The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-11
Oldring, No Longer With Suffolk,
Would Lead Richmond If Bender
!: Decides Not to Return Next Year
Definite Announcement Is Made That Former Macnan Will
Not Be Helm for Rubes Next Season-Ted Sullivan Who
ORGANIZED Virginia League in 1896 Scores President Bradley
For Not Making Clubs Play

lot to say about the failure of the
Richmond and Petersburg clubs to play
for the Virginia league championship
in an interview with Tom Jones. of
Norfolk. Here is what he has to say
I'm on my way to my plantation.
I've Just got In from trip West and
TO New York to see about that South
American trip of the All Star baseball
teams and want to say a few word .
about the Virginia league post-season
series muddle
When mental sparrows take the
place of eagles they will govern things
according to the speed OF their tntelli-
gence. That's the matter with the
Virginia league. These men who are
running things should know the ma
tionai game of America Is no, to be
handled from the standpoint Of re-
tall grocery business or a peanut stand
The game is too powerful and elastic.
IL is beyond peanut-stand inteIlects.
and they should have no part In IT,
Baseball Ia a sport and the Virginia
public that has been patronizing the
game the past year demands certain
rights and they should have them They
had every right to expect posts
sen series and they have been disap-
pointed. 1t is bound to hurt the league.
II organized the 1irst Virginia league
1905 and I know something OF wha. I
en- talking / know fun well how
much the Virginia people appreciate
manly sport and I know what the
failure to provide them with q post
season series. such as they had right
to expect, Will do 10 the ieag and
baseball in this section Of the country
should Carry Ont Spirit.
The yirs inia league Is in organized
baseball and such should carry out
the spirit OF the game. This spirit OF
the game places II beyond CONNER
c!aiism. as history shows For ex-
ample; the two major leagues found
that the only legitimate way TO carry
on a pest-season series was to let the
players share in the receipts and they
fixed upon the first four games, the
games that would determine q winner
and loser IL one club took the major
Hy, as the games In which the players
might have all the receipts, except the
mers expenses.
That robbed the series Of anything
resembling commcrciaiism. II was an
incentive to the players. In four games
thcv might capture series OF seven
and. one year. this was done Another
year one team took four out of Ave
games, which showed the public that
there Is something more than CONNER
etalism in the national game of Amer
lea II showed them the true sporting
spirit Of baseball
Experience taught the IN o r
leagues that this was the only way
TO handle a post-season series.
Il wish to say that the president of
the Virginia league should have de-
handed that the two clubs play the
series Just II they were two clubs
engaged in a world series. He should
have done that or resigned. He did
neither.
Il wish to emphasize that the peo-
pie who Put the commercial above
the sporting spirit in baseball do not
belong in the game--as they will find
to their cost next year. -..-..,; ..,s,