Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 172, 2 May 1919 — Page 9
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM FRIDAY. MAY 2, 1919.
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mm moving SPIRIT IN S. A. L. PLANS FOR 1919 Local Sportsman Has Estab-
lished Baseball League De
spite Difficulties. Sam S. Vlgran, president of the Saturday Afternoon League this year, has been one of the busiest men in Richmond. Vigran, after being elected to fill the position of president of the S. A. L. for his third consecutive season, set to work to make the 1919 season one of the brightest in the history of the league. For weeks he has been injecting pep into the managers and with the aid of some of the best factory baseball lieutenants in the .game pushing baseball at their respective plants, he will attain his goal when the Saturday Afternoon League opens up with the best brand of amateur ball ever exhibited here. The league is composed of the cream of the local players. Vlgran SDent little t!m -hit.
, ting1 Richmond until he was submere.1 1 1- f Ml . - . - .
in ms ursi sport venture ror the benefit of the sport and the public. Every since bis initial appearance he has been one of the best sport backers in the city. In 1915 he started as
manager ot Vlgran baseball team and
jjeiure me season was nvr it nra
known that the team aa Tin Inncroi
' claim Just the name of Vlgran base-
oiui out was cauea tne Vlgran Champions. He did not stop with being champion in the city but his team be
came me county champion also. Defeated All Teams The Vteran charnhfrm nnitair (ha
management of Sam Vigran, defeated
njinosi every team u met. His team overwhelmed WiiiMmiiii- vr.
Paris. Hagerstown. Greensfo'rk and
v.amDriage city wnich were about- all the towns that at that time boasted of teams. Following close on his success as a manager of a baseball team, he was elected vice president of the Saturday Afternoon League In 1916. and worked in conjunction with Karl Meyers who was president of the leaerue and one of its steady boosters. Prior to Vlgran's entrance into the sport world of Quaker City, he was playing manager of a Coney Island baseball team at Cincinnati He played backstop for the Conies. On coming to Richmond Vigran organized the Quaker City Athletic club which continued through the years of 1915 and 1916, This club staged boxing, wrestling matches and was popular among the fans. Stands for Clean Sports Ever since Vlgran has interested himself In the welfare of the factory league and other Richmond sports, he has stood for clean, manly sportsmanship at all times and has had the real interest of the players and fans at heart in promoting the factory league, his constituents say. Vigran ranks foremost among the men who have placed Richmond on the sporting map and now, after weathering two season in which war occupied the minds of Richmondians. baseball as exemplified by the Saturday Afternoon league bids fo regain a status as never before In the history of the S. A. L. Big leagues, minor leagues, semi-pro
Saturday Afternoon League Has Enthusiastic Sportsman in President Vigran, Former Player
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WAR HAD LITTLE EFFECT Oli S. A. L. SUPPORT LAST YEAR
Last year was the most successful of all S. A. I seasons. While all other leagues were closing on account of non-attendance the S. A. L. was playing to more people than ever before. And from the playing end it was a dandy. Up to the last game no one knew to whom the championship would go. Simplex and Natco were "practically tied for first place during the entire
season, rney piayea a Benes oi nve tames and Natco won the first. Sim
plex the second, Natco the third and
Simplex the fourth and filth.
une caiurua, first shell last week, teams were defeated by the second! Moi, rZTJZ
division clubs. Jenkins Vulcans turned the tables and defeated the Sim
plex and in the second game of the afternoon Malleable-Pennsys defeated
the Natcos and both games were one
sided scores.
The S. A. - L. turned over to the local chapter of the Red Cross, $240,
and besides paying all its expenses for
the 1918 season bad a small sum lcrt in the treasury. The finances of the league are raised . by selling season tickets. This year three games will be played every Saturday, for fifteen straight Saturdays, weather conditions permitting. The games will all be played at Exhibition park and the playgrounds on South Twenty-secoad EtreeL .
Sports in Brief
Governor Harrington of Maryland, denied the petitions ot citizens of Cumberalnd, Md- for permission to hold the Willard-Dempsey bout there. He said he was not satisfied that the proposed "12-round boxing , bout" would not prove to be & "longer prlie fight," Dutch Brandt, the Brooklyn featherweight, and Frankie Rice of Baltimore are to meet In a 12-round out In Baltimore today. Frankie Brown of New York and Frankie Burns of Jersey City, did not meet In a 10-round bout at Portland. Me., Monday night, the fight being postponed to May 12. The Yale 'varsity crew broke the course record for two miles on the Housatonic river Tuesday, rowing the distance in 10:27 or eight seconds bet
ter than the previous mark, set by the
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leagues and leagues organized sqch as the Richmond factory league will furnish people with plenty of the necessary out-of-door sunshine that is needed. Baseball's recovery from the effects of the war has been complete and far surpasses the hopes of Its promoters who at first thought it would take at least a couple of years for baseball to regain all that it had lost. The first leagues to feel the encroachment of war were the very smallest whose ranks were rapidly thinned in the first service call, and then later by the draft.
BASEBALL AFTER 2 O'CLOCK
t " NEW YORK, May 2 As a sequence to the recent enactment of a state law permittiHg local option on Sunday baseball the city board of aldermen today adopted an ordinance legalizing the playing of professional baseball in this city on Sundays after 2 p. m.
Loving Cup To Be Given Best Batter In S. A. L. Wallenstein, Mayer & Co., of Cincinnati has offered a silver loving cup as a trophy for the best batter in the S. A, L. Whom this cup wil lgo to is a problem for the S. A. L. followers to figure out. The player having the best batting average at the end of the
season will be presented with tne trophy engraved with his name and batting average. It may not be that the hardest hitter will win the trophy ; singles count as much as long hits in figuring average. The S. A. L. has many good batters, in fact for the size of the city. Most of-the men who play in the S. A. L. go out on Sunday and compete with clubs that hire minor league ball players Jbecause they have not enough local talent to complete their clubs. This will give an idea of the playing qualities of the men in the factory league. The averages will be published twice a month.
BREHM HELPS PUT BASEBALL ON MAP
George Brehm,' president of the Saturday Afternoon League durlftg the season of 1915, materially aided to put the factory league on its feet In its infancy. He succeeded Mason Byer, its "first president and organizer. Brehm has been interested in baseball, In one way or another, for fifteen years In Richmond. Several years ago he, with George Reid, Charlie Eubank and Harry Patty, organised an lrfdependent team that played in an Eastern Indiana league composed of Newcastle, Richmond, Cambridge City and Connersville. Later he and the men associated with him aided In niacins: a team in the Indiana, Ohio
and Kentucky league which proved successful for a season. Last year Brehm was instrumental in giving Richmond its only Sunday baseball. The colored team which he obtained from Indianapolis put up a good brand of ball and played circles around most every other team it met.
Brehm was interested in the Central league while It was operating -and has always stood for clean baseball. He is still a strong backer of the Saturday afternoon league.
Manager Joe Dunn of the Blooming-
ton, 111., club has signed Pitcher Matt Zeizer of Chicago, Infielder Robert Coltrin of Los Angeles and Catcher Walter Henline of Indlanauolis. Outfielder Duffy Lewis of the Yankees has been switched back to left field and Manager Huggins admits that he was wrong In placing him In center. . The Richie Mitchell-Johnny Dunde bout at Milwaukee has been set for May 9. It was postponed from March 9. Howard Drew, noted negro sprinter, who is a Joint holder of the world's 100-yard record, :09 3-5, is in training at Nice, France, for the outdoor track and field meet of the American expeditionary forces to be held in May, and for the navy Olympics in June. The Three I league will open its season May 5 with Terre Haute at Evansville, Peoria at Bloomington and Rockford at Moline. The schedule calls for 120 games, closing the season Labor day.
Barney Oldfield will compete In the 500-mile Liberty sweepstakes at the Indianapolis spedway May 31 in spirit but not in person, as he. has entered his car, Oldfield Special, with Roscoe Sarles, the Los Angeles sensation, as the pilot Managers of teams In the Three I Seague follow: Joe Dunn, Bloomington, ohnny Nee, . Evansville; Mordecai Brown, Terre Haute; Jimmy Hamilton, Peoria; George Hughes, Moline; John F. Castle, Rockford. Dode Paskert is the oldest player in the majors, and he's only 38. Kilbane finds horseback riding is a wonderful conditioner. Doubtless it shakes off superfluous weight. Tris Speaker, says Harry Lunte,
Cleveland player, has the greatest pair of hands since Hans Wagner quit American league umpires have been ordered not to let pitchers darken the ball. In Missouri an organization exists to protect spring duck hunters arrested for slaughtering nesting birds.
WAGNER WAS BEST ALL-AROUND PLAYER
"I consider Hans Wagner the most valuable all-around player who ever wore a spiked shoe," says' John McGraw. y .- "I believe Jimmy Collins had the surest pair of hands I ever saw. "I have never seen a man on the mound who equaled Mathewson in allaround ability. "Roger Bresnahan was the greatest catcher I ever saw, always excepting Buck Ewing. "I have never seen an outfielder who was Tris Speaker's superior. "Amos Rusie always appealed to me as the speediest pitcher I ever saw."
PIRATE STARS MAKE TWO HOME RUNS III SUCCEEDING ROUNDS
Few players In the big leagues ever make two home runs in one game and few of them, succeeding in doing so, ever make, the pair in successive innings. However, two " of the Pirates, due here for an exhibition game with the Cardinals next Wednesday, have not only slammed out two four-baggers in , the same conflict, but have, slammed them out In succeeding rounds. The two Pittsburgers credited with a feat of this kind are Captain Max Carey and Private Casey StengelEach man turned the trick in 1913. Stengel, then with the Brooklyn club, reached Otto Hess ot the Braves for two four-baggers in the first and second Innings of the game of May 1. Carey, who- has - spent all : his big league career with the Pirates, Joining them In the fall of 1910, got his two
loop-the-loop . drives off Arthur Fromme of the Giants in the first and second innings in the contest of Aug. 9. Fromme was the man who stopped Jack Ness of Oakland after Jack had hit safely in 45 consecutive games during the season of 1915. - Art is out on the coast this yearagain, being a member of the Vernon club, in which Fatty Arbuckle, the film star, recently purchased - ait in-1 teresL
ARRIVES OVERSEAS
EmQie Fletcher, who sailed recently"! to do overseas Y. M. C A. -work, hasj arrived in France, a cable received by her mother, Mrs. Sarah Fletchar of South Eighteenth street, elates. '
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