The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-22
FANS SCANNING
LESSER SPORTS
FOR AMUSEMENT
Bowling, Golf, Polo and Track
Events Probable Sources Of
Entertainment.

What will Richmond have in the
line of sports this spring and summer
is question that thus far has little
TO answer it.
1t is certainty that the High
School and college will furnish track
and field events for the lovers of the
cinder track sports. Earlham, under
the direction of Coach Ray B. Move,
will place baseball team in the field
in April with several games to be
played on Reid Field
With Central league baseball mo-
guls still tansling that league into
thousands OF kinks, professional base
ball this season is almost out of the
question.
The next best offering in semi-pro
ball for Sunday, George Brehm an
nounced earlier in the spring that he
would not place his colored A. B. C.'s
in the field this year.
Talk of Independent League.
From Munoie comes story that the
Indiana Independent baseball league,
composed exclusive of Indiana cities,
is being organized to give the fans
taste of the national pastime. Several
Attempts in recent years have been
made to revive this league, but
they have always failed But, with
the prospects Of the Contra! League
remaining in a muddle, the chances
of the league. which seemingly origin
ated in the head of Jap Poor of Wa
bash years ago may be the means of
reviving a semblance of baseball In
Indiana.
Poor's proposed league includes all
the independent teams that have ever
played in Indiana 1t SENS that Danny
Jenkins of Newcastle has been rep
resenting Richmond in this league. No
attempts have been made, however, to
start anything here because of the
Central League proposition. jenkins
played field on the Newcastle indie
pendent club last year. The managers
favoring an independent league III
clude NJ. w. Shepler of Peru Grays;
Shad Cunningham of Muncie; William
HUMPHREYS of Elwood; Red Bower of
Marion Boosters; Billy Jones Of the
Kokomo Red Sox: Mark Cleary OF FIT.
Wayne Shamrocks, Sam Burman OF
Logansport, and Danny Jenkins OF
New Castle and Richmond.
mere Will De d oohoaS
afternoon at o'clock in Indianapolis,
that may place teams in the proposed
league.
S. A. L. is Last Resort.
If this league does not materialize,
Richmond baseball fans only chance
Of witnessing their favorite outdoor
sport will be packed away in the
Saturday Afternoon League games ev-
Saturday starting Nav 3.
Last year the baseball enthusiasts
snjoyed the games pitched by Pete
Minner, Hawekotte and other twirlers
of the S. A. League. There will be
six clubs playing in the Saturday aft
ernoon league. The Saturday After
noon league first started in 1913. with
Sam s. Vigran as president and mas
been steadily growing in Importance
until last year several of the factories
were able TO put out teams that looked
good on the diamond and aroused
much interest among the fans.
With baseball still in the balance,
Richmond will turn to some or the
lesser sports for entertainment this
spring. such as bowling and golf
Bowling activity on the Twigg al
leys has been steadily increasing ana
Wore interest has been shown in this
snort this year than ever before. IL
has become especially interesting to
men because of the bowling tourney
which will be held in Indianapolis,
April 49, Several bowling teams from
Richmond will enter the tourney,
among which are the Coco Colas, her-
aided as the best team on the 1wlgg
alley. 49,.
Ella Golf Season.
Golf last year did not have its usual
number of followers. but with the re-
turn OF the men from the service
Country club officials are predlctlhg
a big season in golf. The greens are
already being prepared for the early
invasion of the golf enthusiasts ana
every feasible plan to make the cup
comfortable for him is being carried
out.
Probably the largest collection OF
fans are the followers Of old-time
polo, in its Zenith when Shorty Jessup
mt out some teams that gave thelr
followers all the thrills they wanted
Tack" Bradfeld has announced that
in case the polo season in the east
closed early Richmond fans could ex-
Meet the return of their old-time sport.
Newcastle will not have team, but
both Muncie and Richmond have
plans formulated that will again place
teams in the fray on the Coliseum
floor and at Muncie. All the players
will be drawn from the eastern teams
where all the old Indiana polo stars
are now playing. 1t is thought that
the season there will close April ~,
and in that case it Is almost GER
tainty that Richmond will have polo
this spring.
Track, baseball, bowling and polo
are the four divisions of sports that
Richmond sporting followers will be
treated TO if managers of the different
branches of the sport can put them
across.