rhc training season
VIII start IN about six weeks now.
The Richmond Yacht club has taken
property near Falling Creek by aTI.:'-
ing to the General Assembly for per
mission t. build Il suitable wharf. The
present wharf is entirely unsuited TO
the needs of the club. and this improve
ment has long been contemplated.
Representatives from tile Virginia
Boat Club will attend the meeting OF
the Southern rowing Association in
Washington on Saturday nignt. The
association will be- forlna lly ratified at
that meeting, and the place and date
Tor its initial regatta set
Washington and Lee University has
made futile attempts TO get Oh the foot,
bail schedule Of Harvard, Yale and
and strong on the gridiron. and these
colleges regarded an early game with
the Generals rs too hard. therefore
they declined to take them on.
President Barrow. of the ln,erna-
tional League has offered William l..
Branshcld OF Worcester. Il Job as In
ternational League umpire Barrow has
six unpircs already signed Fred
Wcstervclt, Of this city. former Nir-
ginla. American and Federal League
arbitcr, has also applied for a job.
I~l,,,
player of the I.rooklyn team. will
shortly receive his unconditional re
lease from the Robins. Other players
that will be Let out by Robby viii be
Raleigh. Ai,chison, chabek. Cadorc and
ioodbred. all pitchers. and Outtielders
Nixon. Smyth and Willie Zimmerman.
Chohek. Cadore and Goodbred were all
twirlerS ON this circuit las, year. and
will probably he snatched up by Int
clubs. Zim was II promising outfclder
with Harrisburg last year.
Tod Sloan received princely fees for
riding when he was in his heyday. In
his book he tells Of the present that
IMPRESSED him most. II was when he
won the F'utmrity OF Ballyboo Bey for
William =. Whitney Tod naIvely re-
counts how. after weighing in, Mr.
Whitney led him out on the lawn be-
hind the clubhouse at Sheepshead BAY
pockets aud handed II to him. and then
took off his watch and cha in and gave
him that. too. Now YOU have all I'VE
got" h" said. sloan adds thar there
WAS more than SIS. 900 In the roll.
Another OF canada's prominent alh-
letic performers TO enlist for service
in the European war is .douaid Pa
bre. the champion lone-distance run
ner. lie enlisted recently with the
hospital corps OF the Canadian cNpe-
d!tionary for'r. The last season was
one Of Fabrc's best. for in addition
TO capturing practically every race at
Importance in Canada. he won the
l:nston Marathon and the I'anama-ra
Fred Toney. star pitcher Of the Gin
cinnati Reds. has started newspaper
p.opaEanda In that city FOR salary
Hermann Will have TO give him either
such an advance over the $3.oo0 he
received in 1915 or unconditional re-
lease. The pitcher saws Hermann
offer $4,000 this year. provided Toney
delivered Il certain percentage OF VIC
tories. Toney said he more than made
good his part OF the verbal contract.
Wtlbert Robinson. the manager OF
the Brooklyn Nationals. says he is go
Ing to take leaf ont %! the book
OF the football coaches. pick the weak
spots and then hammer them out of
existence" 1t is a fine job hammerng
the weak snots with a 4e-centimeter
on me mound plichihe en- ny
While Maurice T.. McLourhin. the
former national tennis chamnion. has
not announced tina; he has abandoned
tennis for golf the fact that he has
been playing around California links
has greatly interested the devotccs of
golf. There is nothing new. however.
in this combining OF the two sports.
for number OF famous tennis plar-
ers have taken up golf Gro this. IT.
T.. Doherty. famous throughout the
world for his rn,nuct skill has de-
vc'opc'i into golfer of remarkable
ability. Other court experts who play
the royal and ancient game include
William I.arnei. Norman T.. Hrook-s,
Reals c. Wright. y. g. Niles and others
equally we'll known in tennis circles
Boxing as n sport is rapidly grow
Ing In favor at Harvard. hut there is
not quite the same punch exhibited by
the Crimson boxers their class
mates exhibited on the football field
last fall The fac, that tho glove OK
perts are boxing with twelve ounce
mtts mny account in part for this state