Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-23
SPORTING MATTERS.
Base Bali and General Athletic Amuse-
mPnta,

The Toledo team, with its three Wheel
ing players, gave the Allegheny boys
close struggle on Saturday, the score being
to 3. Joe Miller made the best hit OF the
game. long three Dagger to right field.
The Dispatch says Joe plays good short
stop. The Alleghenies are heavy hitters,
but poor base runners. Walker, the
colored catcher, plays with the Toledo.
The Inter. State Association Of ball play
ers met in the ST. Clair Hotel, at Pitts
burgh, Saturday night, when the following
clubs were represented: Three from Pitts
burgh, one each from East Liverpool,
Wheeling, Rochester and Leechburg, and
Mr. Samuel Mardy, of Rochester, was
elected president. The other officers will
be chosen on Saturday night next.
The Reach ball is being condemned by
every club who is compelled to play with
il.
Joe Gerbardt, manager of the Eclipse
nine, was presented with a beautiful toss.
ing medal Wednesday. 1t has the in
stripton, eclipse Club, Gerhardt, Mana.
ger" on oEs side, and the word Visitors
on the other. 1t will be used in tossing for
innings.
The following array of journalistic bril-.
iancy will combine TO trounce the ever.
lasting conceit out of nihe victims to be
chosen from dingy dens of law, in Pitts
burgh Kelly, Wilkinson, Earle, Black,
Ritenour, Fullwood, Moreland, Clark,
Watson, jain, Mcfarland, keenan,.
Saturday afternoon the Actiyes and
Riverside base ball mines played match
game on the green near the tunnel. The
game was very exciting and close, the
Acuves winning by score .of eleven to
nil IN will no nlarp1 this
week.
Yesterday Sam Barkley, one Of the Tole.
do team, was in the city. He left for
Columbus on the late train last night, as
the club plays there to-day.
The Fair Association is talking Of bring
ing Carver end Bogardus here for the fair,
next fall
The cockfghting ordinance has passed
only one branch Of Council
Bicycles will be carried free on the Penn
sylvania road, from and after date, pro-
yided the owner or rider accompanies
them. This action was taken to accom-.
modate young men who 20 TO the out
skirts OF the city and take run home.
The famous running mare CIRCLE, will
be shipped TO England in May. VIM Day
will take charge of her, and if she trains
up 10 winning form she will be started in
few autumn handicaps, il not she will be
bred to the famous Hermit.
The Columbus Dispatch says that new
piano has been placed in the club room of
the local nine. That's all right as a starter,
but it's dollars to cents it will be in hook
for board bills before the season is half
over.
The horses will be running at Baltimore
at the same time that the flag is unfurled
over the grounds Of the Louisville Jockey
Club. This is unfortunate for those who
upp1l lilo m natrnniva tho at hath
places, but there seems 10 be no help for it,
The racing points are so numerous that it
Is Impossible TO avoid a clash. The mary
land Jockey Club Spring meeting comes off
at q time when nature is in her freshest
dress and most smiling mood, and the
horses are spplauded by the falrest and best
I OF the Monumental City.-Turt, F~ld and
Farm.
The three base ball associations-the
League, American and College-will begin
playing their series OF championship games
as follows: The League clubs will begin on
May !, with the Bostons, in New York. the
Chicsgos in Detroit the Butfalos in Cleve-
land. the Providence in Philadelphia. On
the same day the season OF the American
Ass ociatiob will begin with the Metropoli-
tans al Baltimore, st. Louis at Cincinnati,
Athletics at Pittsburgh, and Louisville at
Columbus. The first game of the College
Association VIII be contested at New
Haven between the Yale and Amherst
clubs.
The Turfserves up incompetent repor.
tiers thus 1t is amusing TO watch the
movements OF some of the well-mesning
young men detailed by the city editor TO
do" race meeting. They are industrious
when the free lunch comes around, but at
other times there are found running
around with friends in the grand stand or
over the beer counter. When the flag
falls or the word is given, they make q
good show OF pencil and paper, but not
being able to identify the horses, get them
badly mixed. Frequently they make the
leader fight the rear rank, and as not one
OF them, when working independently,
agree, the clashing reports puzzle the
mind OF the critical reader. man must
have thorough knowledge OF the turf as
we'll as a good pair Of eyes to write q story
worth prIating.