Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07
SPORTING.
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

Lucas has signed Myers, the catcher.
Kirby has signed with the Lucas
Lesguers.
Hughes has gone to the Jersey City Club.
The. Athletics have fifteen men under
contract.
Harry Wright received McGuire's con
tract.
When Quest was signed Stricken was let
&c BY the Athletic management.
The Schedule Committee will meet on
the first Of March.
Mccormick has signed with Chicago for
an other season.
The New York Club has signed Larry
Corcorn for another season.
Monk Cline will play with the Atlanta
Club, of the Southern League.
The Detroit players will report for duty
on March l6 at Savannah, Ga.
An amateur baseball association has
been formed in Brooklyn,
The New England League will have a
club in Salem, Mass.
Cuba is enjoying the excitement OF q
series of championship games.
The Boston Herald says Ed Grove may
possibly Join the new Washington Club.
Bernie drops into line with a claim on
Barch. He says he signed that player in
December. -.
Horace Phillips, knowing that hla
chances for holding Barley are slim, has
signed Kuchne.
There is no National" Club Of Wash,
inpton any more. The League Club Of
that city, will be known as the Washington
Club.
The Louisville and Atlanta Clubs will
open the baseball season in the South with
a game on March Is.
Mr.. Wiman will put on,the Staten Island
grounds a grand stand which he will claim
to be the finest ever built upon @ ball field
Boston wantsto keep Paul Hines, though
the Washington Club is legally entitled to
him and will get him.
The Philadelphia and Athletic Clubs
will both be very strong this season, and
their opening series of games will be very
interesting.
Winman got back Roseman and Orr
but he couldn't keep Burch. President
Mcknight decided that Brooklyn had the
best right to Burch's services.
Southern trips will be all the 60 in the
spring. The Louisville, Detroit, Pittsburg
and Boston Clubs will do that part of the
States before the regular season.
Eastern ball players who are winterlng
in California will come East in the spring
in excellent condition from their daily
practice in games played in California.
The Detroit players, Rowe, Btouthers
Thompson, Mitchell, Gatzem, Fitzsimmons
are pract'cipg daily in gymnasiums to ge
themselves ia trim for next season.
Each club in the League will probably
play a series of l9 games this year with
each of the other clubs, thus increasing thu
number OF each clubs games to l26, hall
of which will be played at home and hal
abroad.
Mr.. Pierre Lorillard's new steam zach.
will be launched as soon as the shafts and
wheels are put IN. -,
Hanlan has ordered of Canadian bull
der q shell of Mexican cedar, which ls tc
be 81 feet 5 inches long and 10 inches vide
and will weigh % pounds.
The New England ~cauoeists will have q
general meet at Gala Shorta Grove, o.
the Connecticut river, river, in Massachu
sets, about the first of next June.
Some dissatisfaction arose in the New
York Yacht Club at the time OF the Amen
cas- cup races last year, and now there il
some opposition to the reelection OF thu
old officers.
The Cornell University Navy have tour
teen members in ~traiaing for positions OF
the boat crew. The navy has refused tht
proposition Of the University of Peunsyivs
MIA to row for the Childs cup.
Jake Gaudaur has, through J. A. st
John. his hacker, accepted Tesmer's chal
lenve to row o thee mile race tor $1,000
Mr.. St John is con6den. that GaIdaur vii
win, aud he will insist that it shall be for to
championship and that it must be rowet
on lake water.