Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-06
6Iittsrings Fiom the Diamond as
they are Reflected Upon the
Lovers OF Base Ball, .
While Admirers of tho Oar Can Pad
die in the Waters Of Aqua
tic Information.
The Turf and the Ring, With a
General Review Of All
Seasonable Sports.
BaN Ball.

The st. Louis club beat the Bay City
20 to April 2S in St. Louis, Mo. Lancss-
ter, an, smateur, pitched for the nome
team, and only two safe hits were made of
him.
The Chicagos visited Quincy, H., April
%, and gave the local professionals bad
beating. the figures being Is to in favor OF
the League champions. Williamson and
Kelly each made FIVE successive safe hits,
while Gere gave an exhibition OF clever
base-running by getting in FIVE runs.
The Cincinnati Club has received the
champion flag awarded by the American
Association by winning the largest per-
centage of games last year; II is OF fine
white bunting, with blue bordeS bearing
the inscription Champions 1885," This is
a mistake, however, the Cincinnatis being
the champions OF lSs2.
Frank Larkin, who is we'll known from
his connection with the Alaska, Chicago,
Troy, Atlantic, Metropolitan and Harris
burg Clubs. on the afternoon of April "a
shot his wife, wounded policeman slight.
ly, and cut his own throat. The wounds
Larkin inflicted on his wife and himself
are considered dangerous. On the follow
ing day he again attempted to commit sui.
eide. He was under engagement TO play
with the Baltimore Club this season.
AL Spaulding, in letter to the Clipper,
says: I'VE open our new grounds Satur-
day, May 5. which will be the first oppor.
tunity our people have had for this season
of Seing game in Chicago. 1t will be quite
an innovation from previous years, as We
have generally had half dozen games or
so with picked mines, amateur clubs, etc.
With 10 Championship games to play dur.
ing the season, don't think 1t is good busi-
ness policy TO surfeit your people with too
much base ball. The new grounds are the
best arranged OF any ball field out West,
and the patronage this season promises to
exceed that OF any previous season.
Three closely contested games were
played in indianapolis, Ind, last week be.
tween the professional team OF that city
and the visiting Anthracite Club Of Potts.
Vile, Pa. The opening contest on April
25 was one OF the most exciting ever played
IN Indianapolis, and resulted in tie, each
club having scored nine runs at the end
OF the tenth inning. Mitchell, the we'll.
| known left.handed pitcher, filled that po-
sition for the visitors, and kept the home
gan, the catcher of the home team, was
disabled in the seventh inning and gave
way to Peoples. The Anthracites by su-
perior batting won the games played on
| the two following afternoons, the respec-
| tive scores being TO and to 9. In these
| games the home team were given bases on
called balls by the local umpires no fewer
| than twenty times, while but three Of the
visitors thus reached first base.
The New Point I'm Umpiring.
President Mills says on the subject OF the
| sOundneSs OF Lanes decisions on the ques.
| ton developed in the last Cleveland and
| Metropolitan game, in which he decided
| the ball as practically dead when delivered
| by the pitcher TO the bat before the umpire
| was in bis proper position to Judge the
| fairness of the delivery, and had indicated
that fact by designating the height the ball
| had to he delivered TO the ba,sman. Secre
| taries Young and Wilson were also writ
| ten, respectively OF the League and Amer
| ican Association, for their official opinions
| on the question, and We are now able to
| state that all three indorse the correctness
| OF Umpire Lanes decision on the novel
| point developed, and the opinions also ac'
| cord with our own views on the subject
Mr.. Mills states that common sense would
| point out that, until the umpire was in his
position prepared to judge the legality OF
| the pitching, no ball sent TO the bat could
| be in play, though the fact is not explicit
covered in the written code. lie has in
| structed the Secretary of the League to
| give that Interpretation OF the question tC
| the League staff Of umPircs as the official
| settlement of the question until the new
| point il embodied in the written code,
| Aquatic.
] The illlowing coming even;s a,e an
nUuDC.u
Nav e-SculIinr msicn :, !. MeInerneyvs
II. Peterson, san FrautlsLO. I.t
May l0-Haryard Co.. y vlas: "a e. D1;'on
Mass
May .! !-Ssu!lers race. {. A. Prince Vs. F.
{. Meyer, near Canton, o.
| Msy 30-E Hanaa w. J. 4. Kennedy,
500. Point OF Pines, Mass.
| May 3N-rassaic River Anatenf E3SinR
| Association regatta, Newark, n. J.
June l-HsrIem Regatta ASS )ciation open
amateur regatta, !. City.
June 2-Palisade 4. G. vs.. Nyack !. A.,
feared race, Ionkcrs. \. y.
June 9, l6 2&-Larchmont Yacht Club
pennant regattss, l.. |. Sound.
June l5-Childs Cup race, four oars, Paaa-
delphia.
June lS-Cnion Boat Club open regetts,
Boston, Mass.
June I@-AtIsntic Yacht Club annual re,
gatta. y. Y. Bay.
June 2l-New York Yacht Club annual re.
gatta, y. Y. Bay.
June 81 23-Profess ioRal rowing regatta,
open. Pullman, H.
June 4-Seawanhaka Yacht Club annual
regatta, n. \. Bay.
Private advices from Australia state that
Trickett, Lsycock, lsrgsn and Pearce will
visit the States during the coming summer.
Hanlan and Lee will have double-scull
shell built by William Ruddock, Of Boston
Mass, who has under way singles for both
the former and Kennedy.
Billy Williams, the old reliable baseball.
ist, is thinking Of taking to rowing, and is
likely TO fill the vacancy OF the Jumbo"
crew Of the Potomac Club Of Washington.
The Queen City Rowing Club of Buffalo
\. y, will present the same crew as last
season. namely. the CTimmins Brothers and
the Roth Brothers for the first boat. The
men will 90 into active regular practice
al once.
The big Grew Of the Columbias OF
Washington is out daily, and is composed
Of Davis, Kintner, Douglas and Lake, and
they are doing we'll. Andy Smith Is the
Young lion at this house now. He wants
kckInDeys scalp, and several want
Andy's. So the prospect for single shell
racing on the Potomac is good. Harrison,
who was defestsd by Smith, wants another
trial, and be will doubtless be accom- noda-
ted later in the season.
All that remained Of the boat house OF
the Fsrrsgut Boat Club Of Chicago, IL.
after the Storm which partly demolished II
some weeks previously, was swept away by
smother similar visitation on April %. The
inner wells bad been taken out aud the
roof braced up preparatory 70 repairing
the damage previously done, and the build
ing was therefore simply Q shell. The
loss eniaiIed by the latest disaster was
about tvo thousand dollars. 1t is in con-
TEN nplatiop 10 rebuild upon q more extern
sive scale, the cost 70 be ten thousand dol
lars.
Left the Ranks.
John Fl. Clegg. the we'll known amateur
uarsnsn and partner of Fred Standish in
double tculls, representing the Excelsior
Boat Club Of Detroit. Mich. has severed his
connection with boat racing This has been
rendered necessary by his having. after
msny year, faithful service with the firm
OF DuchsIme & Fletcher, accepted an en-
esgenent with the Griffin Car Wheel Com.
psDy, his new duties demanding all his at