Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-04
SPORTING.
EASE BALI NOTES.

St Lou's and Detroit are tied Tor as
place in the League
Philadelphia has clean lead over Prov:
dence for third place.
Boston needs another pitcher for mex
season.
Milwaukee and Kansas City are reported
as anxious to get into the American ASsoci
alton.
The MetropOlitars are looking down smi!.
ingly on Baltimore.
The Providence Club has tried nine diff
ferent pitchers this season.
Frank Gardner is unable to induce Mana
ger Barnie TO reinstase him.
The Detroit management wants to run 9
corner in club franchBer.
The Athletic and Brooklyn Clubs viii play
q postponed game on October 5.
Harry Wright has tried Siegel in exhi-
bition games and is satisfied that he VII do
Umpire Quisn is credited with giving
three Of the four runs to the st. Louis Club
10 their game with the Metropohtans.
Toby Hart, of New Orleans, is gathering
in a team of baseball players to represent
the Crescent City during the coming winter.
The Newark Club has engaged Pyle,
pitcher. and Greenwood, second bassmsn,
OF the Yirginiss.
Won der Abe is quoted as saying that the
Metropolitsns will not be in the Association
next year.
Johnston, of the Bostons, has caught the
fancy Of the Western audiences by his ex-
cellent battin.
1t is said that the Philadelphia Club will
catch up Rapbourn at the end of the season
for next year.
The Metropolitan and Brooklyn Clubs
were tie on their series. They have ar
ranged for series of games to decide which
is the best club TO be played after the season
is over.
The engagements of the Athletic players
cease en- October % The Philadelphia
players are engaged until the last of tie
month.
The Baltimore Club will reserve Hender-
son, Henry, Kilroy Trsfley, Derby, Msppes,
O'Brien, Msculsr, Muldoon, Greer and
Sommeis for next season.
Place as good club as Chicago or New
York in Brooklyn next year and it would
draw very nearly as much money as Chicago
or New York.
And now Rsnlon is credited with having
engineered the Buffslo-Detroit deal. If this
thin g is kept up every player OF both teams
will catch some Of the credit
The Boston management has for mauy
day been anxious to secure the services OF
Rsdbourn. Their opportunity will come at
the emf OF this season. Will they improve
il Nav.
The Philadelphia have won the series
from Boston, Buffalo and Detroit, aud lost
the series to the New York and Chicago.
The Providence and St. Louis series are yet
to be decided.
It is more than likely that the League
will next year adopt the rule giving the bats
man his base when struck by pitched ball.
Nearly all the managers favor the adoption
of such rule.
The Athletic Club will make an exhibition
tour in October. The following dates have
been arranged: October 3, at Washington;
I and 8, at Newark; 9, at Wilkes. Barre; II,
at Willamsport; II, at Trenton: Inc series
of FIVE games with the Philadelphia Club
are to begin on October 10.
There are very strong indications OF
general stampede of Anocsu A'socia ton
clubs in the direction of the League at the
close Of this season. Pittsburg Cincinnati,
Baltimore and Brooklyn all want to Zine"
Professor Shafer, OF Shelbyville, Ohio,
sometime ago announced it as his belief
that to pitch curved ball is phi losophical
iupossibility, and offered himself as target
if it could be done. The test will be made
by the Cincinnati pitchers on the Cincinnati
baseball grounds on October 6, on the occs-
sion of the Cincinnati.St. Louis game.
President Won der Abe, of St. Louis, has
begun proceedings in the Toledo courts to
reopen a suit in which the Judgment for
S65G was given against him. The sum was
auart of the amount which Won der Abe
agreed to pay Toledo for the release of Null
lsre, Barley and Welch, the whole of which
be bad refused to pay when Mullane jumped
his contract.