Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-20
orty.four 10 onel TAKE il away.

Forty-four TO one! Take it away. O.
The Glevelands will be along this week.
The Standards should let up on. spch
| soft snaps. 50 5-e l"s~' s1l$ "
They have club in Philadelphia called
tfeH'Nine Orphans"
The Standard -Steubenville game on Tues
| day was dandy affair.
The game is beginning to excite consider.
able interest in this city. ' +- =.
Crockery City, of East Liverpool, vs..
| Standards, next Saturday.
II is said Providence pays George Wright
| 81 600 for four months work.
Bond, recently released by Worcester,
has Joined the Louisville nine.
Browning has signed with the Lonisviles
for next year at $500 per month.
Wednesdays score was 90 to O. If that
wasn't picnic, there never vas one.
Browning, of the Louisyilles, still leads
the American Association in batting. with
an average of 800. .7r o.. 49,. ...i g
At Tiltonville, Thursday, the Kryder-
Beltz Fishing Club defeated the Tiltonyille
nine by q score OF to D. ...
Three of the ,Alleghe ny nine are disabled
Lane, Driscoll and kemmler. The latter
is threatened with fever.
Troy has made an appeal to the Athletic
management for reinstatement The latter
refuse to remove the sentence. 8
Thompson, who has been catching for
the 1ecumsehs, of London, Ont, has signed
to catch for the Philadelphias. q
TIE Allegheny5C offered Bennett, OF
year, but he will probably not accept. o.
M. az II Af =
Yale College nine, a fistteriug offer to
catch for them in place of o. Brien released
Thomas Rankin, who umpired came at
Troy last week, was hit i'll the eye 10y foul
tip, and it is feared he will lose the sight
Farrell, the Detroit third basemau, has
broken the bone in his right arm, aud will
probably not be able to play any n ore this
season. ....
A director of the Cincinnati Club will
give $50 gold medal to the amateur hay-
ing the best batting and fielding record
this Sc ason.
The Chief of Police of Philadelphia has
issued an order that all police base ball
clubs shall at once be disbanded, and he
holds the Police Lieutenants and Captains
responsible for its enforcement
Three foundries were closed at Reading,
Penn, on Saturday, at the demand of the
employees, who wanted to see a game OF
base ball. The craze in that city is at its
height.
The following league players had not
missed playing q single championship
Purcell, Arson, O'Rourke, Burns, Foley,
Plefier, Dunlap, Hornung Glasscock, Hines,
Philips, Farrell, J. J. Shaffer, Start, .Mu,-
doom, Denny, Dalrymple, Wood, Brouth-
ers, Sioyey, Gore.
The easiest position in O base bal match
is that OF the umpire. All he has % do is
to catch all the passed balls and half the
fouls on his ribs and stomach and cry
'balp and "strike" in regular alto nation,
and enjoy general and enthusiastic cuss-
ing from both mines and all the spectators
when the game is over. Anybody can be
an umpire if he has only the gail. bur-
liRgtOn HaWkeye.
No wonder the Associated Clubs make
more money than the League In League
cities so cents is asked tor admission and Is
cents extra for a covered seat so that 1t
costs at least 81 to go and see game COM
fortably. The cheap rates OF the Association
prove great drawing card. Although the
League has eight cities and the Association
has but six. the aggregate population OF the
latter is 2065, S9S to 1927, 352 for the form
er.-LOui,riHe Post.
According to the league averages up to
August LIST the best batting nine would be:
Bennett, of Detroit, c., $40; Whitney, of
Boston. p, $40; Brouthers, of Buffalo, h.,
1896; Dunlay of Cleveland, Oh, .277; Kelley,
of Chicago, s. s., .3l5; Williamson, of Chi
cago, 3D., 267 Gillespie, OF Troy, |. f., 1856;
Gore, of Chicago c. f., 1923; Foley, of Buff
falo 7. f., .Sl2. The finest fielding nine
l. sc
Daily. of Buffalo, p, 1886; Start of Provi-
dence, and Philips, OF Cleveland, are tie at
ID, with 974; Burdock of Boston, 2b, with
1926; McGeary, of Detroit, s. s., 1856; Horn.
ung Of Boston, !. f., .919; Richmond, Of
Cleveland, s95; Evans, of Worcester, 1868.