Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-13
PRAISE FOR BARROW
PROVIDENCE WRITER SAYS
LEAGUE LEADER is SPORT
Tells of Ills Good Wishes for Welfare
OF International Circuit, Follow
ing Ills Resignation.


from Providence. X. J.. o0c of the
cities in the International League.
comes an Interesting letter about tho
baseball situation in that circuit. In
cidcmtally. President I'D" Barrow
comes in for a deal OF praise and credit
for not knocking the men who paid
his salary last year.
Which may he Il matter for praise
and laudation. although the facts ia tho
case may be doubted. Barrow made no
secret OF his opinion about tho club
owners who cut down lis salary in con-
Te-sation with New York baseball
writer's. bu. they. with characteristic
good judgment. put on Tn" soft pedal
and MADE the best of things.
In his letter notifying the club owr-
crs that he had resigned. Barrow had
a few words TO say about tho Rich
mond club. ana they were net wholly
words OF praise
Tho criticism by President Barrow
was not deserved. The Richmond club.
win thrc" others, had been ignored by
nm when he tried to put his little
deal across with four clubs IN the
American Association. and II they came
back 1T him they did so merely to
tcach him lesson. However tbs is
What the Providence writer has TO
say. in part:
IN WHICH rRIBITr: IS PAID
no PRESIDENT "ED'. NARROW
Perhaps The most interesting hi, OF
news to appear lately concerning the
international League. now existing in
n state of suspended animation. came
last week from the lips of cx-presi-
dent Edward Grant Barrow The chief
OF tho league for the past seven years.
summarily overtilrown bv The mar
mates for his alleged scheme 20 cake
the Tour best clubs Of the international
ana combine them with four OF Tho
american Association. showed that he
IS made OF the right stuff by his in
'crview IN Toronto in which he wisha,;
the league all success for the future
Far from desiring 10 rchash the
merits OF the case OF Earrow and .he
maghates. who forced him to resign
b" looping $4,000 off his aIary of 81
300. 1t mus: be said that Barrow in
defeat has shown himself Il good loser.
re mas no; given out one statement
deroSatory to the magnates who forced
ms resignation or to the league Itself
IN fact. in Toronto. Barrow not cnly
to'd The scribes that the international
has good prospects for success. but
ADDED that II he could do anything to
and his successor IN office nc would ut
all times be ready TO DO So
Had he chosen, Barrow probably
could have said lot of things detri-
mental to the leagues future. but in
stead he has shown himself a good
sport and there is no tendency on his
between himself and the club owners
by any dHnunciatory interviews. All of
which leads ono to believe that there
must be some underlying circumstances
affecting the breach which have not
yet been brought TO light. Probably
before February -, when the league
is expected to reconvenc to decide the
question OF whether or not 1t shall
operate this year, we will know good
zeal more than we do now
SAYS LEAGUE Is LOOKING
For BARROw'S SUCCESSOR
In the meanwhile, the owners. If they
are working at all to remodel the cir
cult for 1915. arc working quietly Who
Barrow'S successor will be is still nm
open question. The only recent state
ment as TO the leagues future comes
from President James j. McCafery, OF
the Toronto club, who asserts that tho
League will again be in the field, but
that 1t Will be run on a far more eco
nomical basis
MccaHery for instance, suggests that
Richmond be dropped for geographical
reasons, to be supplanted By Syracuse,
McCafery. Il money winner last year
and possessed of the nucleus of another
great team, would naturally talk
league resumption, but there is a grow
ing tendency toward the belief that
more or the maEnates will sing the
same tune before the February meeting.
Providence. Buffalo and Baltimore arc
ready to start again.
If Toronto is assured OF being rep
resented in some manner next season,
however, the outlook is not so bright
for Montreal Stories are constantly
bobbing up that the Royals will not be
in the field this year, and the latest
incident tending to substantiate these
reports is the fire last week which
lcVeied the fine hockey rink in Mon
treal where Sam Lichtenstein's famous
ice team, the Wanderers, play. This
means n heavy loss to Lichtenstein, as
the hockey season was just under way
and there are rumors that this blow
coupled with his baseball losses of
last season. will cause Sam to give up
the idea Of sinking moro money in the
diamond pastime this year