Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-07-05
SPORTING.
EASE BALL NOTES.
Toledo sunk $4,000 in base ball.

Toledo sunk $1,000 in base ball.
Quinn is to be tried at third base BY 81
Louis.
Lucas has released Sweeney, change
catcher of the st. Louis.
Joe Battin has been appointed an Ameri
can Association umpire.
Dunlap questioned a decision Of Umpire
Ferguson, and was fined $50.
Visner, enc Of the Kansas City players,
has signed with the Balimores.
The Philadelphias are weakened by the
absence Of Ferguson, who is sick.
Burch, formerly of the Peorias, has been
engaged as left fielder of the Nationals.
German and StockweIl, bstters of the
Milwaukees, will go to New Britain, Ct.
Burns, formerly of the Detroits and Gin
cinnati Unions, has signed with the Water,
burys.
The receipts in Pittsburg are already
greater than the total for the whole OF last
season.
Ted Sullivan, lat of Kansas City, has
been engaged to manage the Memphis
(Tenn.) club.
By q victory over St. Louis, Louisville
held IN to fourth place, the Athletic still
standing in fifth.
Mike Hines, recently Of the B~ostous, is
expected TO make his debut with the Brook
lyns in Baltimore.
Brown, pitcher, formerly of the Chicsgos,
and more recently of the MilSaukees, will
play in Baltimore.
The Virginlss, of Richmond still lead in
the Eastern league, with the Nationals Of
Washington second.
Driscoll, who pitched and won n game
for the Newarks, left them on account OF a
difficulty regarding salary.
The Detroit Club gave the New Workers
a close shake for another defeat, the score
standing l to 0 in favor of New York.
Sitting Bull might well envy Rosemau
his voice and living power. When he iets
himself loose nobody else can be heard.
Bostons are said to have been after Seery
Of the Kansas Citys, and Behil, fielder, and
Sboeneck, first bsseman, of the Milwaukees.
Hackett who started in to catch for the
Bostons received an injury in the second
inning which compelled him to retire from
the field.
W. B Phinney of the Birmingham South,
ern league club has been released at his own
request, and is availablea as a third .ossemsn,
fielder or eft handed pitcher.
Horribly ugly" very bum and the like
expressions showed what the audience
thought Of the dsrk.blue suits and white
stockings of the Metropolitan Club.
Latham is an incessant worker for his
club while they are playing and he has no
superior as a coacher. While Latham does
The coaching Comiskey does the kicking for
he club.
The police of Philadelphia, Brooklyn and
New York will compete for the champion
slip emblem. The first game will be be-
tween Brooklyn and New York, at the polo
grounds, July IL.
The Cincinnati correspondent ofthe Sport
;rg Life says: 1T is dollars to cents that
Cincinnati will be representedin the national
league next season with one OF the strongest
clubs in the country"
The new president of Bowdoin College
Rev. William De Witt Hyde, is only II years
Of age. He Is graduate of Harvard, al
accomplished theologan and writer, and a
fine baseball player and sparrer.
The most valuable mai in the baseball
profession is the one that can play good ball
in any position he may be placed in, and
Strict is Just such q lie has played
an excellent game in every position that he
has filled and hiSlbatting is good and getting
better.
John Glenn of the Chicago club Of 1874,
1875, 1876 and 1877, has reentered the
diamond, and is now the captain of a semi.
professional club at Sandy Hill, n. j. His
shoulder is all right again, and he is said to
be playing in something Of hss old.time
noted form.
John Morrill, says hat he doesn't think
there will be an American Association Club
in Boston next year. The directors of the
Boston Club favor the Eastern League, he
SAYS, and the chances are that Boston will
be in this league, New York, Brooklyn,
Baltimore and Washington being the other
cities. He further said that if there is war
there may be an Association club.
Five thousand people were assembled at
Keussha, Wis, Sunday last to witness q
game between the Kenasha Regulars and
the Milwaukee Reds. In the fifth inning
the Sheriff and posse arrived with warrants
and arrested all the players. The complain
ing witnesses were Rev. W. L. Bray, pastor
of the Congregational Church, and Rev. r.
Miller, ex pastor Of the same church. His
sing and shouting followed each step Of the
proceedings. The preachers stated that
they did not desire to prosecute, but had
stopped the game as an intimadon OF what
might be expected in the future, and the
prisoners we're discharged.