The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-14
A BASE BALL SCHEME.
A sERIEs OF ASSOCIATION GAMES
Proposed for, this season-A Number Of
Is Pcnnsy ivauia Clubs That Want to
Piny Nere-New brighton Nine
10 be Fitted Against others.

Wheeling Is q great bass bali town. While
she does not appear 10 have the inherent re.
sources for forming and maintaining a club
OF her own, sho has furnished number oil
crack players 10 various Association clubs,
who have won for themselves fame and re.
nown on the diamond field, and the citizsns
Of Wheeling asa ruls are base ball enthu.
siasta. They read reports OF games In other
cities and talk over them; they turn out
strong whenever by chance game between
two good clubs Is played here, and they be.
wall the fact that Wheeling has no club,
There Ia a chance, however, that during the
coming Season Wheeling may have a club
that she can call her own In part. n. .III-
This will be brought about 10 the msune,
described bslow, provided the scheme works
ss = number OF Wheeling gentlemen hope ii
Will. The scheme Is one gotten up by MIR
". N. Boyle, Of New Brighton, who was N
the city yesterday. He Is the agent OF tht
New Brighton base ball club, which be-
longs to the Iron aud Oil Base Rail Associn
ton. There are tive other clubs In this AZ
ISOLATION; they are the New Castle, Youngs
town, Ess! Liberty, OIL City and Franklin
clubs, locas led In these respective towna.
Mr.. Boyle proposed to have twelve game.
played here during the seaiou on tha follow.
ing date: june Is, ii, 2li July s, 10, 10. 20
August. ~, %, and september aud Is
Tho New Brighton club will be one OF the
clubs 10 play III each OF thes games, and will
be known as The Wheeling Club. The othu,
| club Mr.. Boyle guarantees shall for each &C.
casion be q good first Glars club. For reG6l
game Mr.. boyle wants $ll0 or $40 for each
club, and in case the gate receipts are over
$3.50, he IL to have instead OF $40, ont
halt the gross gate receipts. All the adyer
Using here Of grounds, police md other ex,
peusas are to be raised by the Wheeling com
pany, he furnishing free Of cost ali neces
sary lithoglap5s. Rain Is not 10 interfere
with the contract. All Of the above Ia 4
contract which Mr.. Boyle wants accepted BY
one hundred gentlemen who will raise d
guarantee fund OF 81 600 by each subscribing
$40. .gi $50. y
| Mr.. Boyle cauvassad among number oil
gentlemen yesterday who are, and ALWAYS
have been enthusiastic over base ball end 40 q.
ceeded In arousing great intersat. He lstt
the matter In their hands for week; at The
expiration Of that time he will return, aud n
| tho plan is adopted, the small details will BE-
arranged. lie believes, and 30 do number
OF people here, that the guarantee fund
would not be needed. but that,
on tho contrary, small dividend at least
would be declared ut the end OF tho season.
A gentleman interested said, in speaking Of
tho matter: "Tne only thing Is, will
the Fair Association treat us decent and
give ia fair show? Last yoar tho e1orbit
ant rent they asked killed all baue ball spi,i,
here. Now, they ought to deal reasonably
with US; II would help them to do SO, and
it would help us and the town generally
i will be noticed that nearly ali the dates
fall on Saturday. a .r. ~