The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-19
SPORT EPISTLES

iterests by providing proper courts and
grounds fer games. Throw wide the
portals or the Grays' armory and say
Come forth. all we athletes, and dis
port and frolic in your own way. and
have great athletic carnival" Throw
{ open all the swimming pools of the
aVmorics and say, swim forth. all
Of We FISH and merneids and sea
sports, and swim and dive for your
young life
Throw open all the parks, and say.
Run forth, children, and run and
Jump and hop over the grass and
walks, and have n fine time. We can
repair the grass and walks, but who
csa repair an unhealthy life and a
broken constitution ?"
Remodel Byrd park 10 suit the needs
Of athletic games and say TO the city
athletes, Run forward boys. and
make records and break records that
will put Richmond and Virginia ON
something that money cannot always
buy
The dream OF he theortSt the non
practical dozer. but nevertheless pleas
ant 10 think about. And the more
pleasant TO see In the real form than
TO even dream or think about.
The Free Verse Demon
The weak fellow that
| knew
! Back at the district school
As backward and
Couldn't throw a rock oe.-
The school gate
Dropped In
} Yesterday
For the first time
Since the old DAYS
And he had on a L. s uniform
And he had been In camp and
Was an officer
Ana looked a giant, and so
Healthy and sound and solid
That | couldn't believe
He was the same old
Sissy"
Got in your supply of radium yet?
/ Ihe prices are TO advance to 1887.
sS4,s2I,0oo per ounce.
The University OF Virginia vii, ha
we'll represented on the diamond this
/ year Although many OF the men are
| in Uncle SANS service Coach rAnigan
expects strong team. as last year
| freshman nine was tteiiar one.
| A headline Gays Patience Brings
Victory to a Brooklyn Shooter"
Sounds like II might be a war story
| nut only describes the activities of a
brooklyn clay-bird expert at the
traps. 4-t-+
| Each day brings another story Of
tine wQr-fgfNn hQ ri Oh, hnS
forced upon the American people.
This ear the Boston Nationals must
carry two grips, instead of Il single
one, as in the past. The extra one
/ VIII carry the uniforms and bats. so
as To avoid any possible tie-ups in
the shipment OF baggage
Who Gets the Dog?
Christy Mathewson says that he
VIII be In first place by the first OF
June. and Clarke C;riffith claims he
will be there by July LIST. and Won
Htndenburg whispers he will be In
Paris by April list.
More exasperattng than the Willie
nillys who serve at the soda foun-
tains. are those sweet little thinrs
that stand on the curbinr and look
so pitifufiy pleasant when some inno-
cent Jane. with her weight in pow
der end paint on her face, passes by.
Uncle BY Gosh says, Better Yet ali
the baseball games go to smashes
than to lose our big game with this
Hunnites.''
Buck Herzog is mixing IL I'D again.
He says that unless his salary Is raised
canteloupes will replace baseball in
his young life.
Just one moth from today the big
league hasebailers will journey Sun
ny Southland" for their annual sport
in the Eouthern CLINE. The boys are.
secretly laughing up their sleeves al
the prospect OF being kept In the
scuth II railroad shortaSs comes