Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
SPORTING.
BASE BALL.

There are still trying TO play base ball
in New York, Give us 4 rest until spring,
will you, boys?
Aimes, of the Newark club, is heraled as
a valuble man in the left garden, and a
great runner.
Jones, McKeesport's phenomenal, has
not as yet closed an engagement for 1887.
He is in the market.
Sam Morton, of 4. G.. Spalding & Co.,
is taking a great interest i'll the Ball
Players Protective Association.
Nick Young will again be elected Presi-
dent and Secretary of the National League.
There will be no opposition.
Walter W. WatrOus the Managing Di-
rector of the MetropOlitans, while young
in the ball business, is proving a valuable
aid to the veteran Bob Ferguson.
The Harvard College base ball club took
in 1881 in gate money the past season, OF
whice the expenses took S6,3sS, leaving a
balance in the treasury OF nearly twenty
five hundred dOllras. College amature
ball playing paid very we'll last season.
Philadelphians deny that Phenomenal
Smith halls from their righteous city, and
want it distinctly understood that he is a
foreigner-that is he resides at Mana
yunk, a manufacturing town near the
Quaker City. Poor Manayunk, thus to be
hampered.
Morrison, the new pitcher of the Nets,
is quite young and not fully developed;
Ball players who have played against him
say he weakens toward the latter part of
the game owing to lack of strength. He
will sOOn overcome that. He is only 10.
Monroe Jones, commonly called the
Farmer, whose left field playing was the
admiration ofthe Northwestern League in
"a, has retired from the diamond.
He runs an engine out Of Grand Rapids,
and has built a handsome residence in
that city.
The Allegheny management offered q
good round sum for the release of Billy
Holbert recently, but the Nets wanted
entirely too much. EraStus Wimen has
learned the value of ball players since he
adopted Ferguson, and won't get the lit
tie end OF the horn if Bob can have his
say.
An eastern paper goes for Dell Darling
for having signed a personal contract with
Walter Appleton at Bellaire, o., and then
contracting afterwards with Spalding.
The question arises, was Appleton impos-
ed upon by some other individual, as
Darling lives at Erie, Pa, and not Bel
laire, o.
The Allegheny management will print
A ~. 1000, .,,l. t,nNt Nrnnr nt tho
grounds. 1t is thought this will enable
them to be more correct and supply the de-
mand, as on q number of occasions last
season 1000 or | 800 would not be sut1i-
cient, and again, at times, exceeded the
demand.
The engagement OF so many new pitch
ers and catchers by ''Wiman's Indians
naturally cause Il suspicion that Reid or
Lynch will not long DC members OF that
tribe. Reid will add the "schlagcr' to
his name and seek pasture anew. Lynch
will 90 back TO his first love, Washington.
Of course he will when he gets the back
pay he claims is due him.
The fact of Day releasing ESterbrook to
the Nets leads us to infer that he will
make 4 STRONG nSnt lot bulHS, tue plaCh-
listed Newark third baSeman. Barnie is
said to be willing TO yield his claim to
Burns if Day will not contest for Knott
and Smith. Quite cheeky OF the part Of
the Monumental manager, but he never
did want much.
The American Association clubs during
1856 engaged l6l players and released Al.
The National League engaged los and re-
leased but 30. The tail-end clubs i'll both
organizations released the most players
and made most changes in their teams. one
result being the fact that both were badly
left. The champion club of each associa-
ton made the fcwest changes.