Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-04-19
SPORTING.

The Baseball Season Opened in Full Blast.
Base hits have been plentiful this seasos.
Lucas deserves success for his persistency.
Denny is sick with ehills and fever at
Washington.
Stoyey comes in as fourth in the order OF
home runs.
The Brooklyn American Club is doing frat
class fielding.
Calvin is reported as being little over
half Of Buffalo.
Boston made seventeen base hits off Darts
mouths pitcher.
Harkins, OF Brooklyn, has been earning
eneomiums on his pitching.
The entire country from Maine to Califor-
MIA is up with ball and bat.
Dunlap gives the st. Louis League team
run of SIX miles every day.
Williamson of the Chicago white stock
ings is still laid up with rheumatism.
Dan O'Lesry expects his six lett-handers
to do a. lot of slugging for Toledo.
Farrsr is one of the Philadelphia party
who has failed to catch on in shape.
Andrews has been complaining Of his arm
and was given a rest yesterday.
Arson of the Chicago Whites carries
around billiard outfit to play in of hours
Brouthers seems to take kindly to the bat
this season. he is doing some good slug
ging.
Richardson and Gerhardt are prime Sec
oud basewen. The Marooas are lucky, but
will it last?
Manning has done we'll up to date, and
Manager Wright continues to De glad he Sc
cured him
Ii is probable Western League will admit
K,okuk aud Minneapolis, and have eight
-cluhs.
Mr. Valentine, of Baltimore, was born on
February Ii. That accounts for his name
and .umpiring.
Jerry Dorgan, of the Detroit Club. has
been suspended without pay. Jerry has been
a bad boy.
McKinnon has done a little batting for
New York and they ere bowling over it IN
Gotham.
Somebody ought to be on hand to meas
ure Jim Murtries smile when he gets back
from Bermuda.
Andrews needs to shave down his fingers
some. They must be lumpy from the way
he has been fumbling lately.
The Metropolitan auction crowd have
been badly treated by the New York League
tesm. The Nets are in DOOR plight.
Ed. .Cackins has been released by New
York. 1t is said he is going into the sport
ing goods trade in Philadelphia.
The first game of the season in Brooklyn
was PLAYED there yesterday between the
Brooklyn and Princeton College teams.
Charlie Sweeney is going to organize
Chinese team in Frisco. The saffron hued
gentlemen are hard hitters Of the pipe, i
nothing else.
The only thing New York will have to
boast Of by the end Of the season will be
the way they played it on the country in the
Esstbrook, Keep affair.
American association Cubs are expected
TO put stone or glass slab, eight inches
wide, in front of the pitchers box, to pre-
vent the pitcher from stepping over the line.
The principal Western league cities can
draw on the following population: Cleye-
land, 220 1000; Toledo, 5000; indianapolis,
100 900; Milwaukee, 10000; Kansas City,
100000. :
Tie proposed meeting of the presidents
OF the League clubs to consider the case OF
Lucas black listed players did net take
place. A dispatch from Boston says the
meeting was declared off and that Dunlap
arc Schaffer would probably be declared
eligible to play on the St. Louis League
les IN by mail note
A gentleman who knows says the St.
Louis League team will open the season
with Baker, Dolan and Briody as catchers;
sweeney and Mccormack as pitchers; Boyle
first base; Dunlap, second; Gleason and
| Rn:s Barnes, third; Glasscock, short field
apd Lewis, Roe and Scheeffer on the out
side.