Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-29
Notes.
An umpire union is talked of.

Notes.
An umpire union is talked Of
Detroit still has want" It's a
pitcher.
Brooklyn did manage to defeat the Nets.
Thursdays game with Louisville was
postponed one.
Al. Reach closed n contract for $50, 900
grand stand last Friday.
The great Sweeney, the once famous
twirler, is thing of the past.
Healy and Kirby, of the MaroOns, are
looked upon as the coming pitchers.
The Bradfords again defeated the Ma
gentas on Tuesday by score of too.
Sam Cranes release is causing much dis
satisfaction among his Detroit friends.
There is not man in the New York
club who tastes drop Of intoxicating IL
quOr.
The Metropolitan club has engaged j..
j. Meister, of the Hartford club, to play
second base.
An exchange intimates that "FOghOn"
Bradley is good umpire unless he is tam
pcred with.
The Browns and the Athletics have more
kid" players than any two clubs in the
Association.
President Young has appointed Fred.
Berger, of Grand Rapids, Il League um-
pire on probation.
The LOuisvilles have already made
enough money to cover the entire expenses
of the season.
Arson and Brouthers arc the only
League players who have led the batting
for more than one season.
Outside of st. Louis conflicting dates be-
tween the League and the Associations have
proved Il losing game.
Shaw, the pitcher of the New York Ath-
letic club team, has inventeda protector
for catchcrs and intielders.
Poor old Tommy Bond, once the terror
of all heavy battcrs, is now being hit for
home runs by poor amateurs.
While in st. Louis, Byrne also made a
dicker for some of the Maroon players.
And he was willing TO fight for them, too.
There is talk OF the old Mantau club re-
organizing and taking the West Phlladel-
phia Athletic grounds for the rest OF the
season.
Kilroy only gave the Athletics two hits
OH Tuesday and struck out sixteen men,
vet the BaltimOres lost through miserable
fielding.
The Detroit Club offered 81, 600 and Jim
Manning to the Kansas City club for the
release of jim Whitney, but the offer was
declined.
Chamberlain, the Macon pitcher, is said
to be one of the best twirlers in the South.
He delivers the ball right and left-handed,
which makes his delivery very deceptive.
Dunlap has been chosen the field cap
tain of the Detroits. HanlOn, who has
acted in that capacity heretofore, lacks
activity, and does not enthuse his men
with energy.
The D'Nices were defeated ut Mansfield,
Ohio, on Tuesday, by the Athletics Ofthat
place, the score being Il to o. This places
the latter club in the lead for the champion
ship of Ohio.
Foutz almost did the same thing as Kill
roy on Tuesday. The former struck out
10 of the Cincinnatis, while only two hits
were made off him. Kilroy gave the Ath-
letics two hits, striking out IL.
In the game at Louisville, on Monday,
something very seldom seen occurred to
SchOmberg He had only three put-Outs,
which is about the smallest number ever
retired by q first haseman III nine innings.
Manager Mutrie, of the New York club,
saws that WEIGH, the greatest pitcher in the
League has broken down, but may last the
season through. Ewing, his fine catcher,
is also weakening, rs result OF the numer-
Gus injuries that he has received this year.
Deylin, the young lett-handed pitcher,
has been released, and Finley, the newly
signed pitcher, has not developed much
promise. Altogether, the New York club
seems to he possessed by ill-luck.
Kansas City took some of the gilt edge
off New York on Tuesday.
Casey, of the Phillies, has lost Is games
out of 81 in which he has pitched,
Lew Dickerson INDUCED again and SYRIA
cuse released him on that account.
If Newark goes into the American AS
ISOLATION it's good bye to the Eastern
League.
Gilligan has caught in fifty-four games
this season. Bennett in fifty-one and Flint
in fOrty-tiye.
Material additions may be made to the
BROOKLYN team shortly to help out the dis
abled men.
Burke, catcher of the Sunhury club, was
arrested at Scranton on Monday for alleged
breach of contract and obtaining - by
false pretences.
Carroll made two-bagger and three
Dagger off LouiSville's great south pa"
pitcher in five innings on Wednesday.
Badbourn and Daily are the only League
battery that has Officiated in three success
sive contests on three successive days.
There is a pitcher in Louisville. His
name is Hecker. That name ought TO be
seen on Boston score cards next season.
Boston Globe.
New York's great and wondrous left
handed pitcher, Devlin, of Troy, \. l.,
has been sold to Syracuse for less than Was
paid for him.
Boston is badly Oft for catchers. Tate
has broken finger, Cunning split digit,
neasley knocked ont a knuckle and has g
sore finger, while Daily's fingers are terri
bly, distorted
Calvin is one of the most attractive
pitchers in the country. He is quick as 8
fash. and his motions are graceful in the
extreme. Few pitchers have better con
troll over the bah, and none accomplish
more BY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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