Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-03
1T STRIKES ME
BY TIM PATCH

III y l RlkES ME
BY TIM PATCH
what welcome relief this week will
De to the sporting dopesters who have
gone through ten dull days. Basket
Dali ana bowling Will certainly he n
nitss,he 70 those who have had to
grind out copy when the sporting
world was practically ut a standstiu
from this timo on sports will begin
picking up, and from bowling, busl ct
phli ana indoor athletics. we will
graduate In baseball, the diamond va
rtety. not the hot stove brand. Since
Just before the holidays. however,
things have been dead here, and it
VIII be indeed relief to see some
action.
Thinss Will get Off slowly. however
All SCHOOLS start up basketball and
track work, but II will be several DAYS
petore any games are played even by
the independent clubs The tossers
however. viii be in full swing before
the ehd or the week. while the run
ners VIII need some little time before
they can get to work on the track
baseball holds some attention. al
though II Is too early to work uD any
enthusiasm. even with the important
meeting In Cincinnati to-day. The
whoie thing seems detached, and mat
ters that wCd!d excite the livelicst
interest two months from now, scarce
~ cause ripple Of interest
Richmond fans have been led to ex-
pect that they would know the full
detalls or the peace pact as II concerns
the international League after to-
tC
the Baltimore Feds have managed to
put up such stiff fight that the ten
, tatiFe plans may miscarry. The Tern
owners nave proved that they can
scrap even IT their hirelings finished
at the bottom of the ladder. Ed Bar
row and Jim Gilmore are We, TO LOCK-
horns. but as Both are battIcrs Of tbe
ola school, II is not believed that any
decision will be reached for several
days, and another meeting will be held
in all probability
Although the Virginia League was
severely joltcd last year ard it's war
chest is empty, the Norfolk owners are
going right ahead, and have already
signed twelve players for the new sea-
| SON N1e Tars. IL the Virginia circuit
goes under. may be found in the Caro-
INA League, which has weak sister
or Two which could be advantageouslv
dropped In favor OF the Underwater
metropolis. There are those. however
who persist in believing that the VIr
gtnia League will be reorganized along
strong lines. Richmond fans unite in
hoping it is.
Tip ONeil who died in Montreal on
fridnE at the age of ffty-eight, had
the highest batting average Of any
major league hitting champion. In
1897. while member Of the champion
81. Louis Browns, he led the American
Association batsmen with percentage
OF 1872. But there were flaws in Tins
record. In the association that sea
son bases on balls were counted as
base hits. and a pitcher had to put
over four strikes before tanning an
opponent.
a statistical person has arrived at
the conclusion that 100000 persons
witnessed $4,000 college and scholastic
football games staged during the past
season. This means an average Of
1000 persons game. Baseball. ap-
parently, has nothing on the grid
sport.
Football in the East has degene-
rated into n combination of basketball
and rugby, il the Syracuse eleven is a
sample OF topnotch Eastern football
wrote DR.. T. W. Ross to the Portland
Oregonian, after seeing Syracuse beat
the Oregon Aggies. IS to 0. This is
what Or. Ross has TO say:
The Oregon ArGies lacked in every
department of the game-poor tack
ling, poor defense and no interfer-
ence.
The Syracuse team is a Wonderfully
coached ordinary team-in fact. the
best coac hed offensive bunch ever seen
here. and right there it stops.
The Syracuse defense was put up to
! test just enough to show me that
t1i Statn nj,
gon, or Dobic's University of Wash
ington could beat them at least two
touchdowns."
Walter Camp has aroused storm
of protest by his action in relocating
Macomber. of Illinois. to the second
eleven and putting oliphant, the Army
star, on the all-Americnn team. after
publishing his original selection. The
Middle West is particularly sore 1T
the swap, made after the whole coun-
try had seen the original team.
I, is argued by Chicago papers tha,
Olinfant has played six years of col
leeiate football. while Macombcr has
only played two years, and in that
time has demonstrated his ability to
such ar extent that he was given the
position and then shifted in favor OF
a man who had graduated from on.
West is concerned, and in all of the
large institutions except the service
schools. Olphant would have been in
eligible TO compete In collegiate foot
ball a all. 1t required his final game
TO bring out the fact that he was so
sufficient calihre to warrant real con-
| sideration for all-American honors.
The ST. Louis Feds paid Marsans q
big bonus and $4,000 salary for maxi
! ing twenty-five basehits. an average
of about $500 per hit: Baltimore paid
Chief Bender s6,666 for winning four
ball games, an average cost OF 1856
per game. and the Braves paid Ell
James $1,000 for spending the summer
in the hospital. And yet Connie Mack
got McInncs, Collins, Barry and Bak-
or Mt total cost Of $3.50 and railroad
tickets.
, Richmond Amateur Athletic Fedora
ton officials continue to suIk
No announcement that rchcariny
has been granted Dave Satterneld ana