Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-21
SPORTING.
BASE BALL NOTES.

PNSG SENNS |
MeeVsn will hardly leave the West to
play ball the coming season.
The new League Cube in Washington
and BARNES Baltimore Club will play an
series.
Whitney will play third base at Pitts
burg. he has signed and his contract has
been approved.
One of the Detroit Club has been accused
of writing poetry. These baseball fellows
do fall into evil ways.
Kuehne will probaly be released BY the
P~ittsburg Club and signed BY Barnie for
his Baltimore Club.
Al Myers, who played secon base for the
Philadelphia team last season, may play
that position for the new Kansas Clty
Leaguers.
Whether or not the victim OF q wild
piteher will be given q base on being bit
By a pitched ball will be oHe ofthe SUBJECTS
Of discussion at the next League meeting
Hick Carpenter is said to be thinking OF
taking a team to New Orleans to play dur,
ipg Mardi. Gras week. Somebody else Will
have to take a team down to play with
them.
Billy Purcell has put strong timber in
the Atlanta team, which will be under his
management next year. he well be ire
ouentiy seen in left field himself during the
season.
When Won der Ahe's team beat the New
York Club in New Orleans late last tall
Mptrie wanted to bet Won der Abe that
thew couldn't do it again in the spring,
Chris took the bet, aud the probabilities
are that in April a series of games Will De
PLAYED to decide. The two managers are
now trying to arrange the dates tor the
series.
The Kansas City Club will have a popu.
ls,ion of l75, 900, with several good-sized
nearby towns TO draw upon for patronage.
The new park, which they will hit up will
be within ten minutes ride OF the centre oil
the city DO two lines of street cars. The
fifty cent rate, they claim, will make no
difference in the attendance.
Every club in the association is orgsniz'
ed except Baltimore, and they are o little
week vet Batnie has been given too much
time to the fight over Barley, and seems
to be neslecting to I'll ont his team. The
club will be run on somewhat Of an econo'
mical plan, the extra battery being design.
ed to hold down the God in the centre ard
right fields.
The season ticke's Tor the Athletic
grounds are already on sale and the supply
will soon be exhausted. They SO apiece.
The Philadelphia Club managers have not
vet put their season tickets on sale. In
the rush for pavilion tickets calling for q
certain chair during the season at s. extra
the holders of tickets last year will be given
the preference.
Domirick NcCafrey has been persuaded
by Billy TAYLOR that ne can become a good
twirler of the sphere, and he has been
prscticing under Taylor's tuition for some
time. He has gained sufficient command
over several Of the curves to offer himself
as an attraction" pitcher to several dit
ferent clubs for holiday games, but no man
ager has yet accepted his terms.
On March / the Louisville meeting O
the American Association will take place
There will be a great many things to hA
ND, chief among them being the Baltimore
Pittsburg fight over Barley. The BosrC
! of Directors, consisting cfSimmons, Phelps
Won der Abe and Barnie, will have the set
Ting of the case, and it will most probably
take one whole day TO decide whether
Barnie or Phillips shall have the nan II
dispute. 1t is to be hoped that Barnie and
Phillips will come to On anlcabIe settle
ment before the meeting If they do not
then the facts as they come out at the
meeting will govern his case If Barkley
signed an agreement with Bsrnie before
singing the Pittsburg contract then Bsrnit
has the claim on the mans services anC
will get o decision at tho hando OF thE
Board Of Directors.
Mike Seaman passed through Philsdel
phia on his way home from Providence
where he had been to secure Shaw, Carroll
GilIigan and Hines. He succeeded il
signing all the players he was after. Tbs
Bcstons did not want to let him have
| Hines, but they couldn't hold him. You
know | wa ex.mansseT cftk;e Washington
Club COR a few weeks" said Mike but they
pulled me juto it again three days age.
We are going to have q pretty strong club
in Washington this sesson aud we are
going to ar hard to keep as far away from
the tail az possible. CT curse everybody
expects Washington and Kansas City to
be the tall enders this year, and its only
natural to expect it, but we may surprise
some OF the old organizations by climbing
up Mind, l don't say we will. but vel
try. We are going to play this year tt
make Washington a good-paying ball town
but III tell you one thing: We must have
a 25.cent tariff. There's no two way:
about that. We must and will have it, be
GAUGE on that depends our success.