Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-09-10

Amateur baseball on an organized
| basis is an institution Richmond and
every other city should encourage.
! Tine memory of baseball! followers is
| not long, SO IL may not he amiss 10
/ remind them that The Times Dis
/ patch sponsored the first amateur
leaGne in Richmond some sixteen or
eighteen years ago and it's columns
have been open to accounts of their
games. The organization of the ANA
teur leagues. by tho way, was in
/ s;rumental in bringing the first
pink" in the Sunday edition.
Betless horse-racing is to bc test-
| ed out In 1QU-yard meet in Culver
City. suburb of Los Angeles. il the
| trustees OF tho town can he CON
WINGED that 1t vii, not hopelessly Jar
their morals. Ike experiment. is in
! teresting chiefly as n test Of wheth-
or there can h. racing on big scale
without betting. II II works in Cali
F., lorna. II might be success in Vir-
Sinia.
! Nirsin!a's freak laws on sports are
on par with the constitutional oath
| on duelinE, which even women must
take and the antidueling statute un-
der which man within the last few
years got n $500 verdict against
|
words in a letter Calculated to cause
a breach of the peace" With fights
barred. racing killed and Sunday
games taboo. situation viii develop
| In the next few years where we Will
have bootleg" sport, as Westhrook
| P"Eicr APPLY termed ii on recent
visit, for the demand for things
others enjoy without apparent harm
Is growing. The tendency to break
| the law is pNcrNwhere
! Amateurs playing Sunday baseball
| will he one OF the 1928 innova tions
| With Mayo Island as the battle site.
| there can he NO nuisance with games
/ being played in the afternoon. None
viii he disturbed thereby. as the rat
| tie of passing Fords and Hull Street
| cars viii drown out any cheers COM
| ing from the park. The law against
| engaging in Gainful occupat ton will
| not be violated, as the players will
| not he following their usual ,voca-
tion-in fact. Will he playing for the
sport and not for profit.
Headline In afternoon paper says.
| Connie Mack Satisfied With Seventh
PLACE This Season How modest OF
! Connie.
! Another sample OF modesty: AS
| IprecdSt exclusively IN The Evening
t.Dispatch Of yesterday. Rube OIdrinE
/ mas signed contract to manage the
Richmond Colts during 1929"
! Motor polo has been seen In Rich
! mond, hut sport followers here are
| yet to have the thrill of football on
motorcycles. Rules of polo will he
followed. with the exception that the
players will kick the ball Instead OF
hitting it with mallet. in n contest
at the police picnic in Chicago. The
casualty total will probably exceed
the score.
Lee Gooch, we'll remembered here
as Colt leader who won a flag, YES
| terday clinched the championship in
| the last half of the Piedmont League.
which means Gooch and his Durham
crew will fight il out with High
Point for tho seasons rag
Four additional alleys are being
! installed by the Recreation Bowling
and Billiard Academy with the ex-
pectation OF n banner fall and winter
season. The old city tenpin league
is to be revived with eight five-man
teams From this league will be
selected ten men to represent Rich
mond in the Virginia State League,
with Norfolk. Portsmouth. Naval Base,
| Ocean View. Newport News, Peters
burg and the Dupont Club, Hopewell,
each represented by two teams. max
Ing sixtcen-team circuit. For tho
first time in the history of the city
two leagues for women will be
started.
Nearly thirty points behind George
Sisler in the race for batting hon
ors. Ty Cots, is watching the slug
ging Browns first baseman creep
another Cobb record-a hit n game
| for forty consecutive games. estab-
lished hack In 1alf. Sisler yesterday
ran his total to thirty seven consecu-
| tive games when no secured three
hits, and In tho remaining three
| games OF the Detroit series has n
chance to equal Cobbs American
League mark with. the Detroit man
ager as eyewitness.
| Tilden, Johnston and Williams have
each won two legs on the national
singles tennis tourney. Should either
of the trio win the tourney in
progress at the GERMANTOWN Cricket
Club, PHILADELPHIA, this week ~ viii